Java Posse #048 - Newscast for April 19th 2006

Newscast for April 19th 2006 Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.com - Main News Items Google calendar released http://www.desktoplinux.com/news/NS6529480715.html http://calendar.google.com Eclipse 3.2 RC1 released http://www.eclipsezone.com/eclipse/forums/t69878.rhtml http://download.eclipse.org/eclipse/downloads/drops/ S-3.2RC1-200604131718/index.php Project Darkstar more than it seems? http://www.platespiller.com/whitepaper,434,0.jspn http://www.javalobby.org/java/forums/t53623.html What do java and swing need to be ready for a full-on desktop assault? http://weblogs.java.net/blog/joshy/archive/2005/03/why_dont_you_sh.html http://weblogs.java.net/blog/flozano/archive/2005/04/how_to_make_jav.html http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/gbracha? entry=developing_modules_for_development New blueprint AJAX components available for Creator / JSF http://developers.sun.com/prodtech/javatools/jscreator/ reference/code/samplecomps/?feed=DSC James Gosling has an interview with eweek up at AJAX impact http://www.ajaximpact.com/detail_news.php?id=80 Applet (and Game) of the week - Battlefield http://www.playbattlefield.com/battle/welcome.do In Short News Items Nokia have submitted JSR 293 - the location API 2.0 - to the JCP http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=293 Sun is going to donate Jini to Apache as an incubator project http://www.jini.org/ http://archives.java.sun.com/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0604& L=jini-users&F=&S=&P=4029 http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?thread_id=39931 http://weblogs.java.net/blog/nidaley/archive/2006/04/jini_300000_tes.html Free K12 computer science learning resources http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12298074/from/RSS/ Oracle's whitepaper titled "A hype-free introduction to AJAX" http://www.oracle.com/technology/pub/articles/schalk-ajax.html? rssid=rss_otn_news There is now a TestNG plugin for netbeans 5.0 available http://blogs.sun.com/xzajo?entry=test_ng_plugin_for_netbeans http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/xzajo?entry=try_testng_4_6_with It is now official that Java Studio Enterprise is being open sourced http://www.sun.com/smi/Press/sunflash/2006-04/ sunflash.20060411.1.xml?cid=155 http://java.sun.com/javaone/sf/netbeansday.jsp Minq software has announced version 5.0 of their product Dbvisualizer http://www.minq.se/products/dbvis/info.html Aonix has announced the Java 5 update to PERC http://www.aonix.com/pr_04.04.06b.html 1060 research has released netkernel 3.0 - a simple to use RESTful (Representational State Transfer) microkernel and application server http://www.1060research.com/netkernel/ http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?thread_id=39839 Bruce Eckel has announced firm dates for his next open space conference "Thinking in Java" which is to be held in Crested Butte, CO from July 18th to the 21st http://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=155261 The second Rio Java Summit has been announced for May 6th 2006 in Rio De Janeiro http://riojavasummit.com/ Java ME mobility pack development on the Mac is possible http://blog.sun.com/roller/page/lukas/20051020 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