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Sony release PSP firmware update 2.60 – with RSS channel support

Sony have released yet another firmware update for the PSP, 2.60.

This latest release adds some interesting new features, but most impressive is the RSS Feed support, which supports RSS Podcast feeds. When you subscribe to a feed you will see all the latest podcasts. Clicking on a Podcast streams and plays the Podcast in realtime – this is awesome. The only thing missing is the ability to save the stream to your memory card so you can listen to it offline – currently you have to be in reach of a WiFi network.

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Eclipse WebTools Project (WTP) 1.0RC1 available for download

The Eclipse developers have been busy working on a set of all-singing, all-dancing plugins to help developers use Eclipse to develop J2EE applications, called the Web Tools Project.

The WTP has three subprojects:

  • Web Standard Tools (WST): a collection of common plugins to aid development, including XML, XHTML editors and validators.
  • Java Standard Tools (JST): plugins to support development and deployment of J2EE applications to J2EE 1.4 servers.
  • JavaServerFaces (JSF): editors and support for developing JSF web frontends. Will not initially be available, until the 1.5 release.

The 1.0RC1 version was just recently released for download.

This is great news, but there have been similar plugins out there for a long time now (Lomboz, MyEclipse), that already offer all these features, so it seems the WTP project may have been too late. Also, Java EE 5 is around the corner, and where is the EE 5 support? (at least in early adopter form anyway?)

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