Newscast for June 28th 2007

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• Java 6 on Mac OS X Leopard (10.5) - It's alive!
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/robogeek/archive/
  2007/06/java_on_os_x_it.html
• http://www.damnhandy.com/2007/06/13/
  java-on-mac-os-x-leopard-to-be-64-bit-resolution-independent/

• Eclipse Europa has been released by the Eclipse foundation
• http://www.eclipse.org/org/press-release/
  20070627_europarelease.php

• Simon Morris has an interesting opinion piece up on Java.net about the future of Rich Internet Applications
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/javakiddy/
  archive/2007/06/a_rose_by_any_o.html

• In the gossip section this week, is Sun being immoral by "Tying" Java to NetBeans, come to that, is it even really tying Java to NetBeans?
• http://searchwebservices.techtarget.com/
  originalContent/0,289142,sid26_gci1255657,00.html
• By way of a counterpoint, Colm Smyth takes exception to the statements in a blog posting called "No good deed goes unpunished"
• http://colmsmyth.blogspot.com/2007/05/
  sun-and-bea-no-good-deed-goes.html

• Do you need Abject Oriented Programming?
• http://typicalprogrammer.com/
  programming/abject-oriented/
• Or perhaps asshole driven development?
  
• http://www.scottberkun.com/blog/2007/
  asshole-driven-development/

•     An almost CPU free pattern with AJAX - RAJAX
  
• http://today.java.net/pub/a/today/2007/06/21/
  almost-cpu-free-mvc-pattern-with-rajax.html

• Java website of the week - Josh and Friends - the number one dance and music community
• http://www.joshandfriends.com.au/dancemusic/
• http://blogs.sun.com/winston/entry/
  realworld_webapp_using_vwp
• http://joshuavanaalst.com/blog/blog/2007/06/10/
  josh-and-friends-a-real-world-web-application-
  developed-using-netbeans-visual-web-pack/

• Java Mobile App of the Week - Opera Mini 4 Beta
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/asj2006/
  archive/2007/06/my_ode_to_opera.html
• http://digg.com/software/Opera_Mini_4_
  beta_released_iPhone_web_for_any_Phone
• http://lifehacker.com/software/featured-mobile-download/
  get-the-fullscreen-read-iphone-browsing-experience-
  with-opera-mini-4-beta-270229.php

Quick News Items

• Sun has submitted the Servlet 3.0 specification to the JCP as JSR 315.
• http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=315
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/felipeal/
  archive/2007/06/my_suggestion_f_1.html

• The JCP award nominations for five different categories in selecting the best JSRs for the year are now open
• http://java.sys-con.com/read/377049.htm

• While not exactly Java related, Sir Tim Berners Lee has received the Order of Merit, one of the most prestigious awards in the UK
  
• http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6750395.stm

• Cay Horstmann has been delving into .NET and concludes that the grass isn't always greener on the other side
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/cayhorstmann/
  archive/2007/06/the_grass_isnt.html

• Google Developer Days session videos available on youtube.com
• http://youtube.com/results?search_query=GDD07US

• Computer Business Review Online has a Q&A with James Gosling, the Father of Java
• http://www.cbronline.com/article_news.asp?
  guid=D3E19B80-07C0-4C2C-BE8F-C468F56EA78C

• JavaBeat has a new article by Shunmuga Raja that covers the new features of Java 6 that might well be worth bookmarking
• http://www.javabeat.net/javabeat/java6/
  articles/2007/06/java-6-0-new-features-part-1/

• A new open source operating system called the Artix OS has been created on SourceForge
• http://artix.sourceforge.net/
• http://sourceforge.net/project/
  showfiles.php?group_id=196831

• Yakov Fain has made the Java Tutorial for Kids available as a free download
• http://yakovfain.javadevelopersjournal.com/
  the_java_tutorial_for_kids_is_available_for_free_download.htm

• Atlassian software has released Crowd version 1.1, with lots of new OpenID focused features
  
• http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?thread_id=45881

• Apache has released MyFaces Orchestra, which enables conversational scoping and persistence integration with JSF (which is also what Seam and the new WebBeans does). Orchestra uses Spring to achieve this important gap-filling
• http://myfaces.apache.org/orchestra/index.html

• Stanford has bought the first Project Blackbox, Sun's ready-to-go super computer in a shipping container
• http://slashdot.org/articles/07/06/23/1245229.shtml

• Egil Sorensen, a student at NTNU in Trondheim, has added replication and hot fail-over to the JavaDB pure java relational database
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/davidvc/
  archive/2007/06/replication_in.html

• At least some of the multimedia and supporting information is now available for technical sessions and hands on labs from JavaOne 2007
• http://digg.com/software/JavaOne_Sessions_
  and_Hands_On_Labs_available_online

• Howard Lewis Ship and the tapestry team have released Tapestry 4.1.2 and OGNL (Object Graph Notation Language) 2.7
• http://www.theserverside.com/news/
  thread.tss?thread_id=45954

• Sun has renamed the JAX-WS + Project Tango combination to Project Metro
• http://www.theserverside.com/news/
  thread.tss?thread_id=45864

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• 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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