Java Posse #194 - Newscast for June 26th 2008

Newscast for June 26th 2008 Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.com Eclipse 3.4 - Ganymede - has been released http://www.eclipse.org/org/press-release/ 20080625_ganymede.php http://eclipse.dzone.com/articles/ eclipse-34-hidden-treasures https://swingexplorer.dev.java.net/ http://www.myeclipseide.com/ http://google-opensource.blogspot.com/ 2008/06/eclipseday-at-googleplex.html http://www.flickr.com/photos/mki/sets/ 72157605801373852/ Java Open Source news: IcedTea passes the TCK, fully open source OpenJDK by the end of the year http://robilad.livejournal.com/32380.html http://weblogs.java.net/blog/editors/ archives/2008/06/i_predict.html http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/ 0,1000000121,39437713,00.htm http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/ 0,1000000121,39438377,00.htm http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl? sid=08/06/23/034213&from=rss JSF to get its own conference - JSF One http://weblogs.java.net/blog/kito75/archive/ 2008/06/announcing_jsfo.html http://www.jsfone.com/show_register_acteva.jsp? showId=166 Lookout Scala, another candidate for the Java 3 mantle? Fan. http://www.jroller.com/scolebourne/ entry/the_fan_language_is_it http://www.fandev.org/ Java Application of the Week - Atunes http://www.atunes.org/ http://www.google.com/search?hl=en& q=java+requiem+itunes+drm&btnG=Search Java project of the week - JSqueak http://research.sun.com/projects/JSqueak/ Quick News Nokia is offering to buy out symbian and create a foundation to open source the Symbian OS http://www.symbianfoundation.org/ The Portlet Specification 2.0 (JSR 286) has been released http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=286 AND - JBoss has released version 2.0 of their portlet container http://www.theserverside.com/news/ thread.tss?thread_id=49710 Subversion 1.5 was release recently http://today.java.net/pub/a/today/ 2008/06/25/j1-2k8-mtT15.html Work has begun on Grizzly 2.0 http://blogs.sun.com/theaquarium/ entry/grizzly_2_0_started The apocalisp blog has a great technical article on using the concurrency library in Java 5+ effectively http://apocalisp.wordpress.com/2008/06/18/ parallel-strategies-and-the-callable-monad/ Sun has a new release of the Java CAPS (Composite Application Platform Suite) and Master Data Management suite http://www.sun.com/aboutsun/pr/ 2008-06/sunflash.20080609.1.xml Whither Quicktime for Java? http://lists.apple.com/archives/quicktime-java/ 2008/Jun/msg00018.html JavaWorld closures debate summary http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/ jw-06-2008/jw-06-closures.html?page=5 LinkMingle has a handy list of Java decompilers http://linkmingle.com/list/ List-of-Free-Java-Decompilers-java The release candidate for OpenDS 1.0 is available from Java.net https://opends.dev.java.net/ Oracle has released version 3.3 of the Berkeley DB Java Edition http://www.oracle.com/database/ berkeley-db/index.html Some of the rumors from WWDC seem to indicate that a Cocoa port of the Java SWT library for Mac OS X might be on the way, led by Adobe http://www.builderau.com.au/blogs/ codemonkeybusiness/viewblogpost.htm?p=339270988 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]