The Java Posse

Sat, 26 November 2005

Java Posse #016 - Newscast for 11/25/2005

Shownotes for episode 16 - Newscast for 11/25/2005

Java EE 5 spec hits final proposed draft

http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=244

Matt Thompson announces a new developer support pilot at Sun

http://developers.sun.com/developer_help

Best Java Desktop Applications

http://www.javalobby.org/java/forums/m91956049.html
Arturia Storm Music Studio - mentioned in the article - can be found at: http://www.arturia.com/en/storm/studio.php, also the music at the end of the show was produced by using this software

Over at eclipsezone.com Ed Burnette proposes we all stay with Java 1.4 instead of migrating up to Java 5

http://www.eclipsezone.com/eclipse/forums/t54318.html

Is .NET 2.0 really faster than Java 5?

http://www.javalobby.org/java/forums/t54616.html

Groovy release JSR 04

http://groovy.codehaus.org/News

Michael Urban asks, Should the client mode JVM ever be used

http://www.javalobby.org/java/forums/t54799.html

Glassfish has a new engineering lead - Jerome Dochez
Java surpasses C++ on sourceforge for number of projects

http://www.jroller.com/page/matsh?entry=java_history_was_made_today

Jboss has it's own podcast now

http://jboss.org/jbossBlog/blog/dsicore/?permalink=Introducing_JBoss_Labs_Podcasts.txt

Free online Java programming book

http://math.hws.edu/javanotes/

Rick Ross of javalobby notes that the online programming competition topcoder has so far paid out over 1 million in prizes

http://www.javalobby.org/java/forums/t54534.html
Topcoder competition and components:

Webcast on building applications with the eclipse RCP (Rich Client Platform)

http://bzmedia.com/webseminar/seminar2215.htm

Superwaba 5.5.2 released

http://www.superwaba.com/

New blog on developing open source java

http://javaopen.net/

Felipe Gaucho on Java Development in Linux

http://weblogs.java.net/blog/felipegaucho/archive/2005/11/moving_to_linux_1.html

Fix memory leaks using Weak References

http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/java/library/j-jtp11225/

Closing rather old joke - http://www.thehumorarchives.com/humor/0001381.html

The Java Posse would like to thank

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 for Java Posse artwork

To contact us:

Visit our homepage - http://javaposse.com
Or send us email - javaposse@gmail.com

Theme Music:

Opening - Thanks to the podsafe music network (http://music.podshow.com) for some "island music" - ONE DROP from Dread Daze - http://music.podshow.com/music/listeners/artistdetails.php?
BandHash=ba36a7c7f75d9cf57de0ce8e6a5e0213
Closing - The music Dick put together using the Arturia Storm Music Demo - If I can do this, imagine what someone talented could do...

Direct download: JavaPosse016.mp3
Category: podcasts -- posted at: 6:21 PM

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Fri, 18 November 2005

Java Posse #015 - Newscast for 11/18/05

Java 5 Release 3 available for OSX - http://www.apple.com/support/downloads/java2se50release3.html
Graham Hamilton's favorite dead boilerplate code in Java 6 - http://weblogs.java.net/blog/kgh/archive/2005/11/my_favorite_dea.html
Hans Muller background on the content pane: http://weblogs.java.net/blog/editors/archives/2005/11/some_change.html
Mylar 0.4 for Eclipse released - http://www.eclipse.org/mylar/
IntelliJ 6 roadmap - http://www.jetbrains.net/confluence/display/IDEADEV/Demetra+Roadmap
NetBeans 5.0 beta 2 - http://www.netbeans.org/community/releases/50/
Blog entry on Java and Web 2.0 http://weblogs.java.net/blog/joshy/archive/2005/11/why_use_java_fo.html

Direct download: JavaPosse015.mp3
Category: podcasts -- posted at: 4:54 AM

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Mon, 14 November 2005

Java Posse #014 - Interview with Jonathan Schwartz of Sun Microsystems

Shownotes for episode 14 - Interview with Jonathan Schwartz of Sun Microsystems
President and COO of Sun Microsystems joins us for a chat about Sun and Java

As mentioned in the podcast, we concentrated mainly on getting straight into the questions, for more background on Jonathan and other less Java-centric material, hear also:

The I/O podcast with Richard Giles - http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/rgiles?entry=i_o_podcast_0007_jonathan
The Churchill Club breakfast and Web 2.0 discussion with Tim O'Reilly can be found linked from Jonathan's blog at http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/jonathan?entry=podcasts_web_2_0_etc

Jonathan's Blog - http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/jonathan
Executive Bio page - http://www.sun.com/aboutsun/media/ceo/mgt_schwartz.html
Java Studio Enterprise 8 and Creator 2 EA available free with SDN membership:

Sun Utility Grid - ODF and Podcasting - http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1880713,00.asp
The digital divide - Sun's "share" pages - http://www.sun.com/emrkt/share/philosophy.jsp
Information about DReaM (Open DRM) - http://www.openmediacommons.org/

The Java Posse would like to thank

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 for Java Posse artwork

To contact us:

Visit our homepage - http://javaposse.com
Or send us email - javaposse@gmail.com

Theme Music:

Opening - The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
Closing - The Prodigy - Breathe from Fat of the Land - Buy it at amazon.com

Direct download: JavaPosse014.mp3
Category: podcasts -- posted at: 6:00 PM

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Sat, 12 November 2005

Java Posse #013 - Newscast for 11/11/2005

Shownotes for episode 13 - Newscast for 11/11/2005

Java Studio Creator and Java Studio Enterprise are now free

Dick's article at developer.com - http://developer.com/java/ent/article.php/3562966
Get the tools - http://developers.sun.com/prodtech/javatools/free/index.html

Great Creator flash demo - see what it can do - http://developers.sun.com/prodtech/javatools/jscreator/reference/quicktour/2/flash/index.html

Microsoft suggests hiring Java developers?

http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/developer/0,39020387,39236242,00.htm

We have a mobile news roundup this week as well:

Google Mobile - new location aware google mapping

http://www.google.com/glm/

Benq takes Siemens Mobile Devices on board and becomes a new leader in Java ME

http://java.sun.com/j2me/benq.html?feed=JSC

What bugs you about J2ME?

http://weblogs.java.net/blog/gvix/archive/2005/11/what_bugs_you_a.html

RIM has make a Developer's tutorial for the blackberry available

http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/8331

LG electronics fields the worlds first completely java powered phone

http://www.ccnmatthews.com/news/releases/show.jsp?action=showRelease
&searchText=false&showText=all&actionFor=566398

Back to Javaone Tokyo, John O'Connor was impressed with the Extreme GUI makeover, episode 1 from the keynotes

http://weblogs.java.net/blog/joconner/archive/2005/11/javaone_tokyo_0_11.html
http://weblogs.java.net/blog/gfx/archive/2005/09/synth_week_cust.html - scroll down to the comments for more screenshots

Java Mustang offers 58% speed improvement

http://weblogs.java.net/blog/opinali/archive/2005/11/mustangs_hotspo_1.html

Apple released XCode 2.2

http://developer.apple.com/tools/xcode/index.html

Linux in a Java Applet

The Linux applet workspot - http://www.workspot.com/
No-machine link - http://nomachine.com

Developer.com has a preview of the features coming up in C# 3.0

http://www.developer.com/net/csharp/article.php/3561756

Sun is improving interoperability between Java and .NET

http://www.idevnews.com/CaseStudies.asp?ID=178

On the same subject, glassfish (the recently open-sourced Sun Application Server) is also adding interoperability with the Windows Communication Foundation (WCF, nee Indigo)

http://weblogs.java.net/blog/pelegri/archive/2005/11/glassfish_to_in.html

JFormdesigner 2 released

http://www.jformdesigner.com/doc/help/news/whatsnew20.html

Michael Urban asks, Will Java Become the Game Development Language of Choice?

http://www.javalobby.org/java/forums/t53645.html
Online gaming charts - http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/ChrisM/weblog/
java_mmorpg_is_bigger_than?catname
More online gaming info - http://www.mmogchart.com/Chart7.html
Puzzle Pirates - http://www.puzzlepirates.com/
Runescape - http://www.runescape.com/
Wurm online - a fantasy RPG with phenomenal graphics - http://www.wurmonline.com/index.php?c=about.php
Chrome - http://www.chromethegame.com/en/show.php?002
And finally - why oh why did they do it to us? Frozen bubble, pure addiction in a game, now in an applet near you - http://glenn.sanson.free.fr/fb/play.html

The Java Posse would like to thank

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 for Java Posse artwork

To contact us:

Visit our homepage - http://javaposse.com
Or send us email - javaposse@gmail.com

Theme Music:

Opening - The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
Closing - AC/DC - Cover you in Oil from Ballbreaker - buy it at amazon.com

Direct download: JavaPosse013.mp3
Category: podcasts -- posted at: 12:03 PM

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Tue, 8 November 2005

Java Posse #012 - Interview with Cedric Beust of Google

Shownotes for episode 12 - Interview with Cedric Beust of Google

Cedric's Blog - http://www.beust.com/weblog/
TestNG homepage - http://testng.org/doc/
JDK 5 in practice - article for the Server Side - http://www.theserverside.com/blogs/showblog.tss?id=JDK5Practice
Cedric's Javapolis page - http://www.javapolis.com/confluence/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=1857

The Java Posse would like to thank

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 for Java Posse artwork

To contact us:

Visit our homepage - http://javaposse.com
Or send us email - javaposse@gmail.com

Theme Music:

Opening - The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
Closing - Chingon with Malaguena Salerosa from the Kill Bill 2 soundtrack

Direct download: JavaPosse012.mp3
Category: podcasts -- posted at: 9:42 AM

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Sun, 6 November 2005

Java Posse #011 - Newscast for 11/04/2005

Shownotes for episode 11 - Newscast for 11/04/2005

JavaOne 2006 call for papers

https://www28.cplan.com/cfp_2006J1/CFPLogin.jsp

Mustang - crack the verifier

Full set of rules and details - https://jdk.dev.java.net/CTV/challenge.html

More analysis of Beyond Java

http://forums.java.net/jive/forum.jspa?forumID=63

CD baby is migrating to ruby on rails (from PHP, not Java)

http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/8274

BEA aquires solarmetric

http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/051103/sfth057.html?.v=28

Simon Brown is attempting to fight his way through the jungle of java web frameworks

http://weblogs.java.net/blog/simongbrown/archive/2005/11/comparing_webap.html

Javalobby talks about Singularity - Microsoft's next generation OS (after vista), they argue that it is something that java could do now

http://www.javacrawl.com/clickToItem.action?itemID=168563&source=rss

JavaOne Tokyo will soon be underway, and John O'Conner will blogging it

http://weblogs.java.net/blog/joconner/archive/2005/11/

Yahoo re-works maps in flash

http://www.clientjava.com/blog/2005/11/03/1131043951173.html

Oracle releases free database server - Oracle Express Edition

http://www.indicthreads.com/news/329/oracle_free_database_express.html

Apple releases 10.4.3 of Mac OS X, which includes performance fixes for Java

http://www.cafeaulait.org/#news2005November1

Tom Copeland's PMD Applied book out now

http://pmdapplied.com/

JBoss has a customer testimonial for EJB 3.0 in a production system

http://jboss.org/jbossBlog/blog/bburke/?permalink=
EJB_3_0_in_production_User_testimonial.txt

100% Pure Java subversion client goes 1.0

http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?thread_id=37406

More fun with Netbeans plugins - a gmail checker plugin

http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/geertjan?entry=gmail_checker_in_netbeans

Bringing it back to swing?

http://weblogs.java.net/blog/kirillcool/archive/2005/11/death_to_the_br.html
Adam Bosworth's article on simple HTML UIs - http://www.adambosworth.net/archives/000031.html

The developer's top 10 replies when code doesn't work

http://www.cenriqueortiz.com/weblog/General/?permalink=
Developers-Top-10-replies-when-code-doesnt-work.html

The Java Posse would like to thank

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 for Java Posse artwork

To contact us:

Visit our homepage - http://javaposse.com
Or send us email - javaposse@gmail.com

Theme Music:

Opening - The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
Closing - Justify by Lullaby Crush - http://www.lullabycrush.com/ - Thanks to Val Lipman, friend to the Java Posse, for granting permission to use this song

Direct download: JavaPosse011.mp3
Category: podcasts -- posted at: 2:07 PM

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