The Java Posse

Thu, 26 July 2007

Java Posse #135 - Newscast for July 26th 2007

Newscast for July 26th 2007

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A serious security flaw has been found which affects all versions of Java, on all platforms including mobile devices

http://www.zdnetasia.com/news/security/
0,39044215,62028389,00.htm
http://research.eeye.com/html/advisories/
published/AD20070705.html
But did Sun really do anything wrong in rolling out the fix?
http://www.javalobby.org/java/forums/t98826.html

Joshua Marinacci hints and teases about stuff coming up with Java FX

http://weblogs.java.net/blog/joshy/archive/
2007/07/java_fx_updated.html
And JavaFX now sports a bytecode compiler
http://blogs.sun.com/chrisoliver/entry/
first_steps_with_the_javafx

Netbeans 6 Milestone 10 (or consider the nightly builds)

Lotus Exige (Joe's new toy)

Hack the iPhone

http://www.modmyiphone.com/wiki/index.php/
IFuntastic_easy_iPhone_ringtone_installation

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
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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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Direct download: JavaPosse135.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 10:08 PM

Tue, 17 July 2007

Java Posse #134 - Interview with Josh Reed about Antarctica

Interview with Josh Reed about CHRONOS, ANDRILL and Antarctica

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Josh Reed is one of our long time listeners, and he wrote in to tell us, from Antarctica! In this interview, Josh tells us what CHRONOS and ANDRILL are all about, how they use Java, and of course what life is like in Antarctica.

Josh Reed's Blog

http://josh-in-antarctica.blogspot.com/

CHRONOS

http://www.chronos.org/

ANDRILL

http://andrill.org/

PSICAT

PSICAT wins Eclipsecon award for best open source application -
http://www.eclipsezone.com/eclipse/forums/t91124.rhtml

Antarctica links

http://www.antarcticconnection.com/
antarctic/weather/survival.shtml

John Carpenter's "The Thing"

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0084787/

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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Direct download: JavaPosse134.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 3:10 AM

Fri, 13 July 2007

Java Posse #133 - Newscast for July 12th 2007

Newscast for July 12th 2007

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

Java EE 6 is back, but not as JSR 313, instead it will be JSR 316

JSR 277 - the Java Module System, has released its first snapshot (as has JSR 294 - the related Improved Modularity Support for the Java language)

Adobe has release AIR - the Adobe Integrated Runtime

NetBeans 6 Milestone 10 is out

Java 6 update 2 is now out, this new update incorporates 182 fixes and enhancements

Compiz and Beryl 3d window managers still troublesome with Java

Applet of the week - Deck Designer

http://www.diyonline.com/servlet/
GIB_Base/uspdeckbegin

Mobile app of the week: Bombus - a Jabber chat client for Java ME enabled phones

AND! A library of the week this week as well: WiiremoteJ

http://www.wiili.org/WiiremoteJ

Quick News Items

InfoQ has published an interview with Bob Brewin, Sun's Software CTO

http://www.infoq.com/news/2007/07/brewin-europa

The OpenMoko neo1973 developer handset is now available for purchase

https://direct.openmoko.com/

Motorola has released information on the new Zante - the next generation sidekick

http://www.gadgettastic.com/2007/07/04/
motorola-zante-next-gen-sidekick/

The playstation 3 price has dropped to $499

http://www.techspot.com/news/26045-sony-
confirms-playstation-3-price-drop.html

Asterisk-Java 0.3 has been released

http://blogs.reucon.com/asterisk-java/
2007/07/01/asterisk_java_0_3.html

The BlueJ project has released a new version 2.2 of the BlueJ IDE

http://www.cafeaulait.org/#July_7_2007_18338

JTR 4, an open source project from JTRunner is a testing framework that makes it possible to distribute your testing to a farm of JTR nodes, cutting the time to run all of the tests using parallelism

http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?
thread_id=46103

JSRs 190 (Event Tracking API for J2ME) and 280 (XML API for Java ME) have both been rejected by the JCP because of concerns with the licensing of spec and implementation

http://www.cafeaulait.org/#July_11_2007_19156

Could Java be coming to the iPhone? Our opinion: probably not any time soon unfortunately

Easy eclipse 1.3 has been released, the first easy eclipse based on the new Eclipse 3.3 europa release

http://www.eclipsezone.com/eclipse/
forums/t98505.rhtml

Sang Shin is adding a new Java Web Services course to his popular JavaPassion.com java skills site

http://blogs.sun.com/theaquarium/entry/
javapassion_com_has_web_services

While only in the rumor stages at this point, it sounds like Java 6 on the Mac will only be available on Leopard on Intel!

Cay Horstmann has a comparison of JSF development in both NetBeans and Eclipse

http://weblogs.java.net/blog/cayhorstmann/
archive/2007/07/jsf_support_in.html

JBoss Portal 2.6 adds support for Google Gadgets

http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?
thread_id=46019

While not really Java centric, clipperz blog has some benchmarks of the new Tamarin javascript engine (donated by Adobe) that will be in firefox 4

http://www.clipperz.com/users/marco/blog/
2007/06/28/first_tamarin_benchmarks

Web developers may be pleased to hear that JSFToolbox 2.0 is now available for use with Dreamweaver CS3

http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?
thread_id=46102

Paul Sandoz of the glassfish team has succeeded in (and blogged about) getting Scala running under the Glassfish application server

http://blogs.sun.com/sandoz/entry/skittr_on_glassfish

JSR 315 - Servlet 3.0 - has been filed and approved by the JCP

http://weblogs.java.net/blog/mode/archive/2007/
07/servlet_30_jsr.html

Javabeat has an introduction to JavaFX script programming

http://www.javabeat.net/javafx/2007/
07/javafx-introduction/

Screencast-o-matic - a Java applet to record screencasts

http://www.screencast-o-matic.com/

The Cologne JUG (or JUG Cologne as it is correctly named) held an IDE shootout between Eclipse, NetBeans, JDeveloper and IntelliJ IDEA

Seam 2.0 - Gavin King's conversational state framework (and contributor to JSR 299 web beans) has entered beta

http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?
thread_id=45998

JBoss has announced that JBossWS 2.1.0 will support Metro

http://blogs.sun.com/theaquarium/entry/
glassfish_s_metro_now_also

MaintainJ 1.2 released

http://www.maintainj.com

Bruce Eckel has a number of other Open Space conferences (like the roundup) coming up in the next few months

http://mindview.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:
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Direct download: JavaPosse133.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 3:21 AM

Wed, 11 July 2007

Java Posse #132 - Interview with Bill Pugh and Brian Goetz

Interview with Bill Pugh and Brian Goetz

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

Recorded at JavaOne 2007

Brian Goetz

Books and Columns: http://www.briangoetz.com/pubs.html

Blog: http://www.briangoetz.com/blog/

Bill Pugh

Bill's University of Maryland page: http://www.cs.umd.edu/~pugh/

Findbugs blog: http://findbugs.blogspot.com/

Findbugs

http://findbugs.sourceforge.net/

JSR 305: Annotations for Software Defect Detection

http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=305

JSR 308: Annotations on Java Types

http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=308

Functional Languages:

Erlang - http://www.erlang.org/
Scala - http://www.scala-lang.org/
KRC - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kent_Recursive_Calculator
Miranda - http://www.engin.umd.umich.edu/CIS/
course.des/cis400/miranda/miranda.html
Haskell - http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Haskell

Guice

http://code.google.com/p/google-guice/

Fortress

http://research.sun.com/projects/plrg/faq/index.html

Guy Steele's talk on Growing a Language

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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Direct download: JavaPosse132.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 4:10 AM

Wed, 4 July 2007

Java Posse #131 - Walking Around JavaOne 2007 - Part 2

Walking Around JavaOne 2007 - Part 2

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

This episode is part two of our recordings from walking around JavaOne and talking to people we meet. Joe does most of the work in this episode.

John Todd - Photographer

http://www.johntodd.com/

Bruce Eckel and Mindview

http://www.mindview.net/

James Ward and Adobe Flex/Flash/Apollo

http://www.jamesward.org/wordpress/

http://www.adobe.com/products/flex/

Java.net

http://java.net/

Eric Arseneau - SunSpot

Systronix - SunSpot and TrackBot

http://www.systronix.com/

Greenfoot project

http://www.greenfoot.org/

SoftwareFX - ChartFX JSF components (plus free community edition)

Caucho technology - resin application server

http://www.caucho.com/

David Heron - OpenJDK

David Intersimone (David I) from Codegear (was Borland)

Mark Howe - also codegear
http://blogs.codegear.com/markhowe/

Agitar and JUnitFactory (Bob Evans)

University of Sydney (Peter Whitfield - real time Java slot car winner)

http://www.usyd.edu.au/

Vernon Singleton - Walt Disney World

http://vsingleton.blogspot.com/
Ning - social applications - http://www.ning.com/
Negative Databases - http://esa.ackleyshack.com/ndb/

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

Direct download: JavaPosse131.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 9:00 PM