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Shownotes for Episode 41
- Newscast for March 17th 2006




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Main Items

• Matisse GroupLayout has been integrated into Mustang at
  b76!
• href="http://www.javalobby.org/java/forums/t66080.html">http://www.javalobby.org/java/forums/t66080.html
• Java Data Objects 2.0 (JSR 243) has passed its Final
  Approval Ballot
• href="http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?thread_id=39450">http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?thread_id=39450
• The NetBeans project has released a new module project:
  Jackpot
• http://today.java.net/pub/n/4119
• Rob Sanheim blogs his Top 5 Worst APIs in Java
• href="http://www.robsanheim.com/2006/03/13/top-five-worst-apis-in-java/">http://www.robsanheim.com/2006/03/13/top-five-worst-apis-in-java/
• Ian Skerret, the marketing directory of Eclipse posted a
  blog entry stating that according to a SD Times survey, Eclipse usage
  has grown
• href="http://ianskerrett.blogspot.com/2006/03/eclipse-gains-market-share-in-2005.html">http://ianskerrett.blogspot.com/2006/03/
  
  href="http://ianskerrett.blogspot.com/2006/03/eclipse-gains-market-share-in-2005.html">eclipse-gains-market-share-in-2005.html
• Roman Strobl, now an evangelist at NetBeans.org, countered
  with other data
  showing huge growth
• href="http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/roumen?entry=netbeans_growth_questioned">http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/roumen?
  
  entry=netbeans_growth_questioned
• Brian Goetz has published an article entitled "The
  pseudo-typedef antipattern: Extension is not type definition"
• href="http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/java/library/j-jtp02216.html">http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/java/library/j-jtp02216.html
• Chet Haase has published an article on the new Timing
  Framework, a java.net project
• href="http://today.java.net/pub/a/today/2006/03/16/time-again.html">http://today.java.net/pub/a/today/2006/03/16/time-again.html
• Retrotranslator 1.0.0 has been posted
• http://retrotranslator.sourceforge.net/

• Java's Apache Tomcat Hits Sweet Sixteen
  • http://jdj.sys-con.com/read/195970.htm
• IBM Developerworks is now running Roller
  • href="http://rollerweblogger.org/page/roller?entry=ibm_developerworks_blogging_with_roller">http://rollerweblogger.org/page/roller?
    
    entry=ibm_developerworks_blogging_with_roller
• New IntelliJ href="http://www.crispybits.com/wiki/wiki.cgi?action=edit&id=IntelliJ">?
  group blog launched
  • http://blogs.jetbrains.com/idea/

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• Kirsty Doherty for Java Posse artwork
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• 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://www.loosebrucekerr.com
• Closing - Garageband track