Newscast for January 30th 2007

Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.com

Join us for the Java Posse Roundup 2007 in Crested Butte, CO from March 6th-9th 2007
http://mindview.net/Conferences/JavaPosseRoundup

• Microsoft takes from BlueJ without attribution, then applies for patent, then retracts application
  
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/cayhorstmann/
  archive/2007/01/microsoft_copie.html
• http://www.bluej.org/mrt/?p=21
• http://listserv.acm.org/scripts/wa.exe?A2=ind0701d&
  L=sigcse-members&F=&S=&P=2285

• Mobile App of the Week - TellMe mobile
• http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/01/
  23/tellme-mobile-launches/

• Applet roundup
  
• Falling sand applet - http://chir.ag/stuff/sand/
• Enigma Applet -
  http://homepages.tesco.net/~andycarlson/
  enigma/enigma_j.html
• Visualization of terrorist attacks links - http://jamesnsears.com/applets/spies/

Quick News Items

• Google has released Testing on the Toilet to the general public
• http://googletesting.blogspot.com/

• JSR 291 has passed the public review ballot despite two no votes
• http://www.theserverside.com/news/
  thread.tss?thread_id=43961

• The Oracle Technical Network (OTN) has a new Spring extension for JDeveloper
• http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/
  jdev/htdocs/partners/addins/exchange/
  spring/spring-extension.html

• Chet Haase blogs about the upcoming book "Filthy Rich Clients" that he and Romain Guy have written which is nearing completion
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/chet/
  archive/2007/01/filthy_rich_cli.html

• The Yourkit 6.0 Java Profiler from Yourkit LLC has been released
  
• http://www.theserverside.com/news/
  thread.tss?m=c.reply&thread_id=43944#226139
• http://www.yourkit.com/download/

• Firebug reaches 1.0 final
  
• http://www.getfirebug.com/blog/
  2007/01/24/one-dot-oh/

• Initial benchmarks done on the JRuby compiler are looking promising
• http://www.javalobby.org/java/forums/t89729.html

• IBM Developerworks is running a great multi-part series on creating a web application using a combination of GWT (Google Web Toolkit), Apache Derby and Eclipse
• http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/
  opensource/library/os-ad-gwt1/
• http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/
  java/library/os-ad-gwt2/index.html

• Mainsoft has released a preview edition of it's grasshopper product version 2.0
• http://dev.mainsoft.com/Default.aspx?tabid=239
• http://blogs.zdnet.com/Burnette/?p=244

• A new site - SourceKibitzer - tracks and catalogs open source Java projects
• http://www.sourcekibitzer.org/

• ThinkFree Office - a former Applet of the week on the Java Posse, has won a computerworld award for best online office suite beating out all the usual suspects like Zoho virtual office and Google Docs and Spreadsheets
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/davidvc/
  archive/2007/01/what_java_is_be_1.html
• http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?
  command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9007884&
  pageNumber=1

• Sun has posted the second maintenance release of JSR 926 - the Java 3d API
  
• http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=926

• The Eclipse foundation has launched a new data tools platform, version 1.0
• http://www.eclipse.org/org/press-release/
  20070123_dtprelease.php

Listener Feedback

• Java2Exe - creating executables with Java
• Launch4j - cross platform - http://launch4j.sourceforge.net/
• General guide - http://www.excelsior-usa.com/articles/java-to-exe.html
• NativeJ for Windows - http://www.dobysoft.com/products/nativej/faq.html
• Thread on The Server Side - http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/
  thread.tss?thread_id=5942
• Making a Jar executable - http://www.captain.at/programming/java/
  executable-java-application.php
• Using webstart - http://www.cokeandcode.com/info/webstart-howto.html

• QCon in London
• http://www.simongbrown.com/blog/2007/01/
  08/qcon_london_gets_a_proper_software_
  development_conference.html

Thanks

• Libsyn.com - http://www.libsyn.com - for hosting and bandwidth
• Brice Ruth and Webprojkt.com - http://webprojkt.com - for our archives site - http://archives.javaposse.com
• Feedburner.com - http://www.feedburner.com - for feed redirect
• Kirsty Doherty, Oliver Widder and Jeff Tyson for Java Posse artwork
• Brian Ehmann - the Java Posse intern
• Craig Muth for maintaining the Java Posse Memorizable site - http://memorizable.org/Java_Posse
• Theme Music:
  • Opening - "Java" the parody song Copyright 1997 Broken Records and Marjorie Music Publ. (BMI), written and performed by Loose Bruce Kerr of the Dr. Demento Show and Sun Microsystems attorney. Based on the WWI popular song, "Ja-da." Ukelele style on the recording taught to Bruce by his dad. Re-produced with kind permission from "Loose" Bruce Kerr - http://loosebrucekerr.libsyn.com
  • Closing - Juan Carlos Jimenez - In the House (Intro No. 1)
    

• To contact us:
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  • Or send us email - javaposse@gmail.com

Interview with Dr. Paul King and Jon Skeet about Groovy

Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.com

Join us for the Java Posse Roundup 2007 in Crested Butte, CO from March 6th-9th 2007
http://mindview.net/Conferences/JavaPosseRoundup

Interview about the Groovy programming language with Dr Paul King and Jon Skeet. Paul is a Managing Director and Principal Consultant for ASERT, an Australian company specializing in helping its customers leverage emerging technologies, and Jon is a software engineer and inveterate technological dabbler who happens to specialize in Java and C# development. They are both contributing authors to a new book from Manning called Groovy in Action along with Dierk Koenig, Guillaume Laforge and Andrew Glover who unfortunately couldn't make it today.

• The Groovy Language home page
• http://groovy.codehaus.org/
• Community Mailing Lists
• http://groovy.codehaus.org/Mailing+Lists
• The Groovy Developer Conference #3 - Happening this week in Paris
• http://docs.codehaus.org/display/
  GroovyJSR/GroovyDevCon+3
• Grails - a Ruby on Rails inspired framework that uses Groovy
• http://grails.codehaus.org/
• The Book!
• http://www.manning.com/koenig/
• IDE Plugins:
• Eclipse - http://groovy.codehaus.org/Eclipse+Plugin
• NetBeans - http://groovy.codehaus.org/NetBeans+Plugin
• General IDE and Edit support (IDEA, JEdit, JSwat, etc.) - http://groovy.codehaus.org/IDE+Support

Blogs, etc.:

• Jon Skeet
• http://msmvps.com/blogs/jon.skeet/
• Dr. Paul King
• ASERT home page: http://www.asert.com/
• Upcoming Groovy training: http://www.asert.com/training/java/GV110.htm
• Dierk Koenig
• http://www.amazon.com/gp/blog/id/
  A368TUB0Q1IE3F/ref=cm_blog_blog/
  102-7591848-0814504
• Guillaume Laforge
• Full blog - mixed language - http://glaforge.free.fr/weblog/
• (English Only) http://glaforge.free.fr/weblog/?catid=2
• Andrew Glover (the man loves disco...)
• http://thediscoblog.com/

Thanks

• Libsyn.com - http://www.libsyn.com - for hosting and bandwidth
• Brice Ruth and Webprojkt.com - http://webprojkt.com - for our archives site - http://archives.javaposse.com
• Feedburner.com - http://www.feedburner.com - for feed redirect
• Kirsty Doherty, Oliver Widder and Jeff Tyson for Java Posse artwork
• Brian Ehmann - the Java Posse intern
• Craig Muth for maintaining the Java Posse Memorizable site - http://memorizable.org/Java_Posse
• Theme Music:
  • Opening - "Java" the parody song Copyright 1997 Broken Records and Marjorie Music Publ. (BMI), written and performed by Loose Bruce Kerr of the Dr. Demento Show and Sun Microsystems attorney. Based on the WWI popular song, "Ja-da." Ukelele style on the recording taught to Bruce by his dad. Re-produced with kind permission from "Loose" Bruce Kerr - http://www.loosebrucekerr.com
  • Closing - Juan Carlos Jimenez - In the House (Intro No. 1)
    

• To contact us:
  • Visit our homepage - http://javaposse.com
  • Post on our Google Group - http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse
  • Or send us email - javaposse@gmail.com

Here are links to the pictures and video for episode 100 of the Java Posse. Enjoy!

Pictures of the event:

http://flickr.com/photos/pte/tags/javaposse/

and

http://picasaweb.google.com/papas.caliente/JavaPosse

And the Google Video:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2674439587306362988

Newscast for January 22nd 2007

Recorded Live in front of a Studio Audience!

Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.com

Join us for the Java Posse Roundup 2007 in Crested Butte, CO from March 6th-9th 2007
http://mindview.net/Conferences/JavaPosseRoundup

• JavaOne 2007 registration is open
• http://java.sun.com/javaone/sf/registration.jsp

• iPhone won't run Java?
• http://blogs.zdnet.com/Burnette/?p=238
• http://pogue.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/01/11/
  the-ultimate-iphone-frequently-asked-questions/
• http://www.theserverside.com/news/
  thread.tss?thread_id=43850
• http://theubergeeks.net/2007/01/17/iphone-misconceptions/
• http://www.podtech.net/scobleshow/technology/
  1322/sun-microsystems-ceo-we-almost-died

• Netbeans 6.0 M6 is now out
• http://wiki.netbeans.org/wiki/view/
  NewAndNoteWorthyMilestone6
• http://www.linux-watch.com/news/
  NS6939729453.html
• NetBeans.org predictions
  
• http://www.netbeans.org/community/
  articles/prediction2007.html
• NetBeans Dream Team
  
• http://www.netbeans.org/community/
  contribute/dreamteam.html
• Infoworld award
  
• http://www.netbeans.org/community/
  articles/infoworld-award.html

• The Eclipse Foundation has joined three industry standards groups, including the JCP (Java Community Process), OMG (Object Management Group) and the OSGi alliance
• http://www.linux-watch.com/news/
  NS6467114693.html
• http://www.artima.com/forums/flat.jsp?
  forum=276&thread=191911
• The Eclipse WTP (Web Tools Project) now provides many JSR implementations including JSR 244 (JEE 5), JSR 220 (EJB3), JSR 127 (JSF) and more, and the eclipse modeling project provides implementations for OMGâ��s UML2, OCL and other specifications
• http://www.eclipse.org/org/press-release/
  20070112_industryspecs.php

• Developer.com have named their Winners of the Product of the Year 2007
• http://www.developer.com/db/
  article.php/10920_3653956_1

• Application of the Week - JDarkroom
• http://www.codealchemists.com/jdarkroom/

• Applet of the Week - Goggles - a Java Flight Sim using Google Maps data
• http://loschicas.blogspot.com/2006/09/
  google-flight-sim.html
• http://www.isoma.net/games/goggles.html?
  loc=tqtsqrqtsqstsrtsqts

• Vote for, or against, closures in Java from Neal Gafter's blog - http://gafter.blogspot.com

Quick News Items

• Terracotta has been open sourced
• http://www.terracotta.org/
• http://terracottatech.com/

• Sun has revealed a highly critical vulnerability in the JRE that could be used to elevate privileges by malicious code using the GIF Image Processing
  
• http://www.developer.com/db/
  article.php/10920_3653956_1
• http://www.computerweekly.com/Articles/2007/01/
  12/221170/exploit-code-circulates-for-suns-java.htm

• Jetbrains has released version 0.1 beta of a Ruby Plugin for IntelliJ IDEA
• http://digg.com/programming/Jetbrains_
  Releases_Ruby_Plugin_0_1_Beta_for_IntelliJ_IDEA

• Oracle's JDeveloper has added a GWT WYSIWYG environment: gDevelop
• http://www.gdevelop.com/
• http://www.oracle.com/technology/
  products/jdev/index.html

• Nominations for the Dukes Choice Award can now be made
  
• http://java.com/en/dukeszone/dukeschoice.jsp

• The Java 4k Game Programming Contest is on again
• http://javaunlimited.net/games/java4k_2007.php

• Sun has released what they are calling a "preliminary" version of the Fortress interpreter.
  
• http://fortress.sunsource.net/
• http://www.theserverside.com/
  news/thread.tss?thread_id=43842

• Peter von der Ahé has set up a new java.net project called the Kitchen Sink project
  
• http://www.artima.com/forums/flat.jsp?
  forum=276&thread=191274

• The session schedule for the US Server Side Java Symposium 2007 has been finalized, and it and the symposium community wiki are now available online
• http://www.theserverside.com/news/
  thread.tss?thread_id=43792
• http://javasymposium.techtarget.com/
  lasvegas/eventataglance.html
• http://wiki.javasymposium.com/display/
  TSSJS/Home

• Roberto Chinnici blogs that the Phobos Plugins for Netbeans are now available
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/robc/archive/
  2007/01/phobos_plugins.html
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/robc/archive/
  2006/11/phobos_and_netb.html

• Apple has released Java for Mac OS X 10.4, Release 5 Developer Preview 2 on the Apple Developer Connection
• http://www.cafeaulait.org/#January_13_2007_41445

• Sun has posted an early draft of JSR 271 - MIDP 3
• http://jcp.org/aboutJava/communityprocess/
  edr/jsr271/index.html

• Sun has released version 1.0 of looking glass - the Java based 3d user interface
• http://news.com.com/2061-10808_3-6146300.html
• http://www.blog.arun-prabha.com/2006/12/29/
  review-of-project-looking-glass-on-ubuntu/
• http://www.blog.arun-prabha.com/2006/12/22/
  looking-glass-for-ubuntu/

Special Thanks

Robert Healy - honorary Posse roadie for episode 100, for making the recording of this live event sound, and look, spectacular.

Thanks

• Libsyn.com - http://www.libsyn.com - for hosting and bandwidth
• Brice Ruth and Webprojkt.com - http://webprojkt.com - for our archives site - http://archives.javaposse.com
• Feedburner.com - http://www.feedburner.com - for feed redirect
• Kirsty Doherty, Oliver Widder and Jeff Tyson for Java Posse artwork
• Brian Ehmann - the Java Posse intern
• Craig Muth for maintaining the Java Posse Memorizable site - http://memorizable.org/Java_Posse
• Theme Music:
  • Opening - "Java" the parody song Copyright 1997 Broken Records and Marjorie Music Publ. (BMI), written and performed by Loose Bruce Kerr of the Dr. Demento Show and Sun Microsystems attorney. Based on the WWI popular song, "Ja-da." Ukelele style on the recording taught to Bruce by his dad. Re-produced with kind permission from "Loose" Bruce Kerr - http://www.loosebrucekerr.com
  • Closing - Juan Carlos Jimenez - In the House (Intro No. 1)
    

• To contact us:
  • Visit our homepage - http://javaposse.com
  • Post on our Google Group - http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse
  • Or send us email - javaposse@gmail.com

Thanks

• Libsyn.com - http://www.libsyn.com - for hosting and bandwidth
• Brice Ruth and Webprojkt.com - http://webprojkt.com - for our archives site - http://archives.javaposse.com
• Feedburner.com - http://www.feedburner.com - for feed redirect
• Kirsty Doherty 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
    

• To contact us:
  • Visit our homepage - http://javaposse.com
  • Post on our Google Group - http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse
  • Or send us email - javaposse@gmail.com