Java Posse #095 - Newscast for November 28th 2006

Newscast for November 28th 2006 Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.com Sign up for the Java Posse Roundup 2007 in Crested Butte, CO March 6th-9th 2007 http://mindview.net/Conferences/JavaPosseRoundup And if you like this podcast, please Digg It! Java One 2007 - Call for Papers http://java.sun.com/javaone/sf/ https://www28.cplan.com/cfp_prod/ CFPLogin.jsp?wId=58LE17 http://blogs.sun.com/theaquarium/ entry/glassfish_day_at_javaone_2007 http://java.sun.com/javaone/sf/tracks.jsp http://www.javalobby.org/java/forums/t84658.html http://java.sun.com/javaone/sf/rockstar_awards.jsp RatJava - a Makeover for the Java Language http://cafe.elharo.com/java/ratjava/ http://weblogs.java.net/blog/editors/ archives/2006/11/lets_go_crazy.html F3 - JVM scripting with a penchant for UI creation http://blogs.sun.com/chrisoliver/resource/f3.html http://blogs.sun.com/chrisoliver/ Mikael Grev has a Christmas Wishlist for Java: http://www.javalobby.org/java/forums/t84854.html Josh Marinacci: "projects going free to a good home" http://weblogs.java.net/blog/joshy/ archive/2006/11/posting_from_30.html http://weblogs.java.net/blog/joshy/ Borland has released JBuilder 2007 http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss? thread_id=43174 http://www.borland.com/us/products/ jbuilder/index.html Application of the week - jlGui http://www.javazoom.net/jlgui/documents.html http://www.javazoom.net/jlgui/run.html Applet of the week - TouchGraph GoogleBrowser http://www.touchgraph.com/TGGoogleBrowser.html Quick News Junit 4.2 has been released by Kent Beck and David Saff http://www.cafeaulait.org/#November_18_2006_28264 Former application of the week - blogbridge - has reached release 4.0 http://www.blogbridge.com/ Sun has released the final draft of JSR 208 - Java Business Integration (JBI) http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=208 Sun also has posted an early draft review of JSR 246 - the Device Management API http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=246 The source code from the 2006 Extreme GUI makeover has been released http://weblogs.java.net/blog/zixle/archive/ 2006/11/extreme_gui_mak.html JBoss has released the first beta of JBoss 5.0 http://www.javalobby.org/java/forums/t84693.html http://labs.jboss.com/portal/jbossas/download The new NetBeans magazine is a free magazine released as a PDF http://www.netbeans.org/community/news/index.html#964 The AbaGUIBuilder from the Abacus OpenSource Software Foundation http://www.openabacus.org/products.abaguibuilder.html Oracle has posted a new statement of direction http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/jdev/ collateral/papers/10131/jdeveloper_adf_sod.pdf David Van Couvering blogs that Zimbra now supports offline working using Derby http://weblogs.java.net/blog/davidvc/ archive/2006/11/zimbra_uses_der.html Tibco GI (General Interface) has reached version 3.2 http://www.artima.com/forums/flat.jsp? forum=276&thread=185124 New preview version of Firebug for Firefox http://www.getfirebug.com/ Listener Feedback Information about JavaScript, ECMAScript and ActionScript http://www.kaourantin.net/2006/11/spidermonkeys-relative-tamarin-joins.html http://www.mozilla.org/projects/tamarin/faq.html What's so difficult about 64 bit? http://blogs.adobe.com/penguin.swf/2006/10/whats_so_difficult_64bit_editi.html 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]