Newscast for
October 17th 2006
Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at
http://javaposse.com
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Writely becomes Google Docs, switches to using Java across the board
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The Netbeans GUI builder update pack for 5.5 has been released
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Applet of the week - TotalRC.net
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The Java Library of the week - Jagacy 3270 and Jagacy VT screen scraping
libraries
Banana phone
Book Reviews:
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JavaScript the Definitive Guide 5th Ed by David Flanagan - O'Reilly
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AJAX Design Patterns by Michael Mahemoff - O'Reilly
Quick News Items
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jsTester 1.3 has been released
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BEA has released version 9.2 of the Weblogic Platform, but there is still no
support for Java EE 5.
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TIBCO has released version 3.2 beta of their General Interface (GI) product
under the BSD license
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Instantiations has released the beta version of an Eclipse/Websphere/RAD
plugin called GWT Designer
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JSR 202 - the Java Class File Specification Update from Sun has reached the
proposed final draft stage
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Iona has released version 4.1 of Artix ESB (enterprise service bus)
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Triemax software has released version 1.7 of Jalopy
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Jayasoft has released Ivy 1.0, a Java based dependency manager
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The Aranea Java Web Framework has reached version 1.0 final
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IBM alphaworks has made the IBM Client Application Tool for JMS available
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A free ebook has shown up on lulu.com that lists the top 200 questions that
Java/J2EE developers might be asked in an interview
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InfoQ has a video interview with Tim Bray
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Josh Marinacci has now posted up the demo and code for using NASA map data
in the JXMapViewer Component
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JBoss has released Hibernate 3.2 and it is now fully JPA compatible
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The server side notes that the JBoss licensing model is changing to bring it
more in line with the redhat licensing model
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Headway Software has released version 2 of Structure101
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A great flash based introduction to Eclipse
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Video and screenshots from the Extreme GUI Makeover session at Java One this
year
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Kirsty Doherty for Java Posse artwork
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Nick Trefz, the voice of TopCoder, for the voiceovers
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Brian Ehmann - the Java Posse intern
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Theme Music:
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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
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Closing - "The Outer Light" or "Inside the Light" (they haven't decided
yet) by Butterflies and Zebras (Norm Howard, and Steve Northover - the
SWT dude) - "I tuned my old acoustic to a C modal tuning that I like
(CACDCE). I asked Norm for some east Indian sounds which he
proceeded to make flawlessly, using a glass slide and his sunburst
strat. Without warning, he launched into a rhythm pattern, using
his delay to double up what he was playing (the delay is in time with
the rhythm so it's there, but you don't notice it, so it's kind of
ghostly). I took the solo, clean first with a TS9 for light
distortion and then the wah, and finally clean again. Towards the
end, I switch to rhythm (no delay) and Norm solos, using the same delay
that he used for the rhythm. He's tasteful and heads for the stars
during the fade out" -
http://www.onmusic.com/nands
The Java Posse 
