Newscast for August 23rd 2007

• More details on the Java Posse (Hello) World Tour
• http://www4.java.no/web/show.do?
  page=152&articleid=5053

• NetBeans 6.0 is to be released under the GPL v2 license with the Classpath exception (the same license as the OpenJDK)
  
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/joshy/archive/
  2007/08/netbeans_to_bec.html
• http://www.netbeans.org/gplv2-faqs.html
• http://blogs.sun.com/theaquarium/entry/
  netbeans_like_glassfish_to_be

• TheServerSide has an article up about OpenID, saying that it is a great idea, but a bit bewildering for consumers
• http://www.theserverside.com/news/
  thread.tss?thread_id=46625

• The PlentyOfCode blog has a useful list of Java decompilers and Java obfuscators
• http://www.plentyofcode.com/2007/08/
  java-decompilers-and-obfuscators.html

• Library of the week: Jasper Reports 2.0
• http://jasperforge.org/sf/projects/jasperreports

• Java Application of the week: Hudson - Continuous Build engine
  
• http://hudson.gotdns.com/wiki/display/
  HUDSON/Meet+Hudson

Quick News Items

• Java.net have launched a new column by David Flanagan, the author of Java in a Nutshell
• http://today.java.net/pub/a/today/2007/
  08/09/looking-ahead-to-java-7.html

• MyEclipse 6.0 is out. This new version is based on the new Eclipse 3.3 Europa platform, and adds Java EE 6 support and "redefines AJAX productivity"
• http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?
  thread_id=46653

• Geronimo 2.0 has been released. The apache Java application server now offers full Java 5.0 support and is certified
• http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?
  thread_id=46658

• Romain Guy has put up 82 swing and 2d demos on his blog that he and Chet Haase released to go along with their new book "Filthy Rich Clients"
• http://www.curious-creature.org/2007/
  08/20/82-swing-and-java-2d-demos/

• The latest version of SWTSwing, version 3.2.0005, brings the possibility of running SWT 3.2 on top of Swing
• http://swtswing.sourceforge.net/main/index.html

• Rémi Forax notes that it appears the Java Kernel will be included in JDK6 update 4

• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/forax/archive/
  2007/08/java_kernel_in.html
• http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?
  bug_id=6585322
• But Chris Adamson has his doubts, and it is a bit surprising that something so big would go largely unnoticed, after all we were expecting to wait for Java 7, or JSR 277, or both
  
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/editors/archives/
  2007/08/nobody_told_me.html

• ServerSide again, this time Vladimir Blagojevic describes the new features in JGroups 2.5
• http://www.theserverside.com/tt/articles/
  article.tss?l=NewFeaturesJGroups
• http://www.jgroups.org/javagroupsnew/docs/index.html

• Interface 21 has announced Spring Web Services 1.0
• http://static.springframework.org/spring-ws/site/

• JSR 286 - the Portlet Specification 2.0, is in the public review ballot stage until August 27th
• http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=286

• If you are looking for an easier way to call native code from Java on Windows, check out NativeCall
  
• http://johannburkard.de/software/nativecall/

• Kelly O'Hair has an update about the current status of moving the OpenJDK project to Mercurial
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/kellyohair/archive/
  2007/08/openjdk_mercuri.html

• Google has released the proposed final draft for JSR 284 - Resource Consumption Management API
• http://jcp.org/aboutJava/communityprocess/pfd/
  jsr284/index.html

• Oracle has just released a new version 3.4.42 of the Berkeley DB, Java edition
• http://www.oracle.com/database/berkeley-db/je/index.html

• IBM Developerworks has a good article about mylyn 2.0 (formerly mylar), the task focused UI extensions for eclipse 
• http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/java/library/
  j-mylyn1/index.html?ca=dgr-jw22jvmylynp1&
  S_TACT=105AGX59&S_CMP=GRsite-jw22

• JEuclid 3.0 has been released
• http://jeuclid.sourceforge.net/

• Tim Boudreau has become a contributor to the apache wicket plugin for NetBeans project
• http://blogs.sun.com/geertjan/entry/
  when_boudreau_met_wicket
• http://wicket.apache.org/

Special Section for this week - Gossip

• Jim Louderback, Editor in Chief for PC Magazine, declared this week that Vista just ain't cutting it, and that if Microsoft can't get Vista working, he is contemplating moving to Linux
• http://java.sys-con.com/read/417816.htm
• http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1895,2171472,00.asp

• Closures are hot
• http://codetojoy.blogspot.com/2007/08/closures-are-hot.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 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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  • Post on our Google Group - http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse
  • Or send us email - javaposse@gmail.com

Newscast for August 16th 2007 and Glassfish Interview

• SCO end game unrolling
• http://slashdot.org/articles/07/08/
  13/208231.shtml
• http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?
  sid=07/08/10/2148253&from=rss

• JSR 291 (Dynamic Component Support for Java SE) has released it's final version
  
• http://www.jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=291
• http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=277
• And talking of the public spectacle between 277 and 291, apparently JSR 316 (Java EE 6) has stirred up the debate again
• http://www.infoq.com/news/2007/08/osgi-jsr277-debate

• Mobile app of the week: J2MEdit
• http://www.j2medit.com

• Library of the week - Flosc
• http://www.benchun.net/flosc/

Quick News Items

• IntelliJ IDEA has reached version 7 milestone 2
• http://www.theserverside.com/news/
  thread.tss?thread_id=46560

• Oracle has released Coherence 3.3
• http://www.theserverside.com/news/
  thread.tss?thread_id=46552

• TheServerside.com has a podcast interview with Rod Johnson from Interface 21 about Spring 2.0, and the upcoming Java EE 6 JSR which Rod recently joined as an expert group member
• http://www.theserverside.com/news/
  thread.tss?thread_id=46537

• Codegear - formerly the developer tools division of Borland, has released JGear, a suite of plugins for the eclipse platform that enhance eclipses functionality in the areas of Java application performance, visual development and team collaboration
• http://www.codegear.com/products/jgear/
• http://www.eclipsezone.com/eclipse/
  forums/t100093.rhtml

• Sun has a new program to make it easier for open source Java projects to access the Java TCK (Technology Compatibility Kit)
• http://www.zdnetasia.com/news/software/
  0,39044164,62030656,00.htm

• The glassfish project has created a JSP (JavaServer Pages) subproject to add to its list of subprojects like JSF, Grizzly, JAXB/JAX-WS and so forth
• http://blogs.sun.com/theaquarium/entry/
  new_glassfish_subprojects_for_jsp

• Google has added StarOffice and the JRE to its Google Pack offering for windows
• http://pack.google.com/intl/en/pack_installer.html?
  hl=en&gl=us

• Forget LAMP, check out JAMP
• http://www.alexatnet.com/node/47

• Addison Wesley Eclipse WTP book available
• http://www.eclipsewtp.org/

• What's new in NetBeans Mobility Pack 6.0?
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/brunogh/archive/
  2007/08/whats_coming_in.html

• The eclipse process framework 1.2.0 has been released
• http://www.eclipse.org/epf/downloads/
  tool/epf1.2.0_downloads.php

• Apache has released version 1.2.24 of the Apache Tomcat connectors
• http://tomcat.apache.org/connectors-doc/

Glassfish Interview

• Glassfish home page
• https://glassfish.dev.java.net/
• RC1 (current as of podcast - look for newer versions!)
• https://glassfish.dev.java.net/downloads/v2-b58.html
• v3 Preview (the bleeding edge)
• https://glassfish.dev.java.net/downloads/v3-techPreview-1.html
• Eduardo Pelegri-Llopart's blog
• http://blogs.sun.com/pelegri/
• Jerome Dochez's blog
• http://blogs.sun.com/dochez/
• JSR 316 (Java EE 6)
• http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=316
• JSR 317 (Java Persistence API 2.0)
• http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=317
• JSR 318 (Enterprise Java Beans 3.1)
• http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=318

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

Newscast for August 9th 2007

• Iris is ready for the prime time (or at least general experimentation)
• https://iris.dev.java.net/

• Hackademix.net has a description of a way to use Java and liveconnect to circumvent popup blocking tools
• http://hackademix.net/2007/08/
  07/java-evil-popups

• In an article on InfoQ, Martin Fowler reckons we are entering a software development stage where a single language like Java will be replaced by Domain Specific Languages created for each task
• http://www.infoq.com/news/2007/
  08/multi-lingual-programming

Quick News Items

• JSR 113 has a second proposed final draft for the Java speech API 2.0
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/editors/
  archives/2007/08/burn_your_life.html

• The Aquarium has the second screencast about using jMaki JSF components, NetBeans IDE and GlassFish application server
• http://blogs.sun.com/theaquarium/
  entry/jmaki_mashing_up_the_maps
• And, the first ever jMaki User Group meeting will take place on August 23rd at the Sun Microsystems Santa Clara campus
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/arungupta/
  archive/2007/08/free_jmaki_user.html

• Sun is set to release a new 8 core, Niagara 2 chip this week. The 8 core, 8 threads per core processor should be able to allow up to 64 simultaneous running threads with suitable software
• http://slashdot.org/articles/07/08/
  03/0444220.shtml

• Moomba has reached version 0.5. This new and quite ambitious web UI framework provides an eclipse RCP for the web, the idea being that developers already familiar with the Eclipse RCP can build rich and ajax-y web applications using their RCP skills
• http://www.eclipsezone.com/eclipse/
  forums/t99589.rhtml

• Not to be left out, Swing apps also now have a web UI migration path. WebCream allows swing apps to be adapted into rich internet applications (RIAs) providing automatic conversion to AJAX
• http://www.theserverside.com/news/
  thread.tss?thread_id=46461

• The first release candidate is out for Glassfish v2
  
• http://blogs.sun.com/theaquarium/
  entry/the_road_to_glassfish_v2

• A new Evans Data survey shows that Java is on the rise and .NET is declining for implementing SOAs (Service Oriented Architectures)
• http://home.businesswire.com/portal/
  site/digg/index.jsp?ndmViewId=news_view
  &newsId=20070807005113&newsLang=en

• OpenJDK can now be built and run with FreeType, removing one of the remaining encumbrances from proprietary software
• http://kennke.org/blog/2007/08/08/freetype-fonts-in-openjdk/

Listener Feedback

• Hands Of Romania charity is looking for laptops, servers, network peripherals and other donations
• www.handsofromania.org

• Chet Haase on the state of video in Java
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/chet/archive/
  2007/05/media_frenzy.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 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)
    

• 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

Newscast for August 4th 2007

• How much is your code worth?
• http://cysquatch.net/blog/?p=43
• http://www.theserverside.com/news/
  thread.tss?thread_id=46356
• http://www.yafla.com/dennisforbes/
  Internal-Code-Reuse-Considered-Dangerous/
  Internal-Code-Reuse-Considered-Dangerous.html

• The new firefox 4 javascript VM, which will be based on Tamarin (the engine donated to the project by Adobe), will run not only JavaScript, but also Ruby and Python
• http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/roadmap/
  archives/2007/07/new_projects.html

• JavaFX properties support
• http://jfx.wikia.com/wiki/Properties
• http://jfx.wikia.com/wiki/Unified_
  Member_Declaration_and_Definition

• NetBeans to get first class Groovy support?
• http://jameswilliams.be/blog/index.php?
  itemid=24
• http://blogs.sun.com/roumen/entry/
  netbeans_podcast_episode_32_interview

• http://www.netbeans.org/community/
  news/index.html#1088
• http://www.developer.com/db/article.php/3691716

• Google has released a free tool - the Google Singleton Detector
• http://code.google.com/p/
  google-singleton-detector/
• http://code.google.com/p/
  google-singleton-detector/wiki/Usage

• And for another fun discussion, when should you use finalizers?
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/jfalkner/
  archive/2007/07/blarg27_dont_us.html

• Applet of the week - Zombie Infection
• http://zombies.kalleboo.com/

• Applet of the week - bonus - Bitlet
• http://www.zeropaid.com/news/8943/BitLet+
  Lets+You+Download+Torrents+Without+a+Client
• http://www.bitlet.org/

Quick News Items

• San Shin's JavaPassion.com website now has a hands on lab for creating web applications using Sun's woodstock JSF components which have just been open sourced by Sun
• http://www.javapassion.com/
  handsonlabs/jsfwoodstock/

• Yahoo has release YSlow, a performance tool which helps you to determine why a site is slow
• http://developer.yahoo.com/yslow

• An updated version of the JavaFX plugin is now available for NetBeans
• http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/
  NewsItemView?newsItemID=1084

• JSR roundup:
• JSR 317 (Java Persistence API 2.0) and 318 (Enterprise Java Beans 3.1) have been accepted by the JCP
• http://blogs.sun.com/theaquarium/
  entry/jpa_2_0_and_ejb
• JSR 286 - The Java Portlet Specification 2.0, has been posted as a public review draft by Sun
• http://jcp.org/aboutJava/communityprocess/
  edr/jsr286/index2.html
• JSR 315 - Servlet 3.0 - has also been approved by the JCP
• http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=315

• Daniel Boekhoff has a new tutorial up at NetBeans.org that walks you through creating a Ruby on Rails application in NetBeans
• http://wiki.netbeans.org/wiki/view/
  AShortRubyOnRailsTutorialForNetbeans6

• What ever happened to the Apache TCK open letter and blowup? 
• http://www.infoq.com/news/2007/07/apachejck
• http://www.javalobby.org/java/forums/t99039.html

• JBoss has released Drools 4.0
  
• http://www.theserverside.com/news/
  thread.tss?thread_id=46334

• Lifehacker has information about an OpenOffice extension that lets you write macros in Groovy
  
• http://lifehacker.com/software/featured-download/
  record-macros-in-openoffice-with-groovy-280472.php

• Oliver Widder JavaPosse World Tour Poster
• http://geekandpoke.typepad.com/geekandpoke/
  2007/07/the-java-posse-.html
• http://www.geekandpoke.com/cartoons/
  jproundup-08.jpg

• Chet Haase appears in the latest SDN tv episode talking about the new book Filthy Rich Clients
• http://java.sun.com/developer/media/

• The San Diego JUG has a special appearance by James Gosling on August 8th
• http://www.sdjug.com/
• http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/SDJUG/
  database?method=reportRows&tbl=8

• If you have ever been interested in getting your own JSR through the JCP, you might be interested in a new series on the JCP site that explains each part of the process in detail. Part 3 in the series has just been published, which explains the draft review process
• http://jcp.org/en/resources/speclead_life_p3

• Atlassian software have bought Cenqua
• http://www.theserverside.com/news/
  thread.tss?thread_id=46427

• An eclipse RCP training world tour? Well, the USA and Europe anyway
• http://www.eclipse.org/org/press-release/
  20070731_RCPtraining.php

• Registration is now open for the eclipse summit Europe
• http://www.eclipse.org/org/press-release/
  20070719_ESEregopen.php

• A new JSF user group has been formed in Zürich, Switzerland and Ed Burns was the first presenter
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/edburns/
  archive/2007/08/swiss_jsf_user.html

• MyTreo.net reports that Palm has very quietly released an update to the Websphere Everyplace Java ME environment for Palm OS
  
• http://mytreo.net/archives/2007/07/
  palm-os-java-micro-environmnet-updated.html

• Beelucid software has announced a limited release of a free beta test version and unlimited release of a free trial version of VBeeJava
• http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/
  thread.tss?thread_id=46449

• BEA has released a suite of WebLogic server tools for Eclipse Europa (3.3) to help develop, deploy and debug weblogic based applications from the new version of Eclipse
• http://www.eclipsezone.com/eclipse/
  forums/t98865.rhtml

• Marc Fleury, former CEO of JBoss, has a short but interesting interview up at news.com
• http://news.com.com/8301-10784_3-9753687-7.html?
  part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-5

• Apache MyFaces has released version 1.2.0 of it's core JSF 1.2 compliant JSF components
• http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?
  thread_id=46244

• If you are interested in building web services with ReST, Brian Leonard has a blog entry about how to do it easily using NetBeans
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/bleonard/archive/
  2007/07/an_introduction_1.html

• Dozer 4.0, the new version of the Dozer bean mapping framework, makes it easy to map properties from one bean to another for recursive copying and other related uses
• http://www.theserverside.com/news/
  thread.tss?thread_id=46338

• The GPS tracker site allows you to track a cell phone using a J2ME program running on that phone, and google maps to display the location
• http://gpsmapper.sourceforge.net/

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)
    

• 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