Shownotes for Episode 33 - Newscast for 2/17/2006

With special guest Craig McClanahan!

Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.com -

Craig joins us about 20 minutes in to talk about Tim Shadels notes on using JSF from the Zdot podcast.

• Java Mustang (SE 6) makes Beta

• http://java.sun.com/javase/6/

• JUnit 4.0 released

• http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?thread_id=39048

• http://www.javalobby.org/java/forums/t64106.html

• Ed Burnette calls for Java in Google pack

• http://blogs.zdnet.com/Burnette/index.php?p=8

• Netbeans roundup

• E-week review -

http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1925852,00.asp + Visual Studio User -

http://www.netbeans.org/kb/articles/Visual-Studio-user-tries-Matisse.html + What else does netbeans need?

http://www.javalobby.org/java/forums/t63691.html + Malcolm Davis is uninstalling -

http://weblogs.java.net/blog/malcolmdavis/archive/2006/02/why_are_you_uni_1.html + Charles Beckham on NetBeans 5.5 -

http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/cbeckham + NetBeans Developer Day - + http://www.netbeans.org/community/news/index.html#790

• Java Lobby top ten books

• http://www.javalobby.org/articles/5books/

• Craig McClanahan joins us to talk about Tim Shadel's podcast and JSF

• The podcasts in question -

http://timshadel.com/ + Craig's blog -

http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/craigmcc + Creator tutorial page -

http://developers.sun.com/prodtech/javatools/jscreator/learning/tutorials/index.jsp

• New version of Mobile Java coming at end of 2006 or beginning of 2007
• http://www.computerworld.com/mobiletopics/mobile/story/

0,10801,108722,00.html?source=x68

• Oracle buys sleepycat and tries to buy Mysql, is JBoss next?
• http://www.oracle.com/corporate/press/2006_feb/sleepycat.html
• Did they try and buy MySQL too?

http://www.playfuls.com/news_01220_Oracle_Aimed_to_Buy_MySQL.html + And now they are after JBoss?

http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/feb2006/tc20060209_810527.htm + Even when IBM passed on JBoss?

http://news.com.com/2061-10795_3-6040916.html?part=rss&tag=6040916&subj=news + Rick Ross has a commentary on all of this -

http://www.javalobby.org/java/forums/t63653.html + Jonathan Schwartz suggests that Oracle just uses the glassfish app server for free

http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/theaquarium?entry=jonathan_talks_glassfish

• BEA recently purchased Solarmetric's Kodo

• http://www.javalobby.org/java/forums/t63896.html

• Matt Raible asks, in the light of EJB 3.0, is JDO now dead?

• http://raibledesigns.com/page/rd?entry=does_jpox_suck

• Netbeans look and feel competition winners

• http://www.netbeans.org//competition/look-and-feel.html

• Native look and feel on linux (and this time, it's right!)

• http://ensode.net/java_swing_mustang_screenshots_gtk.html

• Did we need SWT?

• http://www.eclipsezone.com/eclipse/forums/t63780.rhtml

• http://www.damnhandy.com/?p=50

• PMD free add on material

• http://tomcopeland.blogs.com/juniordeveloper/2006/02/better_junit_te.html

• Burr Sutter is interviewed on Java.net

• https://jugs.dev.java.net/profiles/ajug/

• Good Josh Bloch and Neal Gafter video interview at the Javapolis 2005 site

• http://www.javapolis.com/confluence/pages/viewpage.action?

spaceKey=JP05&title=Joshua+Bloch+and+Neal+Gafter+interview

• This week's applet of the week:

• http://www.ca.map24.com/

• And this week's freebie of the week:

• http://maththinking.com/boat/unixProgBooksIndex.html

• The Google Maps AJAX component (and others) for Creator

• http://developers.sun.com/prodtech/javatools/jscreator/

reference/techart/2/ajax_samples.pdf

• PROMO
• Software Engineering Radio

• http://se-radio.net

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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 - Abattoir Buggery with the Java song from Purple Puke Music - http://www.purplepuke.com/java.html

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