Java Posse #085 - Newscast for September 26th 2006

Newscast for September 26th 2006 Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.com Bill Pugh joins us half way through this podcast to talk about his new JSR 305 - Annotations for Software Defect Detection

• Sun has a new JSR - 306 - which aims to overhaul the JCP!
  • http://www.cafeaulait.org/ #September_21_2006_53162
  • http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=306

• NetBeans Roundup
  • http://java.sun.com/developer/ technicalArticles/tools/bluej/
  • http://developer.sonyericsson.com/site/global/ newsandevents/latestnews/newssept06/ p_getstarted_ondevice_debugging_netbeans_tutorial.jsp
  • http://www.netbeans.org/community/ articles/nug-munich.html
  • http://blogs.sun.com/lukas/entry/ milestone_3_for_netbeans_6
  • http://blogs.sun.com/roumen/entry/ verifying_compliance_of_java_ee
  • Several articles about the Netbeans RCP
    • http://www.artima.com/lejava/articles/ netbeans_platform.html
    • http://cld.blog-city.com/tim_boudreau_on_netbeans_ rich_client_platform_presentation_i.htm
    • http://blogs.sun.com/geertjan/entry/ eclipse_platform_vs_netbeans_platform
  • Using the Aspect J plugin for netbeans - http://jroller.com/page/ramlog? entry=using_the_aspectj_plug_in
  • The JOnAS open source application now works with Netbeans - http://jonas.objectweb.org/index.html

• SWTSwing 3.2 beta has been released
  • http://swtswing.sourceforge.net/main/index.html
  • http://www.javalobby.org/java/forums/t78501.html
  • http://swingwt.sourceforge.net/

• Major ZOPE Content Management System CPS being ported to Java EE
  • http://www.theserverside.com/news/ thread.tss?thread_id=42351

• Mobile app of the week (at least for the US) - GIST UGuide
  • http://www.uguidetv.com/

• Applet(s) of the week - JGame example applets
  • http://www.13thmonkey.org/~boris/ jgame/games.html
  • http://easyway.sourceforge.net/
  • http://javacooperation.gmxhome.de/ TutorialStartEng.html

Quick News Items

• Motorola has submitted JSR 307 - Network Mobility and Mobile Data API to the JCP
  • http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=307

• JNI Easy from innowhere has added Linux support to their easy JNI creation library
  • http://www.innowhere.com:8080/webapp/jsp/ products/jnieasy/index.jsp?_page=products.jnieasy

• Python 2.5 has been released
  • http://www.python.org/download/ releases/2.5/highlights/

• IBM Alphaworks has a short podcast available looking back over 10 years of alphaworks (happy birthday) and looking forward to the near future as well
  • http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/ podcast/dwi/cm-int091206.html

• Romain Guy has 4 bonus videos on his blog taken at JavaDay 2006 in Paris
  • http://jroller.com/page/gfx? entry=javaday_2006_as_bonus_a

• Sang Shin is running another of his popular Java EE programming with passion online courses starting on October 23rd 2006
  • http://www.javapassion.com/j2ee/

• IBM Developerworks has an article about using Groovy to reduce code noise that is common in Java
  • http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/ java/library/j-pg09196.html?ca=drs-

• We have a couple of links for Java SE 6 and what it means for the desktop
  • http://www.jroller.com/page/swingbling? entry=java_6_on_the_desktop
  • http://www.regdeveloper.co.uk/2006/ 09/22/jse_bling/

• Cafe Au Lait maintains a useful list of upcoming Java conferences and shows all around the world
  • http://www.cafeaulait.org/tradeshows.xml

• Arpit Agarwal asks a question over at JavaLobby that we get asked a fair amount on the posse - what are the differences between the Google Web Toolkit and the Echo 2 framework, and where should you use each
  • http://www.javalobby.org/java/ forums/t78515.html

Listener Feedback

• From the Java Enterprise Edition discussion - recommended resources:
  • http://java-source.net/open-source/web-frameworks
  • Head First books:
    • http://www.wickedlysmart.com/HeadFirst/ HeadFirstJava/HeadFirstJavaIndex.htm
    • http://www.wickedlysmart.com/HeadFirst/ HeadFirstServlets/HeadFirstJavaServlets.html
    • http://www.wickedlysmart.com/HeadFirst/ HeadFirstEJB/HeadFirstEJBIndex.htm
  • Bill Burke's book - Enterprise Javabeans 3.0
    • http://www.amazon.com/Enterprise-JavaBeans-3-0- Bill-Burke/dp/059600978X

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 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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