Java Posse #033 - Newscast for 2/17/2006

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 The Java Posse would like to thank Libsyn.com - http://www.libsyn.com - for hosting and bandwidth The Podsafe Music Network - 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 - Abattoir Buggery with the Java song from Purple Puke Music - http://www.purplepuke.com/java.html The Java Posse is distributed under the Creative Commons License