Java Posse #152 - Newscast for Nov 29th 2007

Newscast for November 29th 2007 Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.com Landon Fuller has released the second developer preview edition of Java 6 for Mac OS 10.5 (Leopard) and Mac OS 10.4 (Tiger) http://www.cafeaulait.org/#November_20_2007_29531 http://landonf.bikemonkey.org/code/macosx/ Tis the season to consider language changes for Java 7, the latest question: why not support primitives in collections directly? http://weblogs.java.net/blog/editors/archives/ 2007/11/have_a_heart.html http://today.java.net/pub/a/today/2007/11/27/ AutoboxedCollectionSQ20.html Bill Pugh, from the University of Maryland, and well known to Posse listeners, has released version 1.3.0 of FindBugs http://findbugs.sourceforge.net/ NetBeans 6.0 FCS green-lighted http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ NewsItemView?newsItemID=1157 Applet of the week - MindMap Viewer by Eric Blue http://eric-blue.com/blog/2007/11/ mindmap_viewer_share_and_embed.html http://eric-blue.com/projects/mindmapviewer/ Mobile Application of the Week - Ebook Reader for Java enabled phones http://tequilacat.org/dev/br/index-en.html Mobile application of the week - bonus - Google Maps for Mobile, now with my location http://www.google.com/gmm/ mylocation.html?hl=en Quick News Items JSR 294 (superpackages for the Java language) early draft is now available http://blogs.sun.com/andreas/entry/ edr_of_jsr_294_superpackages Java running on the iPhone (and the iPod touch) http://iphone.fiveforty.net/wiki/index.php/IPhone_Java http://gnu.wildebeest.org/diary/2007/ 11/22/free-your-iphone/ The fedora wiki has an interview with Thomas Fitzsimmons about the inclusion of IcedTea with the newly released Fedora 8 http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Interviews/ ThomasFitzsimmons Sun has released a new version of the Sun Contribution Agreement http://blogs.sun.com/theaquarium/ entry/what_is_with_the_new There is a new flavor of the Gnu General Public License (GPL) called the Affero General Public License that has been written to cope with a peculiarity of web applications http://www.cafeaulait.org/#November_23_2007_66268 The Exploring Beautiful Languages blog has an article on writing NetBeans Ruby hints using Scala http://langexplr.blogspot.com/2007/11/ creating-netbeans-ruby-hints-with-scala.html 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 Call us with questions and feedback - (408) 465 4626 Or send us email - [email protected]