Java Posse #143 - Newscast for Sept 21st 2007

Newscast for September 21st 2007 Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.com Glassfish v2 and NetBeans 6.0 Beta 1 have been released http://blogs.sun.com/pelegri/entry/overview_of_glassfish_v2 http://weblogs.java.net/blog/ludo/archive/ 2007/09/glassfish_v2_in.html http://weblogs.java.net/blog/jfarcand/archive/ 2007/09/whats_really_co_1.html http://weblogs.java.net/blog/sdo/archive/ 2007/09/sun_ships_glass.html http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/NewsItemView? newsItemID=1109 And, netbeans has just won a Bossie award from InfoWorld http://www.infoworld.com/archives/t.jsp?N=s&V=91650 http://www.eclipsezone.com/eclipse/forums/t101384.html OpenOffice.org 2.3 has been released http://www.openoffice.org/ http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/project http://download.openoffice.org/2.3.0/index.html http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl? sid=07/09/19/1455240&from=rss Jens Eckels asks "Do we need an IDE 2.0 revolution" http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss? thread_id=46941 SCO declares Chapter 11 bankruptcy http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl? sid=07/09/14/1948257&from=rss http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl? sid=07/09/18/175259 Java application of the week jIRCii Use it on our new Java Posse IRC channel - #javaposse on irc.freenode.net http://jirc.hick.org/ Java Site of the Week: Mint http://www.mint.com Quick News Items The eclipse project has released eclipse PHP development tools 1.0 http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9780700-7.html http://www.eclipse.org/pdt/ http://www.zend.com The Nimbus Look and Feel is nearing completion http://www.breakitdownblog.com/ 2007/09/07/nimbus-lnf-almost-done/ http://www.jasperpotts.com/blog/ 2007/09/nimbus-almost-done/ Chet Haase and the timing framework project have announced version 1.0 of the timing framework https://timingframework.dev.java.net/ http://weblogs.java.net/blog/chet/archive/ 2007/09/aversion_10_its.html Version 1.0 of JSR 295 - the Beans Binding API, is now available for download http://weblogs.java.net/blog/shan_man/archive/ 2007/09/beans_binding_1.html http://forums.java.net/jive/thread.jspa? messageID=234190&tstart=0#234190 iced-tea.org is the home of the IcedTea project providing a completely unencumbered open source Java http://iced-tea.org/wiki/Main_Page Microsoft have released version 1.0 of Silverlight http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl? sid=07/09/05/1442254&from=rss Adobe has released the first public beta of Flex 3.0 http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flex/ http://flexwiki.adobe.com/confluence/display/ ADOBE/Home Kirill Grouchnikov has announced version 4.0 of the Substance look and feel for Java https://substance.dev.java.net/ A Ccomparison between the Java and .NET way of handling generics http://www.jprl.com/Blog/archive/development/ 2007/Aug-31.html The Aquarium has a guide to the ReST initiatives for Java http://blogs.sun.com/alexismp/entry/ restful_sun_putting_it_all http://blogs.sun.com/teera/entry/ jaxb_for_simple_java_xml Apache Tuscany version 0.99 has been released http://www.theserverside.com/news/ thread.tss?thread_id=46746 The open source Java server Glassfish now has a wiki/user faq site http://wiki.glassfish.java.net/Wiki.jsp? page=GlassFishUserFAQ J/Invoke 1.0 has been released http://www.jinvoke.com/ IBM developerworks has a new article describing how to invoke dynamic languages http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/java/ library/j-javascripting1/?ca=dgr-btw01javaapi &S_TACT=105AGX59&S_CMP=GR The new Cajo java.net project provides a simple and very small library to enable distributed computing using just three simple methods in the API: export, lookup and proxy https://cajo.dev.java.net/ http://weblogs.java.net/blog/cajo/ archive/2007/09/simple_interjvm.html NetBeans has a new module integrating the Google Checkout API through a new open source Google Checkout Java SDK project http://code.google.com/p/google-checkout-java-sdk/ http://weblogs.java.net/blog/inder/archive/ 2007/08/netbeans_module.html Netbeans.tv now has Tor's video interview about and demo of the new NetBeans 6 rails features for constructing web applications http://www.netbeans.tv/interviews/Tor-Norbye-mixes- Ruby-and-Java-development-using-NetBeans-151/ Version 1.6 of project Grizzly has been released http://weblogs.java.net/blog/jfarcand/archive/ 2007/08/project_grizzly_3.html Lance Anderson blogs that JDBC 4.0 is catching on with ever more companies and organizations offering JDBC 4.0 compliant drivers for their database http://weblogs.java.net/blog/lancea/archive/ 2007/09/updated_list_of.html If you do a lot of JNI development you may be interested in the Intel integrated Java/JNI debugger http://softwarecommunity.intel.com/ articles/eng/1435.htm EclipseZone reports that a new milestone of the Whole Platform, 1.0.0.v20070912-1454 http://whole.sourceforge.net/Overview.html http://www.eclipsezone.com/eclipse/ forums/t101496.rhtml Hudson continuous build engine continues to go from strength to strength http://weblogs.java.net/blog/kohsuke/archive/ 2007/09/more_hudson_ado.html http://blogs.sun.com/theaquarium/entry/ hudson_plugins_for_net Azul systems, makers of the very scalable Java hardware solutions with the ability to run hundreds of concurrent Java threads is in trouble http://www.theserverside.com/news/ thread.tss?thread_id=46884 http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/ 09/12/azul_hurt/ IBM DeveloperWorks has made another handy little developer tool available. The Lock Analyzer allows you to examine how Java locks are performing in a live application http://www.alphaworks.ibm.com/tech/jla? open&S_TACT=105AGX59&S_CMP=GRsite- jw22&ca=dgr-jw22awjla 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. (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]