Newscast for August 8th 2006

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• 10 Things Java should steal from Ruby

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

  thread_id=41622

• Netbeans 5.5 Beta 2 with App server 9 bundle released

  • http://www.netbeans.org/community/news/index.html#897
  • Huge performance speedups becoming available with JSR 199
  • http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/kchung?

  entry=speed_up_jsp_compilations_with + And a new beta of Sun's Java Studio Enterprise 8.1 (based on the Netbeans 5.0 platform) is now available + http://weblogs.java.net/blog/marinasum/archive/

  2006/08/sun_java_studio_3.html

• More on google code hosting:

  • http://www.channelweb.com/sections/allnews/article.jhtml?

  articleId=191601487&cid=ChannelWebNews + The jFlubber project - http://code.google.com/p/jflubber/

• MyEclipse 5.0 has been released

  • Eclipse SWT_AWT bug #145890
  • New and noteworthy: http://www.myeclipseide.com/
    ContentExpress-display-ceid-86.html
  • http://www.myeclipseide.com/index.php

• Rick Ross over at Java Lobby installed Mustang on the new Vista beta and thinks it is faster than running Java on XP

  • http://www.javalobby.org/java/forums/t77240.html

• NEO Office 2.0 Beta now available for Mac

  • http://www.neooffice.org/
  • An introduction to using Java to extend Star Office and Open Office (and adaptable to NEO Office)
  • http://cld.blog-city.com/
    using_java_to_extend_staroffice_or_openoffice.htm

• Applet of the week has been replaced by cool AJAX web app for this week, Gpokr is a new AJAXified browser based poker game implemented in GWT

  • http://www.gpokr.com/
  • Ryan's blog - http://www.rdews.com/

Quick News Items

• Tapestry 4.1 has been released

  • http://weblogs.java.net/blog/zixle/archive/
    2006/07/beanshell_2d_in.html

• Swingweb 1.0 has been released

  • http://swingweb.sourceforge.net/swingweb/

• Crystal Reports 1.0 for Eclipse has been released

  • http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?
    thread_id=41650

• "Meet Josh Marinacci" interview

  • http://java.sun.com/developer/Meet-Eng/marinacci/

• Ethan Nicholas hints at a java browser edition in his latest blog entry

  • http://weblogs.java.net/blog/enicholas/archive/
    2006/08/welcome_to_the.html

• Oracle led JSR 301 - portlet bridge specification for JSF, has passed JSR review

  • http://today.java.net/pub/n/4748
  • http://www.cafeaulait.org/#August_1_2006_33633

• Ed Burns has a video demo of the blueprint JSF ajax components and how then can be used in Java Studio Creator 2

  • http://weblogs.java.net/blog/edburns/bpcatalog-intro.html?
    feed=RSS

• Fun - classic handheld games implemented in Flash and Java:

  • http://www.handheld.remakes.org/online.php

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