Newscast for November 7th 2006

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• Netbeans 5.5 final released

  • http://netbeans.org/
  • http://cld.blog-city.com/

  netbeans_ide_55__a_visual_glance.htm + http://www.eweek.com/article2/

  0,1895,2047273,00.asp + http://www.theinquirer.net/

  default.aspx?article=35492 + http://cld.blog-city.com/netbeans_mobility_pack_

  surprises_developers__support_for_svg.htm + http://www.netbeans.org/kb/55/

  vwp-helloweb.html + http://blogs.sun.com/tor/entry/

  using_jdk_5_language_features + http://blogs.sun.com/theaquarium/entry/

  new_netbeans_5_5_plugin + https://ajax.dev.java.net/ + http://www.netbeans.org/community/

  contribute/dreamteam.html

• GWT 1.2 release candidate- with a Mac version!

  • http://googlewebtoolkit.blogspot.com/2006/

  10/gwt-12-release-candidate-with-mac-os-x.html

• Novell and Microsoft partner - what will this mean for mono, and what will that mean for Java?

  • http://blogs.zdnet.com/service-oriented/?p=747
  • http://www.it-director.com/content.php?cid=8950
  • http://blogs.zdnet.com/carroll/index.php?p=1615

• Mobile app of the week is an easy one this week - GMail for mobile devices

• http://gmail.com/app

• http://www.searchenginejournal.com/?p=3970
• http://www.google.com/press/pressrel/

mail_mobileclient.html + http://www.downloadsquad.com/2006/

11/06/how-to-run-gmail-locally-on-a-pocket-pc/

Quick News Items

• Eclipse 3.3 M3 released

  • http://www.eclipse.org
  • http://download.eclipse.org/eclipse/downloads/

  drops/S-3.3M3-200611021715/eclipse-news-M3.html

• JSR Roundup - a lot of activity in the JCP this week

  • http://www.jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=272
  • http://www.jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=263
  • http://www.jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=258
  • http://www.jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=257
  • http://www.jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=247
  • http://www.jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=232
  • http://www.jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=154
  • http://www.jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=245
  • http://www.jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=270
  • http://www.jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=283
  • http://www.jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=252
  • http://www.jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=199
  • http://www.jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=926
  • http://www.jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=243

• There are many good Java related FAQs out there on the internet, but the Java IAQ might get your attention

  • http://www.norvig.com/java-iaq.html

• Romain Guy - it's all about Java

  • http://jroller.com/page/gfx?

  entry=it_s_all_about_java

• Heat up those word processors - the JavaOne 2007 call for papers is coming soon

  • http://weblogs.java.net/blog/amvernon/

  archive/2006/11/2007_javaone_ca.html

• Stanley Ho has blogged more information on the JSR 277 (Java Module System) blowup.

  • http://weblogs.java.net/blog/stanleyh/archive/

  2006/11/more_jsr277_ear.html

• Tarantula Consulting has released JSFToolbox 1.2, a suite of JSF design and coding extensions for Dreamweaver

  • http://www.jsftoolbox.com/

• Apple has released version 2.4.1 of XCode, their free development environment for the Mac

  • http://developer.apple.com/tools/

  xcode/update.html

• The eclipse project has released version 1.5.2 of WTP (web tools platform)

  • http://www.eclipse.org/webtools/
  • http://download.eclipse.org/webtools/

  downloads/drops/R1.5/R-1.5.2-200610261841/

  whatisfixed/buglog.html

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