JavaOne Retrospective Part 2 - May 15th 2007 Part 2 of the JavaOne Retrospective recorded live at the SV Web JUG meeting.

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  • Curriki and Engineers without Borders
  • http://www.curriki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/WebHome

  • http://weblogs.java.net/blog/arungupta/archive/
    2007/05/javaone_2007_da.htm

  • Realtime Java 2.0

  • http://java.sun.com/javase/technologies/realtime/index.jsp

  • Robosapien Toy (JavaOne Geek Gadget)

  • http://java.sun.com/javaone/sf/2007/articles/robosapien.jsp

  • Demo: NetBeans 6 - TOR!!!

  • http://java.sun.com/javaone/sf/media_shell.jsp?id=194211

  • Demo: Blu-Ray Disc Java (BDJ)

  • http://developers.sun.com/learning/javaoneonline/
    j1sessn.jsp?sessn=TS-0887&yr=2007&track=1

  • Demo: Glassfish V3

  • https://glassfish.dev.java.net/downloads/v3-techPreview-1.html

  • Demo: NASA World Wind

  • http://worldwind.arc.nasa.gov/java/

  • Demo: IRIS

  • http://www.jasperpotts.com/blog/2007/05/iris-video-on-youtube/

  • Demo: Cinegistics

  • http://www.cinegistics.com/

Quick News-athon

  • AB5k (Josh Marinacci and Robert Cooper's widgets project) has been renamed to glossitope

  • http://weblogs.java.net/blog/joshy/archive/
    2007/05/ab5k_has_a_new_1.html

  • Google has a couple of new ReST tools, ReST describe tools that provide a best guess WADL (Web Application Description Language) from looking at a list of example ReST messages, while ReST compile takes a WADL and creates language bindings for many different languages

  • http://blogs.sun.com/theaquarium/entry/
    rest_compile_and_rest_describe

  • Microsoft has released the DLR (Dynamic Language Runtime) based on it's CLR for .NET. The new DLR targets dynamic languages with extra VM level features. We will have more on this in a future episode

  • http://digg.com/microsoft/Microsoft_Surpasses_
    Java_s_Dynamic_Language_Support

  • Netbeans has added Mercurial support (which is useful as the Java source code has been released using Mercurial). Mercurial is a decentralized (or distributed) source control system

  • http://blogs.sun.com/roumen/entry/
    netbeans_gets_mercurial_support

  • Runescape, the Java MMORPG (and former applet of the week from way back) has passed 1 million paying subscribers and over 10 million members (you can pay for free)

  • http://digg.com/gaming_news/RuneScape_has_1_million_
    subscribers_including_free_members_10_million_total

  • Although you have probably heard by now, Guillaume Laforge and the groovy team have released a new Beta version of Groovy 1.1, and it now has annotations support. At present, you can only use and not write annotations in Groovy, but it is the first non Java language that runs on the JVM to use them

  • http://www.cafeaulait.org/#May_2_2007_27428

  • The apache project has released Jackrabbit 1.3 - an open source implementation of JSR 170 - Content Repository for Java Technology API

  • http://www.cafeaulait.org/#April_26_2007_32042

  • Charles Oliver Nutter, Thomas Enebo and Ola Bini have released JRuby 0.99, which is compatible with Ruby 1.85. It also now supports the new Bean Scripting Framework (more on this soon too)

  • http://www.cafeaulait.org/#April_26_2007_32042

  • A 12 year old Nigerian has become a Sun Certified programmer. Allwell Worgu is not the first 12 year old to pass the certification though, a pakistani girl received the certification at the same age some 6 years ago (name unknown...)

  • http://www.javalobby.org/java/forums/t93670.html

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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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