Java Posse #043 - Newscast for March 26th 2006

Shownotes for Episode 43 - Newscast for March 26th 2006 Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.com - Main News Items

• Spring and Hibernate at war?
• http://houseofhaug.net/blog/archives/2005/08/12/hibernate-hates-spring/
• More on the genuitec matisse inclusion in myeclipse
• http://www.eclipsezone.com/eclipse/forums/t66449.rhtml
• Also from eclipsecon - BEA Workshop won the best commercial tool award
• http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?thread_id=39558
• Radrails, the open source Ruby on Rails IDE based on eclipse, won the best open source eclipse based development tool award
• http://www.radrails.org/blog/show/56
• Eclipsecon home page
• http://www.eclipsecon.org/2006/Home.do
• Next years event is already set for March 5th - 8th in Santa Clara, CA
• Sun launches the utility grid, makes it available to open source java projects
• https://sungrid.dev.java.net/
• http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/jonathan? entry=the_network_is_the_computer
• http://www.network.com/
• also Dan Hushon has some hints for writing services to use the new utility grid
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/dhushon/archive/ 2006/03/running_service.html
• John Loiacono has left Sun for Adobe
• http://news.com.com/Suns+top+software+exec+leaves+for+Adobe/ 2100-1014_3-6050635.html
• .NET for the Mac (Linux to follow?)
• http://blogs.msdn.com/mharsh/archive/2006/03/23/559106.aspx
• http://news.com.com/2100-1016_3-6052021.html? part=rss&tag=6052021&subj=news
• How to become a rock star developer - top ten (according to Mikael Grev)
• http://www.javalobby.org/java/forums/t65399.html

In Short News Items

• Apple has just released the 7th beta of Java 5 update 4 for OS 10.4 (Tiger) at the apple developer connection
  • http://www.cafeaulait.org/#March_22_2006_29305
• Sun has released version 2 of their popular java web services developer pack
  • http://java.sun.com/webservices/jwsdp/index.jsp
• lamatek has a google maps jsp library that allows you to harness google maps in a java jsp application without having to write javascript and ajax code
  • http://www.lamatek.com/GoogleMaps/
• A load of flash demos available up at the netbeans site demonstrating all sorts of different things about netbeans 5.0
  • http://www.netbeans.org/kb/50/flash.html
• Sun has posted the proposed final draft review of JSR 231 - Java bindings for open gl
  • http://jcp.org/aboutJava/communityprocess/pfd/jsr231/index.html
• The Netbeans 5.5 preview pack has now added the mac to the list of supported platforms
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/marinasum/archive/2006/03/netbeans_enterp.html

Listener Feedback

• Romain Guy's "I Plead Guilty"
• http://www.javalobby.org/nl/archive/jlnews_20041019o.html

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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://www.loosebrucekerr.com
• Closing - Garageband track

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