Java Posse #080 - Newscast for September 5th 2006

Newscast for September 5th 2006 Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.com Creator 2 update - raw performance http://blogs.sun.com/theaquarium/entry/ big_speed_improvements_for_creator http://blogs.sun.com/tor/entry/ creator_on_speed_serious_speed Java2Script - does GWT have competition? http://j2s.sourceforge.net/blog/ http://j2s.sourceforge.net/ Swing Labs update Richard Bair has a proof of concept and example up on his blog for using a java implementation of XMLHttpRequest http://weblogs.java.net/blog/rbair/archive/2006/08/ xmlhttprequest_1.html Romain Guy was kind enough to pimp my swing app - jFlubber http://dickwallsblog.blogspot.com/2006/09/ jflubber-reloaded.html Get the code - http://code.google.com/p/jflubber/ Sun has posted the public review draft of JSR 270 which details the Mustang (now Java 6) release http://www.cafeaulait.org/#August_29_2006_28709 http://jcp.org/aboutJava/communityprocess/ pr/jsr270/index.html http://blogs.sun.com/mr/entry/removing_features Application of the week - Tycho - an asterisk VoIP voicemail and dialing client constructed using the Eclipse RCP http://www.asteriskvoipnews.com/asterisk_software/ new_voicemail_client_for_win32_ linux_x86mac_os_x_released.html http://sip-syndication.com/index.php? option=com_content& task=view&id=1&Itemid=36 Bill Pugh of Findbugs fame (and former posse interviewee) has submitted JSR-305 - Annotations for Software Defect Detection - into the JCP http://www.cafeaulait.org/#August_31_2006_52996 http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=305 A Public Service Announcement: James Gosling and a movie in Atlanta this month http://www.ajug.org/ Quick News Items DiffJ - a diff tool that understands Java http://www.incava.org/projects/java/diffj/ OpenSSO project now live https://opensso.dev.java.net/servlets/ NewsItemView?newsItemID=4039 https://opensso.dev.java.net/ Sun has also released the NetBeans Mobility Pack under open source using the CDDL license http://osdir.com/Article9222.phtml http://mobility.netbeans.org/ Struts Micro Edition? Can it be true? http://www.strutsme.org/details.html http://weblogs.java.net/blog/dsuspense/ archive/2006/08/strutsme.html IBM Developerworks has an introduction to using JPA (the Java Persistence API) with Spring 2.0 http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/edu/ j-dw-java-spring2-i.html?S_TACT=105AGX59& S_CMP=HP-GR&ca=dgr-btw01Spring2-JPA InfoQ has a detailed article on using the Grails framework (a Groovy based alternative to Ruby on Rails) to access EJB 3 domain objects http://www.infoq.com/articles/grails-ejb-tutorial Motorola and Nokia have posted the proposed final draft of JSR-232 - Mobile Operational Management - to the JCP http://www.cafeaulait.org/#August_29_2006_28348 http://jcp.org/aboutJava/communityprocess/ pfd/jsr232/index.html JSR 268 - Java Authentication Service Provide Interface for Containers - has entered the public review draft stage http://www.cafeaulait.org/#August_29_2006_28181 JGAP version 3.0, a Genetic Algorithms package in Java, is now available from Sourceforce http://jgap.sourceforge.net/ The Sun Developer Network has a good guide to using RESTful web services from Java and JAX-WS http://java.sun.com/developer/technicalArticles/ WebServices/restful/ Gavin King's SEAM, in a podcast http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss? thread_id=41903 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]