Java Posse #147 - Newscast for Oct 19th 2007

Newscast for October 19th 2007 Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.com Correction - 2007 JCP Elections http://weblogs.java.net/blog/editors/ archives/2007/10/run_1.html http://www.artima.com/forums/flat.jsp? forum=276&thread=216513 http://weblogs.java.net/blog/editors/archives/ 2007/10/awaiting_on_you.html Sun JavaFX and client evening in SF update.... http://java.sun.com/javafx/ Is Sun creating a Java based competitor to the iPhone? http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/10/10/ business/AS-TEC-SKorea-Sun-Samsung-Phone.php http://www.cellular-news.com/story/26628.php GMail mobile 1.5 is now out from Google http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2007/10/ gmail-mobile-15-released.html Linux Devices notes that Linux usage is on the rise in mobile phones http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/ NS3714138423.html A new Open Source Java environment for mobile devices called Jalimo http://www.jalimo.org/wiki/doku.php http://www.smokinglinux.com/opensource- software/jalimo-%E2%80%93-open-source- java-environment-for-linux-mobile Brian Coughlin (Sr. Technology Strategist at Sprint) has managed to take the Sun open source PhoneME project and get a CDC implementation of Java up on the Nokia N800 http://wiki.java.net/bin/view/Mobileandembedded/ PhoneMEAdvancedPlatformsNokia800 Getting Java CDC running on Windows Mobile devices http://wiki.java.net/bin/view/Mobileandembedded/ PhoneMEAdvancedGSGWinMobile Motorola has released the new ROKR Z6m http://uschotline.com/home/node/28 http://www.motorola.com/motoinfo/ product/details.jsp?globalObjectId=191 Update on OpenJDK encumberances Jim Graham has announced a 2d rasterizer called Pisces http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/ 2d-dev/2007-October/000078.html Mark Reinhold talks about the cutover to Mercurial source control http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/ 2d-dev/2007-October/000084.html Igor Nekrestyanov has a status update about the inclusion of the freetype font rasterizer http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/ font-scaler-dev/2007-July/000009.html Alex Menkov reports that the unencumbered part of JavaSound has been opened too http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/ audio-engine-dev/2007-September/000010.html Brad Wetmore mentions that JCE (Java Cryptographic Extension) has been added to the OpenJDK as well http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/ security-dev/2007-September/000015.html David's blog also talks about an important fix to a bug with X.org's Xlib http://weblogs.java.net/blog/robogeek/archive/ 2007/10/openjdk_encumbr.html Pair Programming, does it suck or are you doing it wrong? http://saloon.javaranch.com/cgi-bin/ubb/ ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&f=42&t=000931 http://www.theserverside.com/news/ thread.tss?thread_id=47169 The Future of Java on Mac OS X? http://weblogs.java.net/blog/editors/archives/ 2007/10/all_things_must.html http://blogs.sun.com/jag/entry/solaris_and_os_x http://weblog.infoworld.com/yager/archives/2007/10/ Java Application of the week - IntelliJ IDEA http://www.theserverside.com/news/ thread.tss?thread_id=47232 http://www.jetbrains.com/idea/ JetBrains has also just released a point update for IDEA 6 http://www.cafeaulait.org/#October_3_2007_22563 Bonus java Application of the week - BabyTEL Eggphone http://apps.facebook.com/babytel/ Quick News Items Sun has gone public with around a dozen security exploits in the Java runtime engine, many of them severe http://www.esecurityplanet.com/alerts/ article.php/3703516 IBM AlphaWorks details a new eclipse plugin that allows web based interaction with the eclipse IDE http://www.alphaworks.ibm.com/tech/eclifox ?open&S_TACT=105AGX59&S_CMP=GRsite-eclpsw10 &ca=dgr-eclpsw10aweclifox The eclipse project has also released the first Rich AJAX Platform to use OSGi: RAP 1.0 http://www.eclipse.org/org/press-release/ 20071015_raprelease.php NetBeans OpenLaszlo support provides an alternative way of building flash based rich internet applications without needing Adobe's eclipse based flex builder https://nbopenlaszlosupport.dev.java.net/ Meanwhile, Linux Mini blogs about OpenLaszlo 4 now supporting Flash 7, 8 and 9 as well as DHTML http://www.openlaszlo.org/orbit https://orbit.dev.java.net/ Adobe has just released an alpha version of Flex Builder for Linux http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/ flex/flexbuilder_linux/ NetBeans.org has a new tutorial on building an EJB 3.0 application using NetBeans, GlassFish v2 and Apache Maven 2 http://www.netbeans.org/kb/60/ javaee/ejb-glassfish-maven.html Eyvind A. Larre blogs about how he put together a new facebook application in 15 minutes using Java and JSP http://larre.wordpress.com/2007/10/10/ building-a-facebook-application-in-15-minutes/ Rick Ross at JavaLobby is rallying for putting Java on the OLPC (one laptop per child) http://www.javalobby.org/articles/java-olpc/ http://weblogs.java.net/blog/editors/archives/ 2007/10/power_of_two.html JOSSO (Java Open Single Sign On) 1.6 has been released http://www.theserverside.com/news/ thread.tss?thread_id=47200 JSR 264 - Order Processing API, the final release has now been made for the JSR by Nokia, including a Reference Implementation and TCK (Technology Compatibility Kit) http://www.theserverside.com/news/ thread.tss?thread_id=47151 http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=264 Chris Adamson on Java related podcasts http://weblogs.java.net/blog/editors/archives/ 2007/10/lay_my_head_dow.html http://today.java.net/pub/ct/mobileandembedded http://blogs.sun.com/roumen/category/Podcasts http://www.eclipsezone.com/podcasts.jsp http://www.drunkandretired.com/ http://today.java.net/pub/ct/javaonecommunitycorner A new version of Compass, 1.2, is out http://www.theserverside.com/news/ thread.tss?thread_id=47238 Nuxeo has released version 5.1 of its ECM (Enterprise Component Management) software http://www.theserverside.com/news/ thread.tss?thread_id=47239 Sun's John Rose has a new project proposal over at OpenJDK: a multi-language VM http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/ announce/2007-October/000016.html http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/techtarget/ tsscom/home/~3/170649891/thread.tss http://www.robert-tolksdorf.de/vmlanguages.html Eclipsecon 2008 is now accepting submissions for talks or tutorials http://www.eclipse.org/org/press-release/ 20071016_EclipseConCFP.php And TheServerSide Java Symposium 2008 also has a call for papers http://www.theserverside.com/news/ thread.tss?thread_id=47236 JasperAssistant has been updated to version 2.4.0 http://www.eclipsezone.com/eclipse/ forums/t102537.rhtml The Silicon Valley Web Developer Java User Group has a session by Gavin King about WebBeans (JSR 299 - based on his Seam work) planned for their next meeting on October 16th http://groups.google.com/group/ javaposse/msg/8e78c2b6c7a32bf7 DevX has a new article comparing Java FX, Adobe AIR, and Microsoft's Silverlight for building next generation RIA (Rich Internet Applications) http://www.devx.com/RichInternetApps/ Article/35208/1954?pf=true JPOX 1.1.9 has been released http://www.jpox.org/ Ericsson and BenQ have published the public review draft for JSR 281 - IMS Services API http://jcp.org/aboutJava/communityprocess/ pr/jsr281/index.html In amongst the new exciting changes for the Java 6 Update N (the new Consumer JRE which it getting a lot of attention right now) is a new version of JAX-WS http://blogs.sun.com/theaquarium/ entry/notd_newer_jax_ws_in Microsoft has announced that it will share the source code for .NET http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/ 2007/10/03/releasing-the-source-code- for-the-net-framework-libraries.aspx Atlassian looking for an open source systems administrator http://www.atlassian.com/about/jobs/ systems-administrator-sf.jsp 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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