Java Posse #154 - Special from JavaPolis 2007

Special from JavaPolis 2007 Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.com Check out videos from JavaPolis over at http://parleys.com Groovy 1.5 released http://docs.codehaus.org/display/GROOVY/ 2007/12/07/Groovy+1.5+released David Heinemeier Hannson has release version 2.0 of the Ruby on Rails framework http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2007/ 12/7/rails-2-0-it-s-done CommunityOne call for submissions http://developers.sun.com/events/communityone/ Library of the week - Scene graph https://scenegraph.dev.java.net/ Application of the week - Masters of Java http://mastersofjava.2en40.nl/ http://mastersofjava.2en40.nl/Articles.html http://mastersofjava.2en40.nl/Assignments.html Quick News Items Adobe has open-sourced Blaze - the AMF protocol and libraries which does flex remoting more efficiently than XML or JSON http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/blazeds/ Sun is going to discontinue development of the Java Studio Creator and Java Studio Enterprise products http://www.nytimes.com/idg/IDG_002570DE00740 E18002573AE00777209.html?ref=technology Sasha Maps is a new library for GWT that provides easy Google maps support from within GWT applications. It is available for free under an attribution, non-commercial, share-alike license http://www.maryanovsky.com/sasha/maps/ Sun has submitted JSR 322 - Java EE Connector Architecture 1.6 - to the JCP for consideration http://www.jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=322 Microsoft Volta, a new experimental add-on for Visual Studio that bears more than a passing resemblance to GWT (the Google Web Toolkit) http://blogs.zdnet.com/Burnette/?p=480 Greg Sporar has released a six minute screencast of some of the new editing features in NetBeans 6.0 http://www.netbeans.org/download/flash/ netbeans_60/editor2/editor2.html Sun has a repeat of their introduction to web application development event on December 18th in Second life (at the Sun developer playground) http://slurl.com/secondlife/Sun%20Microsystems/172/162/9 Atlassian have announced Fisheye 1.4 and Crucible 1.2 http://www.theserverside.com/news/ thread.tss?thread_id=47803 JBoss has released JBoss Tools 2 and JBoss Developer Studio http://www.theserverside.com/news/ thread.tss?thread_id=47820 JSR 308 - Annotations for Java Types, has entered early draft review http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=308 Podcast of a Guy Steele and Richard Gabriel a keynote at ooPSLA called 50 in 50 http://www.oopsla.org/oopsla2007/index.php? page=sub/&id=267 http://www.podbean.com/podcast-detail-episode/ 342059/episode-19-keynote----50-in-50 JavaRebel 1.0 released http://www.theserverside.com/news/ thread.tss?thread_id=47771 Apache Roller 4.0 is now out http://blogs.sun.com/theaquarium/entry/roller_4_0_is_out Liftweb, the Scala based web app framework from David Pollak is now at version 0.3.0 http://scala-blogs.org/2007/12/announcing-lift-030.html Oracle has posted the proposed final draft for JSR 225 - the XQuery API for Java. This is a specification that defines a JDBC like API for native XML databases http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=225 ReSTclient 1.1 has been release http://code.google.com/p/rest-client/ Developer.com is now taking votes for the products of the year 2008 http://solutions.internet.com/index.php/ 4431_default/d06d68c39e4b77545d082da8d2ea5d86 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]