Java Posse #108 - Newscast for March 20th 2007

Newscast for March 20th 2007 Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.com Java Posse roundup 2007 http://weblogs.java.net/blog/joshy/archive/ 2007/03/posse_brain_dum.html http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse/ msg/1978f7e0ebb4257b http://groups.google.com/group/posse-roundup-07/ web/blog-entries-about-the-roundup And Josh Marinacci has a detailed blog about his impressions of the roundup as well http://weblogs.java.net/blog/joshy/archive/ 2007/03/back_from_the_j.html JavaOne 2007 http://java.sun.com/javaone/sf/sessions.jsp http://www.cplan.com/javaone2007/contentcatalog http://java.sun.com/javaone/sf/pdfs/ AdvanceConferenceGuide_Java.pdf Desktop matters and EclipseCon http://weblogs.java.net/blog/chet/archive/ 2007/03/desktop_really.html http://weblogs.java.net/blog/kirillcool/archive/ 2007/03/desktop_matters.html http://weblogs.java.net/blog/eitan/archive/ 2007/03/desktop_matters.html http://www.eclipse.org/org/press-release/ 20070306eclipsecommunity.php http://www.eclipsecon.org/2007/ http://www.eclipsecon.org/2007/index.php? page=sub/&id=all Guice - a new dependency injection (DI) framework has been release by "Crazy" Bob Lee from Google http://digg.com/programming/Guice_User_s_Guide http://www.theserverside.com/news/ thread.tss?thread_id=44593 IDE Roundup First up - the JBoss IDE gets a new name - Red Hat Developer Studio http://www.methegeek.com/?p=21 http://jboss.com/partners/exadel#announcing The serverside has an interview with Erich Gamma about Eclipse and the new Jazz collaboration project http://www.theserverside.com/tt/talks/videos/ ErichGammaText/interview.tss http://javasymposium.techtarget.com/lasvegas/ sessions.html#EGammaKeynote More activity surrounding Netbeans this week: http://wiki.netbeans.org/wiki/view/Ruby http://weblogs.java.net/blog/bleonard/ archive/2007/03/instant_rails_w.html http://www.netbeans.org/download/flash/ netbeans_6_gui_builder/netbeans_6_gui_builder.html http://docs.codehaus.org/display/JRUBY/ 2007/03/05/JRuby+0.9.8+Released Daylights savings bug affects Java, perhaps more than expected http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/hubs/dst/ http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/ 03/09/java_time_bug/ Brian Goetz says that people should stop trying to early-optimize the code - just write it and trust the JVM http://java.sun.com/developer/technicalArticles/ Interviews/goetz_qa.html http://weblogs.java.net/blog/hiheiss/archive/ 2007/03/why_writing_dum.html And a quick Google roundup Google REST describe and Google REST compile http://blog.tomayac.de/index.php?date= 2007-03-12&time=17:11:27&perma= Automatic+Multi+Lang.html https://wadl.dev.java.net/ Also - rumors are rampant that there is a Google phone coming http://news.com.com/2061-10812_3-6164427.html http://www.unstrung.com/document.asp?doc_id=119718 http://www.unstrung.com/document.asp?doc_id=118896 Java Applet of the week - actually an applet site of the week - JHLabs http://www.jhlabs.com/index.html Java Application of the week - AB5k http://www.ab5k.org/ http://weblogs.java.net/blog/joshy/archive/ 2007/03/ab5k_our_all_ja.html http://desklets-news.blogspot.com/ Quick News Items Comparing Java and Scala with side by side examples http://blogs.sun.com/sundararajan/entry/ scala_for_java_programmers No Fluff Just Stuff comes to South Florida http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse/ msg/be08741d37a0ee41 http://www.nofluffjuststuff.com/ show_view.jsp?showId=98 Adobe has released Apollo - their new Flash based technology for creating desktop applications http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid= 07/03/19/1832212&from=rss http://p2pnet.net/story/11686 http://ajaxian.com/archives/ adobe-apollo-alpha-release CNet news.com has a new interview with James Gosling where he talks about his vision for where Java should go next http://news.com.com/Gosling+looks+down+ Suns+open+road/2008-7344_3-6168505.html? tag=nefd.lede Arun Gupta blogs that Sun has introduced its Web Developer Pack http://weblogs.java.net/blog/arungupta/ archive/2007/03/introducing_sun.html Glassfish goes on the road http://blogs.sun.com/theaquarium/ entry/the_road_to_glassfish_day Oracle has released its Toplink product as open source into the eclipse foundation community and is increasing its involvement within that community http://www.theserverside.com/news/ thread.tss?thread_id=44564 http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html? CID=29902 Tikal Eclipse offers an open source Eclipse based distro with easy installation and pre-packaged with plugins for Java, J2EE, C/C++, Perl, PHP and Python http://www.theserverside.com/news/ thread.tss?thread_id=44545 Bill Venners invites you to tell him what sucks about Java http://www.artima.com/forums/flat.jsp? forum=106&thread=194961 Cenqua have released a public beta of Crucible, a team code review application http://www.cenqua.com/crucible/ And finally, if your Java apps don't look "Maccy" enough on your Mac, you might want to check out Quaqua http://www.randelshofer.ch/quaqua/ download.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. 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