Java Enterprise Edition (JavaEE) 6 has been approved by the official Java standards body.

Do you know the answers to the following questions. a) Which software development paradigm was popularized by Ruby On Rails & is also used by the Grails framework? b) What is a “Daily Scrum?

Oracle has updated the Sun Acquisition FAQ. The FAQ now tells us of Oracle’s plans for NetBeans, Glassfish, MySQL, OpenOffice & open source.

NetBeans IDE 6.8 Beta claims to be the first IDE to offer support for the entire Java EE 6 spec. 6.8 highlights include support for JSF 2.0/Facelets, Java Persistence 2.0, EJB 3.1 including using EJBs in web applications, RESTful web services, and GlassFish v3.

NetBeans IDE 6.7.1 includes the following changes: 1) Support for JavaFX 1.2  2) Upgrade of GlassFish v3 Prelude to include fixes from bundle #28f 3) Integration of important bug fixes based on user feedback, especially in the Java Editor and project scanning areas

Support for JavaFX 1.2 technology was currently available for NetBeans IDE 6.5.1 but is now available for the 6.7 version as well.

Glassfish server has announced support for Django. Django is a Python Web framework that encourages rapid development and clean, pragmatic design.