Java Posse #043 - Newscast for March 26th 2006

Shownotes for Episode 43 - Newscast for March 26th 2006 Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.com - Main News Items Spring and Hibernate at war? http://houseofhaug.net/blog/archives/2005/08/12/hibernate-hates-spring/ More on the genuitec matisse inclusion in myeclipse http://www.eclipsezone.com/eclipse/forums/t66449.rhtml Also from eclipsecon - BEA Workshop won the best commercial tool award http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?thread_id=39558 Radrails, the open source Ruby on Rails IDE based on eclipse, won the best open source eclipse based development tool award http://www.radrails.org/blog/show/56 Eclipsecon home page http://www.eclipsecon.org/2006/Home.do Next years event is already set for March 5th - 8th in Santa Clara, CA Sun launches the utility grid, makes it available to open source java projects https://sungrid.dev.java.net/ http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/jonathan? entry=the_network_is_the_computer http://www.network.com/ also Dan Hushon has some hints for writing services to use the new utility grid http://weblogs.java.net/blog/dhushon/archive/ 2006/03/running_service.html John Loiacono has left Sun for Adobe http://news.com.com/Suns+top+software+exec+leaves+for+Adobe/ 2100-1014_3-6050635.html .NET for the Mac (Linux to follow?) http://blogs.msdn.com/mharsh/archive/2006/03/23/559106.aspx http://news.com.com/2100-1016_3-6052021.html? part=rss&tag=6052021&subj=news How to become a rock star developer - top ten (according to Mikael Grev) http://www.javalobby.org/java/forums/t65399.html In Short News Items Apple has just released the 7th beta of Java 5 update 4 for OS 10.4 (Tiger) at the apple developer connection http://www.cafeaulait.org/#March_22_2006_29305 Sun has released version 2 of their popular java web services developer pack http://java.sun.com/webservices/jwsdp/index.jsp lamatek has a google maps jsp library that allows you to harness google maps in a java jsp application without having to write javascript and ajax code http://www.lamatek.com/GoogleMaps/ A load of flash demos available up at the netbeans site demonstrating all sorts of different things about netbeans 5.0 http://www.netbeans.org/kb/50/flash.html Sun has posted the proposed final draft review of JSR 231 - Java bindings for open gl http://jcp.org/aboutJava/communityprocess/pfd/jsr231/index.html The Netbeans 5.5 preview pack has now added the mac to the list of supported platforms http://weblogs.java.net/blog/marinasum/archive/2006/03/netbeans_enterp.html Listener Feedback Romain Guy's "I Plead Guilty" http://www.javalobby.org/nl/archive/jlnews_20041019o.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 - "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