Newscast for Feb 6th 2009

• Java EE 6 (JSR 316) has entered the public review draft phase
• http://blogs.sun.com/theaquarium/entry/java_ee_6_public_review
• http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=316
• http://in.relation.to/Bloggers/RevisedPublicDraftOfJSR299JavaContextsAndDependencyInjection
• http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=299
• http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id-311
• http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=303
• http://www.theserverside.com/tt/articles/article.tss?l=JavaEE6Overview
• http://blogs.sun.com/kchung/entry/jsr_245_mr_part_i
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/cayhorstmann/archive/2009/02/towards_java_ee.html
  

• Project Coin
  
• http://blogs.sun.com/darcy/entry/project_coin

• Sun layoffs, will it affect the Java strategies (particularly open source?)
• http://www.cafeaulait.org/#January_27_2009_67192
• http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=3318
• http://blogs.sun.com/jonathan/entry/understanding_sun_s_business_q1

• Eclipse 3.5 M 5 (Galileo) has been released
• http://www.cafeaulait.org/#February_4_2009_18479

• Java Mobile application of the week, kind of: Google mobile search-by-voice for Android
  
• http://lifehacker.com/5145630/google-mobile-search+by+voice-comes-to-android
  

• Java Project of the week - Java Closures for Eclipse
• http://code.google.com/p/lambda4jdt/

• Java project of the week bonus edition: Swing 2.0
• http://www.jogiles.co.nz/blog/?p=207

Quick News

• Java 6 U 12 is now out, and with it comes the 64 bit Java plugin
• http://blogs.sun.com/theplanetarium/entry/upgrade_to_java_se_6u12
• http://www.dailytech.com/Sun+Releases+64bit+Java+PlugIn/article14121.htm

• eWeek's Chief technology analyst, Jim Rapoza, has been trying out Java FX and has given it a pretty glowing review
• http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Application-Development/Sun-Muscles-into-RIA-Space-with-JavaFX/1/

• The dates for the 2009 Devoxx conference in Belgium have been announced
• http://www.devoxx.com/display/JV08/Home

• And, the first of the devoxx talks from the 2008 conference have started to appear on Parleys.com
• http://www.parleys.com

• NetBeans.org is electing a new NetBeans governance board
• http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/NewsItemView?newsItemID=1335

• Oracle has submitted JSR 329 - Portlet 2.0 Bridge for JavaServer Faces 1.2
• http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=329

• Jesse Wilson and James Lemieux have release version 1.8.0 of Glazed Lists
• https://glazedlists.dev.java.net/

• Glassfish v2.1 has been released
• https://glassfish.dev.java.net/public/downloadsindex.html

• QCon London, coming up in March just after the Java Posse Roundup 2009
• http://qconlondon.com/london-2009/schedule/wednesday.jsp

• Dick did a talk at the University of Kent (of which he is an Alumnus) about software engineering
• http://www.cs.kent.ac.uk/coe/

• The Apache Jakarta project has released Cactus 1.8.1
  
• http://jakarta.apache.org/cactus/index.html

• Jetty may be moving to Eclipse
• http://eclipse.dzone.com/news/jetty-eclipse

• The JCP has announced a special election to fill a vacated seat on the mobile edition JCP executive committee
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/editors/archives/2009/02/start_now.html

• JetBrains has release IntelliJ IDEA 8.0.1
• http://www.jetbrains.com/idea/features/release_notes801.html

• A boost in the grizzly community in January resulted in enough submissions and improvements for a Grizzly community release, 1.9.5
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/jfarcand/archive/2009/02/grizzly_communi.html

• Registration is open for SpringOne Europe 2009, which will be held in Amsterdam from April 27th to 29th
• https://secure.trifork.com/europe-2009/registration/

• Google has released the final version of the JSR 284 - Resource Consumption Management API spec
• http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=284

• Oracle has an Oracle Technology Network Developer Day in New York on Feb 23rd at the New Yorker hotel
• http://www.oracle.com/webapps/events/EventsDetail.jsp?p_eventId=90027&src=6635701&src=6635701&Act=127

• Adobe has opted to publish the Real-Time Messaging Protocol (RTMP) specification
• http://www.infoq.com/news/2009/01/rtmp-to-open

• JBoss has announced RESTeasy GA, a fully certified open source JAX-RS implementation
• http://www.jboss.org/resteasy/

• DevNexus 2009 will be held on March 10th and 11th at the Cobb Galleria center in Atlanta, GA
  
• http://www.devnexus.com/

• JavaFX mobile
• http://steveonjava.com/2009/01/22/widgetfx-m3dd-conference/

Roundup 08 - Scala in the Enterprise

• Scala Language
• http://www.scala-lang.org/
• Function composition
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Function_composition
• Software Transactional Memory in Scala
• http://www.codecommit.com/blog/scala/software-transactional-memory-in-scala
• Dependency Injection in Scala
• http://www.artima.com/forums/flat.jsp?forum=270&thread=240193
• http://jonasboner.com/2008/10/06/real-world-scala-dependency-injection-di/
• Lift Web Framework for Scala
• http://liftweb.net/index.php/Main_Page
• Scala IDE support
• http://www.scala-lang.org/node/91#ide_plugins
• Combinators for Contracts
• http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/1283
• DSLs in Scala
• http://camel.apache.org/scala-dsl.html
• http://www.artima.com/forums/flat.jsp?forum=270&thread=231515
• Actors in Scala
• http://www.scala-lang.org/node/242
• http://lamp.epfl.ch/~phaller/actors.html
• Cay Horstmann's Scala lectures
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/cayhorstmann/archive/2008/09/teaching_progra_1.html
• Scala Traits
• http://www.scala-lang.org/node/126
• Web Beans Stereotypes
• http://docs.jboss.org/webbeans/spec/PDR/html/componentmodel.html
• Guice in Scala
• http://snippets.dzone.com/posts/show/5853
• Lift and JPA
• http://liftweb.net/index.php/Lift_and_JPA_%28javax.persistence%29#JPA_Objects_and_config
• Scala, Actors and Terracotta
• http://jonasboner.com/2008/01/25/clustering-scala-actors-with-terracotta/
• Properties in Scala
• http://www.codecommit.com/blog/scala/scala-for-java-refugees-part-2
• http://opencomponent.blogspot.com/2008/05/get-smart-with-properties-in-scala.html
• XMonad
• http://xmonad.org/
• The ScalaX Community Library
• http://scalax.scalaforge.org/
• GData Scala Libraries
• http://code.google.com/p/gdata-scala-client/
• Scala by Example
• http://www.scala-lang.org/docu/files/ScalaByExample.pdf
• Programming in Scala book
  
• http://www.artima.com/shop/programming_in_scala
• Programming Scala book
• http://pragprog.com/titles/vsscala/programming-scala
• Ted Neward Scala articles
• http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/java/library/j-scala01228.html
• F# for .NET
• http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/cambridge/projects/fsharp/default.aspx
• Smalltalk
• http://www.smalltalk.org/main/

Newscast for January 22nd 2009

• Details on Project Jigsaw, or is this simply out of data information? Plus, Eclipse plans for OSGi
  
• http://www.javabeat.net/articles/101-introduction-to-java-module-system-in-java-70-1.html
• http://eclipse.dzone.com/articles/plans-2009
• http://eclipse.dzone.com/articles/meet-refcard-author-equinox-wi
• http://refcardz.dzone.com/refcardz/equinox?oid=ban00027-0

• Mobile Java app of the week - Skype Lite
• http://smarttouchphones.com/smartphones/t-mobile-g1/
  t-mobile-g1-apps/skype-lite-app-t-mobile-g1-android-cell-phones/
• http://skype.com/mobile/#panelPreset2

• Java app of the week - GTD Free
• http://gtd-free.sourceforge.net/

Quick News

• Sun Tech Days 2009 has announced that the conference will stop in Hyderabad from Feb 18th to 20th 2009 at the HICC
• http://www.sercononline.com/suntechdays09/index.htm

• Chris Adamson reports from Codemash, a user organized developer conference held in central Ohio
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/editors/archives/2009/01/rockstar.html

• Peaberry 1.0 RC2 is out
• http://code.google.com/p/peaberry/
• http://code.google.com/p/peaberry/wiki/UserGuide

• Party time is a new grails platform that simplifies the creation of social networking applications in the groovy based web framework
• http://code.google.com/p/party-time/

• GridGain 2.1 has been released
• http://www.gridgain.com/

• QCon London 2009 has been announced
• http://qconlondon.com/london-2009/conference/

• The Apache project has announced commons digester 2.0, a library to convert XML objects into Java
• http://www.linuxpromagazine.com/online/news/
  xml_fodder_for_java_objects_with_commons_digester_2_0

• Palm unveiled the soon to be released palm pre
• http://www.mobiletopsoft.com/board/4316/
  full-specs-of-the-new-palm-pre-smartphone-based-on-webos.html
• http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/palm-pre-belle-ball-linux-her-arm
• http://www.slashgear.com/palm-announces-webos-mojo-sdk-1230062/

• Amy Fowler has a blog entry all about layouts in Java FX
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/aim/archive/2009/01/layout_primer_f.html

• The mono project has found a way around the no VM's rule on the iPhone to allow C# developed applications to run on Apple's phone
• http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20090108-
  open-source-mono-framework-brings-c-to-iphone-and-wii.html

• The cloudtools project is a new google code hosted project that provides tools for deploying, managing and testing applications on Amazon's EC2
• http://code.google.com/p/cloudtools/
• http://hostedftp.wordpress.com/2009/01/10/
  google-code-cloudtools-for-deploying-java-applications-on-amazon-ec2/
• And Sun Microsystems has acquired Q-layer
• http://www.sun.com/aboutsun/pr/2009-01/sunflash.20090107.1.xml

• Twitter's Project Kestrel has replaced a Ruby queue implementation with a much faster Scala implementation
• http://robey.livejournal.com/53832.html
• http://github.com/robey/kestrel/tree/master

• Version 0.15.1 of the NetBeans Scala plugin has been released
• http://blogtrader.net/page/dcaoyuan/entry/scala_plugin_0_15_1

• David Herron blogs about Java 6, Java 6 U 10, OpenJDK and Java 7
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/robogeek/archive/2009/01/it_will_be_open.html

• VisualVM 1.1 has been released
• http://blogs.sun.com/nbprofiler/entry/visualvm_1_1_released

• The first australian Android phone has been delayed indefinitely, just a few days before it was due to be released
• http://www.news.com.au/technology/story/0,28348,24920806-5014239,00.html

• David Pollak has announced Lift 0.10, a new version of the Scala web framework
• http://scala-blogs.org/2009/01/folks-after-many-months-of-breaking.html
• http://liftweb.net/index.php/Main_Page

• The second part of Elliotte Rusty Harold's look at the new Math features of Java 5 and 6 has been published at IBM's developer works
• http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/java/library/j-math2.html

• JSR 314 (JSF 2.0), JSR 315 (Servlet 3.0) and JSR 322 (JCA 1.6) have all been approved by the JCP
  
• http://blogs.sun.com/theaquarium/entry/public_review_drafts_of_jsf

• Arun Gupta has an example of how to embed EJBs into WAR (Web Archive) files using Glassfish v3
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/arungupta/archive/2009/01/ejbs_in_a_war_s.html

• JavaGround has announced that it's XPress suite will include the ability to natively compile Java applications to target the iPhone
• http://www.javaground.com/solution.html
• http://www.developmag.com/news/31128/Javaground-releases-Java-to-iPhone-converter

• Jim Driscoll blogs that the JSF 2.0 Public Review is now out
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/driscoll/archive/2009/01/jsf_20_pr_relea.html
• https://javaserverfaces.dev.java.net/

• Japplis has released the Japplis web site optimizer version 1.0
• http://website-optimizer.japplis.com/

• NetBeans cleaned up in the 2009 Developer.com product awards
• http://www.developer.com/java/other/article.php/3795991

• JOpt 3.0 has been released by Paul R. Holser
  
• http://jopt-simple.sourceforge.net/

• The Aerith NetBeans project has now split out several components from the demo and packaged them for your own use in NetBeans
• http://code.google.com/p/aerithnetbeans/

• Transmorph 1.0.0 has been released
• http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?thread_id=53146
• http://transmorph.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Main_Page

• The ServerSide Java Symposium has announced it's own economic stimulus package by extending its early bird pricing for the 2009 conference until the end of January
• http://javasymposium.techtarget.com/index.html?Offer=JStsspost119

• JUG-USA aims to bring all Java User Groups across the USA together to share tips, resources, even speakers
  
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/van_riper/archive/2009/01/jugusa_the_whol.html

Listener Feedback

• JSR-303 Bean Validation corrections
• http://in.relation.to/Bloggers/BeanValidationJSR303PublicDraftGiveUsFeedback
• http://forum.hibernate.org/viewforum.php?f=26

• Blu Ray Discs using BDJ
• http://www.blueboard.com/bluray/reviews.htm
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BD-J#BD-J_Enhanced_Movie_Titles

Rich Internet Application Ecosystem

• DHTML
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic_HTML
• GWT
• http://code.google.com/webtoolkit/
• Silverlight
• http://www.microsoft.com/SILVERLIGHT/
• http://www.mono-project.com/Moonlight
• JavaFX
• http://javafx.com/
• Flex
• http://www.adobe.com/products/flex/
• OpenLaszlo
• http://www.openlaszlo.org/
• BitTorrent library for Java
  
• http://www.threerings.net/code/snark/
• Dojo
• http://dojotoolkit.org/
• Java Swing
• http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/uiswing/index.html
• JavaFX tooling
• http://java.sun.com/javafx/faqs.jsp
• JPA - Java Persistence API
  
• http://java.sun.com/javaee/overview/faq/persistence.jsp
• Harness JPA from Flex
• http://osflash.org/blog/2008_12_01_pimento_data_services_integrate_jpa/hibernate_with_flex/flash
• 
  

Newscast for January 8th 2009

• JavaBeat has a summary of the changes coming in the new version of the Java EE spec
• http://www.javabeat.net/articles/99-new-features-in-java-ee-60-1.html

• Java.net has an interesting poll - what was the biggest Java related story in 2008?
• http://java.net/pub/pq/241

• And, on the subject of Java 7, is the omission of closures a killer blow?
• http://www.infoq.com/news/2009/01/java7-updated

• Java FX Application of the Week: Widget FX
• http://widgetfx.org/
• http://code.google.com/p/widgetfx/

• Java Mobile App of the Week - Snaptu
• http://www.snaptu.com/

• Java Apps of the Week, bonus edition
• http://www.ilabz.net/?p=731

Quick News

• A new service - SVNsite
• http://www.svnsite.com/start

• DZone has updated their ref-card for NetBeans 6.5
• http://netbeans.dzone.com/announcements/updated-netbeans-java-editor-r

• Chenille Kit
  
• http://www.chenillekit.org/license.html

• Bill Pugh and the University of Maryland have released version 1.3.7 of Findbugs
• http://findbugs.sourceforge.net/

• SwingLabs Lives! and has released version 0.9.5 of SwingX
  
• http://swinglabs.org/projects.jsp

• The JSR 319 - Availability Management for Java, has been posted as a public review draft by Ericsson
  
• http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=319

• DWR has reached version 3.0 RC 1
• http://directwebremoting.org/blog/joe/2008/12/16/dwr_version_3_0_release_candidate_1.html 

• 10th Anniversary JCP party at the computer history museum in Mountain View, CA
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/van_riper/archive/2009/01/the_audacity_of_1.html
• http://svscala.ning.com/events/scala-base-meeting-8-1132009

• Sun has posted the public review draft of JSR 303 - Bean Validation
  
• http://jcp.org/aboutJava/communityprocess/pr/jsr303/index.html

• MockFtpServer 2.0 has been released
  
• http://mockftpserver.sourceforge.net/

• JFrog has released version 2.0 of Artifactory, a Maven repository manager
• http://www.jfrog.org/products.php

• Google video titled "the nuts, bolts and springs of distributed OSGi applications"
• http://eclipse.dzone.com/videos/the-nuts-bolks-and-springs-dis

• FEST is a new project offering a fluent interface for testing Swing UIs
• http://code.google.com/p/fest/

• Kirill Grouchnikov has released version 4.0 feature freeze preview of flamingo
  
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/kirillcool/archive/2008/12/_pushing_pixels.html

• Jeet Kaul, VP of Client Software for Sun Microsystems, has a useful blog Q&A up about JavaFX
• http://blogs.sun.com/meetjeet/entry/javafx_the_road_ahead

• Apache Commons Config 1.6 is out
• http://commons.apache.org/configuration/

• Jazoon has issued a call for papers for the Jazoon 2009 conference to be held from June 22nd to 25th in Zurich
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/felipegaucho/archive/2008/12/jazoon_call_for.html

• Java runs faster on Linux
  
• http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=java_vm_performance&num=1

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Holiday 2008 Special

Roundup 08 - Debugging Software Development

• Stanford Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders podcast
• http://ecorner.stanford.edu/podcasts.html
• B-Corporations
• http://ecorner.stanford.edu/authorMaterialInfo.html?mid=1907
• The Cathedral and the Bazaar
• http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/cathedral-bazaar/
• Java.net Editor's Daily Blog
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/editors/
• Idiosyncratic Credits
• http://faculty.css.edu/dswenson/web/6300-OBOD/cohesionnorms.htm
• Open Spaces Conference
  
• http://www.co-intelligence.org/P-Openspace.html

Newscast for Dec 20th 2008

• JavaFX 1.0 launched, Devoxx becomes the launch party
• http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?thread_id=52165
• http://www.weiqigao.com/blog/2008/12/04/using_javafx_1_0_on_linux.html

• The other big news from Devoxx - Java 7
• http://blogs.sun.com/darcy/entry/small_language_changes_jdk_7
• http://www.jroller.com/scolebourne/entry/java_7_small_language_changes
• http://blogs.sun.com/mr/
• http://java.dzone.com/news/jsr-310-needs-help

• In other Big News that happened while we were on the road, Google has released Native Client
• http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/12/08/Google_tests_ActiveX_alternative_1.html
• http://code.google.com/p/nativeclient/
• http://news.cnet.com/8301-1001_3-10118792-92.html?part=rss

• Java Application of the week: XMind
• http://www.xmind.net

• Java Applet of the Week: Screencast-O-Matic
  
• http://www.screencast-o-matic.com/create?step=setup
  

Quick News

• JavaOne call for papers - closes on Dec 18th
• http://blogs.sun.com/theaquarium/entry/call_for_papers_javaone_and

• The ServerSide Java Symposium
• http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?thread_id=52437

• Vita Santrucek has a quick look at the upcoming Java 6 U 12 release on his blog
• http://blogs.sun.com/vita/entry/java_se_6_update_12

• http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NjkyOQ
• https://jdk6.dev.java.net/6uNea.html

• Eric Arsenau thinks that Java on mobile phones is just the beginning
• http://research.sun.com/minds/2008-1210/

• M3DD (mobile, media and eMbedded developer days) coming up from January 21st to 22nd of January at Sun's Santa Clara campus
  
• https://developerdays.dev.java.net/nonav/overview.html
• https://lwuit.dev.java.net/servlets/ProjectProcess?tab=2
• https://developerdays.dev.java.net/nonav/agenda.html

• Jeet Kaul takes on the sticky subject of JSR 277 and OSGi on the Sun blogs
• http://blogs.sun.com/meetjeet/entry/osgi_vs_jsr_277

• Sun has release Java 6 U 11 with a number of bug fixes for the new and improved Java runtime
• http://java.sun.com/javase/downloads/index.jsp

• Spring Integration 1.0 GA has been announced at the recent SpringOne conference
• http://www.springsource.org/spring-integration

• From the whiteboards at Devoxx comes a summary blog from Stephen Colbourne
• http://www.jroller.com/scolebourne/entry/devoxx_2008_whiteboard_votes

• JBoss has release Hibernate Search 3.1 GA
• http://search.hibernate.org

• JBoss has also release JBoss AS 5.0 GA, their application server now fully supporting Java EE 5
  
• http://sacha.labourey.com/2008/12/05/as-500-we-are-done-next/

• Gradle, a new build tool that has elements of both ant and maven in its feature set, has reached version 0.5
• http://www.gradle.org/

• The Simple project has released Simple 2.0
• http://simple.sourceforge.net/

• VisualVM has now reached version 1.1
• http://eclipse.dzone.com/announcements/visualvm-11-now-available

• The first milestone of JavaRebel 2.0 is now out
• http://www.zeroturnaround.com/javarebel/
• http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?thread_id=52436

• A new web framework - Loom - has reached version 1.0
• http://loom.extrema-sistemas.com/

• JBrownie wraps the javac compiler to monitor and auto-compile changed Java source files on the fly
• http://www.onyxbits.de/jbrownie

• JSR 314 - JSF (JavaServer Faces) 2.0 is now in public review with the ballot scheduled between January 6th to the 12th 2009
• http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=314

• Roy van Rijn has a critical look at JSR 315 - Servlet 3.0
• http://www.theserverside.com/tt/articles/article.tss?l=PonderingAboutJSR135
• http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=315

• And another JSR in public review until January 12th is JSR 322 - Java EE Connector Architecture 1.6
• http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=322

• Stax Networks is currently running a private beta of a platform for Amazon's EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud) that allows you to write Java applications using standard APIs and tools
• http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/12/16/stax-networks-launches-google-app-engine-for-java/

• Java Simon is a simple monitoring API and has just reached version 1.0.
  
• http://code.google.com/p/javasimon/

• Adobe has release version 1.5 of AIR (the Adobe Internet Runtime) for Linux
  
• http://www.detector-pro.com/2008/12/adobe-air-15-for-linux-released.html

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    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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    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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• Michael Jackson software methodology
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_A._Jackson
  
• SOAP
• http://www.w3.org/TR/soap/
  
• Waterfall vs. Agile
• http://www.agileadvice.com/archives/2006/05/waterfall_vs_ag.html
  
• Scott Ambler talk on Parleys - Agile ....
• http://parleys.com/display/PARLEYS/Home#talk=8094029;title=Evolving%20Agile;slide=1
  
• Estimating development time
• http://discuss.fogcreek.com/joelonsoftware/default.asp?cmd=show&ixPost=12774
  
• Tesla motors
• http://www.teslamotors.com/
  
• Outsourcing for software development
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outsourcing
  
• Eclipse plugins
• http://www.eclipseplugincentral.com/ 
• http://www.eclipse-plugins.info/eclipse/index.jsp
  
• Linux
• http://www.linux.org/
  
• Properties/Events
• http://blogs.sun.com/joe/entry/java_properties_and_events
  
• Properties vs. immutability
• http://stackoverflow.com/questions/214714/mutable-vs-immutable-objects
  
• Builder pattern
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Builder_pattern
  
• Scala class constructor
• http://scala.sygneca.com/code/constructors
  
• Dependency injection
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dependency_injection 
• http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2006/01/04/dependency-injection-java-ee-5.html 
• http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?thread_id=44593 
• Groovy Beans
• http://groovy.codehaus.org/Groovy+Beans
  
• Spring
• http://www.springframework.org/
  

• WebObjects from Apple
• http://developer.apple.com/tools/webobjects/
  
• Parleys
• http://parleys.com/display/PARLEYS/Home
  
• Remi Forax properties implementation
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/forax/archive/2008/03/da_vinci_runtim.html
  
• AOP
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aspect-oriented_programming
  
• Functional programming
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Functional_programming
  
• OCAML
• http://caml.inria.fr/ocaml/
  
• Ruby freeze feature
• http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/122760
  
• Keyword vs Annotation
• http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/guide/language/annotations.html
  

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    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 November 14th 2008

• What Happened to SwingX?
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/fabriziogiudici/archive/
  2008/11/guys_dont_panic.html 
• http://forums.java.net/jive/thread.jspa?messageID=313969 
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/rbair/archive/2008/11/javafx_enterpri.html
  
• http://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=242077 
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/kirillcool/archive/2008/11/sun_setting_dow.html
  
• http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse/browse_thread/thread/
  a8f16f2aca8b5e0b/84e7d2a360f93b01?show_docid=84e7d2a360f93b01 

• JetBrains has released IntelliJ IDEA 8.0
• http://www.jetbrains.com/idea/ 
• http://www.jetbrains.com/idea/features/index.html
  

• Scala roundup
• http://www.scala-lang.org/node/348
  
• http://www.scala-lang.org/node/347 
• http://plugins.intellij.net/plugin/?id=1347 

• Sun and Google break up, big time
• http://www.tcmagazine.com/comments.php?shownews=22786 
• http://www.neowin.net/news/main/08/11/10/
  sun-to-spread-live-toolbar-via-java
  
• http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/11/10/0842255
• http://blogs.sun.com/jonathan/entry/the_value_of_distribution_java
  

• Java Project of the Week: Mobile Millenium
  
• http://traffic.berkeley.edu/ 

• Java Library of the Week: Twitter4j
• http://yusuke.homeip.net/twitter4j/en/index.html
  

Quick News

• Atlassian has released a new version of Clover, the testing and code coverage tool
• http://www.atlassian.com/software/clover/?s_kwcid=HMClover 
• http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?thread_id=51771

• The schedule for the next mobile and embedded developer days conference has been announced
  
• https://developerdays.dev.java.net/nonav/agenda.html 

• CommunityOne is adding an east coast CommunityOne to take place in New York on March 18th 2009
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/editors/archives/
  2008/11/betcha_thought.html
  

• Glassfish v3 Prelude has been released
  
• https://glassfish.dev.java.net/downloads/v3-prelude.html
  
• http://blogs.sun.com/theaquarium/entry/ejb_3_1_more_features
  
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/vivekp/archive/
  2008/11/dynamic_languag.html 

• A new version of JMaki is also available
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/carlavmott/archive/
  2008/11/jmaki_181_and_g.html
  

• Sun and IBM have teamed up to create an ODF toolkit
• http://odftoolkit.openoffice.org/ 

• MortBay Consulting has released Jetty 6.1.12
• http://www.mortbay.org/jetty/index.html 

• The latest release of soapUI has added ReST support
  
• http://www.eviware.com/
  

• OpenTrends has released OpenFrame 2.0
  
• http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?thread_id=51748 
• http://sourceforge.net/projects/openframe
  

• Quokka an alternative to Maven?
• http://quokka.ws/ 

• The JSR 299 - Web beans specification, led by Gavin King of JBoss, is currently in public review
• http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=299 

• The numbers are in for Sun's fiscal first quarter, and the news is as expected: bad
• http://www.cafeaulait.org/#November_4_2008_66764 
• OpenEco still going ahead
  
• https://www.openeco.org/ 
• http://profiles.waroengdata.com/askpc-read-222/sun-microsystem-goes-green.html

• JBoss Tools 3 Beta 1 has been released
• http://www.jboss.org/tools/
  
• http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?thread_id=51704 

• G2One Inc., the company behind groovy and grails, has been acquired by SpringSource
  
• http://www.springsource.com/g2one 

• The Roma framework has reached version 1.0.0
  
• http://www.romaframework.org/advanced_technology.htm 

• Former Java Posse mobile application of the week: Opera Mini, has reached version 4.2
  
• http://mobile.resalty.net/592/
  operamini-42-beta-best-java-internet-browser/ 

• Hyperic HQ 4.0 has been released
• http://www.hyperic.com/launch/hqe-40-launch.html 

• Aspose words for Java has a new version
• http://www.aspose.com/categories/file-format-components/
  aspose.words-for-.net-and-java/default.aspx 

• Nokia has released the completed JSR 293 - Location API 2.0
• http://jcp.org/aboutJava/communityprocess/pfd/jsr293/index.html 

• The election ballot for the Java Community Process is now open until November 17th
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/editors/archives/2008/11/move_along.html 

• ReSTlet 1.1.0 has been released
• http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?thread_id=51625 

• The Apache project has released OpenEJB 3.1
  
• http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=318 
• http://openejb.apache.org/openejb-31.html

• JPPF, a grid computing platform for Java, has release version 1.6
• http://www.jppf.org/ 

• Jython 2.5 beta "0" is now out
• http://fwierzbicki.blogspot.com/2008/10/jython-25-beta0-released.html 

• Stephen Colbourne has released JodaTime 1.6
• http://joda-time.sourceforge.net/ 

• The Java Data Pipeline has released version 2
• http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?thread_id=51654 

• The early draft review for JSR 316 - Java EE 6 - is now up at the JCP
• http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=316 

• The O'Reilly School of Technology has announced a Java certification program as an alternative to Sun's Java Certified program
• http://press.oreilly.com/pub/pr/2151 

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Roundup 08 - Don't Repeat Yourself

• Abandoned open source projects
• http://ask.slashdot.org/article.pl?
  sid=00/08/02/0039217&mode=thread
  
• SourceForge - http://sourceforge.net/
  
• Java.net - http://java.net/
  
• Google code - http://code.google.com/hosting/
  
• Code scavenging in the enterprise
• http://www.informs-sim.org/wsc02papers/099.pdf 
• http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/11
  /30/code_scavanging/
  
• Google code search
• http://www.google.com/codesearch
  
• Do it right the second time?
• http://www.amazon.com/Right-Second-
  Time-Benchmarking-Practices/dp/1563271753
  
• Larry Wall - Post Modern Programming
• http://www.wall.org/~larry/pm.html
  
• John Ousterhout on scripting and higher level programming
• http://www.tcl.tk/doc/scripting.html 
• DRY - Don't Repeat Yourself
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don%27t_repeat_yourself
  
• CPAN - Comprehensive Perl Archive Network
  
• http://www.cpan.org/ 
• Koders.com
• http://koders.com/ 
• POJO classes in Java EE 5
• http://java.sun.com/developer/technicalArticles/
  Interviews/shannon_qa.html
  
• http://www.theserverside.com/tt/articles
  /article.tss?l=BenefitsJavaEE5 
• Static typing vs testing
• http://www.mindview.net/WebLog/log-0066 
• http://osteele.com/archives/2003/08/test-versus-type 
• Findbugs static analysis
• http://findbugs.sourceforge.net/ 
• Glazed Lists
• http://publicobject.com/glazedlists/ 
• Google Collections Library
• http://code.google.com/p/google-collections/ 
• Java Dynamic Proxies
• http://unserializableone.blogspot.com/2007/08/
  make-use-of-java-dynamic-proxy.html
  
• http://www.devx.com/Java/Article/21463 
• The wall of typesafe erasure
• http://viewfromthefringe.blogspot.com/2007/11/
  wall-of-erasure.html 
• http://stuffthathappens.com/blog/2007/11/04/
  foiled-by-erasure/ 
• Java reflection API
• http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/reflect/index.html 
• http://today.java.net/pub/a/today/2008/02/12/
  reflection-in-action.html 
• Scala traits
• http://www.scala-lang.org/node/126 

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• 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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QuickNews and Feedback for November 3rd 2008

Quick News

• POI 3.1 has been released by the Apache Jakarta project
• http://poi.apache.org/index.html 

• Josh Bloch has an interview at the Sun Developer Network about his new Effective Java book
• http://java.sun.com/developer/technicalArticles/
  Interviews/bloch_effective_08_qa.html 

• PalmSource has revealed its ALP 3.0 (Access Linux Platform)
• http://www.mobiletechaddicts.com/2008/
  10/24/palm-os-alp-30-revealed/
  
• http://www.mobileburn.com/news.jsp?Id=5569
  

• A number of Eclipse demo camps are being held all over the world
• http://wiki.eclipse.org/Eclipse_DemoCamps_November_2008 

• IBM Alphaworks has released version 2.7 of HeapAnalyzer
• http://www.alphaworks.ibm.com/tech/heapanalyzer 

• Jonathan Schwartz has a video up on NetBeans.tv celebrating 10 years of NetBeans
• http://netbeans.tv/interviews/Jonathan-Schwartz-on-NetBeans-409/ 

• Another DZone refcard is available, this time covering getting started with MyEclipse
• http://refcardz.dzone.com/refcardz/myeclipse 

• The final version of MVEL 2.0 is out
  
• http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?thread_id=51495 

• The Apache Jakarta project has released Commons::Net 2.0
• http://commons.apache.org/net/changes-report.html#a2.0 

• Support for a 64 bit Java plugin for Windows and Linux 64 bit operating systems has been pledged for early 2009 in the Java 6 update 12 release
• http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=4802695 

• Ted Neward's Busy Java Developer's Guide to Scala continues with a 2 part examination of building a calculator in Scala
• http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/views/java/libraryview.jsp?
  search_by=scala 

• JBoss has released version 2.0.0 General Access of JBoss AOP (Aspect Oriented Programming)
• http://www.jboss.org/jbossaop/downloads/ 
• http://www.jboss.org/jbossaop/docs/2.0.0.GA/RELEASE_NOTES.html
  

• Seam 2.1.0 General Access has been released by JBoss
  
• http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?thread_id=51382 

• JavaWorld has a nice introduction to ReST
• http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-10-2008/
  jw-10-rest-series-1.html 
• http://www.restlet.org/
  
• http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=311 

• John Ferguson Smart has a unique response to the current economic downturn: be more productive
  
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/johnsmart/archive/
  2008/10/software_develo.html 

• ASM now has support for the InvokeDynamic byte code that John Rose recently completed a prototype for
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/forax/archive/
  2008/10/asm_and_invoked.html 
• http://asm.objectweb.org/ 

• MuleSource has release Mule 2.1 Enterprise and Mule Galaxy 1.5
• http://mulesource.com/download/#muleee
• http://mule.mulesource.org/display/MULE/Home

• The free Java Decompiler project (yes, that is the name) looks like a useful tool
• http://java.decompiler.free.fr/ 

• Java 5 and 6 - the improved math library
• http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/j-math1/
  index.html?ca=dgr-btw01JavaPart1&
  S_Tact=105AGX59&S_cmp=GRsitebtw01 

• Numiton has ported WordPress to Java
  
• http://sourceforge.net/projects/nwordpress 
• http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?thread_id=50890 

• Linux Journal has a round up of Java audio software for Linux
• http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/
  java-sound-music-software-linux-part-3 

Listener Feedback

• 408 465 4626 - Our grandcentral number

• Library Search
• http://www.springsource.com/repository/app/faq
  

• What about Traits?
• http://sebastian-bergmann.de/archives/
  822-Of-Lambda-Functions,-Closures,-and-Traits.html
  

• EasyMock and PowerMock
• http://www.powermock.org
  

• Mac Widgets for Java
• http://code.google.com/p/macwidgets/
• http://explodingpixels.wordpress.com/
  

• NetBeans 6.5 release candidate 2 is out
• http://www.netbeans.org/community/releases/65/ 
• http://wiki.netbeans.org/NewAndNoteWorthy
• http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/NewsItemView?newsItemID=1304
  

• Alex Miller over at JavaLobby has a couple of articles looking ahead to JSR 203 - NIO 2
• http://java.dzone.com/articles/some-jsr-203-examples 
• http://java.dzone.com/articles/some-more-jsr203-examples
• http://homepages.borland.com/bstone/opentools/doc/ref/OpenToolsAPI/
  com/borland/primetime/vfs/package-frame.html
  
• http://today.java.net/pub/a/today/2008/07/03/jsr-203-new-file-apis.html

• An interesting discussion and poll over at Java.net pits SOAP vs. ReST
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/editors/archives/2008/10/this_aint_a_sce.html 
• http://www.java.net/pub/pq/231 
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/cayhorstmann/archive/2008/10/restless_about.html 

• Application of the week - Thinkfree Office Netbook Edition
• http://product.thinkfree.com/mobile/netbook
  
• http://www.thinkfree.com/views/jsp/user/etc/netbook_survey.jsp
  

• Project of the week: jLab
• https://jlab.dev.java.net/
  

• And, Mobile application of the week: GMail 2.0, now with offline features
• http://googlemobile.blogspot.com/2008/10/introducing-gmail-for-mobile-20.html
• http://m.google.com/mail

• Bonus mobile application of the week: BooksInMyPhone
• http://www.booksinmyphone.com/index.php
  

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• Feedburner.com - http://www.feedburner.com - for feed redirect
• Kirsty Doherty, Oliver Widder and Amy Ehmann 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 Oct 23rd 2008

• The Android project has been released as open source, beating the rumored launch date for the source code by several months
• http://source.android.com/
• And, Gizmodo and ZDNet both offer in-depth reviews of the T-Mobile G1
• http://gizmodo.com/5062977/t+mobile-
  g1-google-android-phone-review 
• http://blogs.zdnet.com/cell-phones/?p=179 
• http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS6126688892.html?kc=rss 
• http://code.google.com/p/i-jetty/
  
• http://lifehacker.com/5059266/give-android-a-spin-online

• Java 6 Update 10 final has been released by Sun
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/opinali/archive/
  2008/10/java_se_6_updat.html 
• http://www.netbeans.tv/interviews/David-Strupl-392/

• Adobe has release Flash 10 for all supported platforms, including a simultaneous release for Linux
• http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flashplayer10/
  

• Fabrizio Guidici is asking what scripting language people would like to see in BlueMarine
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/fabriziogiudici/
  archive/2008/10/suggest_me_a_sc_1.html
  
• https://bluemarine.dev.java.net/ 
• http://code.google.com/p/kahlua/ 
• http://www.jython.org/Project/ 
• http://jruby.codehaus.org/ 
• http://groovy.codehaus.org/
  

Quick News

• Registration is now open for the next Mobile and Embedded Developer Days
• https://developerdays.dev.java.net/nonav/overview.html 

• Thoughtworks has announced a new product, Twist, that aims to ease functional testing of web and Java applications
  
• http://studios.thoughtworks.com/twist-agile-test-automation/ 

• Mark Reinhold has written a "wouldn't it be cool" blog that mentions some "wishes"
• http://blogs.sun.com/mr/entry/cool 

• The JCP Executive Committee Elections on the PriceWaterhouse Cooper JCP elections site
• http://jcp.org/en/whatsnew/elections 

• John O'Connor blogs that Jersey, the JAX-RS reference implementation, has reached 1.0
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/joconner/archive/
  2008/10/jaxrs_and_jerse.html 

• A new Microsoft excel to Java bridge, Obba
• http://www.obba.info/ 

• Barton George has left Sun after 13 years
• http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/10/07/
  barton_george_quits_sun/ 

• Mozilla has released Firefox 3.1 beta
• http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20081014-first-
  look-firefox-3-1-beta-1-officially-released.html 

• In a couple of recent tips of the day, Arun Gupta has covered how to port a JSF (JavaServer Faces) 1.2 application up to 2.0
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/arungupta/archive/
  2008/10/totd_48_convert.html 

• The JSR 277 (Java Module System) spec lead, Stanley Ho, is stepping down as spec lead and leaving Sun for RIM (Research in Motion)
• http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/
  jsr277-eg-observer/2008-October/000307.html
  
• http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=277 

• At a recent Google Developer Day in Bangalore, Prasad Ram, director of Google R&D for Bangalore, stated that the Google AppEngine will support Java
  
• http://www.controlenter.in/2008/10/google-developer-day-bangalore-
  google-app-engine-to-support-java-android-sdk-release-on-oct-22/ 
• http://www.controlenter.in/2008/10/java-support-to-appengine-to-
  counter-microsofts-cloud-initiatives-microsoft-strata/ 

• NetBeans has just turned 10 years old
• http://netbeans.tv/interviews/
  James-Gosling-on-Ten-Years-of-NetBeans-395/ 

• Vuze, formally known as Azureus, reaches version 4.0.0
  
• http://www.vuze.com/app
  

• The NetBeans wiki has a very simple introduction to creating your first JavaFX Applet
• http://wiki.netbeans.org/JavaFXApplet 

• A new application toolkit, pivot, has been released
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/gkbrown/archive/
  2008/10/pivot_10_releas_1.html
• http://pivot-toolkit.org/
  
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/gkbrown/archive/
  2008/10/pivot_starter_k.html
  

• Jazoon has announced a call for papers for the 2009 conference
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/cwfrei/archive/
  2008/10/jazoon09_launch.html 
• http://jazoon.com/ 

• Sun Microsystems has announced a loss for the quarter
• http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?thread_id=51294 

• Comcast in cooperation with Panasonic is now offering tru2way support in Chicago and Denver
  
• http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/
  Comcast-Panasonic-Offer-Tru2Way-Sets-98469 

• Oracle has released Oracle JDeveloper 11g and Oracle ADF 11g
  
• http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?thread_id=51030 

• Ed Burns needs YOU for JSF 2.0
  
• http://wiki.java.net/bin/view/Projects/JsfExtensionSurvey 

• Mono 2.0 has been released
  
• http://www.mono-project.com/Release_Notes_Mono_2.0
• http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/10/06/
  Mono_2_lets_Net_apps_run_on_Linux_1.html
  
• http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/
  3776201/Is+NET+on+Linux+Finally+Ready.htm 
• http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Application-Development/
  Mono-20-Takes-NET-Cross-Platform/

• BlueJ has reached version 2.5
  
• http://www.cafeaulait.org/#October_6_2008_23602 

• Christopher Brock has released version 2.0 Beta of MVEL - the MV Flex Expression Language
  
• http://mvel.codehaus.org/ 

• Rudie Ekkelenkamp has announced GRAG 1.0, the Grails Application Generator
  
• http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?thread_id=50894 

• WebSynergy has added support for JSR 286 portlets to be written in Groovy in its portal pack 3.0
  
• http://blogs.sun.com/theaquarium/entry/
  groovy_portlet_support_and_websynergy 

• Foxtrot promises simple synchronous Swing programming without the GUI freeze problems
  
• http://foxtrot.sourceforge.net/
  

• Reza Rahman has just wrapped up a five part series about EJB 3.1 new features
• http://www.theserverside.com/tt/articles/
  article.tss?l=NewFeaturesinEJB31-Part5

• RIM (Research in Motion) has announced the next version of its developer tools for the BlackBerry Storm
• http://www.foxbusiness.com/story/markets/industries/technology/
  rim-announces-new-developer-tools-blackberry-storm-
  blackberry-bold-blackberry-1374778263/

Interview with Ted Farrell about Oracle Developer Tools

• Ted Farrell
• http://www.oracle.com/corporate/pressroom/html/tedfarrell.html 
• Duncan Mills
• http://www.groundside.com/blog/DuncanMills.php 
• Oracle Technical Network
• http://www.oracle.com/technology/index.html 
• Oracle SOA (Service Oriented Architecture)
• http://www.oracle.com/technologies/soa/index.html 
• Oracle ADF
• http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/adf/index.html 
• Oracle WebLogic Server 10gRelease 3 (the core app server, moving forward)
  
• http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/weblogic/index.html
• Oracle Application Server
• http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/ias/index.html 
• Open Source Software at Oracle
• http://oss.oracle.com/ 
• WebLogic Suite
• http://www.oracle.com/appserver/weblogic/weblogic-suite.html 
• WebLogic Application Grid
• http://www.oracle.com/appserver/weblogic/application-grid.html 
• Oracle Coherence
• http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/coherence/index.html 
• Oracle and the Java Community Process (JSRs)
• http://www.oracle.com/technology/tech/java/standards/jcp.html 
• JSR 314 - JSF (JavaServer Faces) 2.0
• http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=314 
• JSR 276 - Design Time Metadata for JavaServer Faces Components
• http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=276 
• JSR 317 - JPA (Java Persistence API) 2.0
• http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=317 
• EclipseLink - the Reference Implementation for JSR 317
• http://www.eclipse.org/eclipselink/
  
• JSR 299 - Web Beans
• http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=299 
• Apache Trinidad components for JSF
• http://myfaces.apache.org/trinidad/index.html 
• Oracle JDeveloper Plugins (Extensions)
• http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/jdev/
  htdocs/partners/addins/exchange/index.html 
• Oracle Entprise Pack for Eclipse (OEPE)
  
• http://www.oracle.com/tools/enterprise-eclipse-pack.html
  
• http://www.oracle.com/technology/software/products/oepe/index.html
  
• KODO
• http://www.bea.com/framework.jsp?CNT=index.htm&
  FP=/content/products/more/kodo/ 
• OpenJPA
• http://openjpa.apache.org/ 
• Spring Support
• http://www.oracle.com/technology/tech/java/spring/index.html 
• JDeveloper 11g
• http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/jdev/index.html 
• New Features in JDeveloper
• http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/jdev/
  collateral/papers/11/newfeatures/index.html
  

Interview with Erich Gamma and Tim Francis of IBM

• Erich Gamma
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erich_Gamma
  

• Tim Francis
• http://www.eclipse.org/webtools/people/person.php?name=francis
  

• Design Patterns - the Gang of Four
• http://www.amazon.com/Design-Patterns-Object-Oriented-
  Addison-Wesley-Professional/dp/0201633612
  

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 Amy Ehmann 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
  • Call us with questions and feedback - (408) 465 4626
  • Or send us email - javaposse@gmail.com

• Android 1.0 SDK released
• http://code.google.com/android/
  
• http://www.betanews.com/article/TMobile_Android_G1_
  phones_priced_at_179_launch_Oct_22/1222182441 
• http://lifehacker.com/5053661/what-android-could-bring-to-your-phone
  
• http://blogs.sun.com/jrose/entry/with_android_and_dalvik_at 
• http://gizmodo.com/5053515/amazon-mp3-store-is-
  preloaded-on-htc-g1-6-million-drm-free-songs 
• http://news.cnet.com/8301-13505_3-10057440-16.html?tag=mncol;title
  

• SpringSource has changed its policy on maintenance and bug fixes for versions of Spring
• http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?thread_id=50727#268844 
• http://java.dzone.com/news/qa-with-rod-johnson-over-sprin 
• http://www.mastertheboss.com/en/jboss-server/47-ejb-session-beans-.html
  

• Coverage of the JVM langauge summit
• http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/09/30/sun_languages_summit/

• Apple appears to be using JSF for one of their recent web projects
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/edburns/archive/2008/09/apple_using_jsf.html
  

• The winners of the OpenJDK Community Innovator's Challenge have been announced
• http://openjdk.java.net/challenge/ 
• http://www.netbeans.org/grant/ 

• Java Project of the Week - WidgetFX
• http://widgetfx.org/ 
• http://java.sun.com/javafx/tutorials/simple_javafx_nb_app/
  

Quick News

• Concurrency guru Brian Goetz has a new article up at IBM's developerworks
• http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/j-jtp09238.html 

• JSR 311 - The Java API for ReSTful Web Services, has passed the final ballot with 14 yes votes and 1 non-vote
• http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=311 
• http://architects.dzone.com/articles/putting-java-rest?mz=3006-jboss 
• http://blogs.sun.com/theaquarium/entry/jax_rs_jsr_311_approved
  

• JFreeChart 1.0.11 has been released by David Gilbert
• http://www.jfree.org/jfreechart/index.html 

• Chris Adamson  has moved from Atlanta to Grand Rapids, MI
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/editors/archives/2008/09/miles_away.html 

• Apple has released Java for Mac OS X 10.5 Update 2
• http://intellij.net/forums/thread.jspa?threadID=277476&tstart=0
  

• GrinderStone 2.0 has been released
• http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?thread_id=50824 

• John Ferguson has released a new book called JSF Jumpstarter
• http://www.wakaleo.com/resources/jsf-jumpstarter-book 

• John Hoffmann has a demo of Project Nile up on NetBeans TV
• http://netbeans.tv/screencasts/Jeff-Hoffman-explains-the-
  JavaFX-designer-developer-workflow.-378/ 

• Sun has release version 8.0 of OpenSSO
• http://www.sun.com/software/products/opensso_enterprise/index.xml 

• Developer.com has an article introducing math for game creation using Java
• http://www.developer.com/java/other/article.php/3773201
  

• The project darkstar developer challenge offers cash prizes and a pass to the 2009 game developer conference for the winners
• http://www.projectdarkstar.com/developer_challenge
  

• xLightWeb 2.0 has been released
  
• http://xlightweb.sourceforge.net/ 

• Oracle has release TopLink 11g final
• http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/ias/toplink/
  doc/11110/relnotes/toplink-relnotes.html 

• Ars Technica has pitted TraceMonkey against V8 and SquirrelFish Extreme
• http://arstechnica.com/journals/apple.ars/2008/09/19/
  squirrelfish-extreme-mops-floor-with-v8-tracemonkey 

• Adobe has now released a beta version of AIR (the Adobe Internet Runtime) for Linux
• http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/air_linux.html
  
• http://lifehacker.com/5050587/adobe-air-beta-now-available-for-linux
  

• The JSR 318 - EJB 3.1 public draft is now available
  
• http://blogs.sun.com/kensaks/entry/guide_to_the_ejb_3 

• Findbugs 1.3.5 offers new bug detectors
• http://findbugs.sourceforge.net/ 

• CERN has launched the world's largest compute grid
  
• http://devicedaily.com/misc/cern-launches-the-
  biggest-computing-grid-in-the-world.html
  

• Alex Miller notes on EclipseZone that on Halloween, Java 1.4 will officially enter end of service life
• http://eclipse.dzone.com/articles/rip%E2%80%A6jdk-14 

• Mobicents SIP servlets have just achieved JSR 289 compliance
• http://jeanderuelle.blogspot.com/2008/09/
  mobicents-sip-servlets-is-jsr-289-sip.html 
• http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=289 

• Interview with Sun's Jacob Lehrbaum about JavaFX
• http://www.riaweekly.com/2008/10/01/riaweekly023/
  

• Apache has released Solr 1.3.0
• http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?thread_id=50711
  

• Ed Burns blogs that JSF 2.0 Early Draft Review 2 is out
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/edburns/archive/2008/09/jsf_20_early_dr.html 
• http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?thread_id=50747
  

• Google Maps for Mobile (for Java enabled phones) has been updated to now include streetview features
• http://www.google.com/mobile/default/maps/streetview.html 

• If you are in the Adriatic/Balkans area, you may be interested in JavaBlend 2008
• http://www.javablend.net/en/
  

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 Amy Ehmann 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
  • Call us with questions and feedback - (408) 465 4626
  • Or send us email - javaposse@gmail.com

• Delegates for Java?
• http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2003/05/
  21/delegates.html?page=1
  

• Java Project of the week - Tokyo Jogging
• http://www.tokyo-jogging.com/ 
• http://code.google.com/p/tokyo-jogging/
  

Quick News

• JavaPolis, which had been renamed to Javoxx, is now known as Devoxx
• http://devoxx.com/display/JV08/Home 
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/fabriziogiudici/archive/
  2008/09/javapolis_javox.html
  

• Ji Hoon Kim has announced the JSF Flex project, which aims to bring Flex components to JavaServer Faces
• http://www.theserverside.com/tt/articles/article.tss?l=JSFFlex
  

• A new library called JavaPlot from Panayotis Katsaloulis lets Java developers harness gnuplot from a Java API
• http://gnujavaplot.sourceforge.net/JavaPlot/About.html
  

• Chrome browser (actually Chromium - the open source project) is now running on Mac and Linux using Crossover technology
• http://www.codeweavers.com/about/people/blogs/jwhite/
  2008/9/15/fire-drills-and-proving-a-point
  

• The NetBeans BlueJ team has announced the first release of the BlueJ Plugin for NetBeans 6.1
  
• http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/NewsItemView?
  newsItemID=1281
  

• Grizzly 2.0 has just been pushed to the Java.net Maven repository
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/jfarcand/archive/
  2008/09/growing_the_lat.html
  
• http://blogs.sun.com/oleksiys/entry/grizzly_2_0_is_available
  
• https://grizzly.dev.java.net/
  

• JBoss has released the Seam 2 feature pack for JBoss EAP 4.3
  
• http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?
  thread_id=50621
  

• A new Java IDE for Windows, JCoder, has reached version 1.0
• http://www.jcoder.com/detail.html
  

• Instantiations has released a new version of GWT designer for GWT 1.5
• http://eclipse.dzone.com/announcements/
  instantiations-updates-gwt-des
  

• JSFOne has concluded and from the reports was a great success
• http://blogs.jsfcentral.com/editorsdesk/entry/jsfone_day_1
  

• JRubyStack 1.1.4 has been released
• http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?
  thread_id=50615
  

• The Eclipse foundation and 14 foundation member companies have announced a new Eclipse training program in 31 cities around the world
• http://www.eclipse.org/community/training/2008fall.php
  

• Norman Lahme-Hütig  has release jSefa 0.9.2
• http://jsefa.sourceforge.net/ 
• http://jsefa.sourceforge.net/quick-tutorial.html
  

• A new 0.9.4 version of the SwingX extended Swing components has been released
• https://swingx.dev.java.net/
• http://swinglabs.java.sun.com/downloads.jsp
  

• CMP West has announced a call for papers for SD West 2009
• https://www.cmpevents.com/SDw9/a.asp?
  option=N&V=3&CPid=237&Mgt=Y
  

• 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
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/cayhorstmann/archive/
  2008/09/teaching_progra_1.html 
• http://horstmann.com/sjsu/cs152/schedule.html
  

• PGP (Pretty Good Privacy) is leading efforts to save Bletchley Park
• http://news.cnet.com/Bletchley-Park-restoration-short-on-funds/
  2100-7348_3-6240587.html
• http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-10034884-83.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 Amy Ehmann 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
  • Call us with questions and feedback - (408) 465 4626
  • Or send us email - javaposse@gmail.com

• The latest build of the Hudson continuous integration engine offers project level security
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/johnsmart/archive/
  2008/09/hudson_projectb.html
• https://hudson.dev.java.net/

• Oracle has released the Oracle Enterprise Pack for Eclipse
• http://www.oracle.com/tools/enterprise-eclipse-pack.html
• http://eclipse.dzone.com/announcements/
  oracle-enterprise-pack-eclipse

• The Nexus Maven repository manager v1.0 has been released
• http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?
  thread_id=50473
  

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 Amy Ehmann 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
  • Call us with questions and feedback - (408) 465 4626
  • Or send us email - javaposse@gmail.com

• Virtua
• http://www.virtua.com/faces/services/index.jsp

• DevX has an article about an often overlooked feature of Java SE 6 - Doclets
• http://www.devx.com/Java/Article/38719
  

• Hibernate 3.3 has been released
• http://www.infoq.com/news/2008/08/hibernate-33
  

• The proposed final draft is now available for JSR 311 - JAX-RS (Java API for XML, ReSTful web Services)
  
• http://jcp.org/aboutJava/communityprocess/
  pfd/jsr311/index.html
  
• http://blogs.sun.com/sandoz/entry/
  integrating_jersey_and_spring_take1
  

• Stripees 1.5 has been released
• http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?
  thread_id=50391 
• http://stripesframework.org/display/stripes/Download 

• Mike Van Riper, JUG leader of the Silicon Valley Web JUG
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/van_riper/archive/
  2008/08/using_the_googl.html 
  

• Facelets JSF 2.0 branch has now been merged into the Mojarra (JSF) repository
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/edburns/archive/
  2008/08/facelets_jsf_20.html 

• Sun has released the Lightweight UI Toolkit (LWUIT)
  
• http://lwuit.blogspot.com/2008/08/lwuit-open-
  source-today-plus-great-new.html 
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/terrencebarr/archive/
  2008/08/comparing_lwuit.html
  
• http://today.java.net/pub/a/today/2008/08/14/
  introduction-to-lwuit.html
  

• The Simple project has release Simple 4.0
• http://www.simpleframework.org/ 

• JBoss' Sacha Labourey has an interview over at DZone about the upcoming release of JBoss App Server 5.0
• http://eclipse.dzone.com/videos/
  tech-chat-sacha-labourey-jboss
  
• http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?
  thread_id=50422 

• MyEclipse has a new release, v7.0 milestone 1
• http://eclipse.dzone.com/announcements/
  myeclipse-now-ganymede
  

• Massive adoption of EJB 3 in Germany
• http://www.adam-bien.com/roller/abien/
  entry/ejb_3_dead_or_alive 

• Manor 'n Rock JSF paypal components
  
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/mriem/archive/
  2008/08/manor_n_rock_js_1.html 
• http://www.manorrock.com/products/jsf/index.html 

• BEA workshop now free (with registration)
  
• http://eclipse.dzone.com/articles/
  the-best-jspstrutsjsf-developm 

• The proposed final draft for JSR 290 - Java Language and XML User Interface Integration integration has been posted by Sun
• http://jcp.org/aboutJava/communityprocess/
  pfd/jsr290/index.html 

• Edgar Silver has created a JBoss User Group in Brazil
  
• http://jbossbrasil.ning.com/
  

• Elastica is a new Rules based load balancer for JBoss
  
• http://sourceforge.net/projects/elastica/
  

• A new article on the NetBeans wiki covers best practices of using JPA (the Java Persistence API) with JSR 295 beans binding
• http://wiki.netbeans.org/BestPractices
  WithJPAAndBeansBinding 

• Tim Boudreau asks "where is the state"
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/timboudreau/archive/
  2008/08/wheres_the_stat.html 

• Sun has hired a leading OSGi expert, Richard Hall, to work on the GlassFish project
  
• http://www.osgi.org/blog/2008/08/
  sun-hires-richard-hall.html 
• http://blogs.sun.com/theaquarium/entry/
  webinar_intro_and_overview_of
  

• The Projectivity project has released Projectivity 3.0
• http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?
  thread_id=50345 
  

Thanks

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    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.
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  • Closing - Juan Carlos Jimenez - In the House (Intro No. 1)
    

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• 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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All Interviews from the Start

Roundup Sessions

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• Kirsty Doherty, Oliver Widder and Amy Ehmann 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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• Is compilation just another test? Should it be?
• http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?thread_id=50060

• Android? FX Mobile?
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/terrencebarr/archive/
  2008/07/android_lost_in.html
• http://forums.java.net/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=43542&tstart=0
  

• Java Library of the Week - OFX4J
• http://ofx4j.sourceforge.net

Quick News

• The Legion of the Bouncy Castle has released version 1.4 of the Bouncy Castle Java Cryptography API
• http://www.bouncycastle.org/

• The Little Tutorials blog has a nice introduction to using JSR 223 compliant scripting languages on the JVM to provide macro or extension capabilities for your customers
• http://littletutorials.com/2008/05/10/script-thy-java-app/

• DZone continues with the free refcard releases, this time with a glassfish refcard
• http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?thread_id=50054

• Remember former application of the week BlueMarine?
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/fabriziogiudici/archive/
  2008/07/various_update.html

• The EMEA Horizons conference is to be held in Munich, Germany from October 6th to the 9th
• http://wikis.sun.com/display/JavaCAPSHorizons/
  Java+CAPS+Horizons+Summit+-+EMEA+2008

• A new report from Fortify software says that Java Open Source Software projects need a stronger focus on security
• http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080722-report-
  oss-projects-need-tighter-focus-on-security.html

• JRuby 1.1.3 has been released
• http://docs.codehaus.org/display/JRUBY/2008/
  07/19/JRuby+1.1.3+Released

• The Jython team has released an alpha version of Jython 2.5
• http://jython.org

• Sourceforge has released the list of finalists for the sourceforge community choice awards
• http://sourceforge.net/community/cca08-finalists
  

• SpringSource - creators of the popular Spring enterprise Java framework - have made SpringSource Enterprise generally available
• http://www.springsource.com/products/enterprise
  

• Java running on the iPhone 2.0!
  
• http://blogs.sun.com/java4iphone/entry/java_for_iphone_iphone_3g
  

• Alex Potochkin has taken over from Hans Muller as spec lead for the JSR
  
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/editors/archives/
  2008/07/other_peoples_l.html 
• http://blogs.codehaus.org/people/geir/archives/
  001693_hans_muller_left_sun_for_adobe.html
  

• Apple has released XCode 3.1
• http://www.cafeaulait.org/#July_17_2008_22224
  

• Javalobby has a roundup of several Java performance tuning and troubleshooting tools
• http://java.dzone.com/articles/java-performance-troubleshooti-0 
  

• Topcoder have just announced the Notus FOKYC Data Access Objects Java development competition
• http://www.wittysparks.com/2008/07/19/
  topcoder-java-development-competition-1500-in-prizes/
  

• The NetBeans site has a tutorial for using a ReST based web service
• http://www.netbeans.org/kb/61/websvc/zillow.html
  

• JavaWorld has an article comparing and contrasting three different and popular options for Java persistence: iBatis, JPA and Hibernate
• http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-07-2008/
  jw-07-orm-comparison.html?page=7

• Caoyuan blogs that he has integrated Scala's native compiler into the NetBeans Scala plugin
• http://blogtrader.net/page/dcaoyuan/entry/
  employ_scala_s_native_compiler
  

• Sun has released version 1.0 of the Sun Java System Mobile Enterprise Platform
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/ryan_shoemaker/
  archive/2008/07/sun_java_system.html
  

Listener feedback

• JavaPolis (now Javoxx)
• http://www.javoxx.com/display/JV08/Home
• Java.net
• http://java.net
• Codemash
• http://www.codemash.org/
• Openspace Conferences
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Space_Technology
• PyCon
• http://www.python.org/community/pycon/
• Lightning Talks
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightning_Talk
• Link to youtube videos of lightning talks from Java Posse Roundup 08
• http://www.youtube.com/javaposse
• BeJUG
• http://www.bejug.org/confluenceBeJUG/display/BeJUG/Home
• Mindview
• http://www.mindviewinc.com/Index.php
• IT Conversations
• http://itc.conversationsnetwork.org/
• Parleys.com - Recorded talks from JavaPolis and other conferences
• http://parleys.com
• JavaOne
• http://java.sun.com/javaone/sf/
• SpringOne
• http://www.springone.com/display/SpringOne08/Home
• Java User Groups
• http://java.sun.com/community/usergroups/
• Javapolis Newsletter
• http://www.javoxx.com/display/JV08/Newsletter
• Java Champions program
• https://java-champions.dev.java.net/
• Question Pro for surveys
• http://www.questionpro.com/

• Do we need a thread safe swing?
• http://www.kaijaeger.com/java-swing-is-not-thread-safe.html
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/kgh/archive/
  2004/10/multithreaded_t.html

• When it comes to RIAs, have Google and Apple backed the right, or wrong, horse?
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/editors/archives/
  2008/07/wicked_game.html
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/editors/archives/
  2008/06/this_town_aint.html
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/editors/archives/
  2008/07/all_you_ever_wa_1.html
• http://www.infoq.com/news/2008/07/vote-for-browsers
• http://280slides.com
  

• Java on Linux - still losing the popularity war?
• http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/06/26/1630250
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/editors/archives/
  2008/07/you_owe_me_some.html
• http://weblog.infoworld.com/fatalexception/archives/
  2008/06/java_is_free_at.html
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/robogeek/archive/
  2008/07/free_java_is_no.html

Quick News

• The dates for this year's Silicon Valley Code Camp have been set by Mike Van Riper and Kevin Nilson
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/van_riper/archive/
  2008/07/call_for_speake_1.html

• Mojarra has released an early draft review implementation of JSF (Java Server Faces) 2.0, also known as JSR 314
• http://blogs.sun.com/theaquarium/entry/jsf_2_0_edr
• And Sun has a collection of introductory articles for features in the new draft version, written by Ryan Lubke of the Mojarra team
• http://blogs.sun.com/theaquarium/entry/jsf_2_0_preview_series2

• Canoo software has released a new version of its Ultra-light Client (ULC)
• http://eclipse.dzone.com/announcements/
  web-apps-easier-and-faster-wit

• James Ervin has written up his notes from the recent Eclipse day held at Google
• http://eclipse.dzone.com/news/notes-eclipse-day-googleplex

• The iScreen project has releases iScreen version 2.0.0
• http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?thread_id=49903

• The first release candidate of Loom 1.0 is also available now
• http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?thread_id=49905

• Chris Adamson has put out a plea for a decent filesystem API to be included in Java 7
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/editors/archives/
  2008/07/please.html
• http://today.java.net/pub/a/today/2008/07/03/
  jsr-203-new-file-apis.html

• Remi Forax notes that the BGGA closure implementation source code is now available
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/forax/archive/
  2008/07/source_of_bgga_1.html
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/forax/archive/
  2008/07/alternative_syn.html

• Retrotranslator 1.2.7 has been released, and now offers support for the Java 5 memory model
• http://www.theserverside.com/news/
  thread.tss?thread_id=49847

• JBoss.org has an update on the status of JBoss Application Server version 5.0
• http://www.jboss.org/feeds/post/jboss_as_5_0_status

• The server side and related sites did a survey of BEA customers
• http://www.theserverside.com/news/
  thread.tss?thread_id=49913

• Apache has released the first version of Apache Sling
• http://www.theserverside.com/news/
  thread.tss?thread_id=49864

• Google has open sourced their Protocol Buffers technology
• http://google-opensource.blogspot.com/2008/07/
  protocol-buffers-googles-data.html

• Super-quick NetBeans roundup
• http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/NewsItemView?
  newsItemID=1256
• http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/07/08/
  Python-backing-eyed-for-NetBeans_1.html
• http://blogs.sun.com/nbprofiler/entry/
  netbeans_ide_6_5_milestone

• Java 6 Update 10, the new Consumer JRE and faster, lighter plugin, has hit one million downloads!
• http://forums.java.net/jive/thread.jspa?
  messageID=284824&tstart=0#284824

• The first Commodore 64 LAN party
• http://games.slashdot.org/games/08/07/06/2114221.shtml

• Sun has posted a maintenance release of JSR 252 - JavaServer Faces 1.2
• http://jcp.org/aboutJava/communityprocess/
  mrel/jsr252/index2.html

• A recent Google tech talk on Kilim has been released on YouTube
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37NaHRE0Sqw
• http://kilim.malhar.net

• The first public review draft of JSR 300 - DRM API for Java ME
• http://jcp.org/aboutJava/communityprocess/
  pr/jsr300/index.html

• Danesh Zaki has released TumbleJ, a Tumblr API for Java applications
• http://www.daneshzaki.com/post/38636047/tumblej

• Mylyn now at version 3.0
• http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?thread_id=49859

• Nuxeo have released the first version of their web engine
• http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?thread_id=50020

• The OpenDS project has released version 1.0.0 of OpenDS
• http://www.opends.org/

• Ahmadsoft has released ropes for Java
• http://ahmadsoft.org/ropes/

• WS02 has released version 1.7 of what it calls the fastest open source ESB in the world
• http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?thread_id=49834

• And finally, while you are waiting for the new video codecs for Java, another alternative might be jFlashPlayer
• http://www.engineeringserver.com/blog/2008/06/01/
  jflashplayer-embed-flash-videos-in-your-application/
  

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 Amy Ehmann 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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• Eclipse 3.4 - Ganymede - has been released
• http://www.eclipse.org/org/press-release/
  20080625_ganymede.php
• http://eclipse.dzone.com/articles/
  eclipse-34-hidden-treasures
• https://swingexplorer.dev.java.net/
• http://www.myeclipseide.com/
• http://google-opensource.blogspot.com/
  2008/06/eclipseday-at-googleplex.html
• http://www.flickr.com/photos/mki/sets/
  72157605801373852/

Quick News

• Other Java implementations than Sun's Java:
• IBM - 
  http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/java/jdk/
• JRockit - http://www.bea.com/jrockit
• Kaffe - http://www.kaffe.org/
• Harmony - http://harmony.apache.org/
• Java source running on non-Java VMs:
• Google Web Toolkit - 
  http://code.google.com/webtoolkit/
• Google Android - 
  http://code.google.com/android/
• Sun's JDK and TCK:
• http://java.sun.com/javase/
• http://jcp.org/en/resources/tdk

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 Amy Ehmann 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
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• WWDC Update
• http://apple.com/quicktime/qtv/wwdc08/

• Weiqi Gao pointed us at a blog describing the "wall of erasure"
• http://viewfromthefringe.blogspot.com/
  2007/11/java-5-iterator-adapters.html
• http://www.weiqigao.com/blog/2007/11/
  04/the_wall_of_erasure.html

• Android demo from the recent Google I/O conference
• http://www.talkandroid.com/102-google-io-android-video/

• EJB 3.0 Dependency Injection
• http://refcardz.dzone.com/refcardz/
  dependency-injection-in-ejb3?oid=hom3086 
• http://www.amazon.com/Google-Guice-Lightweight-
  Dependency-Firstpress/dp/1590599977/ref=sr_1_1?
  ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1213246931&sr=8-1

• JWebPane Component
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/ixmal/archive/
  2008/05/introducing_jwe.html 

• Applet of the Week: Galaxy crash
• http://burro.astr.cwru.edu/JavaLab/
  GalCrashWeb/main.html 

• Java Website of the Week: Linked In
• http://www.breakitdownblog.com/
  linkedin-is-written-in-99-java/ 
• http://www.linkedin.com/
  
• http://www.slideshare.net/glaforge/
  grails-at-linkedin-455651 

Quick News

• JavaRa cleans up old versions of Java
  
• http://prm753.bchea.org/JavaRa.html 

• The Gnu classpath project has released version 1.7 of icedtea
• http://icedtea.classpath.org/wiki/Main_Page 

• JRuby 1.1.2 has been released
• http://blogs.sun.com/theaquarium/entry/
  jruby_1_1_2_released 

• The JavaOne technical sessions and hands on labs are now available over at SDN
• http://developers.sun.com/learning/javaoneonline/
  j1online.jsp?track=coolstuff&yr=2008 

• Runescape has begun a makeover of its graphics, including better textures
• http://www.runescape.com/kbase/view.ws?
  guid=dev_diary08a 

• Kevin Bourrillion (2 r's, 2 l's) has released a new 0.7 version of the Google collection library
• http://code.google.com/p/google-collections/ 

• The BBC is using PHP/Zend and Java
• http://phpimpact.wordpress.com/2008/06/02/
  bbc-new-infrastructure-java-and-php/ 

• Kirill Grouchnikov's has recently added interviews with Andres Almiray and Chet Haase to his blog
  
• http://www.pushing-pixels.org/ 

• An early access review of JSF 2.0 (JSR 314) is now available
• http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=314
  
• http://jcp.org/aboutJava/communityprocess/
  edr/jsr314/ 

• JSR 311 - JAX-RS (Java API for XML ReSTful web Services) has just passed the public review ballot unanimously
  
• http://blogs.sun.com/theaquarium/entry/
  jax_rs_passes_public_review 

• Java 6 u10 has a new crossdomain xml file that is good for web mashups
  
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/joshy/archive/
  2008/05/java_doodle_cro.html 

• A new pair of articles at dzone talk about building multi-core ready Java applications
• http://architects.dzone.com/news/
  building-multi-core-ready-java 

• Second Life for Java ME
• http://mobigasmic.blogspot.com/2008/06/
  vollee-secondlife-for-phones-first.html 
• http://vollee.com/secondlife 

• LookupJava gathers together lots of links to Java tutorials, multimedia, etc.
• http://lookupjava.googlepages.com/ 

• Trolltech, makers of the QT UI framework, have released version 4.4 of QT Jambi
  
• http://trolltech.com/company/newsroom/
  announcements/press.2008-06-05.8292370812 

• Can Java on the Palm platform be resuscitated? 
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/terrencebarr/
  archive/2008/06/bringing_java_b.html 

• Book Mentions
• Your Brain - the Missing Manual
• http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596517786/
• What's your poo telling you?
• http://www.drstool.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 Amy Ehmann 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
  • Call us with questions and feedback - (408) 465 4626
  • Or send us email - javaposse@gmail.com