Newscast for Oct 23rd 2008

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

• The Android project has been released as open source, beating the rumored launch date for the source code by several months
• http://source.android.com/
• And, Gizmodo and ZDNet both offer in-depth reviews of the T-Mobile G1
• http://gizmodo.com/5062977/t+mobile-
  g1-google-android-phone-review 
• http://blogs.zdnet.com/cell-phones/?p=179 
• http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS6126688892.html?kc=rss 
• http://code.google.com/p/i-jetty/
  
• http://lifehacker.com/5059266/give-android-a-spin-online

• Java 6 Update 10 final has been released by Sun
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/opinali/archive/
  2008/10/java_se_6_updat.html 
• http://www.netbeans.tv/interviews/David-Strupl-392/

• Adobe has release Flash 10 for all supported platforms, including a simultaneous release for Linux
• http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flashplayer10/
  

• Fabrizio Guidici is asking what scripting language people would like to see in BlueMarine
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/fabriziogiudici/
  archive/2008/10/suggest_me_a_sc_1.html
  
• https://bluemarine.dev.java.net/ 
• http://code.google.com/p/kahlua/ 
• http://www.jython.org/Project/ 
• http://jruby.codehaus.org/ 
• http://groovy.codehaus.org/
  

Quick News

• Registration is now open for the next Mobile and Embedded Developer Days
• https://developerdays.dev.java.net/nonav/overview.html 

• Thoughtworks has announced a new product, Twist, that aims to ease functional testing of web and Java applications
  
• http://studios.thoughtworks.com/twist-agile-test-automation/ 

• Mark Reinhold has written a "wouldn't it be cool" blog that mentions some "wishes"
• http://blogs.sun.com/mr/entry/cool 

• The JCP Executive Committee Elections on the PriceWaterhouse Cooper JCP elections site
• http://jcp.org/en/whatsnew/elections 

• John O'Connor blogs that Jersey, the JAX-RS reference implementation, has reached 1.0
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/joconner/archive/
  2008/10/jaxrs_and_jerse.html 

• A new Microsoft excel to Java bridge, Obba
• http://www.obba.info/ 

• Barton George has left Sun after 13 years
• http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/10/07/
  barton_george_quits_sun/ 

• Mozilla has released Firefox 3.1 beta
• http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20081014-first-
  look-firefox-3-1-beta-1-officially-released.html 

• In a couple of recent tips of the day, Arun Gupta has covered how to port a JSF (JavaServer Faces) 1.2 application up to 2.0
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/arungupta/archive/
  2008/10/totd_48_convert.html 

• The JSR 277 (Java Module System) spec lead, Stanley Ho, is stepping down as spec lead and leaving Sun for RIM (Research in Motion)
• http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/
  jsr277-eg-observer/2008-October/000307.html
  
• http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=277 

• At a recent Google Developer Day in Bangalore, Prasad Ram, director of Google R&D for Bangalore, stated that the Google AppEngine will support Java
  
• http://www.controlenter.in/2008/10/google-developer-day-bangalore-
  google-app-engine-to-support-java-android-sdk-release-on-oct-22/ 
• http://www.controlenter.in/2008/10/java-support-to-appengine-to-
  counter-microsofts-cloud-initiatives-microsoft-strata/ 

• NetBeans has just turned 10 years old
• http://netbeans.tv/interviews/
  James-Gosling-on-Ten-Years-of-NetBeans-395/ 

• Vuze, formally known as Azureus, reaches version 4.0.0
  
• http://www.vuze.com/app
  

• The NetBeans wiki has a very simple introduction to creating your first JavaFX Applet
• http://wiki.netbeans.org/JavaFXApplet 

• A new application toolkit, pivot, has been released
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/gkbrown/archive/
  2008/10/pivot_10_releas_1.html
• http://pivot-toolkit.org/
  
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/gkbrown/archive/
  2008/10/pivot_starter_k.html
  

• Jazoon has announced a call for papers for the 2009 conference
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/cwfrei/archive/
  2008/10/jazoon09_launch.html 
• http://jazoon.com/ 

• Sun Microsystems has announced a loss for the quarter
• http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?thread_id=51294 

• Comcast in cooperation with Panasonic is now offering tru2way support in Chicago and Denver
  
• http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/
  Comcast-Panasonic-Offer-Tru2Way-Sets-98469 

• Oracle has released Oracle JDeveloper 11g and Oracle ADF 11g
  
• http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?thread_id=51030 

• Ed Burns needs YOU for JSF 2.0
  
• http://wiki.java.net/bin/view/Projects/JsfExtensionSurvey 

• Mono 2.0 has been released
  
• http://www.mono-project.com/Release_Notes_Mono_2.0
• http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/10/06/
  Mono_2_lets_Net_apps_run_on_Linux_1.html
  
• http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/
  3776201/Is+NET+on+Linux+Finally+Ready.htm 
• http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Application-Development/
  Mono-20-Takes-NET-Cross-Platform/

• BlueJ has reached version 2.5
  
• http://www.cafeaulait.org/#October_6_2008_23602 

• Christopher Brock has released version 2.0 Beta of MVEL - the MV Flex Expression Language
  
• http://mvel.codehaus.org/ 

• Rudie Ekkelenkamp has announced GRAG 1.0, the Grails Application Generator
  
• http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?thread_id=50894 

• WebSynergy has added support for JSR 286 portlets to be written in Groovy in its portal pack 3.0
  
• http://blogs.sun.com/theaquarium/entry/
  groovy_portlet_support_and_websynergy 

• Foxtrot promises simple synchronous Swing programming without the GUI freeze problems
  
• http://foxtrot.sourceforge.net/
  

• Reza Rahman has just wrapped up a five part series about EJB 3.1 new features
• http://www.theserverside.com/tt/articles/
  article.tss?l=NewFeaturesinEJB31-Part5

• RIM (Research in Motion) has announced the next version of its developer tools for the BlackBerry Storm
• http://www.foxbusiness.com/story/markets/industries/technology/
  rim-announces-new-developer-tools-blackberry-storm-
  blackberry-bold-blackberry-1374778263/

Interview with Ted Farrell about Oracle Developer Tools

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We talk to Ted Farrell (and at the end Duncan Mills) about the Oracle Java developer tools, the new Oracle 11g product stack, Oracle's work on JSRs, the future of the Oracle Java products and more.

• Ted Farrell
• http://www.oracle.com/corporate/pressroom/html/tedfarrell.html 
• Duncan Mills
• http://www.groundside.com/blog/DuncanMills.php 
• Oracle Technical Network
• http://www.oracle.com/technology/index.html 
• Oracle SOA (Service Oriented Architecture)
• http://www.oracle.com/technologies/soa/index.html 
• Oracle ADF
• http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/adf/index.html 
• Oracle WebLogic Server 10gRelease 3 (the core app server, moving forward)
  
• http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/weblogic/index.html
• Oracle Application Server
• http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/ias/index.html 
• Open Source Software at Oracle
• http://oss.oracle.com/ 
• WebLogic Suite
• http://www.oracle.com/appserver/weblogic/weblogic-suite.html 
• WebLogic Application Grid
• http://www.oracle.com/appserver/weblogic/application-grid.html 
• Oracle Coherence
• http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/coherence/index.html 
• Oracle and the Java Community Process (JSRs)
• http://www.oracle.com/technology/tech/java/standards/jcp.html 
• JSR 314 - JSF (JavaServer Faces) 2.0
• http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=314 
• JSR 276 - Design Time Metadata for JavaServer Faces Components
• http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=276 
• JSR 317 - JPA (Java Persistence API) 2.0
• http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=317 
• EclipseLink - the Reference Implementation for JSR 317
• http://www.eclipse.org/eclipselink/
  
• JSR 299 - Web Beans
• http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=299 
• Apache Trinidad components for JSF
• http://myfaces.apache.org/trinidad/index.html 
• Oracle JDeveloper Plugins (Extensions)
• http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/jdev/
  htdocs/partners/addins/exchange/index.html 
• Oracle Entprise Pack for Eclipse (OEPE)
  
• http://www.oracle.com/tools/enterprise-eclipse-pack.html
  
• http://www.oracle.com/technology/software/products/oepe/index.html
  
• KODO
• http://www.bea.com/framework.jsp?CNT=index.htm&
  FP=/content/products/more/kodo/ 
• OpenJPA
• http://openjpa.apache.org/ 
• Spring Support
• http://www.oracle.com/technology/tech/java/spring/index.html 
• JDeveloper 11g
• http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/jdev/index.html 
• New Features in JDeveloper
• http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/jdev/
  collateral/papers/11/newfeatures/index.html
  

Interview with Erich Gamma and Tim Francis of IBM

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• Erich Gamma
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erich_Gamma
  

• Tim Francis
• http://www.eclipse.org/webtools/people/person.php?name=francis
  

• Design Patterns - the Gang of Four
• http://www.amazon.com/Design-Patterns-Object-Oriented-
  Addison-Wesley-Professional/dp/0201633612
  

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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The Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall

• Android 1.0 SDK released
• http://code.google.com/android/
  
• http://www.betanews.com/article/TMobile_Android_G1_
  phones_priced_at_179_launch_Oct_22/1222182441 
• http://lifehacker.com/5053661/what-android-could-bring-to-your-phone
  
• http://blogs.sun.com/jrose/entry/with_android_and_dalvik_at 
• http://gizmodo.com/5053515/amazon-mp3-store-is-
  preloaded-on-htc-g1-6-million-drm-free-songs 
• http://news.cnet.com/8301-13505_3-10057440-16.html?tag=mncol;title
  

• SpringSource has changed its policy on maintenance and bug fixes for versions of Spring
• http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?thread_id=50727#268844 
• http://java.dzone.com/news/qa-with-rod-johnson-over-sprin 
• http://www.mastertheboss.com/en/jboss-server/47-ejb-session-beans-.html
  

• Coverage of the JVM langauge summit
• http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/09/30/sun_languages_summit/

• Apple appears to be using JSF for one of their recent web projects
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/edburns/archive/2008/09/apple_using_jsf.html
  

• The winners of the OpenJDK Community Innovator's Challenge have been announced
• http://openjdk.java.net/challenge/ 
• http://www.netbeans.org/grant/ 

• Java Project of the Week - WidgetFX
• http://widgetfx.org/ 
• http://java.sun.com/javafx/tutorials/simple_javafx_nb_app/
  

Quick News

• Concurrency guru Brian Goetz has a new article up at IBM's developerworks
• http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/j-jtp09238.html 

• JSR 311 - The Java API for ReSTful Web Services, has passed the final ballot with 14 yes votes and 1 non-vote
• http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=311 
• http://architects.dzone.com/articles/putting-java-rest?mz=3006-jboss 
• http://blogs.sun.com/theaquarium/entry/jax_rs_jsr_311_approved
  

• JFreeChart 1.0.11 has been released by David Gilbert
• http://www.jfree.org/jfreechart/index.html 

• Chris Adamson  has moved from Atlanta to Grand Rapids, MI
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/editors/archives/2008/09/miles_away.html 

• Apple has released Java for Mac OS X 10.5 Update 2
• http://intellij.net/forums/thread.jspa?threadID=277476&tstart=0
  

• GrinderStone 2.0 has been released
• http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?thread_id=50824 

• John Ferguson has released a new book called JSF Jumpstarter
• http://www.wakaleo.com/resources/jsf-jumpstarter-book 

• John Hoffmann has a demo of Project Nile up on NetBeans TV
• http://netbeans.tv/screencasts/Jeff-Hoffman-explains-the-
  JavaFX-designer-developer-workflow.-378/ 

• Sun has release version 8.0 of OpenSSO
• http://www.sun.com/software/products/opensso_enterprise/index.xml 

• Developer.com has an article introducing math for game creation using Java
• http://www.developer.com/java/other/article.php/3773201
  

• The project darkstar developer challenge offers cash prizes and a pass to the 2009 game developer conference for the winners
• http://www.projectdarkstar.com/developer_challenge
  

• xLightWeb 2.0 has been released
  
• http://xlightweb.sourceforge.net/ 

• Oracle has release TopLink 11g final
• http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/ias/toplink/
  doc/11110/relnotes/toplink-relnotes.html 

• Ars Technica has pitted TraceMonkey against V8 and SquirrelFish Extreme
• http://arstechnica.com/journals/apple.ars/2008/09/19/
  squirrelfish-extreme-mops-floor-with-v8-tracemonkey 

• Adobe has now released a beta version of AIR (the Adobe Internet Runtime) for Linux
• http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/air_linux.html
  
• http://lifehacker.com/5050587/adobe-air-beta-now-available-for-linux
  

• The JSR 318 - EJB 3.1 public draft is now available
  
• http://blogs.sun.com/kensaks/entry/guide_to_the_ejb_3 

• Findbugs 1.3.5 offers new bug detectors
• http://findbugs.sourceforge.net/ 

• CERN has launched the world's largest compute grid
  
• http://devicedaily.com/misc/cern-launches-the-
  biggest-computing-grid-in-the-world.html
  

• Alex Miller notes on EclipseZone that on Halloween, Java 1.4 will officially enter end of service life
• http://eclipse.dzone.com/articles/rip%E2%80%A6jdk-14 

• Mobicents SIP servlets have just achieved JSR 289 compliance
• http://jeanderuelle.blogspot.com/2008/09/
  mobicents-sip-servlets-is-jsr-289-sip.html 
• http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=289 

• Interview with Sun's Jacob Lehrbaum about JavaFX
• http://www.riaweekly.com/2008/10/01/riaweekly023/
  

• Apache has released Solr 1.3.0
• http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?thread_id=50711
  

• Ed Burns blogs that JSF 2.0 Early Draft Review 2 is out
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/edburns/archive/2008/09/jsf_20_early_dr.html 
• http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?thread_id=50747
  

• Google Maps for Mobile (for Java enabled phones) has been updated to now include streetview features
• http://www.google.com/mobile/default/maps/streetview.html 

• If you are in the Adriatic/Balkans area, you may be interested in JavaBlend 2008
• http://www.javablend.net/en/
  

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
  • Call us with questions and feedback - (408) 465 4626
  • Or send us email - javaposse@gmail.com

The Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall