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Sun, 9 December 2007

Java Posse #153 - Newscast for Dec 6th 2007

Newscast for December 6th 2007

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NetBeans 6.0 is now out!

Spring 2.5 has been released, a new version of the alternative enterprise Java stack

http://www.springframework.org/node/561

Applets of the week: Maths, Physics and Engineering applets

http://www.falstad.com/mathphysics.html

Android News:

Robert Cooper has written an article covering his first impressions of the Android API's and comments on possible improvements that could be made

http://www.oreillynet.com/onjava/blog/2007/
11/android_first_impressions.html

Carlos Bazzarella from Poliplus software has started a new project called ME4Android

http://www.poliplus.com/android.htm

Open Handset Alliance member Ascender has announced “Droid Fonts?

http://openhandsetmagazine.com/2007/11/
android-got-new-fonts-from-ascender/

Looking to get started with Android? John Lombardo at linuxdevices.com has written an in-depth, hands-on article that introduces Android

http://www.linuxdevices.com/articles/
AT9900056470.html

For people interested in getting Android to work on various real and virtual hardware, there's a new Google group, called AndroidPort

http://groups.google.com/group/androidport/
browse_thread/thread/7096532830a2a1f1

Karl Pauls of Luminis has managed, with a few hacks, to get Apache Felix (OSGi) to work on Android

http://blog.luminis.nl/luminis/entry/
osgi_on_google_android_using

https://opensource.luminis.net/confluence/
display/SITE/OSGi+Android

Quick News Items

New jsf project: Project Mojarra

TheServerSide has an article up about RestFaces, a library to solve the problem of BookMarkable JSF (JavaServer Faces)

http://www.theserverside.com/news/
thread.tss?thread_id=47561

Mark Reinhold of the OpenJDK Governance Board has announced that the Interim Governance Board has unanimously approved a proposal for the creation of an OpenJDK Porters java.net group

http://openjdk.java.net/groups/porters

http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/
announce/2007-November/000044.html

Think Record Storage is the only option for Java ME development? Think again!

Atlassian Software has released version 1.2 of Crowd, its single sign on and OpenID software

http://www.theserverside.com/news/
thread.tss?thread_id=47697

The Apache project has released version 1.1 Final of Continuum, the continuous integration server for building Java projects

http://maven.apache.org/continuum/

JBoss has released a JSF unit testing tool: JSFUnit

http://www.theserverside.com/news/
thread.tss?thread_id=47747

JSR 321 - Trusted Computing API for Java, has been submitted to the JCP by the IAIK Graz University of technology

http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=321

Roberto Chinnici blogs that he has got GlassFish v2 running on SoyLatte on Tiger

http://weblogs.java.net/blog/robc/archive/
2007/11/glassfish_on_so.html

DeveloperLife has started a series of tutorials about developing with GWT (the Google Web Toolkit)

http://developerlife.com/tutorials/?p=80

The third season of Lost on Blu-Ray will feature a number of enhancements using BD-J

http://uk.dvd.ign.com/articles/817/817072p1.html

Sun has announced a new program to compensate Open Source developers for their coding efforts

JavaRanch has an article about James Gosling's recent "State of the Java Universe" talk

http://radio.javaranch.com/val/2007/12/
03/1196689105739.html

Kelly O'Hair blogs that JDK 7 build 24 has switched over to the Mercurial distributed source control mechanism for the OpenJDK sources

http://weblogs.java.net/blog/kellyohair/archive/
2007/12/openjdk_mercuri_7.html

Listener Feedback

Closures, BGGA and FCM

Ryan Dewsbury's new GWT book

http://www.amazon.com/Google-Toolkit-
Applications-Ryan-Dewsbury/dp/0321501969/
ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=
1197204440&sr=8-1

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