Newscast for August 4th 2007
Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.com
How much is your code worth?
- The new firefox 4 javascript VM, which will be based on
Tamarin (the engine donated to the project by Adobe), will run not only
JavaScript, but also Ruby and Python
JavaFX properties support
NetBeans to get first class Groovy support?
- Google has released a free tool - the Google Singleton Detector
And for another fun discussion, when should you use finalizers?
Applet of the week - Zombie Infection
Applet of the week - bonus - Bitlet
Quick News Items
- San Shin's JavaPassion.com website now has a hands on lab
for creating web applications using Sun's woodstock JSF components
which have just been open sourced by Sun
- Yahoo has release YSlow, a performance tool which helps you to determine why a site is slow
An updated version of the JavaFX plugin is now available for NetBeans
- Daniel Boekhoff has a new tutorial up at NetBeans.org that
walks you through creating a Ruby on Rails application in NetBeans
- What ever happened to the Apache TCK open letter and blowup?
JBoss has released Drools 4.0
- Lifehacker has information about an OpenOffice extension that lets you write macros in Groovy
Oliver Widder JavaPosse World Tour Poster
- Chet Haase appears in the latest SDN tv episode talking about the new book Filthy Rich Clients
The San Diego JUG has a special appearance by James Gosling on August 8th
- If you have ever been interested in getting your own JSR
through the JCP, you might be interested in a new series on the JCP
site that explains each part of the process in detail. Part 3 in the
series has just been published, which explains the draft review process
Atlassian software have bought Cenqua
An eclipse RCP training world tour? Well, the USA and Europe anyway
Registration is now open for the eclipse summit Europe
A new JSF user group has been formed in Zürich, Switzerland and Ed Burns was the first presenter
- MyTreo.net reports that Palm has very quietly released an update to the Websphere Everyplace Java ME environment for Palm OS
- Beelucid software has announced a limited release of a free
beta test version and unlimited release of a free trial version of
VBeeJava
- BEA has released a suite of WebLogic server tools for
Eclipse Europa (3.3) to help develop, deploy and debug weblogic based
applications from the new version of Eclipse
Marc Fleury, former CEO of JBoss, has a short but interesting interview up at news.com
Apache MyFaces has released version 1.2.0 of it's core JSF 1.2 compliant JSF components
- If you are interested in building web services with ReST,
Brian Leonard has a blog entry about how to do it easily using NetBeans
- Dozer 4.0, the new version of the Dozer bean mapping
framework, makes it easy to map properties from one bean to another for
recursive copying and other related uses
- The GPS tracker site allows you to track a cell phone using
a J2ME program running on that phone, and google maps to display the
location
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