eWEEK Labs recently tested OpenOffice.org 2.2 and did a slight comparison to Microsoft Office 2007. Tiffany Maleshefski acknowledged improvements within both; however, she noted that OpenOffice.org 2.2's enhancements were pervasive, its broad platform support impressive and, best of all, it is free.
The Navy and Marine Corps commands have been given clearance to use open source software (OSS), so states Navy CIO Robert J. Carey in a June 5th memo, which notes "the importance of OSS to the warfighter and the need to leverage its benefits throughout the DON" (Department of the Navy) is now recognized.
The Aquarium blog entry dated July 5, 2007, features a link to a screencast on GlassFish integration features in NetBeans 6 IDE. Version 6 of the IDE is set to be released in November 2007 with new features such as GlassFish integration capabilities. A new screencast shows some of NetBeans' latest GlassFish-integration features in action.
The fifth article in a series on Sun's Open-Source Portal Initiative looks at the JavaServer Faces (JSF) Portlet Bridge. Deepak Gothe and Marina Sum explain the design and binary of the JSF Portlet Bridge, how to modify JSF applications to comply with JSF 168: Portlet Specification and the Portlet's Bridge's tag library.
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