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Newscast for May 2nd 2008

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  Apple and Java, might they make up?
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  http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=307403 
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  http://weblogs.java.net/blog/editors/archives/
  2008/04/the_fragile_arm.html
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/onno/archive/
  2008/04/java_se_6_on_ma.html 
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/arungupta/archive/
  2008/04/java_se_6_u5_on.html
  
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  http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080428/
  apple-sun-java-iphone.htm
  

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  Chris Adamson has a nice roundup of the various sub-conferences and unconferences surrounding JavaOne
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  http://weblogs.java.net/blog/editors/archives/
  2008/04/hard_act_to_fol.html
  
• http://digg.com/software/Free_RedMonk_
  unconference_at_JavaOne_May_5th
  
• Chet Haase and Romain Guy are
  back with a talk titled "Filthy Rich Clients: Filthier, Richer,
  Clientier" as well, which has moved
  
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  http://weblogs.java.net/blog/chet/archive/
  2008/04/not_dead_yet.html
  

• OpenJDK has announced an official project to provide a feature complete prototype of BGGA closures
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  http://weblogs.java.net/blog/editors/archives/
  2008/04/another_great_d.html
  

• Javoxx is the new name for JavaPolis
• http://www.javoxx.com/display/JV08/Home
  

• Java Application of the Week - JVoiceBridge
• https://jvoicebridge.dev.java.net/
  

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  Mobile Java app of the week - Skype Mobile
  
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  http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS2959432550.html 

• Library called ext (JavaScript) - LGPL -> GPL

• http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse/
  browse_thread/thread/46a2948e143c44f5/

Quick News

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  NetBeans 6.1 has been released, in plenty of time for anyone to download and install it before CommunityOne and JavaOne
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  http://weblogs.java.net/blog/editors/archives/
  2008/04/light_to_follow.html
  
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  http://blogs.sun.com/theaquarium/entry/
  netbeans_6_1_final_in
  

•  Sun has pledged a 100% open source distribution of Java, alongside the current version with some binary only parts
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  http://news.yahoo.com/s/infoworld/20080422/
  tc_infoworld/98999
  
• http://blogs.sun.com/theaquarium/entry/
  glassfish_v2_in_ubuntu_hardy
• http://blogs.sun.com/barton808/entry/
  free_java_in_ubuntu_8
  

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  The new large hadron collider being constructed in CERN runs Java as a key piece of its control system
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  https://edms.cern.ch/file/445863/5/
  Vol_1_Chapter_14.pdf 
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  http://lhc.web.cern.ch/lhc/ 

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  According to the server side, JSR 315 - the Servlet 3.0 spec - has hit an impasse
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  http://www.theserverside.com/news/
  thread.tss?thread_id=49212 

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  Stanley Ho and the EG for JSR 277 have put together the first draft of a spec for interoperability between OSGi and JSR 277
  
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  http://weblogs.java.net/blog/mandychung/
  archive/2008/04/supporting_osgi.html 
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  http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/
  jsr277-eg-observer/2008-April/000262.html
  
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  http://www.osgi.org/blog/ 

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  The huikau blog has published some performance comparison numbers for JRuby 1.1.1 vs Ruby 1.8.6
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  http://blog.huikau.com/2008/04/29/
  some-rails-perf-numbers-on-jruby-111/ 

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  Sony Ericsson is bringing Flash Lite to Java ME devices
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  http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/
  3743741/Sony+Ericsson+Adds+Flash+
  Support+to+Mobile+Java.htm 

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  A new Groovy based build system called Gradle has been released as an early preview
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  http://www.gradle.org/ 

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  The upcoming release of eclipse ganymede, later in June, will be accompanied by a number of free democamps around the world
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  http://www.eclipse.org/org/press-release/
  20080421_ganymededemocamps.php 

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  Adobe has released a product called livecycle
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  http://www.adobe.com/products/livecycle/ 

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  Google has released a ReST based API to its search service
  
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  http://code.google.com/apis/ajaxsearch/documentation/
  
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  http://www.json.org/java/
  

• Mainsoft has updated their .NET to Java EE translation tool to version 2.2
• http://searchwindevelopment.techtarget.com/news/
  article/0,289142,sid8_gci1309978,00.html
  

• Mule 2.0 Community Edition has been released
• http://www.theserverside.com/news/
  thread.tss?thread_id=49081 
• http://mule.mulesource.org/display/MULE/Home
  

• Apache CXF is a new official apache software foundation project that helps you build services using APIs
• http://cxf.apache.org/
  

• OpenEJB 3.0 final has been released by Apache - just in time for JavaOne :-)
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/saintx/archive/
  2008/04/openejb_30_fina.html
  

• Atlassian - JIRA Studio
• http://jira.com
• http://demo.jira.com
• http://thoughts.contegix.com/2008/04/17/
  jira-studio-you-complete-me/

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
  • 
    Closing - Juan Carlos Jimenez - In the House (Intro No. 1)
    

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