Java Posse #061 - Newscast for June 12th 2006

Newscast for June 12th 2006 Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.com - Borland's JBuilder 2006 and Peloton roadmap http://jdj.sys-con.com/read/234393.htm http://www.borland.com/us/products/jbuilder/index.html http://www.borland.com/us/company/news/press_releases/2005/ 09_06_05_borland_jbuilder_2006_delivers_new_capabilities.html Google Spreadsheets launched - we are trying to find out more details http://spreadsheets.google.com http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2006/06/ google_spreadsheets_handson.html http://cld.blog-city.com/ embedding_a_java_database_in_your_clientside_solution_or_as_.htm http://weblogs.java.net/blog/davidvc/archive/2006/06/ google_spreadsh.html LINQ for .NET - what does it mean for Java http://msdn.microsoft.com/data/ref/linq/ http://blogs.msdn.com/mikechampion/archive/2006/05/31/612142.aspx http://www.javalobby.org/java/forums/t73037.html http://jonathanbruceconnects.com/jonathan_bruce/2006/05/ a_java_perspective_on_linq.html http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?thread_id=39024 http://www.w3schools.com/xquery/xquery_intro.asp Cedric Beust stirs the pot of agile developers http://beust.com/weblog/archives/000392.html Another Eclipse roundup http://www.eclipse.org/projects/callisto.php http://www.javalobby.org/java/forums/t74037.html Top 27 tutorials - http://www.intelligentedu.com/blogs/post/Best_New_Training_Sites/ 440/Best-27-Eclipse-Tutorials-by-IBM The new Oracle ADF learning center http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/adf/learnadf.html Applet of the week - Global-i from infomagnet http://infoview.infomagnet.com/ Application of the week - IonDB http://iondb.com/ Quick News Items Milestone 1 of the Apache Tuscany project is out http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?thread_id=40873 The java.net editor's daily blog reports on the top ten podcasts from the java.net podcasting project http://weblogs.java.net/blog/editors/archives/2006/06/hearing_aid.html Great tutorial article up at java.net talking about how you can easily build a java rich client using Matisse and JPA (Java Persistence API) http://today.java.net/pub/a/today/2006/06/08/ more-ejb3-persistence-api-for-client-side-developer.html The JBoss submitted JSR 299 - web beans, has been unanimously approved by the expert group http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=299 The Drools team has released JBoss Rules 3.0, a rules engine for Java http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?thread_id=40802 Jonathan Schwartz has mentioned on his blog that "despite the cynics, using a GPL license is very much *on* the table" as a possible option for open source Java http://www.javalobby.org/java/forums/t73163.html There is a java day in Paris on June 29th http://fr.sun.com/javaday2006/agenda.html Listener Feedback Java program of the week nominees - Curt Cox http://multivalent.sourceforge.net/ http://blurb.com/booksmart_download.php Terracotta - Aaron Walker http://www.terracottatech.com "Thinking in Java Conference" radically changed - Bruce Eckel http://mindview.net/Conferences/ThinkingInJava 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 Nick Trefz, the voice of TopCoder, for the voiceovers 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 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