Newscast for November 16th 2006
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Java Open Sourced under the GPL
- Latest language trends - the new TIOBE index
- What's happening with .NET?
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Another google related mobile app of the week - goosync
- Good looking app of the week - Insider for Oracle from FourthElephant inc.
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Guy Steele interviewed about Fortress on Software Engineering Radio
Quick News
- Canonical, Mark Shuttleworth's company that makes the
Ubuntu Linux distribution, has announced that Sun's sponsored open
source application server Glassfish will be distributed with upcoming
versions of Ubuntu
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Eclipse.org is offering two upcoming webinars on the Eclipse Rich Client Platform (RCP)
- The serverside has a complete overview of Java EE 5 support in Netbeans
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JPA in Spring Presentation
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Sun has donated another open source project to java.net - project Shoal
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Winners of the Sun Grid Cool Apps competition
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Josh Bloch has a video interview up on InfoQ
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JSR Roundup
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Nokia and Sun have posted the public review draft of JSR-280 XML API for JavaTM ME
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http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=280
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Nokia has posted the early draft review of JSR-293 Location API 2.0 to the JCP
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http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=293
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Sun's posted a maintenance release of Java Specification Request 118, Mobile Information Device Profile 2.0 (MIDP 2.0)
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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