Java Posse #008 - Newscast for 10/20/2005

Shownotes for Episode 8 - Newscast for 10/20/2005 Java One Technical Sessions in multimedia form now available on the web http://developers.sun.com/learning/javaoneonline/ Ward Cunningham, father of the wiki, leaves Microsoft for Eclipse Foundation http://www.eclipsezone.com/eclipse/forums/t52526.html http://www.microsoft-watch.com/article2/0,2180,1872325,00.asp Swing is the dominant Java GUI Toolkit for North American Developers http://weblogs.java.net/blog/hansmuller/archive/2005/10/official_swing.html Hot on the heels of the successful Java China conference, Java One Tokyo is now coming up http://weblogs.java.net/blog/gsporar/archive/2005/10/next_stop_tokyo.html Quicktime for Java 7 on Windows timebomb - and how to defuse it http://www.cafeaulait.org/oldnews/news2005October18.html Netbeans refactoring, your chance to get involved http://refactoring.netbeans.org/refactorings/index.html Netbeans 5.0 flash tutorials available http://weblogs.java.net/blog/vbrabant/archive/2005/10/netbeans_50_fla.html Jutils announces lint4j 0.9 http://www.jutils.com/ PMD alternative - http://pmd.sourceforge.net/integrations.html Gnu source highlight 2.2 released http://www.gnu.org/software/src-highlite/ No magic Magicdraw UML 10.0 released http://www.magicdraw.com/ JSR 250 - Annotations Proposed Final Draft released http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=250 IBM releases beta of it's Java VM version 5 http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/java/jdk/java5beta/ Jini Technology Starter Kit from Sun http://fr.sys-con.com/read/143274.htm AJAX FAQ for the Java Developer http://weblogs.java.net/blog/gmurray71/archive/2005/10/ajax_faq_for_th.html Daniel Wood is looking for comments on the usefulness of an AJAX rendering kit for JSF http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?thread_id=37154 JAX-WS 2.0 (JSR 224) Proposed final draft up for review http://jcp.org/aboutJava/communityprocess/pfd/jsr224/index.html Windward reports 4.0 reporting engine for Java and .NET released http://es.sys-con.com/read/142824.htm The full Open Office 2.0 release is now out http://www.openoffice.org/press/2.0/press_release.html A different kind of Java (and C and C++) gaming http://www.c-jump.com/index.html Please help us spread the word about the Java Posse - link people to http://javaposse.com and please blog or post the information on Java related groups. We want to re-connect with the javacast listeners. Java Posse Homepage - http://javaposse.com Email us - [email protected] Thanks to: Libsyn.com - http://www.libsyn.com for hosting and bandwidth Feedburner.com - http://www.feedburner.com for feed redirect Kirsty Doherty for artwork Theme Music: Start - Theme from The Good, The Bad and The Ugly End - Zombie - The Cranberries