Java Posse #202 - Newscast for Aug 22nd 2008

Newcast for August 22nd, 2008 Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.com Sadly, Java does not run on the Mars Lander The Golden Gate Project http://research.sun.com/projects/goldengate/ Space surveillance radar http://www.sun.com/aboutsun/pr/2008-04/sunflash Google has released a new version of the Android SDK. 0.9 Beta http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2008/08/ announcing-beta-release-of-android-sdk.html http://code.google.com/android/documentation.html A different angle on the checked vs unchecked exceptions debate http://weblogs.java.net/blog/timboudreau/archive/ 2008/08/semichecked_exc.html A Polish security researcher claims to have found numerous bugs and security exploits in the Nokia Series 40 Java ME implementation http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/08/11/ Researcher_reveals_critical_Java_bugs_in_Nokia_phones_1.html http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/08/21/series_40_security/ Return type differentiated method overloading - it's possible, but is it a good idea? http://today.java.net/pub/a/today/2008/07/31/ return-type-based-method-overloading.html Caoyuan Deng has released a beta of the new Scala plugin for use with the Netbeans 6.5 beta http://wiki.netbeans.org/Scala Applet of the week - Nodiatis http://www.nodiatis.com/ Quick News SDN ask the experts panel about JavaFX http://java.sun.com/developer/community/askxprt/ sessions/2008/jl0818.jsp DevX has an article about an often overlooked feature of Java SE 6 - Doclets http://www.devx.com/Java/Article/38719 Hibernate 3.3 has been released http://www.infoq.com/news/2008/08/hibernate-33 The proposed final draft is now available for JSR 311 - JAX-RS (Java API for XML, ReSTful web Services) http://jcp.org/aboutJava/communityprocess/ pfd/jsr311/index.html http://blogs.sun.com/sandoz/entry/ integrating_jersey_and_spring_take1 Stripees 1.5 has been released http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss? thread_id=50391 http://stripesframework.org/display/stripes/Download Mike Van Riper, JUG leader of the Silicon Valley Web JUG http://weblogs.java.net/blog/van_riper/archive/ 2008/08/using_the_googl.html Facelets JSF 2.0 branch has now been merged into the Mojarra (JSF) repository http://weblogs.java.net/blog/edburns/archive/ 2008/08/facelets_jsf_20.html Sun has released the Lightweight UI Toolkit (LWUIT) http://lwuit.blogspot.com/2008/08/lwuit-open- source-today-plus-great-new.html http://weblogs.java.net/blog/terrencebarr/archive/ 2008/08/comparing_lwuit.html http://today.java.net/pub/a/today/2008/08/14/ introduction-to-lwuit.html The Simple project has release Simple 4.0 http://www.simpleframework.org/ JBoss' Sacha Labourey has an interview over at DZone about the upcoming release of JBoss App Server 5.0 http://eclipse.dzone.com/videos/ tech-chat-sacha-labourey-jboss http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss? thread_id=50422 MyEclipse has a new release, v7.0 milestone 1 http://eclipse.dzone.com/announcements/ myeclipse-now-ganymede Massive adoption of EJB 3 in Germany http://www.adam-bien.com/roller/abien/ entry/ejb_3_dead_or_alive Manor 'n Rock JSF paypal components http://weblogs.java.net/blog/mriem/archive/ 2008/08/manor_n_rock_js_1.html http://www.manorrock.com/products/jsf/index.html BEA workshop now free (with registration) http://eclipse.dzone.com/articles/ the-best-jspstrutsjsf-developm The proposed final draft for JSR 290 - Java Language and XML User Interface Integration integration has been posted by Sun http://jcp.org/aboutJava/communityprocess/ pfd/jsr290/index.html Edgar Silver has created a JBoss User Group in Brazil http://jbossbrasil.ning.com/ Elastica is a new Rules based load balancer for JBoss http://sourceforge.net/projects/elastica/ A new article on the NetBeans wiki covers best practices of using JPA (the Java Persistence API) with JSR 295 beans binding http://wiki.netbeans.org/BestPractices WithJPAAndBeansBinding Tim Boudreau asks "where is the state" http://weblogs.java.net/blog/timboudreau/archive/ 2008/08/wheres_the_stat.html Sun has hired a leading OSGi expert, Richard Hall, to work on the GlassFish project http://www.osgi.org/blog/2008/08/ sun-hires-richard-hall.html http://blogs.sun.com/theaquarium/entry/ webinar_intro_and_overview_of The Projectivity project has released Projectivity 3.0 http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss? thread_id=50345 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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