Java Posse #073 - Newscast for August 1st 2006

Newscast for August 1st 2006 Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.com .NET beat Java? When did that happen? http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1995495,00.asp http://www.javalobby.org/java/forums/t77130.html Google has launched a new service for hosting open source projects FAQ: http://code.google.com/hosting/faq.html http://code.google.com/hosting/ http://blogs.zdnet.com/Burnette/?p=152 http://blogs.zdnet.com/Burnette/?p=151 http://www.indicthreads.com/news/474/ google_code_hosting_sourceforge.html The bileblog (the Java Posse does not agree, but was amused): http://www.jroller.com/page/fate? entry=another_googleturd Staying with google news, google is reportedly readying a new version of GWT (the google web toolkit) http://blogs.zdnet.com/Burnette/?p=149 http://www.gwtpowered.org/ http://code.google.com/webtoolkit/ http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Web-Toolkit Mevenide has release version 2.2 of their NetBeans integration for Maven http://mevenide.codehaus.org/m2-site Application of the week - Blogbridge 3.0 http://www.blogbridge.com/ http://www.blogbridge.com/product.php http://www.blogbridge.com/archives/ 2005/11/downloading_and.php Applet(s) of the week - Canoo Rich Internet Application platform demos http://www.canoo.com/ulc/demos/index.html The ADT article - http://www.adtmag.com/article.aspx?id=18969 Funny story - A Looking glass 3d demo from Java one has made its way onto youtube - somehow with the description of Internal Review Of Microsoft Windows 3D Vista @ 2007 http://weblogs.java.net/blog/editors/archives/ 2006/07/show_me.html http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bnqyQotPhFY Quick News Items Netbeans BlueJ edition has been released http://edu.netbeans.org/bluej/ http://www.bluej.org/mrt/?p=12 The original BlueJ java posse interview - http://javaposse.com/index.php?post_id=24841 Trolltech - makers of the QT cross platform GUI widget set, have released a prototype of their QT for Java library called QT Jambi http://www.trolltech.com/developer/faqs/Qt%20Jambi http://doc.trolltech.com/qtjambi-1.0/qtjambi-index.html The irrepressible Geert Bevin, former java posse interviewee, has released version 1.5 of RIFE http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?thread_id=41574 Java Black Belt - the online community driven Java certification site, has added several new Java 5 sections http://www.javablackbelt.com/QuestionnaireDefDisplay.wwa? questPublicId=01553 http://www.javablackbelt.com/QuestionnaireDefDisplay.wwa? questPublicId=01562 http://www.javablackbelt.com/QuestionnaireDefDisplay.wwa? questPublicId=01563 Sun is offering a free week long beta course on developing applications using Java EE 5 from August 7th to the 11th at their campus in Burlington, MA http://weblogs.java.net/blog/marinasum/archive/ 2006/07/get_educated_fo.html The Java Tips site has recently added 389 new tips http://www.java-tips.org/ Java.net now has a tutorial available for creating your first phobos application https://phobos.dev.java.net/tutorial.html The subversive project has just released version 1.0 final of subversive http://today.java.net/pub/n/4719 http://www.eclipsezone.com/eclipse/forums/t77149.rhtml Jetbrains have released their double beta of IntelliJ IDEA 6.0 and TeamCity 1.0 http://www.jetbrains.com/doublebeta.html Frederic Lavigne has released version 6.7 of the Skin look and feel for Java http://skinlf.l2fprod.com/index.html Sun has posted the proposed final draft of JSR 221 - JDBC 4.0 to the JCP http://jcp.org/aboutJava/communityprocess/ pfd/jsr221/index.html Open JPA - a version of the Java Persistence API donated to the apache project by BEA, is now available http://www.theserverside.com/news/ thread.tss?thread_id=41489 Quick GUI related Roundup Open GL Improvements in Mustang - http://jroller.com/page/gfx? entry=exciting_improvements_in_mustang_s NEXVU Analyser: Homepage - http://www.nexvu.com/products/nexvu-analyzer.cfm Screenshots (check these out!) - http://nexvu.com/monarch_tour/ Simon's swing demo - http://weblogs.java.net/blog/javakiddy/ archive/2006/07/swing_magic.html Compass 1.0 - born from the Open Symphony java workflow project - has been released http://jira.compassframework.org/browse/CMP http://www.opensymphony.com/compass/content/about.html Jason Carreira has submitted JSR-303, Beans Validation to the JCP http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=295 Tor's homepage: http://www.norbye.org/tor/ The Music: http://www.norbye.org/tor/music/index.html Listener Feedback Whither Jini? http://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=165487 Javascript: The Definitive Guide (recommended book) http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/jscript4/ Echo2 http://nextapp.com/platform/echo2/echo/ Good comparison at: http://www.theserverside.com/news/ thread.tss?thread_id=40804 Straw Poll - have you heard of ARM? The ARM spec can be found here: http://www.opengroup.org/arm/ An OSS implementation can be found here: http://open-arm.sourceforge.net/ An inexpensive implementation can be found here: http://www.myarm.de/ 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]