Newscast for Feb 28th 2008Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.com Last episode before the Posse Roundup 2008, see you in Crested Buttehttp://www.mindviewinc.com/Conferences/JavaPosseRoundup/

• Sun has put up the session information for JavaOne 2008
• https://www28.cplan.com/cc191/sessions_catalog.jsp?ilc=191-1&ilg=english&isort=&isort_type=&is=yes&icriteria1=+&icriteria2=26835&icriteria9=&icriteria8=&icriteria3=

• Adobe has released AIR 1.0
• http://www.adobe.com/products/air/ 
• http://www.thestandard.com/news/2008/02/26/adobe-extending-flash-platform 
• http://opensource.adobe.com/wiki/display/flexsdk/Flex+SDK 
• http://opensource.adobe.com/wiki/display/blazeds/BlazeDS

• The FCM closures proposal now has an initial prototype
• http://www.jroller.com/scolebourne/entry/fcm_prototype_available
• http://www.jroller.com/scolebourne/entry/evaluating_bgga_closures
• http://warpedjavaguy.wordpress.com/2008/02/21/pointer-syntax-for-java-closures/

• Is Java NIO no faster than Java IO?
• Kill the myth please. NIO is *not* faster than IO
• http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?thread_id=48449 
• http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=26700

• Secrets of Rock Star Developers book by Ed Burns is out - and we are in it
• http://computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic& taxonomyId=9&articleId=9064240&intsrc=hm_topic
• http://www.amazon.com/Secrets-Rockstar-Programmers-Riding-Crest/ dp/0071490833?ie=UTF8&qid=1203373498&sr=11-1

Quick News Items

• Google has announced Summer of Code 2008
• http://code.google.com/soc/2008

• Microsoft playing nice with FOSS (Free and Open Source Software)?
• http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/02/21/1829210&tid=109 
• http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20080221184924826
• http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?thread_id=48494

• More on Blu-Ray - Ed Burnette
• http://blueboard.com/bluray/
• http://blogs.zdnet.com/Burnette/?p=532
• http://www.itwire.com/content/view/16780/1103/

• Apache Geronimo 2.1 is out
• http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?thread_id=48474 
• http://docs.codehaus.org/display/WADI/Home

• NetBeans 6.0.1
• http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/NewsItemView?newsItemID=1192

• The Eclipse Foundation has released Higgins 1.0
• http://www.eclipse.org/org/press-release/20080221_higgins.php

• Eclipse has a new project Babel
• http://www.dzone.com/links/help_translate_eclipse.html

• A new 2.0 version of the dynamic language XMF has been released
• http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?thread_id=48493
• And other ways to do DSLs in Java
• http://www.infoq.com/articles/internal-dsls-java

• Bill Pugh and the University of Maryland have released version 1.3.2 of Findbugs
• http://findbugs.sourceforge.net/

• The JavaBlog has a nice introduction to developing Java applications for facebook
• http://javablog.co.uk/2007/07/25/tips-for-writing-facebook-applications-in-java/

• Silveira Neto blogs about writing your first NetBeans plugin
• http://silveiraneto.net/2008/02/24/netbeans-your-first-plugin/

• And, Caoyuan blogs about an Erlang plugin for NetBeans called Erlybird
• http://blogtrader.net/page/dcaoyuan/entry/erlang_for_netbeans_erlybird_recent

• Chet Haase joined Adobe
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/editors/archives/2008/02/this_charming_m.html 
• http://graphics-geek.blogspot.com/

• The second part of the Busy Java Developers guide to Scala covers Scala's class syntax and semantics
• http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/java/library/j-scala02198.html?ca=dgr-btw01javascala2&S_TACT=105AGX59&S_CMP=GR

• Sprint Nextel has released the first developer version of its new Titan platform
• http://eclipse.dzone.com/news/sprint-nextel-goes-live-mobile

• New book - Groovy Recipes: Greasing the Wheels of Java by Scott Davis
• http://www.pragprog.com/titles/sdgrvr

• Kirill Grouchnikov has released version 3.0 of the flamingo component suite
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/kirillcool/archive/2008/02/flamingo_30_off.html

Listener Feedback

• Project Caroline
• http://research.sun.com/projects/caroline/

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• Brice Ruth and Webprojkt.com - http://webprojkt.com - for our archives site - http://archives.javaposse.com
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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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Interview with Guillaume Laforge on Groovy Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.com This interview is also available in video form at http://parleys.com The actual interview video is:http://parleys.com/display/PARLEYS/A+Groovy+interview+at+JavaPolis%2707?showComments=true

• Groovy homepage
• http://groovy.codehaus.org 
• Groovy News
• http://groovy.codehaus.org/News 
• Grails
• http://grails.org/ 
• Groovy books
• http://www.manning.com/koenig/ 
• http://www.pragprog.com/titles/vslg 
• http://www.pragprog.com/titles/sdgrvr 
• Or go to Amazon.com and search for Groovy

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)

• To contact us:
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Listener Feedback Special Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.com Join us for the Java Posse Roundup 2008 in Crested Butte from March 4th to 7th http://www.mindviewinc.com/Conferences/JavaPosseRoundup/ And if you are attending the roundup, and need a place to stay, check out the Google group document: http://groups.google.com/group/roundup08/web/house-sharing-2008?hl=en

• Subversion, Mercurial, Git - Source Control for Large Projects
• http://subversion.tigris.org/ 
• http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/wiki/ 
• http://git.or.cz/ 
• http://www.nongnu.org/cvs/ 
• Youtube talks about Git and Mercurial
• http://youtube.com/watch?v=4XpnKHJAok8 
• http://youtube.com/watch?v=1sV8Z_Lmpt4 
• Oracle Application Server
• http://www.oracle.com/appserver/index.html
• JSR 666
• http://fishbowl.pastiche.org/2003/02/03/jsr666 
• http://fishbowl.pastiche.org/2008/02/13/jsr666_extension_exception_types
• 50 times more Google searches from iPhone than other phones?
• http://phonedifferent.com/2008/02/google_sees_50_times_more_ipho.html
• 2 Hours of Free Starbucks WIFI a day
• http://www.starbucks.com/aboutus/pressdesc.asp?id=827 
• Blu-Ray BDJ Discussion on Groups
• http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse/browse_thread/thread/276f5f02dab52eb7/63a16edf0b3f9023#63a16edf0b3f9023

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)

• To contact us:
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Newscast for Feb 18th 2008 Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.com Join us for the Java Posse Roundup 2008 in Crested Butte from March 4th to 7th http://www.mindviewinc.com/Conferences/JavaPosseRoundup/ And if you are attending the roundup, and need a place to stay, check out the Google group document: http://groups.google.com/group/roundup08/web/house-sharing-2008?hl=en

• JetBrains has raised the price of IntelliJ IDEA by $100 for corporate users, but drops it to $249 for personal licenses
• http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse/browse_thread/ thread/dac1f30c8eacbf49#
• http://www.jetbrains.com/idea/buy/buy.html

• Eclipse 3.4 M5 has been released
• http://www.cafeaulait.org/#February_11_2008_28660
• http://eclipse.dzone.com/tips/full-screen-your-rcp-applicati
• http://download.eclipse.org/eclipse/downloads/drops/ S-3.4M5-200802071530/eclipse-news-M5.html
• http://download.eclipse.org/eclipse/downloads/drops/ S-3.4M4-200712131700/eclipse-news-M4.html
• http://download.eclipse.org/eclipse/downloads/drops/ S-3.4M3-200711012000/eclipse-news-M3.html
• http://download.eclipse.org/eclipse/downloads/drops/ S-3.4M2-200709210919/eclipse-news-M2.html
• http://download.eclipse.org/eclipse/downloads/drops/ S-3.4M1-200708091105/eclipse-news-M1.html

• Learning Scala Roundup:
• http://www.codecommit.com/blog/scala/ roundup-scala-for-java-refugees
• http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/java/library/j-scala01228.html? ca=dgr-lnxw57javascala&S_TACT=105AGX59&S_CMP=GR 
• http://www.nabble.com/-scala--ScalaDays-'08-td14608301.html

• Java Application(s) of the week. Javalobby did our job for us this week:
• http://java.dzone.com/tips/ten-amazing-java-applications

• Java Library of the week - Apache Abdera
• http://incubator.apache.org/abdera/ 
• http://blogs.sun.com/theaquarium/entry/ integrating_jersey_and_abdera

• AND a mobile app of the week - Beta of YouTube for mobile
• http://www.youtube.com/yt_mobile_app

Quick News Items

• The open source drop for OpenJDK 6 has been made!
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/robogeek/archive/ 2008/02/the_end_of_the.html
• http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/jdk6-dev/ 2008-February/000004.html

• SCO - the fat lady still hasn't sung
• http://slashdot.org/article.pl? sid=08/02/14/2032206&from=rss
• http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl? sid=08/02/16/1241247&from=rss

• Lookout Google Maps, there's a new player on the block (at least in the UK). Ordnance Survey:
• http://openspace.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/openspace/
• http://mapperz.blogspot.com/2008/02/ openspace-api-more-examples-please.html

• Apple has released another preview version of Java 6 for Leopard
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/lordy/archive/ 2008/02/java_se_6_devel.html

• NetBeans 6.0.1 has been released
• http://blogs.sun.com/roumen/entry/netbeans_6_0_1_has

• A new Glassfish v3 Ruby Gem now allows jRuby-on-rails apps to be easily installed and run on a Glassfish v3
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/arungupta/archive/ 2008/02/glassfish_v3_ru.html

• EclipseZone has an article up about using Spring and Eclipse together with SpringIDE
• http://eclipse.dzone.com/news/springide-using-spring-eclipse

• Quipukit has released version 1.4 of its commercial JSF components library
• http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss? thread_id=48385

• Lisp fans rejoice! Clojure is a new implementation of Lisp for the JVM
• http://clojure.sourceforge.net/

• Google has released a new version of the Android Developer SDK
• http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/13/ google-releases-new-android-sdk/ 
• http://www.cellular-news.com/story/29353.php
• http://androidcoding.com/undroid-android-for-the-netbeans-ide/ 
• http://undroid.nolimit.cz/
• http://wiki.netbeans.org/IntroAndroidDevNetBeans

• Oracle has posted a new beta - 3.3.50 - of Berkeley DB Java Edition on the Oracle Technical Network
• http://www.oracle.com/database/berkeley-db/je/index.html
• http://www.oracle.com/database/berkeley-db/index.html

• Atlassian has release version 2.1 of Clover
• http://www.atlassian.com/software/clover/

• Sun has created the Student Developers Portal
• http://developers.sun.com/students/

• Try OpenOffice online with Ulteo
• http://www.ulteo.com/home/en/home?autolang=en

• Jazoon has an initial list of the topics that will be covered at this year's conference
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/cwfrei/archive/ 2008/01/first_list_of_t.html 
• http://jazoon.com/

• TheServerSide has a preview of the new features coming in EJB 3.1
• http://www.theserverside.com/tt/articles/article.tss? l=NewFeaturesinEJB3-1
• And "why are we not using Java EE 5"?
• http://java.dzone.com/articles/why-are-we-not-using-java-ee-5

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)

• To contact us:
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  • Post on our Google Group - http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse
  • Call us with questions and feedback - (408) 465 4626
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Newscast for Feb 8th 2008 Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.com Join us for the Java Posse Roundup 2008 in Crested Butte from March 4th to 7th http://www.mindviewinc.com/Conferences/JavaPosseRoundup/

• Grails 1.0 has been released!
• http://docs.codehaus.org/display/GRAILS/2008/02/05/Grails+1.0+Released
• http://grails.org/1.0+Release+Notes 
• http://docs.codehaus.org/display/GRAILS/IDE+Integration
• http://blogs.sun.com/theaquarium/entry/grails_1_0_is_out

• Registration for JavaOne is now open
• http://java.sun.com/javaone/sf/registration.jsp
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/editors/archives/2008/02/best_of_you.html

• Closures, closures and more closures
• http://blogs.sun.com/jag/entry/closures
• http://gafter.blogspot.com/2008/02/closures-puzzler-neapolitan-ice-cream.html
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/kirillcool/archive/2008/02/and_so_it_begin.html 
• http://slm888.com/javac/ 
• http://docs.google.com/View?docid=k73_1ggr36h& 
• http://www.jroller.com/scolebourne/ 

• JSF has passed Swing as the number one GUI component model for job demand
• http://java.dzone.com/news/jsf-catches-swing-number-one-g

Quick News Items

• A NetBeans Innovators Grants program has been introduced by Sun
• http://www.netbeans.org/grant/
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/kalali/archive/2008/01/the_train_start.html
• http://www.sun.com/software/opensource/awards/index.jsp

• If you are curious about how to write a full application that uses JSF, Seam 2.0 and JPA together, check out Carol McDonald's blog
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/caroljmcdonald/archive/2008/01/sample_applicat_4.html 

• Submissions are now being accepted for the Dukes Choice awards at JavaOne 2008
• http://www.java.com/en/dukeszone/dukeschoice.jsp 

• A former mobile application of the week, Opera Mobile has just reached version 9.5
• http://gizmodo.com/352652/opera-95-mobile-browser-gets-commercial-release

• TheServerSide.com has an introduction to using MapReduce in Java applications
• http://www.theserverside.com/tt/knowledgecenter-tc/knowledgecenter-tc.tss?l=MapReduce

• Sun has released a new version of their Solaris Express Developer Edition
• http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/NewsItemView?newsItemID=1184 

• Sun has also posted a proposed final draft of JSR 293 - Location API 2.0
• http://jcp.org/aboutJava/communityprocess/pfd/jsr293/index.html 

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)

• To contact us:
  • Visit our homepage - http://javaposse.com
  • Post on our Google Group - http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse
  • Call us with questions and feedback - (408) 465 4626
  • Or send us email - javaposse@gmail.com

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