Java Posse #214 - Newscast for Oct 31st 2008

Newscast for October 31st 2008 Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.com Part 1 - we talked so long about the main news items we decided to do the quick news and listener feedback as a follow up podcast later in the week. NetBeans 6.5 release candidate 2 is out http://www.netbeans.org/community/releases/65/ http://wiki.netbeans.org/NewAndNoteWorthy http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/NewsItemView?newsItemID=1304 Alex Miller over at JavaLobby has a couple of articles looking ahead to JSR 203 - NIO 2 http://java.dzone.com/articles/some-jsr-203-examples http://java.dzone.com/articles/some-more-jsr203-examples http://homepages.borland.com/bstone/opentools/doc/ref/OpenToolsAPI/ com/borland/primetime/vfs/package-frame.html http://today.java.net/pub/a/today/2008/07/03/jsr-203-new-file-apis.html An interesting discussion and poll over at Java.net pits SOAP vs. ReST http://weblogs.java.net/blog/editors/archives/2008/10/this_aint_a_sce.html http://www.java.net/pub/pq/231 http://weblogs.java.net/blog/cayhorstmann/archive/2008/10/restless_about.html Application of the week - Thinkfree Office Netbook Edition http://product.thinkfree.com/mobile/netbook http://www.thinkfree.com/views/jsp/user/etc/netbook_survey.jsp Project of the week: jLab https://jlab.dev.java.net/ And, Mobile application of the week: GMail 2.0, now with offline features http://googlemobile.blogspot.com/2008/10/introducing-gmail-for-mobile-20.html http://m.google.com/mail Bonus mobile application of the week: BooksInMyPhone http://www.booksinmyphone.com/index.php 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] The Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall