ProNetBeans.com: The Source for Learning NetBeans is published by Adam Myatt, author of our forthcoming IDE 6 Rich Client Platform Edition.

Here is a link to the new Apress Editorial Calendar. It’s a rolling calendar from years past looking into 2008. Enjoy.

Here is a JavaWorld.com excerpt from newly published Jeff Friesen Apress book, Beginning Java SE 6 Platform: From Novice to Professional.

Here are a couple of links to JavaWorld.com articles on the new more agile and lightweight Apache Struts 2.0 Java MVC Web application development framework and APIs.

• Struts 2.0 in Action

• Adopting Struts 2.0

For more on Struts 2, check out our new Apress book, Practical Apache Struts2 Web 2.0 Projects.

This book is written by practicing Struts developer and Struts contributor, Ian Roughley, and reviewed by the Apache Struts2 project co-creator, Patrick Lightbody. Enjoy.

SpringFramework.org has announced the availability of Release Candidate 1 of the new Spring Framework 2.5.

If you’re ready to dig into it, then check out the official Spring 2.5 RC1 Reference documentation, which is like a book in terms of quality and substance.

The First International Grails eXchange, sponsored by Apress, is being held October 17th-19th at the Barbican Centre, London, UK…

Bringing the power of what seems to be the world’s most popular Web application framework, Rails (Ruby on Rails), to Java is now simpler than ever thanks to the JRuby project.

To help learn, understand and use the JRuby project, the highly anticipated Practical JRuby on Rails Web 2.0 Projects by JRuby core developer, Ola Bini, has published and is already available on Amazon.com and other retailers.

This book will empower you to develop Rails applications, even if you’ve never used Ruby. And you later perhaps integrate into your already existing Java/Spring stack. The power of Rails is now in your hands, using this book. Enjoy.

As many Java developers consider Java EE 5, Spring or other enterprise Java alternatives, there are many in their institutional structure that still use J2EE 1.4. For those that are, Apress is here to help…

Here is a sample chapter book excerpt on a gentle introduction to the Spring Framework, as available in the newly published Building Spring 2 Enterprise Applications by i21 (founders/makers of Spring) as well as Bram Smeets and Seth Ladd.

From PCWorld.com: “Don’t expect much to be added to Ruby on Rails this year. …he’s (David Heinemeier Hansson) as likely to talk about what’s coming out as what’s going in…”

Here’s the latest Apress 2007 Java (Books) Editorial Calendar…

java.sun.com has two Java Mashup articles that may be of interest.

• Mashup Styles, Part 1: Server-Side Mashups
• Mashup Styles, Part 2: Client-Side Mashups

Apress are sponsors of The No Fluff Just Stuff Software Symposium Series, the premier technical java/agility conference which is coming to London, England in the First European NFJS eXchange 2007, August 29th-31st! The NFJS eXchange will cover the latest in trends, best practices, and newest developments in Enterprise Java, Java/Groovy, ESB/SOA, Ajax, Web Services, Agile Software Development, and Architecture. There will be 5 concurrent tracks with a total of 55 sessions to choose from featuring some of the following topics: Groovy, Grails, OSGI, Domain Driven Design, Annotations, Java 6.0, JRuby, Enterprise Ajax, JPA and many more. Come learn from industry experts and from each other, see real world case studies, and delve into hands-on code examples.

Apress readers get a free Nintendo Wii when booking a ticket! Just quote: NFJS-APP643.

The Open Source Convention (OSCON) is this week, up in Portland, OR, and underway; and Apress is there…

Apress has just published this firstPress book: Raven: Scripting Java™ Builds with Ruby. This firstPress book by Raven founder and lead Matthieu Riou is the first and only book on this important open source Java/Ruby project…

Eclipse Europa is apparently coming on June 29th, but I do not sense any kind of level of excitement around this release for the Java community. Do you?

Enough debate over Ruby/Rails vs. Java, etc. Can’t we all just get along? There is a melting pot happening in Java…

From InfoQ.com, Stuart Halloway of Relevance recently wrote a series of blog posts on “Ruby vs. Java Myths”...

Read this chapter excerpt on Parsing XML Documents from this Apress book, Pro XML Development with Java Technology, by By Ajay Vohra
Deepak Vohra.

Is this the ultimate open source Java directory: Java-Source.net?

With all the dynamic Java scripting attention going to Groovy and JRuby, don’t forget about these secondary alternatives that are and have been out there…

The Grails eXchange is a 3-day conference, packed with presentations on Grails, Groovy, Java EE, Ajax & Web 2.0, The Grails eXchange 2007 is promising to be the Web 2.0 event for Java Developers in 2007. For more, visit here...

The following JavaOne Day Four report is re-purposed from Ablog, and written by Rob Warner …

The following JavaOne report is re-purposed from Ablog, and written by Rob Warner…

The following JavaOne report is re-purposed from Ablog, and written by Rob Warner, which looks at the general session/keynote and key sessions attended on Day 2…

Here are our highlights from JavaOne so far. Contributed in part by Rob Warner. From JavaFX to what to expect in Java EE 6 platform and much more.

This year’s JavaOne will have more open source coverage than ever. Additionally, I think it recognizes the hybridization of Java trend that is ever more clear…

As reported on a number of sites, Adobe announced plans to release source code for Adobe Flex SDK and framework under the open source Mozilla Public License (MPL)...

Apress offers a phenomenal selection of indispensable Java titles as eBooks. Offered in PDF format, these searchable eBooks are the perfect resource for most Java professionals. For more, visit the Apress Java eBookshop...

LinuxPlanet: Sun Microsystems has partnered with Canonical to release a complete Java stack for Ubuntu users. The stack is made up of Sun software…

For those Java developers considering Ruby and/or Ruby on Rails, you may want to read this first available excerpt on Installing Ruby from this recently published Apress book, Beginning Ruby, by Peter Cooper.

The 2007 TheServerSide Java Symposium – Las Vegas show report can be found here.

Apress and NetBeans power developer/user Adam Myatt proudly announce that Pro NetBeans IDE 5.5 Enterprise Edition has published, and is/will soon be available on Amazon.com as well as other booksellers. As editor of this book, I’ve been asked the question: Why NetBeans?

InfoQ.com interviews the esteemed Ola Bini, one of the JRuby leads.

From InfoQ.com: See JBoss Seam and Hibernate founder/lead Gavin King’s wishlist for Java EE 6.

Red Hat JBoss: Hibernate welcomes three new top level projects: Hibernate Shards, Hibernate Validator, and Hibernate Search.

If you’re in the London area and are interested in learning more about Grails, consider attending a one-day workshop put on by Grails founder and Apress author Graeme Rocher.

TheServerSide.com is pointing to 2007: What to Expect in the Java Universe by Elliotte Harold, Adjunct Professor at Polytechnic University, has an interesting analysis…

News breaking on tutorial day from EclipseCon: Red Hat JBoss announces a partnership with Exadel…

NetBeans announces support for Ruby/JRuby. While it comes as no surprise, it’s a reminder that Sun clearly recognizes the Java community interests in Ruby on Rails, and is providing options…

Are today’s Java developers looking for Web-tier alteratives to Struts, JSF, and even Ruby on Rails. What about PHP or even better – PHP on Rails?

From Perl.com: “Java has a huge amount of standard libraries and APIs. Some of them don’t have Perl equivalents yet. Fortunately, using Java classes from Perl is easy.” Here’s how…

TheServerSide.com: In a discussion forum at Artima, Bill Venners has asked participants to describe their top three Java pain points.

In this JavaWorld.com article, Joshua Fox shows how JRuby can bring the power of Ruby on Rails to your Java application, in whole or as Web tier solution in broader enterprise Java application.

This Kunal Jaggi CIOL tutorial explains assertions and helps in debugging Java applications by letting developers examine Boolean-typed expressions for truth and raising exceptions when such tests fail

I recently downloaded the latest Seam distribution, 1.1.5. I mainly wanted this for the Security release. Officially 1.1.5 is when Seam adds Security, and I wanted to update the source code for my book, Beginning JBoss Seam, accordingly. Here’s what happened…

InfoQ.com published this article In-process Interoperability regarding Java and .NET interoperability.

InfoQ.com reports: Bruce Eckel proposes that we stop trying to use one language (Java) to solve all of our problems , and instead use Flex and Apollo as a front-end for systems written in Java.

Here’s a CodeMash Wrapup from one of the conference organizers and Apress’ own Open Source guru, Jason Gilmore.

Matt Wade has a server with 4gigs of RAM and because of the way memory is addressed, he needs to utilize PAE support in his kernel. See what problem(s) came up on Inside Open Source.

InfoQ.com reports: Interface21’s (and Spring’s) Ben Alex has recently been examining Java2Javascript Pacemaker (J2S), another dynamic Java scripting solution.

From CodeMash, esteemed Java developer and author Chris Judd gave this Scripting for Java presentation, with accompanying source code.

Sun and Intel are joining forces to drive Solaris, the NetBeans development environment, Java, and the Intel Xeon platform.

The CodeMash Conference is dedicated to educate developers on current practices, methodologies and technology trends in variety of platforms and development languages such as Java, .NET, Ruby and PHP.

News.com is speculating: Just months after Red Hat acquired JBoss, it’s possible the start-up’s leader, Marc Fleury, won’t be staying on…

Check out this chapter excerpt on Struts Fundamentals from the recently published Pro Apache Struts with Ajax by John Carnell, Spring’s Rob Harrop and Kunal Mittal.

Groovy 1.0 has been released. Groovy is the Java-based open source dynamic scripting language that is the basis of the Grails Web framework that’s also now available.

From InfoQ.com: The momentum behind Groovy continued to increase this week with the announcement of Big Sky Technology’s funding of Jochen Theodorou’s services full time to work on the project and the launch of the aboutGroovy portal.

Check out this chapter excerpt from the newly published and Wicket-endorsed Pro Wicket.

InfoQ.com: A recent post to the Wicket mailing list details some reasons to choose Wicket over Spring MVC or JSF. For more, check out Pro Wicket (Apress).

Check out this excerpt from the newly published The Definitive Guide to Grails by Grails lead Graeme Rocher.

Good article on how to build classic 80’s style arcade games with Java on JavaWorld.com.

The following CodeMash Conference announcement was originally posted by Jason Gilmore, Apress Open Source Editorial Director and Inside Open Source Editor.

For more JRuby as well as overall blogging on Java, Ruby, Lisp, etc. – check out Ola Bini’s blog. Ola was recently added to the JRuby project as the third project lead.

Check out this useful Java conference schedule for remainder of this year and into first half of next year. However, if you find a better link, please share below by commenting.

Oracle OpenWorld 2006 is this week in San Francisco, CA. Best news source I see is on News.com. But there’s more…