Java Posse #150 - Newscast for Nov 15th 2007

Newscast for Nov 15th 2007 Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.com Google releases Android and open handset alliance, the former a (soon-to-be) open source stack for developing mobile applications, and the latter an alliance of over 30 companies in the mobile space http://www.openhandsetalliance.com/ http://www.news.com/8301-13580_3- 9815495-39.html?tag=nefd.lede http://agilesoftwaredevelopment.com/blog/ artem/mobile-developer-relief http://www.betaversion.org/~stefano/linotype/news/110/ http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2007/11/ google-launches-android-open-mobile.html http://blogs.sun.com/jonathan/entry/congratulations_google http://robilad.livejournal.com/#entry_22312 Open source port of OpenJDK to the Mac? http://landonf.bikemonkey.org/code/macosx/ FreeBSD_Java_16_Status_Update.20071112.html http://landonf.bikemonkey.org/code/macosx/ FreeBSD_Java_16.20071105.html RedHat joins the OpenSDK project http://www.news.com/8301-13580_3-9811395-39.html http://blogs.sun.com/theaquarium/ entry/redhat_joins_openjdk http://fitzsim.org/blog/?p=17 Technical Article of the Week! S3 on Java with onJava http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2007/11/07/ introduction-to-amazon-s3-with-java-and-rest.html JSR for Closures, backed by the JUGs http://www.bejug.org/newsletter/05/index.html Quick News Items The presentations from the JustJava 2007 conference in Brazil which took place in October are now available for download http://weblogs.java.net/blog/dwildt/archive/ 2007/11/justjava_2007_p.html The Eclipse project has released version 3.3.1.1 of the Eclipse IDE http://www.eclipse.org/eclipse/development/ readme_eclipse_3.3.1.1.html JSR-311 - JAX-RS (ReST API for Java) is now in early draft review http://blogs.sun.com/theaquarium/entry/jax_rs_jsr_311_now Artima has a good interview with Bill Shannon and Roberto Chinicci about JSR 316 - Java EE 6 http://www.artima.com/lejava/articles/java_ee_6.html JBoss has release Seam 2.0 http://www.theserverside.com/news/ thread.tss?thread_id=47478 NetBeans now has a DTrace GUI plugin http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ NewsItemView?newsItemID=1147 Java lobby has an in depth interview about the new consumer JRE http://www.javalobby.org/java/forums/t102770.html The Aquarium asks "what do you want from Glassfish v3?" http://blogs.sun.com/theaquarium/entry/ glassfish_v3_themes_and_what The Mobile and Embedded developer days event which is being held in Santa Clara on Jan 23rd and 24th continues to gain momentum http://weblogs.java.net/blog/terrencebarr/archive/ 2007/11/developer_days.html http://www.regonline.com/Checkin.asp?EventId=161651 http://weblogs.java.net/blog/brinkley/archive/ 2007/11/the_developer_d.html Apple has released a developer preview of Java for Mac OS X 10.4, Release 6 on the Apple Developer connection http://www.cafeaulait.org/#November_11_2007_71118 Access is demonstrating the new Access Linux Platform that runs Linux, Palm and Java applications http://www.downloadsquad.com/2007/11/09/ access-begins-to-show-off-its-palmos-replacement/ The server side has a new video interview with Christian Bauer about the newly released Seam 2.0 http://www.theserverside.com/news/ thread.tss?thread_id=47490 Could JavaME end up on the iPhone after all? Terrence Barr thinks so http://www.pocketgamer.co.uk/r/iPhone/ iPhone/news.asp?c=4752 A former mobile app of the week, Opera Mini 4, a Java ME web browser, is out of beta http://lifehacker.com/software/featured-mobile-download/ faster-cheaper-mobile-browsing-with-opera-mini-4-320305.php NetBeans Days in Dubai and Cairo are happening within the next week http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/NewsItemView? newsItemID=1143 Results of the JCP Elections http://www.jcpelection2007.org/jcp/election_results 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]