Java Posse #171 - Newscast for March 14th 2008

Newscast for March 14th 2008 Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.com And check out our YouTube channel at http://youtube.com/javaposse Java on the iPhone, will it? won't it? http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/03/ 07/sun-iphone-java_1.html http://www.ericklein.com/2008/03/btw-i-love-apple.html http://blog.mozilla.com/rob-sayre/2008/03/06/ apple-bans-firefox-spidermonkey-lisp-lua- ruby-python-rhino-java-opera-gcc/ http://hacktheiphoneitouch.blogspot.com/2008/03/ iphone-sdk-limitations-inhibit-aim-java.html http://huibert-aalbers.com/blog/archives/209 http://scobleizer.com/2007/03/20/ steve-jobs-alert-killer-java-app-for-iphone/ http://blog.sublimeintervention.com/ archive/2008/Mar-13.html http://blogs.sun.com/hinkmond/entry/ iphone_sdk_missing_something_in Sun has released the first Beta of NetBeans 6.1 http://www.netbeans.org/community/releases/61/ http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/NewsItemView? newsItemID=1200 Application of the week - GMailAssistant http://gmailassistant.sourceforge.net/#screenshots Application of the week bonus: Stellarium for Java http://stellarium4java.sourceforge.net/ Quick News The JSR 286 - Portlet Specification 2.0 - proposed final draft has been accepted http://blogs.sun.com/theaquarium/entry/ portlet_2_0_is_now Ted Neward has created a talk for Jazoon 08: The busy Java developer's guide to Groovy http://jazoon.com/jazoon08/en/conference/ presentationdetails.html?type=sid&detail=5041 And in other groovy news, Grails applications now work in Glassfish v3 http://weblogs.java.net/blog/vivekp/archive/ 2008/03/grails_applicat.html Apache has launched a new community site for Synapse / WS02 http://www.theserverside.com/news/ thread.tss?thread_id=48691 Java.net has a new series called the Open Road, by Elliotte Rusty Harold http://today.java.net/pub/a/today/2008/03/ 06/jsr-294-superpackages.html http://today.java.net/pub/ct/10 Google has released the first milestone of GWT (Google Web Tookit) 1.5 http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Web-Toolkit/ browse_thread/thread/a29d3cad41851250 GridGain 2.0 has been released http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss ?thread_id=48681 Bruce Chapman has blogged about another closures proposal: the no closures proposal http://weblogs.java.net/blog/brucechapman/ archive/2008/03/anouncement_no.html Listener Feedback David I. Eclipse Magazine, December 2007, article by Ravi Kumar: http://www.codegear.com/article/34268/images/ 34268/EclipseMagazine_Vol17-v2.pdf Ravi Kumar's video introducing Application Factories: http://video.codegear.com/CodeRageIIArchives/ Day5/RaviKumar_ApplicationFactories.zip David I's interview with eWeek: http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Application-Development/ CodeGear-Pushes-Java-to-Real-World/ Jim Douglas (CodeGear CEO) eWeek interview: http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Application-Development/ CodeGear-A-Year-After-the-Borland-Spinout/ 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]