The Java Posse - SoundSage

Newscast for May 22nd 2008

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2008/05/a_beautiful_mes.html + http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?

thread_id=49332 + http://weblogs.java.net/blog/arungupta/archive/

2008/05/take_11_picture.html + http://weblogs.java.net/blog/johnsmart/archive/

2008/05/javaone_2008_ge.html + http://today.java.net/pub/a/today/2008/05/08/

javamobility-podcast45.html + http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?

thread_id=49343 + http://rossmason.blogspot.com/2008/04/

java-cloud-has-sun-dropped-ball.html + http://jacekfurmankiewicz.blogspot.com/2008/05/

java-to-get-new-webkit-based-browser.html

One of the stories we overlooked from JavaOne was that the JCP annual award winners were announced
Member of the Year
Apache Software Foundation (ASF)
Participant of the Year
Patrick Curran
Most Outstanding Spec Lead for Java SE/EE
Stefan Hepper for JSR 286, Portlet Specification 2.0
Most Innovative JSR for Java SE/EE
JSR 294, Improved Modularity Support in the Java Programming Language
Most Outstanding Spec Lead for Java ME
Jaana Majakangas for JSR 293, Location API 2.0
Most Innovative JSR for Java ME
JSR 290, Java Language and XML User Interface Markup Integration
Congratulations to the winners
http://www.jcp.org/en/press/news/

2008JCPawardwinnersPR

Does our support of Scala as an emerging force on the JVM mean that we believe Java is dead?
http://scala-lang.org
We held the first Scala users group last week at Google
http://groups.google.com/group/scala-base
Correction to our Twitter and Ruby on Rails story in Episode 186
http://www.betanews.com/article
/Twitter_cofounder_refutes_rumors_of_d...

Quick News Items * Build 24 of the consumer JRE (Java 6 update 10) was released yesterday + http://blogs.sun.com/SDNProgramNews/

entry/java_se_6u10_build_24

News from the Scala Lift Off - JavaRebel donating licenses for use on Scala for a year
http://www.theserverside.com/news/

thread.tss?thread_id=49443

Chris Adamson has started putting out the minitalks from the Community Corner at JavaOne as podcasts
http://today.java.net/pub/ct/javaonecommunitycorner
http://feeds.feedburner.com/javanetJavaOnePodcasts
The technical session on NNIO (JSR 203 - more new IO) on youtube
http://youtube.com/watch?v=yNRS1ssLPdQ&fmt=18
Apache has release Barcode4J 2.0 - a barcode generator for Java
http://barcode4j.sourceforge.net/
Vivek Pandey blogs about getting Scala and Lift working on Glassfish v3
http://weblogs.java.net/blog/vivekp/archive/

2008/05/scala_lift_web.html

Morph has Java running on Amazon's EC2 (Elastic compute cloud) and S3 (Simple storage system)
http://www.mor.ph/java/
http://weblog.infoworld.com/stratdev/archives/
2008/05/rails_and_now_j.html
And another new stack is available for Amazon EC2 that brings OpenSolaris, Glassfish and MySQL to the party
http://blogs.sun.com/jonathan/entry/

opensolaris_amazon_mysql_and_glassfish

The Woodstock project has released version 4.2
https://woodstock.dev.java.net/index.html
Google is hosting an Eclipse day, at the Googleplex in Mountain View, on Tuesday June 24th
http://wiki.eclipse.org/EclipseDay_At_Googleplex
Livescribe pen video at zdnet that shows some of its capabilities
http://news.zdnet.com/2422-13568_22-201252.html?

tag=nl.e622 + http://cld.blog-city.com/javaone_2008__

the_killerapp__a_java_pen.htm

Continuing the integration work with OSGi, glassfish now has a Grizzly OSGi bundle available
http://weblogs.java.net/blog/jfarcand/archive/

2008/05/grizzlys_osgi_b_1.html

Is JRockit a casualty of the Oracle/BEA deal?
http://dev2dev.bea.com/jrockit/versions.html#x6
Google has posted the second milestone of GWT 1.5
http://www.cafeaulait.org/#May_2_2008_71595
Jean Francois Arcand blogs about getting a GWT application working with Grizzly and Comet
http://weblogs.java.net/blog/jfarcand/archive/

2008/05/building_gwt_co.html

demos/index.html

JSR News. Sun has posted the early draft review of JSR 317 - JPA (Java Persistence API) 2.0
http://jcp.org/aboutJava/communityprocess/

edr/jsr317/ + http://weblogs.java.net/blog/davidvc/archive/

2007/05/javaone_session.html

JSR 315 - Servlet 3.0, is also in early draft review from Sun
http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=315
Nokia and Vodafone have posted the early draft review for JSR 249 - Mobile Service Architecture 2
http://www.cafeaulait.org/#May_9_2008_76397
Sun has posted an early draft review of JSR 292 - supporting dynamically typed languages on the Java platform
http://www.cafeaulait.org/#May_20_2008_65364
And another public review draft, from Sun, for JSR 311 - JAX-RS (Java API for ReSTful Web Services)
http://jcp.org/aboutJava/communityprocess/

pr/jsr311/index.html

thread.tss?thread_id=49336 + http://jgap.sourceforge.net/

NewsItemView?newsItemID=1233

The aquarium has a collection of links to get you started with the EJB 3.1 plugin for Glassfish v3
http://blogs.sun.com/theaquarium/

entry/taking_ejb_3_1_for

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