Newcast for August 22nd, 2008Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.com

• Sadly, Java does not run on the Mars Lander
• The Golden Gate Project http://research.sun.com/projects/goldengate/

• Space surveillance radar http://www.sun.com/aboutsun/pr/2008-04/sunflash

• Google has released a new version of the Android SDK. 0.9 Beta

• http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2008/08/

announcing-beta-release-of-android-sdk.html + http://code.google.com/android/documentation.html

• A different angle on the checked vs unchecked exceptions debate
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/timboudreau/archive/

2008/08/semichecked_exc.html

• A Polish security researcher claims to have found numerous bugs and security exploits in the Nokia Series 40 Java ME implementation
• http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/08/11/

Researcher_reveals_critical_Java_bugs_in_Nokia_phones_1.html + http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/08/21/series_40_security/

• Return type differentiated method overloading - it's possible, but is it a good idea?
• http://today.java.net/pub/a/today/2008/07/31/

return-type-based-method-overloading.html

• Caoyuan Deng has released a beta of the new Scala plugin for use with the Netbeans 6.5 beta

• http://wiki.netbeans.org/Scala

• Applet of the week - Nodiatis

• http://www.nodiatis.com/

Quick News * SDN ask the experts panel about JavaFX + http://java.sun.com/developer/community/askxprt/

sessions/2008/jl0818.jsp

• DevX has an article about an often overlooked feature of Java SE 6 - Doclets

• http://www.devx.com/Java/Article/38719

• Hibernate 3.3 has been released

• http://www.infoq.com/news/2008/08/hibernate-33

• The proposed final draft is now available for JSR 311 - JAX-RS (Java API for XML, ReSTful web Services)

• http://jcp.org/aboutJava/communityprocess/

pfd/jsr311/index.html + http://blogs.sun.com/sandoz/entry/

integrating_jersey_and_spring_take1

• Stripees 1.5 has been released
• http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?

thread_id=50391 + http://stripesframework.org/display/stripes/Download

• Mike Van Riper, JUG leader of the Silicon Valley Web JUG
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/van_riper/archive/

2008/08/using_the_googl.html

• Facelets JSF 2.0 branch has now been merged into the Mojarra (JSF) repository
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/edburns/archive/

2008/08/facelets_jsf_20.html

• Sun has released the Lightweight UI Toolkit (LWUIT)
• http://lwuit.blogspot.com/2008/08/lwuit-open-

source-today-plus-great-new.html + http://weblogs.java.net/blog/terrencebarr/archive/

2008/08/comparing_lwuit.html + http://today.java.net/pub/a/today/2008/08/14/

introduction-to-lwuit.html

• The Simple project has release Simple 4.0

• http://www.simpleframework.org/

• JBoss' Sacha Labourey has an interview over at DZone about the upcoming release of JBoss App Server 5.0

• http://eclipse.dzone.com/videos/

tech-chat-sacha-labourey-jboss + http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?

thread_id=50422

• MyEclipse has a new release, v7.0 milestone 1
• http://eclipse.dzone.com/announcements/

myeclipse-now-ganymede

• Massive adoption of EJB 3 in Germany
• http://www.adam-bien.com/roller/abien/

entry/ejb_3_dead_or_alive

• Manor 'n Rock JSF paypal components
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/mriem/archive/

2008/08/manor_n_rock_js_1.html + http://www.manorrock.com/products/jsf/index.html

• BEA workshop now free (with registration)
• http://eclipse.dzone.com/articles/

the-best-jspstrutsjsf-developm

• The proposed final draft for JSR 290 - Java Language and XML User Interface Integration integration has been posted by Sun
• http://jcp.org/aboutJava/communityprocess/

pfd/jsr290/index.html

• Edgar Silver has created a JBoss User Group in Brazil

• http://jbossbrasil.ning.com/

• Elastica is a new Rules based load balancer for JBoss

• http://sourceforge.net/projects/elastica/

• A new article on the NetBeans wiki covers best practices of using JPA (the Java Persistence API) with JSR 295 beans binding

• http://wiki.netbeans.org/BestPractices

WithJPAAndBeansBinding

• Tim Boudreau asks "where is the state"
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/timboudreau/archive/

2008/08/wheres_the_stat.html

• Sun has hired a leading OSGi expert, Richard Hall, to work on the GlassFish project
• http://www.osgi.org/blog/2008/08/

sun-hires-richard-hall.html + http://blogs.sun.com/theaquarium/entry/

webinar_intro_and_overview_of

• The Projectivity project has released Projectivity 3.0
• http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?

thread_id=50345

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