Newscast for April 11th 2006

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Main News Items

• Red hat buys JBoss
• http://www.redhat.com/about/news/prarchive/2006/jboss.html
• http://www.jboss.com/redhat
• http://www.javalobby.org/java/forums/t68894.html
• Some of Marc Fleury's previous comments about Red hat - http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/

so-jboss-was-finally-bought-by-open-source-wannabes-and-girly-men/ + Google cache of the originals - http://72.14.203.104/search?q=cache:dIsuxKQxiVAJ:

jboss.org/jbossBlog/blog/mfleury/%3Fpermalink

%3D5B557AB3231FE396D5C675A1367254DB.txt+&

hl=en≷=us&ct=clnk&cd=1 + http://jboss.org/jbossBlog/blog/mfleury/?

permalink=RedHat_Signs_Definitive_Agreement_to_Acquire_JBoss.txt

• Maclipse and Maclipse lite

• http://alblue.blogspot.com/2006/04/eclipsemac-maclipse-and-maclipse-lite.html

• Do we need a Java Browser edition?

• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/enicholas/archive/2006/04/java_2_browser.html

• Cedric Beust - former Posse interviewee - has written a blog praising Ruby on Rails, and explaining why it won't become mainstream!

• http://beust.com/weblog/archives/000382.html

• Appl(et)ication of the week - The flickr backup utility

• http://sunkencity.org/flickrbackup/

• The game on podcast with Chris Melissinos has a great feature all about project darkstar

• Project Darkstar - http://www.sun.com/2006-0328/feature/index.jsp
• Game on podcast - http://www.java.com/en/games/gameon.jsp

In Short News Items

• Interview with Guillaume Laforge all about Groovy
• http://www.indicthreads.com/interviews/429/

groovy_grails_scripting_enterprise_java.html

• The spring rich client project

• http://spring-rich-c.sourceforge.net/

• The Exo ESB (Enterprise Service Bus)

  • http://www.exoplatform.org/company/faces/public/community
• Logicblaze has released Fuse 1.0 final
  • http://www.logicblaze.com/products.jsp
• JBoss has released JBoss transactions 4.2
• http://jboss.org/jbossBlog/blog/mlittle/?

permalink=JBoss_Transactions_4_2_Released.txt

• Sun Java DB (Based on Derby)

• http://developers.sun.com/prodtech/javadb/

• SDN article on using it in desktop applications is here:

• http://java.sun.com/developer/technicalArticles/

J2SE/Desktop/javadb/?feed=JSC

• Javareference.com now has an RSS aggregated view of headlines from all around the java world
• http://www.javareference.com/articles/sourceindex.jsp

Listener Feedback

• Quake in Java

• http://www.bytonic.de/html/jake2.html

• Patent preventing activeX components from running automatically in IE

• http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1474393,00.asp
• Here are some links: Info from Microsoft -

http://blogs.technet.com/msrc/archive/2006/03/29/423560.aspx + Microsoft workaround -

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/?

url=/workshop/author/dhtml/overview/activating_activex.asp + Microsoft patch -

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/912945/en-us + Patent information: Patent number: 5,838,906

http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1943847,00.asp

• Roman Strobl's link to CDC running AWT

• http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/suchys/20060330

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• 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
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• Closing - Garageband track

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