Java Posse #091 - Newscast for October 31st 2006

Newscast for October 31st 2006 (Halloween) Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.com Sun sets the time frame for open sourcing Java, and it's soon http://news.yahoo.com/s/infoworld/20061025/ tc_infoworld/83138 http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl? sid=06/10/26/2233256&from=rss http://weblogs.java.net/blog/robogeek/archive/ 2006/09/re_sourcecode_m.html Instantiations releases GWT Designer http://www.instantiations.com/gwtdesigner/ Azureus is great, apart from the Java http://www.javalobby.org/java/forums/t83293.html http://azureus.sourceforge.net/ Congratulations to Petr for winning the google global code jam 2007 http://protibet.com/?p=41 http://javaposse.com/index.php?post_id=89236 http://javaposse.com/index.php?post_id=49364 http://www.topcoder.com NetBeans 5.5 was released today http://www.netbeans.org/ http://wiki.netbeans.info/wiki/view/Milestone4Report JSR 277 update http://weblogs.java.net/blog/stanleyh/ archive/2006/10/jsr277_early_dr_1.html Library of the week - Strecks 1.0 http://strecks.sourceforge.net/features.php http://www.theserverside.com/news/ thread.tss?thread_id=42822 Applet of the week - sorta - Prefuse http://www.prefuse.org/gallery/ Quick News Items Eclipse is turning 5 years old, and you are invited http://www.eclipse.org/org/press-release/ 20061025cb_eclipsebirthday5.php Cities - http://www.eclipse.org/community/ eclipsebirthday5/birthdayparties.php And staying with eclipse news, SDE, the Eclipse UML plugin from Visual Paradigm, has reached version 3.3 http://www.visual-paradigm.com/product/sde/ec/ Sun has just released a new Java EE download bundle http://blogs.sun.com/theaquarium/entry/ new_java_application_platform_is Josh Marinacci is moving to Oregon, getting married and leaving the swing labs team, but not leaving Sun. He is going to work on the netbeans team. He is currently in Prague for another three weeks and looking for dodgy java types who might want to meet up and go partying, so if you are interested http://weblogs.java.net/blog/joshy/ archive/2006/10/im_getting_marr.html http://weblogs.java.net/blog/joshy/ archive/2006/10/java_people_in.html Spring web flow 1.0 final has been released http://opensource.atlassian.com/confluence/ spring/display/WEBFLOW/Home Michael Ernst and Sun have submitted JSR 308 (Annotations on Java Types) to the JCP http://www.cafeaulait.org/#October_27_2006_48467 http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=308 Kirill Grouchikov blogs about using Transition layout to create some animation and fading effects in Swing applications http://weblogs.java.net/blog/kirillcool/ archive/2006/10/post.html Gigavox's Open Source Conversations podcast features a three way conversation between David Van Couvering, Simon Phipps and Dave Johnson recorded at ApacheCon http://osc.gigavox.com/shows/detail1629.html The 2006 Java One Blueprints talk is now available online. "Java BluePrints for Ajax-Enabled Web 2.0 Applications" http://weblogs.java.net/blog/sean_brydon/ archive/2006/10/free_online_jav.html Mylar version 0.8 released for eclipse http://www.eclipse.org/mylar/ BEA's Dev2dev has an introduction to Groovy and Grails http://dev2dev.bea.com/pub/a/2006/10/ introduction-groovy-grails.html?page=1 OpenGL related JSR implementations released. JSR 231 - Java Bindings for OpenGL, and JSR-239 Java Bindings for OpenGL ES (for embedded devices) have now been completed and the reference implementations released by Sun Microsystems. http://jcp.org/aboutJava/communityprocess/ final/jsr231/index.html http://jcp.org/aboutJava/communityprocess/ final/jsr239/index.html Nuxeo has released Nuxeo Core 1.0 the first release of the "embeddable document management core" that is the foundation of its upcoming Nuxeo 5 open source Enterprise Content Management (ECM) platform http://www.nuxeo.org/sections/projects/core/ http://svn.nuxeo.org/trac/nuxeo/browser/ bundles/NuxeoCore-1.0 One of the most popular AJAX libraries - DOJO, has just released version 0.4 http://blogs.sun.com/theaquarium/ entry/dojo_0_4_released http://dojo.jot.com/WikiHome/Release0Point4 Appfuse - Matt Raible's application for "kickstarting" webapp development that brings together many technologies and frameworks, has just released version 1.9.4e. Similar new features can also be found in Equinox 1.7 which is described as Appfuse light and has also just been released. http://today.java.net/pub/n/5133 https://appfuse.dev.java.net/ https://equinox.dev.java.net/ Alexis Moussine-Pouchkine blogs about developing Open Office plugins using NetBeans http://blogs.sun.com/alexismp/entry/ developing_openoffice_extensions_using_java Listener Feedback DrunkandRetired.com's Cote's book on JAAS http://www.jaasbook.com/ Applet of the week suggestion http://cardmeeting.com SAP for Java EE 5 http://java.sun.com/javaee/overview/compatibility.jsp. 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