Newscast for January 30th 2007

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Join us for the Java Posse Roundup 2007 in Crested Butte, CO from March 6th-9th 2007

http://mindview.net/Conferences/JavaPosseRoundup

• Microsoft takes from BlueJ without attribution, then applies for patent, then retracts application
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/cayhorstmann/

archive/2007/01/microsoft_copie.html + http://www.bluej.org/mrt/?p=21 + http://listserv.acm.org/scripts/wa.exe?A2=ind0701d&
L=sigcse-members&F=&S=&P=2285

• Mobile App of the Week - TellMe mobile

• http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/01/
  23/tellme-mobile-launches/

• Applet roundup

• Falling sand applet - http://chir.ag/stuff/sand/
• Enigma Applet -
  http://homepages.tesco.net/~andycarlson/
  enigma/enigma_j.html
• Visualization of terrorist attacks links - http://jamesnsears.com/applets/spies/

Quick News Items

• Google has released Testing on the Toilet to the general public

• http://googletesting.blogspot.com/

• JSR 291 has passed the public review ballot despite two no votes

• http://www.theserverside.com/news/
  thread.tss?thread_id=43961

• The Oracle Technical Network (OTN) has a new Spring extension for JDeveloper

• http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/
  jdev/htdocs/partners/addins/exchange/
  spring/spring-extension.html

• Chet Haase blogs about the upcoming book "Filthy Rich Clients" that he and Romain Guy have written which is nearing completion

• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/chet/
  archive/2007/01/filthy_rich_cli.html

• The Yourkit 6.0 Java Profiler from Yourkit LLC has been released

• http://www.theserverside.com/news/
  thread.tss?m=c.reply&thread_id=43944#226139

• http://www.yourkit.com/download/

• Firebug reaches 1.0 final

• http://www.getfirebug.com/blog/
  2007/01/24/one-dot-oh/

• Initial benchmarks done on the JRuby compiler are looking promising

• http://www.javalobby.org/java/forums/t89729.html

• IBM Developerworks is running a great multi-part series on creating a web application using a combination of GWT (Google Web Toolkit), Apache Derby and Eclipse

• http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/
  opensource/library/os-ad-gwt1/

• http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/
  java/library/os-ad-gwt2/index.html

• Mainsoft has released a preview edition of it's grasshopper product version 2.0

• http://dev.mainsoft.com/Default.aspx?tabid=239

• http://blogs.zdnet.com/Burnette/?p=244

• A new site - SourceKibitzer - tracks and catalogs open source Java projects

• http://www.sourcekibitzer.org/

• ThinkFree Office - a former Applet of the week on the Java Posse, has won a computerworld award for best online office suite beating out all the usual suspects like Zoho virtual office and Google Docs and Spreadsheets

• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/davidvc/
  archive/2007/01/what_java_is_be_1.html

• http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?
  command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9007884&
  pageNumber=1

• Sun has posted the second maintenance release of JSR 926 - the Java 3d API

• http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=926

• The Eclipse foundation has launched a new data tools platform, version 1.0

• http://www.eclipse.org/org/press-release/
  20070123_dtprelease.php

Listener Feedback

• Java2Exe - creating executables with Java
• Launch4j - cross platform - http://launch4j.sourceforge.net/
• General guide - http://www.excelsior-usa.com/articles/java-to-exe.html
• NativeJ for Windows - http://www.dobysoft.com/products/nativej/faq.html
• Thread on The Server Side - http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/
  thread.tss?thread_id=5942
• Making a Jar executable - http://www.captain.at/programming/java/
  executable-java-application.php

• Using webstart - http://www.cokeandcode.com/info/webstart-howto.html

• QCon in London

• http://www.simongbrown.com/blog/2007/01/
  08/qcon_london_gets_a_proper_software_
  development_conference.html

Thanks

• Libsyn.com - http://www.libsyn.com - for hosting and bandwidth
• Brice Ruth and Webprojkt.com - http://webprojkt.com - for our archives site - http://archives.javaposse.com
• Feedburner.com - http://www.feedburner.com - for feed redirect
• Kirsty Doherty, Oliver Widder and Jeff Tyson for Java Posse artwork
• Brian Ehmann - the Java Posse intern
• Craig Muth for maintaining the Java Posse Memorizable site - http://memorizable.org/Java_Posse

• 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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