Java Posse #138 - Newscast for August 16th and Glassfish Interview

Newscast for August 16th 2007 and Glassfish Interview Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.com

• SCO end game unrolling
• http://slashdot.org/articles/07/08/13/208231.shtml
• http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/08/10/2148253&from=rss

• JSR 291 (Dynamic Component Support for Java SE) has released it's final version
• http://www.jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=291
• http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=277
• And talking of the public spectacle between 277 and 291, apparently JSR 316 (Java EE 6) has stirred up the debate again
• http://www.infoq.com/news/2007/08/osgi-jsr277-debate

• Mobile app of the week: J2MEdit
• http://www.j2medit.com

• Library of the week - Flosc
• http://www.benchun.net/flosc/

Quick News Items

• IntelliJ IDEA has reached version 7 milestone 2
• http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?thread_id=46560

• Oracle has released Coherence 3.3
• http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?thread_id=46552

• TheServerside.com has a podcast interview with Rod Johnson from Interface 21 about Spring 2.0, and the upcoming Java EE 6 JSR which Rod recently joined as an expert group member
• http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?thread_id=46537

• Codegear - formerly the developer tools division of Borland, has released JGear, a suite of plugins for the eclipse platform that enhance eclipses functionality in the areas of Java application performance, visual development and team collaboration
• http://www.codegear.com/products/jgear/
• http://www.eclipsezone.com/eclipse/forums/t100093.rhtml

• Sun has a new program to make it easier for open source Java projects to access the Java TCK (Technology Compatibility Kit)
• http://www.zdnetasia.com/news/software/0,39044164,62030656,00.htm

• The glassfish project has created a JSP (JavaServer Pages) subproject to add to its list of subprojects like JSF, Grizzly, JAXB/JAX-WS and so forth
• http://blogs.sun.com/theaquarium/entry/new_glassfish_subprojects_for_jsp

• Google has added StarOffice and the JRE to its Google Pack offering for windows
• http://pack.google.com/intl/en/pack_installer.html?hl=en&gl=us

• Forget LAMP, check out JAMP
• http://www.alexatnet.com/node/47

• Addison Wesley Eclipse WTP book available
• http://www.eclipsewtp.org/

• What's new in NetBeans Mobility Pack 6.0?
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/brunogh/archive/2007/08/whats_coming_in.html

• The eclipse process framework 1.2.0 has been released
• http://www.eclipse.org/epf/downloads/tool/epf1.2.0_downloads.php

• Apache has released version 1.2.24 of the Apache Tomcat connectors
• http://tomcat.apache.org/connectors-doc/

Glassfish InterviewWith Eduardo Pelegri-Llopart and Jerome Dochez from the Glassfish project

• Glassfish home page
• https://glassfish.dev.java.net/
• RC1 (current as of podcast - look for newer versions!)
• https://glassfish.dev.java.net/downloads/v2-b58.html
• v3 Preview (the bleeding edge)
• https://glassfish.dev.java.net/downloads/v3-techPreview-1.html
• Eduardo Pelegri-Llopart's blog
• http://blogs.sun.com/pelegri/
• Jerome Dochez's blog
• http://blogs.sun.com/dochez/
• JSR 316 (Java EE 6)
• http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=316
• JSR 317 (Java Persistence API 2.0)
• http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=317
• JSR 318 (Enterprise Java Beans 3.1)
• http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=318

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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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