Newscast for May 1st 2006

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Main News Items

  • Scott McNeally steps down as CEO of Sun Microsystems to become Chairman, and Jonathan Schwartz takes on the role of CEO
  • http://www.sun.com/2006-0418/js/index.jsp
  • http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?thread_id=40074
  • http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/business/14418693.htm
  • Jonathan's blog - http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/jonathan/20060425
  • Ponytail? - http://news.com.com/2061-11199_3-6066071.html?

part=rss&tag=6066071&subj=news + ...and we have some late-breaking news: Rich Green returns to Sun to be executive of software: + http://news.zdnet.com/2100-3513_22-6067108.html

  • Looking ahead to Java One
  • http://java.sun.com/javaone/sf/
  • http://www.cplan.com/netbeanssoftwareday/registration

  • http://weblogs.java.net/blog/mortazavi/archive/2006/05/get_ready_for_j_1.html

  • Top coder open

  • http://www.topcoder.com/tc?module=Static&d1=tournaments&

d2=tco06&d3=about

  • Thinkfree office gets big and friendly

  • http://online.thinkfree.com

  • Easy Eclipse 1.0 Beta available

  • http://www.easyeclipse.org/site/home/
  • Radrails is a very similar but separate project to provide a ready made IDE for Ruby on Rails development

  • http://www.radrails.org/

  • More from the Rumor Mill, Oracle to buy Red Hat, IBM to buy SAP

  • http://www.desktoplinux.com/news/NS5377455600.html
  • http://news.com.com/2061-11199_3-6061736.html
  • http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?thread_id=9930

  • http://jdj.sys-con.com/read/206373.htm

  • Applet of the week - VRML viewer in a pure java applet

  • http://vrm.vrway.com/vartist/spotlight/

IMMERVISION_S_PURE_PLAYER_PRO_FOR_JAVA.html + http://vrm.vrway.com/vartist/gallery/IQTVRA_GALLERY.html + Rome Colosseum - http://rome.arounder.com/colosseo/java.html

In Short News Items

  • Matisse for My Eclipse has now had it's first milestone release

  • http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?thread_id=40131

  • Eclipse 3.2 RC2 is now out

  • http://www.eclipsezone.com/eclipse/forums/t70918.rhtml

  • IBM has released BPEL repository

  • http://www.alphaworks.ibm.com/tech/bpelrepository?

open&S_TACT=105AGX59&S_CMP=GR&ca=dgr-jw26awbpelrep

  • Using the NetBeans rich-client platform
  • Part 1 - http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/geertjan?entry=music_notepad
  • Part 2 - http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/geertjan?entry=music_notepad_part_2
  • Part 3 - http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/geertjan?entry=music_notepad_part_3
  • Part 4 - http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/geertjan?entry=music_notepad_part_4

  • Part 5 - http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/geertjan?entry=music_notepad_part_5

  • Blue J 2.1.3 - a new version of the Java IDE for learning and teaching (and a favorite of the posse), has been released

  • http://www.bluej.org/

  • Gigaspaces has released Gigaspaces 5.0, a so-called "space based architecture"

  • http://www.gigaspaces.com/pr_overview.html

  • Java 5 is now default on Mac OS X

  • http://www.javalobby.org/java/forums/t70156.html

  • Novell has released version 1.1.5 of mono - an open source implementation of .NET 1.1

  • http://www.mono-project.com/1.1.5

  • Atlanta Java Users Group has announced the details for the Atlanta Java Devcon 2006

  • http://www.ajug.org/devcon2006/index.shtml

  • New blueprint ajax components demos

  • http://weblogs.java.net/blog/edburns/archive/2006/04/new_release_of.html

  • JBoss world in Las Vegas, dates set for June 12th to 15th 2006

  • http://www.jbossworld.com/agenda_events.htm

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  • Kirsty Doherty for Java Posse artwork

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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 - Love Survives by the Lovespirals - http://music.podshow.com/music/listeners/artistdetails.php?

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