Sat, 24 October 2009
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IntelliJ IDEA open sourced
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Oracle OpenWorld has just finished
- Sun has announced that 3000 jobs will go, and places the blame firmly on the doorstep of Brussels and the EU
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Droid takes on Apple, and Android 2.0 shaping up
Quick News
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JSR 316 - Java EE 6 - has now entered proposed final draft
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Weld 1.0 CR 1 (Candidate Release 1), the reference implementation for JSR 299, is now out
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JSR 330 - Dependency Injection for Java, approved and released
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Mojarra 2.0.0 final is now available
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Emmanuel Bernard and the Hibernate Team have released version 4 of Hibernate Validator
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JRebel, formerly known as JavaRebel has just released version 2.1
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IBM's developer works site has just celebrated its 10th year
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The Eclipse foundation has just released version 7.0 of Jetty
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JFrog has just released Artifactory 2.1
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The ServerSide Java Symposium comes to Prague, Czech Republic, next week
- Eclipse Summit Europe taking place in Ludwigsburg, Germany
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Instantiations has released GWT Designer 7.2
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VisualVM 1.2 is now available
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John Ferguson Smart has a look ahead to Maven 3
ScalaWags
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Bill Venners and team have released ScalaTest 1.0
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Boston, MA now has a Scala User Group
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Next week sees the Scala Lift Off East, which takes place on October 30th in Reston, VA
Moderator questions
Thanks
The Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall
Direct download: JavaPosse284.mp3
Category: podcasts
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Sun, 27 September 2009
Newscast for Sept 25th 2009
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JVM Language summit impressions
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JDK 7 Project Coin language features finalized
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Google has released the 1.6 version of the Android Development Kit
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Java Library of the Week - Mockito
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Android application of the Week: Layar
Quick News
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Apple has released Java for Mac OS X 10.5 Update 5
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Josh Marinacci has announced a new competition for JavaFX
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JavaFX 1.2.1 has been released by Sun
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JavaRebel has undergone a name change to JRebel
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Bill Pugh and the University of Maryland have released version 1.3.9 of Findbugs
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HTMLUnit 2.6 has been released
- JSR 299 - Java Contexts and Dependency Injection, and JSR 330 - Dependency Injection for Java
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Terrence Barr links to 4 new screencasts about Java mobile technology
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JBoss has released the first beta of Hibernate Core 3.5
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Nominations are being solicited for the NetBeans governance board
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A new library, Bolts, available in version 1.0 has been released
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The recent eclipse day held at the Googleplex was once again a successful conference
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Apache has released the first version of a new project called Wink
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Apache has also released version 1.3 of pivot
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A new static analysis tool, XDepend, promises the ability to X-ray your Java code
ScalaWags
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Professor
Kunle Olukotun, director of the Stanford Pervasive Parallelism
Laboratory, recently delivered a talk at EPFL about how Scala is a core
part of the laboratory strategy
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Version 2.7.6 of Scala has been released
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Caoyuan continues work on the Scala plugin re-write in Scala that takes
advantage of the new scala compiler toolability features
- GridGain has provided a technical blog article on using GridGain map/reduce from Scala
- Maxime Biais has an exploration of the uses of underscore in Scala
Listener Feedback - Scala edition
- Scalawag News - User Group Meetup in Norway
Thanks
The Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall
Direct download: JavaPosse280.mp3
Category: podcasts
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Sat, 1 August 2009
Java Posse Episode 272 - Newscast for July 30th 2009
Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.com - People
who followed the link for the SD Times story about Mono outpacing Java
on Linux may have been confused that the article linked to and the one
we talked about seemed to be different, they changed the story.
- NetBeans 6.7.1 has been released, with JavaFX 1.2 support.
- Sun's JRuby team jumps ship to Engine yard.
- Mobile Application of the Week: MobileXa Crossword
- Mobile Application of the Week take 2: Google Voice for Android
ScalaWags- David Pollak, creator of the Lift web framework for Scala, is working on a new project called Goat Rodeo.
- Scala Eclipse and NetBeans plugins for the 2.8 language features.
- David R. MacIver has an introductory article up about how Scala packages work.
Quick News- Google has open sourced their Java implementation of the Wave protocol.
- DZone has a roundup of some of the more valuable hidden treasures in Eclipse 3.5.
- AJDT - the Aspect J Development Tools, has reached version 2.0.
- Obba 1.8 has been released.
- DZone now has the recording of an Equinox OSGi webinar that they held a few weeks ago available for everyone to watch.
- DZone has also just released an Eclipse RCP (Rich Client Platform) refcard.
- Mobicents SIP servlets 1.0 has been released.
- JetBrains has released the Meta Programming System (MPS).
- The
SpringOne 2GX conference which combines (for the first time) SpringOne
and the Groovy and Grails conferences has been updated with new session
details.
- The NetBeans development process is becoming more open with NetDEV.
- A
new open source productivity development tool, Sculptor, provides a DSL
for quickly defining and creating Java projects and applications.
- OpenDS 2.0 stable has been released.
- JavaWorld has begun a series of introductory articles on OSGi.
- RIM
(Research In Motion - makers of the Blackberry phones) has release an
updated version of their eclipse based mobile development suite.
- Verizon has announced that it will be including an app-store on future phones.
- GrepCode has released a Java source code search engine.
- The eclipse summit europe 2009 is now open for registration.
- ZeroTurnaround is holding a competition to rename JavaRebel.
- Pandora
has reached a resolution on the long-standing royalty rates issue. They
are now asking for listeners' support for a new bill in congress to fix
the way musical artists get paid for all forms of radio.
Listener FeedbackSimple is Open Source
This might give you guys a kick (History of Java and JDBC)
Spring-Modules RevivedThanks
The Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall
Direct download: JavaPosse272.mp3
Category: podcasts
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Fri, 12 June 2009
- JavaOne over for another year
- Tor's secret project unveiled at JavaOne - the JavaFX Designer Tool
Quick News- JSR 330 will standardize a dependency injection API (including standard annotations) for Java SE
- NetBeans 6.7 RC2 is already available
- On June 26th, the Eclipse foundation will be presenting a virtual conference called Galileo in Action
- Google has released a Java ME Orkut application that works on most Java enabled mobile devices
- Java 6 U 14 has been released by Sun
- The
blow-up about the new Garbage First GC only being available to
customers paying Sun for Java support has turned out to be false
- LinuxDevices reports that the Android stack has been ported to MIPS processors
- Developers using the Hudson continuous integration engine might well be interested in a new iPhone and iPod touch application
- FasterXML has released version 1.0 of the Jackson JSON open source processor
ScalaWags- Caoyuan has released version 1.0 of the Scala Plugin for NetBeans
- Hot on the heels of Scala 2.7.4, 2.7.5 has now been released
- scouchDB - the scala couchDB API by Debashish Ghosh, now has support for Reduce functions written in Scala
- 3 of the top 10 selling books at JavaOne are Scala books!
- The Scala language site has a new series of articles about the upcoming 2.8 release
Thanks
The Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall
Direct download: JavaPosse258.mp3
Category: podcasts
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Sat, 9 May 2009
Newscast for May 8th 2009
Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.com
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JavaOne less than a month away!
- Oracle/Sun
fallout. The pundits have had a while to digest the news about Oracle
buying Sun, and have responded with all manner of speculation:
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NetBeans 6.7 Beta has been released
- And Google has released Android v1.5 Final. Codenamed cupcake
Quick News
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Rich Hickey has released Clojure 1.0
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IBM has now doubled their rewards for ditching Sun hardware in favor of IBM Power servers
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The excellently named ProtoJ project provides a new alternative to build environments like Ant and Maven
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JetBrains has released TeamCity 4.5
- SwingX 1.0 is about to be released
- SpringSource has acquired Hyperic
- JBoss has release Tattletale 1.0.0
- Novell has release Mono 2.4
- Hudson has recently release build 1.300 (that's 300 releases)
- InvokeDynamic, is now in JDK 7
- BetterBeansBinding based on the now apparently defunct Beans Binding (JSR 295)
- A new project, Simplium, marries Selenium RC (Remote
Control) and JUnit 4.5
- A
newly updated refcard on DZone for IntelliJ 8.1
- Star spec leads
by the Java Community process
ScalaWags. Yarrrr.
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A preview article of the features coming in Scala 2.8 is available on the Scala language site
- Meanwhile, Scala 2.7.4 final has been released
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Bill Venners has an interview with Martin Odersky talking about the origins of Scala
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Functional recipes for Scala and Lift
- The NetBeans Scala plugin has received some more love
- Scala jobs are on the rise
Thanks
The Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall
Direct download: JavaPosse249.mp3
Category: podcasts
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Thu, 23 April 2009
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Oracle buys Sun for 7.4 Billion
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Google App Engine for Java Opinions
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Java Project of the Week - Sonar
Quick News
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Java 6 U 14 will include G1 (Garbage First)
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HTMLUnit 2.5 has been released
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Christian Neukirchen has a guide to writing Android applications in Scala
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Codehaus has released Cargo 1.0
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Android is expanding its horizons onto NetBooks
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The Java ME SDK team has formally announced the Java ME SDK 3 release
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The PhoneME project has released feature milestone 4
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EJB 3.1 - A Significant Step Towards Maturity
- Hudson version 1.300 has been released
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Squawk to be available for the FIRST Robotics Competition next year
Thanks
The Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall
Direct download: JavaPosse246.mp3
Category: podcasts
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Fri, 17 April 2009
- Google App Engine, Now for Java
- The
IBM/Sun acquisition talks that we brought you rumors of in a previous
Java Posse episode, turned out to be true, and also fell through
- Swing 2.0 - let's get into it
- Application, Applet and AJAX Web app of the week: JSpresso
Quick News- Google has an early access release of Android 1.5 (codename: cupcake)
- Bill Venners has an interview up at Artima.com with three developers from Twitter about their increasing use of Scala
- Sacha Labourey, the CTO of JBoss, has announced that he will be leaving the company
- Emmanuel
Bernard has started a French language podcast dedicated to Java called
LesCastCodeurs along with Guillaume Laforge, Antonio Goncalves and
Vincent Massol
- Atlassian are holding a user conference, the AtlasCamp++, from May 31st to June 2nd in San Francisco
- Sonya Barry has more information on the Community Corner podcasts at this year's JavaOne
- The JavaOne Script Bowl 2009 is calling for ideas
- The Aquarium notes that you can now register for the community one west unconferences
- The second annual Scala Lift Off unconference will be held in San Francisco on Saturday 6th (just after JavaOne)
- SwingLabs have released 0.9.7 of the SwingX components
- The 1.0 version of the DTrace GUI plugin for NetBeans is now available
- The Processing and Analytics Workbench
- Java.net is preparing to make some changes
- The
Department of Health and Human Services in the US has selected the Sun
sponsored open source, Java based, OpenESB project for construction of
a Nationwide Health Information Network
- Versions 1.5.8 and 1.6.1 of the Groovy programming language have been released
- Grails 1.1 is now available on the GlassFish v2 update center
- The Eclipse project has release Eclipse 3.4.2
- JBoss has released JBoss tools 3 offering many improvements and new features
- Adobe has made FlexBuilder Pro freely available to anyone who is currently unemployed
- The dates for the ServerSide Java Symposium Europe 2009 have been announced
- Eclipse has joined the Symbian foundation, and Symbian has joined the eclipse foundation
- Extreme
Component have just released their JComponentPack 3.0 which includes
over 20 components that will likely be of use to enterprise and
intranet Swing developers
- NetBeans 6.7 M3 is now available
Thanks
The Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall
Direct download: JavaPosse244.mp3
Category: podcasts
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Fri, 20 March 2009
Newscast for March 19th 2009
Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.com
- JavaOne sessions finalized and published
- Proposed Final Draft of EJB 3.1
- RIA sampling shows Flash is still king, Silverlight is on the rise, and Java fares well except on Linux!
- Applet of the Week: JPC running Linux in an applet!
Quick News
- Grails 1.1 has been released
- NextReports 2.0 is out (the next version of NextReports?)
- The ServerSide Java Symposium
- JAX-RS 2.2 and Metro 2.0 nightly builds are now available
- The eclipse foundation has announced a new mobile platform initiative called Pulsar
- JSR 299 - Java Contexts and Dependency Injection, Beta 1 is out
- The NetBeans Governance Board has selected new community representatives
- There are some interesting results from the latest TIOBE programming language index
- A reminder that EclipseCon starts next week, on the 23rd of March, in Santa Clara, CA
- Sonatype has released Nexus 1.3.0. Nexus is a repository manager for Maven repositories
- Version 4.0 of the Magnolia CMS has been released
- Bill Pugh and the University of Maryland have released version 1.3.8 of Findbugs
- The eclipse foundation has released version 1.0 of Riena
- Project Coin has been approved and created by the OpenJDK project
- The ROME project has made it's 1.0 final release
- Oracle's JRockit JVM (acquired from BEA) has set a new performance benchmark
- SpringSource has released the Spring Tool Suite 2.0
- Alexander Potochkin blogs that the Swing app framework (JSR 296) is still alive
- Google has announced the 2009 Google summer of code program
- Lift, the Scala based web framework inspired by ruby on rails, has reached version 1.0
- Good news for JavaFX mobile. Sony Ericsson has announced that it will support the JavaFX platform in its upcoming mobile phones
- The 2009 Jolt Awards have been announced at SDWest
- Mark Volkmann has an introduction to Clojure
Thanks
The Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall
Direct download: JavaPosse235.mp3
Category: podcasts
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Thu, 26 February 2009
Newscast for February 25th 2009Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.com
Java Posse Roundup alternative languages day details:
http://groups.google.com/group/roundup09/web/alternative-languages-day
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NetBeans releases to get smaller and more frequent
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Java application of the week: shape collage
Quick News Items
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JSR 316 - Java Enterprise Edition 6, has been approved by the JCP
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EclipseZone blogs that the Eclipse Plugin Central (also known as EPIC) is going to be re-written
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Jean-Francois Arcand blogs that he has got Grizzly running under Java on a hacked iPhone
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John Rose has published a highly technical description of the new invokedynamic bytecode
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Piotr Tabor has an article up at Netbeans Zone about creating a plugin for NetBeans
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Chet Haase has a Java developers view on Actionscript (Adobe's flash language) over at JavaWorld
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License4J version 1.5 is out from Smardec
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Yourkit version 8.0 is now available
- Apple has just released Safari 4.0 Beta 1 for Mac OS X and Windows
Thanks
The Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall
Direct download: JavaPosse232.mp3
Category: podcasts
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Fri, 20 February 2009
Newscast for Feb 19th 2009Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.comPlease
join us for the next Java Posse Roundup - March 3rd to 6th 2009 in
Crested Butte, CO, with a free alternative languages on the JVM day on
March 2nd.
http://www.mindviewinc.com/Conferences/JavaPosseRoundup/ - Registration now open for JavaOne 2009, to be held June 2nd to 5th 2009 in the Moscone Center, SF
- JavaFX 1.1 is now out, including official support for JavaFX Mobile
- Details are beginning to emerge about a second generation
Android phone
- Java project of the week - SAVE
- Applet of the Week (kinda): Pet catalog browser
Quick News- Jazoon is running a competition for young speakers (26 or under) to present at Jazoon 09
- JetBrains has release IntelliJ IDEA 8.1
- Apple has released a new update for Java on Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
- Moonlight 1.0 has been officially released
- Zero, a project to make a JVM that requires no assembly code porting, has reached a major milestone, it has passed the TCK
- The WebDAV project has announced support for JAX-RS, final version 1.0
- Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz announced that there have been 100 million downloads of the JavaFX runtime already
- NetBeans portal pack 3.0 is now available for download
- OpenWebBeans 1.0.0 M1 has been released
- And staying with JSR 299 - it has been approved for inclusion in Java EE 6 despite a few lingering concerns
- JSR
303 - Bean Validation, led by Emmanuel Bernard of JBoss/RedHat (and not
Sun as we have reported in the past) has also been accepted
- A FOSDEM 09 interview with Martin Odersky gives details about new language features coming in Scala 2.8
- Kirill Grouchnikov has release version 4.0 final of Flamingo
- Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 - codenamed Lenny - has been released
- Groovy and Grails training courses offered by Scott David and Andrew Glover
- The reference implementation for Distributed OSGi, now officially known as OSGi 4.2, is now available at Apache CXF
- Scala and mixing it in with some Java code
- The 7th annual Duke's Choice awards are accepting nominations
Thanks
The Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall
Direct download: JavaPosse231.mp3
Category: podcasts
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Sun, 8 February 2009
Please
join us for the next Java Posse Roundup - March 3rd to 6th 2009 in
Crested Butte, CO, with a free alternative languages on the JVM day on
March 2nd.
http://www.mindviewinc.com/Conferences/JavaPosseRoundup/
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Java EE 6 (JSR 316) has entered the public review draft phase
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Sun layoffs, will it affect the Java strategies (particularly open source?)
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Eclipse 3.5 M 5 (Galileo) has been released
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Java Mobile application of the week, kind of: Google mobile search-by-voice for Android
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Java Project of the week - Java Closures for Eclipse
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Java project of the week bonus edition: Swing 2.0
Quick News
- Java 6 U 12 is now out, and with it comes the 64 bit Java plugin
- eWeek's Chief technology analyst, Jim Rapoza, has been trying out Java FX and has given it a pretty glowing review
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The dates for the 2009 Devoxx conference in Belgium have been announced
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And, the first of the devoxx talks from the 2008 conference have started to appear on Parleys.com
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NetBeans.org is electing a new NetBeans governance board
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Oracle has submitted JSR 329 - Portlet 2.0 Bridge for JavaServer Faces 1.2
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Jesse Wilson and James Lemieux have release version 1.8.0 of Glazed Lists
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Glassfish v2.1 has been released
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QCon London, coming up in March just after the Java Posse Roundup 2009
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Dick did a talk at the University of Kent (of which he is an Alumnus) about software engineering
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The Apache Jakarta project has released Cactus 1.8.1
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Jetty may be moving to Eclipse
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The JCP has announced a special election to fill a vacated seat on the mobile edition JCP executive committee
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JetBrains has release IntelliJ IDEA 8.0.1
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A boost in the grizzly community in January resulted in enough
submissions and improvements for a Grizzly community release, 1.9.5
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Registration is open for SpringOne Europe 2009, which will be held in Amsterdam from April 27th to 29th
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Google has released the final version of the JSR 284 - Resource Consumption Management API spec
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Oracle has an Oracle Technology Network Developer Day in New York on Feb 23rd at the New Yorker hotel
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Adobe has opted to publish the Real-Time Messaging Protocol (RTMP) specification
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JBoss has announced RESTeasy GA, a fully certified open source JAX-RS implementation
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DevNexus 2009 will be held on March 10th and 11th at the Cobb Galleria center in Atlanta, GA
Thanks
The Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall
Direct download: JavaPosse229.mp3
Category: podcasts
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Sat, 22 November 2008
Newscast for Nov 21st 2008Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.comDick and Carl at Devoxx - http://www.devoxx.com/display/JV08/Home Dick at the University of Kent - http://www.cs.kent.ac.uk/coe/Questions? Feedback? Try our new moderator site: http://tinyurl.com/q4javaposse
- Correction: MSN Live toolbar with Java download is an opt-out, not opt-in!
- Dynamic support coming in C# for version 4.0
- Chris Adamson links to results from Google analytics for Java applet availability
- Sun
and Java news roundup: Sun Microsystems cutting 6000 jobs, has JavaFX
hurt client side Java (slight reprise) and does Java's ubiquity render
Sun irrelevant to the future of Java anyway?
Quick News
- NetBeans 6.5 final is now out
- Sun has released version 9 of StarOffice
- The ServerSide Java Symposium web site is now up
- Adobe has released a beta (or is it an alpha) 64 bit version of
the flash plugin for Linux
- The expert group for JSR 317 - Java Persistence 2.0 (also known as JPA 2.0) has released the public review draft
- Bill Pugh of the University of Maryland has released version 1.3.6 of the excellent findbugs
- Joakim Ohlrogge has advice for people who want to try out Scala - "just do it"
Thanks
The Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall
Direct download: JavaPosse218.mp3
Category: podcasts
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Fri, 31 October 2008
Newscast for October 31st 2008Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.com
Part
1 - we talked so long about the main news items we decided to do the
quick news and listener feedback as a follow up podcast later in the
week. -
NetBeans 6.5 release candidate 2 is out
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Alex Miller over at JavaLobby has a couple of articles looking ahead to JSR 203 - NIO 2
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An interesting discussion and poll over at Java.net pits SOAP vs. ReST
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Application of the week - Thinkfree Office Netbook Edition
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Project of the week: jLab
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And, Mobile application of the week: GMail 2.0, now with offline features
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Bonus mobile application of the week: BooksInMyPhone
Thanks
The Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall
Direct download: JavaPosse214.mp3
Category: podcasts
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Thu, 18 September 2008
Newscast for Sept 17th 2008
Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.com
- Java complexity again, but from a different angle:
- JVM Language summit - the details emerge
- Java Project of the week - Tokyo Jogging
Quick News- JavaPolis, which had been renamed to Javoxx, is now known as Devoxx
- Ji Hoon Kim has announced the JSF Flex project, which aims to bring Flex components to JavaServer Faces
- A new library called JavaPlot from Panayotis Katsaloulis lets Java developers harness gnuplot from a Java API
- Chrome browser (actually Chromium - the open source project) is now running on Mac and Linux using Crossover technology
- The NetBeans BlueJ team has announced the first release of the BlueJ Plugin for NetBeans 6.1
- Grizzly 2.0 has just been pushed to the Java.net Maven repository
- JBoss has released the Seam 2 feature pack for JBoss EAP 4.3
- A new Java IDE for Windows, JCoder, has reached version 1.0
- Instantiations has released a new version of GWT designer for GWT 1.5
- JSFOne has concluded and from the reports was a great success
- JRubyStack 1.1.4 has been released
- The
Eclipse foundation and 14 foundation member companies have announced a
new Eclipse training program in 31 cities around the world
- Norman Lahme-Hütig has release jSefa 0.9.2
- A new 0.9.4 version of the SwingX extended Swing components has been released
- CMP West has announced a call for papers for SD West 2009
- Cay
Horstmann reports that in the next semester at SJSU, he will be
replacing Scheme with Scala for the functional language part of the
undergraduate programming languages course
- PGP (Pretty Good Privacy) is leading efforts to save Bletchley Park
Thanks
The Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall
Direct download: JavaPosse206.mp3
Category: podcasts
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Tue, 15 July 2008
Newscast for July 14th 2008
Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.com
- Dick's (and Joe's) company - Navigenics
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Do we need a thread safe swing?
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When it comes to RIAs, have Google and Apple backed the right, or wrong, horse?
- Java on Linux - still losing the popularity war?
Quick News
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The dates for this year's Silicon Valley Code Camp have been set by Mike Van Riper and Kevin Nilson
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Mojarra has released an early draft review implementation of JSF (Java Server Faces) 2.0, also known as JSR 314
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And Sun has a collection of introductory articles for features in the
new draft version, written by Ryan Lubke of the Mojarra team
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Canoo software has released a new version of its Ultra-light Client (ULC)
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James Ervin has written up his notes from the recent Eclipse day held at Google
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The iScreen project has releases iScreen version 2.0.0
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The first release candidate of Loom 1.0 is also available now
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Chris Adamson has put out a plea for a decent filesystem API to be included in Java 7
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Remi Forax notes that the BGGA closure implementation source code is now available
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Retrotranslator 1.2.7 has been released, and now offers support for the Java 5 memory model
- JBoss.org has an update on the status of JBoss Application Server version 5.0
- The server side and related sites did a survey of BEA customers
- Apache has released the first version of Apache Sling
- Google has open sourced their Protocol Buffers technology
- Super-quick NetBeans roundup
- Java 6 Update 10, the new Consumer JRE and faster, lighter plugin, has hit one million downloads!
- The first Commodore 64 LAN party
- Sun has posted a maintenance release of JSR 252 - JavaServer Faces 1.2
- A recent Google tech talk on Kilim has been released on YouTube
- The first public review draft of JSR 300 - DRM API for Java ME
- Danesh Zaki has released TumbleJ, a Tumblr API for Java applications
- Nuxeo have released the first version of their web engine
- The OpenDS project has released version 1.0.0 of OpenDS
- Ahmadsoft has released ropes for Java
- WS02 has released version 1.7 of what it calls the fastest open source ESB in the world
- And finally, while you are waiting for the new video codecs for Java, another alternative might be jFlashPlayer
Thanks
Direct download: JavaPosse196.mp3
Category: podcasts
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Sat, 24 May 2008
Newscast for May 22nd 2008
Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.com
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One of the stories we overlooked from JavaOne was that the JCP annual award winners were announced
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Does our support of Scala as an emerging force on the JVM mean that we believe Java is dead?
- We held the first Scala users group last week at Google
- Correction to our Twitter and Ruby on Rails story in Episode 186
Quick News Items
- Build 24 of the consumer JRE (Java 6 update 10) was released yesterday
- News from the Scala Lift Off - JavaRebel donating licenses for use on Scala for a year
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Chris Adamson has started putting out the minitalks from the Community Corner at JavaOne as podcasts
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The technical session on NNIO (JSR 203 - more new IO) on youtube
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Apache has release Barcode4J 2.0 - a barcode generator for Java
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Vivek Pandey blogs about getting Scala and Lift working on Glassfish v3
- Morph has Java running on Amazon's EC2 (Elastic compute cloud) and S3 (Simple storage system)
- And another new stack is available for Amazon EC2 that brings OpenSolaris, Glassfish and MySQL to the party
- The Woodstock project has released version 4.2
- Google is hosting an Eclipse day, at the Googleplex in Mountain View, on Tuesday June 24th
- Livescribe pen video at zdnet that shows some of its capabilities
- Continuing the integration work with OSGi, glassfish now has a Grizzly OSGi bundle available
- Is JRockit a casualty of the Oracle/BEA deal?
- Google has posted the second milestone of GWT 1.5
- Jean Francois Arcand blogs about getting a GWT application working with Grizzly and Comet
- NASA WorldWind Java demos
- JSR News. Sun has posted the early draft review of JSR 317 - JPA (Java Persistence API) 2.0
- JSR 315 - Servlet 3.0, is also in early draft review from Sun
- Nokia and Vodafone have posted the early draft review for JSR 249 - Mobile Service Architecture 2
- Sun has posted an early draft review of JSR 292 - supporting dynamically typed languages on the Java platform
- And another public review draft, from Sun, for JSR 311 - JAX-RS (Java API for ReSTful Web Services)
- JGAP 3.3.3 has been released. JGAP is a Genetic Algorithms library for Java
- The PortalPack 2.0 for NetBeans has now also been released
- The aquarium has a collection of links to get you started with the EJB 3.1 plugin for Glassfish v3
Thanks
Direct download: JavaPosse188.mp3
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Sat, 15 March 2008
Newscast for March 14th 2008
Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.com
And check out our YouTube channel at http://youtube.com/javaposse
- Java on the iPhone, will it? won't it?
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Sun has released the first Beta of NetBeans 6.1
- Application of the week - GMailAssistant
- Application of the week bonus: Stellarium for Java
Quick News
- The JSR 286 - Portlet Specification 2.0 - proposed final draft has been accepted
- Ted Neward has created a talk for Jazoon 08: The busy Java developer's guide to Groovy
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Apache has launched a new community site for Synapse / WS02
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Java.net has a new series called the Open Road, by Elliotte Rusty Harold
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Google has released the first milestone of GWT (Google Web Tookit) 1.5
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GridGain 2.0 has been released
- Bruce Chapman has blogged about another closures proposal: the no closures proposal
Listener FeedbackDavid I.
- Eclipse Magazine, December 2007, article by Ravi Kumar:
- Ravi Kumar’s
video introducing Application Factories:
- David I’s interview with eWeek:
- Jim Douglas (CodeGear CEO) eWeek interview:
Thanks
Direct download: JavaPosse171.mp3
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Sun, 2 March 2008
Newscast for Feb 28th 2008Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.com
Last episode before the Posse Roundup 2008, see you in Crested Butte http://www.mindviewinc.com/Conferences/JavaPosseRoundup/ - Sun has put up the session information for JavaOne 2008
- Adobe has released AIR 1.0
- The FCM closures proposal now has an initial prototype
- Is Java NIO no faster than Java IO?
- Secrets of Rock Star Developers book by Ed Burns is out - and we are in it
Quick News Items- Google has announced Summer of Code 2008
- Microsoft playing nice with FOSS (Free and Open Source Software)?
- More on Blu-Ray - Ed Burnette
- Apache Geronimo 2.1 is out
- The Eclipse Foundation has released Higgins 1.0
- Eclipse has a new project Babel
- A new 2.0 version of the dynamic language XMF has been released
- Bill Pugh and the University of Maryland have released version 1.3.2 of Findbugs
- The JavaBlog has a nice introduction to developing Java applications for facebook
- Silveira Neto blogs about writing your first NetBeans plugin
- And, Caoyuan blogs about an Erlang plugin for NetBeans called Erlybird
- The second part of the Busy Java Developers guide to Scala covers Scala's class syntax and semantics
- Sprint Nextel has released the first developer version of its new Titan platform
- New book - Groovy Recipes: Greasing the Wheels of Java by Scott Davis
- Kirill Grouchnikov has released version 3.0 of the flamingo component suite
Listener Feedback
Thanks
Direct download: JavaPosse167.mp3
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Sun, 10 February 2008
Newscast for Feb 8th 2008
Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.com
Join us for the Java Posse Roundup 2008 in Crested Butte from March 4th to 7th
http://www.mindviewinc.com/Conferences/JavaPosseRoundup/
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Grails 1.0 has been released!
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Registration for JavaOne is now open
- Closures, closures and more closures
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JSF has passed Swing as the number one GUI component model for job demand
Quick News Items
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A NetBeans Innovators Grants program has been introduced by Sun
- If you are curious about how to write a full application
that uses JSF, Seam 2.0 and JPA together, check out Carol McDonald's
blog
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Submissions are now being accepted for the Dukes Choice awards at JavaOne 2008
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A former mobile application of the week, Opera Mobile has just reached version 9.5
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TheServerSide.com has an introduction to using MapReduce in Java applications
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Sun has released a new version of their Solaris Express Developer Edition
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Sun has also posted a proposed final draft of JSR 293 - Location API 2.0
Thanks
Direct download: JavaPosse163.mp3
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Tue, 29 January 2008
Newscast for January 28th 2008
Join us for the Java Posse Roundup 2008 in Crested Butte from March 4th to 7th
and be a part of sessions like this yourself!
http://www.mindviewinc.com/Conferences/JavaPosseRoundup/
Terrence Barr and Roger Brinkley joined us for an interview at the
Sun Java Mobile and Embedded Developer Days, and that interview
is available in the latter half of the podcast.
- Is the Geronimo project in trouble?
- Applet of the Week: Sea Level applets
- Project of the week - LoboBrowser
Quick News- JDK 6 Update 4 is now available and it includes JAX-WS and JAXB 2.1
(Java API for XML, Web Services and Bindings)
- A call for participation has been put out for CommunityOne 2008, the day before JavaOne 2008
- JavaZone 2008 has also announced a call for presentations
- Jazoon 08 - the Java conference to be held in Zurich from June 23rd to 26th
- And this looks to be a good year for EclipseCon as well
- Artifactory is a maven repository for open source enterprise artifacts
- Chris Richardson has an interesting blog entry about using Amazon's EC2
(Elastic Compute Cloud) to host Java EE applications
- JSR 323 - Strong Mobility for Java - has been proposed in the JCP. UPDATE: it's already dead - it fell at the first hurdle
- Bill Venners has released a new testing tool - ScalaTest
- The Developer.com product awards for 2008 have been announced
- Apache has released 1.4 of JackRabbit
- Apache Jakarta Commons Pool 1.4 is now out
- Neal Gafter poses a simple, binary answer to the question of whether Java is dead
- Posse listeners in Pune, India might be interested in the next IndicThreads Java meet up
- Apache has released Lenya 2.0
- Sun is holding another Second Life virtual meeting, this time talking about NetBeans 6.0
- Sun's JavaFX tools to interop with Adobe
Java Mobility Podcast: http://java.net/pub/ct/mobileandembedded
Sun Java Mobile and Embedded Developer Days: https://developerdays.dev.java.net/
Thanks
Direct download: JavaPosse161.mp3
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Sun, 9 December 2007
Newscast for December 6th 2007
Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.com
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Spring 2.5 has been released, a new version of the alternative enterprise Java stack
- Applets of the week: Maths, Physics and Engineering applets
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Robert Cooper has written an article covering his first impressions of the Android API's and comments on possible improvements that could be made
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Carlos Bazzarella from Poliplus software has started a new project called ME4Android
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Open Handset Alliance member Ascender has announced “Droid Fonts?
- Looking to get started with Android? John Lombardo at
linuxdevices.com has written an in-depth, hands-on article that
introduces Android
- For people interested in getting Android to work on various
real and virtual hardware, there's a new Google group, called
AndroidPort
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Karl Pauls of Luminis has managed, with a few hacks, to get Apache Felix (OSGi) to work on Android
Quick News Items
New jsf project: Project Mojarra
- TheServerSide has an article up about RestFaces, a library to solve the problem of BookMarkable JSF (JavaServer Faces)
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Mark Reinhold of the OpenJDK Governance Board has announced that the Interim Governance Board has unanimously approved a proposal for the creation
of an OpenJDK Porters java.net group
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Think Record Storage is the only option for Java ME development? Think again!
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Atlassian Software has released version 1.2 of Crowd, its single sign on and OpenID software
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The Apache project has released version 1.1 Final of Continuum, the
continuous integration server for building Java projects
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JBoss has released a JSF unit testing tool: JSFUnit
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JSR 321 - Trusted Computing API for Java, has been submitted to the JCP by the IAIK Graz University of technology
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Roberto Chinnici blogs that he has got GlassFish v2 running on SoyLatte on Tiger
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DeveloperLife has started a series of tutorials about developing with GWT (the Google Web Toolkit)
- The third season of Lost on Blu-Ray will feature a number of enhancements using BD-J
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Sun has announced a new program to compensate Open Source developers for their coding efforts
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JavaRanch has an article about James Gosling's recent "State of the Java Universe" talk
- Kelly
O'Hair blogs that JDK 7 build 24 has switched over to the Mercurial
distributed source control mechanism for the OpenJDK sources
Listener Feedback
- Ryan Dewsbury's new GWT book
Thanks
Direct download: JavaPosse153.mp3
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Fri, 30 November 2007
Newscast for November 29th 2007
- Landon Fuller has released the second developer preview edition of Java 6 for Mac OS 10.5 (Leopard) and Mac OS 10.4 (Tiger)
- Tis the season to consider language changes for Java 7, the latest question: why not support primitives in collections directly?
- Bill Pugh,
from the University of Maryland, and well known to Posse listeners, has
released version 1.3.0 of FindBugs
- NetBeans 6.0 FCS green-lighted
- Applet of the week - MindMap Viewer by Eric Blue
- Mobile Application of the Week - Ebook Reader for Java enabled phones
- Mobile application of the week - bonus - Google Maps for Mobile, now with my location
Quick News Items
- JSR 294 (superpackages for the Java language) early draft is now available
- Java running on the iPhone (and the iPod touch)
- The fedora wiki has an interview with Thomas Fitzsimmons about the inclusion of IcedTea with the newly released Fedora 8
- Sun has released a new version of the Sun Contribution Agreement
- There is a
new flavor of the Gnu General Public License (GPL) called the Affero
General Public License that has been written to cope with a peculiarity
of web applications
- The Exploring Beautiful Languages blog has an article on writing NetBeans Ruby hints using Scala
Thanks
Direct download: JavaPosse152.mp3
Category: podcasts
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Sat, 17 November 2007
Newscast for Nov 15th 2007
Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.com
- Google releases Android and open handset alliance, the former a
(soon-to-be) open source stack for developing mobile applications, and
the latter an alliance of over 30 companies in the mobile space
- Open source port of OpenJDK to the Mac?
- RedHat joins the OpenSDK project
- Technical Article of the Week! S3 on Java with onJava
- JSR for Closures, backed by the JUGs
Quick News Items
- The presentations from the JustJava 2007 conference in Brazil which took place in October are now available for download
- The Eclipse project has released version 3.3.1.1 of the Eclipse IDE
- JSR-311 - JAX-RS (ReST API for Java) is now in early draft review
- Artima has a good interview with Bill Shannon and Roberto Chinicci about JSR 316 - Java EE 6
- JBoss has release Seam 2.0
- NetBeans now has a DTrace GUI plugin
- Java lobby has an in depth interview about the new consumer JRE
- The Aquarium asks "what do you want from Glassfish v3?"
- The Mobile and Embedded developer days event which is being held in Santa Clara on Jan 23rd and 24th continues to gain momentum
- Apple has released a developer preview of Java for Mac OS X 10.4, Release 6 on the Apple Developer connection
- Access is demonstrating the new Access Linux Platform that runs Linux, Palm and Java applications
- The server side has a new video interview with Christian Bauer about the newly released Seam 2.0
- Could JavaME end up on the iPhone after all? Terrence Barr thinks so
- A former mobile app of the week, Opera Mini 4, a Java ME web browser, is out of beta
- NetBeans Days in Dubai and Cairo are happening within the next week
- Results of the JCP Elections
Thanks
Direct download: JavaPosse150.mp3
Category: podcasts
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Mon, 29 October 2007
Java Posse Episode 148 - Special from the Silicon Valley Code Camp
Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.com
Thanks to the Silicon Valley Code Camp guys - Peter Kellner for organizing the whole thing, and Mike Van Riper for inviting us
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Mac OS 10.5 Leopard ships, but without Java 6
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Mozilla getting into the RIA game with Prism
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Java ME - the rumors of my demise have been greatly exaggerated
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Java Development tool of the week - Crap4J
- JSR of the week: 298 - Telematics API
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Library of the week: The Google Collections Library
Quick News Items
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The JSR 311 group has released an early draft review of JAX-RS - the Java API for ReSTful services
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JSR 299 - Web Beans - now has an early draft review up
- And speaking of Guice, The Server Side notes that Crazy Bob
has a tech talk up discussing the dependency injection, its uses, and
the reasons for writing it
- We mentioned seeing this library at the recent Sun Java FX
client event in San Francisco when Chet Haase demoed it to us, but the
transitions library is now available for you to download and use in
your own applications
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Paypal CEO chases Runescape gold
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Sun has release version 1.4.1 of JavaMail
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Chris Adamson notes on the Editor's Daily Blog that there seems to be a Swing Renaissance taking place right now
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The Gnu Project has release version 0.96 of Gnu Classpath
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Ericsson has submitted JSR 319 - Availability Management for Java
- Friend to the Posse and fellow Java (albeit
NetBeans-centric) podcaster Roman Strobl is the latest interviewee on
NetBeans.tv
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NetBeans 6.0 Beta 2 is now available
- IBM's Websphere application server community edition (based
on Apache Geronimo) has just reached version 2.0 and now offers full
support for EE 5
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Google now has a Java API for their Translate service
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Continuing its incredible return to vibrancy, the Jython project has just released version 2.2.1
Thanks
Direct download: JavaPosse148.mp3
Category: podcasts
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Sat, 6 October 2007
Newscast for October 4th 2007
Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.com
We will be at the Silicon Valley Codecamp which runs Oct 27th to 28th at Foothills College, Los Altos, CA
http://siliconvalley-codecamp.com/
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First class support for properties in Java
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Rails, is the honeymoon over?
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The first early access release of the consumer JRE is now out for testing
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Could it finally be? The Java OS is here?
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Java Library of the Week - Enunciate 1.4
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Java Application of the Week: OpenProj
Quick News Items
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The final 1.0 version of Apache Tuscany is now out
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Apple has pulled down the link to Java 6 b88 for Mac OS X 10.4
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Luc Maisonobe has released Mantissa 7.1
- Eric LaFortune has released version 4.0 of ProGuard 4.0
which is an open source class file shrinker, optimizer and obfuscator
for Java
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Developer.com has started taking nominations for the 2008 product of the year
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The JCP (Java Community Process) Executive Committee elections are currently taking place
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Tor has a nemesis: Osvaldo Pinali Doederlein blogs "No Tabs? Are you Nuts?"
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Matt Raible has released version 2.0 of AppFuse
- Sean Sheedy blogs about what he is dubbing "JavaOne ME".
Actually the upcoming Java Mobile and Embedded Developer Days will take
place at Sun's Santa Clara office
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Sun has made available the OpenJDK TCK (Technology Compatibility Kit) under a new open source license, GPLv2.
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YourKit LLC has released a new version 7.0 of the YourKit Java Profiler
- Glassfish roundup - the recently release version 2 of the
open source Java application server Glassfish continues to get
attention in the headlines
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Kaffe version 1.1.8 has been released
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Sun has released a new version of Solaris Express Developer Edition
- Apache ServiceMix has graduated to a full Apache project.
ServiceMix is an Extensible Message Bus for service integration,
mediation and composition (for Service Oriented Architectures)
Thanks
Direct download: JavaPosse145.mp3
Category: podcasts
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Sat, 22 September 2007
Newscast for September 21st 2007
Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.com
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Glassfish v2 and NetBeans 6.0 Beta 1 have been released
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OpenOffice.org 2.3 has been released
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Jens Eckels asks "Do we need an IDE 2.0 revolution"
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SCO declares Chapter 11 bankruptcy
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Java application of the week jIRCii
- Use it on our new Java Posse IRC channel - #javaposse on irc.freenode.net
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Java Site of the Week: Mint
Quick News Items
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The eclipse project has released eclipse PHP development tools 1.0
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The Nimbus Look and Feel is nearing completion
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Chet Haase and the timing framework project have announced version 1.0 of the timing framework
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Version 1.0 of JSR 295 - the Beans Binding API, is now available for download
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iced-tea.org is the home of the IcedTea project providing a completely unencumbered open source Java
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Microsoft have released version 1.0 of Silverlight
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Adobe has released the first public beta of Flex 3.0
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Kirill Grouchnikov has announced version 4.0 of the Substance look and feel for Java
- A Ccomparison between the Java and .NET way of handling generics
- The Aquarium has a guide to the ReST initiatives for Java
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Apache Tuscany version 0.99 has been released
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The open source Java server Glassfish now has a wiki/user faq site
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J/Invoke 1.0 has been released
- IBM developerworks has a new article describing how to invoke dynamic languages
- The new Cajo java.net project provides a simple and very
small library to enable distributed computing using just three simple
methods in the API: export, lookup and proxy
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NetBeans has a new module integrating the Google Checkout API through a new open source Google Checkout Java SDK project
- Netbeans.tv now has Tor's video interview about and demo of
the new NetBeans 6 rails features for constructing web applications
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Version 1.6 of project Grizzly has been released
- Lance Anderson blogs that JDBC 4.0 is catching on with ever
more companies and organizations offering JDBC 4.0 compliant drivers
for their database
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If you do a lot of JNI development you may be interested in the Intel integrated Java/JNI debugger
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EclipseZone reports that a new milestone of the Whole Platform, 1.0.0.v20070912-1454
- Hudson continuous build engine continues to go from strength to strength
- Azul systems, makers of the very scalable Java hardware
solutions with the ability to run hundreds of concurrent Java threads
is in trouble
- IBM DeveloperWorks has made another handy little developer
tool available. The Lock Analyzer allows you to examine how Java locks
are performing in a live application
Thanks
Direct download: JavaPosse143.mp3
Category: podcasts
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Sun, 5 August 2007
Newscast for August 4th 2007
Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.com
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How much is your code worth?
- The new firefox 4 javascript VM, which will be based on
Tamarin (the engine donated to the project by Adobe), will run not only
JavaScript, but also Ruby and Python
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JavaFX properties support
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NetBeans to get first class Groovy support?
- Google has released a free tool - the Google Singleton Detector
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And for another fun discussion, when should you use finalizers?
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Applet of the week - Zombie Infection
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Applet of the week - bonus - Bitlet
Quick News Items
- San Shin's JavaPassion.com website now has a hands on lab
for creating web applications using Sun's woodstock JSF components
which have just been open sourced by Sun
- Yahoo has release YSlow, a performance tool which helps you to determine why a site is slow
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An updated version of the JavaFX plugin is now available for NetBeans
- Daniel Boekhoff has a new tutorial up at NetBeans.org that
walks you through creating a Ruby on Rails application in NetBeans
- What ever happened to the Apache TCK open letter and blowup?
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JBoss has released Drools 4.0
- Lifehacker has information about an OpenOffice extension that lets you write macros in Groovy
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Oliver Widder JavaPosse World Tour Poster
- Chet Haase appears in the latest SDN tv episode talking about the new book Filthy Rich Clients
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The San Diego JUG has a special appearance by James Gosling on August 8th
- If you have ever been interested in getting your own JSR
through the JCP, you might be interested in a new series on the JCP
site that explains each part of the process in detail. Part 3 in the
series has just been published, which explains the draft review process
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Atlassian software have bought Cenqua
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An eclipse RCP training world tour? Well, the USA and Europe anyway
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Registration is now open for the eclipse summit Europe
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A new JSF user group has been formed in Zürich, Switzerland and Ed Burns was the first presenter
- MyTreo.net reports that Palm has very quietly released an update to the Websphere Everyplace Java ME environment for Palm OS
- Beelucid software has announced a limited release of a free
beta test version and unlimited release of a free trial version of
VBeeJava
- BEA has released a suite of WebLogic server tools for
Eclipse Europa (3.3) to help develop, deploy and debug weblogic based
applications from the new version of Eclipse
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Marc Fleury, former CEO of JBoss, has a short but interesting interview up at news.com
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Apache MyFaces has released version 1.2.0 of it's core JSF 1.2 compliant JSF components
- If you are interested in building web services with ReST,
Brian Leonard has a blog entry about how to do it easily using NetBeans
- Dozer 4.0, the new version of the Dozer bean mapping
framework, makes it easy to map properties from one bean to another for
recursive copying and other related uses
- The GPS tracker site allows you to track a cell phone using
a J2ME program running on that phone, and google maps to display the
location
Thanks
Direct download: JavaPosse136.mp3
Category: podcasts
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Sat, 9 June 2007
Newscast for June 7th 2007
Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.com
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Redhat forking Java? It's a good thing really
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Eclipse 3.3 RC3 (release candidate 3) has been released
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JSF - why hasn't it taken over the world
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Microsoft is just too busy to back up their threats
- More details on a new, small, consumer JRE to compete with Flash
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Google released Google Gears - a toolkit that allows web applications to be better threaded and also to work offline
- Mobile java app of the week - webaroo
Quick News Items
- Charles Oliver Nutter, Thomas Enebo and Ola Bini have posted the release for JRuby 1.0 based on Ruby 1.8.5.
- The JDJ has announced the contenders for the JDJ readers awards
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The Sun Developer Network has published an interview with Josh Bloch that covers many different topics
- NetBeans 5.5.1 includes a number of bug fixes and also support
for v2 of Glassfish. It also adds windows vista as a supported platform
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Java FX quick roundup - more information about the new Java FX initiative
- ReportMill - a Java FX RAD tool
- Google checkout is offering credit card transaction
processing for free until the end of 2007, and Inderjeet Singh has put
together instructions on how to use checkout from Glassfish
- Martin Odersky has released version 2.5 final of Scala, an alternative programming language that uses the JVM
- Apache Geronimo milestone 6 has passed the Java EE 5 TCK
meaning that it is now possible to deploy Java EE 5 applications to the
apache open source Java application server
- IBM has a
tutorial on using a Google Web Toolkit front end with a back end
written using the Apache Geronimo application server
- Sun has announced that they will not enforce patents on their
OpenID digital identity framework against anyone else who does not
enforce their patents on OpenID either
- Novell has released Mono 1.2.4
- PDFs of the slides are now available from the technical sessions at JavaOne 2007
- JDeveloper, OC4J (Oracle Containers for Java) and Toplink are all now available in 11g preview form
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Genuitec have released version 5.5 final of MyEclipse Enterprise Workbench
- NetBeans has a new support module for the Sun Grid Engine (also sometimes called the Sun utility grid)
- Antlr 3.0, a very popular "compiler compiler" for the Java platform, has been released by Terrence Parr
- There is now a good online map available of the whole Runescape world if you are a fan of the game
- Arun Gupta has a short getting started guide which makes it easy to get going with JRuby on Rails
- Motorola has released the RAZR 2 and MotoROKR Z6 phones, both of which use a Java on Linux platform
- Felipe Gaucho blogs about the three kinds of Java distribution
hell: Classpath hell, Jar hell and Extension hell, and how JSR 277 is
trying to fix all three
- GWT - the Google Web Toolkit - version 1.4 RC is now available
- NetBeans.org has a new plugin portal for sharing NetBeans plugin modules
- Bill Pugh has released version 1.21 of findbugs, the static analysis bug finding tool
- The oldest IDE in existence, Emacs, has just reached version 22
- Helios has released Linux for the Playstation 3
- John O'Conner adds his voice to the chorus of people proclaiming JSR 296 (The Swing Application Framework) is good
Thanks
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Libsyn.com - http://www.libsyn.com - for hosting and bandwidth
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Brice Ruth and Webprojkt.com - http://webprojkt.com - for our archives site - http://archives.javaposse.com
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Feedburner.com - http://www.feedburner.com - for feed redirect
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Kirsty Doherty, Oliver Widder and Jeff Tyson for Java Posse artwork
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Brian Ehmann - the Java Posse intern
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Craig Muth for maintaining the Java Posse Memorizable site - http://memorizable.org/Java_Posse
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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://loosebrucekerr.libsyn.com
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Closing - Juan Carlos Jimenez - In the House (Intro No. 1)
Direct download: JavaPosse125.mp3
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Sat, 12 May 2007
JavaOne BoF Special
A special from our BoF at JavaOne. Rough coverage of the news from
JavaOne (or at least the big items), plus some industry news important
enough to make it in. Mainly just having a good time and enjoying the
fact that people can talk back for once.
If you can make it, please join us for the post JavaOne analysis on
Tuesday May 15th at Verisign. You must register to join in the fun
(otherwise Verisign won't let you in), but there will be beer, pizza
and prizes including one SunSpot pack (3 sunspots) which is an awesome door prize (and about $600ish value as well). To find out more and register, please take a look at
https://sv-web-jug.dev.java.net/servlets/
NewsItemView?newsItemID=4881
Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.com
JavaOne News
- The technical sessions and labs will be up on the web in a month or so, but in the meantime you can see the keynotes online
- JavaFX - declarative scripting desktop and applet tool to compete with Flash has been announced by Sun
- JavaFX Mobile - new phone platform for next gen devices also announced by Sun
- Real Time Java (JSR 1) version 2.0 (now with real time garbage collection)
- Java App of the week - World Wind in Java (from NASA)
- Java Web App of the week - Iris - online photo browsing and editing
- Engineers without borders formation - could not yet find a direct
link, but there is a news article about it. It is a collaboration
between Sun and the UN
- Curriki - bonus Java web site of the week
- Oracle JDeveloper 11g preview available
Thanks
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Libsyn.com - http://www.libsyn.com - for hosting and bandwidth
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Brice Ruth and Webprojkt.com - http://webprojkt.com - for our archives site - http://archives.javaposse.com
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Feedburner.com - http://www.feedburner.com - for feed redirect
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Kirsty Doherty, Oliver Widder and Jeff Tyson for Java Posse artwork
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Brian Ehmann - the Java Posse intern
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Craig Muth for maintaining the Java Posse Memorizable site - http://memorizable.org/Java_Posse
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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://loosebrucekerr.libsyn.com
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Closing - Juan Carlos Jimenez - In the House (Intro No. 1)
Direct download: JavaPosse120.mp3
Category: podcasts
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Thu, 3 May 2007
Newscast and Java Desktop Roundtable
Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.com
Please remember to sign up for the May Silicon Valley JUG if you want
to come and see us there, Verisign will not allow people in unless they
are registered, so please register if you even think you might make it
(to make sure you can get in). To register, email Van Riper following
the instruction given on the announcement page. Thanks.
https://sv-web-jug.dev.java.net/servlets/
NewsItemView?newsItemID=4881
And keep an eye on the Google code blog to see what events will be
happening at the Google booth next week (yes, we are that disorganized
:-) )
http://code.google.com/
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Countdown to JavaOne almost over - Next week!
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Quicktime Java library at the heart of a serious exploit on Macs and PCs
- The Java Video and Multimedia App discussed (let's call it our Java App of the Week)
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Groovy wins the JAX 2007 innovation award
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Adobe open-sources Flex SDK
Thanks
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Libsyn.com - http://www.libsyn.com - for hosting and bandwidth
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Brice Ruth and Webprojkt.com - http://webprojkt.com - for our archives site - http://archives.javaposse.com
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Feedburner.com - http://www.feedburner.com - for feed redirect
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Kirsty Doherty, Oliver Widder and Jeff Tyson for Java Posse artwork
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Brian Ehmann - the Java Posse intern
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Craig Muth for maintaining the Java Posse Memorizable site - http://memorizable.org/Java_Posse
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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://loosebrucekerr.libsyn.com
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Closing - Juan Carlos Jimenez - In the House (Intro No. 1)
Direct download: JavaPosse118.mp3
Category: podcasts
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Wed, 6 September 2006
Newscast for September 5th 2006
Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at
http://javaposse.com
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Creator 2 update - raw performance
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Java2Script - does GWT have competition?
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Sun has posted the public review draft of JSR 270 which details the Mustang
(now Java 6) release
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Application of the week - Tycho - an asterisk VoIP voicemail and dialing
client constructed using the Eclipse RCP
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Bill Pugh of Findbugs fame (and former posse interviewee) has submitted
JSR-305 - Annotations for Software Defect Detection - into the JCP
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A Public Service Announcement: James Gosling and a movie in Atlanta this
month
Quick News Items
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DiffJ - a diff tool that understands Java
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Sun has also released the NetBeans Mobility Pack under open source using the
CDDL license
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Struts Micro Edition? Can it be true?
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IBM Developerworks has an introduction to using JPA (the Java Persistence
API) with Spring 2.0
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InfoQ has a detailed article on using the Grails framework (a Groovy based
alternative to Ruby on Rails) to access EJB 3 domain objects
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Motorola and Nokia have posted the proposed final draft of JSR-232 - Mobile
Operational Management - to the JCP
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JSR 268 - Java Authentication Service Provide Interface for Containers - has
entered the public review draft stage
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JGAP version 3.0, a Genetic Algorithms package in Java, is now available
from Sourceforce
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The Sun Developer Network has a good guide to using RESTful web services
from Java and JAX-WS
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Gavin King's SEAM, in a podcast
Thanks
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Libsyn.com - http://www.libsyn.com -
for hosting and bandwidth
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Brice Ruth and Webprojkt.com -
http://webprojkt.com - for our archives
site -
http://archives.javaposse.com
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Feedburner.com -
http://www.feedburner.com - for
feed redirect
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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 - A track written by Dick in Apple's Garageband
Direct download: JavaPosse080.mp3
Category: podcasts
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Fri, 7 October 2005
Shownotes for Java Posse
Episode 4 - Newscast for Oct 06 2005
- Google and Sun Team Up on Java
- Eclipse 3.1.1
- Netbeans 5.0 Beta Feedback
- Bruce Tate's new book, Beyond Java
- TIOBE Programming Community Index for September 2005 puts
Java on top
- Early Access of Sun Blueprints for Java EE 5
- Tomcat goes part native
- Nokia and Eclipse
- Excelsior JET 4.0 is declared Java compatible
- Splash Screen functionality added in Mustang
- Attach-on-demand feature now part of Mustang
- Google like java based search engine open sourced by
Sentensa
- Romain Guy on using Multiple IDEs
- Synthetica look and feel: http://www.javasoft.de/jsf/public/products/synthetica/screenshots
- Betwixt for XML<->Javabean mapping
- TrueZIP 2.4 library for accessing zip files easily from
Java
- What is the role of Java in Web 2.0?
- Archives for JavaCast and JavaPosse coming
- The Java Posse would like to thank
- Libsyn
for hosting and management
- Feedburner
for feed redirection and stats
- Kirsty Doherty for the Java Posse artwork
- Theme music:
- Opening - Man with a Harmonica from Once Upon a Time in
the West. (Sergio Leon spaghetti western)
- Closing - Extract from Bar Fight, from the Firefly
original TV series soundtrack: Buy
it at Foxmusic.com
Direct download: JavaPosse004.mp3
Category: podcasts
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