• How much openness is good for a JSR?
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/editors/archives/
  2007/04/the_model.html
• http://today.java.net/pub/pq/155

• Ubuntu Feisty Fawn (also known as 7.04) has been released, and it includes Java
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/ludo/archive/
  2007/04/ubuntu_upgrade.html
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/mortazavi/archive/
  2007/04/full_java_stack_1.html
• http://www.ubuntu.com/news/
  java-stack-included-in-ubuntu

• Is the eclipse visual editor dead?
• http://www.coconut-palm-software.com/
  the_visual_editor/?p=107

• Mobile app(s) of the week - Jitter and Twitteresce
  
• http://www.freakitude.com/2007/04/20/
  jitter-tiny-cellphone-twitter-client/
• http://www.madpilot.com.au/twitteresce

Quick News Items

• Aptana, the eclipse based IDE focused on web development, has added Ruby on Rails support to its list of features using radrails
• http://www.aptana.com/download_rails_rdt.php

• The eclipse foundation will be hosting a party at Jillian's on the wednesday during JavaOne
• http://www.eclipse.org/org/press-release/
  20070420cb_eclipseparty.php

• Netbeans now has a Seam plugin
• http://www.michaelyuan.com/blog/2007/04/17/
  first-release-of-seam-plugin-for-netbeans/
• http://blogs.sun.com/roumen/entry/
  seam_plug_in_for_netbeans

• NetBeans.org has introduced a sample catalog
• http://www.netbeans.org/kb/samples/

• The Artemis project has released the first Alpha
• http://artemis.effectiveui.com/?page_id=3

• IBM Developerworks have a new tutorial introducing 3d programming in Java
• https://www6.software.ibm.com/developerworks/
  education/j-java3d/index.html

• The Apache project has released Jakarta Commons Configuration 1.4
• http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/configuration/
• http://www.theserverside.com/news/
  thread.tss?thread_id=45086

• Kirill Grouchnikov has just released a new version, 3.3, of the substance look and feel for Java
• https://substance.dev.java.net/release-info/
  3.3/release-info.html

• Mobile and embedded podcast
• http://today.java.net/pub/ct/mobileandembedded
  

Listener Feedback

• Amiga Emulator
• Windows: http://www.winuae.net/
• Linux: http://uae.coresystems.de/
• Mac: http://worldserver.oleane.com/ablancha/uae.htm

• Liftweb web framework for Scala
• http://blog.lostlake.org/index.php?/archives/
  45-A-real-world-use-of-lift.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, Oliver Widder and Jeff Tyson 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)
    

• To contact us:
  • Visit our homepage - http://javaposse.com
  • Post on our Google Group - http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse
  • Or send us email - javaposse@gmail.com

• What would you like to see for a Google presence at JavaOne this year?
• Please post ideas to the Posse Google group or email them to us at javaposse@gmail.com
• http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse

• Ed Burnette asks: is Flash better than Java
• http://blogs.zdnet.com/Burnette/?p=286

• Gavin King's Java EE 6 Wishlist
• http://blog.hibernate.org/cgi-bin/blosxom.cgi/
  2007/03/30#ee6part1
• http://www.infoq.com/news/2007/04/
  jee6-wishlist
• http://www.artima.com/forums/flat.jsp?
  forum=276&thread=201028
• http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=313

• A recent digg posting highlights the fact that, despite being the third most requested enhancement, there is no 64 bit java plugin for AMD64 machines (or EMT64 if you use Intel)
• http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?
  bug_id=4802695
• http://digg.com/linux_unix/4_years_later_64_bit_
  Java_Plugin_is_still_long_ways_off

• Geir Magnusson, the leader of the Apache Harmony project - an open source implementation of the Java standard under the Apache license, has left his job at Intel to join the Internet TV startup company Joost, and written an open letter to Sun
• http://news.com.com/2061-10791_3-6174035.html
• http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?
  thread_id=44942
  

• Java website of the week - infact book search
• http://books.infact.com/booksearch/jsp/index.jsf
• http://www.jsfcentral.com/articles/trenches_6.html

• Applet(s) of the week - the Nintendo Emulator
  
• http://nintendo8.com/toplist/more/
• And a couple of commodore 64 emulators in Java
  
• http://c64s.com/
• http://www.jac64.com/home/index.php

Quick News Items

• Sun has released Java 6 update 1
• http://www.javalobby.org/java/forums/t92886.html
• http://java.sun.com/javase/6/webnotes/
  ReleaseNotes.html#160_01

• Vladimir Sizikov has a couple of useful blog entries if you are trying to track down memory leaks in your java application
• http://blog.emptyway.com/2007/04/02/
  finding-memory-leaks-in-java-apps/
• http://blog.emptyway.com/2007/04/02/
  finding-memory-leaks-part-2-links/

• Spring will be at CommunityOne day before JavaOne 2007
  
• http://blogs.sun.com/theaquarium/
  entry/spring_at_glassfish_day

• Charles Oliver Nutter will be appearing at CommunityOne day to talk about and answer questions on Ruby, JRuby and JRuby on rails
• http://www.netbeans.org/community/articles/
  interviews/charlie-nutter.html

• The Netbeans 5.5 IDE now has the UML module available for download
• http://www.netbeans.org/products/uml/index.html

• Artima has a great interview with Peter von der Ahé about JSR 199 (the java compiler API) and how it will improve the tooling experience both within NetBeans and with other IDEs as well
• http://www.artima.com/lejava/articles/
  compiler_api.html
• http://java.sun.com/developer/Meet-Eng/vonderahe/

• JSR release roundup
• JSR 147 - Workspace Versioning and Configuration Management
• http://www.jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=147
• JSR 248 - Mobile Service Architecture
• http://www.jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=248
• JSR 270 - Java 6 SE release contents
• http://www.jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=270
• JSR 269 - Pluggable Annotation Processing API
• http://www.jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=269
• JSR 268 - Java Smart Card I/O API
• http://www.jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=268
• JSR 202 - Java Class File Specification Update
• http://www.jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=202
• and JSR 221 - JDBC API 4.0 Specification
• http://www.jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=221
• http://www.developer.com/lang/article.php/3670051

• Recent activity on specs showing up both in the JCP or in pre JCP form in the leadup to JavaOne
  
• http://blogs.sun.com/theaquarium/entry/
  notd_jcp_javaee_6_jbi

• Move over office live, here comes eclipse live
• http://live.eclipse.org/archived

• Check out Dan Morrill's article on the GWT google group about security in GWT
• http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Web-Toolkit/
  web/security-for-gwt-applications

• Dean Iverson has a JSR 296 - Swing Application Framework tutorial on his blog
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/diverson/archive/2007/
  04/swing_applicati_1.html

• This week both James Gosling and Chris Adamson have been messing with AB5k
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/editors/archives/
  2007/04/manic_monday.html
• http://blogs.sun.com/jag/entry/fun_with_widgets

• BD Java standard mandatory for future blu ray players
• http://digg.com/hardware/Blu_ray_Spec_Change_
  May_Cause_Problems_For_Old_Players

Listener Feedback

• Writing your own GPS application for a mobile device
• http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=179
  

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, Oliver Widder and Jeff Tyson 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)
    

• To contact us:
  • Visit our homepage - http://javaposse.com
  • Post on our Google Group - http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse
  • Or send us email - javaposse@gmail.com