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Sat, 20 October 2007

Java Posse #147 - Newscast for Oct 19th 2007

Newscast for October 19th 2007

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Correction - 2007 JCP Elections

http://weblogs.java.net/blog/editors/archives/
2007/10/awaiting_on_you.html

Sun JavaFX and client evening in SF update....

http://java.sun.com/javafx/

Is Sun creating a Java based competitor to the iPhone?

http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/10/10/
business/AS-TEC-SKorea-Sun-Samsung-Phone.php
http://www.cellular-news.com/story/26628.php
GMail mobile 1.5 is now out from Google
http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2007/10/
gmail-mobile-15-released.html
Linux Devices notes that Linux usage is on the rise in mobile phones
http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/
NS3714138423.html
A new Open Source Java environment for mobile devices called Jalimo
http://www.jalimo.org/wiki/doku.php
http://www.smokinglinux.com/opensource-
software/jalimo-%E2%80%93-open-source-
java-environment-for-linux-mobile
Brian Coughlin (Sr. Technology Strategist at Sprint) has managed to take the Sun open source PhoneME project and get a CDC implementation of Java up on the Nokia N800
http://wiki.java.net/bin/view/Mobileandembedded/
PhoneMEAdvancedPlatformsNokia800
Getting Java CDC running on Windows Mobile devices
http://wiki.java.net/bin/view/Mobileandembedded/
PhoneMEAdvancedGSGWinMobile
Motorola has released the new ROKR Z6m
http://uschotline.com/home/node/28
http://www.motorola.com/motoinfo/
product/details.jsp?globalObjectId=191

Update on OpenJDK encumberances

Jim Graham has announced a 2d rasterizer called Pisces
http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/
2d-dev/2007-October/000078.html
Mark Reinhold talks about the cutover to Mercurial source control
http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/
2d-dev/2007-October/000084.html
Igor Nekrestyanov has a status update about the inclusion of the freetype font rasterizer
http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/
font-scaler-dev/2007-July/000009.html
Alex Menkov reports that the unencumbered part of JavaSound has been opened too
http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/
audio-engine-dev/2007-September/000010.html
Brad Wetmore mentions that JCE (Java Cryptographic Extension) has been added to the OpenJDK as well
http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/
security-dev/2007-September/000015.html
David's blog also talks about an important fix to a bug with X.org's Xlib
http://weblogs.java.net/blog/robogeek/archive/
2007/10/openjdk_encumbr.html

Pair Programming, does it suck or are you doing it wrong?

The Future of Java on Mac OS X?

Java Application of the week - IntelliJ IDEA

http://www.theserverside.com/news/
thread.tss?thread_id=47232
http://www.jetbrains.com/idea/
JetBrains has also just released a point update for IDEA 6
http://www.cafeaulait.org/#October_3_2007_22563

Bonus java Application of the week - BabyTEL Eggphone

http://apps.facebook.com/babytel/

Quick News Items

Sun has gone public with around a dozen security exploits in the Java runtime engine, many of them severe

http://www.esecurityplanet.com/alerts/
article.php/3703516

IBM AlphaWorks details a new eclipse plugin that allows web based interaction with the eclipse IDE

http://www.alphaworks.ibm.com/tech/eclifox
?open&S_TACT=105AGX59&S_CMP=GRsite-eclpsw10
&ca=dgr-eclpsw10aweclifox

The eclipse project has also released the first Rich AJAX Platform to use OSGi: RAP 1.0

http://www.eclipse.org/org/press-release/
20071015_raprelease.php

NetBeans OpenLaszlo support provides an alternative way of building flash based rich internet applications without needing Adobe's eclipse based flex builder

https://nbopenlaszlosupport.dev.java.net/
Meanwhile, Linux Mini blogs about OpenLaszlo 4 now supporting Flash 7, 8 and 9 as well as DHTML
http://www.openlaszlo.org/orbit
https://orbit.dev.java.net/
Adobe has just released an alpha version of Flex Builder for Linux
http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/
flex/flexbuilder_linux/

NetBeans.org has a new tutorial on building an EJB 3.0 application using NetBeans, GlassFish v2 and Apache Maven 2

http://www.netbeans.org/kb/60/
javaee/ejb-glassfish-maven.html

Eyvind A. Larre blogs about how he put together a new facebook application in 15 minutes using Java and JSP

http://larre.wordpress.com/2007/10/10/
building-a-facebook-application-in-15-minutes/

Rick Ross at JavaLobby is rallying for putting Java on the OLPC (one laptop per child)

http://www.javalobby.org/articles/java-olpc/

http://weblogs.java.net/blog/editors/archives/
2007/10/power_of_two.html

JOSSO (Java Open Single Sign On) 1.6 has been released

http://www.theserverside.com/news/
thread.tss?thread_id=47200

JSR 264 - Order Processing API, the final release has now been made for the JSR by Nokia, including a Reference Implementation and TCK (Technology Compatibility Kit)

Chris Adamson on Java related podcasts

http://weblogs.java.net/blog/editors/archives/
2007/10/lay_my_head_dow.html

A new version of Compass, 1.2, is out

http://www.theserverside.com/news/
thread.tss?thread_id=47238

Nuxeo has released version 5.1 of its ECM (Enterprise Component Management) software

http://www.theserverside.com/news/
thread.tss?thread_id=47239

Sun's John Rose has a new project proposal over at OpenJDK: a multi-language VM

Eclipsecon 2008 is now accepting submissions for talks or tutorials

http://www.eclipse.org/org/press-release/
20071016_EclipseConCFP.php

And TheServerSide Java Symposium 2008 also has a call for papers

http://www.theserverside.com/news/
thread.tss?thread_id=47236

JasperAssistant has been updated to version 2.4.0

http://www.eclipsezone.com/eclipse/
forums/t102537.rhtml

The Silicon Valley Web Developer Java User Group has a session by Gavin King about WebBeans (JSR 299 - based on his Seam work) planned for their next meeting on October 16th

http://groups.google.com/group/
javaposse/msg/8e78c2b6c7a32bf7

DevX has a new article comparing Java FX, Adobe AIR, and Microsoft's Silverlight for building next generation RIA (Rich Internet Applications)

http://www.devx.com/RichInternetApps/
Article/35208/1954?pf=true

JPOX 1.1.9 has been released

http://www.jpox.org/

Ericsson and BenQ have published the public review draft for JSR 281 - IMS Services API

http://jcp.org/aboutJava/communityprocess/
pr/jsr281/index.html

In amongst the new exciting changes for the Java 6 Update N (the new Consumer JRE which it getting a lot of attention right now) is a new version of JAX-WS

http://blogs.sun.com/theaquarium/
entry/notd_newer_jax_ws_in

Microsoft has announced that it will share the source code for .NET

http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/
2007/10/03/releasing-the-source-code-
for-the-net-framework-libraries.aspx

Atlassian looking for an open source systems administrator

http://www.atlassian.com/about/jobs/
systems-administrator-sf.jsp

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