Sat, 1 September 2007
Newscast for August 30th 2007
Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.com
-
Paramount defects from doing both Blu-ray and HD-DVD to doing just HD-DVD, CEO blames Java, but what is the whole story?
- Google Web Toolkit is now out of Beta with the release of the new version 1.4
-
Jython 2.2 has been released!
-
NetBeans Roundup - lots of things happening in the NetBeans camp this week
-
Java site of the week - Quicken Online, in JSF
Quick News
-
JSR 264 - Order Management API, has been approved by the JCP
- Greg Stein, the director of the Apache Software Foundation
was mugged outside his home, at the time he was on crutches from a
broken leg injury a couple of weeks before. Kevin Burton is having a
donation whip round to do something nice for Greg while he recovers
- If you are interested in Java/.NET interoperability with
WSIT, Arun Gupta has blogged a couple of useful links including a demo
of using Excel with Glassfish
-
The Mobile Phone/Smart Phone blog has a detailed review of the new Motorola ROKR E6
-
The glassfish team have posted up RC4 of glassfish v2 (and what they hope will be the final RC)
- If you missed the very popular Java Puzzlers technical
session at this year's JavaOne, or if you simply didn't make it to
JavaOne, you can still see it
- An InformIT article on HIJAX talks about how to plan for both JavaScript and non JavaScript browsers
- A new site collects Java related videos. D TV Java has
multiple views for selecting the video you might be interested in,
including a blog like view, thumbnail view and random selection
- We have sat upon this news item for a couple of weeks due
to problems accessing the site, but GridGain 1.5 offers an open source,
java based grid computing solution built on top of spring and JBoss. As
well as a 15 minute video demo of writing a grid application, and the
download itself, the gridgain company offers training, consulting and
support. They also seem to have a fondness for 2x2 rubiks cubes (which
seem like they wouldn't be much of a challenge to solve)
- ZDNet points out that a couple of security exploits found
by a Google engineer in the Java Image parsing code back in October
2006 are still not fixed for Java on Mac OS 10
- Sailfin, a SIPServlet communication application server
based on glassfish and contributions from Ericsson has reached
milestone one
Listener Feedback
- Neal Bartlett post to the Java Posse Google group about OSGi vs JSR 277
Thanks
Direct download: JavaPosse140.mp3
Category: podcasts
-- posted at: 1:04pm PST
|
|
To browse other episodes, use the Archives list on the right >>