Java Posse Episode 175 - Newscast for March 27th 2008

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• JavaOne 2008 less than 6 weeks away!
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/editors/archives/
  2008/03/bouncing_off_cl.html 
• http://www.nabble.com/-scala--ScalaDays
  -'08-td14608301.html

• Combine OpenJDK and Mono?
• http://cgwalters.livejournal.com/14913.html
  

• What do you want from Eclipse 4.0?
• http://eclipse.dzone.com/news/
  glimpse-future-eclipse-40
  

• Java Mobile application of the week - Teashark
• http://www.teashark.com/help.html
  

• Java Application of the Week - Bioclipse
• http://eclipse.dzone.com/news/
  eclipse-biochemistry-bioclipse
  

Quick News

• After Sun buying MySQL, IBM invests in PostgreSQL
• http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?
  sid=08/03/25/207211&from=rss
  

• The Army has appointed the first ever Geospatial Information Officer
• http://www.spatiallyadjusted.com/2008/03/24/
  army-appoints-services-first-geospatial-information-officer/
  

• The Apache Jakarta project has just release Commons Lang 2.4
  
• http://www.cafeaulait.org/#March_24_2008_26066
  

• Ed Burns has a three part series examining other large companies using JSF now
• http://www.theserverside.com/tt/articles/
  article.tss?l=JSFatBigLots 
• http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?
  thread_id=48803
  

• Google now has a code university online
• http://code.google.com/edu/languages/index.html
  

• Webtide has got Jetty running on Android
• http://code.google.com/p/i-jetty/
  
• http://www.mobilemarketer.com/cms/
  news/software-technology/705.html

• SourceLabs has launched a new Linux and Java support service
• http://www.sourcelabs.com/
  
• http://www.itjungle.com/tlb/
  tlb031808-story06.html

• Dick has a new article up over at developer.com about the Google Collections Library
• http://www.developer.com/java/other/
  article.php/3735441
  

• ProSyst have released a beta version of OSGi for the Android platform
• http://eclipse.dzone.com/announcements/
  prosyst-publishes-osgi-android
  

• Remi Forax has added runtime properties to the Da Vinci experimental JVM as a prototype implementation
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/forax/archive/
  2008/03/da_vinci_runtim.html 
• http://docs.google.com/View?
  docid=dfhbvdfw_1f7mzf2

• Sun has posted the early draft review for JSR 303 - Bean Validation
• http://jcp.org/aboutJava/communityprocess/
  edr/jsr303/
  

Roundup 08 - Java Bytecode and Java as a Systems Language

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• Java HotSpot
• http://java.sun.com/javase/technologies/hotspot/ 
• Dalvik VM from Android
• http://code.google.com/android/what-is-android.html
  
• http://code.google.com/android/reference/glossary.html
  
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dalvik_virtual_machine
  
• InvokeDynamic
• http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=292
  
• http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/1012 
• Python VM
• http://www.python.org/doc/current/
  lib/bytecodes.html 
• Ruby VM
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YARV 
• Jython
• http://www.jython.org/Project/index.html 
• JRuby
• http://jruby.codehaus.org/ 
• JNI - Java Native Interface
  
• http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/
  guide/jni/index.html 
• JNA - Java Native Access
  
• https://jna.dev.java.net/
  
• AWT - Abstract Window Toolkit
  
• http://java.sun.com/products/jdk/awt/
  
• SWT - Standard Widget Toolkit
  
• http://www.eclipse.org/swt/
  
• BCEL - Byte Code Engineering Library
  
• http://jakarta.apache.org/bcel/ 
• AOP - Aspect Oriented Programming
  
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
  Aspect-oriented_programming 
• MOP - Metaobject Protocol
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metaobject
• The Da Vinci Project
• http://openjdk.java.net/projects/mlvm/ 
• Other languages on the JVM
• Scala - http://www.scala-lang.org/
• Groovy - http://groovy.codehaus.org/ 
• Many more -
  http://www.robert-tolksdorf.de/vmlanguages.html 
• Retroweaver
• http://retroweaver.sourceforge.net/
  

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 Amy Ehmann 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)
    

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Newscast for March 20th 2008

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• Big announcements from EclipseCon which was held in Santa Clara this week:
• http://ianskerrett.wordpress.com/2008/
  03/17/the-next-thing-at-eclipse/ 
• http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=2136 
• http://www.eclipse.org/equinox-portal/
  
• http://eclipse.dzone.com/announcements/
  eclipselink-project-deliver-jp
  
• http://blogs.sun.com/theaquarium/entry/
  eclipselink_in_glassfish_v3_as
• http://eclipse.dzone.com/announcements/
  springsource-announce-tool-sui
• http://www.eclipse.org/org/press-release/
  20080314_NewBoard.php
  
• http://eclipse.dzone.com/news/
  eclipsecon-day-one-roundup
  
• http://eclipse.dzone.com/news/
  eclipsecon-day-two-roundup
  
• http://www.eclipse.org/org/press-release/
  20080318_AwardsWinners.php
• http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-
  9898168-7.html?tag=bl
  

• Android Application of the Week - WikiNotes for Android
• http://code.google.com/p/apps-for-android/
• http://android-developers.blogspot.com/
  

Quick News

• Eric Klein, Sun's VP of Java marketing, has held out an olive branch to Apple
• http://thestandard.com/news/2008/03/14/
  suns-plan-java-iphone-could-hit-roadblock 

• New Atlanta Corporation has announced that BlueDragon will be open source
• http://www.newatlanta.com/corporate/news/
  bluedragon_opensource_announce.jsp 

• The eclipse zone details a number of upcoming eclipse webinars
• http://eclipse.dzone.com/announcements/
  eclipse-webinars 
• http://live.eclipse.org/
  

• Show of your app or project for 20 minutes at the Java.net booth at JavaOne
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/editors/
  archives/2008/03/silent_all_thes.html 

• Java.net poll: "Which JVM language do you think you will be using most by the end of 2008?"
• http://www.java.net/pub/pq/200 

• TSS Q&A at the ServerSide Java Symposium
• http://www.theserverside.com/news/
  thread.tss?thread_id=48770
  

• OpenGrok 0.6 has been released
• http://opensolaris.org/os/project/opengrok/
  

• IDEs of March (Beware!)
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/fabriziogiudici/
  archive/2008/03/a_success_for_t.html 

Listener Feedback

• Mono on the iPhone - Correction
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08_4erDQUB8
• http://anonsvn.mono-project.com/viewcvs/
  trunk/objc2-sharp/
  

• Java on the iPhone - howto
• http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/java/
• library/os-eclipse-iphone
  

• More Closures and Stuff

• http://www.artima.com/weblogs/
  viewpost.jsp?thread=182412
  

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 Amy Ehmann 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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JavaPolis Interview with Ed Burns

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We interviewed Ed Burns at JavaPolis 07, and talked about JSF,
and his upcoming book, Riding the Crest:
Career Secrets of Rockstar Programmers (which we are in!).

This interview can also be seen in video form at http://parleys.com
The full interview URL is:
http://parleys.com/display/PARLEYS/Interview+with+
Ed+Burns+at+JavaPolis%2707?showComments=true

• Ed's Blog
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/edburns/ 
• JavaServer Faces
• http://java.sun.com/javaee/javaserverfaces/
  
• ReSTFaces
• https://restfaces.dev.java.net/
  
• The new book
• http://bellsouthpwp.net/e/d/edburns00/
  ed/RidingTheCrest.html
  
• http://www.amazon.com/Secrets-Rockstar-Programmers-
  Riding-Crest/dp/0071490833?ie=UTF8&qid=1203373498
  &sr=11-1
  
• Webclient (and MCP)
• http://www.mozilla.org/projects/blackwood/webclient/ 
• jMaki
  
• https://ajax.dev.java.net/
  

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 Amy Ehmann 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
  • Call us with questions and feedback - (408) 465 4626
  • Or send us email - javaposse@gmail.com