Holiday 2008 Special

Roundup 08 - Debugging Software Development

• Stanford Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders podcast
• http://ecorner.stanford.edu/podcasts.html
• B-Corporations
• http://ecorner.stanford.edu/authorMaterialInfo.html?mid=1907
• The Cathedral and the Bazaar
• http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/cathedral-bazaar/
• Java.net Editor's Daily Blog
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/editors/
• Idiosyncratic Credits
• http://faculty.css.edu/dswenson/web/6300-OBOD/cohesionnorms.htm
• Open Spaces Conference
  
• http://www.co-intelligence.org/P-Openspace.html

Newscast for Dec 20th 2008

• JavaFX 1.0 launched, Devoxx becomes the launch party
• http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?thread_id=52165
• http://www.weiqigao.com/blog/2008/12/04/using_javafx_1_0_on_linux.html

• The other big news from Devoxx - Java 7
• http://blogs.sun.com/darcy/entry/small_language_changes_jdk_7
• http://www.jroller.com/scolebourne/entry/java_7_small_language_changes
• http://blogs.sun.com/mr/
• http://java.dzone.com/news/jsr-310-needs-help

• In other Big News that happened while we were on the road, Google has released Native Client
• http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/12/08/Google_tests_ActiveX_alternative_1.html
• http://code.google.com/p/nativeclient/
• http://news.cnet.com/8301-1001_3-10118792-92.html?part=rss

• Java Application of the week: XMind
• http://www.xmind.net

• Java Applet of the Week: Screencast-O-Matic
  
• http://www.screencast-o-matic.com/create?step=setup
  

Quick News

• JavaOne call for papers - closes on Dec 18th
• http://blogs.sun.com/theaquarium/entry/call_for_papers_javaone_and

• The ServerSide Java Symposium
• http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?thread_id=52437

• Vita Santrucek has a quick look at the upcoming Java 6 U 12 release on his blog
• http://blogs.sun.com/vita/entry/java_se_6_update_12

• http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NjkyOQ
• https://jdk6.dev.java.net/6uNea.html

• Eric Arsenau thinks that Java on mobile phones is just the beginning
• http://research.sun.com/minds/2008-1210/

• M3DD (mobile, media and eMbedded developer days) coming up from January 21st to 22nd of January at Sun's Santa Clara campus
  
• https://developerdays.dev.java.net/nonav/overview.html
• https://lwuit.dev.java.net/servlets/ProjectProcess?tab=2
• https://developerdays.dev.java.net/nonav/agenda.html

• Jeet Kaul takes on the sticky subject of JSR 277 and OSGi on the Sun blogs
• http://blogs.sun.com/meetjeet/entry/osgi_vs_jsr_277

• Sun has release Java 6 U 11 with a number of bug fixes for the new and improved Java runtime
• http://java.sun.com/javase/downloads/index.jsp

• Spring Integration 1.0 GA has been announced at the recent SpringOne conference
• http://www.springsource.org/spring-integration

• From the whiteboards at Devoxx comes a summary blog from Stephen Colbourne
• http://www.jroller.com/scolebourne/entry/devoxx_2008_whiteboard_votes

• JBoss has release Hibernate Search 3.1 GA
• http://search.hibernate.org

• JBoss has also release JBoss AS 5.0 GA, their application server now fully supporting Java EE 5
  
• http://sacha.labourey.com/2008/12/05/as-500-we-are-done-next/

• Gradle, a new build tool that has elements of both ant and maven in its feature set, has reached version 0.5
• http://www.gradle.org/

• The Simple project has released Simple 2.0
• http://simple.sourceforge.net/

• VisualVM has now reached version 1.1
• http://eclipse.dzone.com/announcements/visualvm-11-now-available

• The first milestone of JavaRebel 2.0 is now out
• http://www.zeroturnaround.com/javarebel/
• http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?thread_id=52436

• A new web framework - Loom - has reached version 1.0
• http://loom.extrema-sistemas.com/

• JBrownie wraps the javac compiler to monitor and auto-compile changed Java source files on the fly
• http://www.onyxbits.de/jbrownie

• JSR 314 - JSF (JavaServer Faces) 2.0 is now in public review with the ballot scheduled between January 6th to the 12th 2009
• http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=314

• Roy van Rijn has a critical look at JSR 315 - Servlet 3.0
• http://www.theserverside.com/tt/articles/article.tss?l=PonderingAboutJSR135
• http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=315

• And another JSR in public review until January 12th is JSR 322 - Java EE Connector Architecture 1.6
• http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=322

• Stax Networks is currently running a private beta of a platform for Amazon's EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud) that allows you to write Java applications using standard APIs and tools
• http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/12/16/stax-networks-launches-google-app-engine-for-java/

• Java Simon is a simple monitoring API and has just reached version 1.0.
  
• http://code.google.com/p/javasimon/

• Adobe has release version 1.5 of AIR (the Adobe Internet Runtime) for Linux
  
• http://www.detector-pro.com/2008/12/adobe-air-15-for-linux-released.html

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• 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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• 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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• Michael Jackson software methodology
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_A._Jackson
  
• SOAP
• http://www.w3.org/TR/soap/
  
• Waterfall vs. Agile
• http://www.agileadvice.com/archives/2006/05/waterfall_vs_ag.html
  
• Scott Ambler talk on Parleys - Agile ....
• http://parleys.com/display/PARLEYS/Home#talk=8094029;title=Evolving%20Agile;slide=1
  
• Estimating development time
• http://discuss.fogcreek.com/joelonsoftware/default.asp?cmd=show&ixPost=12774
  
• Tesla motors
• http://www.teslamotors.com/
  
• Outsourcing for software development
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outsourcing
  
• Eclipse plugins
• http://www.eclipseplugincentral.com/ 
• http://www.eclipse-plugins.info/eclipse/index.jsp
  
• Linux
• http://www.linux.org/
  
• Properties/Events
• http://blogs.sun.com/joe/entry/java_properties_and_events
  
• Properties vs. immutability
• http://stackoverflow.com/questions/214714/mutable-vs-immutable-objects
  
• Builder pattern
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Builder_pattern
  
• Scala class constructor
• http://scala.sygneca.com/code/constructors
  
• Dependency injection
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dependency_injection 
• http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2006/01/04/dependency-injection-java-ee-5.html 
• http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?thread_id=44593 
• Groovy Beans
• http://groovy.codehaus.org/Groovy+Beans
  
• Spring
• http://www.springframework.org/
  

• WebObjects from Apple
• http://developer.apple.com/tools/webobjects/
  
• Parleys
• http://parleys.com/display/PARLEYS/Home
  
• Remi Forax properties implementation
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/forax/archive/2008/03/da_vinci_runtim.html
  
• AOP
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aspect-oriented_programming
  
• Functional programming
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Functional_programming
  
• OCAML
• http://caml.inria.fr/ocaml/
  
• Ruby freeze feature
• http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/122760
  
• Keyword vs Annotation
• http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/guide/language/annotations.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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Newscast for November 14th 2008

• What Happened to SwingX?
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/fabriziogiudici/archive/
  2008/11/guys_dont_panic.html 
• http://forums.java.net/jive/thread.jspa?messageID=313969 
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/rbair/archive/2008/11/javafx_enterpri.html
  
• http://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=242077 
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/kirillcool/archive/2008/11/sun_setting_dow.html
  
• http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse/browse_thread/thread/
  a8f16f2aca8b5e0b/84e7d2a360f93b01?show_docid=84e7d2a360f93b01 

• JetBrains has released IntelliJ IDEA 8.0
• http://www.jetbrains.com/idea/ 
• http://www.jetbrains.com/idea/features/index.html
  

• Scala roundup
• http://www.scala-lang.org/node/348
  
• http://www.scala-lang.org/node/347 
• http://plugins.intellij.net/plugin/?id=1347 

• Sun and Google break up, big time
• http://www.tcmagazine.com/comments.php?shownews=22786 
• http://www.neowin.net/news/main/08/11/10/
  sun-to-spread-live-toolbar-via-java
  
• http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/11/10/0842255
• http://blogs.sun.com/jonathan/entry/the_value_of_distribution_java
  

• Java Project of the Week: Mobile Millenium
  
• http://traffic.berkeley.edu/ 

• Java Library of the Week: Twitter4j
• http://yusuke.homeip.net/twitter4j/en/index.html
  

Quick News

• Atlassian has released a new version of Clover, the testing and code coverage tool
• http://www.atlassian.com/software/clover/?s_kwcid=HMClover 
• http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?thread_id=51771

• The schedule for the next mobile and embedded developer days conference has been announced
  
• https://developerdays.dev.java.net/nonav/agenda.html 

• CommunityOne is adding an east coast CommunityOne to take place in New York on March 18th 2009
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/editors/archives/
  2008/11/betcha_thought.html
  

• Glassfish v3 Prelude has been released
  
• https://glassfish.dev.java.net/downloads/v3-prelude.html
  
• http://blogs.sun.com/theaquarium/entry/ejb_3_1_more_features
  
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/vivekp/archive/
  2008/11/dynamic_languag.html 

• A new version of JMaki is also available
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/carlavmott/archive/
  2008/11/jmaki_181_and_g.html
  

• Sun and IBM have teamed up to create an ODF toolkit
• http://odftoolkit.openoffice.org/ 

• MortBay Consulting has released Jetty 6.1.12
• http://www.mortbay.org/jetty/index.html 

• The latest release of soapUI has added ReST support
  
• http://www.eviware.com/
  

• OpenTrends has released OpenFrame 2.0
  
• http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?thread_id=51748 
• http://sourceforge.net/projects/openframe
  

• Quokka an alternative to Maven?
• http://quokka.ws/ 

• The JSR 299 - Web beans specification, led by Gavin King of JBoss, is currently in public review
• http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=299 

• The numbers are in for Sun's fiscal first quarter, and the news is as expected: bad
• http://www.cafeaulait.org/#November_4_2008_66764 
• OpenEco still going ahead
  
• https://www.openeco.org/ 
• http://profiles.waroengdata.com/askpc-read-222/sun-microsystem-goes-green.html

• JBoss Tools 3 Beta 1 has been released
• http://www.jboss.org/tools/
  
• http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?thread_id=51704 

• G2One Inc., the company behind groovy and grails, has been acquired by SpringSource
  
• http://www.springsource.com/g2one 

• The Roma framework has reached version 1.0.0
  
• http://www.romaframework.org/advanced_technology.htm 

• Former Java Posse mobile application of the week: Opera Mini, has reached version 4.2
  
• http://mobile.resalty.net/592/
  operamini-42-beta-best-java-internet-browser/ 

• Hyperic HQ 4.0 has been released
• http://www.hyperic.com/launch/hqe-40-launch.html 

• Aspose words for Java has a new version
• http://www.aspose.com/categories/file-format-components/
  aspose.words-for-.net-and-java/default.aspx 

• Nokia has released the completed JSR 293 - Location API 2.0
• http://jcp.org/aboutJava/communityprocess/pfd/jsr293/index.html 

• The election ballot for the Java Community Process is now open until November 17th
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/editors/archives/2008/11/move_along.html 

• ReSTlet 1.1.0 has been released
• http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?thread_id=51625 

• The Apache project has released OpenEJB 3.1
  
• http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=318 
• http://openejb.apache.org/openejb-31.html

• JPPF, a grid computing platform for Java, has release version 1.6
• http://www.jppf.org/ 

• Jython 2.5 beta "0" is now out
• http://fwierzbicki.blogspot.com/2008/10/jython-25-beta0-released.html 

• Stephen Colbourne has released JodaTime 1.6
• http://joda-time.sourceforge.net/ 

• The Java Data Pipeline has released version 2
• http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?thread_id=51654 

• The early draft review for JSR 316 - Java EE 6 - is now up at the JCP
• http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=316 

• The O'Reilly School of Technology has announced a Java certification program as an alternative to Sun's Java Certified program
• http://press.oreilly.com/pub/pr/2151 

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• 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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Roundup 08 - Don't Repeat Yourself

• Abandoned open source projects
• http://ask.slashdot.org/article.pl?
  sid=00/08/02/0039217&mode=thread
  
• SourceForge - http://sourceforge.net/
  
• Java.net - http://java.net/
  
• Google code - http://code.google.com/hosting/
  
• Code scavenging in the enterprise
• http://www.informs-sim.org/wsc02papers/099.pdf 
• http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/11
  /30/code_scavanging/
  
• Google code search
• http://www.google.com/codesearch
  
• Do it right the second time?
• http://www.amazon.com/Right-Second-
  Time-Benchmarking-Practices/dp/1563271753
  
• Larry Wall - Post Modern Programming
• http://www.wall.org/~larry/pm.html
  
• John Ousterhout on scripting and higher level programming
• http://www.tcl.tk/doc/scripting.html 
• DRY - Don't Repeat Yourself
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don%27t_repeat_yourself
  
• CPAN - Comprehensive Perl Archive Network
  
• http://www.cpan.org/ 
• Koders.com
• http://koders.com/ 
• POJO classes in Java EE 5
• http://java.sun.com/developer/technicalArticles/
  Interviews/shannon_qa.html
  
• http://www.theserverside.com/tt/articles
  /article.tss?l=BenefitsJavaEE5 
• Static typing vs testing
• http://www.mindview.net/WebLog/log-0066 
• http://osteele.com/archives/2003/08/test-versus-type 
• Findbugs static analysis
• http://findbugs.sourceforge.net/ 
• Glazed Lists
• http://publicobject.com/glazedlists/ 
• Google Collections Library
• http://code.google.com/p/google-collections/ 
• Java Dynamic Proxies
• http://unserializableone.blogspot.com/2007/08/
  make-use-of-java-dynamic-proxy.html
  
• http://www.devx.com/Java/Article/21463 
• The wall of typesafe erasure
• http://viewfromthefringe.blogspot.com/2007/11/
  wall-of-erasure.html 
• http://stuffthathappens.com/blog/2007/11/04/
  foiled-by-erasure/ 
• Java reflection API
• http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/reflect/index.html 
• http://today.java.net/pub/a/today/2008/02/12/
  reflection-in-action.html 
• Scala traits
• http://www.scala-lang.org/node/126 

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:
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QuickNews and Feedback for November 3rd 2008

Quick News

• POI 3.1 has been released by the Apache Jakarta project
• http://poi.apache.org/index.html 

• Josh Bloch has an interview at the Sun Developer Network about his new Effective Java book
• http://java.sun.com/developer/technicalArticles/
  Interviews/bloch_effective_08_qa.html 

• PalmSource has revealed its ALP 3.0 (Access Linux Platform)
• http://www.mobiletechaddicts.com/2008/
  10/24/palm-os-alp-30-revealed/
  
• http://www.mobileburn.com/news.jsp?Id=5569
  

• A number of Eclipse demo camps are being held all over the world
• http://wiki.eclipse.org/Eclipse_DemoCamps_November_2008 

• IBM Alphaworks has released version 2.7 of HeapAnalyzer
• http://www.alphaworks.ibm.com/tech/heapanalyzer 

• Jonathan Schwartz has a video up on NetBeans.tv celebrating 10 years of NetBeans
• http://netbeans.tv/interviews/Jonathan-Schwartz-on-NetBeans-409/ 

• Another DZone refcard is available, this time covering getting started with MyEclipse
• http://refcardz.dzone.com/refcardz/myeclipse 

• The final version of MVEL 2.0 is out
  
• http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?thread_id=51495 

• The Apache Jakarta project has released Commons::Net 2.0
• http://commons.apache.org/net/changes-report.html#a2.0 

• Support for a 64 bit Java plugin for Windows and Linux 64 bit operating systems has been pledged for early 2009 in the Java 6 update 12 release
• http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=4802695 

• Ted Neward's Busy Java Developer's Guide to Scala continues with a 2 part examination of building a calculator in Scala
• http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/views/java/libraryview.jsp?
  search_by=scala 

• JBoss has released version 2.0.0 General Access of JBoss AOP (Aspect Oriented Programming)
• http://www.jboss.org/jbossaop/downloads/ 
• http://www.jboss.org/jbossaop/docs/2.0.0.GA/RELEASE_NOTES.html
  

• Seam 2.1.0 General Access has been released by JBoss
  
• http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?thread_id=51382 

• JavaWorld has a nice introduction to ReST
• http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-10-2008/
  jw-10-rest-series-1.html 
• http://www.restlet.org/
  
• http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=311 

• John Ferguson Smart has a unique response to the current economic downturn: be more productive
  
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/johnsmart/archive/
  2008/10/software_develo.html 

• ASM now has support for the InvokeDynamic byte code that John Rose recently completed a prototype for
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/forax/archive/
  2008/10/asm_and_invoked.html 
• http://asm.objectweb.org/ 

• MuleSource has release Mule 2.1 Enterprise and Mule Galaxy 1.5
• http://mulesource.com/download/#muleee
• http://mule.mulesource.org/display/MULE/Home

• The free Java Decompiler project (yes, that is the name) looks like a useful tool
• http://java.decompiler.free.fr/ 

• Java 5 and 6 - the improved math library
• http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/j-math1/
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