Newscast for August 15th 2006

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• Open source java news - hot off the presses

  • http://community.java.net/jdk/opensource/

• Is pure ReST really enough?

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

  2006/08/aint_gettin_no.html + http://www.pbell.com/index.cfm/2006/7/14/

  Verb-Hunting-Four-Just-Isnt-Enough + http://www.pbell.com/index.cfm/2006/7/14/

  Is-Web-Design-FUCD + http://lesscode.org/2006/03/19/high-low-rest/

• Borland brings back the Turbo brand

  • http://www.artima.com/forums/flat.jsp?

  =269&thread=171340

• Microsoft is not tempted by the OpenSOA party

  • http://blogs.zdnet.com/service-oriented/?p=677
  • http://www.adtmag.com/esArticle.aspx?a=2054

• Sun to include support for VB in Dolphin (Java 7)

  • http://www.oreillynet.com/onjava/blog/2006/08/

  java_to_support_visual_basic.html?CMP=OTC-FP2116136014&

  ATT=Java+to+support+Visual+Basic + http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,2000849,00.asp?

  kc=EWRSS03119TX1K0000594

• Glazed Lists 1.7.0 - Java Library of the week

  • http://today.java.net/pub/n/4780

• Eclipse 3.3 Milestone 1 is now out

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

  S-3.3M1-200608101230/eclipse-news-M1.html

• NetBeans 6 Milestone 2 is now out

  • http://qa.netbeans.org/q-builds/
    TrunkNewAndNoteworthy.html

• Greatest software ever written

  • http://www.informationweek.com/shared/

  printableArticle.jhtml?articleID=191901844

• Java Applet of the week - Airport monitor

  • http://java.com/en/everywhere/airportmonitor.jsp

Quick News Items

• Are POJO's always simpler than EJBs?

  • http://www.javalobby.org/java/forums/t77299.html

• Internationalized versions of NetBeans BlueJ Edition

  • http://www.netbeans.org/community/news/index.html#901

• Version 2.0 of the Portlet Specification (JSR 286) has been released for public review

  • http://www.infoq.com/news/Portlet-2.0-Ready-For-Review

• Sun has posted an the 8th update to Tiger (Java 5) Standard Edition

  • http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/ReleaseNotes.html#150_08
  • http://java.sun.com/javase/downloads/index.jsp

• Sun Tech Days are coming to Seattle

  • http://developers.sun.com/events/techdays/

• JNI Wrapper 3.3 has been released by the JNIWrapper project

  • http://www.jniwrapper.com/pages/home

• Outlook connector version 2.0

  • http://today.java.net/pub/n/4775
  • http://www.moyosoft.com/joc/

• The Apache Portal Project has released Portals Bridges 1.0

  • http://www.cafeaulait.org/#August_7_2006_30950

• The netbeans podcast is back

  • http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/roumen?

  entry=netbeans_podcast_no_11

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