Newscast for September 26th 2006
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Bill Pugh joins us half way through this podcast to talk about his new JSR 305 - Annotations for Software Defect Detection
Sun has a new JSR - 306 - which aims to overhaul the JCP!
#September_21_2006_53162 + http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=306
NetBeans Roundup
technicalArticles/tools/bluej/ + http://developer.sonyericsson.com/site/global/
newsandevents/latestnews/newssept06/
p_getstarted_ondevice_debugging_netbeans_tutorial.jsp + http://www.netbeans.org/community/
articles/nug-munich.html + http://blogs.sun.com/lukas/entry/
milestone_3_for_netbeans_6 + http://blogs.sun.com/roumen/entry/
verifying_compliance_of_java_ee + Several articles about the Netbeans RCP - http://www.artima.com/lejava/articles/
netbeans\_platform.html
- http://cld.blog-city.com/tim\_boudreau\_on\_netbeans\_
rich\_client\_platform\_presentation\_i.htm
- http://blogs.sun.com/geertjan/entry/
eclipse\_platform\_vs\_netbeans\_platform
http://jroller.com/page/ramlog?
entry=using_the_aspectj_plug_in + The JOnAS open source application now works with Netbeans -
http://jonas.objectweb.org/index.html
SWTSwing 3.2 beta has been released
Major ZOPE Content Management System CPS being ported to Java EE
thread.tss?thread_id=42351
Mobile app of the week (at least for the US) - GIST UGuide
Applet(s) of the week - JGame example applets
jgame/games.html + http://easyway.sourceforge.net/ + http://javacooperation.gmxhome.de/
TutorialStartEng.html
Quick News Items
Motorola has submitted JSR 307 - Network Mobility and Mobile Data API to the JCP
JNI Easy from innowhere has added Linux support to their easy JNI creation library
products/jnieasy/index.jsp?_page=products.jnieasy
Python 2.5 has been released
releases/2.5/highlights/
IBM Alphaworks has a short podcast available looking back over 10 years of alphaworks (happy birthday) and looking forward to the near future as well
podcast/dwi/cm-int091206.html
Romain Guy has 4 bonus videos on his blog taken at JavaDay 2006 in Paris
entry=javaday_2006_as_bonus_a
Sang Shin is running another of his popular Java EE programming with passion online courses starting on October 23rd 2006
IBM Developerworks has an article about using Groovy to reduce code noise that is common in Java
java/library/j-pg09196.html?ca=drs-
We have a couple of links for Java SE 6 and what it means for the desktop
entry=java_6_on_the_desktop + http://www.regdeveloper.co.uk/2006/
09/22/jse_bling/
Cafe Au Lait maintains a useful list of upcoming Java conferences and shows all around the world
Arpit Agarwal asks a question over at JavaLobby that we get asked a fair amount on the posse - what are the differences between the Google Web Toolkit and the Echo 2 framework, and where should you use each
forums/t78515.html
Listener Feedback
Head First books:
HeadFirstJava/HeadFirstJavaIndex.htm - http://www.wickedlysmart.com/HeadFirst/
HeadFirstServlets/HeadFirstJavaServlets.html - http://www.wickedlysmart.com/HeadFirst/
HeadFirstEJB/HeadFirstEJBIndex.htm + Bill Burke's book - Enterprise Javabeans 3.0 - http://www.amazon.com/Enterprise-JavaBeans-3-0-
Bill-Burke/dp/059600978X
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