Java Posse #127 - Newscast for June 13th 2007

Newscast for June 13th 2007 Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.com Should checked exceptions be removed from Java? http://gafter.blogspot.com/2007/05/ removing-language-features.html http://cafe.elharo.com/java/ voting-for-checked-exceptions/ http://www.artima.com/forums/flat.jsp? forum=276&thread=207381 What will happen to Java on the Treo now? http://weblogs.java.net/blog/jdeanquin/archive/ 2007/06/develop_j2me_fo.html Details starting to emerge about Apple's future direction http://apple.slashdot.org/article.pl? sid=07/06/07/1414206&from=rss http://www.cafeaulait.org/#June_12_2007_16318 Java developer tool of the week - SAP Memory Analyzer http://www.theserverside.com/news/ thread.tss?thread_id=45764 And a bonus - cool Java Media app of the week - Media Center X http://digg.com/nintendo_wii/ Sream_Media_to_your_Wii_with_Media_Center_X Quick News Items Trolltech, makers of the QT GUI toolkit (as used by KDE on Linux) has released QT Jambi http://trolltech.com/company/newsroom/ announcements/press.2007-06-06.2984198523 Sun has announced their full support for OpenID http://blogs.sun.com/theaquarium/ entry/openid_sun_com_is_open Chris Oliver and the Open JFX Script team have released a new version of Java FX Script https://openjfx.dev.java.net/servlets/ ReadMsg?list=users&msgNo=441 Did you know that as well as the NetBeans Java FX plugin, there is also one for eclipse? https://openjfx.dev.java.net/ javafx-eclipse-plugin-install.html http://www.mrbool.com/articles/ viewcomp.asp?comp=5549 Roman Strobl over at NetBeans.org has a video tutorial for getting started with NetBeans 6.0 http://www.netbeans.org/download/flash/ netbeans_getting_started/ netbeans_getting_started.html Apache has release SOLR 1.2 http://www.theserverside.com/news/ thread.tss?thread_id=45719 Solaris Developer edition - new version 5/07 release http://www.netbeans.org/community/ news/index.html#1059 Gigaspaces 6.0 has been announced, and it allows POJOs in JavaSpaces to work with Spring http://www.theserverside.com/news/ thread.tss?thread_id=45770 And staying with Spring, there is a tutorial up at netbeans.org on how to use Spring in NetBeans http://www.netbeans.org/kb/55/ quickstart-spring.html A new JMaki extension for Google Gears from Greg Murray http://weblogs.java.net/blog/gmurray71/archive/ 2007/06/jmaki_extension_1.html Tips and advice from Josh Bloch and Bill Pugh's Java Puzzlers at JavaOne this year http://digg.com/programming/Java_Puzzlers Apache has released version 1.0 of Synapse http://www.theserverside.com/news/ thread.tss?thread_id=45734 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]