Shownotes for episode 16 - Newscast for 11/25/2005

  • Java EE 5 spec hits final proposed draft
  • http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=244

  • Matt Thompson announces a new developer support pilot at Sun

  • http://developers.sun.com/developer_help

  • Best Java Desktop Applications

  • http://www.javalobby.org/java/forums/m91956049.html
  • Arturia Storm Music Studio - mentioned in the article - can be found at: http://www.arturia.com/en/storm/studio.php, also the music at the end of the show was produced by using this software

  • Over at eclipsezone.com Ed Burnette proposes we all stay with Java 1.4 instead of migrating up to Java 5

  • http://www.eclipsezone.com/eclipse/forums/t54318.html

  • Is .NET 2.0 really faster than Java 5?

  • http://www.javalobby.org/java/forums/t54616.html

  • Groovy release JSR 04

  • http://groovy.codehaus.org/News

  • Michael Urban asks, Should the client mode JVM ever be used

  • http://www.javalobby.org/java/forums/t54799.html

  • Glassfish has a new engineering lead - Jerome Dochez

  • Java surpasses C++ on sourceforge for number of projects
  • http://www.jroller.com/page/matsh?entry=java_history_was_made_today

  • Jboss has it's own podcast now

  • http://jboss.org/jbossBlog/blog/dsicore/?permalink=Introducing_JBoss_Labs_Podcasts.txt

  • Free online Java programming book

  • http://math.hws.edu/javanotes/

  • Rick Ross of javalobby notes that the online programming competition topcoder has so far paid out over 1 million in prizes

  • http://www.javalobby.org/java/forums/t54534.html
  • Topcoder competition and components:
  • http://www.topcoder.com/?t=development&c=comp_projects
  • http://software.topcoder.com/catalog/index.jsp

  • Webcast on building applications with the eclipse RCP (Rich Client Platform)

  • http://bzmedia.com/webseminar/seminar2215.htm

  • Superwaba 5.5.2 released

  • http://www.superwaba.com/

  • New blog on developing open source java

  • http://javaopen.net/

  • Felipe Gaucho on Java Development in Linux

  • http://weblogs.java.net/blog/felipegaucho/archive/2005/11/moving_to_linux_1.html

  • Fix memory leaks using Weak References

  • http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/java/library/j-jtp11225/

  • Closing rather old joke - http://www.thehumorarchives.com/humor/0001381.html

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  • Brice Ruth and Webprojkt.com - http://webprojkt.com

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  • Kirsty Doherty for Java Posse artwork

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  • Theme Music:

  • Opening - Thanks to the podsafe music network (http://music.podshow.com) for some "island music" - ONE DROP from Dread Daze
  • http://music.podshow.com/music/listeners/artistdetails.php?

BandHash=ba36a7c7f75d9cf57de0ce8e6a5e0213 + Closing - The music Dick put together using the Arturia Storm Music Demo - If I can do this, imagine what someone talented could do...