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

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Java Posse #210 - Newscast for Oct 6th 2008

javaposse@gmail.com (Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll, Dick Wall) — Tue, 07 Oct 08 09:14:00 -0700

Newscast for Oct 6th 2008

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Android 1.0 SDK released

SpringSource has changed its policy on maintenance and bug fixes for versions of Spring

Coverage of the JVM langauge summit

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/09/30/sun_languages_summit/

Apple appears to be using JSF for one of their recent web projects

http://weblogs.java.net/blog/edburns/archive/2008/09/apple_using_jsf.html

The winners of the OpenJDK Community Innovator's Challenge have been announced

Java Project of the Week - WidgetFX

Quick News

Concurrency guru Brian Goetz has a new article up at IBM's developerworks

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/j-jtp09238.html

JSR 311 - The Java API for ReSTful Web Services, has passed the final ballot with 14 yes votes and 1 non-vote

JFreeChart 1.0.11 has been released by David Gilbert

http://www.jfree.org/jfreechart/index.html

Chris Adamson has moved from Atlanta to Grand Rapids, MI

http://weblogs.java.net/blog/editors/archives/2008/09/miles_away.html

Apple has released Java for Mac OS X 10.5 Update 2

http://intellij.net/forums/thread.jspa?threadID=277476&tstart=0

GrinderStone 2.0 has been released

http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?thread_id=50824

John Ferguson has released a new book called JSF Jumpstarter

http://www.wakaleo.com/resources/jsf-jumpstarter-book

John Hoffmann has a demo of Project Nile up on NetBeans TV

http://netbeans.tv/screencasts/Jeff-Hoffman-explains-the-
JavaFX-designer-developer-workflow.-378/

Sun has release version 8.0 of OpenSSO

http://www.sun.com/software/products/opensso_enterprise/index.xml

Developer.com has an article introducing math for game creation using Java

http://www.developer.com/java/other/article.php/3773201

The project darkstar developer challenge offers cash prizes and a pass to the 2009 game developer conference for the winners

http://www.projectdarkstar.com/developer_challenge

xLightWeb 2.0 has been released

http://xlightweb.sourceforge.net/

Oracle has release TopLink 11g final

http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/ias/toplink/
doc/11110/relnotes/toplink-relnotes.html

Ars Technica has pitted TraceMonkey against V8 and SquirrelFish Extreme

http://arstechnica.com/journals/apple.ars/2008/09/19/
squirrelfish-extreme-mops-floor-with-v8-tracemonkey

Adobe has now released a beta version of AIR (the Adobe Internet Runtime) for Linux

The JSR 318 - EJB 3.1 public draft is now available

http://blogs.sun.com/kensaks/entry/guide_to_the_ejb_3

Findbugs 1.3.5 offers new bug detectors

http://findbugs.sourceforge.net/

CERN has launched the world's largest compute grid

http://devicedaily.com/misc/cern-launches-the-
biggest-computing-grid-in-the-world.html

Alex Miller notes on EclipseZone that on Halloween, Java 1.4 will officially enter end of service life

http://eclipse.dzone.com/articles/rip%E2%80%A6jdk-14

Mobicents SIP servlets have just achieved JSR 289 compliance

Interview with Sun's Jacob Lehrbaum about JavaFX

http://www.riaweekly.com/2008/10/01/riaweekly023/

Apache has released Solr 1.3.0

http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?thread_id=50711

Ed Burns blogs that JSF 2.0 Early Draft Review 2 is out

Google Maps for Mobile (for Java enabled phones) has been updated to now include streetview features

http://www.google.com/mobile/default/maps/streetview.html

If you are in the Adriatic/Balkans area, you may be interested in JavaBlend 2008

http://www.javablend.net/en/

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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)

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The Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall

Java Posse #209 - Jython Interview

javaposse@gmail.com (Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll, Dick Wall) — Sat, 04 Oct 08 18:07:00 -0700

Jython Interview from the JVM Languages Summit

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We interview Jim Baker, Tobias Ivarson, Frank Wierzbicki and Phil Jenvey from the Jython team, a JVM implementation of the Python programming language.

Jython home page

http://www.jython.org/Project/

Frank Wierzbicki's blog

http://fwierzbicki.blogspot.com/

New compiler for Jython (Tobias' project)

http://technorati.com/videos/youtube.com%2F
watch%3Fv%3D7TQAgQ8aZXo

CPython

http://www.python.org/

Guido Van Rossum

http://www.python.org/~guido/

PyCon

http://www.python.org/community/pycon/

Python 2.5

http://www.python.org/download/releases/2.5/

Google Summer of Code

http://code.google.com/soc/2008/

Python ~~3000~~ 3.0 is coming

http://docs.python.org/dev/3.0/whatsnew/3.0.html

JNA - Java Native Access

https://jna.dev.java.net/

Relative imports feature in Python

http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0328/

PEP0008 - discourages the use of relative imports

http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/

Python 2.6

Python standard libraries

http://docs.python.org/library/

Python ctypes

http://www.python.org/doc/2.5.2/lib/module-ctypes.html

Cliff Click on JVM languages

http://blogs.azulsystems.com/cliff/2008/09/jvm-language-su.html

Lots of CPython choices for GUI creation

http://wiki.python.org/moin/GuiProgramming

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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)

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Java Posse #208 - Report from JVM Languages Summit

javaposse@gmail.com (Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll, Dick Wall) — Sat, 27 Sep 08 22:36:00 -0700

Report from the JVM Language Summit

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We bring you a situation report recorded from the JVM language summit, including some special guests and special announcements. We were in a bit of a noisy room so please forgive any unavoidable background noise, and yes, someone did have a phone on, and it's very chatty.

Boffins

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boffin

Joined by:

Charles Oliver Nutter: http://blog.headius.com/
Neal Gafter: http://gafter.blogspot.com/
Bill Pugh: http://www.cs.umd.edu/~pugh/
Christian Kemper:
http://www.javapolis.com/confluence/display/JP04/Christian+Kemper

Neal Gafter to Microsoft!

http://www.weiqigao.com/blog/2008/09/26/
neal_gafter_to_join_microsoft.html

Java Puzzlers

http://www.javapuzzlers.com/

Big winners:

InvokeDynamic:
http://blog.headius.com/2008/09/first-taste-of-invokedynamic.html
Tail calls/tail recursion:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tail_recursion
Interface injection:
http://blogs.sun.com/jrose/entry/interface_injection_in_the_vm
Multiple-dispatch:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple_dispatch
Value-types:
http://benhutchison.wordpress.com/2008/06/
15/the-jvm-needs-value-types/
Tuples:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuple

Other notable requests:

http://openjdk.java.net/projects/mlvm/subprojects.html
Lightweight method handles and bytecode loading
Continuations/stack introspection
Intermediate wrapper types
Symbolic freedom (non-java names)
Better performance

Maxine VM

https://maxine.dev.java.net/

Other related information:

Slides from the JVM Language Summit (click through to the talks in the agenda)

http://openjdk.java.net/projects/mlvm/jvmlangsummit/agenda.html

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Kirsty Doherty, Oliver Widder and Amy Ehmann 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)

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Java Posse #207 - Listener Feedback

javaposse@gmail.com (Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll, Dick Wall) — Wed, 24 Sep 08 08:51:00 -0700

Listener Feedback

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GetJar

http://www.getjar.com

Android

http://www.android.com

Simon Brown on JavaFX

http://www.simongbrown.com/ blog/2008/09/02/
javafx_why_ how_and_when_will_it_be_ successful.html

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Kirsty Doherty, Oliver Widder and Amy Ehmann 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)

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Java Posse #206 - Newscast for Sept 17th 2008

javaposse@gmail.com (Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll, Dick Wall) — Wed, 17 Sep 08 18:01:00 -0700

Newscast for Sept 17th 2008

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Java complexity again, but from a different angle:

http://forums.java.net/jive/thread.jspa?
messageID=298125&tstart=0#298125

JVM Language summit - the details emerge

http://openjdk.java.net/projects/mlvm/
jvmlangsummit/agenda.html

Delegates for Java?

http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2003/05/
21/delegates.html?page=1

Java Project of the week - Tokyo Jogging

Quick News

JavaPolis, which had been renamed to Javoxx, is now known as Devoxx

Ji Hoon Kim has announced the JSF Flex project, which aims to bring Flex components to JavaServer Faces

http://www.theserverside.com/tt/articles/article.tss?l=JSFFlex

A new library called JavaPlot from Panayotis Katsaloulis lets Java developers harness gnuplot from a Java API

http://gnujavaplot.sourceforge.net/JavaPlot/About.html

Chrome browser (actually Chromium - the open source project) is now running on Mac and Linux using Crossover technology

http://www.codeweavers.com/about/people/blogs/jwhite/
2008/9/15/fire-drills-and-proving-a-point

The NetBeans BlueJ team has announced the first release of the BlueJ Plugin for NetBeans 6.1

http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/NewsItemView?
newsItemID=1281

Grizzly 2.0 has just been pushed to the Java.net Maven repository

JBoss has released the Seam 2 feature pack for JBoss EAP 4.3

http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?
thread_id=50621

A new Java IDE for Windows, JCoder, has reached version 1.0

http://www.jcoder.com/detail.html

Instantiations has released a new version of GWT designer for GWT 1.5

http://eclipse.dzone.com/announcements/
instantiations-updates-gwt-des

JSFOne has concluded and from the reports was a great success

http://blogs.jsfcentral.com/editorsdesk/entry/jsfone_day_1

JRubyStack 1.1.4 has been released

http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?
thread_id=50615

The Eclipse foundation and 14 foundation member companies have announced a new Eclipse training program in 31 cities around the world

http://www.eclipse.org/community/training/2008fall.php

Norman Lahme-HÃtig has release jSefa 0.9.2

A new 0.9.4 version of the SwingX extended Swing components has been released

CMP West has announced a call for papers for SD West 2009

https://www.cmpevents.com/SDw9/a.asp?
option=N&V=3&CPid=237&Mgt=Y

Cay Horstmann reports that in the next semester at SJSU, he will be replacing Scheme with Scala for the functional language part of the undergraduate programming languages course

PGP (Pretty Good Privacy) is leading efforts to save Bletchley Park

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Kirsty Doherty, Oliver Widder and Amy Ehmann 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)

To contact us:
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The Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall

Java Posse #205 - Roundup 08 - Start-ups and Funding

javaposse@gmail.com (Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll, Dick Wall) — Fri, 12 Sep 08 08:38:00 -0700

Roundup 08 - Start-ups and Funding

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Venture Capital

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venture_capital

Top 100 VC companies of 2007

http://www.entrepreneur.com/vc100

Angel Investors

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angel_investors

Craigslist

http://www.craigslist.org/about/sites

Guy Kawasaki on VC

http://blog.guykawasaki.com/2006/11/the_venture_cap.html

Stanford Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders series

http://etl.stanford.edu/

Funding Universe

http://www.fundinguniverse.com/

Thanks

Libsyn.com - http://www.libsyn.com - for hosting and bandwidth
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Kirsty Doherty, Oliver Widder and Amy Ehmann 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)

To contact us:
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The Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall