Newscast for October 24th 2006

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• Project black-box - the big announcement, and the trucks full of computers came not from google but from Sun in the end!
  • http://www.sun.com/emrkt/blackbox/index.jsp

• OSGi vs JSR 277 (Java Module System)
  • http://www.osgi.org/blog/2006/10/jsr-277-review.html
  • http://www.eclipsezone.com/eclipse/forums/t83134.html
  • http://www.jroller.com/page/murphee?
    entry=jsr_277_vs_osgi_here
  • http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=277
  • http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=291
  • http://www.java.net/pub/pq/125

• New editor features for netbeans 6.0 unveiled
  • http://cld.blog-city.com/
    netbeans_60s_new_code_editing_features.htm
  • Version 0.9.1 of JRuby - http://docs.codehaus.org/display/JRUBY/
    2006/10/20/JRuby+0.9.1+Released%21

• The sorry state of Java EE 5 - From Slashdot!
  • http://www.ddj.com/dept/java/193302854

• We have a plugin of the week this week (to shake things up a bit), Fasttrack from Polarion
  • http://www.polarion.com/fasttrack/

•  App of the week - MathEclipse
  • http://sourceforge.net/projects/matheclipse/
  • and to see it running - http://www.matheclipse.org/me/

• Applet of the week - Fluxtime - an animation studio for kids
  • http://fluxtime.com/

Quick News Items

• Shreedhar blogs that after some benchmarking against the Java EE 5 reference implementation, and glassfish support, the results are that Java EE 5 is highly performant and production ready
  • http://blogs.sun.com/shreedhar/entry/java_ee_sdk_did_you

• Oracle has released version 10.1.3.1.0 build 3984, and with this version declares the new JDeveloper production ready
  • http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/jdev/101/
    collateral/101/featurematrix_10131.html

• Sun has started a 6 part series on using AJAX with Java EE 5 over at SDN
  • http://java.sun.com/developer/technicalArticles/
    J2EE/hands-on/index.html

• Glyph is a new java.net project to provide utilities and annotations to speed development of JINI applications
  • https://glyph.dev.java.net/

• The flash 9 beta for linux is now available
  • http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flashplayer9/

• EclipseCon 2007 is now inviting submissions for tutorial and session topics
  • http://www.eclipse.org/org/press-release/
    20061017cb_eclispecon2007.php

• Netbeans Profiler tutorial and flash demo available
  
  • http://www.netbeans.org/kb/55/profiler-tutorial.html
  • http://testwww.netbeans.org/kb/50/profiler-demo2.html

• JSR roundup, as well as JSR 277 which we talked about in the main items
  • http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=268
  • http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=269

• Java Embedded Python 2.0 has been released
  • http://jepp.sourceforge.net/

• What's new for JavaOne 2007?
  • http://weblogs.java.net/blog/amvernon/archive/
    2006/10/forgive_me_and.html

• A subproject of jax-ws, that implements SOAP on top of a JMS transport layer
  • https://jms-ws-transport.dev.java.net/

• Gosling offers an alternative to Ant for building Java Projects
  • http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?
    thread_id=42689

• The Server Side has a podcast and supporting slides from the Server Side Java Symposium all about Java Persistance and especially the JPA
  • http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?
    thread_id=42605

• SDN TV has a video podcast talking about the benefits of using BlueJ and Netbeans BlueJ Edition for teaching and learning Object oriented programming using Java
  • http://blogs.sun.com/SDNChannel/entry/
    jumpstart_your_programming_career

• Staying with podcasts, the server side has a podcast recorded at the server side java symposium in Europe with Rod Johnson explaining the new features in Spring 2.0
  • http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?
    thread_id=42723

Listener Feedback

• Harald - remote control bluetooth utility
• http://netwalker.nl/2006/10/21/harald-04-released/
• http://blog.sebastian-krauss.de/?p=208

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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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