Newscast for October 31st 2006 (Halloween)
Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at
http://javaposse.com
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Sun sets the time frame for open sourcing Java, and it's soon
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Instantiations releases GWT Designer
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Azureus is great, apart from the Java
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Congratulations to Petr for winning the google global code jam 2007
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NetBeans 5.5 was released today
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Library of the week - Strecks 1.0
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Applet of the week - sorta - Prefuse
Quick News Items
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Eclipse is turning 5 years old, and you are invited
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And staying with eclipse news, SDE, the Eclipse UML plugin from Visual
Paradigm, has reached version 3.3
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Sun has just released a new Java EE download bundle
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Josh Marinacci is moving to Oregon, getting married and leaving the swing
labs team, but not leaving Sun. He is going to work on the netbeans team. He
is currently in Prague for another three weeks and looking for dodgy java
types who might want to meet up and go partying, so if you are interested
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Spring web flow 1.0 final has been released
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Michael Ernst and Sun have submitted JSR 308 (Annotations on Java Types) to the JCP
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Kirill Grouchikov blogs about using Transition layout to create some
animation and fading effects in Swing applications
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Gigavox's Open Source Conversations podcast features a three way
conversation between David Van Couvering, Simon Phipps and Dave Johnson
recorded at ApacheCon
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The 2006 Java One Blueprints talk is now available online. "Java BluePrints
for Ajax-Enabled Web 2.0
Applications"
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Mylar version 0.8 released for eclipse
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BEA's Dev2dev has an introduction to Groovy and Grails
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OpenGL related JSR implementations released. JSR 231 - Java Bindings for
OpenGL, and JSR-239 Java Bindings for OpenGL ES (for embedded devices) have
now been completed and the reference implementations released by Sun
Microsystems.
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One of the most popular AJAX libraries - DOJO, has just released version 0.4
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Appfuse - Matt Raible's application for "kickstarting" webapp development
that brings together many technologies and frameworks, has just released
version 1.9.4e. Similar new features can also be found in Equinox 1.7 which
is described as Appfuse light and has also just been released.
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Alexis Moussine-Pouchkine blogs about developing Open Office plugins using
NetBeans
Listener Feedback
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DrunkandRetired.com's Cote's book on JAAS
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Applet of the week suggestion
Thanks
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for hosting and bandwidth
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Brice Ruth and Webprojkt.com -
http://webprojkt.com - for our archives
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http://archives.javaposse.com
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Feedburner.com -
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Kirsty Doherty for Java Posse artwork
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Nick Trefz, the voice of TopCoder, for the voiceovers
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Brian Ehmann - the Java Posse intern
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Theme Music:
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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
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Closing - A track written by Dick in Apple's Garageband
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