Newscast for February 13th 2007

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Dedicated to the memory of Greg Neff, without whom the Java Posse podcast would not exist, and who was tragically killed in a car accident on Thursday night.

Special opening music thanks to Mark Heimonen for Melancholy, obtained through the podsafe music network.
http://music.podshow.com/music/listeners/
artistdetails.php?BandHash=
728acd34327e380ee873cd52faaf40bc

Join us for the Java Posse Roundup 2007 in Crested Butte, CO from March 6th-9th 2007
http://mindview.net/Conferences/JavaPosseRoundup

• The future for Java in 2007 according to IBM Developerworks:
• http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/
  java/library/j-java2007.html

• Marc Fleury, founder of JBoss (the original open-source Java EE application server) has announced that he will not be returning to RedHat (who acquired JBoss a few months back) as previously expected after his current paternity leave
• http://www.theserverside.com/news/
  thread.tss?thread_id=44211
• http://m.news.com/2163-7344_
  3-6157917.html?tag=st.lh
• http://news.com.com/JBoss+founder+departs+
  Red+Hat/2100-7344_3-6157917.html

• There is a protype implementation for the JSR 296 Swing Application Framework now available from Java.net.
  
• https://appframework.dev.java.net/
• http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=296
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/joshy/
  archive/2007/01/first_release_o.html
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/
  hansmuller/archive/ts-3399-final.pdf

• New JSR-310 to finally sort out Java Date and Time API
• http://jroller.com/page/scolebourne?
  entry=announcing_jsr_310_date_and

• Applet of the week - 3dskimaps.com
• http://3dskimaps.com/bearvalley/wf.html
• http://3dskimaps.com/index.php?path=crestedbutte

Quick News Items

• Eclipse 3.3 Milestone 5 is now out
• http://download.eclipse.org/eclipse/
  downloads/drops/S-3.3M5-200702091006/
  eclipse-news-M5.html

• Squish, an automated testing tool for GUI applications from Froglogic, has added Java Swing, SWT, AWT and RCP/Eclipse support in the latest version 3.1
• http://www.froglogic.com/pg?id=
  Products&category=squish&sub=overview

• There is now a preview version of the Netbeans 6.0 installer available for the M6 release of the upcoming Netbeans
• http://nbi.netbeans.org/m10/download.html

• Do you have a favorite Java ME application for a phone or other mobile device? Would you like to win a PlayStation 3, a Sony Ericsson K800 mobile phone and more prizes by making a short video about it. Check out the competition that java.net is running for more details
• http://java.sun.com/javame/contest/index.jsp

• Gilad Bracha, Neal Gafter, James Gosling, Peter von der Ahé have posted a new version, 0.5, of their Closures for Java proposal
• http://www.cafeaulait.org/#
  February_6_2007_27617

• Microsoft is dropping J# support, their version of the Java language for the .NET platform, from future versions of Visual Studio .NET
• http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/
  vjsharp/default.aspx

• Jayson Falkner blogs that the latest Java 6 snapshot fixes problems that Linux users have been seeing with the new Compiz/Beryl 3d window managers when using Swing applications
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/jfalkner/
  archive/2007/02/latest_java_6_s_1.html

• The near miraculous turnaround of the Jython project continues
• http://jython.sourceforge.net/Project/index.html
• http://python.org/

• BEA's weblogic server 10 preview has passed the Java EE 5 Compatibility Test Suite
  
• http://www.theserverside.com/news/
  thread.tss?thread_id=44219

• Romain Guy has an interesting video interview up on InfoQ where he tackles such issues as Flash versus Java Applets, why swing is a good technology for rich clients and whether Java needs a browser edition.
• http://www.infoq.com/interviews/romain-guy

• The final version of the reference implementation for JAX-WS 2.1 is now available for download from java.net
  
• https://jax-ws.dev.java.net/

• Oracle has released a new version of its JDeveloper IDE
• http://www.oracle.com/technology/
  products/jdev/collateral/papers/10131/
  newfeatures/index.html

• JTattoo offers a collection of really nice looking swing look and feels that are free for personal and freeware use
• http://www.jtattoo.net/ScreenShots.html
• http://www.curious-creature.org/2007/
  02/06/look-and-feels-galore/

• Miami now has a Java User Group (JUG)
• http://miamijug.wordpress.com/

• Seconds out for the early registration price for Eclipse Con 2007
• http://www.eclipsecon.org/2007/index.php?
  page=registration/&tag=newsitem1

Gossip

Screw Sun, cross-platform will never work, let's move on and steal the Java language

http://www.iowaconsumercase.org/011107/PX_2768.pdf

...Microsoft has lost its way...

http://www.iowaconsumercase.org/010807/PLEX_7264.pdf

The full list of correspondence links

http://iowaconsumercase.org/lc-5.html

Listener Feedback

• Java Webstart - unsigning jars
• http://coyotevil.blogspot.com/2007/01/
  java-web-start-una-opcin-interesante.html
• Open Source Learning Tool in 3d
• http://muppets.rit.edu/muppetsweb/about/index.php
• Terracotta competition
• www.terracotta.org/confluence/display/
  orgsite/February+07+Survey
• Impromptu library of the week - Netbeans Visual Library
• http://graph.netbeans.org/

Thanks

• Libsyn.com - http://www.libsyn.com - for hosting and bandwidth
• Brice Ruth and Webprojkt.com - http://webprojkt.com - for our archives site - http://archives.javaposse.com
• Feedburner.com - http://www.feedburner.com - for feed redirect
• Kirsty Doherty, Oliver Widder and Jeff Tyson for Java Posse artwork
• Brian Ehmann - the Java Posse intern
• Craig Muth for maintaining the Java Posse Memorizable site - http://memorizable.org/Java_Posse
• Theme Music:
  • Opening - Melancholy by Mark Heimonen, obtained through the podsafe music network.
    http://music.podshow.com/music/listeners/
    artistdetails.php?BandHash=
    728acd34327e380ee873cd52faaf40bc
  • Closing - Juan Carlos Jimenez - In the House (Intro No. 1)
    

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