Newscast for June 7th 2006 

Also - listener feedback that came in around and after Java One

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• Big reductions at sun, but the software side looks relatively unaffected
• http://jdj.sys-con.com/read/230124.htm
• http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-06-2006/jw-0605-cw-sun.html
• http://www.informationweek.com/industries/showArticle.jhtml?
  articleID=188701167
• Oracle puts its considerable weight behind Groovy and Grails
• http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9593_22-6071763.html
• http://www.indicthreads.com/news/445/oracle_groovy_grails_scripting.html
• Roberto Chinnici introduces project phobos on his blog
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/robc/archive/2006/05/introducing_pro.html
• Josh Bloch discovers that binary searches are broken in Java
• http://googleresearch.blogspot.com/2006/06/
  extra-extra-read-all-about-it-nearly.html
• Eclipse 3.2 hits Release Candidate 7
• http://today.java.net/pub/n/4481
• What's new? - http://www.eclipse.org/evangelism/resources/
  laffra-eclipse32-whatsnew/laffra-whats-new-in-3.2.pdf
• Easyeclipse 1.0.1 beta is now out offering a selection of pre-customized versions of eclipse for different purposes
• http://www.easyeclipse.org/site/home/
• Applet of the week this week is an application - could simplecenter.org be the alternative to closed and DRM'd media sharing and management?
• http://www.simplecenter.org/about.jsp

Quick News Items

• The Hands On Labs from the 2006 Java One are now available for free on the web
• http://www.javapassion.com/javaone2006/handsonlab/
• Synthetica look and feel has reached version 2.0
• http://www.javasoft.de/jsf/public/products/synthetica/screenshots
• Intel has donated a Swing, AWT and Java 2d packages to the apache project harmony
• http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=32116
• Axis 2 is 4-5x faster than Axis 1?
• http://www.wso2.net/2006/05/axis2_performance_testing_round_1
• Tom Copeland has just released version 3.7 of PMD
• http://tomcopeland.blogs.com/juniordeveloper/2006/05/pmd_37_cleaner_.html
• Alexis Moussine-Pouchkine has a guide on his blog to using the google calendar data APIs
• http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/alexismp?entry=using_the_google_calendar_gdata
• Examples and information about Netbeans 5.5 new XML capabilities
• http://cld.blog-city.com/six_new_tutorials__xml_schemas_
  tools_in_netbeans_enterprise_.htm
• Podcaster Roman Strobl steps it up with a netbeans TV!
• http://www.netbeans.org/kb/articles/NBFieldGuide.html

Listener Feedback

• J2ME app for syncing with Google Calendar - Thomas Oldervoll
• http://www.gcalsync.com
• Maven needs to be mentioned - Trent Rosenbaum
• http://maven.apache.org
• http://www.mavenbook.org
• DWR gets Reverse Ajax and the ability to write Javascript in Java - Joe Walker
• http://getahead.ltd.uk/dwr/
• The Straight Skinny on Rails at CD Baby - Jim Weirich
• http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/6286?wlg=yes
• Freakin hysterical gridbag video!!! - Aaron Paxson
• http://madbean.com/anim/totallygridbag/

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