Newscast for June 7th 2006

Also - listener feedback that came in around and after Java One

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  • Big reductions at sun, but the software side looks relatively unaffected
  • http://jdj.sys-con.com/read/230124.htm
  • http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-06-2006/jw-0605-cw-sun.html
  • http://www.informationweek.com/industries/showArticle.jhtml?

articleID=188701167

  • Oracle puts its considerable weight behind Groovy and Grails
  • http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9593_22-6071763.html

  • http://www.indicthreads.com/news/445/oracle_groovy_grails_scripting.html

  • Roberto Chinnici introduces project phobos on his blog

  • http://weblogs.java.net/blog/robc/archive/2006/05/introducing_pro.html

  • Josh Bloch discovers that binary searches are broken in Java

  • http://googleresearch.blogspot.com/2006/06/

extra-extra-read-all-about-it-nearly.html

  • Eclipse 3.2 hits Release Candidate 7
  • http://today.java.net/pub/n/4481
  • What's new? - http://www.eclipse.org/evangelism/resources/

laffra-eclipse32-whatsnew/laffra-whats-new-in-3.2.pdf

  • Easyeclipse 1.0.1 beta is now out offering a selection of pre-customized versions of eclipse for different purposes

  • http://www.easyeclipse.org/site/home/

  • Applet of the week this week is an application - could simplecenter.org be the alternative to closed and DRM'd media sharing and management?

  • http://www.simplecenter.org/about.jsp

Quick News Items

  • The Hands On Labs from the 2006 Java One are now available for free on the web

  • http://www.javapassion.com/javaone2006/handsonlab/

  • Synthetica look and feel has reached version 2.0

  • http://www.javasoft.de/jsf/public/products/synthetica/screenshots

  • Intel has donated a Swing, AWT and Java 2d packages to the apache project harmony

  • http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=32116

  • Axis 2 is 4-5x faster than Axis 1?

  • http://www.wso2.net/2006/05/axis2_performance_testing_round_1

  • Tom Copeland has just released version 3.7 of PMD

  • http://tomcopeland.blogs.com/juniordeveloper/2006/05/pmd_37_cleaner_.html

  • Alexis Moussine-Pouchkine has a guide on his blog to using the google calendar data APIs

  • http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/alexismp?entry=using_the_google_calendar_gdata

  • Examples and information about Netbeans 5.5 new XML capabilities

  • http://cld.blog-city.com/six_new_tutorials__xml_schemas_

tools_in_netbeans_enterprise_.htm

  • Podcaster Roman Strobl steps it up with a netbeans TV!
  • http://www.netbeans.org/kb/articles/NBFieldGuide.html

Listener Feedback

  • J2ME app for syncing with Google Calendar - Thomas Oldervoll

  • http://www.gcalsync.com

  • Maven needs to be mentioned - Trent Rosenbaum

  • http://maven.apache.org

  • http://www.mavenbook.org

  • DWR gets Reverse Ajax and the ability to write Javascript in Java - Joe Walker

  • http://getahead.ltd.uk/dwr/

  • The Straight Skinny on Rails at CD Baby - Jim Weirich

  • http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/6286?wlg=yes

  • Freakin hysterical gridbag video!!! - Aaron Paxson

  • http://madbean.com/anim/totallygridbag/

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