Java Posse #110 - Newscast for March 27th 2007

Newscast for March 27th 2007 Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.com Nimbus - new slick look and feel for Java https://nimbus.dev.java.net/ http://www.curious-creature.org/2007/03/13/ nimbus-source-code-and-demo/ Researchers at Oxford University have created an x86 emulator in Java http://www.physics.ox.ac.uk/jpc/ http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl? sid=07/03/24/1840256&from=rss Hibernate gets Sharding, plus new Searching and Validation functionality http://www.theserverside.com/news/ thread.tss?thread_id=44735 http://www.cbronline.com/article_news.asp? guid=CF519896-BA9F-41B3-8EF2-16733E4D53DD The Serverside Java symposium took place last week in Las Vegas http://weblogs.java.net/blog/edort/archive/ 2007/03/notes_from_thes.html http://weblogs.java.net/blog/edort/archive/ 2007/03/tool_you_cant_l.html https://jazz.net/pub/index.jsp http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss? thread_id=44750 http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss? thread_id=44756 http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss? thread_id=44758 http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss? thread_id=44764 Java (or rather Scala!) Library of the Week - Liftweb - like Rails for Scala http://code.google.com/p/liftweb/ http://liftweb.net/ Mobile app of the week - Telenav Navigator - Reviewed by Jackie http://www.telenav.com/ Book recommendation: Java Generics and Collections by Maurice Naftalin and Philip Wadler - published by O'Reilly and Associates http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/javagenerics/ Quick News Items Registration for Glassfish Day 2007 is now open http://developers.sun.com/events/communityone/ http://blogs.sun.com/theaquarium/ entry/glassfish_day_registration_is_now The future of glassfish - v3 http://blogs.sun.com/theaquarium/ entry/first_glassfish_v3_screencast Phobos roundup http://blogs.sun.com/theaquarium/ entry/new_phobos_blog https://phobos.dev.java.net/about.html http://phobosblog.zakula.com/ http://weblogs.java.net/blog/robc/archive/ 2007/03/using_phobos_wi.html Does the glassfish project validate Jonathan Schwartz's new Open Source to drive Volume strategy as a good direction for Sun Microsystems? http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=976 http://blogs.sun.com/theaquarium/ entry/glassfish_and_netbeans_google_trends http://blogs.sun.com/woodjr/entry/ sun_related_trends John Backus - the leader of the IBM team that created Fortran, the first widely used, higher level computer programming language, has died at the age of 82 http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/19/obituaries/ 20cnd-backus.html?ex=1332043200&en= adde3ee5a1875330&ei=5124&partner=digg&exprod=digg Geertjan blogs about his new Groovy editor for NetBeans IDE http://blogs.sun.com/geertjan/entry/ we_ve_got_a_groovy http://groovy.codehaus.org/Eclipse+Plugin http://groovy.codehaus.org/Debugging+with+JSwat A new java.net project for running GWT in NetBeans has been started by Thomas Szlota and Tomas Zezula https://gwt4nb.dev.java.net/ The 2007 Jolt award winners have been announced http://www.joltawards.com/2007/ Chet Haase and Romain Guy's new book "Filthy Rich Clients" is now available for pre-order on Amazon.com http://www.amazon.com/Filthy-Rich-Clients- Developing-Applications/dp/0132413930/ ref=sr_1_1/102-9232409-6211363?ie=UTF8& s=books&qid=1174585147&sr=8-1 Lukas Hasik has a set of new movies demonstrating the new SVG features in the NetBeans Mobility pack http://blogs.sun.com/lukas/entry/ videos_of_svg_support_in Google has released a new Picasa Web Albums API based on its GData APIs to allow access and upload to the picture data through the GData feeds http://code.google.com/apis/ picasaweb/overview.html Microsoft has given in to EU pressure and has opened up many of its file formats and protocols rather than face further fines http://politics.slashdot.org/article.pl? sid=07/03/21/0126206&from=rss http://reddevnews.com/news/devnews/ article.aspx?editorialsid=192 Michael Urban over at Javalobby blogs about the new GTK look and feel for Java on linux http://www.javalobby.org/java/forums/t91191.html Not Java related, but very interesting, The register notes that new Biometric Passports in the UK with embedded RFID chips are able to be cloned en masse without even opening the envelope they are in http://www.theregister.com/2007/03/06/ daily_mail_passport_clone/ Listener Feedback Annotation http://docs.google.com/View?docid=dz384d8_18ckbtn4 Accessing Java through Perl http://articles.techrepublic.com.com/ 5100-3513-6161340.html http://search.cpan.org/~patl/ Inline-Java-0.51/Java.pod http://search.cpan.org/~rusekd/Java-Import-0.03/ lib/Java/Import.pm http://search.cpan.org/~philcrow/ Java-Swing-0.12/Swing.pm Payments by Mobile Phone https://www.luup.com/home/user/gb.aspx New Version of the Eclipse Scala Plugin http://www.scala-lang.org/downloads/eclipse/index.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]