Java Posse #076 - Newscast for August 15th 2006

Newscast for August 15th 2006 Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.com Open source java news - hot off the presses http://community.java.net/jdk/opensource/ Is pure ReST really enough? http://weblogs.java.net/blog/brianrepko/archive/ 2006/08/aint_gettin_no.html http://www.pbell.com/index.cfm/2006/7/14/ Verb-Hunting-Four-Just-Isnt-Enough http://www.pbell.com/index.cfm/2006/7/14/ Is-Web-Design-FUCD http://lesscode.org/2006/03/19/high-low-rest/ Borland brings back the Turbo brand http://www.artima.com/forums/flat.jsp? =269&thread=171340 Microsoft is not tempted by the OpenSOA party http://blogs.zdnet.com/service-oriented/?p=677 http://www.adtmag.com/esArticle.aspx?a=2054 Sun to include support for VB in Dolphin (Java 7) http://www.oreillynet.com/onjava/blog/2006/08/ java_to_support_visual_basic.html?CMP=OTC-FP2116136014& ATT=Java+to+support+Visual+Basic http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,2000849,00.asp? kc=EWRSS03119TX1K0000594 Glazed Lists 1.7.0 - Java Library of the week http://today.java.net/pub/n/4780 Eclipse 3.3 Milestone 1 is now out http://download.eclipse.org/eclipse/downloads/drops/ S-3.3M1-200608101230/eclipse-news-M1.html NetBeans 6 Milestone 2 is now out http://qa.netbeans.org/q-builds/ TrunkNewAndNoteworthy.html Greatest software ever written http://www.informationweek.com/shared/ printableArticle.jhtml?articleID=191901844 Java Applet of the week - Airport monitor http://java.com/en/everywhere/airportmonitor.jsp Quick News Items Are POJO's always simpler than EJBs? http://www.javalobby.org/java/forums/t77299.html Internationalized versions of NetBeans BlueJ Edition http://www.netbeans.org/community/news/index.html#901 Version 2.0 of the Portlet Specification (JSR 286) has been released for public review http://www.infoq.com/news/Portlet-2.0-Ready-For-Review Sun has posted an the 8th update to Tiger (Java 5) Standard Edition http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/ReleaseNotes.html#150_08 http://java.sun.com/javase/downloads/index.jsp Sun Tech Days are coming to Seattle http://developers.sun.com/events/techdays/ JNI Wrapper 3.3 has been released by the JNIWrapper project http://www.jniwrapper.com/pages/home Outlook connector version 2.0 http://today.java.net/pub/n/4775 http://www.moyosoft.com/joc/ The Apache Portal Project has released Portals Bridges 1.0 http://www.cafeaulait.org/#August_7_2006_30950 The netbeans podcast is back http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/roumen? entry=netbeans_podcast_no_11 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]