Newscast for February 20th 2007

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

• Cafe au Lait's Elliotte Rusty Harold poses a question about the new JSR 311 - Java API for RESTful services
• http://www.cafeaulait.org/oldnews/
  news2007February15.html
• http://www.cafeaulait.org/oldnews/
  news2007February14.html
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/mhadley/
  archive/2007/02/jsr_311_java_ap.html
• And Java.net has a poll on it too
• http://today.java.net/pub/pq/146
• http://blogs.sun.com/theaquarium/entry/
  jsr_311_java_api_for

• The finalists for the Eclipse community awards have been named
• http://www.eclipse.org/org/press-release/
  20070220cb_awardfinalist.php

• Sun releases Solaris Express, Developer Edition, and Startup Essentials
• http://developers.sun.com/solaris/
  downloads/solexpdev/
• http://www.sun.com/emrkt/startupessentials/
• http://www.ddj.com/dept/webservices/197005809
• http://informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?
  articleID=197005473

• Rod Johnson, the father of interface21's Spring Java Framework, has blogged about spring support in glassfish, and particularly how good it is
• http://blog.interface21.com/main/2007/02/
  16/suns-glassfish-embracing-spring/
• http://blogs.sun.com/theaquarium/entry/
  good_buzz_about_spring_support

• Perhaps things are getting better for Java Multimedia?
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/editors/archives/
  2007/02/thats_neat_that.html
• http://chillout.dmpf.org/

• Java application of the week - Ted - the Torrent Episode Downloader
• http://www.ted.nu/download.php

• Java applet of the week - the ENIAC simulator
• http://page.mi.fu-berlin.de/
  %7Ezoppke/D/index.html

Quick News Items

• The JMaki AJAX components project has now released a plugin for eclipse as well as the netbeans plugin
• https://ajax.dev.java.net/eclipse/index.html
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/ludo/archive/
  2007/02/ajax_jmaki_hell.html

• The OSGI alliance has added five new members: BEA Systems, Jayway AB, Interface21, Eclipse and IONA technologies
• http://www.tmcnet.com/usubmit/2007/02/
  15/2340375.htm

• Sleepycat software are requesting developer feedback on their proposed new Java API for the Berkeley DB
• http://www.theserverside.com/news/
  thread.tss?thread_id=38916

• Cenqua have just released version 1.3 of fisheye
• Also - if you decide to buy and mention the Posse, Pete Moore says you can get one of the highly coveted t-shirts as well
  
• http://www.cenqua.com/fisheye/

• The third part of the developerworks series about writing an application using a combination of GWT, Derby and Eclipse is now available
• http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/opensource
  /library/os-ad-gwt3/?ca=dgr-btw01buildAjax

• Google has launched the summer of code 2007 program
• http://code.google.com/soc/

• ALM works has released a 1.0 client for the JIRA issue and bug tracking system from Atlassian
• http://almworks.com/jiraclient/overview.html

• http://almworks.com/index.html

• JSR 310 - the new Java Date and Time API that we mentioned recently, has been voted in with 15 yes votes and only 1 non vote (from Borland)
• http://www.theserverside.com/news/
  thread.tss?thread_id=44248

• A new version of JOSSO (Java Open Single Sign-On) is now available
• http://www.theserverside.com/news/
  thread.tss?thread_id=44233

• MyEclipse - providers of the enhanced set of plugins for the eclipse IDE, have branched out to offering some of their plugins for both NetBeans and Visual Studio .NET!
• http://www.theserverside.com/news/
  thread.tss?thread_id=44232

• OpenXava claims to have a highly productive alternative to Ruby on Rails based on full Java standards
• http://www.gestion400.com/web/guest/openxava

Listener Feedback

• Open source numbers - Sun and IBM
• http://www.javalobby.org/java/forums/t77716.html
• http://news.com.com/Sun+to+offer+
  more+free+software/
• http://blogs.sun.com/alanbur/entry/
  it_s_official_sun_is1

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 - "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://loosebrucekerr.libsyn.com
  • Closing - Juan Carlos Jimenez - In the House (Intro No. 1)
    

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