Newscast for June 28th 2007
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http://www.damnhandy.com/2007/06/13/
java-on-mac-os-x-leopard-to-be-64-bit-resolution-independent/
Eclipse Europa has been released by the Eclipse foundation
http://www.eclipse.org/org/press-release/
20070627_europarelease.php
Simon Morris has an interesting opinion piece up on Java.net about the future of Rich Internet Applications
http://weblogs.java.net/blog/javakiddy/
archive/2007/06/a_rose_by_any_o.html
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?
http://colmsmyth.blogspot.com/2007/05/
sun-and-bea-no-good-deed-goes.html
Do you need Abject Oriented Programming?
http://www.scottberkun.com/blog/2007/
asshole-driven-development/
An almost CPU free pattern with AJAX - RAJAX
http://today.java.net/pub/a/today/2007/06/21/
almost-cpu-free-mvc-pattern-with-rajax.html
Java website of the week - Josh and Friends - the number one dance and music community
http://joshuavanaalst.com/blog/blog/2007/06/10/
josh-and-friends-a-real-world-web-application-
developed-using-netbeans-visual-web-pack/
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.
+ http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=315
+ http://weblogs.java.net/blog/felipeal/
archive/2007/06/my_suggestion_f_1.html
http://java.sys-con.com/read/377049.htm
While not exactly Java related, Sir Tim Berners Lee has received the Order of Merit, one of the most prestigious awards in the UK
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6750395.stm
Cay Horstmann has been delving into .NET and concludes that the grass isn't always greener on the other side
http://weblogs.java.net/blog/cayhorstmann/
archive/2007/06/the_grass_isnt.html
Google Developer Days session videos available on youtube.com
http://youtube.com/results?search_query=GDD07US
Computer Business Review Online has a Q&A with James Gosling, the Father of Java
http://www.cbronline.com/article_news.asp?
guid=D3E19B80-07C0-4C2C-BE8F-C468F56EA78C
JavaBeat has a new article by Shunmuga Raja that covers the new features of Java 6 that might well be worth bookmarking
http://www.javabeat.net/javabeat/java6/
articles/2007/06/java-6-0-new-features-part-1/
A new open source operating system called the Artix OS has been created on SourceForge
http://sourceforge.net/project/
showfiles.php?group_id=196831
Yakov Fain has made the Java Tutorial for Kids available as a free download
http://yakovfain.javadevelopersjournal.com/
the_java_tutorial_for_kids_is_available_for_free_download.htm
Atlassian software has released Crowd version 1.1, with lots of new OpenID focused features
http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?thread_id=45881
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
http://myfaces.apache.org/orchestra/index.html
Stanford has bought the first Project Blackbox, Sun's ready-to-go super computer in a shipping container
http://slashdot.org/articles/07/06/23/1245229.shtml
Egil Sorensen, a student at NTNU in Trondheim, has added replication and hot fail-over to the JavaDB pure java relational database
http://weblogs.java.net/blog/davidvc/
archive/2007/06/replication_in.html
At least some of the multimedia and supporting information is now available for technical sessions and hands on labs from JavaOne 2007
http://digg.com/software/JavaOne_Sessions_
and_Hands_On_Labs_available_online
Howard Lewis Ship and the tapestry team have released Tapestry 4.1.2 and OGNL (Object Graph Notation Language) 2.7
http://www.theserverside.com/news/
thread.tss?thread_id=45954
Sun has renamed the JAX-WS + Project Tango combination to Project Metro
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