Java Posse #051 - Newscast for May 1st 2006

Newscast for May 1st 2006 Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.com - Main News Items Scott McNeally steps down as CEO of Sun Microsystems to become Chairman, and Jonathan Schwartz takes on the role of CEO http://www.sun.com/2006-0418/js/index.jsp http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?thread_id=40074 http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/business/14418693.htm Jonathan's blog - http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/jonathan/20060425 Ponytail? - http://news.com.com/2061-11199_3-6066071.html? part=rss&tag=6066071&subj=news ...and we have some late-breaking news: Rich Green returns to Sun to be executive of software: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-3513_22-6067108.html Looking ahead to Java One http://java.sun.com/javaone/sf/ http://www.cplan.com/netbeanssoftwareday/registration http://weblogs.java.net/blog/mortazavi/archive/2006/05/get_ready_for_j_1.html Top coder open http://www.topcoder.com/tc?module=Static&d1=tournaments& d2=tco06&d3=about Thinkfree office gets big and friendly http://online.thinkfree.com Easy Eclipse 1.0 Beta available http://www.easyeclipse.org/site/home/ Radrails is a very similar but separate project to provide a ready made IDE for Ruby on Rails development http://www.radrails.org/ More from the Rumor Mill, Oracle to buy Red Hat, IBM to buy SAP http://www.desktoplinux.com/news/NS5377455600.html http://news.com.com/2061-11199_3-6061736.html http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?thread_id=9930 http://jdj.sys-con.com/read/206373.htm Applet of the week - VRML viewer in a pure java applet http://vrm.vrway.com/vartist/spotlight/ IMMERVISION_S_PURE_PLAYER_PRO_FOR_JAVA.html http://vrm.vrway.com/vartist/gallery/IQTVRA_GALLERY.html Rome Colosseum - http://rome.arounder.com/colosseo/java.html In Short News Items Matisse for My Eclipse has now had it's first milestone release http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?thread_id=40131 Eclipse 3.2 RC2 is now out http://www.eclipsezone.com/eclipse/forums/t70918.rhtml IBM has released BPEL repository http://www.alphaworks.ibm.com/tech/bpelrepository? open&S_TACT=105AGX59&S_CMP=GR&ca=dgr-jw26awbpelrep Using the NetBeans rich-client platform Part 1 - http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/geertjan?entry=music_notepad Part 2 - http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/geertjan?entry=music_notepad_part_2 Part 3 - http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/geertjan?entry=music_notepad_part_3 Part 4 - http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/geertjan?entry=music_notepad_part_4 Part 5 - http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/geertjan?entry=music_notepad_part_5 Blue J 2.1.3 - a new version of the Java IDE for learning and teaching (and a favorite of the posse), has been released http://www.bluej.org/ Gigaspaces has released Gigaspaces 5.0, a so-called "space based architecture" http://www.gigaspaces.com/pr_overview.html Java 5 is now default on Mac OS X http://www.javalobby.org/java/forums/t70156.html Novell has released version 1.1.5 of mono - an open source implementation of .NET 1.1 http://www.mono-project.com/1.1.5 Atlanta Java Users Group has announced the details for the Atlanta Java Devcon 2006 http://www.ajug.org/devcon2006/index.shtml New blueprint ajax components demos http://weblogs.java.net/blog/edburns/archive/2006/04/new_release_of.html JBoss world in Las Vegas, dates set for June 12th to 15th 2006 http://www.jbossworld.com/agenda_events.htm 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 - Love Survives by the Lovespirals - http://music.podshow.com/music/listeners/artistdetails.php? BandHash=a3aaebb5e412ef546d1bddd6c9b4b4ed The Java Posse is distributed under the Creative Commons License