Newscast for October 31st 2006 (Halloween)

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• Sun sets the time frame for open sourcing Java, and it's soon
  • http://news.yahoo.com/s/infoworld/20061025/
    tc_infoworld/83138
  • http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?
    sid=06/10/26/2233256&from=rss 
    
  • http://weblogs.java.net/blog/robogeek/archive/
    2006/09/re_sourcecode_m.html

• Instantiations releases GWT Designer
  • http://www.instantiations.com/gwtdesigner/

• Azureus is great, apart from the Java
  • http://www.javalobby.org/java/forums/t83293.html
  • http://azureus.sourceforge.net/

• Congratulations to Petr for winning the google global code jam 2007
  • http://protibet.com/?p=41
  • http://javaposse.com/index.php?post_id=89236
  • http://javaposse.com/index.php?post_id=49364
  • http://www.topcoder.com

• NetBeans 5.5 was released today
  • http://www.netbeans.org/
  • http://wiki.netbeans.info/wiki/view/Milestone4Report

• JSR 277 update
  • http://weblogs.java.net/blog/stanleyh/
    archive/2006/10/jsr277_early_dr_1.html

• Library of the week - Strecks 1.0
  • http://strecks.sourceforge.net/features.php
  • http://www.theserverside.com/news/
    thread.tss?thread_id=42822

• Applet of the week - sorta - Prefuse
  • http://www.prefuse.org/gallery/

Quick News Items

• Eclipse is turning 5 years old, and you are invited
  • http://www.eclipse.org/org/press-release/
    20061025cb_eclipsebirthday5.php
  • Cities - http://www.eclipse.org/community/
    eclipsebirthday5/birthdayparties.php

• And staying with eclipse news, SDE, the Eclipse UML plugin from Visual Paradigm, has reached version 3.3
  • http://www.visual-paradigm.com/product/sde/ec/

• Sun has just released a new Java EE download bundle
  • http://blogs.sun.com/theaquarium/entry/
    new_java_application_platform_is

• Josh Marinacci is moving to Oregon, getting married and leaving the swing labs team, but not leaving Sun. He is going to work on the netbeans team. He is currently in Prague for another three weeks and looking for dodgy java types who might want to meet up and go partying, so if you are interested
  
  • http://weblogs.java.net/blog/joshy/
    archive/2006/10/im_getting_marr.html
  • http://weblogs.java.net/blog/joshy/
    archive/2006/10/java_people_in.html

• Spring web flow 1.0 final has been released
  • http://opensource.atlassian.com/confluence/
    spring/display/WEBFLOW/Home

• Michael Ernst and Sun have submitted JSR 308 (Annotations on Java Types) to the JCP 
  • http://www.cafeaulait.org/#October_27_2006_48467
  • http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=308

• Kirill Grouchikov blogs about using Transition layout to create some animation and fading effects in Swing applications
  • http://weblogs.java.net/blog/kirillcool/
    archive/2006/10/post.html

• Gigavox's Open Source Conversations podcast features a three way conversation between David Van Couvering, Simon Phipps and Dave Johnson recorded at ApacheCon
  • http://osc.gigavox.com/shows/detail1629.html

• The 2006 Java One Blueprints talk is now available online. "Java BluePrints for Ajax-Enabled Web 2.0 Applications"
  
  • http://weblogs.java.net/blog/sean_brydon/
    archive/2006/10/free_online_jav.html

• Mylar version 0.8 released for eclipse
  
  • http://www.eclipse.org/mylar/

• BEA's Dev2dev has an introduction to Groovy and Grails
  • http://dev2dev.bea.com/pub/a/2006/10/
    introduction-groovy-grails.html?page=1

• OpenGL related JSR implementations released. JSR 231 - Java Bindings for OpenGL, and JSR-239 Java Bindings for OpenGL ES (for embedded devices) have now been completed and the reference implementations released by Sun Microsystems.
  • http://jcp.org/aboutJava/communityprocess/
    final/jsr231/index.html
  • http://jcp.org/aboutJava/communityprocess/
    final/jsr239/index.html

• Nuxeo has released Nuxeo Core 1.0 the first release of the "embeddable document management core" that is the foundation of its upcoming Nuxeo 5 open source Enterprise Content Management (ECM) platform
  • http://www.nuxeo.org/sections/projects/core/
  • http://svn.nuxeo.org/trac/nuxeo/browser/
    bundles/NuxeoCore-1.0

• One of the most popular AJAX libraries - DOJO, has just released version 0.4
  • http://blogs.sun.com/theaquarium/
    entry/dojo_0_4_released
  • http://dojo.jot.com/WikiHome/Release0Point4

• Appfuse - Matt Raible's application for "kickstarting" webapp development that brings together many technologies and frameworks, has just released version 1.9.4e. Similar new features can also be found in Equinox 1.7 which is described as Appfuse light and has also just been released.
  • http://today.java.net/pub/n/5133
  • https://appfuse.dev.java.net/
  • https://equinox.dev.java.net/

• Alexis Moussine-Pouchkine blogs about developing Open Office plugins using NetBeans
  • http://blogs.sun.com/alexismp/entry/
    developing_openoffice_extensions_using_java

Listener Feedback

• DrunkandRetired.com's Cote's book on JAAS
  • http://www.jaasbook.com/
    

• Applet of the week suggestion
  • http://cardmeeting.com 
    

• SAP for Java EE 5
  • http://java.sun.com/javaee/overview/compatibility.jsp.
    

Thanks

• Libsyn.com - http://www.libsyn.com - for hosting and bandwidth
• Brice Ruth and Webprojkt.com - http://webprojkt.com - for our archives site - http://archives.javaposse.com
• Feedburner.com - http://www.feedburner.com - for feed redirect
• Kirsty Doherty for Java Posse artwork
• Nick Trefz, the voice of TopCoder, for the voiceovers
• Brian Ehmann - the Java Posse intern
  
• 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://www.loosebrucekerr.com
  • Closing - A track written by Dick in Apple's Garageband
    

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Newscast for October 24th 2006

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• Project black-box - the big announcement, and the trucks full of computers came not from google but from Sun in the end!
  • http://www.sun.com/emrkt/blackbox/index.jsp

• OSGi vs JSR 277 (Java Module System)
  • http://www.osgi.org/blog/2006/10/jsr-277-review.html
  • http://www.eclipsezone.com/eclipse/forums/t83134.html
  • http://www.jroller.com/page/murphee?
    entry=jsr_277_vs_osgi_here
  • http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=277
  • http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=291
  • http://www.java.net/pub/pq/125

• New editor features for netbeans 6.0 unveiled
  • http://cld.blog-city.com/
    netbeans_60s_new_code_editing_features.htm
  • Version 0.9.1 of JRuby - http://docs.codehaus.org/display/JRUBY/
    2006/10/20/JRuby+0.9.1+Released%21

• The sorry state of Java EE 5 - From Slashdot!
  • http://www.ddj.com/dept/java/193302854

• We have a plugin of the week this week (to shake things up a bit), Fasttrack from Polarion
  • http://www.polarion.com/fasttrack/

•  App of the week - MathEclipse
  • http://sourceforge.net/projects/matheclipse/
  • and to see it running - http://www.matheclipse.org/me/

• Applet of the week - Fluxtime - an animation studio for kids
  • http://fluxtime.com/

Quick News Items

• Shreedhar blogs that after some benchmarking against the Java EE 5 reference implementation, and glassfish support, the results are that Java EE 5 is highly performant and production ready
  • http://blogs.sun.com/shreedhar/entry/java_ee_sdk_did_you

• Oracle has released version 10.1.3.1.0 build 3984, and with this version declares the new JDeveloper production ready
  • http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/jdev/101/
    collateral/101/featurematrix_10131.html

• Sun has started a 6 part series on using AJAX with Java EE 5 over at SDN
  • http://java.sun.com/developer/technicalArticles/
    J2EE/hands-on/index.html

• Glyph is a new java.net project to provide utilities and annotations to speed development of JINI applications
  • https://glyph.dev.java.net/

• The flash 9 beta for linux is now available
  • http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flashplayer9/

• EclipseCon 2007 is now inviting submissions for tutorial and session topics
  • http://www.eclipse.org/org/press-release/
    20061017cb_eclispecon2007.php

• Netbeans Profiler tutorial and flash demo available
  
  • http://www.netbeans.org/kb/55/profiler-tutorial.html
  • http://testwww.netbeans.org/kb/50/profiler-demo2.html

• JSR roundup, as well as JSR 277 which we talked about in the main items
  • http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=268
  • http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=269

• Java Embedded Python 2.0 has been released
  • http://jepp.sourceforge.net/

• What's new for JavaOne 2007?
  • http://weblogs.java.net/blog/amvernon/archive/
    2006/10/forgive_me_and.html

• A subproject of jax-ws, that implements SOAP on top of a JMS transport layer
  • https://jms-ws-transport.dev.java.net/

• Gosling offers an alternative to Ant for building Java Projects
  • http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?
    thread_id=42689

• The Server Side has a podcast and supporting slides from the Server Side Java Symposium all about Java Persistance and especially the JPA
  • http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?
    thread_id=42605

• SDN TV has a video podcast talking about the benefits of using BlueJ and Netbeans BlueJ Edition for teaching and learning Object oriented programming using Java
  • http://blogs.sun.com/SDNChannel/entry/
    jumpstart_your_programming_career

• Staying with podcasts, the server side has a podcast recorded at the server side java symposium in Europe with Rod Johnson explaining the new features in Spring 2.0
  • http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?
    thread_id=42723

Listener Feedback

• Harald - remote control bluetooth utility
• http://netwalker.nl/2006/10/21/harald-04-released/
• http://blog.sebastian-krauss.de/?p=208

Thanks

• Libsyn.com - http://www.libsyn.com - for hosting and bandwidth
• Brice Ruth and Webprojkt.com - http://webprojkt.com - for our archives site - http://archives.javaposse.com
• Feedburner.com - http://www.feedburner.com - for feed redirect
• Kirsty Doherty for Java Posse artwork
• Nick Trefz, the voice of TopCoder, for the voiceovers
• Brian Ehmann - the Java Posse intern
  
• 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://www.loosebrucekerr.com
  • Closing - A track written by Dick in Apple's Garageband
    

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Newscast for October 17th 2006

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• Writely becomes Google Docs, switches to using Java across the board
  • http://docs.google.com
  • David Van Couvering demoed an adapted offline version of Google Calendar at ApacheCon that uses a browser based Derby database
  • http://weblogs.java.net/blog/davidvc/archive/
    2006/10/google_calendar.html
  • http://weblogs.java.net/blog/davidvc/archive/
    2006/10/index.html

• The Netbeans GUI builder update pack for 5.5 has been released
  
  • http://form.netbeans.org/updates/update55.html
  • http://qa.netbeans.org/processes/cat/55/ca_survey.html

• Java Gaming roundup
  • Bang Howdy - http://www.banghowdy.com/
  • Puzzle Pirates - http://www.puzzlepirates.com/
  • http://www.threerings.net/
  • Runescape - http://www.runescape.com/
  • And then there is radicalplay - http://www.radicalplay.com/
  • Three Rings Game Gardens
    • http://www.gamegardens.com/gardens/browse.wm
    • http://www.gamegardens.com/howto/
  • Game with characters created in Smooth Teddy - Sleepy Sushi - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OU9v30UDu2s
  • vNES has 395 classic NES games - http://www.vnes.thatsanderskid.com/
  • And if you are a fan of puzzles, check out MazeWorks - http://www.mazeworks.com/home.htm

• Applet of the week - TotalRC.net
  • http://www.totalrc.net/main_ref.jsp?menu=31

• The Java Library of the week - Jagacy 3270 and Jagacy VT screen scraping libraries
  • http://www.jagacy.com/

Banana phone

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dsBTo5LExr0
• http://ghostalmedia.com/banana/
• http://www.transbuddha.com/osaka/osakaphone.html
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bananaphone
  

Book Reviews:

• JavaScript the Definitive Guide 5th Ed by David Flanagan - O'Reilly
  • http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/jscript5/index.html

• AJAX Design Patterns by Michael Mahemoff - O'Reilly
  • http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/ajaxdp/index.html

Quick News Items

• jsTester 1.3 has been released
  • http://jstester.sourceforge.net/

• BEA has released version 9.2 of the Weblogic Platform, but there is still no support for Java EE 5.
  • http://e-docs.bea.com/wls/docs92/notes/new.html

• TIBCO has released version 3.2 beta of their General Interface (GI) product under the BSD license
  • http://www.tibco.com/devnet/gi/default.jsp

• Instantiations has released the beta version of an Eclipse/Websphere/RAD plugin called GWT Designer
  • http://www.instantiations.com/gwtdesigner/

• JSR 202 - the Java Class File Specification Update from Sun has reached the proposed final draft stage
  • http://www.cafeaulait.org/#October_11_2006_28753
  • http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=202

• Iona has released version 4.1 of Artix ESB (enterprise service bus)
  
  • http://www.iona.com/products/artix/new_in_4.1.htm

• Triemax software has released version 1.7 of Jalopy
  • http://www.triemax.com/products/jalopy/history.html

• Jayasoft has released Ivy 1.0, a Java based dependency manager
  
  • http://www.jayasoft.fr/org/modules/
    ivy/single.html#overview

• The Aranea Java Web Framework has reached version 1.0 final
  • http://www.theserverside.com/news/
    thread.tss?thread_id=42637
  • http://www.araneaframework.org/

• IBM alphaworks has made the IBM Client Application Tool for JMS available
  • http://www.alphaworks.ibm.com/tech/jmstool?
    open&S_TACT=105AGX59&S_CMP=GR&
    ca=dgr-jw01awjmstool

• A free ebook has shown up on lulu.com that lists the top 200 questions that Java/J2EE developers might be asked in an interview
  • http://www.lulu.com/java-success

• InfoQ has a video interview with Tim Bray
  • http://www.infoq.com/interviews/tim_bray_rails_and_more

• Josh Marinacci has now posted up the demo and code for using NASA map data in the JXMapViewer Component
  • http://weblogs.java.net/blog/joshy/
    archive/2006/10/nasa_maps_in_yo.html

• JBoss has released Hibernate 3.2 and it is now fully JPA compatible
  • http://www.theserverside.com/news/
    thread.tss?thread_id=42651

• The server side notes that the JBoss licensing model is changing to bring it more in line with the redhat licensing model
  • http://www.theserverside.com/news/
    thread.tss?thread_id=42638

• Headway Software has released version 2 of Structure101
  • http://www.headwaysoftware.com/products/structure101/

• A great flash based introduction to Eclipse
  • http://jonah.cs.elon.edu/dpowell2/Courses/
    EclipseTutorial/Eclipse%20Tutorial%20in%20Video/
    Eclipse%20Tutorial%20in%20Video.html

• Video and screenshots from the Extreme GUI Makeover session at Java One this year
  • http://jroller.com/page/gfx?
    entry=screenshots_and_video_of_extreme

Thanks

• Libsyn.com - http://www.libsyn.com - for hosting and bandwidth
• Brice Ruth and Webprojkt.com - http://webprojkt.com - for our archives site - http://archives.javaposse.com
• Feedburner.com - http://www.feedburner.com - for feed redirect
• Kirsty Doherty for Java Posse artwork
• Nick Trefz, the voice of TopCoder, for the voiceovers
• Brian Ehmann - the Java Posse intern
  
• 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://www.loosebrucekerr.com
  • Closing - "The Outer Light" or "Inside the Light" (they haven't decided yet) by Butterflies and Zebras (Norm Howard, and Steve Northover - the SWT dude) - "I tuned my old acoustic to a C modal tuning that I like (CACDCE).  I asked Norm for some east Indian sounds which he proceeded to make flawlessly, using a glass slide and his sunburst strat.  Without warning, he launched into a rhythm pattern, using his delay to double up what he was playing (the delay is in time with the rhythm so it's there, but you don't notice it, so it's kind of ghostly).  I took the solo, clean first with a TS9 for light distortion and then the wah, and finally clean again.  Towards the end, I switch to rhythm (no delay) and Norm solos, using the same delay that he used for the rhythm. He's tasteful and heads for the stars during the fade out" - http://www.onmusic.com/nands

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GWT Round Table

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This round table is a teleconference with Robert Hanson, Ryan Dewsbury and Bruce Johnson to discuss GWT, the past, present and future

• Robert Hanson - Keeper of the GWT Widget Library
  • Blog - http://roberthanson.blogspot.com/
  • GWT Widget Library - http://gwt-widget.sourceforge.net/

• Ryan Dewsbury - Author of GPokr.com
  • Blog - http://www.rdews.com/
  • GPokr.com - the Texas Holdem poker game written in GWT - http://gpokr.com/

• Bruce Johnson - Tech lead of the GWT project
  • InfoQ interview - http://www.infoq.com/news/Google-Bruce-Johnson-GWT
  • Google Web Toolkit blog - Bruce is a regular contributor - http://googlewebtoolkit.blogspot.com/

• Google web tookit homepage
  • http://code.google.com/webtoolkit/
• Developer Guide
  • http://code.google.com/webtoolkit/documentation/
• GWT FAQ
  • http://code.google.com/webtoolkit/faq.html

• Google Maps Custom Component - http://sourceforge.net/projects/gwt/

• IDE Integration - Integration with Eclipse comes as standard, however there are other options:
  • Eclipse Plugin to make development easier - googlipse - http://www.googlipse.com/
  • Oracle's JDeveloper - http://www.oracle.com/technology/pub/
    articles/dubois-gwt.html
  • Netbeans - http://blogs.sun.com/roumen/entry/
    getting_started_with_gwt_in
  • IntelliJ IDEA:
    • http://www.jetbrains.com/idea/features/
      newfeatures.html
    • http://www.jetbrains.com/idea/training/
      demos/GWT.html

• GUI Builders:
  • Instantiations GWT - http://www.instantiations.com/windowbuilderpro/gwt/
  • VistaFei for GWT - http://www.wirelexsoft.com/VistaFei.html

Thanks

• Libsyn.com - http://www.libsyn.com - for hosting and bandwidth
• Brice Ruth and Webprojkt.com - http://webprojkt.com - for our archives site - http://archives.javaposse.com
• Feedburner.com - http://www.feedburner.com - for feed redirect
• Kirsty Doherty for Java Posse artwork
• Nick Trefz, the voice of TopCoder, for the voiceovers
• Brian Ehmann - the Java Posse intern
  
• 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://www.loosebrucekerr.com
  • Closing - A track written by Dick in Apple's Garageband
    

• To contact us:
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