Newscast for September 21st 2007

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• Glassfish v2 and NetBeans 6.0 Beta 1 have been released
• http://blogs.sun.com/pelegri/entry/overview_of_glassfish_v2
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/ludo/archive/
  2007/09/glassfish_v2_in.html
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/jfarcand/archive/
  2007/09/whats_really_co_1.html
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/sdo/archive/
  2007/09/sun_ships_glass.html
• http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/NewsItemView?
  newsItemID=1109
• And, netbeans has just won a Bossie award from InfoWorld
• http://www.infoworld.com/archives/t.jsp?N=s&V=91650
• http://www.eclipsezone.com/eclipse/forums/t101384.html

• OpenOffice.org 2.3 has been released
• http://www.openoffice.org/
• http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/project
• http://download.openoffice.org/2.3.0/index.html
• http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?
  sid=07/09/19/1455240&from=rss

• Jens Eckels asks "Do we need an IDE 2.0 revolution"
• http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?
  thread_id=46941

• SCO declares Chapter 11 bankruptcy
• http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?
  sid=07/09/14/1948257&from=rss
• http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?
  sid=07/09/18/175259

• Java application of the week jIRCii
• Use it on our new Java Posse IRC channel - #javaposse on irc.freenode.net
  
• http://jirc.hick.org/

• Java Site of the Week: Mint
• http://www.mint.com

Quick News Items

• The eclipse project has released eclipse PHP development tools 1.0
  
• http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9780700-7.html
• http://www.eclipse.org/pdt/
• http://www.zend.com

• The Nimbus Look and Feel is nearing completion
  
• http://www.breakitdownblog.com/
  2007/09/07/nimbus-lnf-almost-done/
• http://www.jasperpotts.com/blog/
  2007/09/nimbus-almost-done/

• Chet Haase and the timing framework project have announced version 1.0 of the timing framework
•  https://timingframework.dev.java.net/
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/chet/archive/
  2007/09/aversion_10_its.html

• Version 1.0 of JSR 295 - the Beans Binding API, is now available for download
  
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/shan_man/archive/
  2007/09/beans_binding_1.html
• http://forums.java.net/jive/thread.jspa?
  messageID=234190&tstart=0#234190

• iced-tea.org is the home of the IcedTea project providing a completely unencumbered open source Java
• http://iced-tea.org/wiki/Main_Page

• Microsoft have released version 1.0 of Silverlight
• http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?
  sid=07/09/05/1442254&from=rss

• Adobe has released the first public beta of Flex 3.0
  
• http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flex/
• http://flexwiki.adobe.com/confluence/display/
  ADOBE/Home

• Kirill Grouchnikov has announced version 4.0 of the Substance look and feel for Java
• https://substance.dev.java.net/

• A Ccomparison between the Java and .NET way of handling generics
• http://www.jprl.com/Blog/archive/development/
  2007/Aug-31.html

• The Aquarium has a guide to the ReST initiatives for Java
  
• http://blogs.sun.com/alexismp/entry/
  restful_sun_putting_it_all
• http://blogs.sun.com/teera/entry/
  jaxb_for_simple_java_xml

• Apache Tuscany version 0.99 has been released
• http://www.theserverside.com/news/
  thread.tss?thread_id=46746

• The open source Java server Glassfish now has a wiki/user faq site
  
• http://wiki.glassfish.java.net/Wiki.jsp?
  page=GlassFishUserFAQ

• J/Invoke 1.0 has been released
• http://www.jinvoke.com/

• IBM developerworks has a new article describing how to invoke dynamic languages
• http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/java/
  library/j-javascripting1/?ca=dgr-btw01javaapi
  &S_TACT=105AGX59&S_CMP=GR

• The new Cajo java.net project provides a simple and very small library to enable distributed computing using just three simple methods in the API: export, lookup and proxy
• https://cajo.dev.java.net/
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/cajo/
  archive/2007/09/simple_interjvm.html

• NetBeans has a new module integrating the Google Checkout API through a new open source Google Checkout Java SDK project
  
• http://code.google.com/p/google-checkout-java-sdk/
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/inder/archive/
  2007/08/netbeans_module.html

• Netbeans.tv now has Tor's video interview about and demo of the new NetBeans 6 rails features for constructing web applications
• http://www.netbeans.tv/interviews/Tor-Norbye-mixes-
  Ruby-and-Java-development-using-NetBeans-151/

• Version 1.6 of project Grizzly has been released
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/jfarcand/archive/
  2007/08/project_grizzly_3.html

• Lance Anderson blogs that JDBC 4.0 is catching on with ever more companies and organizations offering JDBC 4.0 compliant drivers for their database
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/lancea/archive/
  2007/09/updated_list_of.html

• If you do a lot of JNI development you may be interested in the Intel integrated Java/JNI debugger
• http://softwarecommunity.intel.com/
  articles/eng/1435.htm

• EclipseZone reports that a new milestone of the Whole Platform, 1.0.0.v20070912-1454
• http://whole.sourceforge.net/Overview.html
• http://www.eclipsezone.com/eclipse/
  forums/t101496.rhtml

• Hudson continuous build engine continues to go from strength to strength
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/kohsuke/archive/
  2007/09/more_hudson_ado.html
• http://blogs.sun.com/theaquarium/entry/
  hudson_plugins_for_net

• Azul systems, makers of the very scalable Java hardware solutions with the ability to run hundreds of concurrent Java threads is in trouble
• http://www.theserverside.com/news/
  thread.tss?thread_id=46884
• http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/
  09/12/azul_hurt/

• IBM DeveloperWorks has made another handy little developer tool available. The Lock Analyzer allows you to examine how Java locks are performing in a live application
  
• http://www.alphaworks.ibm.com/tech/jla?
  open&S_TACT=105AGX59&S_CMP=GRsite-
  jw22&ca=dgr-jw22awjla

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