Newscast for August 25th 2006

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• Neal Gafter, James Gosling, Gilad Bracha and Peter von der Ahe want to add closures to Java in JDK 7
  • http://gafter.blogspot.com/2006/08/
    whats-point-of-closures.html
  • http://gafter.blogspot.com/2006/08/
    closures-for-java.html
  • http://www.javalobby.org/java/forums/t77802.html
  • http://www.oreillynet.com/onjava/blog/2006/08/
    will_we_have_closures_in_java.html?CMP=
    OTC-FP2116136014&ATT=
    Will+we+have+closures+in+Java+1+7

• Were the Java 5 features a bad idea?
  • http://www.jroller.com/page/vprise?
    entry=java_5_language_changes_were
  • http://www.javalobby.org/java/forums/t77830.html
  • http://techarticles.blogspot.com/2006/08/
    why-to-use-generics-in-java.html
  • http://www.theserverside.com/blogs/thread.tss?
    thread_id=41731

• Mustang and Dolphin names both retired in favor of Java 6 and 7
  • http://weblogs.java.net/blog/ray_gans/archive/
    2006/08/mustang_and_dol.html
  • https://jdk6.dev.java.net/
  • https://jdk7.dev.java.net/

• EL - the expression language from JSF, might become a separate JSR to be added into future versions of java
  • http://weblogs.java.net/blog/edburns/archive/
    2006/08/the_case_for_el.html
  • http://www.theserverside.com/news/
    thread.tss?thread_id=41768

• New Oracle JDeveloper version
  
  • http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/jdev/
    collateral/papers/10131/newfeatures/index.html
  • Oracle has also released a developer preview version of their Java EE Container, OC4J and their Application server, now known as the SOA Suite
  • http://www.theserverside.com/news/
    thread.tss?thread_id=41776

• Application of the week - JFugue - a music notepad
  
  • https://nbjfuguesupport.dev.java.net/index.html

• Applet of the week - The SmartMoney 401(k) Retirement planner
  • http://www.smartmoney.com/retirement/401k/
    index.cfm?story=planner

Quick News Items

• JBoss has released version 4.0 beta 1 of the JBoss ESB (Enterprise Service Bus)
  • http://jboss.org/jbossBlog/blog/mlittle/?
    permalink=JBossESB_4_0_Beta1_released.txt

• JMaki is now integrated with project phobos
  • http://weblogs.java.net/blog/robc/archive/
    2006/08/jmaki_in_phobos.html

• Josh Marinacci has started blogging about improvements in the windows look and feel for upcoming Java 6 and 7 releases
  
  • http://weblogs.java.net/blog/joshy/archive/
    2006/08/the_big_one.html

• Josh also has a new teaser blog entry talking about Trailers, the next big thing to hit swing
  
  • http://weblogs.java.net/blog/joshy/archive/
    2006/08/painter_trailer.html

• The 10th JINI community meeting has been announced for September 14th-15th in Brussels, Belgium
  
  • http://www.jini.org/wiki/
    Category:10th_Jini_Community_Meeting

• J2Native from Smardec brings JNI-less native libraries to Java
  
  • http://www.smardec.com/products/j2native.html

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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 - "Africa (About Face)" by Butterflies and Zebras - Norm Howard and Steve Northover (Steve was interviewed about SWT recently)
    Comment from Steve Northover - If you check http://www.onmusic.com/nands (the slowest site in the world), some of the fractals and many of the mp3's I gave you are now available there.  For "Africa (About Face)", my acoustic is tuned in this great EEEEBE tuning.  Norm is playing his electric through his 100W Marshall stack clean.  It's a straight forward song (something we don't do too much).  I'm using a delay pedal and not much else.  Bet you can't even hear it much.  That's the interesting thing about guitar effects.  When used tastefully, they become organic rather than "in your face".  It's an art to sneak them in rather than just click them on and everyone goes, "Oh listen, he just clicked in the flanger".
    

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Listener Feedback Special

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• Java Powered Website of the week
  • http://fastschedule.net

• Gluegen for easy JNI  
  • https://gluegen.dev.java.net

• Krugle - search engine for open source code
  • http://www.krugle.com

• GCJ
  • http://gcc.gnu.org/java/

• Google maps components
  • http://sourceforge.net/project/
    showfiles.php?group_id=169331
  • http://gwt-widget.sourceforge.net

• Web services server in Java 6 SE
  • http://javax.xml.ws/

• C and C# running on the JVM
  • http://www.thisiscool.com/mips2java.htm
  • http://www.cs.rit.edu/~atg2335/
    project/quickstart.php
  • http://www.axiomsol.com/

• Definitive Javascript 5th Edition (Highly Recommended)
  • http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/jscript5/
  • http://www.davidflanagan.com/blog/
    2006_05.html#000100

• New JUG (Java User Group) in South East Virginia
  • http://www.sevajug.org

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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Special - Open Source Java Update

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Hosted by Sun's VP of Software - Rich Green, with Laurie Tolson - Head of Java SE Development, and Alan Brenner - Head of Mobile and Embedded Java.

Special thanks to Jacki DeCoster for recording the audio and making it available for us to bring to you.

• The main Sun Java Open Source Page
  • http://community.java.net/jdk/opensource/
• Various analysis from around the web
  • http://today.java.net/pub/n/4803
  • http://www.theserverside.com/news/
    thread.tss?thread_id=41760
  • http://www.zdnetasia.com/builder/program/
    java/0,39045537,39391443,00.ht
  • http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/mr?
    entry=yes_we_really_are_going
  • http://www.zdnetasia.com/news/software/
    0,39044164,39390355,00.htm
  • http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/
    2162306/first-open-source-java-promised
  • http://news.com.com/2061-10808_3-6103250.html?
    part=rss&tag=6103250&subj=news

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• 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 August 15th 2006

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• Open source java news - hot off the presses
  • http://community.java.net/jdk/opensource/

• Is pure ReST really enough?
  • http://weblogs.java.net/blog/brianrepko/archive/
    2006/08/aint_gettin_no.html
  • http://www.pbell.com/index.cfm/2006/7/14/
    Verb-Hunting-Four-Just-Isnt-Enough
  • http://www.pbell.com/index.cfm/2006/7/14/
    Is-Web-Design-FUCD
  • http://lesscode.org/2006/03/19/high-low-rest/

• Borland brings back the Turbo brand
  • http://www.artima.com/forums/flat.jsp?
    =269&thread=171340

• Microsoft is not tempted by the OpenSOA party
  • http://blogs.zdnet.com/service-oriented/?p=677
  • http://www.adtmag.com/esArticle.aspx?a=2054

• Sun to include support for VB in Dolphin (Java 7)
  • http://www.oreillynet.com/onjava/blog/2006/08/
    java_to_support_visual_basic.html?CMP=OTC-FP2116136014&
    ATT=Java+to+support+Visual+Basic
  • http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,2000849,00.asp?
    kc=EWRSS03119TX1K0000594

• Glazed Lists 1.7.0 - Java Library of the week
  • http://today.java.net/pub/n/4780

• Eclipse 3.3 Milestone 1 is now out
  • http://download.eclipse.org/eclipse/downloads/drops/
    S-3.3M1-200608101230/eclipse-news-M1.html

• NetBeans 6 Milestone 2 is now out
  • http://qa.netbeans.org/q-builds/
    TrunkNewAndNoteworthy.html

• Greatest software ever written
  • http://www.informationweek.com/shared/
    printableArticle.jhtml?articleID=191901844

• Java Applet of the week - Airport monitor
  • http://java.com/en/everywhere/airportmonitor.jsp

Quick News Items

• Are POJO's always simpler than EJBs?
  
  • http://www.javalobby.org/java/forums/t77299.html

• Internationalized versions of NetBeans BlueJ Edition
  • http://www.netbeans.org/community/news/index.html#901

• Version 2.0 of the Portlet Specification (JSR 286) has been released for public review
  
  • http://www.infoq.com/news/Portlet-2.0-Ready-For-Review

• Sun has posted an the 8th update to Tiger (Java 5) Standard Edition
  • http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/ReleaseNotes.html#150_08
  • http://java.sun.com/javase/downloads/index.jsp

• Sun Tech Days are coming to Seattle
  • http://developers.sun.com/events/techdays/

• JNI Wrapper 3.3 has been released by the JNIWrapper project
  • http://www.jniwrapper.com/pages/home

• Outlook connector version 2.0
  • http://today.java.net/pub/n/4775
  • http://www.moyosoft.com/joc/

• The Apache Portal Project has released Portals Bridges 1.0
  • http://www.cafeaulait.org/#August_7_2006_30950

• The netbeans podcast is back
  • http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/roumen?
    entry=netbeans_podcast_no_11

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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