Java Posse #125 - Newscast for June 7th 2007

Newscast for June 7th 2007 Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.com Redhat forking Java? It's a good thing really http://fitzsim.org/blog/?p=17 Eclipse 3.3 RC3 (release candidate 3) has been released http://docs.codehaus.org/display/GUMTREE/ Useful+Eclipse+Articles http://download.eclipse.org/eclipse/downloads/ drops/S-3.3RC2-200705251350/index.php http://blogs.sun.com/theaquarium/entry/ glassfish_v3_plugin_for_eclipse JSF - why hasn't it taken over the world http://www.theserverside.com/tt/articles/ article.tss?l=RethinkingJSF http://livedemo.exadel.com/richfaces-demo/ http://jsf.javabeat.net/articles/2007/05/ java-server-faces-introduction/ JSR 314 - JavaServer Faces 2.0 http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=314 Microsoft is just too busy to back up their threats http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/05/24/ microsoft_novell_patents/ http://www.linuxjournal.com/node/1000228 And suing one of their own MVPs? http://www.theregister.com/2007/06/05/ microsoft_mvp_threats/ More details on a new, small, consumer JRE to compete with Flash http://weblogs.java.net/blog/chet/archive/ 2007/05/consumer_jre_le.html http://weblogs.java.net/blog/enicholas/archive/ 2007/05/java_kernel_unm.html Google released Google Gears - a toolkit that allows web applications to be better threaded and also to work offline http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Gears http://digg.com/programming/My_very_first_app_ based_on_Google_Gears_Local_Database_API http://weblogs.java.net/blog/editors/archives/ 2007/06/change_of_heart.html The Google Developer Podcast has finally escaped http://google-code-updates.blogspot.com/2007/05/ introducing-google-developer-podcast.html Mobile java app of the week - webaroo http://mobile.webaroo.com/ Quick News Items Charles Oliver Nutter, Thomas Enebo and Ola Bini have posted the release for JRuby 1.0 based on Ruby 1.8.5. http://www.cafeaulait.org/#June_4_2007_22118 The JDJ has announced the contenders for the JDJ readers awards http://java.sys-con.com/general/readerschoice.htm The Sun Developer Network has published an interview with Josh Bloch that covers many different topics http://java.sun.com/javaone/sf/2007/articles/rockstar_bloch.jsp NetBeans 5.5.1 includes a number of bug fixes and also support for v2 of Glassfish. It also adds windows vista as a supported platform http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ NewsItemView?newsItemID=1051 Java FX quick roundup - more information about the new Java FX initiative ReportMill - a Java FX RAD tool http://www.reportmill.com/jfx/ Lars Gersmann blogs about a problem with the JavaFX Script assert statement, and gets the answer straight from Chris Oliver http://orangevolt.blogspot.com/2007/05/javafx-assert-statement.html Java.net has instructions for installing and using the JavaFX Script s for NetBeans 5.5 https://openjfx.dev.java.net/javafx-nb55-plugin-install.html Google checkout is offering credit card transaction processing for free until the end of 2007, and Inderjeet Singh has put together instructions on how to use checkout from Glassfish http://weblogs.java.net/blog/inder/archive/ 2007/05/using_google_ch.html http://checkout.google.com Martin Odersky has released version 2.5 final of Scala, an alternative programming language that uses the JVM http://www.scala-lang.org/downloads/index.html Apache Geronimo milestone 6 has passed the Java EE 5 TCK meaning that it is now possible to deploy Java EE 5 applications to the apache open source Java application server http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss? thread_id=45680 IBM has a tutorial on using a Google Web Toolkit front end with a back end written using the Apache Geronimo application server http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/opensource/ edu/os-dw-os-ag-gwt1.html?open&ca=daw-fltx- 05172007&S_TACT=106AH62W&S_CMP=NEWS Sun has announced that they will not enforce patents on their OpenID digital identity framework against anyone else who does not enforce their patents on OpenID either http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss? thread_id=45552 Novell has released Mono 1.2.4 http://www.go-mono.com/archive/1.2.4/#changes JBoss 4.2 is out http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss? thread_id=45553 PDFs of the slides are now available from the technical sessions at JavaOne 2007 http://developers.sun.com/learning/javaoneonline/ j1online.jsp?track=1&yr=2007 JDeveloper, OC4J (Oracle Containers for Java) and Toplink are all now available in 11g preview form http://www.techping.com/Software/ Oracles-Java-EE-50-Technology-Preview-is--Out.html Genuitec have released version 5.5 final of MyEclipse Enterprise Workbench http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss? thread_id=45493 NetBeans has a new support module for the Sun Grid Engine (also sometimes called the Sun utility grid) http://www.netbeans.org/kb/articles/grid-compute-plugin.html Antlr 3.0, a very popular "compiler compiler" for the Java platform, has been released by Terrence Parr http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss? thread_id=45464 There is now a good online map available of the whole Runescape world if you are a fan of the game http://www.runescape-tip.com/world-map.htm Arun Gupta has a short getting started guide which makes it easy to get going with JRuby on Rails http://weblogs.java.net/blog/arungupta/archive/ 2007/05/getting_started_1.html Motorola has released the RAZR 2 and MotoROKR Z6 phones, both of which use a Java on Linux platform http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS8879219087.html Felipe Gaucho blogs about the three kinds of Java distribution hell: Classpath hell, Jar hell and Extension hell, and how JSR 277 is trying to fix all three http://weblogs.java.net/blog/felipegaucho/archive/ 2007/05/jsr277_super_ja.html GWT - the Google Web Toolkit - version 1.4 RC is now available http://code.google.com/webtoolkit/download.html NetBeans.org has a new plugin portal for sharing NetBeans plugin modules http://plugins.netbeans.org/PluginPortal/ Bill Pugh has released version 1.21 of findbugs, the static analysis bug finding tool http://findbugs.sourceforge.net/ The oldest IDE in existence, Emacs, has just reached version 22 http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/ Helios has released Linux for the Playstation 3 http://digg.com/linux_unix/ Helios_Unveils_Linux_for_Sony_Playstation_3 John O'Conner adds his voice to the chorus of people proclaiming JSR 296 (The Swing Application Framework) is good http://weblogs.java.net/blog/joconner/archive/ 2007/06/the_swing_appli.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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