Java Posse #060 - Newscast for June 7th 2006

Newscast for June 7th 2006 Also - listener feedback that came in around and after Java One Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.com - Big reductions at sun, but the software side looks relatively unaffected http://jdj.sys-con.com/read/230124.htm http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-06-2006/jw-0605-cw-sun.html http://www.informationweek.com/industries/showArticle.jhtml? articleID=188701167 Oracle puts its considerable weight behind Groovy and Grails http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9593_22-6071763.html http://www.indicthreads.com/news/445/oracle_groovy_grails_scripting.html Roberto Chinnici introduces project phobos on his blog http://weblogs.java.net/blog/robc/archive/2006/05/introducing_pro.html Josh Bloch discovers that binary searches are broken in Java http://googleresearch.blogspot.com/2006/06/ extra-extra-read-all-about-it-nearly.html Eclipse 3.2 hits Release Candidate 7 http://today.java.net/pub/n/4481 What's new? - http://www.eclipse.org/evangelism/resources/ laffra-eclipse32-whatsnew/laffra-whats-new-in-3.2.pdf Easyeclipse 1.0.1 beta is now out offering a selection of pre-customized versions of eclipse for different purposes http://www.easyeclipse.org/site/home/ Applet of the week this week is an application - could simplecenter.org be the alternative to closed and DRM'd media sharing and management? http://www.simplecenter.org/about.jsp Quick News Items The Hands On Labs from the 2006 Java One are now available for free on the web http://www.javapassion.com/javaone2006/handsonlab/ Synthetica look and feel has reached version 2.0 http://www.javasoft.de/jsf/public/products/synthetica/screenshots Intel has donated a Swing, AWT and Java 2d packages to the apache project harmony http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=32116 Axis 2 is 4-5x faster than Axis 1? http://www.wso2.net/2006/05/axis2_performance_testing_round_1 Tom Copeland has just released version 3.7 of PMD http://tomcopeland.blogs.com/juniordeveloper/2006/05/pmd_37_cleaner_.html Alexis Moussine-Pouchkine has a guide on his blog to using the google calendar data APIs http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/alexismp?entry=using_the_google_calendar_gdata Examples and information about Netbeans 5.5 new XML capabilities http://cld.blog-city.com/six_new_tutorials__xml_schemas_ tools_in_netbeans_enterprise_.htm Podcaster Roman Strobl steps it up with a netbeans TV! http://www.netbeans.org/kb/articles/NBFieldGuide.html Listener Feedback J2ME app for syncing with Google Calendar - Thomas Oldervoll http://www.gcalsync.com Maven needs to be mentioned - Trent Rosenbaum http://maven.apache.org http://www.mavenbook.org DWR gets Reverse Ajax and the ability to write Javascript in Java - Joe Walker http://getahead.ltd.uk/dwr/ The Straight Skinny on Rails at CD Baby - Jim Weirich http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/6286?wlg=yes Freakin hysterical gridbag video!!! - Aaron Paxson http://madbean.com/anim/totallygridbag/ 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] The Java Posse is distributed under the Creative Commons License