Java Posse #081 - Newscast for September 12th 2006

Newscast for September 12th 2006 Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.com

• Big news this week - Sun has hired the two primary developers behind JRuby, Charles Nutter and Thomas Enebo
  • http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/ 2006/09/07/JRuby-guys
  • http://headius.blogspot.com/
  • http://jooto.com/blog/index.php/2006/09/09/ java-and-ruby-match-made-in-heaven/
  • http://www.itvidya.com/sun_embraces_ruby

• Java 6 ship date slips
  • http://blogs.sun.com/mr/entry/ java_se_6_schedule_update
  • http://today.java.net/pub/n/4905

• Java Browser Edition - Ethan Nicholas has revealed what he has been up to since he got hired by Sun recently
  • http://weblogs.java.net/blog/enicholas/ archive/2006/09/java_browser_ed.html
  • http://www.artima.com/forums/flat.jsp? forum=276&thread=175370
  • http://www.oreillynet.com/onjava/blog/2006/09/ i_dont_care_how_big_the_jre_is.html? CMP=OTC-FP2116136014 &ATT=I+don+t+care+how+big+the+JRE+is

• A java preprocessor called Munge
  • http://weblogs.java.net/blog/tball/archive/ 2006/09/munge_swings_se.html
  • http://weblogs.java.net/blog/tball/archive/ munge/doc/Munge.html

• Beeweeb to bring enhanced media and content to the SavaJe phones
  • http://jdj.sys-con.com/read/261682.htm

• Mobile app of the week - Windrose - an add on to the recent app of the week: bluemarine
  • http://windrose.tidalwave.it/

• App of the week - LightZone
  • http://jroller.com/page/gfx? entry=lightzone_a_fantastic_java_app
  • http://www.lightcrafts.com/products/lightzone/

Quick News Items

• JDJ Editors Choice Awards for 2006:
  • http://java.sys-con.com/read/260074.htm

• Substance look and feel 3.0 released
  • http://weblogs.java.net/blog/kirillcool/archive/ 2006/09/substance_laf_3.html

• Airena, creators of the Airset online calendar, have released a J2ME application for using their calendar from a mobile phone
  • http://www.airset.com/AirSet.jsp#app.Home

• Greg Murray and Craig McClanahan, former posse interviewees, will be speaking at AJAXWorld 2006 about using AJAX with Java
  • http://jdj.sys-con.com/read/269249.htm
  • https://ajax.dev.java.net/usingFaces.html
  • https://ajax.dev.java.net/using.html

• Sun Java Studio Creator tutorial divas cover the use of JMaki JSF components in Java Studio Creator
  • http://blogs.sun.com/divas/entry/ using_the_dojo_combobox_in?feed=RSS

• IBM Java Tools Roundup. IBM has been busy releasing some interesting Java tools over the past few weeks
  • http://www.theserverside.com/news /thread.tss?thread_id=42081
  • http://www.alphaworks.ibm.com/tech/jca
  • http://www.alphaworks.ibm.com/tech/hamlets
  • http://www.alphaworks.ibm.com/tech/raven

• Substance look and feel hits version 3.0
  • https://substance.dev.java.net/
  • http://weblogs.java.net/blog/kirillcool/

• There are now downloadable versions of project looking glass for windows, solaris x86 and linux
  • https://lg3d.dev.java.net/lg3d-getting-started.html

• iScreen 1.0 is an open source project providing object validation for JavaBeans based on XML configuration files
  • http://i-screen.org/docs/index.html

• SDN article by Sameer Tyagi that details how to build RESTful services and consumers using JAX-WS
  • http://java.sun.com/developer/technicalArticles/ WebServices/restful/?feed=JSC

• Finally, DevX has a good, non-hysterical side by side comparison of Spring and EJB 3.0
  • http://www.devx.com/Java/Article/32314

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• Kirsty Doherty for Java Posse artwork
• Nick Trefz, the voice of TopCoder, for the voiceovers
• Brian Ehmann - the Java Posse intern
• 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 - A track written by Dick in Apple's Garageband

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