Sat, 18 August 2007
Newscast for August 16th 2007 and Glassfish Interview
Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.com
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JSR 291 (Dynamic Component Support for Java SE) has released it's final version
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Mobile app of the week: J2MEdit
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Library of the week - Flosc
Quick News Items
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IntelliJ IDEA has reached version 7 milestone 2
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Oracle has released Coherence 3.3
- TheServerside.com has a podcast interview with Rod Johnson
from Interface 21 about Spring 2.0, and the upcoming Java EE 6 JSR
which Rod recently joined as an expert group member
- Codegear - formerly the developer tools division of
Borland, has released JGear, a suite of plugins for the eclipse
platform that enhance eclipses functionality in the areas of Java
application performance, visual development and team collaboration
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Sun has a new program to make it easier for open source Java projects to access the Java TCK (Technology Compatibility Kit)
- The glassfish project has created a JSP (JavaServer Pages)
subproject to add to its list of subprojects like JSF, Grizzly,
JAXB/JAX-WS and so forth
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Google has added StarOffice and the JRE to its Google Pack offering for windows
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Forget LAMP, check out JAMP
- Addison Wesley Eclipse WTP book available
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What's new in NetBeans Mobility Pack 6.0?
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The eclipse process framework 1.2.0 has been released
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Apache has released version 1.2.24 of the Apache Tomcat connectors
Glassfish InterviewWith Eduardo Pelegri-Llopart and Jerome Dochez from the Glassfish project - Glassfish home page
- RC1 (current as of podcast - look for newer versions!)
- v3 Preview (the bleeding edge)
- Eduardo Pelegri-Llopart's blog
- Jerome Dochez's blog
- JSR 316 (Java EE 6)
- JSR 317 (Java Persistence API 2.0)
- JSR 318 (Enterprise Java Beans 3.1)
Thanks
Direct download: JavaPosse138.mp3
Category: podcasts
-- posted at: 11:05am PDT
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Fri, 10 August 2007
Newscast for August 9th 2007
Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.com
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Iris is ready for the prime time (or at least general experimentation)
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Hackademix.net has a description of a way to use Java and liveconnect to circumvent popup blocking tools
- In an article on InfoQ, Martin Fowler reckons we are
entering a software development stage where a single language like Java
will be replaced by Domain Specific Languages created for each task
Quick News Items
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JSR 113 has a second proposed final draft for the Java speech API 2.0
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The Aquarium has the second screencast about using jMaki JSF components, NetBeans IDE and GlassFish application server
- Sun is set to release a new 8 core, Niagara 2 chip this
week. The 8 core, 8 threads per core processor should be able to allow
up to 64 simultaneous running threads with suitable software
- Moomba has reached version 0.5. This new and quite
ambitious web UI framework provides an eclipse RCP for the web, the
idea being that developers already familiar with the Eclipse RCP can
build rich and ajax-y web applications using their RCP skills
- Not to be left out, Swing apps also now have a web UI
migration path. WebCream allows swing apps to be adapted into rich
internet applications (RIAs) providing automatic conversion to AJAX
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The first release candidate is out for Glassfish v2
- A new Evans Data survey shows that Java is on the rise and
.NET is declining for implementing SOAs (Service Oriented
Architectures)
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OpenJDK can now be built and run with FreeType, removing one of the remaining encumbrances from proprietary software
Listener Feedback
- Hands Of Romania charity is looking for laptops, servers, network peripherals and other donations
- Chet Haase on the state of video in Java
Thanks
Direct download: JavaPosse137.mp3
Category: podcasts
-- posted at: 9:13am PDT
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Sat, 4 August 2007
Newscast for August 4th 2007
Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.com
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How much is your code worth?
- The new firefox 4 javascript VM, which will be based on
Tamarin (the engine donated to the project by Adobe), will run not only
JavaScript, but also Ruby and Python
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JavaFX properties support
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NetBeans to get first class Groovy support?
- Google has released a free tool - the Google Singleton Detector
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And for another fun discussion, when should you use finalizers?
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Applet of the week - Zombie Infection
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Applet of the week - bonus - Bitlet
Quick News Items
- San Shin's JavaPassion.com website now has a hands on lab
for creating web applications using Sun's woodstock JSF components
which have just been open sourced by Sun
- Yahoo has release YSlow, a performance tool which helps you to determine why a site is slow
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An updated version of the JavaFX plugin is now available for NetBeans
- Daniel Boekhoff has a new tutorial up at NetBeans.org that
walks you through creating a Ruby on Rails application in NetBeans
- What ever happened to the Apache TCK open letter and blowup?
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JBoss has released Drools 4.0
- Lifehacker has information about an OpenOffice extension that lets you write macros in Groovy
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Oliver Widder JavaPosse World Tour Poster
- Chet Haase appears in the latest SDN tv episode talking about the new book Filthy Rich Clients
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The San Diego JUG has a special appearance by James Gosling on August 8th
- If you have ever been interested in getting your own JSR
through the JCP, you might be interested in a new series on the JCP
site that explains each part of the process in detail. Part 3 in the
series has just been published, which explains the draft review process
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Atlassian software have bought Cenqua
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An eclipse RCP training world tour? Well, the USA and Europe anyway
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Registration is now open for the eclipse summit Europe
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A new JSF user group has been formed in Zürich, Switzerland and Ed Burns was the first presenter
- MyTreo.net reports that Palm has very quietly released an update to the Websphere Everyplace Java ME environment for Palm OS
- Beelucid software has announced a limited release of a free
beta test version and unlimited release of a free trial version of
VBeeJava
- BEA has released a suite of WebLogic server tools for
Eclipse Europa (3.3) to help develop, deploy and debug weblogic based
applications from the new version of Eclipse
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Marc Fleury, former CEO of JBoss, has a short but interesting interview up at news.com
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Apache MyFaces has released version 1.2.0 of it's core JSF 1.2 compliant JSF components
- If you are interested in building web services with ReST,
Brian Leonard has a blog entry about how to do it easily using NetBeans
- Dozer 4.0, the new version of the Dozer bean mapping
framework, makes it easy to map properties from one bean to another for
recursive copying and other related uses
- The GPS tracker site allows you to track a cell phone using
a J2ME program running on that phone, and google maps to display the
location
Thanks
Direct download: JavaPosse136.mp3
Category: podcasts
-- posted at: 6:57pm PDT
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Thu, 26 July 2007
Newscast for July 26th 2007
Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.com
- A serious security flaw has been found which affects all versions of Java, on all platforms including mobile devices
- Joshua Marinacci hints and teases about stuff coming up with Java FX
- Netbeans 6 Milestone 10 (or consider the nightly builds)
- Lotus Exige (Joe's new toy)
Thanks
Direct download: JavaPosse135.mp3
Category: podcasts
-- posted at: 3:08pm PDT
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Mon, 16 July 2007
Interview with Josh Reed about CHRONOS, ANDRILL and Antarctica
Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.com
Josh Reed is one of our long time listeners, and he wrote in to tell
us, from Antarctica! In this interview, Josh tells us what CHRONOS and
ANDRILL are all about, how they use Java, and of course what life is
like in Antarctica.
- Josh Reed's Blog
- CHRONOS
- ANDRILL
- PSICAT
- Antarctica links
- John Carpenter's "The Thing"
Thanks
Direct download: JavaPosse134.mp3
Category: podcasts
-- posted at: 8:10pm PDT
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Thu, 12 July 2007
Newscast for July 12th 2007
Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.com
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Java EE 6 is back, but not as JSR 313, instead it will be JSR 316
- JSR 277 - the Java Module System, has released its first
snapshot (as has JSR 294 - the related Improved Modularity Support for
the Java language)
- Adobe has release AIR - the Adobe Integrated Runtime
- NetBeans 6 Milestone 10 is out
- Java 6 update 2 is now out, this new update incorporates 182 fixes and enhancements
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Compiz and Beryl 3d window managers still troublesome with Java
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Applet of the week - Deck Designer
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Mobile app of the week: Bombus - a Jabber chat client for Java ME enabled phones
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AND! A library of the week this week as well: WiiremoteJ
Quick News Items
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InfoQ has published an interview with Bob Brewin, Sun's Software CTO
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The OpenMoko neo1973 developer handset is now available for purchase
- Motorola has released information on the new Zante - the next generation sidekick
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The playstation 3 price has dropped to $499
- Asterisk-Java 0.3 has been released
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The BlueJ project has released a new version 2.2 of the BlueJ IDE
- JTR 4, an open source project from JTRunner is a testing
framework that makes it possible to distribute your testing to a farm
of JTR nodes, cutting the time to run all of the tests using parallelism
- JSRs 190 (Event Tracking API for J2ME) and 280 (XML API for
Java ME) have both been rejected by the JCP because of concerns with
the licensing of spec and implementation
- Could Java be coming to the iPhone? Our opinion: probably not any time soon unfortunately
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Easy eclipse 1.3 has been released, the first easy eclipse based on the new Eclipse 3.3 europa release
- Sang Shin is adding a new Java Web Services course to his popular JavaPassion.com java skills site
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While only in the rumor stages at this point, it sounds like Java 6 on the Mac will only be available on Leopard on Intel!
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Cay Horstmann has a comparison of JSF development in both NetBeans and Eclipse
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JBoss Portal 2.6 adds support for Google Gadgets
- While not really Java centric, clipperz blog has some
benchmarks of the new Tamarin javascript engine (donated by Adobe) that
will be in firefox 4
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Web developers may be pleased to hear that JSFToolbox 2.0 is now available for use with Dreamweaver CS3
- Paul Sandoz of the glassfish team has succeeded in (and
blogged about) getting Scala running under the Glassfish application
server
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JSR 315 - Servlet 3.0 - has been filed and approved by the JCP
- Javabeat has an introduction to JavaFX script programming
- Screencast-o-matic - a Java applet to record screencasts
- The Cologne JUG (or JUG Cologne as it is correctly named)
held an IDE shootout between Eclipse, NetBeans, JDeveloper and IntelliJ
IDEA
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Seam 2.0 - Gavin King's conversational state framework (and contributor to JSR 299 web beans) has entered beta
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JBoss has announced that JBossWS 2.1.0 will support Metro
- Bruce Eckel has a number of other Open Space conferences (like the roundup) coming up in the next few months
Thanks
Direct download: JavaPosse133.mp3
Category: podcasts
-- posted at: 8:21pm PDT
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Tue, 10 July 2007
Interview with Bill Pugh and Brian Goetz
Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.com
Recorded at JavaOne 2007
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Brian Goetz
- Bill Pugh
- Findbugs
- JSR 305: Annotations for Software Defect Detection
- JSR 308: Annotations on Java Types
- Functional Languages:
- Guice
- Fortress
- Guy Steele's talk on Growing a Language
Thanks
Direct download: JavaPosse132.mp3
Category: podcasts
-- posted at: 9:10pm PDT
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Wed, 4 July 2007
Walking Around JavaOne 2007 - Part 2
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This episode is part two of our recordings from walking around JavaOne
and talking to people we meet. Joe does most of the work in this
episode.
- John Todd - Photographer
- Bruce Eckel and Mindview
- James Ward and Adobe Flex/Flash/Apollo
- Java.net
- Eric Arseneau - SunSpot
- Systronix - SunSpot and TrackBot
- Greenfoot project
- SoftwareFX - ChartFX JSF components (plus free community edition)
- Caucho technology - resin application server
- David Heron - OpenJDK
- David Intersimone (David I) from Codegear (was Borland)
- Agitar and JUnitFactory (Bob Evans)
- University of Sydney (Peter Whitfield - real time Java slot car winner)
- Vernon Singleton - Walt Disney World
Thanks
Direct download: JavaPosse131.mp3
Category: podcasts
-- posted at: 2:00pm PDT
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Fri, 29 June 2007
Newscast for June 28th 2007
Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.com- Java 6 on Mac OS X Leopard (10.5) - It's alive!
- Eclipse Europa has been released by the Eclipse foundation
- Simon Morris has an interesting opinion piece up on Java.net about the future of Rich Internet Applications
- In the gossip section this week, is Sun being immoral by
"Tying" Java to NetBeans, come to that, is it even really tying Java to
NetBeans?
- Do you need Abject Oriented Programming?
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An almost CPU free pattern with AJAX - RAJAX
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Java website of the week - Josh and Friends - the number one dance and music community
- Java Mobile App of the Week - Opera Mini 4 Beta
Quick News Items
- Sun has submitted the Servlet 3.0 specification to the JCP as JSR 315.
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The JCP award nominations for five different categories in selecting the best JSRs for the year are now open
- While not exactly Java related, Sir Tim Berners Lee has
received the Order of Merit, one of the most prestigious awards in the
UK
- Cay Horstmann has been delving into .NET and concludes that the grass isn't always greener on the other side
- Google Developer Days session videos available on youtube.com
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Computer Business Review Online has a Q&A with James Gosling, the Father of Java
- JavaBeat has a new article by Shunmuga Raja that covers the new features of Java 6 that might well be worth bookmarking
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A new open source operating system called the Artix OS has been created on SourceForge
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Yakov Fain has made the Java Tutorial for Kids available as a free download
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Atlassian software has released Crowd version 1.1, with lots of new OpenID focused features
- Apache has released MyFaces Orchestra, which enables
conversational scoping and persistence integration with JSF (which is
also what Seam and the new WebBeans does). Orchestra uses Spring to
achieve this important gap-filling
- Stanford has bought the first Project Blackbox, Sun's ready-to-go super computer in a shipping container
- Egil
Sorensen, a student at NTNU in Trondheim, has added replication and hot
fail-over to the JavaDB pure java relational database
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least some of the multimedia and supporting information is now
available for technical sessions and hands on labs from JavaOne 2007
- Howard Lewis Ship and the tapestry team have released Tapestry 4.1.2 and OGNL (Object Graph Notation Language) 2.7
- Sun has renamed the JAX-WS + Project Tango combination to Project Metro
Thanks
Category: podcasts
-- posted at: 8:51am PDT
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Sun, 24 June 2007
Walking Around JavaOne 2007 - Part 1
Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.com
This episode is part one of our recordings from walking around JavaOne
and talking to people we meet. Hopefully it gives a taste of what it is
like walking around in the pavilion and corridors of JavaOne, and the
kind of interactions you have while doing so. There will be a second
episode. Dick does a lot of the talking on this one, in part 2, Joe
does a lot more of the work.
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Sonia AUV
- Cenqua - makers of Clover, Fisheye and Crucible development tools
- Microsoft - Projects Tango and Silverlight
- Agitar Software
- Interface 21 - the Spring Framework
- Fortify Software and the Man from Hackistan
- The Server Side
- Java.net community site, and JUGs
- Starcom - who managed to get us our T-shirts in less than 12 hours
- Amy Fowler and Shannon Hickey from Swing Labs and the Swing Team
Thanks
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Libsyn.com - http://www.libsyn.com - for hosting and bandwidth
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Brice Ruth and Webprojkt.com - http://webprojkt.com - for our archives site - http://archives.javaposse.com
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Feedburner.com - http://www.feedburner.com - for feed redirect
- 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)
Direct download: JavaPosse129.mp3
Category: podcasts
-- posted at: 11:37am PDT
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