Java Posse #148 - Silicon Valley Code Camp Special

Java Posse Episode 148 - Special from the Silicon Valley Code Camp Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.com Thanks to the Silicon Valley Code Camp guys - Peter Kellner for organizing the whole thing, and Mike Van Riper for inviting us

• Mac OS 10.5 Leopard ships, but without Java 6
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/robogeek/archive/ 2007/06/java_on_os_x_it.html
• http://www.damnhandy.com/2007/06/13/ java-on-mac-os-x-leopard-to-be- 64-bit-resolution-independent/
• http://www.cafeaulait.org/#October_25_2007_33323
• http://www.cio.com/article/149200/ Leopard_and_Java_What_s_Up_with_That_

• Mozilla getting into the RIA game with Prism
• http://labs.mozilla.com/2007/10/prism/
• http://wiki.mozilla.org/WebRunner
• http://www.mozilla.org/projects/xul/
• http://www.faser.net/mab/
• http://lifehacker.com/software/featured-download/ access-webapps-in-a-distraction+ free-browser-with-webrunner-306444.php

• Java ME - the rumors of my demise have been greatly exaggerated
• http://www.news.com/8301-13580_3-9800679-39.html
• http://blogs.sun.com/jag/entry/javame_is_not_dead
• http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/10/23/javafx_mobile/

• Java Development tool of the week - Crap4J
• http://www.crap4j.org/

• JSR of the week: 298 - Telematics API
• http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=298

• Library of the week: The Google Collections Library
• http://www.javalobby.org/articles/google-collections
• http://code.google.com/p/google-collections/

Quick News Items

• The JSR 311 group has released an early draft review of JAX-RS - the Java API for ReSTful services
• http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=311

• JSR 299 - Web Beans - now has an early draft review up
• http://www.theserverside.com/news/ thread.tss?thread_id=47307

• And speaking of Guice, The Server Side notes that Crazy Bob has a tech talk up discussing the dependency injection, its uses, and the reasons for writing it
• http://www.theserverside.com/news/ thread.tss?thread_id=47317

• We mentioned seeing this library at the recent Sun Java FX client event in San Francisco when Chet Haase demoed it to us, but the transitions library is now available for you to download and use in your own applications
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/chet/archive/ 2007/10/move_it.html

• Paypal CEO chases Runescape gold
• http://www.mcvuk.com/news/28669/ Former-PayPal-CEO-heads-to-RuneScape

• Sun has release version 1.4.1 of JavaMail
• http://java.sun.com/products/javamail/

• Chris Adamson notes on the Editor's Daily Blog that there seems to be a Swing Renaissance taking place right now
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/editors/archives/ 2007/10/when_we_was_fab.html

• The Gnu Project has release version 0.96 of Gnu Classpath
• http://www.gnu.org/software/classpath/ announce/20071015.html

• Ericsson has submitted JSR 319 - Availability Management for Java
• http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=319

• Friend to the Posse and fellow Java (albeit NetBeans-centric) podcaster Roman Strobl is the latest interviewee on NetBeans.tv
• http://www.netbeans.tv/interviews/Ed-Ort- Interviews-NetBeans-Evangelist-Roman-Strobl-209/

• NetBeans 6.0 Beta 2 is now available
• http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ NewsItemView?newsItemID=1137
• http://javafx.netbeans.org/servlets/ NewsItemView?newsItemID=1138

• IBM's Websphere application server community edition (based on Apache Geronimo) has just reached version 2.0 and now offers full support for EE 5
• http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/downloads/ ws/wasce/learn.html?S_TACT=105AGX59&S_CMP =DLDTA-c4c-dta&ca=dgr-c4c-dta-btw01wbsrapp2

• Clover 2 details
• http://www.infoq.com/news/2007/10/clover2

• Google now has a Java API for their Translate service
• http://code.google.com/p/google-api-translate-java/

• Continuing its incredible return to vibrancy, the Jython project has just released version 2.2.1
• http://fwierzbicki.blogspot.com/2007/10/ jython-221-released.html

Thanks

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• Feedburner.com - http://www.feedburner.com - for feed redirect
• 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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