Java Posse #188 - Newscast for May 22nd 2008

Newscast for May 22nd 2008 Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.com JavaOne wrapup http://www.pushing-pixels.org/?p=312 http://weblogs.java.net/blog/editors/archives/ 2008/05/a_beautiful_mes.html http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss? thread_id=49332 http://weblogs.java.net/blog/arungupta/archive/ 2008/05/take_11_picture.html http://weblogs.java.net/blog/johnsmart/archive/ 2008/05/javaone_2008_ge.html http://today.java.net/pub/a/today/2008/05/08/ javamobility-podcast45.html http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss? thread_id=49343 http://rossmason.blogspot.com/2008/04/ java-cloud-has-sun-dropped-ball.html http://jacekfurmankiewicz.blogspot.com/2008/05/ java-to-get-new-webkit-based-browser.html One of the stories we overlooked from JavaOne was that the JCP annual award winners were announced Member of the Year Apache Software Foundation (ASF) Participant of the Year Patrick Curran Most Outstanding Spec Lead for Java SE/EE Stefan Hepper for JSR 286, Portlet Specification 2.0 Most Innovative JSR for Java SE/EE JSR 294, Improved Modularity Support in the Java Programming Language Most Outstanding Spec Lead for Java ME Jaana Majakangas for JSR 293, Location API 2.0 Most Innovative JSR for Java ME JSR 290, Java Language and XML User Interface Markup Integration Congratulations to the winners http://www.jcp.org/en/press/news/ 2008JCPawardwinnersPR Does our support of Scala as an emerging force on the JVM mean that we believe Java is dead? http://scala-lang.org We held the first Scala users group last week at Google http://groups.google.com/group/scala-base Correction to our Twitter and Ruby on Rails story in Episode 186 http://www.betanews.com/article /Twitter_cofounder_refutes_rumors_of_d... Quick News Items Build 24 of the consumer JRE (Java 6 update 10) was released yesterday http://blogs.sun.com/SDNProgramNews/ entry/java_se_6u10_build_24 News from the Scala Lift Off - JavaRebel donating licenses for use on Scala for a year http://www.theserverside.com/news/ thread.tss?thread_id=49443 Chris Adamson has started putting out the minitalks from the Community Corner at JavaOne as podcasts http://today.java.net/pub/ct/javaonecommunitycorner http://feeds.feedburner.com/javanetJavaOnePodcasts The technical session on NNIO (JSR 203 - more new IO) on youtube http://youtube.com/watch?v=yNRS1ssLPdQ&fmt=18 Apache has release Barcode4J 2.0 - a barcode generator for Java http://barcode4j.sourceforge.net/ Vivek Pandey blogs about getting Scala and Lift working on Glassfish v3 http://weblogs.java.net/blog/vivekp/archive/ 2008/05/scala_lift_web.html Morph has Java running on Amazon's EC2 (Elastic compute cloud) and S3 (Simple storage system) http://www.mor.ph/java/ http://weblog.infoworld.com/stratdev/archives/ 2008/05/rails_and_now_j.html And another new stack is available for Amazon EC2 that brings OpenSolaris, Glassfish and MySQL to the party http://blogs.sun.com/jonathan/entry/ opensolaris_amazon_mysql_and_glassfish The Woodstock project has released version 4.2 https://woodstock.dev.java.net/index.html Google is hosting an Eclipse day, at the Googleplex in Mountain View, on Tuesday June 24th http://wiki.eclipse.org/EclipseDay_At_Googleplex Livescribe pen video at zdnet that shows some of its capabilities http://news.zdnet.com/2422-13568_22-201252.html? tag=nl.e622 http://cld.blog-city.com/javaone_2008__ the_killerapp__a_java_pen.htm Continuing the integration work with OSGi, glassfish now has a Grizzly OSGi bundle available http://weblogs.java.net/blog/jfarcand/archive/ 2008/05/grizzlys_osgi_b_1.html Is JRockit a casualty of the Oracle/BEA deal? http://dev2dev.bea.com/jrockit/versions.html#x6 Google has posted the second milestone of GWT 1.5 http://www.cafeaulait.org/#May_2_2008_71595 Jean Francois Arcand blogs about getting a GWT application working with Grizzly and Comet http://weblogs.java.net/blog/jfarcand/archive/ 2008/05/building_gwt_co.html NASA WorldWind Java demos http://worldwind.arc.nasa.gov/java/ demos/index.html JSR News. Sun has posted the early draft review of JSR 317 - JPA (Java Persistence API) 2.0 http://jcp.org/aboutJava/communityprocess/ edr/jsr317/ http://weblogs.java.net/blog/davidvc/archive/ 2007/05/javaone_session.html JSR 315 - Servlet 3.0, is also in early draft review from Sun http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=315 Nokia and Vodafone have posted the early draft review for JSR 249 - Mobile Service Architecture 2 http://www.cafeaulait.org/#May_9_2008_76397 Sun has posted an early draft review of JSR 292 - supporting dynamically typed languages on the Java platform http://www.cafeaulait.org/#May_20_2008_65364 And another public review draft, from Sun, for JSR 311 - JAX-RS (Java API for ReSTful Web Services) http://jcp.org/aboutJava/communityprocess/ pr/jsr311/index.html JGAP 3.3.3 has been released. JGAP is a Genetic Algorithms library for Java http://www.theserverside.com/news/ thread.tss?thread_id=49336 http://jgap.sourceforge.net/ The PortalPack 2.0 for NetBeans has now also been released http://portalpack.netbeans.org/servlets/ NewsItemView?newsItemID=1233 The aquarium has a collection of links to get you started with the EJB 3.1 plugin for Glassfish v3 http://blogs.sun.com/theaquarium/ entry/taking_ejb_3_1_for 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]