Java Posse #110 - Newscast for March 27th 2007

Newscast for March 27th 2007 Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.com

• Nimbus - new slick look and feel for Java
• https://nimbus.dev.java.net/
• http://www.curious-creature.org/2007/03/13/ nimbus-source-code-and-demo/

• Researchers at Oxford University have created an x86 emulator in Java
• http://www.physics.ox.ac.uk/jpc/
• http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl? sid=07/03/24/1840256&from=rss

• Hibernate gets Sharding, plus new Searching and Validation functionality
• http://www.theserverside.com/news/ thread.tss?thread_id=44735
• http://www.cbronline.com/article_news.asp? guid=CF519896-BA9F-41B3-8EF2-16733E4D53DD

• The Serverside Java symposium took place last week in Las Vegas
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/edort/archive/ 2007/03/notes_from_thes.html
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/edort/archive/ 2007/03/tool_you_cant_l.html
• https://jazz.net/pub/index.jsp
• http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss? thread_id=44750

• http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss? thread_id=44756

• http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss? thread_id=44758

• http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss? thread_id=44764

• Java (or rather Scala!) Library of the Week - Liftweb - like Rails for Scala
• http://code.google.com/p/liftweb/
• http://liftweb.net/

• Mobile app of the week - Telenav Navigator - Reviewed by Jackie
• http://www.telenav.com/

• Book recommendation: Java Generics and Collections by Maurice Naftalin and Philip Wadler - published by O'Reilly and Associates
• http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/javagenerics/

Quick News Items

• Registration for Glassfish Day 2007 is now open
• http://developers.sun.com/events/communityone/
• http://blogs.sun.com/theaquarium/ entry/glassfish_day_registration_is_now

• The future of glassfish - v3
• http://blogs.sun.com/theaquarium/ entry/first_glassfish_v3_screencast

• Phobos roundup
• http://blogs.sun.com/theaquarium/ entry/new_phobos_blog
• https://phobos.dev.java.net/about.html
• http://phobosblog.zakula.com/
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/robc/archive/ 2007/03/using_phobos_wi.html

• Does the glassfish project validate Jonathan Schwartz's new Open Source to drive Volume strategy as a good direction for Sun Microsystems?
• http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=976
• http://blogs.sun.com/theaquarium/ entry/glassfish_and_netbeans_google_trends
• http://blogs.sun.com/woodjr/entry/ sun_related_trends

• John Backus - the leader of the IBM team that created Fortran, the first widely used, higher level computer programming language, has died at the age of 82
• http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/19/obituaries/ 20cnd-backus.html?ex=1332043200&en= adde3ee5a1875330&ei=5124&partner=digg&exprod=digg

• Geertjan blogs about his new Groovy editor for NetBeans IDE
• http://blogs.sun.com/geertjan/entry/ we_ve_got_a_groovy
• http://groovy.codehaus.org/Eclipse+Plugin
• http://groovy.codehaus.org/Debugging+with+JSwat

• A new java.net project for running GWT in NetBeans has been started by Thomas Szlota and Tomas Zezula
• https://gwt4nb.dev.java.net/

• The 2007 Jolt award winners have been announced
• http://www.joltawards.com/2007/

• Chet Haase and Romain Guy's new book "Filthy Rich Clients" is now available for pre-order on Amazon.com
• http://www.amazon.com/Filthy-Rich-Clients- Developing-Applications/dp/0132413930/ ref=sr_1_1/102-9232409-6211363?ie=UTF8& s=books&qid=1174585147&sr=8-1

• Lukas Hasik has a set of new movies demonstrating the new SVG features in the NetBeans Mobility pack
• http://blogs.sun.com/lukas/entry/ videos_of_svg_support_in

• Google has released a new Picasa Web Albums API based on its GData APIs to allow access and upload to the picture data through the GData feeds
• http://code.google.com/apis/ picasaweb/overview.html

• Microsoft has given in to EU pressure and has opened up many of its file formats and protocols rather than face further fines
• http://politics.slashdot.org/article.pl? sid=07/03/21/0126206&from=rss
• http://reddevnews.com/news/devnews/ article.aspx?editorialsid=192

• Michael Urban over at Javalobby blogs about the new GTK look and feel for Java on linux
• http://www.javalobby.org/java/forums/t91191.html

• Not Java related, but very interesting, The register notes that new Biometric Passports in the UK with embedded RFID chips are able to be cloned en masse without even opening the envelope they are in
• http://www.theregister.com/2007/03/06/ daily_mail_passport_clone/

Listener Feedback Annotation

• http://docs.google.com/View?docid=dz384d8_18ckbtn4

Accessing Java through Perl

• http://articles.techrepublic.com.com/ 5100-3513-6161340.html
• http://search.cpan.org/~patl/ Inline-Java-0.51/Java.pod
• http://search.cpan.org/~rusekd/Java-Import-0.03/ lib/Java/Import.pm
• http://search.cpan.org/~philcrow/ Java-Swing-0.12/Swing.pm

Payments by Mobile Phone

• https://www.luup.com/home/user/gb.aspx

New Version of the Eclipse Scala Plugin

• http://www.scala-lang.org/downloads/eclipse/index.html

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  • 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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