Newscast for September 5th 2006
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Creator 2 update - raw performance
Java2Script - does GWT have competition?
Sun has posted the public review draft of JSR 270 which details the Mustang
(now Java 6) release
Application of the week - Tycho - an asterisk VoIP voicemail and dialing
client constructed using the Eclipse RCP
Bill Pugh of Findbugs fame (and former posse interviewee) has submitted
JSR-305 - Annotations for Software Defect Detection - into the JCP
A Public Service Announcement: James Gosling and a movie in Atlanta this
month
Quick News Items
DiffJ - a diff tool that understands Java
Sun has also released the NetBeans Mobility Pack under open source using the
CDDL license
Struts Micro Edition? Can it be true?
IBM Developerworks has an introduction to using JPA (the Java Persistence
API) with Spring 2.0
InfoQ has a detailed article on using the Grails framework (a Groovy based
alternative to Ruby on Rails) to access EJB 3 domain objects
Motorola and Nokia have posted the proposed final draft of JSR-232 - Mobile
Operational Management - to the JCP
JSR 268 - Java Authentication Service Provide Interface for Containers - has
entered the public review draft stage
JGAP version 3.0, a Genetic Algorithms package in Java, is now available
from Sourceforce
The Sun Developer Network has a good guide to using RESTful web services
from Java and JAX-WS
Gavin King's SEAM, in a podcast
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Kirsty Doherty for Java Posse artwork
Nick Trefz, the voice of TopCoder, for the voiceovers
Brian Ehmann - the Java Posse intern
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 - A track written by Dick in Apple's Garageband
