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Newscast for August 23rd 2007

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  More details on the Java Posse (Hello) World Tour
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  http://www4.java.no/web/show.do?
  
  page=152&articleid=5053

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  NetBeans 6.0 is to be released under the GPL v2 license with the Classpath exception (the same license as the OpenJDK)
  
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  http://weblogs.java.net/blog/joshy/archive/
  
  2007/08/netbeans_to_bec.html
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  http://www.netbeans.org/gplv2-faqs.html
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  http://blogs.sun.com/theaquarium/entry/
  
  netbeans_like_glassfish_to_be

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  TheServerSide has an article up about OpenID, saying that it is a great idea, but a bit bewildering for consumers
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  http://www.theserverside.com/news/
  
  thread.tss?thread_id=46625

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  The PlentyOfCode blog has a useful list of Java decompilers and Java obfuscators
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  http://www.plentyofcode.com/2007/08/
  
  java-decompilers-and-obfuscators.html

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  Library of the week: Jasper Reports 2.0
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  http://jasperforge.org/sf/projects/jasperreports

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  Java Application of the week: Hudson - Continuous Build engine
  
• http://hudson.gotdns.com/wiki/display/
  HUDSON/Meet+Hudson

Quick News Items

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  Java.net have launched a new column by David Flanagan, the author of Java in a Nutshell
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  http://today.java.net/pub/a/today/2007/
  
  08/09/looking-ahead-to-java-7.html

• MyEclipse 6.0 is out. This new version is based on the new
  Eclipse 3.3 Europa platform, and adds Java EE 6 support and "redefines
  AJAX productivity"
• http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?
  thread_id=46653

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  Geronimo 2.0 has been released. The apache Java application server now offers full Java 5.0 support and is certified
• http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?
  thread_id=46658

• Romain Guy has put up 82 swing and 2d demos on his blog
  that he and Chet Haase released to go along with their new book "Filthy
  Rich Clients"
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  http://www.curious-creature.org/2007/
  
  08/20/82-swing-and-java-2d-demos/

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  The latest version of SWTSwing, version 3.2.0005, brings the possibility of running SWT 3.2 on top of Swing
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  http://swtswing.sourceforge.net/main/index.html

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  Rémi Forax notes that it appears the Java Kernel will be included in JDK6 update 4

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  http://weblogs.java.net/blog/forax/archive/
  
  2007/08/java_kernel_in.html
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  http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?
  
  bug_id=6585322
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  But Chris Adamson has his doubts, and it is a bit surprising that
  something so big would go largely unnoticed, after all we were
  expecting to wait for Java 7, or JSR 277, or both
  
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  http://weblogs.java.net/blog/editors/archives/
  2007/08/nobody_told_me.html

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  ServerSide again, this time Vladimir Blagojevic describes the new features in JGroups 2.5
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  http://www.theserverside.com/tt/articles/
  article.tss?l=NewFeaturesJGroups
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  http://www.jgroups.org/javagroupsnew/docs/index.html

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  Interface 21 has announced Spring Web Services 1.0
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  http://static.springframework.org/spring-ws/site/

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  JSR 286 - the Portlet Specification 2.0, is in the public review ballot stage until August 27th
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  http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=286

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  If you are looking for an easier way to call native code from Java on Windows, check out NativeCall
  
• http://johannburkard.de/software/nativecall/

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  Kelly O'Hair has an update about the current status of moving the OpenJDK project to Mercurial
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/kellyohair/archive/
  2007/08/openjdk_mercuri.html

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  Google has released the proposed final draft for JSR 284 - Resource Consumption Management API
• http://jcp.org/aboutJava/communityprocess/pfd/
  jsr284/index.html

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  Oracle has just released a new version 3.4.42 of the Berkeley DB, Java edition
• http://www.oracle.com/database/berkeley-db/je/index.html

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  IBM Developerworks has a good article about mylyn 2.0 (formerly mylar), the task focused UI extensions for eclipse 
• http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/java/library/
  j-mylyn1/index.html?ca=dgr-jw22jvmylynp1&
  S_TACT=105AGX59&S_CMP=GRsite-jw22

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  JEuclid 3.0 has been released
• http://jeuclid.sourceforge.net/

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  Tim Boudreau has become a contributor to the apache wicket plugin for NetBeans project
• http://blogs.sun.com/geertjan/entry/
  when_boudreau_met_wicket
• http://wicket.apache.org/

Special Section for this week - Gossip

• Jim Louderback, Editor in Chief for PC Magazine, declared
  this week that Vista just ain't cutting it, and that if Microsoft can't
  get Vista working, he is contemplating moving to Linux
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  http://java.sys-con.com/read/417816.htm
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  http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1895,2171472,00.asp

• Closures are hot
• http://codetojoy.blogspot.com/2007/08/closures-are-hot.html

Thanks

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  Libsyn.com - http://www.libsyn.com - for hosting and bandwidth
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  Brice Ruth and Webprojkt.com - http://webprojkt.com - for our archives site - http://archives.javaposse.com
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  Feedburner.com - http://www.feedburner.com - for feed redirect
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  Kirsty Doherty, Oliver Widder and Amy Ehmann for Java Posse artwork
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  Brian Ehmann - the Java Posse intern
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  Craig Muth for maintaining the Java Posse Memorizable site - http://memorizable.org/Java_Posse
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  Theme Music:
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    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
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    Closing - Juan Carlos Jimenez - In the House (Intro No. 1)
    

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