The Java Posse

Tor Norbye (Google), Carl Quinn (Netflix), Dick Wall (Escalate), Chet Haase (Google)

Fri, 29 June 2007

Java Posse #130 - Newscast for June 28th 2007

Newscast for June 28th 2007

Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.com

Java 6 on Mac OS X Leopard (10.5) - It's alive!

Eclipse Europa has been released by the Eclipse foundation

http://www.eclipse.org/org/press-release/
20070627_europarelease.php

Simon Morris has an interesting opinion piece up on Java.net about the future of Rich Internet Applications

http://weblogs.java.net/blog/javakiddy/
archive/2007/06/a_rose_by_any_o.html

In the gossip section this week, is Sun being immoral by "Tying" Java to NetBeans, come to that, is it even really tying Java to NetBeans?

http://searchwebservices.techtarget.com/
originalContent/0,289142,sid26_gci1255657,00.html
By way of a counterpoint, Colm Smyth takes exception to the statements in a blog posting called "No good deed goes unpunished"
http://colmsmyth.blogspot.com/2007/05/
sun-and-bea-no-good-deed-goes.html

Do you need Abject Oriented Programming?

http://typicalprogrammer.com/
programming/abject-oriented/
Or perhaps asshole driven development?
http://www.scottberkun.com/blog/2007/
asshole-driven-development/

An almost CPU free pattern with AJAX - RAJAX

http://today.java.net/pub/a/today/2007/06/21/
almost-cpu-free-mvc-pattern-with-rajax.html

Java website of the week - Josh and Friends - the number one dance and music community

Java Mobile App of the Week - Opera Mini 4 Beta

Quick News Items

Sun has submitted the Servlet 3.0 specification to the JCP as JSR 315.

The JCP award nominations for five different categories in selecting the best JSRs for the year are now open

http://java.sys-con.com/read/377049.htm

While not exactly Java related, Sir Tim Berners Lee has received the Order of Merit, one of the most prestigious awards in the UK

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6750395.stm

Cay Horstmann has been delving into .NET and concludes that the grass isn't always greener on the other side

http://weblogs.java.net/blog/cayhorstmann/
archive/2007/06/the_grass_isnt.html

Google Developer Days session videos available on youtube.com

http://youtube.com/results?search_query=GDD07US

Computer Business Review Online has a Q&A with James Gosling, the Father of Java

http://www.cbronline.com/article_news.asp?
guid=D3E19B80-07C0-4C2C-BE8F-C468F56EA78C

JavaBeat has a new article by Shunmuga Raja that covers the new features of Java 6 that might well be worth bookmarking

http://www.javabeat.net/javabeat/java6/
articles/2007/06/java-6-0-new-features-part-1/

A new open source operating system called the Artix OS has been created on SourceForge

http://artix.sourceforge.net/

http://sourceforge.net/project/
showfiles.php?group_id=196831

Yakov Fain has made the Java Tutorial for Kids available as a free download

http://yakovfain.javadevelopersjournal.com/
the_java_tutorial_for_kids_is_available_for_free_download.htm

Atlassian software has released Crowd version 1.1, with lots of new OpenID focused features

http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?thread_id=45881

Apache has released MyFaces Orchestra, which enables conversational scoping and persistence integration with JSF (which is also what Seam and the new WebBeans does). Orchestra uses Spring to achieve this important gap-filling

http://myfaces.apache.org/orchestra/index.html

Stanford has bought the first Project Blackbox, Sun's ready-to-go super computer in a shipping container

http://slashdot.org/articles/07/06/23/1245229.shtml

Egil Sorensen, a student at NTNU in Trondheim, has added replication and hot fail-over to the JavaDB pure java relational database

http://weblogs.java.net/blog/davidvc/
archive/2007/06/replication_in.html

At least some of the multimedia and supporting information is now available for technical sessions and hands on labs from JavaOne 2007

http://digg.com/software/JavaOne_Sessions_
and_Hands_On_Labs_available_online

Howard Lewis Ship and the tapestry team have released Tapestry 4.1.2 and OGNL (Object Graph Notation Language) 2.7

http://www.theserverside.com/news/
thread.tss?thread_id=45954

Sun has renamed the JAX-WS + Project Tango combination to Project Metro

http://www.theserverside.com/news/
thread.tss?thread_id=45864

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)

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Category:podcasts -- posted at: 8:51am PST

Sun, 24 June 2007

Java Posse #129 - Walking around JavaOne 2007, Part 1

Walking Around JavaOne 2007 - Part 1

Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.com

This episode is part one of our recordings from walking around JavaOne and talking to people we meet. Hopefully it gives a taste of what it is like walking around in the pavilion and corridors of JavaOne, and the kind of interactions you have while doing so. There will be a second episode. Dick does a lot of the talking on this one, in part 2, Joe does a lot more of the work.

Sonia AUV

Cenqua - makers of Clover, Fisheye and Crucible development tools

http://www.cenqua.com/
Especially for Pete Moore -
http://news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/hi/
newsid_4230000/newsid_4236700/4236774.stm

Microsoft - Projects Tango and Silverlight

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/aa700845.aspx

Agitar Software

http://www.agitar.com/

Interface 21 - the Spring Framework

Fortify Software and the Man from Hackistan

The Server Side

http://www.theserverside.com/

Java.net community site, and JUGs

http://java.net
Find a Java User Group near you, and support your JUG
http://community.java.net/jugs/listing.csp
Sun Spot - Carl's new toy
http://www.sunspotworld.com/

Starcom - who managed to get us our T-shirts in less than 12 hours

http://www.smvgroup.com/

Amy Fowler and Shannon Hickey from Swing Labs and the Swing Team

Thanks

Libsyn.com - http://www.libsyn.com - for hosting and bandwidth
Brice Ruth and Webprojkt.com - http://webprojkt.com - for our archives site - http://archives.javaposse.com
Feedburner.com - http://www.feedburner.com - for feed redirect
Kirsty Doherty, Oliver Widder and Jeff Tyson for Java Posse artwork
Brian Ehmann - the Java Posse intern
Craig Muth for maintaining the Java Posse Memorizable site - http://memorizable.org/Java_Posse
Theme Music:
- Opening - "Java" the parody song Copyright 1997 Broken Records and Marjorie Music Publ. (BMI), written and performed by Loose Bruce Kerr of the Dr. Demento Show and Sun Microsystems attorney. Based on the WWI popular song, "Ja-da." Ukelele style on the recording taught to Bruce by his dad. Re-produced with kind permission from "Loose" Bruce Kerr - http://loosebrucekerr.libsyn.com
- Closing - Juan Carlos Jimenez - In the House (Intro No. 1)

To contact us:
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Direct download: JavaPosse129.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 11:37am PST

Wed, 20 June 2007

Java Posse #128 - Interview about Java User Groups and Community

Interview about Java User Groups and Community

Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.com

Recorded at JavaOne 2007, this is an interview with Bruno Souza, Ean Schuessler, Daniel Brookshier, David Jones and of course, Juggy. Be sure and keep listening at the end for an easter egg. This interview was loads of fun, thanks to all the guys for doing it.

Bruno Souza
http://weblogs.java.net/blog/brunos

Ean Schuessler
http://www.eanschuessler.com/

Daniel Brookshier
http://weblogs.java.net/blog/turbogeek

David E. Jones
http://docs.ofbiz.org/display/~jonesde/Home

Juggy
http://weblogs.java.net/blog/thejavafinch
http://thejavafinch.dev.java.net

Links to (some) topics we discussed:

Apache Open For Business (OFBiz) - http://ofbiz.apache.org/
Open Source Java - http://openjdk.java.net
JUGs Community - http://community.java.net/jugs
NetBeans - http://www.netbeans.org
OFBiz Talk at JavaOne (with the Generals, Juggy and David)
http://picasaweb.google.com.br/Leonardo.Galvao/
JuggySession?authkey=EP2AX3XuTMI

Thanks

Libsyn.com - http://www.libsyn.com - for hosting and bandwidth
Brice Ruth and Webprojkt.com - http://webprojkt.com - for our archives site - http://archives.javaposse.com
Feedburner.com - http://www.feedburner.com - for feed redirect
Kirsty Doherty, Oliver Widder and Jeff Tyson for Java Posse artwork
Brian Ehmann - the Java Posse intern
Craig Muth for maintaining the Java Posse Memorizable site - http://memorizable.org/Java_Posse
Theme Music:
- Opening - "Java" the parody song Copyright 1997 Broken Records and Marjorie Music Publ. (BMI), written and performed by Loose Bruce Kerr of the Dr. Demento Show and Sun Microsystems attorney. Based on the WWI popular song, "Ja-da." Ukelele style on the recording taught to Bruce by his dad. Re-produced with kind permission from "Loose" Bruce Kerr - http://loosebrucekerr.libsyn.com
- Closing - Juan Carlos Jimenez - In the House (Intro No. 1)

To contact us:
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Direct download: JavaPosse128.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 8:06pm PST

Sat, 16 June 2007

Java Posse #127 - Newscast for June 13th 2007

Newscast for June 13th 2007

Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.com

Should checked exceptions be removed from Java?

What will happen to Java on the Treo now?

http://weblogs.java.net/blog/jdeanquin/archive/
2007/06/develop_j2me_fo.html

Details starting to emerge about Apple's future direction

Java developer tool of the week - SAP Memory Analyzer

http://www.theserverside.com/news/
thread.tss?thread_id=45764

And a bonus - cool Java Media app of the week - Media Center X

http://digg.com/nintendo_wii/
Sream_Media_to_your_Wii_with_Media_Center_X

Quick News Items

Trolltech, makers of the QT GUI toolkit (as used by KDE on Linux) has released QT Jambi

http://trolltech.com/company/newsroom/
announcements/press.2007-06-06.2984198523

Sun has announced their full support for OpenID

http://blogs.sun.com/theaquarium/
entry/openid_sun_com_is_open

Chris Oliver and the Open JFX Script team have released a new version of Java FX Script

https://openjfx.dev.java.net/servlets/
ReadMsg?list=users&msgNo=441

Did you know that as well as the NetBeans Java FX plugin, there is also one for eclipse?

Roman Strobl over at NetBeans.org has a video tutorial for getting started with NetBeans 6.0

http://www.netbeans.org/download/flash/
netbeans_getting_started/
netbeans_getting_started.html

Apache has release SOLR 1.2

http://www.theserverside.com/news/
thread.tss?thread_id=45719

Solaris Developer edition - new version 5/07 release

http://www.netbeans.org/community/
news/index.html#1059

Gigaspaces 6.0 has been announced, and it allows POJOs in JavaSpaces to work with Spring

http://www.theserverside.com/news/
thread.tss?thread_id=45770

And staying with Spring, there is a tutorial up at netbeans.org on how to use Spring in NetBeans
http://www.netbeans.org/kb/55/
quickstart-spring.html

A new JMaki extension for Google Gears from Greg Murray

http://weblogs.java.net/blog/gmurray71/archive/
2007/06/jmaki_extension_1.html

Tips and advice from Josh Bloch and Bill Pugh's Java Puzzlers at JavaOne this year

http://digg.com/programming/Java_Puzzlers

Apache has released version 1.0 of Synapse

http://www.theserverside.com/news/
thread.tss?thread_id=45734

Thanks

Libsyn.com - http://www.libsyn.com - for hosting and bandwidth
Brice Ruth and Webprojkt.com - http://webprojkt.com - for our archives site - http://archives.javaposse.com
Feedburner.com - http://www.feedburner.com - for feed redirect
Kirsty Doherty, Oliver Widder and Jeff Tyson for Java Posse artwork
Brian Ehmann - the Java Posse intern
Craig Muth for maintaining the Java Posse Memorizable site - http://memorizable.org/Java_Posse
Theme Music:
- Opening - "Java" the parody song Copyright 1997 Broken Records and Marjorie Music Publ. (BMI), written and performed by Loose Bruce Kerr of the Dr. Demento Show and Sun Microsystems attorney. Based on the WWI popular song, "Ja-da." Ukelele style on the recording taught to Bruce by his dad. Re-produced with kind permission from "Loose" Bruce Kerr - http://loosebrucekerr.libsyn.com
- Closing - Juan Carlos Jimenez - In the House (Intro No. 1)

To contact us:
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Direct download: JavaPosse127.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 1:05pm PST

Wed, 13 June 2007

Java Posse #126 - Simulcast with Coté from Drunk and Retired

Simulcast with Coté from Drunk and Retired

Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.com

This is an informal chat and analysis recorded at JavaOne with Michael Coté from the DrunkAndRetired.com podcast.

Thanks

Libsyn.com - http://www.libsyn.com - for hosting and bandwidth
Brice Ruth and Webprojkt.com - http://webprojkt.com - for our archives site - http://archives.javaposse.com
Feedburner.com - http://www.feedburner.com - for feed redirect
Kirsty Doherty, Oliver Widder and Jeff Tyson for Java Posse artwork
Brian Ehmann - the Java Posse intern
Craig Muth for maintaining the Java Posse Memorizable site - http://memorizable.org/Java_Posse
Theme Music:
- Opening - "Java" the parody song Copyright 1997 Broken Records and Marjorie Music Publ. (BMI), written and performed by Loose Bruce Kerr of the Dr. Demento Show and Sun Microsystems attorney. Based on the WWI popular song, "Ja-da." Ukelele style on the recording taught to Bruce by his dad. Re-produced with kind permission from "Loose" Bruce Kerr - http://loosebrucekerr.libsyn.com
- Closing - Juan Carlos Jimenez - In the House (Intro No. 1)

To contact us:
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Direct download: JavaPosse126.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 7:34am PST

Sat, 9 June 2007

Java Posse #125 - Newscast for June 7th 2007

Newscast for June 7th 2007

Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.com

Redhat forking Java? It's a good thing really

http://fitzsim.org/blog/?p=17

Eclipse 3.3 RC3 (release candidate 3) has been released

JSF - why hasn't it taken over the world

http://www.theserverside.com/tt/articles/
article.tss?l=RethinkingJSF
http://livedemo.exadel.com/richfaces-demo/
http://jsf.javabeat.net/articles/2007/05/
java-server-faces-introduction/
JSR 314 - JavaServer Faces 2.0

http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=314

Microsoft is just too busy to back up their threats

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/05/24/
microsoft_novell_patents/
http://www.linuxjournal.com/node/1000228
And suing one of their own MVPs?
http://www.theregister.com/2007/06/05/
microsoft_mvp_threats/

More details on a new, small, consumer JRE to compete with Flash

Google released Google Gears - a toolkit that allows web applications to be better threaded and also to work offline

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Gears
http://digg.com/programming/My_very_first_app_
based_on_Google_Gears_Local_Database_API
http://weblogs.java.net/blog/editors/archives/
2007/06/change_of_heart.html
The Google Developer Podcast has finally escaped
http://google-code-updates.blogspot.com/2007/05/
introducing-google-developer-podcast.html

Mobile java app of the week - webaroo

http://mobile.webaroo.com/

Quick News Items

Charles Oliver Nutter, Thomas Enebo and Ola Bini have posted the release for JRuby 1.0 based on Ruby 1.8.5.

http://www.cafeaulait.org/#June_4_2007_22118

The JDJ has announced the contenders for the JDJ readers awards

http://java.sys-con.com/general/readerschoice.htm

The Sun Developer Network has published an interview with Josh Bloch that covers many different topics

http://java.sun.com/javaone/sf/2007/articles/rockstar_bloch.jsp

NetBeans 5.5.1 includes a number of bug fixes and also support for v2 of Glassfish. It also adds windows vista as a supported platform

http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/
NewsItemView?newsItemID=1051

Java FX quick roundup - more information about the new Java FX initiative

ReportMill - a Java FX RAD tool

http://www.reportmill.com/jfx/
Lars Gersmann blogs about a problem with the JavaFX Script assert statement, and gets the answer straight from Chris Oliver
http://orangevolt.blogspot.com/2007/05/javafx-assert-statement.html
Java.net has instructions for installing and using the JavaFX Script s for NetBeans 5.5
https://openjfx.dev.java.net/javafx-nb55-plugin-install.html

Google checkout is offering credit card transaction processing for free until the end of 2007, and Inderjeet Singh has put together instructions on how to use checkout from Glassfish

Martin Odersky has released version 2.5 final of Scala, an alternative programming language that uses the JVM

http://www.scala-lang.org/downloads/index.html

Apache Geronimo milestone 6 has passed the Java EE 5 TCK meaning that it is now possible to deploy Java EE 5 applications to the apache open source Java application server

http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?
thread_id=45680

IBM has a tutorial on using a Google Web Toolkit front end with a back end written using the Apache Geronimo application server

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/opensource/
edu/os-dw-os-ag-gwt1.html?open&ca=daw-fltx-
05172007&S_TACT=106AH62W&S_CMP=NEWS

Sun has announced that they will not enforce patents on their OpenID digital identity framework against anyone else who does not enforce their patents on OpenID either

http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?
thread_id=45552

Novell has released Mono 1.2.4

http://www.go-mono.com/archive/1.2.4/#changes

JBoss 4.2 is out

http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?
thread_id=45553

PDFs of the slides are now available from the technical sessions at JavaOne 2007

http://developers.sun.com/learning/javaoneonline/
j1online.jsp?track=1&yr=2007

JDeveloper, OC4J (Oracle Containers for Java) and Toplink are all now available in 11g preview form

http://www.techping.com/Software/
Oracles-Java-EE-50-Technology-Preview-is--Out.html

Genuitec have released version 5.5 final of MyEclipse Enterprise Workbench

http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?
thread_id=45493

NetBeans has a new support module for the Sun Grid Engine (also sometimes called the Sun utility grid)

http://www.netbeans.org/kb/articles/grid-compute-plugin.html

Antlr 3.0, a very popular "compiler compiler" for the Java platform, has been released by Terrence Parr

http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?
thread_id=45464

There is now a good online map available of the whole Runescape world if you are a fan of the game

http://www.runescape-tip.com/world-map.htm

Arun Gupta has a short getting started guide which makes it easy to get going with JRuby on Rails

http://weblogs.java.net/blog/arungupta/archive/
2007/05/getting_started_1.html

Motorola has released the RAZR 2 and MotoROKR Z6 phones, both of which use a Java on Linux platform

http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS8879219087.html

Felipe Gaucho blogs about the three kinds of Java distribution hell: Classpath hell, Jar hell and Extension hell, and how JSR 277 is trying to fix all three

http://weblogs.java.net/blog/felipegaucho/archive/
2007/05/jsr277_super_ja.html

GWT - the Google Web Toolkit - version 1.4 RC is now available

http://code.google.com/webtoolkit/download.html

NetBeans.org has a new plugin portal for sharing NetBeans plugin modules

http://plugins.netbeans.org/PluginPortal/

Bill Pugh has released version 1.21 of findbugs, the static analysis bug finding tool

http://findbugs.sourceforge.net/

The oldest IDE in existence, Emacs, has just reached version 22

http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/

Helios has released Linux for the Playstation 3

http://digg.com/linux_unix/
Helios_Unveils_Linux_for_Sony_Playstation_3

John O'Conner adds his voice to the chorus of people proclaiming JSR 296 (The Swing Application Framework) is good

http://weblogs.java.net/blog/joconner/archive/
2007/06/the_swing_appli.html

Thanks

Libsyn.com - http://www.libsyn.com - for hosting and bandwidth
Brice Ruth and Webprojkt.com - http://webprojkt.com - for our archives site - http://archives.javaposse.com
Feedburner.com - http://www.feedburner.com - for feed redirect
Kirsty Doherty, Oliver Widder and Jeff Tyson for Java Posse artwork
Brian Ehmann - the Java Posse intern
Craig Muth for maintaining the Java Posse Memorizable site - http://memorizable.org/Java_Posse
Theme Music:
- Opening - "Java" the parody song Copyright 1997 Broken Records and Marjorie Music Publ. (BMI), written and performed by Loose Bruce Kerr of the Dr. Demento Show and Sun Microsystems attorney. Based on the WWI popular song, "Ja-da." Ukelele style on the recording taught to Bruce by his dad. Re-produced with kind permission from "Loose" Bruce Kerr - http://loosebrucekerr.libsyn.com
- Closing - Juan Carlos Jimenez - In the House (Intro No. 1)

To contact us:
- Visit our homepage - http://javaposse.com
- Post on our Google Group - http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse
- Or send us email - javaposse@gmail.com

Direct download: JavaPosse125.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 1:21pm PST

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