Java Posse #066 - Newscast for July 3rd 2006

Newscast for July 3rd 2006 Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.com Java One Technical Presentations with audio and slides are now available http://developers.sun.com/learning/javaoneonline/ http://www.jroller.com/page/gfx/? anchor=javaone_presentations_with_audio_and On a related note, the Aerith source code has now been released as open source http://www.javalobby.org/java/forums/t75235.html http://weblogs.java.net/blog/joshy/archive/ 2006/06/aerith_code_is.html http://weblogs.java.net/blog/rbair/archive/ 2006/06/aerith_is_free.html And along the same theme, Richard Bair has an interesting technical blog entry all about using Swing, JAX-WS and javabeans together http://weblogs.java.net/blog/rbair/archive/ 2006/06/swing_jaxws_and.html Groovy JSR 06 has been released, the last version before the release candidates start http://jira.codehaus.org/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa? projectId=10242&styleName=Html&version=12103 http://groovy.codehaus.org Eclipse 3.2 is now available http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?thread_id=41178 Podcasts -http://www.eclipsezone.com/eclipse/forums/t75326.rhtml http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?thread_id=41127 http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2006/06/28/ whats-new-in-eclipse-3-2-java-development-tools.html Also apparently the upcoming 2007 version of Lotus Notes, codenamed Hannover, is to be based on the eclipse platform http://www.eclipsezone.com/eclipse/forums/t75061.rhtml Application of the week - Schemaspy http://schemaspy.sourceforge.net/ Applet of the week - JMol http://jmol.sourceforge.net/ http://jmol.sourceforge.net/demo/ Quick Items More on the google web toolkit http://www.oreillynet.com/onjava/blog/2006/06/ some_realworld_experience_with.html http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/java/ library/j-ajax4/index.html?ca=drs- http://today.java.net/pub/a/today/2006/06/27/ client-side-google-web-toolkit.html IBM's codeinvaders challenge is a cool concept to teach java programming http://www.alphaworks.ibm.com/tech/codeinvaders? open&S_TACT=105AGX59 Savaje technologies are opening a new office in Palo Alto for a user experience design team http://java.sys-con.com/read/240638.htm Netbeans is switching from Q-builds to milestone releases for the development of Netbeans 6.0 http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/roumen? entry=netbeans_switching_to_milestones Douglas Crockford has just released version 0.2 of Json-lib http://www.javalobby.org/java/forums/t75442.html Java Lobby asks shouldn't java have a modularized download system http://www.javalobby.org/java/forums/t75340.html Tapestry has graduated to a top level apache project http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?thread_id=41132 SyntEvo has released Smart SVN 2 http://www.javalobby.org/java/forums/t75258.html Simon Phipps, the chief open source officer for Sun Microsystems, has said that Java could possibly be open sourced in just a few months, but has the quote been taken out of context? http://www.infoworld.com/article/06/06/27/ 79685_HNsunopensourcejava_1.html The C and C++ add-on pack is now available for netbeans 5.5 beta http://www.netbeans.org/products/cplusplus/index.html Sun has posted the public review draft of JSR-199, the Java Compiler API http://jcp.org/aboutJava/communityprocess/pr/jsr199/index.html The apache project has released version 1.1 of Geronimo http://geronimo.apache.org/ Thanks 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 - A track written by Dick in Apple's Garageband To contact us: Visit our homepage - http://javaposse.com Or send us email - [email protected]