Newscast for July 12th 2007

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• Java EE 6 is back, but not as JSR 313, instead it will be JSR 316
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/editors/
  archives/2007/07/live_and_let_di.html
• http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=316
• http://www.infoq.com/news/2007/07/jee6
• http://blog.interface21.com/main/2007/
  07/03/java-ee-6-gets-it-right/

• JSR 277 - the Java Module System, has released its first snapshot (as has JSR 294 - the related Improved Modularity Support for the Java language)
• http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=277
• http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=294

• Adobe has release AIR - the Adobe Integrated Runtime
• http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/air/
• http://www.pcw.co.uk/itweek/comment/
  2192884/adobe-air-leave-customers
• http://www.javalobby.org/java/forums/t98112.html

• NetBeans 6 Milestone 10 is out
• http://wiki.netbeans.org/wiki/view/
  NewAndNoteWorthyMilestone10
• http://wiki.netbeans.org/wiki/view/
  MilestoneDownloads

• Java 6 update 2 is now out, this new update incorporates 182 fixes and enhancements
• http://java.sun.com/javase/6/webnotes/ReleaseNotes.html
• http://www.heise-security.co.uk/news/91956

• Compiz and Beryl 3d window managers still troublesome with Java
• http://www.ossgeeks.co.uk/?p=135
• http://wiki.beryl-project.org/wiki/Java

• Applet of the week - Deck Designer
• http://www.diyonline.com/servlet/
  GIB_Base/uspdeckbegin

• Mobile app of the week: Bombus - a Jabber chat client for Java ME enabled phones
• http://symbiansmartphone.blogspot.com/2007/
  07/bombus-is-jabber-compatible-instant.html
• http://www.google.com/support/talk/bin/
  answer.py?answer=24076

• AND! A library of the week this week as well: WiiremoteJ
• http://www.wiili.org/WiiremoteJ

Quick News Items

• InfoQ has published an interview with Bob Brewin, Sun's Software CTO
• http://www.infoq.com/news/2007/07/brewin-europa

• The OpenMoko neo1973 developer handset is now available for purchase
• https://direct.openmoko.com/

• Motorola has released information on the new Zante - the next generation sidekick
• http://www.gadgettastic.com/2007/07/04/
  motorola-zante-next-gen-sidekick/

• The playstation 3 price has dropped to $499
• http://www.techspot.com/news/26045-sony-
  confirms-playstation-3-price-drop.html

• Asterisk-Java 0.3 has been released
• http://blogs.reucon.com/asterisk-java/
  2007/07/01/asterisk_java_0_3.html

• The BlueJ project has released a new version 2.2 of the BlueJ IDE
• http://www.cafeaulait.org/#July_7_2007_18338

• JTR 4, an open source project from JTRunner is a testing framework that makes it possible to distribute your testing to a farm of JTR nodes, cutting the time to run all of the tests using parallelism
  
• http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?
  thread_id=46103

• JSRs 190 (Event Tracking API for J2ME) and 280 (XML API for Java ME) have both been rejected by the JCP because of concerns with the licensing of spec and implementation
• http://www.cafeaulait.org/#July_11_2007_19156

• Could Java be coming to the iPhone? Our opinion: probably not any time soon unfortunately
• http://unlockediphoneforsale.com/2007/07/
  java-on-the-iphone/
• http://united-underground.com/?p=38

• Easy eclipse 1.3 has been released, the first easy eclipse based on the new Eclipse 3.3 europa release
• http://www.eclipsezone.com/eclipse/
  forums/t98505.rhtml

• Sang Shin is adding a new Java Web Services course to his popular JavaPassion.com java skills site
• http://blogs.sun.com/theaquarium/entry/
  javapassion_com_has_web_services

• While only in the rumor stages at this point, it sounds like Java 6 on the Mac will only be available on Leopard on Intel!
• http://lists.apple.com/archives/java-dev/
  2006/Nov/msg00183.html
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/fabriziogiudici/
  archive/2007/07/java_and_mac_os.html

• Cay Horstmann has a comparison of JSF development in both NetBeans and Eclipse
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/cayhorstmann/
  archive/2007/07/jsf_support_in.html

• JBoss Portal 2.6 adds support for Google Gadgets
• http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?
  thread_id=46019

• While not really Java centric, clipperz blog has some benchmarks of the new Tamarin javascript engine (donated by Adobe) that will be in firefox 4
• http://www.clipperz.com/users/marco/blog/
  2007/06/28/first_tamarin_benchmarks

• Web developers may be pleased to hear that JSFToolbox 2.0 is now available for use with Dreamweaver CS3
• http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?
  thread_id=46102

• Paul Sandoz of the glassfish team has succeeded in (and blogged about) getting Scala running under the Glassfish application server
• http://blogs.sun.com/sandoz/entry/skittr_on_glassfish

• JSR 315 - Servlet 3.0 - has been filed and approved by the JCP
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/mode/archive/2007/
  07/servlet_30_jsr.html

• Javabeat has an introduction to JavaFX script programming
• http://www.javabeat.net/javafx/2007/
  07/javafx-introduction/

• Screencast-o-matic - a Java applet to record screencasts
  
• http://www.screencast-o-matic.com/

• The Cologne JUG (or JUG Cologne as it is correctly named) held an IDE shootout between Eclipse, NetBeans, JDeveloper and IntelliJ IDEA
• http://www.netbeans.org/community/
  articles/jugcologne-shootout.html
• http://thepeninsulasedge.com/frank_nimphius/2007/
  07/04/jug-cologne-ide-bashing-and-the-winner-is/
• http://www.theserverside.com/tt/articles/article.tss?
  l=IDEShowdown

• Seam 2.0 - Gavin King's conversational state framework (and contributor to JSR 299 web beans) has entered beta
• http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?
  thread_id=45998

• JBoss has announced that JBossWS 2.1.0 will support Metro
• http://blogs.sun.com/theaquarium/entry/
  glassfish_s_metro_now_also

• MaintainJ 1.2 released
• http://www.maintainj.com

• Bruce Eckel has a number of other Open Space conferences (like the roundup) coming up in the next few months
• http://mindview.net/

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  • 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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