Newscast for September 5th 2006

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• Creator 2 update - raw performance

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

  big_speed_improvements_for_creator + http://blogs.sun.com/tor/entry/

  creator_on_speed_serious_speed

• Java2Script - does GWT have competition?

  • http://j2s.sourceforge.net/blog/
  • http://j2s.sourceforge.net/

• Swing Labs update

  • Richard Bair has a proof of concept and example up on his blog for using a java implementation of XMLHttpRequest
  • http://weblogs.java.net/blog/rbair/archive/2006/08/

  xmlhttprequest_1.html + Romain Guy was kind enough to pimp my swing app - jFlubber + http://dickwallsblog.blogspot.com/2006/09/

  jflubber-reloaded.html + Get the code - http://code.google.com/p/jflubber/

• Sun has posted the public review draft of JSR 270 which details the Mustang (now Java 6) release

  • http://www.cafeaulait.org/#August_29_2006_28709
  • http://jcp.org/aboutJava/communityprocess/

  pr/jsr270/index.html + http://blogs.sun.com/mr/entry/removing_features

• Application of the week - Tycho - an asterisk VoIP voicemail and dialing client constructed using the Eclipse RCP

  • http://www.asteriskvoipnews.com/asterisk_software/

  new_voicemail_client_for_win32_

  linux_x86mac_os_x_released.html + http://sip-syndication.com/index.php?

  option=com_content&

  task=view&id=1&Itemid=36

• Bill Pugh of Findbugs fame (and former posse interviewee) has submitted JSR-305 - Annotations for Software Defect Detection - into the JCP

  • http://www.cafeaulait.org/#August_31_2006_52996
  • http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=305

• A Public Service Announcement: James Gosling and a movie in Atlanta this month

  • http://www.ajug.org/

Quick News Items

• DiffJ - a diff tool that understands Java

  • http://www.incava.org/projects/java/diffj/

• OpenSSO project now live

  • https://opensso.dev.java.net/servlets/

  NewsItemView?newsItemID=4039 + https://opensso.dev.java.net/

• Sun has also released the NetBeans Mobility Pack under open source using the CDDL license

  • http://osdir.com/Article9222.phtml
  • http://mobility.netbeans.org/

• Struts Micro Edition? Can it be true?

  • http://www.strutsme.org/details.html
  • http://weblogs.java.net/blog/dsuspense/

  archive/2006/08/strutsme.html

• IBM Developerworks has an introduction to using JPA (the Java Persistence API) with Spring 2.0

  • http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/edu/

  j-dw-java-spring2-i.html?S_TACT=105AGX59&

  S_CMP=HP-GR&ca=dgr-btw01Spring2-JPA

• InfoQ has a detailed article on using the Grails framework (a Groovy based alternative to Ruby on Rails) to access EJB 3 domain objects

  • http://www.infoq.com/articles/grails-ejb-tutorial

• Motorola and Nokia have posted the proposed final draft of JSR-232 - Mobile Operational Management - to the JCP

  • http://www.cafeaulait.org/#August_29_2006_28348
  • http://jcp.org/aboutJava/communityprocess/

  pfd/jsr232/index.html

• JSR 268 - Java Authentication Service Provide Interface for Containers - has entered the public review draft stage

  • http://www.cafeaulait.org/#August_29_2006_28181

• JGAP version 3.0, a Genetic Algorithms package in Java, is now available from Sourceforce

  • http://jgap.sourceforge.net/

• The Sun Developer Network has a good guide to using RESTful web services from Java and JAX-WS

  • http://java.sun.com/developer/technicalArticles/

  WebServices/restful/

• Gavin King's SEAM, in a podcast

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

  thread_id=41903

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• Nick Trefz, the voice of TopCoder, for the voiceovers
• Brian Ehmann - the Java Posse intern

• 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://www.loosebrucekerr.com
  • Closing - A track written by Dick in Apple's Garageband

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