The Java Posse

Wed, 27 September 2006

Java Posse #085 - Newscast for September 26th 2006

Newscast for September 26th 2006

Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.com

Bill Pugh joins us half way through this podcast to talk about his new JSR 305 - Annotations for Software Defect Detection

Sun has a new JSR - 306 - which aims to overhaul the JCP!
- http://www.cafeaulait.org/
  #September_21_2006_53162
- http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=306

NetBeans Roundup
- http://java.sun.com/developer/
  technicalArticles/tools/bluej/
- http://developer.sonyericsson.com/site/global/
  newsandevents/latestnews/newssept06/
  p_getstarted_ondevice_debugging_netbeans_tutorial.jsp
- http://www.netbeans.org/community/
  articles/nug-munich.html
- http://blogs.sun.com/lukas/entry/
  milestone_3_for_netbeans_6
- http://blogs.sun.com/roumen/entry/
  verifying_compliance_of_java_ee
- Several articles about the Netbeans RCP
- Using the Aspect J plugin for netbeans -
  http://jroller.com/page/ramlog?
  entry=using_the_aspectj_plug_in
- The JOnAS open source application now works with Netbeans -
  http://jonas.objectweb.org/index.html

SWTSwing 3.2 beta has been released

Major ZOPE Content Management System CPS being ported to Java EE
- http://www.theserverside.com/news/
  thread.tss?thread_id=42351

Mobile app of the week (at least for the US) - GIST UGuide
- http://www.uguidetv.com/

Applet(s) of the week - JGame example applets

Quick News Items

Motorola has submitted JSR 307 - Network Mobility and Mobile Data API to the JCP
- http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=307

JNI Easy from innowhere has added Linux support to their easy JNI creation library
- http://www.innowhere.com:8080/webapp/jsp/
  products/jnieasy/index.jsp?_page=products.jnieasy

Python 2.5 has been released
- http://www.python.org/download/
  releases/2.5/highlights/

IBM Alphaworks has a short podcast available looking back over 10 years of alphaworks (happy birthday) and looking forward to the near future as well
- http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/
  podcast/dwi/cm-int091206.html

Romain Guy has 4 bonus videos on his blog taken at JavaDay 2006 in Paris
- http://jroller.com/page/gfx?
  entry=javaday_2006_as_bonus_a

Sang Shin is running another of his popular Java EE programming with passion online courses starting on October 23rd 2006
- http://www.javapassion.com/j2ee/

IBM Developerworks has an article about using Groovy to reduce code noise that is common in Java
- http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/
  java/library/j-pg09196.html?ca=drs-

We have a couple of links for Java SE 6 and what it means for the desktop
- http://www.jroller.com/page/swingbling?
  entry=java_6_on_the_desktop
- http://www.regdeveloper.co.uk/2006/
  09/22/jse_bling/

Cafe Au Lait maintains a useful list of upcoming Java conferences and shows all around the world
- http://www.cafeaulait.org/tradeshows.xml

Arpit Agarwal asks a question over at JavaLobby that we get asked a fair amount on the posse - what are the differences between the Google Web Toolkit and the Echo 2 framework, and where should you use each
- http://www.javalobby.org/java/
  forums/t78515.html

Listener Feedback

From the Java Enterprise Edition discussion - recommended resources:
- http://java-source.net/open-source/web-frameworks
- Head First books:
- Bill Burke's book - Enterprise Javabeans 3.0
  - http://www.amazon.com/Enterprise-JavaBeans-3-0-
    Bill-Burke/dp/059600978X

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:

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

Direct download: JavaPosse085.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 3:25 PM

Sun, 24 September 2006

Java Posse #084 - Interview with Van Simmons, Part 2

Interview with Van Simmons about JINI and ComputeCycles - Part 2

Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.com

We now have a google group for the Java Posse at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse

Van is the leader of the ComputeCycles project. ComputeCycles is an open-source project which uses Jini, Glassfish and Groovy to build a secure, scalable, "on-the-fly" compute grid. In this interview he talks about the role Jini plays in that effort and why it's used at the core of the ComputeCycles project.

ComputeCycles project homepage
- https://computecycles.dev.java.net/Welcome.html
ComputeCycles Java One 2006 Presentation
- http://developers.sun.com/learning/javaoneonline/
  2006/coolstuff/TS-3714.html
JINI home page
- http://www.jini.org/wiki/Main_Page
Getting started with JINI
- http://www.jini.org/wiki/Category:Getting_Started
- http://jini.dev.java.net
JINI IDE support
- http://www.incax.com
The JINI 10th Community Meeting has just concluded
- http://www.jini.org/wiki/Category:10th_Jini_Community_Meeting

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:
- Visit our homepage - http://javaposse.com
- Post to our google group - http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse
- Or send us email - javaposse@gmail.com

Direct download: JavaPosse084.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 1:19 PM

Wed, 20 September 2006

Java Posse #083 - Newscast for September 19th 2006

Newscast for September 19th 2006

Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.com

JavaZone news
- http://www.javazone.no/
- http://weblogs.java.net/blog/gsporar/
  archive/2006/09/javazone_2006.html
- http://jroller.com/page/gfx?entry=
  filthy_rich_clients_presentation_slides
- Javapolis coming up - http://www.javapolis.com/JP06/
  campaign/index.php
- http://www.theserverside.com/news/
  thread.tss?thread_id=42244
- Did James Gosling use a butt double? - http://www.javapolis.com/JP06/
  campaign/index.php
- And The Server Side Java Symposium has been announced for March 21st to the 23rd 2007 in the Venitian in Las Vegas
- http://www.theserverside.com/news/
  thread.tss?thread_id=42244

eWeek has an opinion piece of a list of the top ten languages you should know
- http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2016415,00.asp
- http://www.javalobby.org/java/forums/t78504.html
- And a study by BZ media shows that Ruby on Rails is used far less than Java for AJAX applications
- http://www.javalobby.org/java/forums/t78412.html
- http://www.oreillynet.com/xml/blog/2006/09/
- languages_used_in_ajax_develop.html
- Sundararajan has a side by side of syntax for Java, Groovy and Ruby
- http://blogs.sun.com/sundararajan/entry/
  java_groovy_and_j_ruby
- http://scala.epfl.ch/

Mason Glaves writes a pretty long entry on how to do double checked locking using lots of new JDK 5 concurrency APIs. But there's a much simpler way: use volatile!
- http://weblogs.java.net/blog/mason/archive/
  2006/09/rechecking_doub_1.html
- http://weblogs.java.net/blog/editors/archives/
  2006/09/we_see.html

Spring news roundup

Library of the week - Gluegen

https://gluegen.dev.java.net

Applet of the week - Teddy

http://science.slashdot.org/science/
06/09/16/1916242.shtml

Be sure to check out the tutorial video:
http://lazyrussian.com/2006/09/15/
freaky-friday-episode-3-teddy/

http://www-ui.is.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp/~takeo/
java/smoothteddy/index.html
http://www.ted.com/tedtalks - look for Jeff Han

Mobile app of the week - GCalSync

http://gcalsync.com/
GCalSync on Treo howto -
http://dickwallsblog.blogspot.com/2006/09/
gtd-treo-now-syncing-ota-with-gcal.html

More Tor on Tabs

http://blogs.sun.com/tor/entry/
tabs_are_evil_part_3

Quick News Items

Daylight Savings changes in 2007 - how will they affect Java apps?
- http://java.sun.com/developer/
  technicalArticles/Intl/USDST/

Apple has released Java SE 6.0 Release 1 Developer Preview 6 for Mac OS 10.4 (Tiger) for both Intel and PowerPC
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/java-dev//
  2006/Sep/msg00143.html

JavaCompiler allows java apps to be compiled into native applications on windows or linux
- http://javacompiler.mtsystems.ch/index.html

New Trojan threat for Java ME
- http://www.viruslist.com/en/weblog?
  weblogid=197319327

JMF to Dick: "I'm not dead yet"
- http://www.javaforce.com/content/
  view/102/66/1/2/

Blu Ray roundup

JBixbe 1.0 UML design debugger released
- http://www.jbixbe.com/

JavaBlackBelt, the free community website for java learning and certification now has 11 Java SE exams available
- http://javablackbelt.com/

Article about fine-tuning the garbage collection in Java 5
- http://www.builderau.com.au/program/java/
  soa/Garbage_collection_tuning_in_Java_5_0/
  0,339024620,339269601-2,00.htm

Bill Pugh has released version 1.1 of the excellent FindBugs static analysis tool

Day Software has published an early draft review of JSR 283 - Content Repository for Java Technology API Version 2.0
- http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=283

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:

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

Direct download: JavaPosse083.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 7:16 PM

Sun, 17 September 2006

Java Posse #082 - Interview with Van Simmons on JINI and Compute Cycles, Part 1

Interview with Van Simmons about JINI and ComputeCycles

ComputeCycles project homepage

https://computecycles.dev.java.net/Welcome.html

ComputeCycles Java One 2006 Presentation

http://developers.sun.com/learning/javaoneonline/
2006/coolstuff/TS-3714.html

JINI home page

http://www.jini.org/wiki/Main_Page

Getting started with JINI

JVM Security and Classloaders Summary Paper

http://research.sun.com/techrep/
2006/smli_tr-2006-149.pdf

Webinar on achieving Protocol Independence with JINI/JERI

http://www.jini.org/wiki/Webinar_2

Linda/Tuplespaces link

http://java.sun.com/developer/technicalArticles/
Interviews/gelernter_qa.html

A Note on Distributed Computing Whitepaper - Kendall, Waldo, Wollrath and Wyant

http://research.sun.com/techrep/
1994/abstract-29.html

The Eight (yes Eight, not Seven, but in fact some people claim there are now Eleven) Fallacies of Distributed Computing

http://weblogs.java.net/jag/Fallacies.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:
- Visit our homepage - http://javaposse.com
- Post to our google group - http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse
- Or send us email - javaposse@gmail.com

Direct download: JavaPosse082.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 2:21 PM

Wed, 13 September 2006

New Java Posse Google Group

Hi Posse Listeners. I just got through setting up the Java Posse google group. You can get it at:

http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse

Anyone can read the posts there, but only members can post (this is hopefully to cut down spam posting). It is unmoderated but if we end up with a lot of spam we might start moderating first posts (I don't think any of us want this to turn into a Chinese links spam distribution medium).

Enjoy, and I hope this group gets some traffic. We will, of course, be reading it and joining in.

Category:about -- posted at: 4:12 PM

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Tue, 12 September 2006

Java Posse #081 - Newscast for September 12th 2006

Newscast for September 12th 2006

Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.com

Big news this week - Sun has hired the two primary developers behind JRuby, Charles Nutter and Thomas Enebo

Java 6 ship date slips
- http://blogs.sun.com/mr/entry/
  java_se_6_schedule_update
- http://today.java.net/pub/n/4905

Java Browser Edition - Ethan Nicholas has revealed what he has been up to since he got hired by Sun recently

A java preprocessor called Munge
- http://weblogs.java.net/blog/tball/archive/
  2006/09/munge_swings_se.html
- http://weblogs.java.net/blog/tball/archive/
  munge/doc/Munge.html

Beeweeb to bring enhanced media and content to the SavaJe phones
- http://jdj.sys-con.com/read/261682.htm

Mobile app of the week - Windrose - an add on to the recent app of the week: bluemarine
- http://windrose.tidalwave.it/

App of the week - LightZone
- http://jroller.com/page/gfx?
  entry=lightzone_a_fantastic_java_app
- http://www.lightcrafts.com/products/lightzone/

Quick News Items

JDJ Editors Choice Awards for 2006:
- http://java.sys-con.com/read/260074.htm

Substance look and feel 3.0 released
- http://weblogs.java.net/blog/kirillcool/archive/
  2006/09/substance_laf_3.html

Airena, creators of the Airset online calendar, have released a J2ME application for using their calendar from a mobile phone
- http://www.airset.com/AirSet.jsp#app.Home

Greg Murray and Craig McClanahan, former posse interviewees, will be speaking at AJAXWorld 2006 about using AJAX with Java

Sun Java Studio Creator tutorial divas cover the use of JMaki JSF components in Java Studio Creator
- http://blogs.sun.com/divas/entry/
  using_the_dojo_combobox_in?feed=RSS

IBM Java Tools Roundup. IBM has been busy releasing some interesting Java tools over the past few weeks

Substance look and feel hits version 3.0
- https://substance.dev.java.net/
- http://weblogs.java.net/blog/kirillcool/

There are now downloadable versions of project looking glass for windows, solaris x86 and linux
- https://lg3d.dev.java.net/lg3d-getting-started.html

iScreen 1.0 is an open source project providing object validation for JavaBeans based on XML configuration files
- http://i-screen.org/docs/index.html

SDN article by Sameer Tyagi that details how to build RESTful services and consumers using JAX-WS
- http://java.sun.com/developer/technicalArticles/
  WebServices/restful/?feed=JSC

Finally, DevX has a good, non-hysterical side by side comparison of Spring and EJB 3.0
- http://www.devx.com/Java/Article/32314

News of a Java Posse google group will be posted soon so keep an eye on javaposse.com

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:

Visit our homepage - http://javaposse.com
Or send us email - javaposse@gmail.com

Direct download: JavaPosse081.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 10:11 PM

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Wed, 6 September 2006

Java Posse #080 - Newscast for September 5th 2006

Newscast for September 5th 2006

Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.com

Creator 2 update - raw performance
- http://blogs.sun.com/theaquarium/entry/
  big_speed_improvements_for_creator
- http://blogs.sun.com/tor/entry/
  creator_on_speed_serious_speed

Java2Script - does GWT have competition?
- http://j2s.sourceforge.net/blog/
- http://j2s.sourceforge.net/

Swing Labs update
- Richard Bair has a proof of concept and example up on his blog for using a java implementation of XMLHttpRequest
- http://weblogs.java.net/blog/rbair/archive/2006/08/
  xmlhttprequest_1.html
- Romain Guy was kind enough to pimp my swing app - jFlubber
- http://dickwallsblog.blogspot.com/2006/09/
  jflubber-reloaded.html
- Get the code - http://code.google.com/p/jflubber/

Sun has posted the public review draft of JSR 270 which details the Mustang (now Java 6) release

Application of the week - Tycho - an asterisk VoIP voicemail and dialing client constructed using the Eclipse RCP
- http://www.asteriskvoipnews.com/asterisk_software/
  new_voicemail_client_for_win32_
  linux_x86mac_os_x_released.html
- http://sip-syndication.com/index.php?
  option=com_content&
  task=view&id=1&Itemid=36

Bill Pugh of Findbugs fame (and former posse interviewee) has submitted JSR-305 - Annotations for Software Defect Detection - into the JCP
- http://www.cafeaulait.org/#August_31_2006_52996
- http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=305

A Public Service Announcement: James Gosling and a movie in Atlanta this month
- http://www.ajug.org/

Quick News Items

DiffJ - a diff tool that understands Java
- http://www.incava.org/projects/java/diffj/

OpenSSO project now live
- https://opensso.dev.java.net/servlets/
  NewsItemView?newsItemID=4039
- https://opensso.dev.java.net/

Sun has also released the NetBeans Mobility Pack under open source using the CDDL license
- http://osdir.com/Article9222.phtml
- http://mobility.netbeans.org/

Struts Micro Edition? Can it be true?
- http://www.strutsme.org/details.html
- http://weblogs.java.net/blog/dsuspense/
  archive/2006/08/strutsme.html

IBM Developerworks has an introduction to using JPA (the Java Persistence API) with Spring 2.0
- http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/edu/
  j-dw-java-spring2-i.html?S_TACT=105AGX59&
  S_CMP=HP-GR&ca=dgr-btw01Spring2-JPA

InfoQ has a detailed article on using the Grails framework (a Groovy based alternative to Ruby on Rails) to access EJB 3 domain objects
- http://www.infoq.com/articles/grails-ejb-tutorial

Motorola and Nokia have posted the proposed final draft of JSR-232 - Mobile Operational Management - to the JCP
- http://www.cafeaulait.org/#August_29_2006_28348
- http://jcp.org/aboutJava/communityprocess/
  pfd/jsr232/index.html

JSR 268 - Java Authentication Service Provide Interface for Containers - has entered the public review draft stage
- http://www.cafeaulait.org/#August_29_2006_28181

JGAP version 3.0, a Genetic Algorithms package in Java, is now available from Sourceforce
- http://jgap.sourceforge.net/

The Sun Developer Network has a good guide to using RESTful web services from Java and JAX-WS
- http://java.sun.com/developer/technicalArticles/
  WebServices/restful/

Gavin King's SEAM, in a podcast
- http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?
  thread_id=41903

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:
- Visit our homepage - http://javaposse.com
- Or send us email - javaposse@gmail.com

Direct download: JavaPosse080.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 5:39 PM

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