Java Posse #106 - Newscast for March 7th 2007

Newscast for March 5th 2007 Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.com The Java One engine is started and warming up, including a number of events on the Monday before the big show starts - in the Moscone center, SF http://blogs.sun.com/roumen/entry/ registration_for_netbeans_day_2007 https://www28.cplan.com/pls/pg_sun/ c158_reg.nb_login http://www.glassfishwiki.org/gfwiki/Wiki.jsp? page=GlassFishDay2007 Sun Microsystems has become a corporate patron for the FSF (Free Software Foundation) http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/ 20070228-8938.html Java ME - the next generation http://java.sun.com/javame/reference/ docs/msa_datasheet.pdf http://www.ossnewsreview.com/telecom-oss/ sun-microsystems-announces-support-for-the- next-generation-mobile-java-platform/ NetBeans roundup http://cld.blog-city.com/netbeans_6_m7_ looking_good.htm http://wiki.netbeans.org/wiki/view/ NewAndNoteWorthyMilestone7 http://blogs.sun.com/coldrick/entry/ netbeans_6_0_milestone_7 http://weblogs.java.net/blog/joshy/archive/ 2007/02/netbeans_m7_and.html http://safari.awprofessional.com/9780132354806 http://www.netbeans.org/community/news/ index.html#1010 Google apps launched - Java web site of the week http://www.google.com/a/ http://slashdot.org/articles/07/02/ 22/1430256.shtml http://lifehacker.com/software/google-apps/ reader-poll-google-apps-over-ms-office-239136.php Quick News Items A new point release - 3.2.2 - of Eclipse is now available http://www.eclipse.org/eclipse/ development/readme_eclipse_3.2.2.html Pluto 1.1, an open source reference implementation of the Java Portal Specification (JSR 168) has been released by the apache project http://www.cafeaulait.org/ #February_28_2007_55575 http://www.theserverside.com/news/ thread.tss?thread_id=44451 A new plugin for eclipse - MaintainJ version 1.0 http://maintainj.com/ Panasonic has released finished specs for two new JSRs. The first JSR 164 is JAIN (Java Advanced Intelligent Networking) SIMPLE (precise acronym unknown at present, but a superset of SIP - Session Initiation Protocol) Presence, and the second is JSR 165 - SIMPLE Instant Messaging. The two combine to provide instant messaging and presence awareness between devices using either the SIP or SIMPLE protocol http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=164 http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=165 http://www.cafeaulait.org/ #March_3_2007_60909 An interesting proposal on damnhandy.com shows one way of exposing EJB3 Entity Beans through an easy REST API automatically (or automagically as referenced in the blog) http://www.damnhandy.com/2007/03/01/ automagically-restful-entity-beans/ http://www.damnhandy.com/2007/02/21/resteasy- preview-a-restful-web-services-framework-for-java/ Sun has organized the reference articles and other learning material for Java Studio Creator into a free all-in-one programming guide available on the Sun Developer Network http://developers.sun.com/prodtech/javatools/jscreator/ overview/whatsnew/index.jsp Direct link to the PDF - http://developers.sun.com/prodtech/javatools/ jscreator/reference/pdf/creator_prog_guide.pdf The Eclipse Foundation has announced the 2007 board member election results http://www.eclipse.org/org/press-release/ 20070301cb_elections.php Seam 1.2 GA has been released http://www.theserverside.com/news/ thread.tss?thread_id=44438 http://jboss.com/products/seam http://www.xeniumhk.com/blog/?postid=58 Congratulations to James Gosling for being awarded the Order of Canada http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2007/ 02/21/tech-20070221.html JSwat version 4.0 has been released by Nathan Fiedler. JSwat is a GUI based standalone debugger built on top of the Java Debugger Platform Architecture http://www.bluemarsh.com/java/jswat/ Ruby on Rails, running on Glassfish and an embedded Derby http://blogs.sun.com/whacko/ http://www.developer.com/open/ article.php/3662031 Project Tango releases milestone 3. Tango is the compatibility project between Java and the Windows Communication Foundation (.NET) http://weblogs.java.net/blog/haroldcarr/ archive/2007/02/project_tango_m.html Finally, standardized deployment onto application servers. JSR 88 provides a standard API to deploying pre-packaged or assembled applications to an application server http://blogs.sun.com/theaquarium/ entry/jsr_88_webapp_deployment http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=88 The Session Schedule for the 2nd annual Server Side Java Symposium Europe has been announced http://www.theserverside.com/news/ thread.tss?thread_id=44454 Dierk König (Lead author of the book Groovy in Action) and Sven Haiges are producing a new series of podcasts about Groovy http://groovy.codehaus.org/Groovy+Series http://hansamann.podspot.de/rss Missed your chance to speak at JavaOne? JavaZone 2007, the Java conference held in Oslo by the Norwegian Java Users Group has put out a call for papers http://www.javazone.no/ Listener Feedback Blu Ray vs. HD-DVD Facts Several BD-Java enhanced disks have been released. "Pirates of the Caribbean" is an upcoming example http://www.highdefdigest.com/news/show/ Disney/Exclusive_HD_Content/BD-50/Disc_Announcements/ Disneys_Pirates_of_the_Caribbean_Booty_to_ Include_Two_Discs,_BD-Java_Features/481 Blu-Ray is outselling HD DVD. Some sites are tracking Amazon relative sales rankings: http://www.hdgamedb.com/amazon/ history.aspx?TYPE=100&SPAN=14e There are more announced movies for Blu-Ray than HD DVD: http://bluray.highdefdigest.com/releasedates.html http://hddvd.highdefdigest.com/releasedates.html Comes vs. Microsoft documents http://kafka.freeshell.org/iowaconsumercase.org_archive/ http://edge-op.org/iowa/README.txt http://edge-op.org/iowa/www.iowaconsumercase.org/ 011107/PX_2768.pdf http://edge-op.org/iowa/www.iowaconsumercase.org/ 010807/PLEX_7264.pdf 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]