Thu, 29 May 2008
Newscast for May 29th 2008Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.com
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Java is annoying? ZDNet thinks so
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Forget set tops, Sony is building Java into TVs
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Wicket + Generics = Trouble
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The Davinci project is hosting a JVM language summit at Sun's Santa Clara campus from Sept 24th to 26th
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Mobile Java App of the week - iCitizen
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Applet of the week - JIrc
Quick News
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The 3rd annual Eclipse Summit is to be held in Ludwigsburg, Germany on November 19th and 20th
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Borland has sold CodeGear to Embarcadero
- .NET developer's journal on taking your ASP.NET application and running it on Java, Apache Tomcat and Linux
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Nuxeo has just released version 2.0 of the Nuxeo RCP (Rich Client Platform)
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Apache Tuscany has been promoted to a top level Apache project
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The Server Side has a two part introduction to OSGi from a non-OSGi advocates point of view
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The Server Side has a pair of 30 minute podcasts of a web frameworks shootout
Thanks
Direct download: JavaPosse189.mp3
Category: podcasts
-- posted at: 3:12pm PDT
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Sat, 24 May 2008
Newscast for May 22nd 2008
Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.com
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One of the stories we overlooked from JavaOne was that the JCP annual award winners were announced
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Does our support of Scala as an emerging force on the JVM mean that we believe Java is dead?
- We held the first Scala users group last week at Google
- Correction to our Twitter and Ruby on Rails story in Episode 186
Quick News Items
- Build 24 of the consumer JRE (Java 6 update 10) was released yesterday
- News from the Scala Lift Off - JavaRebel donating licenses for use on Scala for a year
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Chris Adamson has started putting out the minitalks from the Community Corner at JavaOne as podcasts
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The technical session on NNIO (JSR 203 - more new IO) on youtube
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Apache has release Barcode4J 2.0 - a barcode generator for Java
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Vivek Pandey blogs about getting Scala and Lift working on Glassfish v3
- Morph has Java running on Amazon's EC2 (Elastic compute cloud) and S3 (Simple storage system)
- And another new stack is available for Amazon EC2 that brings OpenSolaris, Glassfish and MySQL to the party
- The Woodstock project has released version 4.2
- Google is hosting an Eclipse day, at the Googleplex in Mountain View, on Tuesday June 24th
- Livescribe pen video at zdnet that shows some of its capabilities
- Continuing the integration work with OSGi, glassfish now has a Grizzly OSGi bundle available
- Is JRockit a casualty of the Oracle/BEA deal?
- Google has posted the second milestone of GWT 1.5
- Jean Francois Arcand blogs about getting a GWT application working with Grizzly and Comet
- NASA WorldWind Java demos
- JSR News. Sun has posted the early draft review of JSR 317 - JPA (Java Persistence API) 2.0
- JSR 315 - Servlet 3.0, is also in early draft review from Sun
- Nokia and Vodafone have posted the early draft review for JSR 249 - Mobile Service Architecture 2
- Sun has posted an early draft review of JSR 292 - supporting dynamically typed languages on the Java platform
- And another public review draft, from Sun, for JSR 311 - JAX-RS (Java API for ReSTful Web Services)
- JGAP 3.3.3 has been released. JGAP is a Genetic Algorithms library for Java
- The PortalPack 2.0 for NetBeans has now also been released
- The aquarium has a collection of links to get you started with the EJB 3.1 plugin for Glassfish v3
Thanks
Direct download: JavaPosse188.mp3
Category: podcasts
-- posted at: 11:36am PDT
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Sun, 18 May 2008
Java SE 7 Interview with Danny Coward from Sun Microsystems
Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.com
Interview with Danny Coward - Chief Architect of Sun's Client Software,
and Sun's Java SE/EE representative on the Executive Committee for the
JCP - about Java SE 7 timeline, features and how the JCP fits in.
- JSR 277/294 - Modularity related JSRs
- JSR 292 - Invoke Dynamic and other Dynamically Typed Language Support
- JSR 308 - Annotations on Java Types
- JSR 305 - Annotations for Software Defect Detection
- JSR 203 - More New I/O APIs
- JCP - Java Community Process
- JSR 296 - Swing Application Framework
- Language changes - voting results from JavaPolis 07
Thanks
Direct download: JavaPosse187.mp3
Category: podcasts
-- posted at: 12:11pm PDT
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Fri, 9 May 2008
Java Posse Episode 186 - JavaOne 2008 BoF
Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.com
Recorded live in front of a large and, frankly, quite enthusiastic audience at JavaOne 2008.
News from JavaOne
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Neil Young - Blu Ray archives
- NetBeans 6.1 - debug JavaScript running in the browser
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Eclipse 3.4 Milestone 7 (last milestone before RCs)
Duke awards:
• Step2e for Java Technology in Broadcasting
• Cocchiaro Music for Digital Imaging
• UpNext for Java Everywhere
• Crisk Software ltd for Java in Education
• University of the Philippines - Dilman for Medical Solutions
• Sentilla for Pervasive Solutions
• LiveScribe for Mobile Device
• CERN for Science Research
• Learning 360 for Java Technology in Education
• Hudson for Developer Solutions
• mPowerPlay for Mobile Gaming
• OpenOffice.org for Fan's choice.
http://blogs.sun.com/theaquarium/entry/duke_awards_are_out_congratulations
And thanks again to Atlassian for bringing the beer:
http://www.atlassian.com/
Thanks
Direct download: JavaPosse186.mp3
Category: podcasts
-- posted at: 4:37pm PDT
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Thu, 8 May 2008
CommunityOne 2008 Special
Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.com
We bring you a very short state of the union from CommunityOne 2008.
Our BoF is set for Thursday 8th May at 8:30pm in North Meeting Room 124. Please join us as we take a look at the breaking news from JavaOne, have some fun, and go out for beers afterwards. We will run for as long as they let us.
Thanks
Direct download: JavaPosse185.mp3
Category: podcasts
-- posted at: 12:40am PDT
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Sat, 3 May 2008
Newscast for May 2nd 2008
Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.com
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Apple and Java, might they make up?
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Chris Adamson has a nice roundup of the various sub-conferences and unconferences surrounding JavaOne
- Chet Haase and Romain Guy are
back with a talk titled "Filthy Rich Clients: Filthier, Richer,
Clientier" as well, which has moved
- OpenJDK has announced an official project to provide a feature complete prototype of BGGA closures
- Javoxx is the new name for JavaPolis
- Java Application of the Week - JVoiceBridge
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Mobile Java app of the week - Skype Mobile
- Library called ext (JavaScript) - LGPL -> GPL
Quick News
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NetBeans 6.1 has been released, in plenty of time for anyone to download and install it before CommunityOne and JavaOne
- Sun has pledged a 100% open source distribution of Java, alongside the current version with some binary only parts
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The new large hadron collider being constructed in CERN runs Java as a key piece of its control system
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According to the server side, JSR 315 - the Servlet 3.0 spec - has hit an impasse
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Stanley Ho and the EG for JSR 277 have put together the first draft of a spec for interoperability between OSGi and JSR 277
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The huikau blog has published some performance comparison numbers for JRuby 1.1.1 vs Ruby 1.8.6
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Sony Ericsson is bringing Flash Lite to Java ME devices
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A new Groovy based build system called Gradle has been released as an early preview
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The upcoming release of eclipse ganymede, later in June, will be accompanied by a number of free democamps around the world
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Adobe has released a product called livecycle
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Google has released a ReST based API to its search service
- Mainsoft has updated their .NET to Java EE translation tool to version 2.2
- Mule 2.0 Community Edition has been released
- Apache CXF is a new official apache software foundation project that helps you build services using APIs
- OpenEJB 3.0 final has been released by Apache - just in time for JavaOne :-)
Thanks
Direct download: JavaPosse184.mp3
Category: podcasts
-- posted at: 11:17am PDT
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Wed, 30 April 2008
Open Source Java InterviewFully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.com
With Rich Sands, Barton George and Bruno Souza - OpenJDK
- Barton's Blog
- Rich's Blog
- Bruno Souza
- JavaOne
- CommunityOne
Thanks
Direct download: JavaPosse183.mp3
Category: podcasts
-- posted at: 9:52am PDT
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Mon, 28 April 2008
Roundup 08 - Java, Improve or Renew?
Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.com
Are you ready to let go of your java comfort zone?
- JCP
- JRuby
- Jython
- Scala
- Groovy
- Multiple languages on the JVM
- Closures:
- Drop backwards compatibility?
- Java 7
- Java FX / FX Script
- Reified generics
- Thinking in Java book
- JVM
- Java class libraries
- Google Collections Library
- Static typing in Groovy 2
- C# backwards compatibility?
- OpenJDK
- Java Community Links?
- C/C++
- Jackpot
- Retroweaver
- Iced Tea
Thanks
Direct download: JavaPosse182.mp3
Category: podcasts
-- posted at: 8:34am PDT
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Wed, 23 April 2008
Interview with Emmanuel Bernard from Javapolis 2007
Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.com
- Emmanuel's Blog
- JSR-303 - Bean Validation
- Hibernate
- JBoss
- Java Annotations
- Hibernate Validator
- Hibernate Search
- JBoss Seam
- JSR-299 - Web Beans
- JPA (Java Persistence API)
- Apache Lucene
Thanks
Direct download: JavaPosse181.mp3
Category: podcasts
-- posted at: 8:26am PDT
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Sat, 19 April 2008
Java Posse Episode 180 - Newscast for April 17th 2008
Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.com
- Web Based IDEs, are they coming, are they even already here?
- Sun has announced support for Java 1.4 standard edition through to
2017, for a fee
- JBuilder 2008 is now out from CodeGear with new tools
for aiding code reuse
- Application of the week - Swing Explorer 1.0
- Java Library of the Week - Wizard
Quick News
- Espresso 3D has been open-sourced under
the LGPL license
- JDK 6 Update 6 has been released
- Google App Engine with GWT (Google Web Toolkit)
- JRuby 1.1 has been released
- Hello Buddy/Hola Amiga is a new initiative led by Sun Microsystems volunteers to try and reduce the digital divide
- The JFugue Music notepad project has just released its first binary
- The Sun Realtime System to be used in the ITT's Eglin Control and Signal Processing upgrade for the space surveillance radar
- Dalibor Topic has joined Sun as the Java F/OSS (Free and Open Source Software) ambassador
- Icefaces.org have released version 1.7 of icefaces
- Nokia developing a full touch screen phone to compete with Apple's iPhone
- Opera Mini has been released for Android
- Hinkmond Wong reports on his blog that an initial port of Java ME CDC is running on the iPhone
- Jetty has got within 80% of the usage numbers of Tomcat according to the netcraft web survey
- Thinking Rock, has just made the lifehacker 5 best GTD applications
- IBM has release Project Zero
- Stepen Morris has an article up about using Java to record audio
- Stan4j 1.0 from Oddyseus software
- IBM's developerworks has a tutorial for using Groovy from a Java developer's perpective
Thanks
Direct download: JavaPosse180.mp3
Category: podcasts
-- posted at: 2:40pm PDT
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