Newscast for January 22nd 2009

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• Details on Project Jigsaw, or is this simply out of data information? Plus, Eclipse plans for OSGi
  
• http://www.javabeat.net/articles/101-introduction-to-java-module-system-in-java-70-1.html
• http://eclipse.dzone.com/articles/plans-2009
• http://eclipse.dzone.com/articles/meet-refcard-author-equinox-wi
• http://refcardz.dzone.com/refcardz/equinox?oid=ban00027-0

• Mobile Java app of the week - Skype Lite
• http://smarttouchphones.com/smartphones/t-mobile-g1/
  t-mobile-g1-apps/skype-lite-app-t-mobile-g1-android-cell-phones/
• http://skype.com/mobile/#panelPreset2

• Java app of the week - GTD Free
• http://gtd-free.sourceforge.net/

Quick News

• Sun Tech Days 2009 has announced that the conference will stop in Hyderabad from Feb 18th to 20th 2009 at the HICC
• http://www.sercononline.com/suntechdays09/index.htm

• Chris Adamson reports from Codemash, a user organized developer conference held in central Ohio
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/editors/archives/2009/01/rockstar.html

• Peaberry 1.0 RC2 is out
• http://code.google.com/p/peaberry/
• http://code.google.com/p/peaberry/wiki/UserGuide

• Party time is a new grails platform that simplifies the creation of social networking applications in the groovy based web framework
• http://code.google.com/p/party-time/

• GridGain 2.1 has been released
• http://www.gridgain.com/

• QCon London 2009 has been announced
• http://qconlondon.com/london-2009/conference/

• The Apache project has announced commons digester 2.0, a library to convert XML objects into Java
• http://www.linuxpromagazine.com/online/news/
  xml_fodder_for_java_objects_with_commons_digester_2_0

• Palm unveiled the soon to be released palm pre
• http://www.mobiletopsoft.com/board/4316/
  full-specs-of-the-new-palm-pre-smartphone-based-on-webos.html
• http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/palm-pre-belle-ball-linux-her-arm
• http://www.slashgear.com/palm-announces-webos-mojo-sdk-1230062/

• Amy Fowler has a blog entry all about layouts in Java FX
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/aim/archive/2009/01/layout_primer_f.html

• The mono project has found a way around the no VM's rule on the iPhone to allow C# developed applications to run on Apple's phone
• http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20090108-
  open-source-mono-framework-brings-c-to-iphone-and-wii.html

• The cloudtools project is a new google code hosted project that provides tools for deploying, managing and testing applications on Amazon's EC2
• http://code.google.com/p/cloudtools/
• http://hostedftp.wordpress.com/2009/01/10/
  google-code-cloudtools-for-deploying-java-applications-on-amazon-ec2/
• And Sun Microsystems has acquired Q-layer
• http://www.sun.com/aboutsun/pr/2009-01/sunflash.20090107.1.xml

• Twitter's Project Kestrel has replaced a Ruby queue implementation with a much faster Scala implementation
• http://robey.livejournal.com/53832.html
• http://github.com/robey/kestrel/tree/master

• Version 0.15.1 of the NetBeans Scala plugin has been released
• http://blogtrader.net/page/dcaoyuan/entry/scala_plugin_0_15_1

• David Herron blogs about Java 6, Java 6 U 10, OpenJDK and Java 7
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/robogeek/archive/2009/01/it_will_be_open.html

• VisualVM 1.1 has been released
• http://blogs.sun.com/nbprofiler/entry/visualvm_1_1_released

• The first australian Android phone has been delayed indefinitely, just a few days before it was due to be released
• http://www.news.com.au/technology/story/0,28348,24920806-5014239,00.html

• David Pollak has announced Lift 0.10, a new version of the Scala web framework
• http://scala-blogs.org/2009/01/folks-after-many-months-of-breaking.html
• http://liftweb.net/index.php/Main_Page

• The second part of Elliotte Rusty Harold's look at the new Math features of Java 5 and 6 has been published at IBM's developer works
• http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/java/library/j-math2.html

• JSR 314 (JSF 2.0), JSR 315 (Servlet 3.0) and JSR 322 (JCA 1.6) have all been approved by the JCP
  
• http://blogs.sun.com/theaquarium/entry/public_review_drafts_of_jsf

• Arun Gupta has an example of how to embed EJBs into WAR (Web Archive) files using Glassfish v3
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/arungupta/archive/2009/01/ejbs_in_a_war_s.html

• JavaGround has announced that it's XPress suite will include the ability to natively compile Java applications to target the iPhone
• http://www.javaground.com/solution.html
• http://www.developmag.com/news/31128/Javaground-releases-Java-to-iPhone-converter

• Jim Driscoll blogs that the JSF 2.0 Public Review is now out
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/driscoll/archive/2009/01/jsf_20_pr_relea.html
• https://javaserverfaces.dev.java.net/

• Japplis has released the Japplis web site optimizer version 1.0
• http://website-optimizer.japplis.com/

• NetBeans cleaned up in the 2009 Developer.com product awards
• http://www.developer.com/java/other/article.php/3795991

• JOpt 3.0 has been released by Paul R. Holser
  
• http://jopt-simple.sourceforge.net/

• The Aerith NetBeans project has now split out several components from the demo and packaged them for your own use in NetBeans
• http://code.google.com/p/aerithnetbeans/

• Transmorph 1.0.0 has been released
• http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?thread_id=53146
• http://transmorph.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Main_Page

• The ServerSide Java Symposium has announced it's own economic stimulus package by extending its early bird pricing for the 2009 conference until the end of January
• http://javasymposium.techtarget.com/index.html?Offer=JStsspost119

• JUG-USA aims to bring all Java User Groups across the USA together to share tips, resources, even speakers
  
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/van_riper/archive/2009/01/jugusa_the_whol.html

Listener Feedback

• JSR-303 Bean Validation corrections
• http://in.relation.to/Bloggers/BeanValidationJSR303PublicDraftGiveUsFeedback
• http://forum.hibernate.org/viewforum.php?f=26

• Blu Ray Discs using BDJ
• http://www.blueboard.com/bluray/reviews.htm
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BD-J#BD-J_Enhanced_Movie_Titles

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Rich Internet Application Ecosystem

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This was recorded before the release of Java 6 U 10 and JavaFX, so many of the points about the size and performance of Java applets are no longer true, nor is the prediction that interest may be lost in JavaFX after JavaOne. It will be interesting to revisit this subject at the upcoming Java Posse Roundup 2009.

• DHTML
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic_HTML
• GWT
• http://code.google.com/webtoolkit/
• Silverlight
• http://www.microsoft.com/SILVERLIGHT/
• http://www.mono-project.com/Moonlight
• JavaFX
• http://javafx.com/
• Flex
• http://www.adobe.com/products/flex/
• OpenLaszlo
• http://www.openlaszlo.org/
• BitTorrent library for Java
  
• http://www.threerings.net/code/snark/
• Dojo
• http://dojotoolkit.org/
• Java Swing
• http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/uiswing/index.html
• JavaFX tooling
• http://java.sun.com/javafx/faqs.jsp
• JPA - Java Persistence API
  
• http://java.sun.com/javaee/overview/faq/persistence.jsp
• Harness JPA from Flex
• http://osflash.org/blog/2008_12_01_pimento_data_services_integrate_jpa/hibernate_with_flex/flash
• 
  

Newscast for January 8th 2009

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• JavaBeat has a summary of the changes coming in the new version of the Java EE spec
• http://www.javabeat.net/articles/99-new-features-in-java-ee-60-1.html

• Java.net has an interesting poll - what was the biggest Java related story in 2008?
• http://java.net/pub/pq/241

• And, on the subject of Java 7, is the omission of closures a killer blow?
• http://www.infoq.com/news/2009/01/java7-updated

• Java FX Application of the Week: Widget FX
• http://widgetfx.org/
• http://code.google.com/p/widgetfx/

• Java Mobile App of the Week - Snaptu
• http://www.snaptu.com/

• Java Apps of the Week, bonus edition
• http://www.ilabz.net/?p=731

Quick News

• A new service - SVNsite
• http://www.svnsite.com/start

• DZone has updated their ref-card for NetBeans 6.5
• http://netbeans.dzone.com/announcements/updated-netbeans-java-editor-r

• Chenille Kit
  
• http://www.chenillekit.org/license.html

• Bill Pugh and the University of Maryland have released version 1.3.7 of Findbugs
• http://findbugs.sourceforge.net/

• SwingLabs Lives! and has released version 0.9.5 of SwingX
  
• http://swinglabs.org/projects.jsp

• The JSR 319 - Availability Management for Java, has been posted as a public review draft by Ericsson
  
• http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=319

• DWR has reached version 3.0 RC 1
• http://directwebremoting.org/blog/joe/2008/12/16/dwr_version_3_0_release_candidate_1.html 

• 10th Anniversary JCP party at the computer history museum in Mountain View, CA
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/van_riper/archive/2009/01/the_audacity_of_1.html
• http://svscala.ning.com/events/scala-base-meeting-8-1132009

• Sun has posted the public review draft of JSR 303 - Bean Validation
  
• http://jcp.org/aboutJava/communityprocess/pr/jsr303/index.html

• MockFtpServer 2.0 has been released
  
• http://mockftpserver.sourceforge.net/

• JFrog has released version 2.0 of Artifactory, a Maven repository manager
• http://www.jfrog.org/products.php

• Google video titled "the nuts, bolts and springs of distributed OSGi applications"
• http://eclipse.dzone.com/videos/the-nuts-bolks-and-springs-dis

• FEST is a new project offering a fluent interface for testing Swing UIs
• http://code.google.com/p/fest/

• Kirill Grouchnikov has released version 4.0 feature freeze preview of flamingo
  
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/kirillcool/archive/2008/12/_pushing_pixels.html

• Jeet Kaul, VP of Client Software for Sun Microsystems, has a useful blog Q&A up about JavaFX
• http://blogs.sun.com/meetjeet/entry/javafx_the_road_ahead

• Apache Commons Config 1.6 is out
• http://commons.apache.org/configuration/

• Jazoon has issued a call for papers for the Jazoon 2009 conference to be held from June 22nd to 25th in Zurich
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/felipegaucho/archive/2008/12/jazoon_call_for.html

• Java runs faster on Linux
  
• http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=java_vm_performance&num=1

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  • 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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Holiday 2008 Special

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Our traditional Odyssey into non-Java geeking, although there is a fair amount of Java meat if you can make it through to the latter half of the podcast. It's long, it's rambling, it's off topic, and it was fun.

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