Java Posse #196 - Newscast for July 14th 2008

Newscast for July 14th 2008 Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.com Dick's (and Joe's) company - Navigenics http://www.navigenics.com/ Do we need a thread safe swing? http://www.kaijaeger.com/java-swing-is-not-thread-safe.html http://weblogs.java.net/blog/kgh/archive/ 2004/10/multithreaded_t.html When it comes to RIAs, have Google and Apple backed the right, or wrong, horse? http://weblogs.java.net/blog/editors/archives/ 2008/07/wicked_game.html http://weblogs.java.net/blog/editors/archives/ 2008/06/this_town_aint.html http://weblogs.java.net/blog/editors/archives/ 2008/07/all_you_ever_wa_1.html http://www.infoq.com/news/2008/07/vote-for-browsers http://280slides.com Java on Linux - still losing the popularity war? http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/06/26/1630250 http://weblogs.java.net/blog/editors/archives/ 2008/07/you_owe_me_some.html http://weblog.infoworld.com/fatalexception/archives/ 2008/06/java_is_free_at.html http://weblogs.java.net/blog/robogeek/archive/ 2008/07/free_java_is_no.html Quick News The dates for this year's Silicon Valley Code Camp have been set by Mike Van Riper and Kevin Nilson http://weblogs.java.net/blog/van_riper/archive/ 2008/07/call_for_speake_1.html Mojarra has released an early draft review implementation of JSF (Java Server Faces) 2.0, also known as JSR 314 http://blogs.sun.com/theaquarium/entry/jsf_2_0_edr And Sun has a collection of introductory articles for features in the new draft version, written by Ryan Lubke of the Mojarra team http://blogs.sun.com/theaquarium/entry/jsf_2_0_preview_series2 Canoo software has released a new version of its Ultra-light Client (ULC) http://eclipse.dzone.com/announcements/ web-apps-easier-and-faster-wit James Ervin has written up his notes from the recent Eclipse day held at Google http://eclipse.dzone.com/news/notes-eclipse-day-googleplex The iScreen project has releases iScreen version 2.0.0 http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?thread_id=49903 The first release candidate of Loom 1.0 is also available now http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?thread_id=49905 Chris Adamson has put out a plea for a decent filesystem API to be included in Java 7 http://weblogs.java.net/blog/editors/archives/ 2008/07/please.html http://today.java.net/pub/a/today/2008/07/03/ jsr-203-new-file-apis.html Remi Forax notes that the BGGA closure implementation source code is now available http://weblogs.java.net/blog/forax/archive/ 2008/07/source_of_bgga_1.html http://weblogs.java.net/blog/forax/archive/ 2008/07/alternative_syn.html Retrotranslator 1.2.7 has been released, and now offers support for the Java 5 memory model http://www.theserverside.com/news/ thread.tss?thread_id=49847 JBoss.org has an update on the status of JBoss Application Server version 5.0 http://www.jboss.org/feeds/post/jboss_as_5_0_status The server side and related sites did a survey of BEA customers http://www.theserverside.com/news/ thread.tss?thread_id=49913 Apache has released the first version of Apache Sling http://www.theserverside.com/news/ thread.tss?thread_id=49864 Google has open sourced their Protocol Buffers technology http://google-opensource.blogspot.com/2008/07/ protocol-buffers-googles-data.html Super-quick NetBeans roundup http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/NewsItemView? newsItemID=1256 http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/07/08/ Python-backing-eyed-for-NetBeans_1.html http://blogs.sun.com/nbprofiler/entry/ netbeans_ide_6_5_milestone Java 6 Update 10, the new Consumer JRE and faster, lighter plugin, has hit one million downloads! http://forums.java.net/jive/thread.jspa? messageID=284824&tstart=0#284824 The first Commodore 64 LAN party http://games.slashdot.org/games/08/07/06/2114221.shtml Sun has posted a maintenance release of JSR 252 - JavaServer Faces 1.2 http://jcp.org/aboutJava/communityprocess/ mrel/jsr252/index2.html A recent Google tech talk on Kilim has been released on YouTube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37NaHRE0Sqw http://kilim.malhar.net The first public review draft of JSR 300 - DRM API for Java ME http://jcp.org/aboutJava/communityprocess/ pr/jsr300/index.html Danesh Zaki has released TumbleJ, a Tumblr API for Java applications http://www.daneshzaki.com/post/38636047/tumblej Mylyn now at version 3.0 http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?thread_id=49859 Nuxeo have released the first version of their web engine http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?thread_id=50020 The OpenDS project has released version 1.0.0 of OpenDS http://www.opends.org/ Ahmadsoft has released ropes for Java http://ahmadsoft.org/ropes/ WS02 has released version 1.7 of what it calls the fastest open source ESB in the world http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?thread_id=49834 And finally, while you are waiting for the new video codecs for Java, another alternative might be jFlashPlayer http://www.engineeringserver.com/blog/2008/06/01/ jflashplayer-embed-flash-videos-in-your-application/ 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. 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