Java Posse #041 - Newscast for March 17th 2006

Shownotes for Episode 41 - Newscast for March 17th 2006 Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.com - Main Items Matisse GroupLayout has been integrated into Mustang at b76! http://www.javalobby.org/java/forums/t66080.html Java Data Objects 2.0 (JSR 243) has passed its Final Approval Ballot http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?thread_id=39450 The NetBeans project has released a new module project: Jackpot http://today.java.net/pub/n/4119 Rob Sanheim blogs his Top 5 Worst APIs in Java http://www.robsanheim.com/2006/03/13/top-five-worst-apis-in-java/ Ian Skerret, the marketing directory of Eclipse posted a blog entry stating that according to a SD Times survey, Eclipse usage has grown http://ianskerrett.blogspot.com/2006/03/ eclipse-gains-market-share-in-2005.html Roman Strobl, now an evangelist at NetBeans.org, countered with other data showing huge growth http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/roumen? entry=netbeans_growth_questioned Brian Goetz has published an article entitled "The pseudo-typedef antipattern: Extension is not type definition" http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/java/library/j-jtp02216.html Chet Haase has published an article on the new Timing Framework, a java.net project http://today.java.net/pub/a/today/2006/03/16/time-again.html Retrotranslator 1.0.0 has been posted http://retrotranslator.sourceforge.net/ Quick Mentions Java's Apache Tomcat Hits Sweet Sixteen http://jdj.sys-con.com/read/195970.htm IBM Developerworks is now running Roller http://rollerweblogger.org/page/roller? entry=ibm_developerworks_blogging_with_roller New IntelliJ? group blog launched http://blogs.jetbrains.com/idea/ 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 - Garageband track The Java Posse is distributed under the Creative Commons License