Java Posse #102 - Newscast for January 30th 2007

Newscast for January 30th 2007 Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.com Join us for the Java Posse Roundup 2007 in Crested Butte, CO from March 6th-9th 2007 http://mindview.net/Conferences/JavaPosseRoundup Microsoft takes from BlueJ without attribution, then applies for patent, then retracts application http://weblogs.java.net/blog/cayhorstmann/ archive/2007/01/microsoft_copie.html http://www.bluej.org/mrt/?p=21 http://listserv.acm.org/scripts/wa.exe?A2=ind0701d& L=sigcse-members&F=&S=&P=2285 Mobile App of the Week - TellMe mobile http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/01/ 23/tellme-mobile-launches/ Applet roundup Falling sand applet - http://chir.ag/stuff/sand/ Enigma Applet - http://homepages.tesco.net/~andycarlson/ enigma/enigma_j.html Visualization of terrorist attacks links - http://jamesnsears.com/applets/spies/ Quick News Items Google has released Testing on the Toilet to the general public http://googletesting.blogspot.com/ JSR 291 has passed the public review ballot despite two no votes http://www.theserverside.com/news/ thread.tss?thread_id=43961 The Oracle Technical Network (OTN) has a new Spring extension for JDeveloper http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/ jdev/htdocs/partners/addins/exchange/ spring/spring-extension.html Chet Haase blogs about the upcoming book "Filthy Rich Clients" that he and Romain Guy have written which is nearing completion http://weblogs.java.net/blog/chet/ archive/2007/01/filthy_rich_cli.html The Yourkit 6.0 Java Profiler from Yourkit LLC has been released http://www.theserverside.com/news/ thread.tss?m=c.reply&thread_id=43944#226139 http://www.yourkit.com/download/ Firebug reaches 1.0 final http://www.getfirebug.com/blog/ 2007/01/24/one-dot-oh/ Initial benchmarks done on the JRuby compiler are looking promising http://www.javalobby.org/java/forums/t89729.html IBM Developerworks is running a great multi-part series on creating a web application using a combination of GWT (Google Web Toolkit), Apache Derby and Eclipse http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/ opensource/library/os-ad-gwt1/ http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/ java/library/os-ad-gwt2/index.html Mainsoft has released a preview edition of it's grasshopper product version 2.0 http://dev.mainsoft.com/Default.aspx?tabid=239 http://blogs.zdnet.com/Burnette/?p=244 A new site - SourceKibitzer - tracks and catalogs open source Java projects http://www.sourcekibitzer.org/ ThinkFree Office - a former Applet of the week on the Java Posse, has won a computerworld award for best online office suite beating out all the usual suspects like Zoho virtual office and Google Docs and Spreadsheets http://weblogs.java.net/blog/davidvc/ archive/2007/01/what_java_is_be_1.html http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do? command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9007884& pageNumber=1 Sun has posted the second maintenance release of JSR 926 - the Java 3d API http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=926 The Eclipse foundation has launched a new data tools platform, version 1.0 http://www.eclipse.org/org/press-release/ 20070123_dtprelease.php Listener Feedback Java2Exe - creating executables with Java Launch4j - cross platform - http://launch4j.sourceforge.net/ General guide - http://www.excelsior-usa.com/articles/java-to-exe.html NativeJ for Windows - http://www.dobysoft.com/products/nativej/faq.html Thread on The Server Side - http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/ thread.tss?thread_id=5942 Making a Jar executable - http://www.captain.at/programming/java/ executable-java-application.php Using webstart - http://www.cokeandcode.com/info/webstart-howto.html QCon in London http://www.simongbrown.com/blog/2007/01/ 08/qcon_london_gets_a_proper_software_ development_conference.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, Oliver Widder and Jeff Tyson for Java Posse artwork Brian Ehmann - the Java Posse intern Craig Muth for maintaining the Java Posse Memorizable site - http://memorizable.org/Java_Posse 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://loosebrucekerr.libsyn.com Closing - Juan Carlos Jimenez - In the House (Intro No. 1) 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]