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Free and Open Source Software
28 Jan 2008
#19367
Details Released on Open Source Community Innovation Awards Programs
Communities Outline Program Rules and Judging Criteria

The six Sun-sponsored open source communities taking part in this year's Open Source Community Innovation Awards program, where cash rewards will be given to the most interesting initiatives, have released more details on each of their individual program rules and judging criteria.

28 Jan 2008
#19343
Sun SPOT's Java-ME Compliant Virtual Machine Open Sourced
Sun SPOT Hardware Architecture and Software Also Released

The Java Platform, Micro Edition (Java ME)-compliant virtual machine used in the Sun Small Programmable Object Technology (Sun SPOT) platform has been open sourced and can be accessed under Squawk located on java.net. Squawk is an open source virtual machine for the Java language that examines better ways of building virtual machines.

28 Jan 2008
#19332
Using OpenDS Within Netbeans
How to Build and Run the Open Source Directory Service with Version 6.0 of the IDE

A recent entry on the OpenDS wiki explains how to build, debug, and run the current version of OpenDS from the Netbeans 6.0 IDE. The OpenDS community is working toward building a comprehensive, next generation, open source directory service.

28 Jan 2008
#19334
Ease in NetBeans 6.0 Profiler and Its Support of Heap Dumps
Article Shows How to Stop Memory Leaks Simply Once and For All

Sun's Tim Boudreau describes NetBeans 6.0 profiler's support for heap dumps in his article "Walking the Java Heap with NetBeans 6.0 Profiler: Pre-crisis quality control" hosted on JDJ.

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