The Java Posse

Sun, 25 February 2007

Java Posse #105 - Interview with Joe Winchester of IBM

Interview with Joe Winchester of IBM

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

IBM Developerworks

http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/

IBM Alphaworks

http://www.alphaworks.ibm.com/

Joe's favorite alphaworks projects

HeapAnalyzer -
http://www.alphaworks.ibm.com/tech/heapanalyzer
HeapRoots -
http://www.alphaworks.ibm.com/tech/heaproots
aDesigner:
http://www.alphaworks.ibm.com/tech/adesigner
CodeRuler:
http://www.alphaworks.ibm.com/tech/coderuler
More Java:
http://www.alphaworks.ibm.com/java

Map24 - Java applet based mapping

http://www.us.map24.com

IBM Websphere

http://www-306.ibm.com/software/websphere/

Apache Geronimo and Harmony

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:
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Direct download: JavaPosse105.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 7:05 PM

Wed, 21 February 2007

Java Posse #104 - Newscast for February 20th 2007

Newscast for February 20th 2007

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

Join us for the Java Posse Roundup 2007 in Crested Butte, CO from March 6th-9th 2007
http://mindview.net/Conferences/JavaPosseRoundup

Cafe au Lait's Elliotte Rusty Harold poses a question about the new JSR 311 - Java API for RESTful services

The finalists for the Eclipse community awards have been named

http://www.eclipse.org/org/press-release/
20070220cb_awardfinalist.php

Sun releases Solaris Express, Developer Edition, and Startup Essentials

Rod Johnson, the father of interface21's Spring Java Framework, has blogged about spring support in glassfish, and particularly how good it is

Perhaps things are getting better for Java Multimedia?

Java application of the week - Ted - the Torrent Episode Downloader

http://www.ted.nu/download.php

Java applet of the week - the ENIAC simulator

http://page.mi.fu-berlin.de/
%7Ezoppke/D/index.html

Quick News Items

The JMaki AJAX components project has now released a plugin for eclipse as well as the netbeans plugin

The OSGI alliance has added five new members: BEA Systems, Jayway AB, Interface21, Eclipse and IONA technologies

http://www.tmcnet.com/usubmit/2007/02/
15/2340375.htm

Sleepycat software are requesting developer feedback on their proposed new Java API for the Berkeley DB

http://www.theserverside.com/news/
thread.tss?thread_id=38916

Cenqua have just released version 1.3 of fisheye

Also - if you decide to buy and mention the Posse, Pete Moore says you can get one of the highly coveted t-shirts as well

http://www.cenqua.com/fisheye/

The third part of the developerworks series about writing an application using a combination of GWT, Derby and Eclipse is now available

http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/opensource
/library/os-ad-gwt3/?ca=dgr-btw01buildAjax

Google has launched the summer of code 2007 program

http://code.google.com/soc/

ALM works has released a 1.0 client for the JIRA issue and bug tracking system from Atlassian

http://almworks.com/jiraclient/overview.html

http://almworks.com/index.html

JSR 310 - the new Java Date and Time API that we mentioned recently, has been voted in with 15 yes votes and only 1 non vote (from Borland)

http://www.theserverside.com/news/
thread.tss?thread_id=44248

A new version of JOSSO (Java Open Single Sign-On) is now available

http://www.theserverside.com/news/
thread.tss?thread_id=44233

MyEclipse - providers of the enhanced set of plugins for the eclipse IDE, have branched out to offering some of their plugins for both NetBeans and Visual Studio .NET!

http://www.theserverside.com/news/
thread.tss?thread_id=44232

OpenXava claims to have a highly productive alternative to Ruby on Rails based on full Java standards

http://www.gestion400.com/web/guest/openxava

Listener Feedback

Open source numbers - Sun and IBM

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

Direct download: JavaPosse104.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 4:18 PM

Wed, 14 February 2007

Java Posse #103 - Newscast for February 13th 2007

Newscast for February 13th 2007

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

Dedicated to the memory of Greg Neff, without whom the Java Posse podcast would not exist, and who was tragically killed in a car accident on Thursday night.

Special opening music thanks to Mark Heimonen for Melancholy, obtained through the podsafe music network.
http://music.podshow.com/music/listeners/
artistdetails.php?BandHash=
728acd34327e380ee873cd52faaf40bc

Join us for the Java Posse Roundup 2007 in Crested Butte, CO from March 6th-9th 2007
http://mindview.net/Conferences/JavaPosseRoundup

The future for Java in 2007 according to IBM Developerworks:

http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/
java/library/j-java2007.html

Marc Fleury, founder of JBoss (the original open-source Java EE application server) has announced that he will not be returning to RedHat (who acquired JBoss a few months back) as previously expected after his current paternity leave

There is a protype implementation for the JSR 296 Swing Application Framework now available from Java.net.

New JSR-310 to finally sort out Java Date and Time API

http://jroller.com/page/scolebourne?
entry=announcing_jsr_310_date_and

Applet of the week - 3dskimaps.com

http://3dskimaps.com/bearvalley/wf.html

http://3dskimaps.com/index.php?path=crestedbutte

Quick News Items

Eclipse 3.3 Milestone 5 is now out

http://download.eclipse.org/eclipse/
downloads/drops/S-3.3M5-200702091006/
eclipse-news-M5.html

Squish, an automated testing tool for GUI applications from Froglogic, has added Java Swing, SWT, AWT and RCP/Eclipse support in the latest version 3.1

http://www.froglogic.com/pg?id=
Products&category=squish&sub=overview

There is now a preview version of the Netbeans 6.0 installer available for the M6 release of the upcoming Netbeans

http://nbi.netbeans.org/m10/download.html

Do you have a favorite Java ME application for a phone or other mobile device? Would you like to win a PlayStation 3, a Sony Ericsson K800 mobile phone and more prizes by making a short video about it. Check out the competition that java.net is running for more details

http://java.sun.com/javame/contest/index.jsp

Gilad Bracha, Neal Gafter, James Gosling, Peter von der AhÃ© have posted a new version, 0.5, of their Closures for Java proposal

http://www.cafeaulait.org/#
February_6_2007_27617

Microsoft is dropping J# support, their version of the Java language for the .NET platform, from future versions of Visual Studio .NET

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/
vjsharp/default.aspx

Jayson Falkner blogs that the latest Java 6 snapshot fixes problems that Linux users have been seeing with the new Compiz/Beryl 3d window managers when using Swing applications

http://weblogs.java.net/blog/jfalkner/
archive/2007/02/latest_java_6_s_1.html

The near miraculous turnaround of the Jython project continues

BEA's weblogic server 10 preview has passed the Java EE 5 Compatibility Test Suite

http://www.theserverside.com/news/
thread.tss?thread_id=44219

Romain Guy has an interesting video interview up on InfoQ where he tackles such issues as Flash versus Java Applets, why swing is a good technology for rich clients and whether Java needs a browser edition.

http://www.infoq.com/interviews/romain-guy

The final version of the reference implementation for JAX-WS 2.1 is now available for download from java.net

https://jax-ws.dev.java.net/

Oracle has released a new version of its JDeveloper IDE

http://www.oracle.com/technology/
products/jdev/collateral/papers/10131/
newfeatures/index.html

JTattoo offers a collection of really nice looking swing look and feels that are free for personal and freeware use

http://www.jtattoo.net/ScreenShots.html

http://www.curious-creature.org/2007/
02/06/look-and-feels-galore/

Miami now has a Java User Group (JUG)

http://miamijug.wordpress.com/

Seconds out for the early registration price for Eclipse Con 2007

http://www.eclipsecon.org/2007/index.php?
page=registration/&tag=newsitem1

Gossip

Screw Sun, cross-platform will never work, let's move on and steal the Java language

http://www.iowaconsumercase.org/011107/PX_2768.pdf

...Microsoft has lost its way...

http://www.iowaconsumercase.org/010807/PLEX_7264.pdf

The full list of correspondence links

http://iowaconsumercase.org/lc-5.html

Listener Feedback

Java Webstart - unsigning jars

http://coyotevil.blogspot.com/2007/01/
java-web-start-una-opcin-interesante.html

Open Source Learning Tool in 3d

http://muppets.rit.edu/muppetsweb/about/index.php

Terracotta competition

www.terracotta.org/confluence/display/
orgsite/February+07+Survey

Impromptu library of the week - Netbeans Visual Library

http://graph.netbeans.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, 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 - Melancholy by Mark Heimonen, obtained through the podsafe music network.
  http://music.podshow.com/music/listeners/
  artistdetails.php?BandHash=
  728acd34327e380ee873cd52faaf40bc
- 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

Direct download: JavaPosse103.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 5:34 AM

Thu, 8 February 2007

No Posse This Week

Hi All

Sorry for the late notice, but between the Google ski trip and the Sun Developer Council meeting, we haven't had the time to put together an episode for this week. Please bear with us, we will be back next week and have a couple of good interviews coming up as well.

Category:podcasts -- posted at: 1:07 AM