Java Posse Episode 71

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• Open Sourcing Java will be an incremental process
  • http://www.infoworld.com/article/06/07/17/HNjavaopen_1.html
  • http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?
    command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9001909
  • http://www.javalobby.org/java/forums/t76404.html

• Is apple dropping it's Java Cocoa support?
  
  • http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Cocoa/
    Conceptual/LanguageIntegration/index.html
  • http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?
    thread_id=35113

• Netbeans 5.5 Beta 2 now available
  • http://www.netbeans.org/community/releases/55/index.html
  • http://www.artima.com/forums/flat.jsp?
    forum=276&thread=169281

• On a related note, the server side has an article comparing performance of Java running on the new Macbooks and Macbook Pros which show the new Mac hardware in a good light
  • http://www.theserverside.com/tt/articles/article.tss?l=JavaMac

• We mentioned that the SwingX-WS project (Swing Labs Web Service Components) was about to be launched in last weeks podcast, well this is now official
  • https://swingx-ws.dev.java.net/

• Chris Campbell at Sun blogs about a number of recent improvements in the Mustang rendering pipeline
  
  • http://weblogs.java.net/blog/campbell/archive/
    2006/07/five_more_easy.html
  • http://download.java.net/jdk6/binaries/

• Chris Adamson describes the Top 10 highest voted bugs in Sun's bug parade - and for a number of them he hopes Sun will not listen to the voters...
  • http://www.oreillynet.com/onjava/blog/2006/07/
    touring_the_top_10_rfes.html

• Visual GWT GUI Builder from VistaFei
  • Product Page: http://www.wirelexsoft.com/VistaFei.html
  • Forum Download: http://www.wirelexsoft.com/wforum/viewtopic.php?t=48

• Application of the week - BlueMarine from Tidalwave
  • http://bluemarine.tidalwave.it
  • http://www.tidalwave.it/infoglueCMS/digitalAssets/
    975_GeoTagging_with_Maps.jpg

Quick News Items

• Fiorano software has added .NET support to it's ESB product, making it the first commercial vendor to support C, C++, Java and all of the .NET languages (including C# and VB.NET) in its ESB (Enterprise Service Bus)
  
  • http://java.sys-con.com/read/250075.htm
  • http://www.fiorano.com/products/platform_independence.htm

• Terracotta have stepped up to offer support for Apache Geronimo 1.1
  
  • http://terracottatech.com/about_us.shtml
  • http://www.virtuas.com/PR071806.html
  • http://geronimo.apache.org/

• Interested in EJB 3.0? How about a free book?
  • http://www.theserverside.com/tt/books/wiley/
    masteringEJB3/index.tss

• Cedric Beust has released version 5.0 of TestNG
  • http://testng.org/doc/

• Free - AJAX programming with Passion 10 week online course
  • http://www.javapassion.com/ajaxcodecamp/?feed=RSS

• The Java Blueprints solutions catalog has been updated with new information on using AJAX with JSF and new examples of the Java Persistence API
  • http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/basler?
    entry=a_new_version_of_the

• ICESoft has released Enterprise Edition 1.0 of ICEFaces, a JSF implementation that uses AJAX heavily to deliver rich JSF UI capability
  • http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?
    thread_id=41399

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• Kirsty Doherty for Java Posse artwork
• Nick Trefz, the voice of TopCoder, for the voiceovers
• Brian Ehmann - the Java Posse intern
  
• 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://www.loosebrucekerr.com
  • Closing - A track written by Dick in Apple's Garageband
    

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