Java Posse #085 - Newscast for September 26th 2006

Newscast for September 26th 2006 Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.com Bill Pugh joins us half way through this podcast to talk about his new JSR 305 - Annotations for Software Defect Detection Sun has a new JSR - 306 - which aims to overhaul the JCP! http://www.cafeaulait.org/ #September_21_2006_53162 http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=306 NetBeans Roundup http://java.sun.com/developer/ technicalArticles/tools/bluej/ http://developer.sonyericsson.com/site/global/ newsandevents/latestnews/newssept06/ p_getstarted_ondevice_debugging_netbeans_tutorial.jsp http://www.netbeans.org/community/ articles/nug-munich.html http://blogs.sun.com/lukas/entry/ milestone_3_for_netbeans_6 http://blogs.sun.com/roumen/entry/ verifying_compliance_of_java_ee Several articles about the Netbeans RCP http://www.artima.com/lejava/articles/ netbeans_platform.html http://cld.blog-city.com/tim_boudreau_on_netbeans_ rich_client_platform_presentation_i.htm http://blogs.sun.com/geertjan/entry/ eclipse_platform_vs_netbeans_platform Using the Aspect J plugin for netbeans - http://jroller.com/page/ramlog? entry=using_the_aspectj_plug_in The JOnAS open source application now works with Netbeans - http://jonas.objectweb.org/index.html SWTSwing 3.2 beta has been released http://swtswing.sourceforge.net/main/index.html http://www.javalobby.org/java/forums/t78501.html http://swingwt.sourceforge.net/ Major ZOPE Content Management System CPS being ported to Java EE http://www.theserverside.com/news/ thread.tss?thread_id=42351 Mobile app of the week (at least for the US) - GIST UGuide http://www.uguidetv.com/ Applet(s) of the week - JGame example applets http://www.13thmonkey.org/~boris/ jgame/games.html http://easyway.sourceforge.net/ http://javacooperation.gmxhome.de/ TutorialStartEng.html Quick News Items Motorola has submitted JSR 307 - Network Mobility and Mobile Data API to the JCP http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=307 JNI Easy from innowhere has added Linux support to their easy JNI creation library http://www.innowhere.com:8080/webapp/jsp/ products/jnieasy/index.jsp?_page=products.jnieasy Python 2.5 has been released http://www.python.org/download/ releases/2.5/highlights/ IBM Alphaworks has a short podcast available looking back over 10 years of alphaworks (happy birthday) and looking forward to the near future as well http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/ podcast/dwi/cm-int091206.html Romain Guy has 4 bonus videos on his blog taken at JavaDay 2006 in Paris http://jroller.com/page/gfx? entry=javaday_2006_as_bonus_a Sang Shin is running another of his popular Java EE programming with passion online courses starting on October 23rd 2006 http://www.javapassion.com/j2ee/ IBM Developerworks has an article about using Groovy to reduce code noise that is common in Java http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/ java/library/j-pg09196.html?ca=drs- We have a couple of links for Java SE 6 and what it means for the desktop http://www.jroller.com/page/swingbling? entry=java_6_on_the_desktop http://www.regdeveloper.co.uk/2006/ 09/22/jse_bling/ Cafe Au Lait maintains a useful list of upcoming Java conferences and shows all around the world http://www.cafeaulait.org/tradeshows.xml Arpit Agarwal asks a question over at JavaLobby that we get asked a fair amount on the posse - what are the differences between the Google Web Toolkit and the Echo 2 framework, and where should you use each http://www.javalobby.org/java/ forums/t78515.html Listener Feedback From the Java Enterprise Edition discussion - recommended resources: http://java-source.net/open-source/web-frameworks Head First books: http://www.wickedlysmart.com/HeadFirst/ HeadFirstJava/HeadFirstJavaIndex.htm http://www.wickedlysmart.com/HeadFirst/ HeadFirstServlets/HeadFirstJavaServlets.html http://www.wickedlysmart.com/HeadFirst/ HeadFirstEJB/HeadFirstEJBIndex.htm Bill Burke's book - Enterprise Javabeans 3.0 http://www.amazon.com/Enterprise-JavaBeans-3-0- Bill-Burke/dp/059600978X 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 Post on our Google Group - http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse Or send us email - [email protected]