Newscast for May 29th 2008

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• Google I/O update
• http://code.google.com/events/io/ 
• http://www.theserverside.com/news/
  thread.tss?thread_id=49516
  
• http://opensocialapis.blogspot.com/2008/
  05/opensocial-v08-is-defined.html
  

• Java is annoying? ZDNet thinks so
• http://reviews.zdnet.co.uk/software/
  0,1000001048,39419834,00.htm
• http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?
  sid=558646&cid=23476568 
• http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse/
  browse_thread/thread/911667abeab5cf3 

• Forget set tops, Sony is building Java into TVs
• http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2309865,00.asp 
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/editors/archives/
  2008/05/slick.html 
• https://opencable.dev.java.net/
  

• Wicket + Generics = Trouble
• http://web.mac.com/jonathan.locke/iWeb/JonathanLocke/
  Blog/D837029B-5A03-4D94-8EEC-927B07078A26.html
  

• The Davinci project is hosting a JVM language summit at Sun's Santa Clara campus from Sept 24th to 26th
• http://openjdk.java.net/projects/mlvm/
  jvmlangsummit/index.html
  

• Mobile Java App of the week - iCitizen
• http://www.mobiles24.com/downloads/s/
  104413-109-i-citizen_240x320 
• http://www.techgadgets.in/gaming/2008/05/micazook-
  brings-i-citizen-3d-avatar-game-for-mobile-phones/
  

• Applet of the week - JIrc
• http://www.notechsoft.com/irc.asp 
• http://jircii.dashnine.org/
  

Quick News

• The 3rd annual Eclipse Summit is to be held in Ludwigsburg, Germany on November 19th and 20th
  
• http://www.eclipse.org/org/press-release/
  20080426_EclipseSummitcfp.php
  

• Jasper reports 3 is out
• https://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?
  forum_id=825194 

• Borland has sold CodeGear to Embarcadero
• http://www.embarcadero.com/news/
  press_releases/codegear_050708.html
  

• .NET developer's journal on taking your ASP.NET application and running it on Java, Apache Tomcat and Linux
• http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/573582.htm
  

• Nuxeo has just released version 2.0 of the Nuxeo RCP (Rich Client Platform)
• http://www.nuxeo.com/en/products/rcp/ 

• Apache Tuscany has been promoted to a top level Apache project
• http://www.theserverside.com/news/
  thread.tss?thread_id=49469
  

• The Server Side has a two part introduction to OSGi from a non-OSGi advocates point of view
• http://www.theserverside.com/tt/articles/
  article.tss?l=OSGiforBeginners
• http://www.theserverside.com/tt/articles/
  article.tss?l=WhiteboardForOSGi
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/editors/archives/
  2008/05/the_remedy.html 

• The Server Side has a pair of 30 minute podcasts of a web frameworks shootout
  
• http://www.theserverside.com/news/
  thread.tss?thread_id=49439

Thanks

• Libsyn.com - http://www.libsyn.com - for hosting and bandwidth
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• 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 May 22nd 2008

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• JavaOne wrapup
• http://www.pushing-pixels.org/?p=312
  
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/editors/archives/
  2008/05/a_beautiful_mes.html
  
• http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?
  thread_id=49332
  
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/arungupta/archive/
  2008/05/take_11_picture.html
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/johnsmart/archive/
  2008/05/javaone_2008_ge.html
• http://today.java.net/pub/a/today/2008/05/08/
  javamobility-podcast45.html
• http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?
  thread_id=49343
  
• http://rossmason.blogspot.com/2008/04/
  java-cloud-has-sun-dropped-ball.html
• http://jacekfurmankiewicz.blogspot.com/2008/05/
  java-to-get-new-webkit-based-browser.html
  

• One of the stories we overlooked from JavaOne was that the JCP annual award winners were announced
• Member of the Year
• Apache Software Foundation (ASF)
• Participant of the Year
• Patrick Curran
• Most Outstanding Spec Lead for Java SE/EE
• Stefan Hepper for JSR 286, Portlet Specification 2.0
• Most Innovative JSR for Java SE/EE
• JSR 294, Improved Modularity Support in the Java Programming Language
• Most Outstanding Spec Lead for Java ME
• Jaana Majakangas for JSR 293, Location API 2.0
• Most Innovative JSR for Java ME
• JSR 290, Java Language and XML User Interface Markup Integration
• Congratulations to the winners
• http://www.jcp.org/en/press/news/
  2008JCPawardwinnersPR 

• Does our support of Scala as an emerging force on the JVM mean that we believe Java is dead?
• http://scala-lang.org 

• We held the first Scala users group last week at Google
• http://groups.google.com/group/scala-base
  

• Correction to our Twitter and Ruby on Rails story in Episode 186
• http://www.betanews.com/article
  /Twitter_cofounder_refutes_rumors_of_d...
  

Quick News Items

• Build 24 of the consumer JRE (Java 6 update 10) was released yesterday
• http://blogs.sun.com/SDNProgramNews/
  entry/java_se_6u10_build_24
  

• News from the Scala Lift Off - JavaRebel donating licenses for use on Scala for a year
• http://www.theserverside.com/news/
  thread.tss?thread_id=49443
  

• Chris Adamson has started putting out the minitalks from the Community Corner at JavaOne as podcasts
  
• http://today.java.net/pub/ct/javaonecommunitycorner
  
• http://feeds.feedburner.com/javanetJavaOnePodcasts
  

• The technical session on NNIO (JSR 203 - more new IO) on youtube
• http://youtube.com/watch?v=yNRS1ssLPdQ&fmt=18

• Apache has release Barcode4J 2.0 - a barcode generator for Java
• http://barcode4j.sourceforge.net/ 

• Vivek Pandey blogs about getting Scala and Lift working on Glassfish v3
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/vivekp/archive/
  2008/05/scala_lift_web.html 

• Morph has Java running on Amazon's EC2 (Elastic compute cloud) and S3 (Simple storage system)
• http://www.mor.ph/java/
  
• http://weblog.infoworld.com/stratdev/archives/
  2008/05/rails_and_now_j.html
  

• And another new stack is available for Amazon EC2 that brings OpenSolaris, Glassfish and MySQL to the party
  
• http://blogs.sun.com/jonathan/entry/
  opensolaris_amazon_mysql_and_glassfish
  

• The Woodstock project has released version 4.2
• https://woodstock.dev.java.net/index.html
  

• Google is hosting an Eclipse day, at the Googleplex in Mountain View, on Tuesday June 24th
• http://wiki.eclipse.org/EclipseDay_At_Googleplex
  

• Livescribe pen video at zdnet that shows some of its capabilities
• http://news.zdnet.com/2422-13568_22-201252.html?
  tag=nl.e622
  
• http://cld.blog-city.com/javaone_2008__
  the_killerapp__a_java_pen.htm
  

• Continuing the integration work with OSGi, glassfish now has a Grizzly OSGi bundle available
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/jfarcand/archive/
  2008/05/grizzlys_osgi_b_1.html
  

• Is JRockit a casualty of the Oracle/BEA deal?
  
• http://dev2dev.bea.com/jrockit/versions.html#x6
  

• Google has posted the second milestone of GWT 1.5
  
• http://www.cafeaulait.org/#May_2_2008_71595
  

• Jean Francois Arcand blogs about getting a GWT application working with Grizzly and Comet
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/jfarcand/archive/
  2008/05/building_gwt_co.html
  

• NASA WorldWind Java demos
  
• http://worldwind.arc.nasa.gov/java/
  demos/index.html
  

• JSR News. Sun has posted the early draft review of JSR 317 - JPA (Java Persistence API) 2.0
  
• http://jcp.org/aboutJava/communityprocess/
  edr/jsr317/ 
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/davidvc/archive/
  2007/05/javaone_session.html
  

• JSR 315 - Servlet 3.0, is also in early draft review from Sun
  
• http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=315
  

• Nokia and Vodafone have posted the early draft review for JSR 249 - Mobile Service Architecture 2
• http://www.cafeaulait.org/#May_9_2008_76397
  

• Sun has posted an early draft review of JSR 292 - supporting dynamically typed languages on the Java platform
• http://www.cafeaulait.org/#May_20_2008_65364
  

• And another public review draft, from Sun, for JSR 311 - JAX-RS (Java API for ReSTful Web Services)
• http://jcp.org/aboutJava/communityprocess/
  pr/jsr311/index.html
  

• JGAP 3.3.3 has been released. JGAP is a Genetic Algorithms library for Java
  
• http://www.theserverside.com/news/
  thread.tss?thread_id=49336
  
• http://jgap.sourceforge.net/
  

• The PortalPack 2.0 for NetBeans has now also been released
  
• http://portalpack.netbeans.org/servlets/
  NewsItemView?newsItemID=1233
  

• The aquarium has a collection of links to get you started with the EJB 3.1 plugin for Glassfish v3
• http://blogs.sun.com/theaquarium/
  entry/taking_ejb_3_1_for
  

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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Java SE 7 Interview with Danny Coward from Sun Microsystems

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Interview with Danny Coward - Chief Architect of Sun's Client Software, and Sun's Java SE/EE representative on the Executive Committee for the JCP - about Java SE 7 timeline, features and how the JCP fits in.

• Danny's Blog
• http://blogs.sun.com/dannycoward 
• http://blogs.sun.com/dannycoward/
  resource/About%20Me.html 

• JSR 277/294 - Modularity related JSRs
• http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=277 
• http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=294
  

• JSR 292 - Invoke Dynamic and other Dynamically Typed Language Support
  
• http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=292
  

• JSR 308 - Annotations on Java Types
• http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=308
  

• JSR 305 - Annotations for Software Defect Detection
• http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=305
  

• JSR 203 - More New I/O APIs
• http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=203
  

• OpenJDK
• http://openjdk.java.net/
  

• JCP - Java Community Process
• http://jcp.org/en/home/index
  

• JSR 296 - Swing Application Framework
• http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=296 
• http://java.sun.com/developer/technicalArticles/
  javase/swingappfr/

• JSR 295 - Beans Binding
• http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=295
  
• https://beansbinding.dev.java.net/
  

• Language changes - voting results from JavaPolis 07
• http://www.javapolis.com/confluence/display/JP07/
  Whiteboard+results+-+Language+change
  

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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Java Posse Episode 186 - JavaOne 2008 BoF

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Recorded live in front of a large and, frankly, quite enthusiastic audience at JavaOne 2008.

News from JavaOne

• JAVA FX
• Applet plugin - drag applets out of the browser
• Video codecs from on2
• Unified application model
  
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/qmahmoud/
  archive/2008/05/hybrid_apps_wit.html
• http://www.on2.com/
  

• Neil Young - Blu Ray archives
• http://www.news.com/8301-13953_3-9937142-80.html
  

• NetBeans 6.1 - debug JavaScript running in the browser
• http://netbeans.org
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/joconner/
  archive/2008/05/reviewing_netbe.html
  

• Eclipse 3.4 Milestone 7 (last milestone before RCs)
• http://eclipse.dzone.com/announcements/
  eclipse-34-final-milestone
  

• Project Hydrazine
• http://www.cnettv.com/9742-1_53-50002161.html
  

Duke awards:

• Step2e for Java Technology in Broadcasting
• Cocchiaro Music for Digital Imaging
• UpNext for Java Everywhere
• Crisk Software ltd for Java in Education
• University of the Philippines - Dilman for Medical Solutions
• Sentilla for Pervasive Solutions
• LiveScribe for Mobile Device
• CERN for Science Research
• Learning 360 for Java Technology in Education
• Hudson for Developer Solutions
• mPowerPlay for Mobile Gaming
• OpenOffice.org for Fan's choice.

http://blogs.sun.com/theaquarium/entry/duke_awards_are_out_congratulations

And thanks again to Atlassian for bringing the beer:
http://www.atlassian.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, 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
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