Java Posse #117 - Newscast for April 24th 2007

Newscast for April 24th 2007 Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.com What would you like to see for a Google presence at JavaOne this year? Please post ideas to the Posse Google group or email them to us at [email protected] http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse How much openness is good for a JSR? http://weblogs.java.net/blog/editors/archives/ 2007/04/the_model.html http://today.java.net/pub/pq/155 Ubuntu Feisty Fawn (also known as 7.04) has been released, and it includes Java http://weblogs.java.net/blog/ludo/archive/ 2007/04/ubuntu_upgrade.html http://weblogs.java.net/blog/mortazavi/archive/ 2007/04/full_java_stack_1.html http://www.ubuntu.com/news/ java-stack-included-in-ubuntu Is the eclipse visual editor dead? http://www.coconut-palm-software.com/ the_visual_editor/?p=107 Mobile app(s) of the week - Jitter and Twitteresce http://www.freakitude.com/2007/04/20/ jitter-tiny-cellphone-twitter-client/ http://www.madpilot.com.au/twitteresce Quick News Items Aptana, the eclipse based IDE focused on web development, has added Ruby on Rails support to its list of features using radrails http://www.aptana.com/download_rails_rdt.php The eclipse foundation will be hosting a party at Jillian's on the wednesday during JavaOne http://www.eclipse.org/org/press-release/ 20070420cb_eclipseparty.php Netbeans now has a Seam plugin http://www.michaelyuan.com/blog/2007/04/17/ first-release-of-seam-plugin-for-netbeans/ http://blogs.sun.com/roumen/entry/ seam_plug_in_for_netbeans NetBeans.org has introduced a sample catalog http://www.netbeans.org/kb/samples/ The Artemis project has released the first Alpha http://artemis.effectiveui.com/?page_id=3 IBM Developerworks have a new tutorial introducing 3d programming in Java https://www6.software.ibm.com/developerworks/ education/j-java3d/index.html The Apache project has released Jakarta Commons Configuration 1.4 http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/configuration/ http://www.theserverside.com/news/ thread.tss?thread_id=45086 Kirill Grouchnikov has just released a new version, 3.3, of the substance look and feel for Java https://substance.dev.java.net/release-info/ 3.3/release-info.html Mobile and embedded podcast http://today.java.net/pub/ct/mobileandembedded Listener Feedback Amiga Emulator Windows: http://www.winuae.net/ Linux: http://uae.coresystems.de/ Mac: http://worldserver.oleane.com/ablancha/uae.htm Liftweb web framework for Scala http://blog.lostlake.org/index.php?/archives/ 45-A-real-world-use-of-lift.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]