Newscast for Feb 8th 2008

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Join us for the Java Posse Roundup 2008 in Crested Butte from March 4th to 7th
http://www.mindviewinc.com/Conferences/JavaPosseRoundup/

• Grails 1.0 has been released!
• http://docs.codehaus.org/display/GRAILS/
  2008/02/05/Grails+1.0+Released
  
• http://grails.org/1.0+Release+Notes 
• http://docs.codehaus.org/display/GRAILS/IDE+Integration
  
• http://blogs.sun.com/theaquarium/entry/grails_1_0_is_out
  

• Registration for JavaOne is now open
• http://java.sun.com/javaone/sf/registration.jsp
  
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/editors/archives/
  2008/02/best_of_you.html
  

• Closures, closures and more closures
• http://blogs.sun.com/jag/entry/closures
• http://gafter.blogspot.com/2008/02/
  closures-puzzler-neapolitan-ice-cream.html
  
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/kirillcool/archive/
  2008/02/and_so_it_begin.html 
• http://slm888.com/javac/ 
• http://docs.google.com/View?docid=k73_1ggr36h& 
• http://www.jroller.com/scolebourne/ 

• JSF has passed Swing as the number one GUI component model for job demand
• http://java.dzone.com/news/jsf-catches-swing-number-one-g

Quick News Items

• A NetBeans Innovators Grants program has been introduced by Sun
• http://www.netbeans.org/grant/
  
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/kalali/archive/
  2008/01/the_train_start.html
• http://www.sun.com/software/opensource/awards/index.jsp
  

• If you are curious about how to write a full application that uses JSF, Seam 2.0 and JPA together, check out Carol McDonald's blog
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/caroljmcdonald/
  archive/2008/01/sample_applicat_4.html 

• Submissions are now being accepted for the Dukes Choice awards at JavaOne 2008
• http://www.java.com/en/dukeszone/dukeschoice.jsp 

• A former mobile application of the week, Opera Mobile has just reached version 9.5
  
• http://gizmodo.com/352652/
  opera-95-mobile-browser-gets-commercial-release
  

• TheServerSide.com has an introduction to using MapReduce in Java applications
• http://www.theserverside.com/tt/knowledgecenter-tc/
  knowledgecenter-tc.tss?l=MapReduce
  

• Sun has released a new version of their Solaris Express Developer Edition
• http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/NewsItemView?
  newsItemID=1184 

• Sun has also posted a proposed final draft of JSR 293 - Location API 2.0
• http://jcp.org/aboutJava/communityprocess/pfd/jsr293/index.html 

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• Brian Ehmann - the Java Posse intern
• Craig Muth for maintaining the Java Posse Memorizable site - http://memorizable.org/Java_Posse
• Theme Music:
  • Opening - "Java" the parody song Copyright 1997 Broken Records and Marjorie Music Publ. (BMI),
    written and performed by Loose Bruce Kerr of the Dr. Demento Show and Sun Microsystems attorney.
    Based on the WWI popular song, "Ja-da." Ukelele style on the recording taught to Bruce by his dad.
    Re-produced with kind permission from "Loose" Bruce Kerr - http://loosebrucekerr.libsyn.com
  • Closing - Juan Carlos Jimenez - In the House (Intro No. 1)
    

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Interview with Dalibor Topic

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We interview Dalibor Topic, also known as Robilad, about Open JDK, the JCP, Kaffe, Iced Tea and more

• Dalibor's blog
• http://robilad.livejournal.com/ 
• OpenJDK project and charter
  
• http://openjdk.java.net/
  
• http://openjdk.java.net/legal/charter/
  
• Iced Tea project
• http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/IcedTea 
• The Java Community Process
• http://jcp.org/en/home/index
  
• Join - http://jcp.org/en/participation/membership 
• Kaffe
• http://www.kaffe.org/ 
• Gnu Classpath
• http://www.gnu.org/software/classpath/ 
• Apache Harmony
• http://harmony.apache.org/
  

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• Brian Ehmann - the Java Posse intern
• Craig Muth for maintaining the Java Posse Memorizable site - http://memorizable.org/Java_Posse
• Theme Music:
  • Opening - "Java" the parody song Copyright 1997 Broken Records and Marjorie Music Publ. (BMI),
    written and performed by Loose Bruce Kerr of the Dr. Demento Show and Sun Microsystems attorney.
    Based on the WWI popular song, "Ja-da." Ukelele style on the recording taught to Bruce by his dad.
    Re-produced with kind permission from "Loose" Bruce Kerr - http://loosebrucekerr.libsyn.com
  • Closing - Juan Carlos Jimenez - In the House (Intro No. 1)
    

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Newscast for January 28th 2008

Join us for the Java Posse Roundup 2008 in Crested Butte from March 4th to 7th
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Terrence Barr and Roger Brinkley joined us for an interview at the
Sun Java Mobile and Embedded Developer Days, and that interview
is available in the latter half of the podcast.

• Sun acquiring MySQL
• http://blogs.sun.com/jonathan/entry/winds_of_change_are_blowing
  
• http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/01/16/sun_mysql_open_source/ 
• http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/john-dvoraks-
  second-opinion-sun-mysql/story.aspx?guid=
  %7B88606B4A-A4AF-46FC-9C80-6B186A622456%7D&dist=hplatest
  
• http://redmonk.com/sogrady/2008/01/16/sun_mysql/
  
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/mortazavi/archive/2008/01/
  james_gosling_a.html
  

• Oracle acquiring BEA
• http://bea.com/framework.jsp?CNT=pr01894.htm&
  FP=/content/news_events/press_releases/2008&
  WT.ac=hp_news_oracle_aqc
  
• http://blog.springsource.com/main/2008/01/16/
  the-power-of-adoption-why-no-company-is-big-
  enough-to-deny-developers-what-they-want/
  
• http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?thread_id=48157

• Is the Geronimo project in trouble?
• http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?thread_id=48035

• Applet of the Week: Sea Level applets
• http://merkel.zoneo.net/Topo/Applet/ 

• Project of the week - LoboBrowser
• http://lobobrowser.org/java-browser.jsp
  

Quick News

• JDK 6 Update 4 is now available and it includes JAX-WS and JAXB 2.1
  (Java API for XML, Web Services and Bindings)
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/ramapulavarthi/
  archive/2008/01/jaxws_21_and_ja.html
  

• A call for participation has been put out for CommunityOne 2008, the day before JavaOne 2008
• http://www28.cplan.com/cfp_prod/CFPLogin.jsp?wId=98RJ64
• http://wikis.sun.com/display/CommunityOne/Home

• JavaZone 2008 has also announced a call for presentations
• http://www4.java.no/web/show.do?page=186;787

• Jazoon 08 - the Java conference to be held in Zurich from June 23rd to 26th
• http://jazoon.com/
  

• And this looks to be a good year for EclipseCon as well
• http://www.eclipse.org/org/press-release/20080122_eclipsecongold.php

• Artifactory is a maven repository for open source enterprise artifacts
• http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?thread_id=48045

• Chris Richardson has an interesting blog entry about using Amazon's EC2
  (Elastic Compute Cloud) to host Java EE applications
• http://chris-richardson.blog-city.com/running_jee_applications_
  on_amazon_ec2_or_deploying_to_20_m.htm

• JSR 323 - Strong Mobility for Java - has been proposed in the JCP. UPDATE: it's already dead - it fell at the first hurdle
  
• http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=323
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/brucechapman/
  archive/2008/01/a_jsr_for_conti.html

• Bill Venners has released a new testing tool - ScalaTest
• http://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=222678

• The Developer.com product awards for 2008 have been announced
  
• http://www.developer.com/design/article.php/10925_3721761_1

• Apache has released 1.4 of JackRabbit
• http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?thread_id=48137
  

• Apache Jakarta Commons Pool 1.4 is now out
• http://commons.apache.org/pool/

• Neal Gafter poses a simple, binary answer to the question of whether Java is dead
• http://gafter.blogspot.com/2008/01/is-java-dying.html 

• Posse listeners in Pune, India might be interested in the next IndicThreads Java meet up
• http://www.indicthreads.com/news/1154/
  google_api_web2_java_meet.html 

• Apache has released Lenya 2.0
• http://lenya.apache.org/ 
  

• Sun's JavaFX tools to interop with Adobe
  
• http://www.regdeveloper.co.uk/2008/01/24/javafx_tools_adobe/

Java Mobility Podcast: http://java.net/pub/ct/mobileandembedded
Sun Java Mobile and Embedded Developer Days: https://developerdays.dev.java.net/

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• Kirsty Doherty, Oliver Widder and Amy Ehmann for Java Posse artwork
• Brian Ehmann - the Java Posse intern
• Craig Muth for maintaining the Java Posse Memorizable site - http://memorizable.org/Java_Posse
• Theme Music:
  • Opening - "Java" the parody song Copyright 1997 Broken Records and Marjorie Music Publ. (BMI),
    written and performed by Loose Bruce Kerr of the Dr. Demento Show and Sun Microsystems attorney.
    Based on the WWI popular song, "Ja-da." Ukelele style on the recording taught to Bruce by his dad.
    Re-produced with kind permission from "Loose" Bruce Kerr - http://loosebrucekerr.libsyn.com
  • Closing - Juan Carlos Jimenez - In the House (Intro No. 1)
    

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Guice Interview with Bob Lee

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This is one of a series of interviews that Carl Quinn and Dick Wall did while at JavaPolis 2007.
The interviews are being released as both audio interviews on the Java Posse,
and video interviews over at Parleys.com.
You can find this particular talk on Parleys at
http://parleys.com/display/PARLEYS/Interview+with+Bob+Lee+at+JavaPolis%2707

• Guice
• http://code.google.com/p/google-guice/ 
• http://www.developer.com/java/ent/article.php/10933_3684656_1
  

• Bob Lee's Blog
• http://crazybob.org/
  

• Google Collection Library
• http://code.google.com/p/google-collections/
  

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• Brian Ehmann - the Java Posse intern
• Craig Muth for maintaining the Java Posse Memorizable site - http://memorizable.org/Java_Posse
• Theme Music:
  • Opening - "Java" the parody song Copyright 1997 Broken Records and Marjorie Music Publ. (BMI),
    written and performed by Loose Bruce Kerr of the Dr. Demento Show and Sun Microsystems attorney.
    Based on the WWI popular song, "Ja-da." Ukelele style on the recording taught to Bruce by his dad.
    Re-produced with kind permission from "Loose" Bruce Kerr - http://loosebrucekerr.libsyn.com
  • Closing - Juan Carlos Jimenez - In the House (Intro No. 1)
    

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Open Source Java ME and SE Interviews

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Terrence Barr and Mark Reinhold from Sun join us for a pair of interviews
about the current state of Open Source Java SE and ME

Join us for the Java Posse Roundup 2008 in Crested Butte from March 4th to 7th
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• Java ME
• http://java.sun.com/javame/index.jsp

• Sign up for the mobile and embedded developer days
• https://developerdays.dev.java.net/
  

• Terrence Barr's Blog
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/terrencebarr/

• OpenJDK project
• http://openjdk.java.net/
  

• Java SE
• http://java.sun.com/javase/
  

• Mark Reinhold's Blog
• http://blogs.sun.com/mr/
  

Thanks

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• Kirsty Doherty, Oliver Widder and Amy Ehmann for Java Posse artwork
• Brian Ehmann - the Java Posse intern
• Craig Muth for maintaining the Java Posse Memorizable site - http://memorizable.org/Java_Posse
• Theme Music:
  • Opening - "Java" the parody song Copyright 1997 Broken Records and Marjorie Music Publ. (BMI),
    written and performed by Loose Bruce Kerr of the Dr. Demento Show and Sun Microsystems attorney.
    Based on the WWI popular song, "Ja-da." Ukelele style on the recording taught to Bruce by his dad.
    Re-produced with kind permission from "Loose" Bruce Kerr - http://loosebrucekerr.libsyn.com
  • Closing - Juan Carlos Jimenez - In the House (Intro No. 1)
    

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Java Posse Episode 158 - January 9th 2008

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T-shirt is available -- http://www.zazzle.com/javaposse Roundup - only days left for the early bird price -
sign up before January 15th or it goes up from $600 to $750
http://www.mindviewinc.com/Conferences/JavaPosseRoundup/

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• Kirsty Doherty, Oliver Widder and Amy Ehmann for Java Posse artwork
• Brian Ehmann - the Java Posse intern
• Craig Muth for maintaining the Java Posse Memorizable site - http://memorizable.org/Java_Posse
• Theme Music:
  • Opening - "Java" the parody song Copyright 1997 Broken Records and Marjorie Music Publ. (BMI),
    written and performed by Loose Bruce Kerr of the Dr. Demento Show and Sun Microsystems attorney.
    Based on the WWI popular song, "Ja-da." Ukelele style on the recording taught to Bruce by his dad.
    Re-produced with kind permission from "Loose" Bruce Kerr - http://loosebrucekerr.libsyn.com
  • Closing - Juan Carlos Jimenez - In the House (Intro No. 1)
    

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Holiday Special

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Join us for the Java Posse Roundup 2008 in Crested Butte from March 4th to 7th
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Dick recommends the Jasper Fforde books:
http://www.jasperfforde.com/

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• Kirsty Doherty, Oliver Widder and Amy Ehmann for Java Posse artwork
• Brian Ehmann - the Java Posse intern
• Craig Muth for maintaining the Java Posse Memorizable site - http://memorizable.org/Java_Posse
• Theme Music:
  • Opening - "Java" the parody song Copyright 1997 Broken Records and Marjorie Music Publ. (BMI)
    Written and performed by Loose Bruce Kerr of the Dr. Demento Show and Sun Microsystems attorney.
    Based on the WWI popular song, "Ja-da." Ukelele style on the recording taught to Bruce by his dad.
    Re-produced with kind permission from "Loose" Bruce Kerr - http://loosebrucekerr.libsyn.com
  • Closing - Juan Carlos Jimenez - In the House (Intro No. 1)
    

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Roundup 07 Session - Java Applets

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Recorded at the Java Posse Roundup 2007 unconference

This was the session many people thought that the conference was leading up to,
and covers some fairly tough questions about the future of Java.

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• Java Update N (the consumer JRE)
  
• https://jdk6.dev.java.net/6uNea.html

• Java Webstart
• http://java.sun.com/products/javawebstart/

• Adobe Flash/Flex/Apollo
• http://www.adobe.com/products/flex/
  

• NASA Worldwind
• http://worldwind.arc.nasa.gov/java/index.html
  

• Thinkfree Office
• http://online.thinkfree.com

• Microsoft Sparkle (now called Microsoft Expression Blend)
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Expression_Blend

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• Brian Ehmann - the Java Posse intern
• Craig Muth for maintaining the Java Posse Memorizable site - http://memorizable.org/Java_Posse
• Theme Music:
  • Opening - "Java" the parody song Copyright 1997 Broken Records and Marjorie Music Publ. (BMI),
    written and performed by Loose Bruce Kerr of the Dr. Demento Show and Sun Microsystems attorney.
    Based on the WWI popular song, "Ja-da." Ukelele style on the recording taught to Bruce by his dad.
    Re-produced with kind permission from "Loose" Bruce Kerr - http://loosebrucekerr.libsyn.com
  • Closing - Juan Carlos Jimenez - In the House (Intro No. 1)
    

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Scala Interview with Martin Odersky

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 The interviews are being released as both audio interviews on the Java Posse,
and video interviews over at Parleys.com.
Here is where you can find this particular talk on Parleys.

• Scala Language
  
• http://www.scala-lang.org/
  
• http://www.scala-lang.org/docu/files/ScalaTutorial.pdf 
• http://www.scala-lang.org/docu/files/ScalaOverview.pdf 
• http://www.scala-lang.org/docu/files/ScalaByExample.pdf 
• http://www.scala-lang.org/docu/files/ScalaReference.pdf
  

• Scala plugin for eclipse
• http://www.scala-lang.org/downloads/eclipse/ 

• The new Scala book
• http://www.artima.com/shop/forsale 

• Martin Odersky
• http://lampwww.epfl.ch/~odersky/ 
• http://www.javapolis.com/confluence/display/
  JP07/Martin+Odersky 
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Odersky
  

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• Brian Ehmann - the Java Posse intern
• Craig Muth for maintaining the Java Posse Memorizable site - http://memorizable.org/Java_Posse
• Theme Music:
  • Opening - "Java" the parody song Copyright 1997 Broken Records and Marjorie Music Publ. (BMI),
    written and performed by Loose Bruce Kerr of the Dr. Demento Show and Sun Microsystems attorney.
    Based on the WWI popular song, "Ja-da." Ukelele style on the recording taught to Bruce by his dad.
    Re-produced with kind permission from "Loose" Bruce Kerr - http://loosebrucekerr.libsyn.com
  • Closing - Juan Carlos Jimenez - In the House (Intro No. 1)
    

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Special from JavaPolis 2007

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Check out videos from JavaPolis over at http://parleys.com

• Groovy 1.5 released
• http://docs.codehaus.org/display/GROOVY/
  2007/12/07/Groovy+1.5+released
  

• David Heinemeier Hannson has release version 2.0 of the Ruby on Rails framework
• http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2007/
  12/7/rails-2-0-it-s-done

• CommunityOne call for submissions
• http://developers.sun.com/events/communityone/

• Library of the week - Scene graph
• https://scenegraph.dev.java.net/

• Application of the week - Masters of Java
• http://mastersofjava.2en40.nl/
• http://mastersofjava.2en40.nl/Articles.html
• http://mastersofjava.2en40.nl/Assignments.html

Quick News Items

• Adobe has open-sourced Blaze - the AMF protocol and
  libraries which does flex remoting more efficiently than XML or
  JSON
• http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/blazeds/
  

• Sun is going to discontinue development of the Java Studio
  Creator and Java Studio Enterprise products
• http://www.nytimes.com/idg/IDG_002570DE00740
  E18002573AE00777209.html?ref=technology

• Sasha Maps is a new library for GWT that provides easy
  Google maps support from within GWT applications. It is
  available for free under an attribution, non-commercial,
  share-alike license
• http://www.maryanovsky.com/sasha/maps/

• Sun has submitted JSR 322 - Java EE Connector Architecture
  1.6 - to the JCP for consideration
• http://www.jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=322

• Microsoft Volta, a new experimental add-on for Visual Studio
  that bears more than a passing resemblance to GWT (the
  Google Web Toolkit)
• http://blogs.zdnet.com/Burnette/?p=480

• Greg Sporar has released a six minute screencast of some of
  the new editing features in NetBeans 6.0
• http://www.netbeans.org/download/flash/
  netbeans_60/editor2/editor2.html

• Sun has a repeat of their introduction to web application
  development event on December 18th in Second life (at the
  Sun developer playground)
• http://slurl.com/secondlife/Sun%20Microsystems/172/162/9

• Atlassian have announced Fisheye 1.4 and Crucible 1.2
• http://www.theserverside.com/news/
  thread.tss?thread_id=47803

• JBoss has released JBoss Tools 2 and JBoss Developer Studio
  • http://www.theserverside.com/news/
    thread.tss?thread_id=47820

• JSR 308 - Annotations for Java Types, has entered early draft review
• http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=308

• Podcast of a Guy Steele and Richard Gabriel a keynote at ooPSLA called 50 in 50
  
• http://www.oopsla.org/oopsla2007/index.php?
  page=sub/&id=267
• http://www.podbean.com/podcast-detail-episode/
  342059/episode-19-keynote----50-in-50

• JavaRebel 1.0 released
  
• http://www.theserverside.com/news/
  thread.tss?thread_id=47771

• Apache Roller 4.0 is now out
• http://blogs.sun.com/theaquarium/entry/roller_4_0_is_out

• Liftweb, the Scala based web app framework from David
  Pollak is now at version 0.3.0
• http://scala-blogs.org/2007/12/announcing-lift-030.html

• Oracle has posted the proposed final draft for JSR 225 - the
  XQuery API for Java. This is a specification that defines a
  JDBC like API for native XML databases
• http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=225

• ReSTclient 1.1 has been release
• http://code.google.com/p/rest-client/

• Developer.com is now taking votes for the products of the year 2008
• http://solutions.internet.com/index.php/
  4431_default/d06d68c39e4b77545d082da8d2ea5d86

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• Kirsty Doherty, Oliver Widder and Amy Ehmann for Java Posse artwork
• Brian Ehmann - the Java Posse intern
• Craig Muth for maintaining the Java Posse Memorizable site - http://memorizable.org/Java_Posse
• Theme Music:
  • Opening - "Java" the parody song Copyright 1997 Broken Records and Marjorie Music Publ. (BMI), written and performed by Loose Bruce Kerr of the Dr. Demento Show and Sun Microsystems attorney. Based on the WWI popular song, "Ja-da." Ukelele style on the recording taught to Bruce by his dad. Re-produced with kind permission from "Loose" Bruce Kerr - http://loosebrucekerr.libsyn.com
  • Closing - Juan Carlos Jimenez - In the House (Intro No. 1)
    

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