Newscast for August 25th 2006

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• Neal Gafter, James Gosling, Gilad Bracha and Peter von der Ahe want to add closures to Java in JDK 7
  • http://gafter.blogspot.com/2006/08/
    whats-point-of-closures.html
  • http://gafter.blogspot.com/2006/08/
    closures-for-java.html
  • http://www.javalobby.org/java/forums/t77802.html
  • http://www.oreillynet.com/onjava/blog/2006/08/
    will_we_have_closures_in_java.html?CMP=
    OTC-FP2116136014&ATT=
    Will+we+have+closures+in+Java+1+7

• Were the Java 5 features a bad idea?
  • http://www.jroller.com/page/vprise?
    entry=java_5_language_changes_were
  • http://www.javalobby.org/java/forums/t77830.html
  • http://techarticles.blogspot.com/2006/08/
    why-to-use-generics-in-java.html
  • http://www.theserverside.com/blogs/thread.tss?
    thread_id=41731

• Mustang and Dolphin names both retired in favor of Java 6 and 7
  • http://weblogs.java.net/blog/ray_gans/archive/
    2006/08/mustang_and_dol.html
  • https://jdk6.dev.java.net/
  • https://jdk7.dev.java.net/

• EL - the expression language from JSF, might become a separate JSR to be added into future versions of java
  • http://weblogs.java.net/blog/edburns/archive/
    2006/08/the_case_for_el.html
  • http://www.theserverside.com/news/
    thread.tss?thread_id=41768

• New Oracle JDeveloper version
  
  • http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/jdev/
    collateral/papers/10131/newfeatures/index.html
  • Oracle has also released a developer preview version of their Java EE Container, OC4J and their Application server, now known as the SOA Suite
  • http://www.theserverside.com/news/
    thread.tss?thread_id=41776

• Application of the week - JFugue - a music notepad
  
  • https://nbjfuguesupport.dev.java.net/index.html

• Applet of the week - The SmartMoney 401(k) Retirement planner
  • http://www.smartmoney.com/retirement/401k/
    index.cfm?story=planner

Quick News Items

• JBoss has released version 4.0 beta 1 of the JBoss ESB (Enterprise Service Bus)
  • http://jboss.org/jbossBlog/blog/mlittle/?
    permalink=JBossESB_4_0_Beta1_released.txt

• JMaki is now integrated with project phobos
  • http://weblogs.java.net/blog/robc/archive/
    2006/08/jmaki_in_phobos.html

• Josh Marinacci has started blogging about improvements in the windows look and feel for upcoming Java 6 and 7 releases
  
  • http://weblogs.java.net/blog/joshy/archive/
    2006/08/the_big_one.html

• Josh also has a new teaser blog entry talking about Trailers, the next big thing to hit swing
  
  • http://weblogs.java.net/blog/joshy/archive/
    2006/08/painter_trailer.html

• The 10th JINI community meeting has been announced for September 14th-15th in Brussels, Belgium
  
  • http://www.jini.org/wiki/
    Category:10th_Jini_Community_Meeting

• J2Native from Smardec brings JNI-less native libraries to Java
  
  • http://www.smardec.com/products/j2native.html

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• Brian Ehmann - the Java Posse intern
  
• 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://www.loosebrucekerr.com
  • Closing - "Africa (About Face)" by Butterflies and Zebras - Norm Howard and Steve Northover (Steve was interviewed about SWT recently)
    Comment from Steve Northover - If you check http://www.onmusic.com/nands (the slowest site in the world), some of the fractals and many of the mp3's I gave you are now available there.  For "Africa (About Face)", my acoustic is tuned in this great EEEEBE tuning.  Norm is playing his electric through his 100W Marshall stack clean.  It's a straight forward song (something we don't do too much).  I'm using a delay pedal and not much else.  Bet you can't even hear it much.  That's the interesting thing about guitar effects.  When used tastefully, they become organic rather than "in your face".  It's an art to sneak them in rather than just click them on and everyone goes, "Oh listen, he just clicked in the flanger".
    

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