Java Posse #071 - Newscast for July 24th 2006

Java Posse Episode 71 Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.com Open Sourcing Java will be an incremental process http://www.infoworld.com/article/06/07/17/HNjavaopen_1.html http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do? command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9001909 http://www.javalobby.org/java/forums/t76404.html Is apple dropping it's Java Cocoa support? http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Cocoa/ Conceptual/LanguageIntegration/index.html http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss? thread_id=35113 Netbeans 5.5 Beta 2 now available http://www.netbeans.org/community/releases/55/index.html http://www.artima.com/forums/flat.jsp? forum=276&thread=169281 On a related note, the server side has an article comparing performance of Java running on the new Macbooks and Macbook Pros which show the new Mac hardware in a good light http://www.theserverside.com/tt/articles/article.tss?l=JavaMac We mentioned that the SwingX-WS project (Swing Labs Web Service Components) was about to be launched in last weeks podcast, well this is now official https://swingx-ws.dev.java.net/ Chris Campbell at Sun blogs about a number of recent improvements in the Mustang rendering pipeline http://weblogs.java.net/blog/campbell/archive/ 2006/07/five_more_easy.html http://download.java.net/jdk6/binaries/ Chris Adamson describes the Top 10 highest voted bugs in Sun's bug parade - and for a number of them he hopes Sun will not listen to the voters... http://www.oreillynet.com/onjava/blog/2006/07/ touring_the_top_10_rfes.html Visual GWT GUI Builder from VistaFei Product Page: http://www.wirelexsoft.com/VistaFei.html Forum Download: http://www.wirelexsoft.com/wforum/viewtopic.php?t=48 Application of the week - BlueMarine from Tidalwave http://bluemarine.tidalwave.it http://www.tidalwave.it/infoglueCMS/digitalAssets/ 975_GeoTagging_with_Maps.jpg Quick News Items Fiorano software has added .NET support to it's ESB product, making it the first commercial vendor to support C, C++, Java and all of the .NET languages (including C# and VB.NET) in its ESB (Enterprise Service Bus) http://java.sys-con.com/read/250075.htm http://www.fiorano.com/products/platform_independence.htm Terracotta have stepped up to offer support for Apache Geronimo 1.1 http://terracottatech.com/about_us.shtml http://www.virtuas.com/PR071806.html http://geronimo.apache.org/ Interested in EJB 3.0? How about a free book? http://www.theserverside.com/tt/books/wiley/ masteringEJB3/index.tss Cedric Beust has released version 5.0 of TestNG http://testng.org/doc/ Free - AJAX programming with Passion 10 week online course http://www.javapassion.com/ajaxcodecamp/?feed=RSS The Java Blueprints solutions catalog has been updated with new information on using AJAX with JSF and new examples of the Java Persistence API http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/basler? entry=a_new_version_of_the ICESoft has released Enterprise Edition 1.0 of ICEFaces, a JSF implementation that uses AJAX heavily to deliver rich JSF UI capability http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss? thread_id=41399 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 Brian Ehmann - the Java Posse intern 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]