Interview with Herbert Czymontek of the Semplice Team at Sun

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• Project Semplice information:
• http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/herbertc?
  entry=project_semplice_visual_basic_for
• http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2006/05/19/
  write-java-web-apps-in-visual-basic-or-javascript/
• http://blogs.zdnet.com/Burnette/?p=107
• Herbert's blog
• http://blogs.sun.com/herbertc
• The public feedback email address for people interested in Semplice:
• semplice-public-feedback@sun.com
• At present there is still no official homepage for Semplice, stay subscribed to the Java Posse and we will pass on the URL when it becomes available.
  

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Java Posse Episode 71

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• Open Sourcing Java will be an incremental process
  • http://www.infoworld.com/article/06/07/17/HNjavaopen_1.html
  • http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?
    command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9001909
  • http://www.javalobby.org/java/forums/t76404.html

• Is apple dropping it's Java Cocoa support?
  
  • http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Cocoa/
    Conceptual/LanguageIntegration/index.html
  • http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?
    thread_id=35113

• Netbeans 5.5 Beta 2 now available
  • http://www.netbeans.org/community/releases/55/index.html
  • http://www.artima.com/forums/flat.jsp?
    forum=276&thread=169281

• On a related note, the server side has an article comparing performance of Java running on the new Macbooks and Macbook Pros which show the new Mac hardware in a good light
  • http://www.theserverside.com/tt/articles/article.tss?l=JavaMac

• We mentioned that the SwingX-WS project (Swing Labs Web Service Components) was about to be launched in last weeks podcast, well this is now official
  • https://swingx-ws.dev.java.net/

• Chris Campbell at Sun blogs about a number of recent improvements in the Mustang rendering pipeline
  
  • http://weblogs.java.net/blog/campbell/archive/
    2006/07/five_more_easy.html
  • http://download.java.net/jdk6/binaries/

• Chris Adamson describes the Top 10 highest voted bugs in Sun's bug parade - and for a number of them he hopes Sun will not listen to the voters...
  • http://www.oreillynet.com/onjava/blog/2006/07/
    touring_the_top_10_rfes.html

• Visual GWT GUI Builder from VistaFei
  • Product Page: http://www.wirelexsoft.com/VistaFei.html
  • Forum Download: http://www.wirelexsoft.com/wforum/viewtopic.php?t=48

• Application of the week - BlueMarine from Tidalwave
  • http://bluemarine.tidalwave.it
  • http://www.tidalwave.it/infoglueCMS/digitalAssets/
    975_GeoTagging_with_Maps.jpg

Quick News Items

• Fiorano software has added .NET support to it's ESB product, making it the first commercial vendor to support C, C++, Java and all of the .NET languages (including C# and VB.NET) in its ESB (Enterprise Service Bus)
  
  • http://java.sys-con.com/read/250075.htm
  • http://www.fiorano.com/products/platform_independence.htm

• Terracotta have stepped up to offer support for Apache Geronimo 1.1
  
  • http://terracottatech.com/about_us.shtml
  • http://www.virtuas.com/PR071806.html
  • http://geronimo.apache.org/

• Interested in EJB 3.0? How about a free book?
  • http://www.theserverside.com/tt/books/wiley/
    masteringEJB3/index.tss

• Cedric Beust has released version 5.0 of TestNG
  • http://testng.org/doc/

• Free - AJAX programming with Passion 10 week online course
  • http://www.javapassion.com/ajaxcodecamp/?feed=RSS

• The Java Blueprints solutions catalog has been updated with new information on using AJAX with JSF and new examples of the Java Persistence API
  • http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/basler?
    entry=a_new_version_of_the

• ICESoft has released Enterprise Edition 1.0 of ICEFaces, a JSF implementation that uses AJAX heavily to deliver rich JSF UI capability
  • http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?
    thread_id=41399

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• 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 July 18th 2006

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• Apache Maven - http://maven.apache.org/
• Better Builds with Maven - http://library.mergere.com/
• Maven guides - http://maven.apache.org/guides/index.html
• Getting started -
• http://maven.apache.org/guides/getting-started/index.html
• Mailing lists - http://maven.apache.org/mail-lists.html
• Eclipse integration - http://maven.apache.org/eclipse-plugin.html
• NetBeans integration - http://maven.apache.org/netbeans-module.html
• Maestro - http://www.mergere.com/products_developers.jsp

And another podcast about the Apache Software Foundation for those interested - Link is not live to avoid confusing feedburner with 2 mp3 links, copy and paste in a browser to get the podcast.

http://feathercast.org/?p=16

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• 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 July 18th 2006

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• Does Java EE have a place in Service Oriented Architectures?
  • http://searchwebservices.techtarget.com/originalContent/
    0,289142,sid26_gci1198211,00.html?track=NL-110&
    ad=558301&ASRC=EM_NNL_344952
  • http://www.javalobby.org/java/forums/t76044.html
  • http://www.infoq.com/news/Java-EE-Demise-Report
  • http://blogs.zdnet.com/service-oriented/index.php?p=658
  • http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?thread_id=41283

• Aerith and SwingLabs - announcements from Josh Marinacci
  • http://weblogs.java.net/blog/joshy/archive/
    2006/07/getting_started.html
  • https://swingx-ws.dev.java.net/

• The Project Phobos source code is now available
  • http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?thread_id=41320
  • http://weblogs.java.net/blog/robc/archive/
    2006/07/new_phobos_buil.html

• Romain Guy on what Java on the desktop needs
  • http://jroller.com/page/gfx?entry=javadb_derby_in_java_se
  • http://weblogs.java.net/blog/johnreynolds/archive/
    2006/07/why_use_a_datab.html

• Applet of the week - ImageJ from NIH
  • Homepage - http://www.applelinks.com/index.php/more/
    imagej_137j_freeware_image_editor_in_java_shareware_beat/
  • Feature summary - http://www.applelinks.com/index.php/more/
    imagej_137j_freeware_image_editor_in_java_shareware_beat/
  • Try the applets - http://rsb.info.nih.gov/ij/applets.html
  • Download it - http://rsb.info.nih.gov/ij/download.html

• Application of the week GeoServer 1.3.2
  • http://docs.codehaus.org/display/GEOS/2006/07/05/GeoServer+1.3.2+Released
  • http://docs.codehaus.org/display/GEOSDOC/Quickstart

Quick News Items

• IBM has a PHP integration kit for Java EE servers 
  • http://www.alphaworks.ibm.com/tech/phpintwasce?
    open&S_TACT=105AGX59&ca=dgr-jw30phpintwasce

• The first Netbeans milestone build is now out. 6.0 M1
  • http://www.netbeans.org/community/news/index.html#886

• The "iX Better Software" conference in Frankfurt/Main Germany will feature a full-day Groovy tutorial on November 27th, see
  • http://groovy.codehaus.org/Events.
    

• Scott Violet has written an application which lets you easily write Java 2D code
  • http://weblogs.java.net/blog/zixle/archive/
    2006/07/beanshell_2d_in.html
  • Surface has released a 1.3 version
  • http://today.java.net/pub/n/4655

• The Tornado Server
  
  • http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?thread_id=41297
  • http://www.puakma.net/puakma/website.pma/Tornado

• BEA has released a new version 9.2 of their weblogic application server
  • http://www.baselinemag.com/article2/0,1540,1987147,00.asp

• New JSR 302 submitted to add safety critical technology to java
  • http://www.cafeaulait.org/#July_12_2006_38336
  • http://today.java.net/pub/n/4660
  • http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=302

• Sun has submitted JSR 296 - Swing Application Framework - to the JCP
  • http://www.cafeaulait.org/#July_6_2006_28890
  • http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=296

• Oliver Burns has released version 4.2 of Checkstyle
  • http://checkstyle.sourceforge.net/

• Geert Bevin of Uwyn has released version 1.0 of javapaste
  • http://rifers.org/paste
  • https://javapaste.dev.java.net/

• Roman Strobl has multimedia flash presentation up on the netbeans site, an end to end solution using Java EE 5
  
  • http://www.netbeans.org/download/flash/platform_55/platform_ws/

• Grails 0.2 released
  • http://grails.org/Download
  • http://jira.codehaus.org/secure/IssueNavigator.jspa?
    reset=true&pid=11063&fixfor=11938
  • http://grails.org/Roadmap

• IntelliJ IDEA 6.0 New Features
  
  • http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?thread_id=41355
  • http://www.jetbrains.com/idea/features/newfeatures.html
  • http://www.jetbrains.com/specials/index.html
  • http://www.javalobby.org/java/forums/t76316.html - Flash demo of the new GUI builder

• A talk from JavaPolis given by Linda DeMichiel and Mike Keith on Advanced EJB persistence is now available at the javapolis.com web site
  • http://www.javapolis.com/confluence/display/JP05/Home

• Intel and Sun have provided new builds of eclipse 3.2 for several platforms
  
  • http://www.eclipsezone.com/eclipse/forums/t76327.rhtml

• Further rumors on the Borland IDE acquisition
  • http://www.infoworld.com/article/06/07/17/
    29NNborlandtools_1.html?source=InfoQ

Book Review

Design Patterns in Java - Steven John Metsker and William C. Wake - Addison Wesley
http://www.awprofessional.com/bookstore/product.asp?isbn=0321333020&rl=1

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