Java Posse #059 - Newscast for May 30th 2006

Newscast for May 30th 2006 Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.com - Java on Linux - the new license details http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/webmink? entry=jdk_on_gnu_linux_something http://weblogs.java.net/blog/calvinaustin/archive/2006/05/ javaone_news_ja.html http://news.com.com/Sun+to+make+Java+more+Linux-friendly/ 2100-7344_3-6068852.html The google summer of code is on http://code.google.com/soc/ http://www.oreillynet.com/ruby/blog/2006/05/summer_of_code_kicks_off.html Google notebook - http://www.google.com/notebook .NET2Java - a new project on java.net, aims to convert .NET applications to Java https://net2java.dev.java.net/DNJGuide.html https://net2java.dev.java.net/ The importance of scripting languages on the Java platform http://www.regdeveloper.co.uk/2006/05/12/rich_green_sun_software/ Easy JNI - a step in the right, or wrong, direction? - http://www.innowhere.com:8080/webapp/jsp/home.jsp?_page=home Java EE 5 JSR 224 and EJB 3.0 JSR 220 both passed unanimously just prior to Java One http://today.java.net/pub/n/EJB3.0JSRFinalPass http://today.java.net/pub/n/JavaEE5JSRFinalPass http://jdj.sys-con.com/read/216307.htm http://weblogs.java.net/blog/batate/ Netbeans 5.5 beta EJB 3.0 tutorial - http://www.netbeans.org/kb/55/ejb30.html Applet of the week - Webhuddle is a free, open source, java based, cross platform alternative to web conferencing solutions like webex https://webhuddle.com/ Quick News Items JSR 198 - the Standard API for Java IDEs has reached its final release http://jcp.org/aboutJava/communityprocess/final/jsr198/index.html http://today.java.net/pub/n/4400 Bruce Eckel has released a collection of really good interviews with various people in podcast form http://www.mindviewinc.com/mediacast/interviews/Index.php Java SE 6.0 Release 1 Developer Preview 1 for Intel Processors is now available for the mac from the apple developer connection http://today.java.net/pub/n/4359 Update 7 for Java 5 released http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/ReleaseNotes.html http://www.javalobby.org/java/forums/t72970.html Wicket 1.2 has been release http://www.javalobby.org/java/forums/t72734.html http://wicketframework.org/ Apache Axis 2 version 1.0 released http://ws.apache.org/axis2/ Sun Microsystems Belgium has a 1 day event called the Java One afterglow on June 8th http://be.sun.com/sunnews/events/2006/java06/index.html 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 - Codemonkey by Jonathan Coulton - go check this guy and his music out - it's great, and if you feel like it, buy a song or send a donation - http://www.jonathancoulton.com/2006/04/14/ thing-a-week-29-code-monkey/ The Java Posse is distributed under the Creative Commons License