If you didn't get a chance to watch the live broadcast of TechCast Live with Ajay Patel and Justin Kestelyn, you can now watch the on-demand replay below using our handy embedded video player. In this edition of TechCast Live, Justin and Ajay covered a wide range of important topics including:

1) The importance of the Java community
2) Future directions in the JCP
3) JavaOne
4) How Glassfish fits into Oracle's Application Server portfolio
5) JavaFX 2.0

And much more. Oh, and Justin: from all of us here at the Java Source, thanks for the shout-out!

The NetBeans team has just announced availability of the first beta release of NetBeans 7.0.  NetBeans 7.0 delivers a large range of features, but perhaps most exciting to developers will be inclusion of support for targeting JDK 7.  In particular, the beta adds support for the language changes introduced in Project Coin as well as a number of code editor enhancements.

In addition to support for JDK 7, the 7.0 beta also improves support for integrating your applications with Oracle Database and includes a number of enhancements for working with application servers such as Oracle WebLogic and Glassfish.

NetBeans 7.0 beta also introduces support for editing HTML5 to help you build your web applications with the latest technologies.  In addition, as Thomas Kurian announced at JavaOne, future versions of the Java client runtime will include support for rendering HTML5 so this new functionality could prove quite useful for Java developers that plan to use HTML for their client-side Java application user interfaces. 

To read more about the release, check out the official release announcement or visit the downloads page to get the beta of NetBeans 7.0  today

Today, Jerome Dochez, Paul Sandoz and Linda DeMichiel presented the keynote on the future of Java EE. They summarized the new developments for Java EE platform. Java EE 7 will be improved to deploy cloud computing applications and infrastructures. Other signifiquant developments will be on JSF, web tier, the Java persistence and JAX-RS. Paul Sandoz showed code examples for injection integration improvements. He invited the developer community to contribute to speed up the development of JAX-RS 2.0. Developers can still give their feedback on JPA 2.1 and JAX-RS 2.0 as well.

Dalibor Topic, during the OpenJDK session, clarified Oracle's commitment to the OpenJDK and summarized the recent announcements regarding IBM and Apple participation. He also gave an overview of the OpenJDK community and the associated open source projects, going over contributors and contribution samples. The project is clearly popular with main companies such as Google and Redhat as contributors. Currently, a number of non-Oracle employees are contributing to the project and he encouraged any developers to contribute and have fun.  

Learn more:

Glassfish roadmap
The Aquarium blog
Shoal 

JDK roadmap
OpenJDK  at OpenJDK.java.net
Henrik Stahl Blog
PlanetJDK.org
Java Podcast 

 

Attention New York area developers!  Oracle has just announced a free, full-day developer event.  Being held at the Millennium Broadway Hotel, the Oracle Developer Day will include four tracks of sessions and hands-on-labs designed for developers interested in Mobile, Desktop, Embedded, and Server topics.  Technologies covered include Java ME, Java EE, and Java SE (including the JDK).  From the event page:
 

Come to this event if you are interested in:

• Evaluating the Java platform, or using other languages on the JVM
• Building server side Java
• Constructing Rich Web or Desktop Applications
• Creating Mobile Applications
• Making Smart Devices even smarter

Check out the event page to read more and/or register!