Java Posse #063 - Newscast for June 20th 2006

Newscast for June 20th 2006 Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.com - Java Mustang Beta 2 released - and it includes a database! http://java.sun.com/developer/technicalArticles/J2SE/Desktop/ mustang/beta2.html?feed=JSC http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?thread_id=40967 http://www.javalobby.org/java/forums/t74408.html http://weblogs.java.net/blog/forsini/archive/2006/06/java_db_is_now.html Getters, setters and full blown properties http://weblogs.java.net/blog/cayhorstmann/archive/ 2006/06/say_no_to_prope.html First there were geek cruises, now you can learn Java at the beach http://www.javaspecialists.co.za/courses.jsp http://www.javaspecialists.co.za/crete/reasons.jsp Quick News Items David Walend blogs about OGNL, the Object-Graph Navigation Language - an alternative to LINQ? http://weblogs.java.net/blog/dwalend/archive/ 2006/06/our_grass_is_gr.html Ebooklobby has collected a number of links to Java electronic books that you can download and use for free http://www.ebooklobby.com/index.php?cid=44 JSR 94 - the Java Rule Engine API has unanimously passed the final ballot http://www.jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=94 http://labs.jboss.com/file-access/default/members/jbossrules/ freezone/docs/3.0/html/ch06.html Jboss has aquired the Rosetta ESB (Enterprise Service Bus) from Aviva Canada http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss? thread_id=40966 http://searchwebservices.techtarget.com/tip/ 1,289483,sid26_gci913058,00.html Sun has announced that they are joining the OpenAJAX alliance and the Dojo foundation http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?thread_id=40974 Freedom for Media in Java (FMJ) project announces 0.1 release http://www.artima.com/forums/flat.jsp?forum=276&thread=164831 A Matisse update pack is now available for Netbeans 5.5 http://form.netbeans.org/JavaOne/ JBoss, the Seam project, and in particular Gavin King have announced Seam 1.0 GA http://blog.hibernate.org/cgi-bin/blosxom.cgi/ 2006/06/13#seam-ga-announce http://jboss.com/products/seam http://today.java.net/pub/n/4535 http://javaposse.com/index.php?post_id=59304 JNIWrapper version 3.2 has been released by JNIWrapper http://www.jniwrapper.com/pages/jniwrapper/overview IBMs Developerworks has a good introduction to the new class sharing functionality in IBMs java 5 implementation http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/java/library/ j-ibmjava4/index.html?ca=drs- JBoss world 2006 has just finished, and Sun's Greg Sporar has some notes about his experiences at the event http://weblogs.java.net/blog/gsporar/archive/ 2006/06/jboss_world_200.html http://www.jbossworld.com/index.htm Brunno Silva has announced JMunit 1.0, a unit testing framework for Java ME applications http://sourceforge.net/projects/jmunit/ Listener Feedback Listener Feedback: übercool! (and FUBAR) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fubar Auto-deployment http://weblogs.java.net/blog/chet/archive/2006/06/easier_deployme.html 3000 pictures faster with Mustang http://weblogs.java.net/blog/chet/archive/2004/09/index.html http://weblogs.java.net/blog/chet/archive/2003/08/bufferedimage_a.html http://weblogs.java.net/blog/chet/archive/2003/08/bufferedimage_a_1.html http://weblogs.java.net/blog/chet/archive/2004/08/toolkitbuffered.html Intent-based Eclipse - the Mylar plugin http://www.eclipse.org/mylar/ http://www.eclipsezone.com/articles/mylar/ Web Frameworks Jam with 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