Java Posse #140 - Newscast for August 30th 2007

Newscast for August 30th 2007 Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.com Paramount defects from doing both Blu-ray and HD-DVD to doing just HD-DVD, CEO blames Java, but what is the whole story? http://www.pcworld.com/article/ id,136253/article.html One of the better discussion forums - the avsforum - lays out some pretty interesting facts from both camps http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/ showthread.php?p=11456607 Google Web Toolkit is now out of Beta with the release of the new version 1.4 http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2007/08/ google-web-toolkit-towards-better-web.html http://googlewebtoolkit.blogspot.com/2007/08/ gwt-14-release-and-out-of-beta.html http://blogs.zdnet.com/Google/?p=706 Jython 2.2 has been released! http://www.theserverside.com/news/ thread.tss?thread_id=46661 http://www.jython.org/Project/index.html http://arstechnica.com/journals/linux.ars/ 2007/08/23/jython-2-2-officially-released NetBeans Roundup - lots of things happening in the NetBeans camp this week The Life on Rails blog has a comparison of Ruby IDEs including the ever popular TextMate, Eclipse (using plugins like RadRails) and NetBeans http://test.lifeonrails.org/2007/8/27/ netbeans-the-best-ruby-on-rails-ide NetBeans.tv has been launched http://www.netbeans.tv/ http://www.netbeans.tv/community/join-in/ And, Tim Boudreau is taking NetBeans on the road http://weblogs.java.net/blog/timboudreau/archive/ 2007/08/the_netbeansmob.html Geertjan blogs about his adventures writing a Groovy editor for NetBeans http://blogs.sun.com/geertjan/entry/ how_to_write_a_groovy2 Sun roundup Sun has announced their financials, and they made a profit in the last fiscal quarter of 2007 and overall made a profit for the whole fiscal year too http://www.cafeaulait.org/#August_24_2007_80581 Also, Sun has just changed their stock ticker from SUNW to JAVA http://blogs.sun.com/jonathan/entry/java_is_everywhere http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/mowi/ article.php/3696361 And the news caused OpenJDKs David Heron to dig into the archives from 10 years ago, when the naysayers were saying that Java was already dead or doomed to failure... http://weblogs.java.net/blog/robogeek/archive/ 2007/08/java_is_doomed.html Java site of the week - Quicken Online, in JSF http://news.com.com/8301-10784_3-9759443-7.html Quick News JSR 264 - Order Management API, has been approved by the JCP http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=264 Greg Stein, the director of the Apache Software Foundation was mugged outside his home, at the time he was on crutches from a broken leg injury a couple of weeks before. Kevin Burton is having a donation whip round to do something nice for Greg while he recovers http://feedblog.org/2007/08/27/greg-stein- director-of-the-apache-software-foundation- was-mugged-accepting-donations/ If you are interested in Java/.NET interoperability with WSIT, Arun Gupta has blogged a couple of useful links including a demo of using Excel with Glassfish http://weblogs.java.net/blog/arungupta/archive/ 2007/08/excel_using_wsi.html http://weblogs.java.net/blog/haroldcarr/archive/ 2007/08/metro_aka_jaxws_1.html The Mobile Phone/Smart Phone blog has a detailed review of the new Motorola ROKR E6 http://ggkandy.blogspot.com/2007/08/ motorola-rokr-e6-review.html The glassfish team have posted up RC4 of glassfish v2 (and what they hope will be the final RC) http://blogs.sun.com/theaquarium/ entry/glassfish_v2_rc4 If you missed the very popular Java Puzzlers technical session at this year's JavaOne, or if you simply didn't make it to JavaOne, you can still see it http://video.google.com/videoplay? docid=9214177555401838409 An InformIT article on HIJAX talks about how to plan for both JavaScript and non JavaScript browsers http://www.informit.com/articles/ article.aspx?p=789762&rl=1 A new site collects Java related videos. D TV Java has multiple views for selecting the video you might be interested in, including a blog like view, thumbnail view and random selection http://pankap.com/dtv/index.php?pt=all We have sat upon this news item for a couple of weeks due to problems accessing the site, but GridGain 1.5 offers an open source, java based grid computing solution built on top of spring and JBoss. As well as a 15 minute video demo of writing a grid application, and the download itself, the gridgain company offers training, consulting and support. They also seem to have a fondness for 2x2 rubiks cubes (which seem like they wouldn't be much of a challenge to solve) http://www.gridgain.com/ ZDNet points out that a couple of security exploits found by a Google engineer in the Java Image parsing code back in October 2006 are still not fixed for Java on Mac OS 10 http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=469 http://landonf.bikemonkey.org/code/macosx/ CVE-2007-2788.20070814.html Sailfin, a SIPServlet communication application server based on glassfish and contributions from Ericsson has reached milestone one http://blogs.sun.com/theaquarium/ entry/sailfin_milestone_1 Listener Feedback Neal Bartlett post to the Java Posse Google group about OSGi vs JSR 277 http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse/ browse_thread/thread/36df5d2547ce183e/# 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 Amy Ehmann 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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