Java Posse #087 - Newscast for October 10th 2006

Newscast for October 10th 2006 Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.com 1 year of the java posse! Our first real episode together went out on September 29th 2005 - Just over 1 year ago Java works just fine on Vista! http://weblogs.java.net/blog/chet/archive/ 2006/10/java_on_vista_y.html Netbeans is celebrating its 8th Birthday with quizzes and giveaways all month http://www.netbeans.org/community/articles/ birthday.html http://www.netbeans.info/downloads/ download.php?type=5.5rc1 http://blogs.sun.com/alexismp/entry/ visual_pack_for_netbeans_is http://cld.blog-city.com/ netbeans_visual_library_20_is_here.htm http://wiki.netbeans.info/wiki/view/ Milestone3Report http://blogs.sun.com/geertjan/entry/ 3_lines_of_code_to http://www.google.com/codesearch The Eclipse project has been busy to, and has release Milestone 2 of eclipse 3.3 http://download.eclipse.org/eclipse/downloads/ drops/S-3.3M2-200609220010/eclipse-news-M2.html http://www.junginger.biz/eclipse/ rss-view-screenshots.html There is another proposition for closures in Java, this time from Bob Lee, Doug Lee and Josh Bloch - the change is: MenuItem menuItem=new MenuItem("Foo", new Command() { public void execute() { Window.alert("Foo was chosen"); } }); ... to something like the following: MenuItem menuItem=new MenuItem("Foo", Command() { Window.alert("Foo was chosen"); }); http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss? thread_id=42535 http://www.writely.com/Doc.aspx?id=k73_1ggr36h http://crazybob.org/2006/10/java-closure-spectrum.html Josh Marinacci has blogged the second part of his painters introduction http://weblogs.java.net/blog/joshy/archive/ 2006/09/introducing_pai_1.html http://weblogs.java.net/blog/gfx/archive/ 2006/09/java2d_gradient.html Josh is also seeking feedback on the painters and support tools on the java.net forums: http://forums.java.net/jive/thread.jspa? messageID=157046&tstart=0#157046 http://weblogs.java.net/blog/joshy/archive/ 2006/09/vista_getting_b.html New Themes for Substance http://weblogs.java.net/blog/kirillcool/archive/ 2006/09/listening_to_th.html Mercurial SCCM for Java? http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/wiki/index.cgi Installing Java on Linux is pants http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx? article=34782 Application of the week - the levelator http://www.gigavox.com/levelator Applet of the week - sodaconstructor http://www.sodaplay.com/constructor/index.htm Quick News Items Sun Microsystems has released the Java Toolkit 1.0 for CDC beta http://blogs.sun.com/lukas/entry/ sun_java_toolkit_1_0 Tom Copeland has released PMD 3.8 http://pmd.sourceforge.net/ Sun Tech Days continue http://developers.sun.com/events/techdays/index.jsp The Mule development team have announced version 1.3 of Mule http://mule.mulesource.org/Release+Notes Coldtags version 2.8 is now out http://www.servletsuite.com/jsp.htm Apache Derby 10.2, the pure Java, open source, relational database (and basis for Java DB) has been released by the apache project http://weblogs.java.net/blog/davidvc/archive/ 2006/10/apache_derby_10.html Spring 2.0 final has been released http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss? thread_id=42460 http://www.skillsmatter.com/spring-framework-course Omnicore has released X-Develop 2.0 and CodeGuide 8.0 http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss? thread_id=42457 Mac users will be able to do Java ME development using the netbeans mobility pack in the next version of Netbeans, 6.0 http://mobileappropriate.blogspot.com/2006/10/ netbeans-ide-60-to-support-mac.html JetBrains has just released final versions of IntelliJ IDEA 6.0 and JetBrains 1.0 http://www.jetbrains.com/idea/ JDeveloper has gained subversion support through a plugin available from Oracle http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/ jdev/htdocs/partners/addins/exchange/subversion/ subversion.html Last episode we missed the details for the JSR 305 mailing list. https://mailman.cs.umd.edu/mailman/listinfo/jsr-305 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]