Newscast for October 10th 2006

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1 year of the java posse! Our first real episode together went out on September 29th 2005 - Just over 1 year ago

• Java works just fine on Vista!
  • http://weblogs.java.net/blog/chet/archive/
    2006/10/java_on_vista_y.html

• Netbeans is celebrating its 8th Birthday with quizzes and giveaways all month
  • http://www.netbeans.org/community/articles/
    birthday.html
  • http://www.netbeans.info/downloads/
    download.php?type=5.5rc1
  • http://blogs.sun.com/alexismp/entry/
    visual_pack_for_netbeans_is
  • http://cld.blog-city.com/
    netbeans_visual_library_20_is_here.htm
  • http://wiki.netbeans.info/wiki/view/
    Milestone3Report

• http://blogs.sun.com/geertjan/entry/
  3_lines_of_code_to
• http://www.google.com/codesearch

• The Eclipse project has been busy to, and has release Milestone 2 of eclipse 3.3
  • http://download.eclipse.org/eclipse/downloads/
    drops/S-3.3M2-200609220010/eclipse-news-M2.html
  • http://www.junginger.biz/eclipse/
    rss-view-screenshots.html

• There is another proposition for closures in Java, this time from Bob Lee, Doug Lee and Josh Bloch - the change is:
  

  MenuItem menuItem=new MenuItem("Foo", new Command() {
      public void execute() {
          Window.alert("Foo was chosen");
      }
  });

  ... to something like the following:

  MenuItem menuItem=new MenuItem("Foo", Command() {
      Window.alert("Foo was chosen");
  });

  • http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?
    thread_id=42535
  • http://www.writely.com/Doc.aspx?id=k73_1ggr36h
  • http://crazybob.org/2006/10/java-closure-spectrum.html

• Josh Marinacci has blogged the second part of his painters introduction
  
  • http://weblogs.java.net/blog/joshy/archive/
    2006/09/introducing_pai_1.html
  • http://weblogs.java.net/blog/gfx/archive/
    2006/09/java2d_gradient.html
  • Josh is also seeking feedback on the painters and support tools on the java.net forums:
  • http://forums.java.net/jive/thread.jspa?
    messageID=157046&tstart=0#157046
  • http://weblogs.java.net/blog/joshy/archive/
    2006/09/vista_getting_b.html
  • New Themes for Substance
  • http://weblogs.java.net/blog/kirillcool/archive/
    2006/09/listening_to_th.html

• Mercurial SCCM for Java?
• http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/wiki/index.cgi

• Installing Java on Linux is pants
  • http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?
    article=34782

• Application of the week - the levelator
  • http://www.gigavox.com/levelator

• Applet of the week - sodaconstructor
  • http://www.sodaplay.com/constructor/index.htm

Quick News Items

• Sun Microsystems has released the Java Toolkit 1.0 for CDC beta
  
  • http://blogs.sun.com/lukas/entry/
    sun_java_toolkit_1_0

• Tom Copeland has released PMD 3.8
  
  • http://pmd.sourceforge.net/

• Sun Tech Days continue

• http://developers.sun.com/events/techdays/index.jsp
  

• The Mule development team have announced version 1.3 of Mule
  • http://mule.mulesource.org/Release+Notes

• Coldtags version 2.8 is now out
  • http://www.servletsuite.com/jsp.htm

• Apache Derby 10.2, the pure Java, open source, relational database (and basis for Java DB) has been released by the apache project
  • http://weblogs.java.net/blog/davidvc/archive/
    2006/10/apache_derby_10.html

• Spring 2.0 final has been released
  • http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?
    thread_id=42460
  • http://www.skillsmatter.com/spring-framework-course

• Omnicore has released X-Develop 2.0 and CodeGuide 8.0
  • http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?
    thread_id=42457

• Mac users will be able to do Java ME development using the netbeans mobility pack in the next version of Netbeans, 6.0
  • http://mobileappropriate.blogspot.com/2006/10/
    netbeans-ide-60-to-support-mac.html

• JetBrains has just released final versions of IntelliJ IDEA 6.0 and JetBrains 1.0
  • http://www.jetbrains.com/idea/

• JDeveloper has gained subversion support through a plugin available from Oracle
  • http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/
    jdev/htdocs/partners/addins/exchange/subversion/
    subversion.html

Last episode we missed the details for the JSR 305 mailing list.
       https://mailman.cs.umd.edu/mailman/listinfo/jsr-305

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• Kirsty Doherty for Java Posse artwork
• Nick Trefz, the voice of TopCoder, for the voiceovers
• 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 - A track written by Dick in Apple's Garageband
    

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