Java Posse #153 - Newscast for Dec 6th 2007

Newscast for December 6th 2007 Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.com NetBeans 6.0 is now out! http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ NewsItemView?newsItemID=1161 http://www.theserverside.com/news/ thread.tss?thread_id=47741 http://weblogs.java.net/blog/michael_n/archive/ 2007/12/netbeans_6_my_f_1.html Spring 2.5 has been released, a new version of the alternative enterprise Java stack http://www.springframework.org/node/561 Applets of the week: Maths, Physics and Engineering applets http://www.falstad.com/mathphysics.html Android News: Robert Cooper has written an article covering his first impressions of the Android API's and comments on possible improvements that could be made http://www.oreillynet.com/onjava/blog/2007/ 11/android_first_impressions.html Carlos Bazzarella from Poliplus software has started a new project called ME4Android http://www.poliplus.com/android.htm Open Handset Alliance member Ascender has announced "Droid Fonts? http://openhandsetmagazine.com/2007/11/ android-got-new-fonts-from-ascender/ Looking to get started with Android? John Lombardo at linuxdevices.com has written an in-depth, hands-on article that introduces Android http://www.linuxdevices.com/articles/ AT9900056470.html For people interested in getting Android to work on various real and virtual hardware, there's a new Google group, called AndroidPort http://groups.google.com/group/androidport/ browse_thread/thread/7096532830a2a1f1 Karl Pauls of Luminis has managed, with a few hacks, to get Apache Felix (OSGi) to work on Android http://blog.luminis.nl/luminis/entry/ osgi_on_google_android_using https://opensource.luminis.net/confluence/ display/SITE/OSGi+Android Quick News Items New jsf project: Project Mojarra TheServerSide has an article up about RestFaces, a library to solve the problem of BookMarkable JSF (JavaServer Faces) http://www.theserverside.com/news/ thread.tss?thread_id=47561 Mark Reinhold of the OpenJDK Governance Board has announced that the Interim Governance Board has unanimously approved a proposal for the creation of an OpenJDK Porters java.net group http://openjdk.java.net/groups/porters http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/ announce/2007-November/000044.html Think Record Storage is the only option for Java ME development? Think again! http://wiki.apache.org/db-derby/JavaMESupport http://blogs.sun.com/wittyman/entry/ javadb_on_sun_javame_cdc Atlassian Software has released version 1.2 of Crowd, its single sign on and OpenID software http://www.theserverside.com/news/ thread.tss?thread_id=47697 The Apache project has released version 1.1 Final of Continuum, the continuous integration server for building Java projects http://maven.apache.org/continuum/ JBoss has released a JSF unit testing tool: JSFUnit http://www.theserverside.com/news/ thread.tss?thread_id=47747 JSR 321 - Trusted Computing API for Java, has been submitted to the JCP by the IAIK Graz University of technology http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=321 Roberto Chinnici blogs that he has got GlassFish v2 running on SoyLatte on Tiger http://weblogs.java.net/blog/robc/archive/ 2007/11/glassfish_on_so.html DeveloperLife has started a series of tutorials about developing with GWT (the Google Web Toolkit) http://developerlife.com/tutorials/?p=80 The third season of Lost on Blu-Ray will feature a number of enhancements using BD-J http://uk.dvd.ign.com/articles/817/817072p1.html Sun has announced a new program to compensate Open Source developers for their coding efforts http://www.computerworlduk.com/technology/ operating-systems/nix/news/index.cfm?newsid=6517 http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/12/05/162244 JavaRanch has an article about James Gosling's recent "State of the Java Universe" talk http://radio.javaranch.com/val/2007/12/ 03/1196689105739.html Kelly O'Hair blogs that JDK 7 build 24 has switched over to the Mercurial distributed source control mechanism for the OpenJDK sources http://weblogs.java.net/blog/kellyohair/archive/ 2007/12/openjdk_mercuri_7.html Listener Feedback Closures, BGGA and FCM http://docs.google.com/View? docid=ddhp95vd_0f7mcns http://www.jroller.com/scolebourne/ entry/first_class_methods_java_style http://docs.google.com/View? docid=dxm5z6n_143hpcptw http://www.jroller.com/scolebourne/ entry/java_7_short_declarations Ryan Dewsbury's new GWT book http://www.amazon.com/Google-Toolkit- Applications-Ryan-Dewsbury/dp/0321501969/ ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid= 1197204440&sr=8-1 JUG popularity http://wiki.java.net/bin/view/JUGs/JUGHowTo http://blogs.sun.com/roumen/resource/pizza_zoom.JPG 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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