Java Posse #097 - Newscast for December 19th 2006

Newscast for December 19th 2006 Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.com We hope you can join us for the Java Posse Roundup 2007 in Crested Butte, CO March 6th-9th 2007 http://mindview.net/Conferences/JavaPosseRoundup Google Web Toolkit 1.3 - Open Sourced http://googlewebtoolkit.blogspot.com/2006/12/ gwt-13-release-candidate-is-100-open_12.html http://ajaxian.com/archives/ google-web-toolkit-13-open-source http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20061213-8411.html http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20061213-8411.html Seam 1.1 has been released http://www.theserverside.com/news/ thread.tss?thread_id=43487 http://blog.hibernate.org/cgi-bin/blosxom.cgi/ 2006/12/13#seam11-goes-ga The JavaOne 2007 call for papers closed last Friday, but if you missed it and you just have to talk about something, The Server Side Java Symposium 2007 for Europe registration opened http://www.theserverside.com/news/ thread.tss?thread_id=43503 Matthew Schmidt at Java Lobby talks about the rumor that Java 6 final on the mac will only be available for Mac OS X 10.5 http://www.javalobby.org/java/forums/t86155.html Webstarted app of the Week - Google Calendar Desktop Client http://www.javalobby.org/java/forums/t85677.html Applet of the week - Dasher http://blogs.sun.com/korn/date/20061211 Quick News Items James Gosling has written an open letter to the Java community http://www.oreillynet.com/onjava/blog/2006/12/ james_goslings_letter_to_the_j.html?CMP=OTC-FP2116136014& ATT=James+Gosling+s+Letter+to+the+Java+Community Eclipse 3.3 Milestone 4 has been released http://download.eclipse.org/eclipse/downloads/drops/ S-3.3M4-200612141445/eclipse-news-M4.html Mylar, the eclipse based, intent-focused plugin, has reached version 1.0 http://www.theserverside.com/news/ thread.tss?thread_id=43440 http://www.eclipse.org/org/press-release/ 20061212_mylar.php The netbeans 5.5 multi-lingual release is now out http://www.netbeans.org/community/ news/index.html#975 Sun continues to open up the process of planning JavaOne http://forums.java.net/jive/forum.jspa? forumID=110&start=0 Grasshopper 2.0 preview from Mainsoft is an updated of their grasshopper .NET to Java compatibility suite http://dev.mainsoft.com/default.aspx? tabid=235&utm_source=vend Gigaspaces version 5.2 is out http://www.theserverside.com/news/ thread.tss?thread_id=43451 http://www.gigaspaces.com/ http://www.gigaspaces.com/wiki/display/ GS/Jini+Transaction+Manager http://www.gigaspaces.com/wiki/display/ GS/JavaSpaces Dave Gilbert asks, and answers, is Java 6 faster than Java 5 http://jroller.com/page/dgilbert?entry=is_java_se_1_6 http://www.jfree.org/jfreechart/ The Sun Tutorial Divas have a blog entry about using jMaki (the AJAX wrapper library for Java) under the new Netbeans Visual Web Pack to visually create an AJAX application http://blogs.sun.com/divas/entry/ using_jmaki_in_a_visual JTrac, the Java based open source issue tracking system, has reached version 2.0 http://www.javalobby.org/java/forums/t86138.html Firebug 1.0 beta has been released to the public http://www.getfirebug.com/blog/ 2006/12/04/firebug-10-news/ http://www.getfirebug.com/ Infragistics has just released Version 2.0 of NetAdvantage for JSF 2006 http://infragistics.com/java/netadvantage/ jsf.aspx#Overview How to actually build Java from source http://weblogs.java.net/blog/kellyohair/ archive/2006/12/jdk6_build_chea.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]