Newscast for June 7th 2007

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• Redhat forking Java? It's a good thing really
• http://fitzsim.org/blog/?p=17

• Eclipse 3.3 RC3 (release candidate 3) has been released
  
• http://docs.codehaus.org/display/GUMTREE/
  Useful+Eclipse+Articles
• http://download.eclipse.org/eclipse/downloads/
  drops/S-3.3RC2-200705251350/index.php
• http://blogs.sun.com/theaquarium/entry/
  glassfish_v3_plugin_for_eclipse

• JSF - why hasn't it taken over the world
• http://www.theserverside.com/tt/articles/
  article.tss?l=RethinkingJSF
• http://livedemo.exadel.com/richfaces-demo/
• http://jsf.javabeat.net/articles/2007/05/
  java-server-faces-introduction/
• JSR 314 - JavaServer Faces 2.0

• http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=314

• Microsoft is just too busy to back up their threats
  
• http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/05/24/
  microsoft_novell_patents/
• http://www.linuxjournal.com/node/1000228
• And suing one of their own MVPs?
• http://www.theregister.com/2007/06/05/
  microsoft_mvp_threats/

• More details on a new, small, consumer JRE to compete with Flash
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/chet/archive/
  2007/05/consumer_jre_le.html
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/enicholas/archive/
  2007/05/java_kernel_unm.html

• Google released Google Gears - a toolkit that allows web applications to be better threaded and also to work offline
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Gears
• http://digg.com/programming/My_very_first_app_
  based_on_Google_Gears_Local_Database_API
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/editors/archives/
  2007/06/change_of_heart.html
• The Google Developer Podcast has finally escaped
• http://google-code-updates.blogspot.com/2007/05/
  introducing-google-developer-podcast.html

• Mobile java app of the week - webaroo
• http://mobile.webaroo.com/

Quick News Items

• Charles Oliver Nutter, Thomas Enebo and Ola Bini have posted the release for JRuby 1.0 based on Ruby 1.8.5.
  
• http://www.cafeaulait.org/#June_4_2007_22118

• The JDJ has announced the contenders for the JDJ readers awards
• http://java.sys-con.com/general/readerschoice.htm

• The Sun Developer Network has published an interview with Josh Bloch that covers many different topics
• http://java.sun.com/javaone/sf/2007/articles/rockstar_bloch.jsp

• NetBeans 5.5.1 includes a number of bug fixes and also support for v2 of Glassfish. It also adds windows vista as a supported platform
• http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/
  NewsItemView?newsItemID=1051

• Java FX quick roundup - more information about the new Java FX initiative
• ReportMill - a Java FX RAD tool
  
• http://www.reportmill.com/jfx/
• Lars Gersmann blogs about a problem with the JavaFX Script assert statement, and gets the answer straight from Chris Oliver
• http://orangevolt.blogspot.com/2007/05/javafx-assert-statement.html
• Java.net has instructions for installing and using the JavaFX Script s for NetBeans 5.5
• https://openjfx.dev.java.net/javafx-nb55-plugin-install.html

• Google checkout is offering credit card transaction processing for free until the end of 2007, and Inderjeet Singh has put together instructions on how to use checkout from Glassfish
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/inder/archive/
  2007/05/using_google_ch.html
• http://checkout.google.com

• Martin Odersky has released version 2.5 final of Scala, an alternative programming language that uses the JVM
• http://www.scala-lang.org/downloads/index.html

• Apache Geronimo milestone 6 has passed the Java EE 5 TCK meaning that it is now possible to deploy Java EE 5 applications to the apache open source Java application server
  
• http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?
  thread_id=45680
• IBM has a tutorial on using a Google Web Toolkit front end with a back end written using the Apache Geronimo application server
• http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/opensource/
  edu/os-dw-os-ag-gwt1.html?open&ca=daw-fltx-
  05172007&S_TACT=106AH62W&S_CMP=NEWS

• Sun has announced that they will not enforce patents on their OpenID digital identity framework against anyone else who does not enforce their patents on OpenID either
• http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?
  thread_id=45552

• Novell has released Mono 1.2.4
• http://www.go-mono.com/archive/1.2.4/#changes

• JBoss 4.2 is out
• http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?
  thread_id=45553

• PDFs of the slides are now available from the technical sessions at JavaOne 2007
• http://developers.sun.com/learning/javaoneonline/
  j1online.jsp?track=1&yr=2007

• JDeveloper, OC4J (Oracle Containers for Java) and Toplink are all now available in 11g preview form
  
• http://www.techping.com/Software/
  Oracles-Java-EE-50-Technology-Preview-is--Out.html

• Genuitec have released version 5.5 final of MyEclipse Enterprise Workbench
  
• http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?
  thread_id=45493

• NetBeans has a new support module for the Sun Grid Engine (also sometimes called the Sun utility grid)
• http://www.netbeans.org/kb/articles/grid-compute-plugin.html

• Antlr 3.0, a very popular "compiler compiler" for the Java platform, has been released by Terrence Parr
• http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?
  thread_id=45464

• There is now a good online map available of the whole Runescape world if you are a fan of the game
• http://www.runescape-tip.com/world-map.htm

• Arun Gupta has a short getting started guide which makes it easy to get going with JRuby on Rails
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/arungupta/archive/
  2007/05/getting_started_1.html

• Motorola has released the RAZR 2 and MotoROKR Z6 phones, both of which use a Java on Linux platform
• http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS8879219087.html

• Felipe Gaucho blogs about the three kinds of Java distribution hell: Classpath hell, Jar hell and Extension hell, and how JSR 277 is trying to fix all three
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/felipegaucho/archive/
  2007/05/jsr277_super_ja.html

• GWT - the Google Web Toolkit - version 1.4 RC is now available
• http://code.google.com/webtoolkit/download.html

• NetBeans.org has a new plugin portal for sharing NetBeans plugin modules
• http://plugins.netbeans.org/PluginPortal/

• Bill Pugh has released version 1.21 of findbugs, the static analysis bug finding tool
  
• http://findbugs.sourceforge.net/

• The oldest IDE in existence, Emacs, has just reached version 22
• http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/

• Helios has released Linux for the Playstation 3
• http://digg.com/linux_unix/
  Helios_Unveils_Linux_for_Sony_Playstation_3

• John O'Conner adds his voice to the chorus of people proclaiming JSR 296 (The Swing Application Framework) is good
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/joconner/archive/
  2007/06/the_swing_appli.html

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  • Closing - Juan Carlos Jimenez - In the House (Intro No. 1)
    

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