Newscast for April 19th
2006
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Main News Items
- Google calendar released
- Eclipse 3.2 RC1 released
- Project Darkstar more than it seems?
- What do java and swing need to be ready for a full-on
desktop assault?
- New blueprint AJAX components available for Creator / JSF
- James Gosling has an interview with eweek up at AJAX impact
- Applet (and Game) of the week - Battlefield
In Short News Items
- Nokia have submitted JSR 293 - the location API 2.0 - to
the JCP
- Sun is going to donate Jini to Apache as an incubator
project
- Free K12 computer science learning resources
- Oracle's whitepaper titled "A hype-free introduction to
AJAX"
- There is now a TestNG plugin for netbeans 5.0 available
- It is now official that Java Studio Enterprise is being
open sourced
- Minq software has announced version 5.0 of their product
Dbvisualizer
- Aonix has announced the Java 5 update to PERC
- 1060 research has released netkernel 3.0 - a simple to use
RESTful
(Representational State Transfer) microkernel and application server
- Bruce Eckel has announced firm dates for his next open
space conference
"Thinking in Java" which is to be held in Crested Butte, CO from July
18th to the 21st
- The second Rio Java Summit has been announced for May 6th
2006 in Rio De Janeiro
- Java ME mobility pack development on the Mac is possible
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- Opening - "Java" the parody song Copyright 1997
Broken Records and
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popular song, "Ja-da." Ukelele style on the recording taught to Bruce
by his dad. Re-produced with kind permission from "Loose" Bruce Kerr
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- Closing - Garageband track
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