Java Posse #192 - Newscast for June 12th 2008

Newscast for June 12th 2008 Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.com POSSE 200th EPISODE COMING We are currently trying to guage interest in a live performance and potentially an unconference for the 200th episode, which will fall around the 18th or 19th of July. While we don't have a firm announcement yet, we want to make sure there is sufficient interest before going much further. Please sign up using the Sign Up Form at http://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?key=pgqVaAkuhVIOa_ZsoKUqMPQ Bay Area Scala Enthusiasts (BASE) http://groups.google.com/group/scala-base Dick in Mexico and Brazil... 23rd and 27th, if you would like to try and meet up, please send an email to [email protected] WWDC Update http://apple.com/quicktime/qtv/wwdc08/ Weiqi Gao pointed us at a blog describing the "wall of erasure" http://viewfromthefringe.blogspot.com/ 2007/11/java-5-iterator-adapters.html http://www.weiqigao.com/blog/2007/11/ 04/the_wall_of_erasure.html Android demo from the recent Google I/O conference http://www.talkandroid.com/102-google-io-android-video/ EJB 3.0 Dependency Injection http://refcardz.dzone.com/refcardz/ dependency-injection-in-ejb3?oid=hom3086 http://www.amazon.com/Google-Guice-Lightweight- Dependency-Firstpress/dp/1590599977/ref=sr_1_1? ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1213246931&sr=8-1 JWebPane Component http://weblogs.java.net/blog/ixmal/archive/ 2008/05/introducing_jwe.html Applet of the Week: Galaxy crash http://burro.astr.cwru.edu/JavaLab/ GalCrashWeb/main.html Java Website of the Week: Linked In http://www.breakitdownblog.com/ linkedin-is-written-in-99-java/ http://www.linkedin.com/ http://www.slideshare.net/glaforge/ grails-at-linkedin-455651 Quick News JavaRa cleans up old versions of Java http://prm753.bchea.org/JavaRa.html The Gnu classpath project has released version 1.7 of icedtea http://icedtea.classpath.org/wiki/Main_Page JRuby 1.1.2 has been released http://blogs.sun.com/theaquarium/entry/ jruby_1_1_2_released The JavaOne technical sessions and hands on labs are now available over at SDN http://developers.sun.com/learning/javaoneonline/ j1online.jsp?track=coolstuff&yr=2008 Runescape has begun a makeover of its graphics, including better textures http://www.runescape.com/kbase/view.ws? guid=dev_diary08a Kevin Bourrillion (2 r's, 2 l's) has released a new 0.7 version of the Google collection library http://code.google.com/p/google-collections/ The BBC is using PHP/Zend and Java http://phpimpact.wordpress.com/2008/06/02/ bbc-new-infrastructure-java-and-php/ Kirill Grouchnikov's has recently added interviews with Andres Almiray and Chet Haase to his blog http://www.pushing-pixels.org/ An early access review of JSF 2.0 (JSR 314) is now available http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=314 http://jcp.org/aboutJava/communityprocess/ edr/jsr314/ JSR 311 - JAX-RS (Java API for XML ReSTful web Services) has just passed the public review ballot unanimously http://blogs.sun.com/theaquarium/entry/ jax_rs_passes_public_review Java 6 u10 has a new crossdomain xml file that is good for web mashups http://weblogs.java.net/blog/joshy/archive/ 2008/05/java_doodle_cro.html A new pair of articles at dzone talk about building multi-core ready Java applications http://architects.dzone.com/news/ building-multi-core-ready-java Second Life for Java ME http://mobigasmic.blogspot.com/2008/06/ vollee-secondlife-for-phones-first.html http://vollee.com/secondlife LookupJava gathers together lots of links to Java tutorials, multimedia, etc. http://lookupjava.googlepages.com/ Trolltech, makers of the QT UI framework, have released version 4.4 of QT Jambi http://trolltech.com/company/newsroom/ announcements/press.2008-06-05.8292370812 Can Java on the Palm platform be resuscitated? http://weblogs.java.net/blog/terrencebarr/ archive/2008/06/bringing_java_b.html Book Mentions Your Brain - the Missing Manual http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596517786/ What's your poo telling you? http://www.drstool.com/ 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]