Thu, 19 April 2007
Newscast for April 18th 2007
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Sun is purchasing the intellectual property of CDC spec phone maker SavaJe
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JSR 203 - New NIO in final draft stage
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Sun has issued an initial response to the Apache open letter from last week concerning licensing terms for the Java TCK
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Jeff Cunningham asks the question, is Java development really that slow compared with RoR or other dynamic frameworks?
- Mac OS 10 Leopard is delayed until October to make
developers available for the iPhone, apple announced this week, but
what does this mean for Java 6 on the mac platform?
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Java Application of the Week - Sunflow - a free and open source raytracing renderer written in Java
Quick News Items
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Genuitec have announced Java EE 5 support in their new version 5.5 M2 of MyEclipse
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The Coolest Beans yet? Our own Tor Norbye sheds his radio persona for a TV spot on the latest SDN channel video podcast
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Sharad Acharya has a very detailed blog entry about JDBC 4.0
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The Restlet project has reached version 1.0 final
- Bookmark this page! Java 6 might feature the most optimized
and controllable JVM yet, but do you know all of the VM flags? This
page gives a complete list of the flags that can be applied for just
about any control you might think of. Watch out - there are a lot
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Apache Mina, now at version 1.1, provides an abstraction framework for network operations
- Jetbrains new 2.0 version of TeamCity, the collaboration
tools suite featuring continuous build, monitoring, issue tracking and
more, now offers improved plugins to allow projects running eclipse and
visual studio .NET as well as intelliJ IDEA.
- Not sure what you want to go and see at JavaOne. If you are
interested in Java ME or Desktop Java, there are a couple of handy
guides to some top destinations for each
- IBM has a beginners tutorial on Haskell which is a
functional language. You will need an IBM ID to read the tutorial but
registration is free.
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Google will be having a Global Developer Day at various Google offices around the world on May 31st
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jMock 2 has been released
- Elders, a Major Australian public company, has just opted
to replace their 10 year old supply chain with a Java solution based on
standards and created by a local company
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Sun has given their webservices page on SDN a makeover
Listener Feedback
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Groovy Eclipse plugin - much better than previously characterized, with full debugging support and much more
Thanks
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Kirsty Doherty, Oliver Widder and Jeff Tyson for Java Posse artwork
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Brian Ehmann - the Java Posse intern
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Craig Muth for maintaining the Java Posse Memorizable site - http://memorizable.org/Java_Posse
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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://loosebrucekerr.libsyn.com
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Closing - Juan Carlos Jimenez - In the House (Intro No. 1)
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