Newscast for March 14th 2008

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• Java on the iPhone, will it? won't it?
• http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/03/

07/sun-iphone-java_1.html + http://www.ericklein.com/2008/03/btw-i-love-apple.html + http://blog.mozilla.com/rob-sayre/2008/03/06/

apple-bans-firefox-spidermonkey-lisp-lua-

ruby-python-rhino-java-opera-gcc/ + http://hacktheiphoneitouch.blogspot.com/2008/03/

iphone-sdk-limitations-inhibit-aim-java.html + http://huibert-aalbers.com/blog/archives/209 + http://scobleizer.com/2007/03/20/

steve-jobs-alert-killer-java-app-for-iphone/ + http://blog.sublimeintervention.com/

archive/2008/Mar-13.html + http://blogs.sun.com/hinkmond/entry/

iphone_sdk_missing_something_in

• Sun has released the first Beta of NetBeans 6.1
• http://www.netbeans.org/community/releases/61/
• http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/NewsItemView?

newsItemID=1200

• Application of the week - GMailAssistant

• http://gmailassistant.sourceforge.net/#screenshots

• Application of the week bonus: Stellarium for Java

• http://stellarium4java.sourceforge.net/

Quick News * The JSR 286 - Portlet Specification 2.0 - proposed final draft has been accepted + http://blogs.sun.com/theaquarium/entry/

portlet_2_0_is_now

• Ted Neward has created a talk for Jazoon 08: The busy Java developer's guide to Groovy
• http://jazoon.com/jazoon08/en/conference/

presentationdetails.html?type=sid&detail=5041 + And in other groovy news, Grails applications now work in Glassfish v3 + http://weblogs.java.net/blog/vivekp/archive/

2008/03/grails_applicat.html

• Apache has launched a new community site for Synapse / WS02
• http://www.theserverside.com/news/

thread.tss?thread_id=48691

• Java.net has a new series called the Open Road, by Elliotte Rusty Harold
• http://today.java.net/pub/a/today/2008/03/

06/jsr-294-superpackages.html + http://today.java.net/pub/ct/10

• Google has released the first milestone of GWT (Google Web Tookit) 1.5
• http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Web-Toolkit/

browse_thread/thread/a29d3cad41851250

• GridGain 2.0 has been released
• http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss

?thread_id=48681

• Bruce Chapman has blogged about another closures proposal: the no closures proposal
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/brucechapman/

archive/2008/03/anouncement_no.html

Listener FeedbackDavid I.

• Eclipse Magazine, December 2007, article by Ravi Kumar:
• http://www.codegear.com/article/34268/images/

34268/EclipseMagazine_Vol17-v2.pdf

• Ravi Kumar’s video introducing Application Factories:
• http://video.codegear.com/CodeRageIIArchives/

Day5/RaviKumar_ApplicationFactories.zip

• David I’s interview with eWeek:
• http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Application-Development/

CodeGear-Pushes-Java-to-Real-World/

• Jim Douglas (CodeGear CEO) eWeek interview:
• http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Application-Development/

CodeGear-A-Year-After-the-Borland-Spinout/

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• Theme Music:

  • 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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