Newscast for August 1st 2006

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  • .NET beat Java? When did that happen?

    • http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1995495,00.asp
    • http://www.javalobby.org/java/forums/t77130.html

  • Google has launched a new service for hosting open source projects

    • FAQ: http://code.google.com/hosting/faq.html
    • http://code.google.com/hosting/
    • http://blogs.zdnet.com/Burnette/?p=152
    • http://blogs.zdnet.com/Burnette/?p=151
    • http://www.indicthreads.com/news/474/

    google_code_hosting_sourceforge.html + The bileblog (the Java Posse does not agree, but was amused): http://www.jroller.com/page/fate?

    entry=another_googleturd

  • Staying with google news, google is reportedly readying a new version of GWT (the google web toolkit)

    • http://blogs.zdnet.com/Burnette/?p=149
    • http://www.gwtpowered.org/
    • http://code.google.com/webtoolkit/
    • http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Web-Toolkit

  • Mevenide has release version 2.2 of their NetBeans integration for Maven

    • http://mevenide.codehaus.org/m2-site

  • Application of the week - Blogbridge 3.0

    • http://www.blogbridge.com/
    • http://www.blogbridge.com/product.php
    • http://www.blogbridge.com/archives/

    2005/11/downloading_and.php

  • Applet(s) of the week - Canoo Rich Internet Application platform demos

    • http://www.canoo.com/ulc/demos/index.html
    • The ADT article - http://www.adtmag.com/article.aspx?id=18969

  • Funny story - A Looking glass 3d demo from Java one has made its way onto youtube - somehow with the description of Internal Review Of Microsoft Windows 3D Vista @ 2007

    • http://weblogs.java.net/blog/editors/archives/

    2006/07/show_me.html + http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bnqyQotPhFY

Quick News Items

  • Netbeans BlueJ edition has been released

    • http://edu.netbeans.org/bluej/
    • http://www.bluej.org/mrt/?p=12

  • The original BlueJ java posse interview - http://javaposse.com/index.php?post_id=24841

  • Trolltech - makers of the QT cross platform GUI widget set, have released a prototype of their QT for Java library called QT Jambi

    • http://www.trolltech.com/developer/faqs/Qt%20Jambi
    • http://doc.trolltech.com/qtjambi-1.0/qtjambi-index.html

  • The irrepressible Geert Bevin, former java posse interviewee, has released version 1.5 of RIFE

    • http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?thread_id=41574

  • Java Black Belt - the online community driven Java certification site, has added several new Java 5 sections

    • http://www.javablackbelt.com/QuestionnaireDefDisplay.wwa?

    questPublicId=01553 + http://www.javablackbelt.com/QuestionnaireDefDisplay.wwa?

    questPublicId=01562 + http://www.javablackbelt.com/QuestionnaireDefDisplay.wwa?

    questPublicId=01563

  • Sun is offering a free week long beta course on developing applications using Java EE 5 from August 7th to the 11th at their campus in Burlington, MA

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

    2006/07/get_educated_fo.html

  • The Java Tips site has recently added 389 new tips

    • http://www.java-tips.org/

  • Java.net now has a tutorial available for creating your first phobos application

    • https://phobos.dev.java.net/tutorial.html

  • The subversive project has just released version 1.0 final of subversive

    • http://today.java.net/pub/n/4719
    • http://www.eclipsezone.com/eclipse/forums/t77149.rhtml

  • Jetbrains have released their double beta of IntelliJ IDEA 6.0 and TeamCity 1.0

    • http://www.jetbrains.com/doublebeta.html

  • Frederic Lavigne has released version 6.7 of the Skin look and feel for Java

    • http://skinlf.l2fprod.com/index.html

  • Sun has posted the proposed final draft of JSR 221 - JDBC 4.0 to the JCP

    • http://jcp.org/aboutJava/communityprocess/

    pfd/jsr221/index.html

  • Open JPA - a version of the Java Persistence API donated to the apache project by BEA, is now available

    • http://www.theserverside.com/news/

    thread.tss?thread_id=41489

  • Quick GUI related Roundup

    • Open GL Improvements in Mustang - http://jroller.com/page/gfx?

    entry=exciting_improvements_in_mustang_s + NEXVU Analyser: - Homepage - http://www.nexvu.com/products/nexvu-analyzer.cfm - Screenshots (check these out!) - http://nexvu.com/monarch_tour/ + Simon's swing demo - http://weblogs.java.net/blog/javakiddy/

    archive/2006/07/swing_magic.html

  • Compass 1.0 - born from the Open Symphony java workflow project - has been released

    • http://jira.compassframework.org/browse/CMP
    • http://www.opensymphony.com/compass/content/about.html

  • Jason Carreira has submitted JSR-303, Beans Validation to the JCP

  • http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=295

  • Tor's homepage:

    • http://www.norbye.org/tor/
    • The Music: http://www.norbye.org/tor/music/index.html

Listener Feedback

  • Whither Jini?
    • http://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=165487
  • Javascript: The Definitive Guide (recommended book)
    • http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/jscript4/

  • Echo2

    • http://nextapp.com/platform/echo2/echo/
    • Good comparison at: http://www.theserverside.com/news/

    thread.tss?thread_id=40804 * Straw Poll - have you heard of ARM? + The ARM spec can be found here:

    http://www.opengroup.org/arm/ + An OSS implementation can be found here: http://open-arm.sourceforge.net/ + An inexpensive implementation can be found here: http://www.myarm.de/

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  • 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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