Java Posse #081 - Newscast for September 12th 2006

Newscast for September 12th 2006 Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.com Big news this week - Sun has hired the two primary developers behind JRuby, Charles Nutter and Thomas Enebo http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/ 2006/09/07/JRuby-guys http://headius.blogspot.com/ http://jooto.com/blog/index.php/2006/09/09/ java-and-ruby-match-made-in-heaven/ http://www.itvidya.com/sun_embraces_ruby Java 6 ship date slips http://blogs.sun.com/mr/entry/ java_se_6_schedule_update http://today.java.net/pub/n/4905 Java Browser Edition - Ethan Nicholas has revealed what he has been up to since he got hired by Sun recently http://weblogs.java.net/blog/enicholas/ archive/2006/09/java_browser_ed.html http://www.artima.com/forums/flat.jsp? forum=276&thread=175370 http://www.oreillynet.com/onjava/blog/2006/09/ i_dont_care_how_big_the_jre_is.html? CMP=OTC-FP2116136014 &ATT=I+don+t+care+how+big+the+JRE+is A java preprocessor called Munge http://weblogs.java.net/blog/tball/archive/ 2006/09/munge_swings_se.html http://weblogs.java.net/blog/tball/archive/ munge/doc/Munge.html Beeweeb to bring enhanced media and content to the SavaJe phones http://jdj.sys-con.com/read/261682.htm Mobile app of the week - Windrose - an add on to the recent app of the week: bluemarine http://windrose.tidalwave.it/ App of the week - LightZone http://jroller.com/page/gfx? entry=lightzone_a_fantastic_java_app http://www.lightcrafts.com/products/lightzone/ Quick News Items JDJ Editors Choice Awards for 2006: http://java.sys-con.com/read/260074.htm Substance look and feel 3.0 released http://weblogs.java.net/blog/kirillcool/archive/ 2006/09/substance_laf_3.html Airena, creators of the Airset online calendar, have released a J2ME application for using their calendar from a mobile phone http://www.airset.com/AirSet.jsp#app.Home Greg Murray and Craig McClanahan, former posse interviewees, will be speaking at AJAXWorld 2006 about using AJAX with Java http://jdj.sys-con.com/read/269249.htm https://ajax.dev.java.net/usingFaces.html https://ajax.dev.java.net/using.html Sun Java Studio Creator tutorial divas cover the use of JMaki JSF components in Java Studio Creator http://blogs.sun.com/divas/entry/ using_the_dojo_combobox_in?feed=RSS IBM Java Tools Roundup. IBM has been busy releasing some interesting Java tools over the past few weeks http://www.theserverside.com/news /thread.tss?thread_id=42081 http://www.alphaworks.ibm.com/tech/jca http://www.alphaworks.ibm.com/tech/hamlets http://www.alphaworks.ibm.com/tech/raven Substance look and feel hits version 3.0 https://substance.dev.java.net/ http://weblogs.java.net/blog/kirillcool/ There are now downloadable versions of project looking glass for windows, solaris x86 and linux https://lg3d.dev.java.net/lg3d-getting-started.html iScreen 1.0 is an open source project providing object validation for JavaBeans based on XML configuration files http://i-screen.org/docs/index.html SDN article by Sameer Tyagi that details how to build RESTful services and consumers using JAX-WS http://java.sun.com/developer/technicalArticles/ WebServices/restful/?feed=JSC Finally, DevX has a good, non-hysterical side by side comparison of Spring and EJB 3.0 http://www.devx.com/Java/Article/32314 News of a Java Posse google group will be posted soon so keep an eye on javaposse.com 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]