JavaOne Retrospective Part 2 - May 15th 2007
Part 2 of the JavaOne Retrospective recorded live at the SV Web JUG meeting.
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Curriki and Engineers without Borders
Robosapien Toy (JavaOne Geek Gadget)
Demo: NetBeans 6 - TOR!!!
Demo: Blu-Ray Disc Java (BDJ)
Quick News-athon
AB5k (Josh Marinacci and Robert Cooper's widgets project) has been renamed to glossitope
Google has a couple of new ReST tools, ReST describe tools that provide
a best guess WADL (Web Application Description Language) from looking
at a list of example ReST messages, while ReST compile takes a WADL and
creates language bindings for many different languages
Microsoft has released the DLR (Dynamic Language Runtime) based on it's
CLR for .NET. The new DLR targets dynamic languages with extra VM level
features. We will have more on this in a future episode
Netbeans has added Mercurial support (which is useful as the Java
source code has been released using Mercurial). Mercurial is a
decentralized (or distributed) source control system
Runescape, the Java MMORPG (and former applet of the week from way
back) has passed 1 million paying subscribers and over 10 million
members (you can pay for free)
Although you have probably heard by now, Guillaume Laforge and the
groovy team have released a new Beta version of Groovy 1.1, and it now
has annotations support. At present, you can only use and not write
annotations in Groovy, but it is the first non Java language that runs
on the JVM to use them
The apache project has released Jackrabbit 1.3 - an open source
implementation of JSR 170 - Content Repository for Java Technology API
Charles Oliver Nutter, Thomas Enebo and Ola Bini have released JRuby
0.99, which is compatible with Ruby 1.85. It also now supports the new
Bean Scripting Framework (more on this soon too)
A 12 year old Nigerian has become a Sun Certified programmer. Allwell
Worgu is not the first 12 year old to pass the certification though, a
pakistani girl received the certification at the same age some 6 years
ago (name unknown...)
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 Jeff Tyson 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)
