Java Posse #027 - Newscast for 1/22/2006

Shownotes for episode 27 - Newscast for 1/22/2006 Oracle loves java (for another 10 years anyway) http://searchcio.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid19_gci1158661,00.html JDJ has a decent analysis of the proceeedings as well - http://java.sys-con.com/read/170150.htm Jonathan Schwartz was absent - http://java.sys-con.com/read/171590.htm Oracle has donated portions of its ADF faces component library to the apache myfaces project http://weblogs.java.net/blog/edburns/archive/2006/01/glassfish_jsf_1_1.html Apache state of the union, 2005 http://www.indicthreads.com/news/380/apache_java_2005.html Cafe Au Lait reported that Sun has withdrawn JSR 189 (Java 3d API 1.4) from the JCP http://javadesktop.org/forums/thread.jspa?threadID=22619&tstart=0 It also has a maintenance JSR now as well - JSR 926 - http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=926 Matisse tutorial http://www.netbeans.org/kb/50/quickstart-gui.html Speculation about Google expanding use of Java for its desktop offerings http://www.ccombs.net/weblog/2006/01/09/1136866366642.html http://www.onjava.com/pub/wlg/8964 Sys-con java developers readers choice awards http://jdj.sys-con.com/read/171357.htm Eclipse did very well with no less than 6 wins http://webservices.sys-con.com/read/171303_3.htm Is salesforce.com the next big competitor to java? http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1912180,00.asp Apple has released version 2.2.1 of xcode, which now includes intel as well as powerpc tools http://www.cafeaulait.org/#January_18_2006_50037 Java 1.5 Release 4 for the Mac http://www.cafeaulait.org/#January_18_2006_40642 Romain Guy blogs that there is a java swing job available at sun http://jroller.com/page/gfx/?anchor=want_to_work_in_the Free java books for download: http://www.ooad.org/ Can you write a java game in just 4k? http://javaunlimited.net/games/java4k_2006.php List of Java and Flash games http://listofonlinegames.com/ Gavin King on Seam http://www.jboss.com/products/seam "Loose" Bruce Kerr kindly agreed to let us use the Java song more often, check out his site/podcast at http://www.loosebrucekerr.com The Java Posse would like to thank Libsyn.com - http://www.libsyn.com - for hosting and bandwidth The Podsafe Music Network for music - http://music.podshow.com 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 - "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 - Reggae composition put together by Dick using the excellent Arturia Storm Music Studio (a fantastic music tool written in Java) - http://www.arturia.com/en/storm/studio.php