Newscast for March 27th 2007

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• Nimbus - new slick look and feel for Java
• https://nimbus.dev.java.net/
• http://www.curious-creature.org/2007/03/13/
  nimbus-source-code-and-demo/

• Researchers at Oxford University have created an x86 emulator in Java
• http://www.physics.ox.ac.uk/jpc/
• http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?
  sid=07/03/24/1840256&from=rss

• Hibernate gets Sharding, plus new Searching and Validation functionality
• http://www.theserverside.com/news/
  thread.tss?thread_id=44735
• http://www.cbronline.com/article_news.asp?
  guid=CF519896-BA9F-41B3-8EF2-16733E4D53DD

• The Serverside Java symposium took place last week in Las Vegas
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/edort/archive/
  2007/03/notes_from_thes.html
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/edort/archive/
  2007/03/tool_you_cant_l.html
• https://jazz.net/pub/index.jsp
• http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?
  thread_id=44750

• http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?
  thread_id=44756

• http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?
  thread_id=44758

• http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?
  thread_id=44764

• Java (or rather Scala!) Library of the Week - Liftweb - like Rails for Scala
• http://code.google.com/p/liftweb/
• http://liftweb.net/

• Mobile app of the week - Telenav Navigator - Reviewed by Jackie
  
• http://www.telenav.com/

• Book recommendation: Java Generics and Collections by Maurice Naftalin and Philip Wadler - published by O'Reilly and Associates
• http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/javagenerics/

Quick News Items

• Registration for Glassfish Day 2007 is now open
  
• http://developers.sun.com/events/communityone/
• http://blogs.sun.com/theaquarium/
  entry/glassfish_day_registration_is_now
  

• The future of glassfish - v3
• http://blogs.sun.com/theaquarium/
  entry/first_glassfish_v3_screencast

• Phobos roundup
• http://blogs.sun.com/theaquarium/
  entry/new_phobos_blog
• https://phobos.dev.java.net/about.html
• http://phobosblog.zakula.com/
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/robc/archive/
  2007/03/using_phobos_wi.html

• Does the glassfish project validate Jonathan Schwartz's new Open Source to drive Volume strategy as a good direction for Sun Microsystems?
• http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=976
• http://blogs.sun.com/theaquarium/
  entry/glassfish_and_netbeans_google_trends
• http://blogs.sun.com/woodjr/entry/
  sun_related_trends

• John Backus - the leader of the IBM team that created Fortran, the first widely used, higher level computer programming language, has died at the age of 82
• http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/19/obituaries/ 
  20cnd-backus.html?ex=1332043200&en=
  adde3ee5a1875330&ei=5124&partner=digg&exprod=digg

• Geertjan blogs about his new Groovy editor for NetBeans IDE
  
• http://blogs.sun.com/geertjan/entry/
  we_ve_got_a_groovy
• http://groovy.codehaus.org/Eclipse+Plugin
• http://groovy.codehaus.org/Debugging+with+JSwat

• A new java.net project for running GWT in NetBeans has been started by Thomas Szlota and Tomas Zezula
• https://gwt4nb.dev.java.net/

• The 2007 Jolt award winners have been announced
• http://www.joltawards.com/2007/

• Chet Haase and Romain Guy's new book "Filthy Rich Clients" is now available for pre-order on Amazon.com
  
• http://www.amazon.com/Filthy-Rich-Clients-
  Developing-Applications/dp/0132413930/
  ref=sr_1_1/102-9232409-6211363?ie=UTF8&
  s=books&qid=1174585147&sr=8-1

• Lukas Hasik has a set of new movies demonstrating the new SVG features in the NetBeans Mobility pack
• http://blogs.sun.com/lukas/entry/
  videos_of_svg_support_in

• Google has released a new Picasa Web Albums API based on its GData APIs to allow access and upload to the picture data through the GData feeds
  
• http://code.google.com/apis/
  picasaweb/overview.html

• Microsoft has given in to EU pressure and has opened up many of its file formats and protocols rather than face further fines
  
• http://politics.slashdot.org/article.pl?
  sid=07/03/21/0126206&from=rss
• http://reddevnews.com/news/devnews/
  article.aspx?editorialsid=192

• Michael Urban over at Javalobby blogs about the new GTK look and feel for Java on linux
• http://www.javalobby.org/java/forums/t91191.html

• Not Java related, but very interesting, The register notes that new Biometric Passports in the UK with embedded RFID chips are able to be cloned en masse without even opening the envelope they are in
• http://www.theregister.com/2007/03/06/
  daily_mail_passport_clone/

Listener Feedback

Annotation

• http://docs.google.com/View?docid=dz384d8_18ckbtn4

Accessing Java through Perl

• http://articles.techrepublic.com.com/
  5100-3513-6161340.html
• http://search.cpan.org/~patl/
  Inline-Java-0.51/Java.pod
• http://search.cpan.org/~rusekd/Java-Import-0.03/
  lib/Java/Import.pm
• http://search.cpan.org/~philcrow/
  Java-Swing-0.12/Swing.pm

Payments by Mobile Phone

• https://www.luup.com/home/user/gb.aspx

New Version of the Eclipse Scala Plugin

• http://www.scala-lang.org/downloads/eclipse/index.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)
    

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Roundup 2007 Session - Forking Open Source Java

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This is one of a series of sessions recorded at the Java Posse Roundup conference, 2007. Audio in this series was recorded using a simple mic setup to record the whole room, so quality may not be as high as a normal "studio" recording. The sessions are being released in no particular order. While pains have been taken to remove any inappropriate material, there is a chance that some may have been missed, however this should not be common.

Links of interest for this session:

• James Gosling's Transcendental Meditations
• http://blogs.sun.com/jag/entry/
  transcendental_meditation
• http://blogs.sun.com/jag/entry/
  transcendental_two
• The other side of the story - a thread on Java.net
• http://forums.java.net/jive/thread.jspa?
  messageID=31848&tstart=0
• The Kitchen Sink Project on Java.net
• https://ksl.dev.java.net/
• Cleaning up the old deprecated method calls
• http://blogs.sun.com/ahe/
  entry/java_se_7_wish_list

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)
    

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Newscast for March 20th 2007

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• Java Posse roundup 2007
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/joshy/archive/
  2007/03/posse_brain_dum.html
• http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse/
  msg/1978f7e0ebb4257b
• http://groups.google.com/group/posse-roundup-07/
  web/blog-entries-about-the-roundup
• And Josh Marinacci has a detailed blog about his impressions of the roundup as well
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/joshy/archive/
  2007/03/back_from_the_j.html
• JavaOne 2007
  
• http://java.sun.com/javaone/sf/sessions.jsp
• http://www.cplan.com/javaone2007/contentcatalog
• http://java.sun.com/javaone/sf/pdfs/
  AdvanceConferenceGuide_Java.pdf
• Desktop matters and EclipseCon
  
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/chet/archive/
  2007/03/desktop_really.html
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/kirillcool/archive/
  2007/03/desktop_matters.html
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/eitan/archive/
  2007/03/desktop_matters.html
• http://www.eclipse.org/org/press-release/
  20070306eclipsecommunity.php
• http://www.eclipsecon.org/2007/
• http://www.eclipsecon.org/2007/index.php?
  page=sub/&id=all

• Guice - a new dependency injection (DI) framework has been release by "Crazy" Bob Lee from Google
• http://digg.com/programming/Guice_User_s_Guide
• http://www.theserverside.com/news/
  thread.tss?thread_id=44593

• IDE Roundup
• First up - the JBoss IDE gets a new name - Red Hat Developer Studio
• http://www.methegeek.com/?p=21
• http://jboss.com/partners/exadel#announcing
• The serverside has an interview with Erich Gamma about Eclipse and the new Jazz collaboration project
  
• http://www.theserverside.com/tt/talks/videos/
  ErichGammaText/interview.tss
• http://javasymposium.techtarget.com/lasvegas/
  sessions.html#EGammaKeynote
• More activity surrounding Netbeans this week:
• http://wiki.netbeans.org/wiki/view/Ruby
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/bleonard/
  archive/2007/03/instant_rails_w.html
• http://www.netbeans.org/download/flash/
  netbeans_6_gui_builder/netbeans_6_gui_builder.html
• http://docs.codehaus.org/display/JRUBY/
  2007/03/05/JRuby+0.9.8+Released

• Daylights savings bug affects Java, perhaps more than expected
• http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/hubs/dst/
• http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/
  03/09/java_time_bug/

• Brian Goetz says that people should stop trying to early-optimize the code - just write it and trust the JVM
• http://java.sun.com/developer/technicalArticles/
  Interviews/goetz_qa.html
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/hiheiss/archive/
  2007/03/why_writing_dum.html

• And a quick Google roundup
• Google REST describe and Google REST compile
• http://blog.tomayac.de/index.php?date=
  2007-03-12&time=17:11:27&perma=
  Automatic+Multi+Lang.html
• https://wadl.dev.java.net/
• Also - rumors are rampant that there is a Google phone coming
  
• http://news.com.com/2061-10812_3-6164427.html
• http://www.unstrung.com/document.asp?doc_id=119718
• http://www.unstrung.com/document.asp?doc_id=118896

• Java Applet of the week - actually an applet site of the week - JHLabs
• http://www.jhlabs.com/index.html

• Java Application of the week - AB5k
• http://www.ab5k.org/
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/joshy/archive/
  2007/03/ab5k_our_all_ja.html
• http://desklets-news.blogspot.com/

Quick News Items

• Comparing Java and Scala with side by side examples
• http://blogs.sun.com/sundararajan/entry/
  scala_for_java_programmers

• No Fluff Just Stuff comes to South Florida
• http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse/
  msg/be08741d37a0ee41
• http://www.nofluffjuststuff.com/
  show_view.jsp?showId=98

• Adobe has released Apollo - their new Flash based technology for creating desktop applications
  
• http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=
  07/03/19/1832212&from=rss
• http://p2pnet.net/story/11686
• http://ajaxian.com/archives/
  adobe-apollo-alpha-release

• CNet news.com has a new interview with James Gosling where he talks about his vision for where Java should go next
• http://news.com.com/Gosling+looks+down+
  Suns+open+road/2008-7344_3-6168505.html?
  tag=nefd.lede

• Arun Gupta blogs that Sun has introduced its Web Developer Pack
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/arungupta/
  archive/2007/03/introducing_sun.html

• Glassfish goes on the road
  
• http://blogs.sun.com/theaquarium/
  entry/the_road_to_glassfish_day

• Oracle has released its Toplink product as open source into the eclipse foundation community and is increasing its involvement within that community
• http://www.theserverside.com/news/
  thread.tss?thread_id=44564
• http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?
  CID=29902

• Tikal Eclipse offers an open source Eclipse based distro with easy installation and pre-packaged with plugins for Java, J2EE, C/C++, Perl, PHP and Python
• http://www.theserverside.com/news/
  thread.tss?thread_id=44545

• Bill Venners invites you to tell him what sucks about Java
• http://www.artima.com/forums/flat.jsp?
  forum=106&thread=194961

• Cenqua have released a public beta of Crucible, a team code review application
• http://www.cenqua.com/crucible/

• And finally, if your Java apps don't look "Maccy" enough on your Mac, you might want to check out Quaqua
• http://www.randelshofer.ch/quaqua/
  download.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:

• Visit our homepage - http://javaposse.com
• Post on our Google Group - http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse

Just a quick note to say that all of the sessions were recorded from the Roundup and will be released soon as podcasts. I am still working through the details of how to release them (bandwidth being the major consideration, and also not saturating the regular podcast channel - it is likely there will be a second channel just for the roundup sessions). Links and notes will accompany the episodes.

The quality is perfectly audible for the sessions but will not be as good as regular Posse episodes - rather than encumber people with microphones and speaking orders, the recorders were just placed in the middle of the room to pick up whatever was said (plus some ambient noise).

Anyway - rest assured that every session we recorded will go out as a podcast and we have no interest in holding them back. Any delay will be due to a combination of available bandwidth and my time in processing the audio to enhance the quality as much as possible.

Thanks

Dick