Java Posse #192 - Newscast for June 12th 2008

Newscast for June 12th 2008Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.comPOSSE 200th EPISODE COMINGWe are currently trying to guage interest in a live performance and potentially an unconference for the 200th episode, which will fall around the 18th or 19th of July. While we don't have a firm announcement yet, we want to make sure there is sufficient interest before going much further.Please sign up using the Sign Up Form athttp://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?key=pgqVaAkuhVIOa_ZsoKUqMPQBay Area Scala Enthusiasts (BASE)http://groups.google.com/group/scala-base Dick in Mexico and Brazil... 23rd and 27th, if you would like to try and meet up, please send an email to[email protected]

• WWDC Update
• http://apple.com/quicktime/qtv/wwdc08/

• Weiqi Gao pointed us at a blog describing the "wall of erasure"
• http://viewfromthefringe.blogspot.com/2007/11/java-5-iterator-adapters.html
• http://www.weiqigao.com/blog/2007/11/04/the_wall_of_erasure.html

• Android demo from the recent Google I/O conference
• http://www.talkandroid.com/102-google-io-android-video/

• EJB 3.0 Dependency Injection
• http://refcardz.dzone.com/refcardz/dependency-injection-in-ejb3?oid=hom3086
• http://www.amazon.com/Google-Guice-Lightweight-Dependency-Firstpress/dp/1590599977/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1213246931&sr=8-1

• JWebPane Component
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/ixmal/archive/2008/05/introducing_jwe.html

• Applet of the Week: Galaxy crash
• http://burro.astr.cwru.edu/JavaLab/GalCrashWeb/main.html

• Java Website of the Week: Linked In
• http://www.breakitdownblog.com/linkedin-is-written-in-99-java/
• http://www.linkedin.com/
• http://www.slideshare.net/glaforge/grails-at-linkedin-455651

Quick News

• JavaRa cleans up old versions of Java
• http://prm753.bchea.org/JavaRa.html

• The Gnu classpath project has released version 1.7 of icedtea
• http://icedtea.classpath.org/wiki/Main_Page

• JRuby 1.1.2 has been released
• http://blogs.sun.com/theaquarium/entry/jruby_1_1_2_released

• The JavaOne technical sessions and hands on labs are now available over at SDN
• http://developers.sun.com/learning/javaoneonline/j1online.jsp?track=coolstuff&yr=2008

• Runescape has begun a makeover of its graphics, including better textures
• http://www.runescape.com/kbase/view.ws?guid=dev_diary08a

• Kevin Bourrillion (2 r's, 2 l's) has released a new 0.7 version of the Google collection library
• http://code.google.com/p/google-collections/

• The BBC is using PHP/Zend and Java
• http://phpimpact.wordpress.com/2008/06/02/bbc-new-infrastructure-java-and-php/

• Kirill Grouchnikov's has recently added interviews with Andres Almiray and Chet Haase to his blog
• http://www.pushing-pixels.org/

• An early access review of JSF 2.0 (JSR 314) is now available
• http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=314
• http://jcp.org/aboutJava/communityprocess/edr/jsr314/

• JSR 311 - JAX-RS (Java API for XML ReSTful web Services) has just passed the public review ballot unanimously
• http://blogs.sun.com/theaquarium/entry/jax_rs_passes_public_review

• Java 6 u10 has a new crossdomain xml file that is good for web mashups
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/joshy/archive/2008/05/java_doodle_cro.html

• A new pair of articles at dzone talk about building multi-core ready Java applications
• http://architects.dzone.com/news/building-multi-core-ready-java

• Second Life for Java ME
• http://mobigasmic.blogspot.com/2008/06/vollee-secondlife-for-phones-first.html
• http://vollee.com/secondlife

• LookupJava gathers together lots of links to Java tutorials, multimedia, etc.
• http://lookupjava.googlepages.com/

• Trolltech, makers of the QT UI framework, have released version 4.4 of QT Jambi
• http://trolltech.com/company/newsroom/announcements/press.2008-06-05.8292370812

• Can Java on the Palm platform be resuscitated?
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/terrencebarr/archive/2008/06/bringing_java_b.html

• Book Mentions
• Your Brain - the Missing Manual
• http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596517786/
• What's your poo telling you?
• http://www.drstool.com/

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, 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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