Java Posse #016 - Newscast for 11/25/2005

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 The Java Posse would like to thank Libsyn.com - http://www.libsyn.com - for hosting and bandwidth Brice Ruth and Webprojkt.com - http://webprojkt.com - for our archives site - http://archives.javaposse.com Feedburner.com - http://www.feedburner.com - for feed redirect Kirsty Doherty for Java Posse artwork To contact us: Visit our homepage - http://javaposse.com Or send us email - [email protected] 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...