Newscast for July 11th 2006 Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.com

• Shale has been promoted to being a top level apache project

  • http://www.nabble.com/
    Shale-to-Become-Top-Level-ASF-Project-tf1864470.html
  • http://weblogs.java.net/blog/jhook/archive/2006/07/saf2_and_shale.html

• Redhat being sued over hibernate

  • http://uk.builder.com/programming/java/0,39026606,39323337,00.htm

• JMatter Tutorial

  • http://www.clientjava.com/blog/2006/07/03/1151937901773.html

• Confusion over Rhino in Java SE 6

  • http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.text.xml.cocoon.devel/65166
  • http://blogs.zdnet.com/Burnette/?p=139

• Developer salaries

  • http://www.diegoparrilla.com/2006/07/
    salary-of-top-and-average-developers.html

• Talking point - the editor's daily blog from java.net from Friday last week

  • http://weblogs.java.net/blog/editors/archives/
    2006/07/eminence_front.html

• Applet of the week:

  • A full jetty app server embedded in an applet!
  • http://cse-mjmcl.cse.bris.ac.uk/blog/2006/04/05/1144270072884.html

• Application of the week - MPower Player

  • http://www.mpowerplayer.com/
  • Blog on how to get the Netbeans Mobility Pack working on Mac OS X -
    http://blog.sun.com/roller/page/lukas/20051020

Quick News Items * The databeans project has released databeans 1.0, a fully object-oriented persistence framework for java

+ http://databeans.sourceforge.net/

• JRuby 0.9 has been released

  • http://headius.blogspot.com/2006/07/jruby-090-released.html

• JBoss releases JBoss IDE 2.0 alpha, which is compatible with the new Calisto/Eclipse 3.2 release

  • http://jboss.org/jbossBlog/blog/mculpepper/?permalink=
    JBoss_Eclipse_IDE_2_0_0_Alpha_Eclipse_3_2_Callisto_compatible.txt
  • http://freemarker-ide.sourceforge.net/

• A maintenance release of JSR 154 - the Java Servlet 2.5 spec, has been release by Sun

  • http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=154

• SkillsMatter is running a Groovy and Grails seminar in London on July 13th

  • http://skillsmatter.com/groovy-grails-seminar

• XMLHammer 1.0 beta 1 released

  • http://www.xmlhammer.org/

• A new development version of db4o, version 5.5 has been released

  • http://www.db4o.com/about/productinformation/
  • And staying with Persistence, Jenkov Development has just released version 3.2 of the lightweight ORM Mr. Persister
  • http://www.jenkov.com/mrpersister/introduction.tmpl

• The Groovy in Action book is now available in early access form from Manning Publications

  • http://www.manning.com/koenig/

• Gopalan on ESB and SOA

  • http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/theaquarium?
    anchor=learning_bpel_blogs_by_gopalan

• Sun has released the final version of JSR-220, Enterprise Java Beans 3.0

  • http://www.cafeaulait.org/#July_5_2006_33919

• The apple developer connection has the 4th beta of Java 6 for Mac OS 10 (Tiger)

  • http://www.cafeaulait.org/#July_7_2006_27819

• Apache Derby, the pure Java relational DB (a version of which is now included with the mustang SDK) has just released version 10.1.3.1

  • http://osdir.com/Article8988.phtml

• New podcast teaches basic software engineering principles... to music. The first podcast from Stelligent talks about Continuous Integration using Groovy

  • http://www.stelligent.com/content/resources/podcasts/

• JExamples collects together over 20,000 java examples in a searchable repository of souce code

  • http://www.jexamples.com/

• MyEclipse 5.0 M2 has been released

  • http://www.javalobby.org/java/forums/t75973.html

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