Java Posse #164 - Newscast for Feb 18th 2008

Newscast for Feb 18th 2008 Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.com Join us for the Java Posse Roundup 2008 in Crested Butte from March 4th to 7th http://www.mindviewinc.com/Conferences/JavaPosseRoundup/ And if you are attending the roundup, and need a place to stay, check out the Google group document: http://groups.google.com/group/roundup08/web/house-sharing-2008?hl=en JetBrains has raised the price of IntelliJ IDEA by $100 for corporate users, but drops it to $249 for personal licenses http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse/browse_thread/ thread/dac1f30c8eacbf49# http://www.jetbrains.com/idea/buy/buy.html Eclipse 3.4 M5 has been released http://www.cafeaulait.org/#February_11_2008_28660 http://eclipse.dzone.com/tips/full-screen-your-rcp-applicati http://download.eclipse.org/eclipse/downloads/drops/ S-3.4M5-200802071530/eclipse-news-M5.html http://download.eclipse.org/eclipse/downloads/drops/ S-3.4M4-200712131700/eclipse-news-M4.html http://download.eclipse.org/eclipse/downloads/drops/ S-3.4M3-200711012000/eclipse-news-M3.html http://download.eclipse.org/eclipse/downloads/drops/ S-3.4M2-200709210919/eclipse-news-M2.html http://download.eclipse.org/eclipse/downloads/drops/ S-3.4M1-200708091105/eclipse-news-M1.html Learning Scala Roundup: http://www.codecommit.com/blog/scala/ roundup-scala-for-java-refugees http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/java/library/j-scala01228.html? ca=dgr-lnxw57javascala&S_TACT=105AGX59&S_CMP=GR http://www.nabble.com/-scala--ScalaDays-'08-td14608301.html Java Application(s) of the week. Javalobby did our job for us this week: http://java.dzone.com/tips/ten-amazing-java-applications Java Library of the week - Apache Abdera http://incubator.apache.org/abdera/ http://blogs.sun.com/theaquarium/entry/ integrating_jersey_and_abdera AND a mobile app of the week - Beta of YouTube for mobile http://www.youtube.com/yt_mobile_app Quick News Items The open source drop for OpenJDK 6 has been made! http://weblogs.java.net/blog/robogeek/archive/ 2008/02/the_end_of_the.html http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/jdk6-dev/ 2008-February/000004.html SCO - the fat lady still hasn't sung http://slashdot.org/article.pl? sid=08/02/14/2032206&from=rss http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl? sid=08/02/16/1241247&from=rss Lookout Google Maps, there's a new player on the block (at least in the UK). Ordnance Survey: http://openspace.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/openspace/ http://mapperz.blogspot.com/2008/02/ openspace-api-more-examples-please.html Apple has released another preview version of Java 6 for Leopard http://weblogs.java.net/blog/lordy/archive/ 2008/02/java_se_6_devel.html NetBeans 6.0.1 has been released http://blogs.sun.com/roumen/entry/netbeans_6_0_1_has A new Glassfish v3 Ruby Gem now allows jRuby-on-rails apps to be easily installed and run on a Glassfish v3 http://weblogs.java.net/blog/arungupta/archive/ 2008/02/glassfish_v3_ru.html EclipseZone has an article up about using Spring and Eclipse together with SpringIDE http://eclipse.dzone.com/news/springide-using-spring-eclipse Quipukit has released version 1.4 of its commercial JSF components library http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss? thread_id=48385 Lisp fans rejoice! Clojure is a new implementation of Lisp for the JVM http://clojure.sourceforge.net/ Google has released a new version of the Android Developer SDK http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/13/ google-releases-new-android-sdk/ http://www.cellular-news.com/story/29353.php http://androidcoding.com/undroid-android-for-the-netbeans-ide/ http://undroid.nolimit.cz/ http://wiki.netbeans.org/IntroAndroidDevNetBeans Oracle has posted a new beta - 3.3.50 - of Berkeley DB Java Edition on the Oracle Technical Network http://www.oracle.com/database/berkeley-db/je/index.html http://www.oracle.com/database/berkeley-db/index.html Atlassian has release version 2.1 of Clover http://www.atlassian.com/software/clover/ Sun has created the Student Developers Portal http://developers.sun.com/students/ Try OpenOffice online with Ulteo http://www.ulteo.com/home/en/home?autolang=en Jazoon has an initial list of the topics that will be covered at this year's conference http://weblogs.java.net/blog/cwfrei/archive/ 2008/01/first_list_of_t.html http://jazoon.com/ TheServerSide has a preview of the new features coming in EJB 3.1 http://www.theserverside.com/tt/articles/article.tss? l=NewFeaturesinEJB3-1 And "why are we not using Java EE 5"? http://java.dzone.com/articles/why-are-we-not-using-java-ee-5 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]