Java Posse #045 - Newscast for March 31st 2006

Newscast for March 31st 2006 Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.com - Main News Items Ruby On Rails 1.1 Released http://jdj.sys-con.com/read/200391.htm http://weblog.rubyonrails.com/articles/2006/03/28/ rails-1-1-rjs-active-record-respond_to-integration-tests-and-500-other-things http://scottraymond.net/articles/2006/02/28/rails-1.1 Groovy on rails (grails) has also just released it's 0.1 version http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?thread_id=39696 SOA, EJB 3, Java EE 5 roundup Developer mindshare - http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?thread_id=39680 New persistence model in EJB 3 - http://uk.builder.com/programming/java/0,39026606,39304897,00.htm BEA's dev2dev has a more general article about EJB 3 and the differences to EJB 2.1 - http://dev2dev.bea.com/pub/a/2006/01/ejb-3.html Bill Shannon also has an interview up at the SDN talking about the advantages of Java EE 5 - http://java.sun.com/developer/technicalArticles/Interviews/ shannon_qa.html?feed=JSC Oracle releases Express Edition (XE) of the Oracle 10g database for windows and linux http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/database/xe/index.html http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/database/sql_developer/index.html Sun is getting behind Derby (formerly cloudscape) as their new choice for a Java based DB http://java.sun.com/developer/technicalArticles/J2SE/Desktop/javadb/ Netbeans mobility pack for CDC released http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/lukas?entry=netbeans_mobility_pack_5_0 What is CDC? - http://jan.netcomp.monash.edu.au/internetdevices/smalljava/cdc.html Java enabled phone based service to transfer money, with an ATM card too http://www.obopay.com/info/getapp.php Applet of the week - the switchboard - meebo with VoIP implemented in a java applet http://theswitchboard.ca/ Azul Systems to offer a 48 core java chip in 2007 http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/03/28/azul_doubles/ Legal troubles - http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/03/15/azul_sues_sun/ In Short News Items The open sourcing of java debate continues: http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=2787 http://www.javalobby.org/java/forums/t66957.html Mobile java website available from Sun http://mobile.java.com Learning Java page now available at netbeans.org http://www.netbeans.org/kb/articles/learn-java.html Sun announces new support program for engineer to engineer access http://java.sys-con.com/read/197789.htm Bruce Eckel, former posse interviewee, has just wrapped up his programming the new web conference in Crested Butte http://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=153596 http://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=153864 Eclipse Milestone 6: feature lockdown for eclipse 3.2 http://www.eclipsezone.com/eclipse/forums/t66695.rhtml Magicdraw UML 11 has been released by nomagic.com http://www.magicdraw.com/ Listener Feedback Eclipse flash demos http://www.eclipse.org/vep/WebContent/docs/doc.html http://www.eclipse.org/vep/WebContent/docs/v1.1/VE11grid.html http://www.eclipse.org/tptp/ http://www.eclipse.org/birt/phoenix/tutorial/#tutorial http://wbeaton.blogspot.com/2006/03/my-first-screen-cam.html http://eclipse-shell.sourceforge.net/screencasts.html JDeveloper flash demos http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/jdev/viewlets/viewlet.html Commons io file util classes http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/io/description.html#Utility_classes JOGL 3d applet demos https://jogl-demos.dev.java.net/applettest.html http://www.javapause.com CUF on sourceforge - http://cuf.sourceforge.net/ 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