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Java Posse #217 - Newscast for Nov 14th 2008

javaposse@gmail.com (Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll, Dick Wall) — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 15:45:00 -0800

Newscast for November 14th 2008

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Java Posse Roundup 2009 dates set, March 10th to 13th in Crested Butte, CO with alternative JVM language day on the 9th.
http://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=242122

What Happened to SwingX?

JetBrains has released IntelliJ IDEA 8.0

Scala roundup

Sun and Google break up, big time

Java Project of the Week: Mobile Millenium

http://traffic.berkeley.edu/

Java Library of the Week: Twitter4j

http://yusuke.homeip.net/twitter4j/en/index.html

Quick News

Atlassian has released a new version of Clover, the testing and code coverage tool

The schedule for the next mobile and embedded developer days conference has been announced

https://developerdays.dev.java.net/nonav/agenda.html

CommunityOne is adding an east coast CommunityOne to take place in New York on March 18th 2009

http://weblogs.java.net/blog/editors/archives/
2008/11/betcha_thought.html

Glassfish v3 Prelude has been released

A new version of JMaki is also available

http://weblogs.java.net/blog/carlavmott/archive/
2008/11/jmaki_181_and_g.html

Sun and IBM have teamed up to create an ODF toolkit

http://odftoolkit.openoffice.org/

MortBay Consulting has released Jetty 6.1.12

http://www.mortbay.org/jetty/index.html

The latest release of soapUI has added ReST support

http://www.eviware.com/

OpenTrends has released OpenFrame 2.0

Quokka an alternative to Maven?

http://quokka.ws/

The JSR 299 - Web beans specification, led by Gavin King of JBoss, is currently in public review

http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=299

The numbers are in for Sun's fiscal first quarter, and the news is as expected: bad

http://www.cafeaulait.org/#November_4_2008_66764
OpenEco still going ahead
https://www.openeco.org/
http://profiles.waroengdata.com/askpc-read-222/sun-microsystem-goes-green.html

JBoss Tools 3 Beta 1 has been released

G2One Inc., the company behind groovy and grails, has been acquired by SpringSource

http://www.springsource.com/g2one

The Roma framework has reached version 1.0.0

http://www.romaframework.org/advanced_technology.htm

Former Java Posse mobile application of the week: Opera Mini, has reached version 4.2

http://mobile.resalty.net/592/
operamini-42-beta-best-java-internet-browser/

Hyperic HQ 4.0 has been released

http://www.hyperic.com/launch/hqe-40-launch.html

Aspose words for Java has a new version

http://www.aspose.com/categories/file-format-components/
aspose.words-for-.net-and-java/default.aspx

Nokia has released the completed JSR 293 - Location API 2.0

http://jcp.org/aboutJava/communityprocess/pfd/jsr293/index.html

The election ballot for the Java Community Process is now open until November 17th

http://weblogs.java.net/blog/editors/archives/2008/11/move_along.html

ReSTlet 1.1.0 has been released

http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?thread_id=51625

The Apache project has released OpenEJB 3.1

JPPF, a grid computing platform for Java, has release version 1.6

http://www.jppf.org/

Jython 2.5 beta "0" is now out

http://fwierzbicki.blogspot.com/2008/10/jython-25-beta0-released.html

Stephen Colbourne has released JodaTime 1.6

http://joda-time.sourceforge.net/

The Java Data Pipeline has released version 2

http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?thread_id=51654

The early draft review for JSR 316 - Java EE 6 - is now up at the JCP

http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=316

The O'Reilly School of Technology has announced a Java certification program as an alternative to Sun's Java Certified program

http://press.oreilly.com/pub/pr/2151

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Java Posse #216 - Roundup 08 - Don't Repeat Yourself

javaposse@gmail.com (Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll, Dick Wall) — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 12:21:00 -0800

Roundup 08 - Don't Repeat Yourself

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Recorded at the Java Posse Roundup 2008 in Crested Butte, CO. This discussion covers topics like re-use vs. re-write, abandoned software projects, static and dynamic languages, project vibrancy, bugs and defects and lots more.

Abandoned open source projects

http://ask.slashdot.org/article.pl?
sid=00/08/02/0039217&mode=thread
SourceForge - http://sourceforge.net/
Java.net - http://java.net/
Google code - http://code.google.com/hosting/

Code scavenging in the enterprise

Google code search

http://www.google.com/codesearch

Do it right the second time?

http://www.amazon.com/Right-Second-
Time-Benchmarking-Practices/dp/1563271753

Larry Wall - Post Modern Programming

http://www.wall.org/~larry/pm.html

John Ousterhout on scripting and higher level programming

http://www.tcl.tk/doc/scripting.html

DRY - Don't Repeat Yourself

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don%27t_repeat_yourself

CPAN - Comprehensive Perl Archive Network

http://www.cpan.org/

Koders.com

http://koders.com/

POJO classes in Java EE 5

Static typing vs testing

Findbugs static analysis

http://findbugs.sourceforge.net/

Glazed Lists

http://publicobject.com/glazedlists/

Google Collections Library

http://code.google.com/p/google-collections/

Java Dynamic Proxies

The wall of typesafe erasure

Java reflection API

Scala traits

http://www.scala-lang.org/node/126

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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)

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Java Posse #215 - Quick News/Feedback for Nov 3rd 2008

javaposse@gmail.com (Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll, Dick Wall) — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 17:57:00 -0800

QuickNews and Feedback for November 3rd 2008

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Quick News

POI 3.1 has been released by the Apache Jakarta project

http://poi.apache.org/index.html

Josh Bloch has an interview at the Sun Developer Network about his new Effective Java book

http://java.sun.com/developer/technicalArticles/
Interviews/bloch_effective_08_qa.html

PalmSource has revealed its ALP 3.0 (Access Linux Platform)

A number of Eclipse demo camps are being held all over the world

http://wiki.eclipse.org/Eclipse_DemoCamps_November_2008

IBM Alphaworks has released version 2.7 of HeapAnalyzer

http://www.alphaworks.ibm.com/tech/heapanalyzer

Jonathan Schwartz has a video up on NetBeans.tv celebrating 10 years of NetBeans

http://netbeans.tv/interviews/Jonathan-Schwartz-on-NetBeans-409/

Another DZone refcard is available, this time covering getting started with MyEclipse

http://refcardz.dzone.com/refcardz/myeclipse

The final version of MVEL 2.0 is out

http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?thread_id=51495

The Apache Jakarta project has released Commons::Net 2.0

http://commons.apache.org/net/changes-report.html#a2.0

Support for a 64 bit Java plugin for Windows and Linux 64 bit operating systems has been pledged for early 2009 in the Java 6 update 12 release

http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=4802695

Ted Neward's Busy Java Developer's Guide to Scala continues with a 2 part examination of building a calculator in Scala

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/views/java/libraryview.jsp?
search_by=scala

JBoss has released version 2.0.0 General Access of JBoss AOP (Aspect Oriented Programming)

Seam 2.1.0 General Access has been released by JBoss

http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?thread_id=51382

JavaWorld has a nice introduction to ReST

John Ferguson Smart has a unique response to the current economic downturn: be more productive

http://weblogs.java.net/blog/johnsmart/archive/
2008/10/software_develo.html

ASM now has support for the InvokeDynamic byte code that John Rose recently completed a prototype for

MuleSource has release Mule 2.1 Enterprise and Mule Galaxy 1.5

The free Java Decompiler project (yes, that is the name) looks like a useful tool

http://java.decompiler.free.fr/

Java 5 and 6 - the improved math library

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/j-math1/
index.html?ca=dgr-btw01JavaPart1&
S_Tact=105AGX59&S_cmp=GRsitebtw01

Numiton has ported WordPress to Java

Linux Journal has a round up of Java audio software for Linux

http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/
java-sound-music-software-linux-part-3

Listener Feedback

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Library Search

http://www.springsource.com/ repository/app/faq

What about Traits?

http://sebastian-bergmann.de/ archives/
822-Of-Lambda- Functions,-Closures,-and- Traits.html

EasyMock and PowerMock

http://www.powermock.org

Mac Widgets for Java

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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)

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Java Posse #214 - Newscast for Oct 31st 2008

javaposse@gmail.com (Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll, Dick Wall) — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 21:36:00 -0700

Newscast for October 31st 2008

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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

Alex Miller over at JavaLobby has a couple of articles looking ahead to JSR 203 - NIO 2

An interesting discussion and poll over at Java.net pits SOAP vs. ReST

Application of the week - Thinkfree Office Netbook Edition

Project of the week: jLab

https://jlab.dev.java.net/

And, Mobile application of the week: GMail 2.0, now with offline features

Bonus mobile application of the week: BooksInMyPhone

http://www.booksinmyphone.com/index.php

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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)

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Java Posse #213 - Newscast for Oct 23rd 2008

javaposse@gmail.com (Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll, Dick Wall) — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 16:49:00 -0700

Newscast for Oct 23rd 2008

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The Android project has been released as open source, beating the rumored launch date for the source code by several months

http://source.android.com/

And, Gizmodo and ZDNet both offer in-depth reviews of the T-Mobile G1

Java 6 Update 10 final has been released by Sun

Adobe has release Flash 10 for all supported platforms, including a simultaneous release for Linux

http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flashplayer10/

Fabrizio Guidici is asking what scripting language people would like to see in BlueMarine

Mobile application of the week: Last.FM client

http://studenti.ing.unipi.it/~s252017/LastFMobile/

Quick News

Registration is now open for the next Mobile and Embedded Developer Days

https://developerdays.dev.java.net/nonav/overview.html

Thoughtworks has announced a new product, Twist, that aims to ease functional testing of web and Java applications

http://studios.thoughtworks.com/twist-agile-test-automation/

Mark Reinhold has written a "wouldn't it be cool" blog that mentions some "wishes"

http://blogs.sun.com/mr/entry/cool

The JCP Executive Committee Elections on the PriceWaterhouse Cooper JCP elections site

http://jcp.org/en/whatsnew/elections

John O'Connor blogs that Jersey, the JAX-RS reference implementation, has reached 1.0

http://weblogs.java.net/blog/joconner/archive/
2008/10/jaxrs_and_jerse.html

A new Microsoft excel to Java bridge, Obba

http://www.obba.info/

Barton George has left Sun after 13 years

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/10/07/
barton_george_quits_sun/

Mozilla has released Firefox 3.1 beta

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20081014-first-
look-firefox-3-1-beta-1-officially-released.html

In a couple of recent tips of the day, Arun Gupta has covered how to port a JSF (JavaServer Faces) 1.2 application up to 2.0

http://weblogs.java.net/blog/arungupta/archive/
2008/10/totd_48_convert.html

The JSR 277 (Java Module System) spec lead, Stanley Ho, is stepping down as spec lead and leaving Sun for RIM (Research in Motion)

At a recent Google Developer Day in Bangalore, Prasad Ram, director of Google R&D for Bangalore, stated that the Google AppEngine will support Java

NetBeans has just turned 10 years old

http://netbeans.tv/interviews/
James-Gosling-on-Ten-Years-of-NetBeans-395/

Vuze, formally known as Azureus, reaches version 4.0.0

http://www.vuze.com/app

The NetBeans wiki has a very simple introduction to creating your first JavaFX Applet

http://wiki.netbeans.org/JavaFXApplet

A new application toolkit, pivot, has been released

Jazoon has announced a call for papers for the 2009 conference

Sun Microsystems has announced a loss for the quarter

http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?thread_id=51294

Comcast in cooperation with Panasonic is now offering tru2way support in Chicago and Denver

http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/
Comcast-Panasonic-Offer-Tru2Way-Sets-98469

Oracle has released Oracle JDeveloper 11g and Oracle ADF 11g

http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?thread_id=51030

Ed Burns needs YOU for JSF 2.0

http://wiki.java.net/bin/view/Projects/JsfExtensionSurvey

Mono 2.0 has been released

http://www.mono-project.com/Release_Notes_Mono_2.0

Eclipse4SL brings silverlight tooling to Eclipse

http://www.eclipse4sl.org/

BlueJ has reached version 2.5

http://www.cafeaulait.org/#October_6_2008_23602

Christopher Brock has released version 2.0 Beta of MVEL - the MV Flex Expression Language

http://mvel.codehaus.org/

Rudie Ekkelenkamp has announced GRAG 1.0, the Grails Application Generator

http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?thread_id=50894

WebSynergy has added support for JSR 286 portlets to be written in Groovy in its portal pack 3.0

http://blogs.sun.com/theaquarium/entry/
groovy_portlet_support_and_websynergy

Foxtrot promises simple synchronous Swing programming without the GUI freeze problems

http://foxtrot.sourceforge.net/

Reza Rahman has just wrapped up a five part series about EJB 3.1 new features

http://www.theserverside.com/tt/articles/
article.tss?l=NewFeaturesinEJB31-Part5

RIM (Research in Motion) has announced the next version of its developer tools for the BlackBerry Storm

http://www.foxbusiness.com/story/markets/industries/technology/
rim-announces-new-developer-tools-blackberry-storm-
blackberry-bold-blackberry-1374778263/

Sun has released new binaries for JSR 203 - Java NIO version 2

http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=203

http://download.java.net/jdk7/jsr203/binaries/

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:
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The Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall