Java Posse Episode 2 - NewsCast for Sept 29 2005

Shownotes

• Sun has open-sourced it's JavaServer Faces implementation
  • https://javaserverfaces.dev.java.net/faq.html

• Microsoft teams up with JBoss?
  • http://today.java.net/pub/n/3397
  • http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2005/09/28/microsoft_jboss_together/
  • http://weblogs.java.net/blog/schaefa/archive/2005/09/jboss_entering.html

• Sun Microsystems starts open-source DRM initiative
  • http://weblogs.java.net/blog/jbob/archive/2005/08/open_media_comm.html
  • http://news.zdnet.co.uk/internet/0,39020369,39214331,00.htm
  • http://news.techwhack.com/1926/sun-microsystems-showcases-open-source-drm-project/
  • http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/08/22/1144204&from=rss

• The Oreilly Network's Java.com developer survey.
  • http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2005/09/21/onjava-2005-survey-results-1.html

• Borland releases JBuilder 2006
  • Borland Article

• Netbeans 4.2 now relabelled 5.0, and Beta is now available for download
  • http://weblogs.java.net/blog/editors/archives/2005/09/be_my_number_tw.html

We have had a lot of feedback requesting more information for Java beginners, and there is enough material here for a little beginners section of the news:

• Beginners IDE - BlueJ
  • http://www.bluej.org/
  • http://today.java.net/pub/a/today/2005/07/21/bluej.html
  • http://today.java.net/pub/a/today/2005/08/30/bluej.html
• Beginners guide to books on Java
  • http://blogs.tedneward.com/PermaLink,guid,624cf311-956e-4ac0-a381-c71666057db6.aspx
• Where to learn Java, a blog entry from Bobby Wolf, covers a number of good resources if you are starting out in the java world (or even if you simply want to keep up with what's going on - I read a lot of these suggested links myself)
  • Reading recommendations
• One more for beginners and experts alike: a site dedicated to Java Examples
  • http://www.indicthreads.com/news/290/java_examples.html
• Huge Javadoc index available for browsing
  • http://getahead.ltd.uk/doctree/

• Annotations are bad?
  • Annotations: Don't Mess with Java

• New Forum at Java.net: The Programming Profession
  • http://forums.java.net/jive/category.jspa?categoryID=9

• Linguine Maps ER-type visualization for Ant, XML DTD, Hibernate, OJB
  • http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?thread_id=36094

• Tapestry and JavaServer? Faces Face off article on The Server Side
  • http://www.theserverside.com/articles/article.tss?l=JSFTapestry

• Microsoft Whitehorse to compete with Java
  • http://news.zdnet.com/2100-3513_22-5163454.html

• The Java Posse would like to thank:
  • Chingon with Malaguena Salerosa from the Kill Bill 2 soundtrack for today's theme music
  • Libsyn.com for podcast hosting and bandwidth
  • Feedburner.com for feed redirection and stats
  • Kirsty Doherty for the Java Posse artwork
  • And all of you for listening