Java Posse #090 - Newscast for October 24th 2006

Newscast for October 24th 2006 Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.com Project black-box - the big announcement, and the trucks full of computers came not from google but from Sun in the end! http://www.sun.com/emrkt/blackbox/index.jsp OSGi vs JSR 277 (Java Module System) http://www.osgi.org/blog/2006/10/jsr-277-review.html http://www.eclipsezone.com/eclipse/forums/t83134.html http://www.jroller.com/page/murphee? entry=jsr_277_vs_osgi_here http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=277 http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=291 http://www.java.net/pub/pq/125 New editor features for netbeans 6.0 unveiled http://cld.blog-city.com/ netbeans_60s_new_code_editing_features.htm Version 0.9.1 of JRuby - http://docs.codehaus.org/display/JRUBY/ 2006/10/20/JRuby+0.9.1+Released%21 The sorry state of Java EE 5 - From Slashdot! http://www.ddj.com/dept/java/193302854 We have a plugin of the week this week (to shake things up a bit), Fasttrack from Polarion http://www.polarion.com/fasttrack/ App of the week - MathEclipse http://sourceforge.net/projects/matheclipse/ and to see it running - http://www.matheclipse.org/me/ Applet of the week - Fluxtime - an animation studio for kids http://fluxtime.com/ Quick News Items Shreedhar blogs that after some benchmarking against the Java EE 5 reference implementation, and glassfish support, the results are that Java EE 5 is highly performant and production ready http://blogs.sun.com/shreedhar/entry/java_ee_sdk_did_you Oracle has released version 10.1.3.1.0 build 3984, and with this version declares the new JDeveloper production ready http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/jdev/101/ collateral/101/featurematrix_10131.html Sun has started a 6 part series on using AJAX with Java EE 5 over at SDN http://java.sun.com/developer/technicalArticles/ J2EE/hands-on/index.html Glyph is a new java.net project to provide utilities and annotations to speed development of JINI applications https://glyph.dev.java.net/ The flash 9 beta for linux is now available http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flashplayer9/ EclipseCon 2007 is now inviting submissions for tutorial and session topics http://www.eclipse.org/org/press-release/ 20061017cb_eclispecon2007.php Netbeans Profiler tutorial and flash demo available http://www.netbeans.org/kb/55/profiler-tutorial.html http://testwww.netbeans.org/kb/50/profiler-demo2.html JSR roundup, as well as JSR 277 which we talked about in the main items http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=268 http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=269 Java Embedded Python 2.0 has been released http://jepp.sourceforge.net/ What's new for JavaOne 2007? http://weblogs.java.net/blog/amvernon/archive/ 2006/10/forgive_me_and.html A subproject of jax-ws, that implements SOAP on top of a JMS transport layer https://jms-ws-transport.dev.java.net/ Gosling offers an alternative to Ant for building Java Projects http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss? thread_id=42689 The Server Side has a podcast and supporting slides from the Server Side Java Symposium all about Java Persistance and especially the JPA http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss? thread_id=42605 SDN TV has a video podcast talking about the benefits of using BlueJ and Netbeans BlueJ Edition for teaching and learning Object oriented programming using Java http://blogs.sun.com/SDNChannel/entry/ jumpstart_your_programming_career Staying with podcasts, the server side has a podcast recorded at the server side java symposium in Europe with Rod Johnson explaining the new features in Spring 2.0 http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss? thread_id=42723 Listener Feedback Harald - remote control bluetooth utility http://netwalker.nl/2006/10/21/harald-04-released/ http://blog.sebastian-krauss.de/?p=208 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]