Java Posse #038 - Newscast for March 5th 2006

Shownotes for Episode 38 - Newscast for March 5th 2006 Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.com - Online thinkfree office shows what Java Applets can really do http://online.thinkfree.com First Java Trojan for mobile phones appears http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2151095/mobile-virus-targets-java http://news.techwhack.com/3216/redbrowsera/ US patent office grants a broad patent basically covering web 2.0 http://www.aviransplace.com/index.php/archives/2006/02/22/ us-grants-patent-for-ajax/ http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1& Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=/netahtml/srchnum.htm& r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=7,000,180.WKU.& OS=PN/7,000,180&RS=PN/7,000,180 Netbeans 5.5 already rolling out in preview http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/roumen? entry=netbeans_ide_5_5_preview1 http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss? thread_id=39110 Grab the preview from the development downloads - http://www.netbeans.info/downloads/download.php?a=n&p=1 - select 5.5, preview and your platform Sun press release - http://www.sun.com/smi/Press/sunflash/2006-02/ sunflash.20060221.1.html Standardized plugins for IDEs - but will anyone adopt the standards? http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?thread_id=39130 JBoss roundup Rackspace Hosting - http://www.javalobby.org/java/forums/t64353.html Strip Mining and Waste Dumping - http://jboss.org/jbossBlog/blog/mfleury/ IBM - 1bn into open source - http://www.javalobby.org/java/forums/t64180.html Canoo software releases pure java rich UI visual builder http://www.canoo.com/ulc/ Mac Mini Intel announced http://www.apple.com/macmini/ Is google going to buy Sun Microsystems? http://blogcritics.org/archives/2006/02/26/123335.php More details about dynamic language support in the JVM http://www.artima.com/forums/flat.jsp?forum=276&thread=150314 http://www.jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=292 ZK making some pretty big news http://zk1.sourceforge.net/ IBM AlphaWorks AJAX toolkit http://www.alphaworks.ibm.com/tech/ajaxtk AJAX in IDEA http://www.javalobby.org/java/forums/t64280.html Active BPEL 2.0 released http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?thread_id=39161 Sun finally releases the first conformant, non-commercial implementation of JSR-001! The Java Real Time System http://java.sun.com/j2se/realtime/ http://www.jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=1 Ruby on Rails joins the RAD race http://www.oreillynet.com/ruby/blog/2006/02/ruby_on_rails_in_a_race.html JGoodies 2.0 look and feel released http://www.jgoodies.com/ RIFE 1.4 Released http://rifers.org/blogs/gbevin/2006/3/2/rife_1_4_released 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 Garageband track put together by Dick The Java Posse is distributed under the Creative Commons License