The Java Posse

Java Posse #264 - Newscast for July 2nd 2009

javaposse@gmail.com (Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll, Dick Wall) — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 13:16:00 -0700

Newscast for July 2nd 2009

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Mozilla releases Firefox 3.5 with HTML 5 support

http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/3.5/releasenotes/

NetBeans 6.7 final has been released

The department of justice has delayed what was previously looking to be a fast-tracked review of the Oracle's Sun takeover bid

Java mobile app of the week - jTwitter

http://www.jtwitter.com/

Quick News

James Sugrue has created an Eclipse Galileo podcast series.

http://eclipse.dzone.com/podcasts/skype-audio-conversation-chris

The Java.net community corner podcasts recorded at JavaOne have started to be released on java.net.

The android project backed by Google and the open handset alliance has released support for native C/C++ development for the platform in addition to the Java development environment.

Axel Rauschmayer has some details on eclipse-zone about the upcoming eclipse 4 development.

Greg Brown has an article up on Java.net that covers some of the features in the upcoming Apache Pivot 1.3.

A new refcard from DZone covers Grails.

http://refcardz.dzone.com/refcardz/getting-started-grails?oid=hom11411

Silicon Valley Code Camp 2009 details have been announced. The event will take place on October 3rd and 4th at Foothill college in Los Altos.

http://www.siliconvalley-codecamp.com/

ScalaWags

Michael Galpin has a new article up over at IBM developer works about how to write Scala applications for Android.

https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/opensource/library/os-eclipse-scala/

Book Roundup

Programming in Scala (Bill Venners, Martin Odersky, Lex Spoon)

http://www.amazon.com/Programming-Scala-Comprehensive-Step-step/dp/0981531601/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1246499752&sr=1-1

Unlocking Android (Frank Ableson, Charlie Collins, and Robi Sen)

http://www.amazon.com/Unlocking-Android-Frank-Ableson/dp/1933988673/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1246499933&sr=1-1

The Manga Guide to Physics (Hideo Nitta, Keita Takatsu)

http://www.amazon.com/Manga-Guide-Physics-Hideo-Nitta/dp/1593271964/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1246499577&sr=8-1

Listener Feedback

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Code Review Tools

1. Review Board (http://www.review-board.org)

2. Rietveld, from GVR, which is derived from Google's Mondrian (http://code.google.com/p/rietveld/)

OPS4J PaxRunner and PaxExam

http://www.ops4j.org

Scala goes PLEAC

http://github.com/michaelkebe/pleac-scala/tree/master

PLEAC's homepage:
http://pleac.sourceforge.net

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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 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TAX0gJt-aZg
- Closing - Juan Carlos Jimenez - In the House (Intro No. 1)

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Java Posse #263 - Interview with Cay Horstmann

javaposse@gmail.com (Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll, Dick Wall) — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 21:07:00 -0700

Interview with Cay Horstmann

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Cay is professor of computer science at San Jose State University.

Cay's blog

http://www.horstmann.com/

ChiWriter

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

Cay's Books

http://www.amazon.com/s?ie=UTF8&search-type=ss&index=
books&field-author=Cay%20S.%20Horstmann&page=1

Alice

https://alice.dev.java.net/

Greenfoot

http://www.greenfoot.org/

BlueJ

http://www.bluej.org/

Groovy

http://groovy.codehaus.org/

Cay on Java EE

http://weblogs.java.net/blog/cayhorstmann/archive/2009/02/index.html

http://java.sun.com/javaee/overview/faq/persistence.jsp

Session Beans

http://www.j2ee.me/javaee/5/docs/tutorial/doc/bnboc.html

JSF 2

http://java.sun.com/javaee/javaserverfaces/

Findbugs

http://findbugs.sourceforge.net/

Cyclomatic complexity

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

Google code review tool

http://code.google.com/appengine/articles/rietveld.html

Crucible

http://www.atlassian.com/software/crucible/

Project Coin

http://openjdk.java.net/projects/coin/

Java Closures

http://wiki.java.net/bin/view/JDK/ClosuresSyntaxInJava7

Properties

Scala for Functional Programming

http://weblogs.java.net/blog/cayhorstmann/archive/
2008/09/teaching_progra_1.html

Python

http://www.python.org/

Ruby

http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/

Logo

http://el.media.mit.edu/Logo-foundation/logo/programming.html

Scheme

http://schemers.org/

C# / .NET

http://www.csharp-station.com/Tutorial.aspx

Amazon EC2

http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/

Hadoop - Map/Reduce

http://hadoop.apache.org/core/docs/current/mapred_tutorial.html

Software Transactional Memory

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

Actors

http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-03-2009/jw-03-actor-concurrency2.html

Open source programming course

http://www.horstmann.com/sjsu/cs286/gs.html

Blackberry programming

http://www.blackberryprogramming.com/

JSR 299 / Seam

Violet

http://alexdp.free.fr/violetumleditor/page.php

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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 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TAX0gJt-aZg
- Closing - Juan Carlos Jimenez - In the House (Intro No. 1)

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Java Posse #262 - Newscast for June 26th 2009

javaposse@gmail.com (Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll, Dick Wall) — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 09:13:00 -0700

Newscast for June 26th 2009

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Controversy week!

Google: Are they missing the point of Java?

OSGi and Jigsaw flaming up again.

Eclipse 3.5 Galileo has been released.

Quick News

Google has announced the 2009 eclipse day at the GooglePlex.

http://ianskerrett.wordpress.com/2009/06/08/
announcing-eclipse-day-at-the-googleplex-2009/

Apple has release Java for Mac OS X 10.5 Update 4.

Larry Ellison's appearance at JavaOne 2009 has easily topped a poll over at Java.net for the most significant thing about JavaOne 2009.

IBM Developer Works has a technical article up on using Android's hardware sensors from Java source code.

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/opensource/library/os-android-sensor/index.html?
ca=dgr-jw22Android-Sensors&S_TACT=105AGX59&S_CMP=grjw22

SpringSource has announced SpringOne 2GX 2009, a conference that combines SpringOne and the Groovy and Grails.

http://www.springone2gx.com/conference/new_orleans/2009/10/home

JBoss has release RESTEasy 1.1, an implementation of JAX-RS for writing web services and clients in Java.

http://www.jboss.org/resteasy/

Project Coin - small language changes for JDK 7, has released a second candidate list including 5 new proposals.

Josh Marinacci has created a Q&A about the Java Store.

http://weblogs.java.net/blog/joshy/archive/2009/06/the_java_store.html

Java Simon v2.0 has been released.

http://code.google.com/p/javasimon/

Apache Commons has released their Commons Pool object pooling API version 1.5, closely followed by 1.5.1.

http://commons.apache.org/pool/

Gavin King has now submitted the proposed final draft of JSR-299 - Java Contexts and Dependency Injection.

http://in.relation.to/Bloggers/JSR299ProposedFinalDraftSubmitted

JSR-255 - JMX 2.0, has been postponed.

DZone has a new refcard available for JSF 2.0 (JavaServer Faces).

http://weblogs.java.net/blog/cayhorstmann/archive/2009/06/jsf_20_refcard.html

GeniusWiki 1.6.5 has been released.

http://www.geniuswiki.com/page/page.do

Amy Fowler has published a guide to mixing JavaFX and Swing together.

http://weblogs.java.net/blog/aim/archive/2009/06/insiders_guide.html

JaQue has announced a complete implementation of Microsoft LINQ (Language Integrated Query) for Java!

Ken Orr has released version 0.9.5 of Mac Widgets for Java.

http://explodingpixels.wordpress.com/2009/06/23/mac-widgets-for-java-0-9-5/

And, JBoss has released JBoss messaging 2.0 beta.

http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?thread_id=54886

ScalaWags

Debashish Ghosh and Steve Vinoski have released an article about Scala and lift in the May/June issue of IEEE computing.

A new Erlang plugin for NetBeans 6.7 has been released.

http://blogtrader.net/dcaoyuan/entry/erlang_plugin_version_1_for
Erlang the movie: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uKfKtXYLG78

Debashish Ghosh has been hard at work on SCouchDB.

Limerik

There once was a language called scala,
whose closures tail recurse from its calla,
with objects and functions
and plenty of gumption,
it's a language worth more than a dolla.

Listener Feedback

Pond Jumpers Podcast

Atlassian Developer Tools Going Social

Hibernate Profiler

Kiva - a non-profit lending website - join the JUG team

http://www.kiva.org/team/jug

Scala Oracle Performance Tool

http://www.pythian.com/news/2590/sydney-oracle-meetup-2-visualizing-oracle-performance

Stephen Colbourne, Apache Software Foundation, and the Java Community Process

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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 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TAX0gJt-aZg
- Closing - Juan Carlos Jimenez - In the House (Intro No. 1)

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Java Posse #261 - JavaOne 2009 Pavilion

javaposse@gmail.com (Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll, Dick Wall) — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 13:55:00 -0700

Live from the JavaOne 2009 Pavilion

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Recorded while walking around the Pavilion at JavaOne 2009. All interviews are off the cuff and we left it very late this year, hence only 30 minutes of audio.

Atlassian

Java Utopia

Alice

https://alice.dev.java.net/

University of Kent - BlueJ, Greenfoot

First robotics competition

ESRI Java

http://edn.esri.com/index.cfm?fa=java.gateway

Engineyard - jRuby on Rails hosting

http://www.engineyard.com/press/09-06-01-engine-yard-announces-jruby-support

ZeroTurnaround - JavaRebel

http://www.zeroturnaround.com/javarebel/

Apache Stonehenge (Microsoft .NET <-> Java)

Java.net Community Corner

Lincvolt

http://www.lincvolt.com/

Thanks

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Brian Ehmann - the Java Posse intern
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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 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TAX0gJt-aZg
- Closing - Juan Carlos Jimenez - In the House (Intro No. 1)

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Java Posse #260 - Roundup 09 - Staffing Agile Teams

javaposse@gmail.com (Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll, Dick Wall) — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 09:32:00 -0700

Roundup 09 - Staffing Agile Teams

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Session recorded at the Java Posse Roundup 2009 in Crested Butte, CO.

Standup meetings

http://www.martinfowler.com/articles/itsNotJustStandingUp.html

Waterfall

http://www.mariosalexandrou.com/methodologies/waterfall.asp

Scrum

http://www.controlchaos.com/about/

Personality types for agile programmers

http://www.doolwind.com/index.php?page=11

Feature teams

http://www.infoq.com/articles/scaling-lean-agile-feature-teams

Mike Cohn

http://blog.mountaingoatsoftware.com/

Book: Succeeding with Agile

http://www.amazon.com/Succeeding-Agile-Development-Addison-Wesley-Signature/
dp/0321579364/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1245339021&sr=8-1

Requirements churn

http://i-proving.ca/space/Peter+Yu/blog/2008-12-15_1

Personality tests

http://www.performanceprograms.com/Surveys/PersonalityFaking.shtm

Agile training

Contract to hire

http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_is_Contract-to-Hire

Technical Debt

http://martinfowler.com/bliki/TechnicalDebt.html

Book: the No Asshole Rule

http://www.amazon.com/Asshole-Rule-Civilized-Workplace-Surviving/dp/
0446526568/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1245339514&sr=8-1

Real superstars

http://ask.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/10/30/1351249

Purple squirrel

http://boingboing.net/2008/12/23/purple-squirrel-in-e.html

Pair programming

http://www.extremeprogramming.org/rules/pair.html

Date driven vs Feature driven

2 week sprints

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/265332/sprint-lengths-2-week-vs-30-days

Sprint velocity

http://xprocess.blogspot.com/2008/02/calculating-team-velocity.html

Thanks

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Feedburner.com - http://www.feedburner.com - for feed redirect
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 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TAX0gJt-aZg
- Closing - Juan Carlos Jimenez - In the House (Intro No. 1)

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Java Posse #259 - Jigsaw and JSR 294 Interview

javaposse@gmail.com (Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll, Dick Wall) — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 20:27:00 -0700

Jigsaw and JSR 294 Interview

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Recorded at JavaOne 2009 with Mark Reinhold and Alex Buckley

Mark Reinhold

http://blogs.sun.com/mr

Alex Buckley

http://blogs.sun.com/abuckley/

JSR 294

http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=294

Project Jigsaw

http://openjdk.java.net/projects/jigsaw/

JAR files

http://java.sun.com/developer/Books/javaprogramming/JAR/basics/

Dependency Injection with JSR 294

http://crazybob.org/2009/05/its-in-jcps-hands-now.html

Classpath

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classpath_%28Java%29

Java Language spec

http://java.sun.com/docs/books/jls/

Java VM spec

http://java.sun.com/docs/books/jvms/

Linux packages / Native packaging

http://blogs.sun.com/mr/entry/linux_packaging_and_java_modules

OSGi

http://www.osgi.org/Main/HomePage

JDK 7

https://jdk7.dev.java.net/

OSGi Jigsaw interop

http://architects.dzone.com/news/java-modularity-osgi-and

Maven dependencies

http://maven.apache.org/guides/introduction/introduction-to-dependency-mechanism.html

OSGi spec (see chapter 3)

http://www.osgi.org/Specifications/HomePage

Module private access control

http://altair.cs.oswego.edu/pipermail/jsr294-modularity-eg/2009-January/000187.html

Twittersteria!

http://twitter.com/#search?q=%23twittersteria

OSGi modularized Harmony

http://www.osgi.org/blog/2008/05/java-modularity.html

Classpath for configuration / properties

http://www.devx.com/tips/Tip/15429

Java boot classpath

http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/docs/tooldocs/findingclasses.html

JSR 277 (now inactive)

http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=277

JSR 294 observer list

http://cs.oswego.edu/mailman/listinfo/jsr294-modularity-observer

Jigsaw devs list

http://mail.openjdk.java.net/mailman/listinfo/jigsaw-dev

Thanks

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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 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 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TAX0gJt-aZg
- Closing - Juan Carlos Jimenez - In the House (Intro No. 1)

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Java Posse #258 - Newscast for June 12th 2009

javaposse@gmail.com (Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll, Dick Wall) — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 18:43:00 -0700

Newscast for June 12th 2009

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JavaOne over for another year

Tor's secret project unveiled at JavaOne - the JavaFX Designer Tool

Quick News

JSR 330 will standardize a dependency injection API (including standard annotations) for Java SE

NetBeans 6.7 RC2 is already available

On June 26th, the Eclipse foundation will be presenting a virtual conference called Galileo in Action

http://www.eclipse.org/org/press-release/20090608_galileoinaction.php

Google has released a Java ME Orkut application that works on most Java enabled mobile devices

http://m.google.com/orkut

Java 6 U 14 has been released by Sun

http://java.sun.com/javase/downloads/index.jsp

The blow-up about the new Garbage First GC only being available to customers paying Sun for Java support has turned out to be false

http://www.infoq.com/news/2009/06/g1-free-or

LinuxDevices reports that the Android stack has been ported to MIPS processors

http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS2820170679.html

Developers using the Hudson continuous integration engine might well be interested in a new iPhone and iPod touch application

http://greensopinion.blogspot.com/2009/05/hudson-helper-hudson-on-your-iphone.html

FasterXML has released version 1.0 of the Jackson JSON open source processor

http://jackson.codehaus.org/

ScalaWags

Caoyuan has released version 1.0 of the Scala Plugin for NetBeans

http://blogtrader.net/dcaoyuan/entry/scala_plugin_version_1_for

Hot on the heels of Scala 2.7.4, 2.7.5 has now been released

http://www.scala-lang.org/node/2061

scouchDB - the scala couchDB API by Debashish Ghosh, now has support for Reduce functions written in Scala

http://debasishg.blogspot.com/2009/06/scouchdb-scala-view-server-gets-reduce.html

3 of the top 10 selling books at JavaOne are Scala books!

http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?thread_id=54862

The Scala language site has a new series of articles about the upcoming 2.8 release

Thanks

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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 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 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TAX0gJt-aZg
- Closing - Juan Carlos Jimenez - In the House (Intro No. 1)

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Java Posse #257 - JavaFX Interview from JavaOne 2009

javaposse@gmail.com (Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll, Dick Wall) — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 10:45:00 -0700

JavaFX Interview from JavaOne 2009

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We talk to Octavian Tanase and Jacob Lehrbaum about JavaFX and the new Java App Store

JavaFX

Java App Store

http://www.java.com/en/store/

JavaFX Designer Tool

http://java.sun.com/javaone/2009/articles/gen_javafxinaction.jsp

LG JavaFX enabled TV

http://www.sun.com/aboutsun/pr/2009-06/sunflash.20090602.3.xml

Octavian's Blog

http://blogs.sun.com/octav/entry/bleeding_edge_plugins

The Gimp

http://www.gimp.org/

Inkscape

http://www.inkscape.org/

HTC Diamond

http://www.htc.com/www/product/touchdiamond/overview.html

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 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 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TAX0gJt-aZg
- Closing - Juan Carlos Jimenez - In the House (Intro No. 1)

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Java Posse #0x100 (256) - JavaOne 2009 Java Posse BoF

javaposse@gmail.com (Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll, Dick Wall) — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 01:22:00 -0700

JavaOne 2009 Java Posse BoF

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Recorded in front of live studio audience at JavaOne 2009 in the Java Posse Birds of a Feather session.

http://java.sun.com/javaone/

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 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 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TAX0gJt-aZg
- Closing - Juan Carlos Jimenez - In the House (Intro No. 1)

To contact us:
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Java Posse #254 - Newscast for May 27th 2009

javaposse@gmail.com (Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll, Dick Wall) — Thu, 28 May 2009 09:01:00 -0700

Newscast for May 27th 2009

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Microsoft has a keynote at JavaOne

Java Application of the Week: DirSync Pro

http://directorysync.sourceforge.net/

Quick News

The Glassfish Tools Bundle v1.0 for Eclipse has been released

http://blogs.sun.com/theaquarium/entry/glassfish_tools_bundle_for_eclipse

Drools 5.0 final has been released by JBoss

http://www.jboss.org/drools/

Eclipse is experimenting with a novel fund-raising idea: Friends of Eclipse

http://eclipse.dzone.com/articles/friends-get-it-sooner-and

Eclipse 3.5.0 (Galileo) RC1 downloads are now available

http://www.eclipse.org/org/press-release/20090525_galileoblogathon.php

IntelliJ now has an early access version of IDEA 9 (codenamed Maia) including support for Java EE 6

http://blogs.jetbrains.com/idea/2009/05/maia-eap-is-finally-here/

Loom 1.5 has been released

http://loom.extrema-sistemas.org/

The ServerSide Java Symposium Europe has issued a call for papers

http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?thread_id=54730

Kirill Grouchnikov has released version 4.1 of Flamingo, and version 5.2 of Substance look and Feel

ScalaWags

Martin Odersky will be joining us at TwitterHQ in SF on Thursday night

http://groups.google.com/group/scala-base

And! Don't forget the Scala LiftOff on the Saturday after JavaOne.

http://scalaliftoff.com/

Listener Feedback

JClouds-S3

http://code.google.com/p/jclouds/

Guice 2.0 released

http://crazybob.org/2009/05/guice.html

Electric vehicle information

Functional Java

http://code.google.com/p/functionaljava

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 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 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TAX0gJt-aZg
- Closing - Juan Carlos Jimenez - In the House (Intro No. 1)

To contact us:
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Java Posse #253 - Roundup 09 - Java Language a Productivity Dead End?

javaposse@gmail.com (Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll, Dick Wall) — Mon, 25 May 2009 17:13:00 -0700

Is the Java Language a Productivity Dead End?

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Recorded at the Java Posse Roundup 2009, this session takes an objective look at where we go from here with the Java language, and what the future might hold (including other languages for productivity).

Keep Java the same?

http://java.sun.com/developer/technicalArticles/Interviews/bloch_effective_08_qa.html

Change Java?

Closures

http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-06-2008/jw-06-closures.html

Properties and Events

http://blogs.sun.com/joe/entry/java_properties_and_events

Project Coin

http://openjdk.java.net/projects/coin/

Sid Dabster - User Friendly

http://www.userfriendly.org/cartoons/sid/

Changes in Fortran and Cobol

Enumerations and Iterators

http://www.coderanch.com/t/202139/Performance/java/Enumeration-vs-Iterator

Java Puzzlers

http://www.javapuzzlers.com/

Builder pattern

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

Domain Specific Languages

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain-specific_programming_language

Does productivity in other languages scale to hundreds of developers?

JVM languages summit

http://www.infoq.com/JVMLanguageSummit

Scala

http://www.scala-lang.org/

Server Side JavaScript

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Server-side_JavaScript

Java FX

http://www.devarticles.com/c/a/JavaScript/Client-side-and-Server-side-JavaScript/

Forth

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forth_%28programming_language%29

Lisp

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

Ruby on Rails

http://rubyonrails.org/

Annotations

http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/java/javaOO/annotations.html

Elvis operator - inline null check

http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/coin-dev/2009-March/000047.html

Groovy

http://groovy.codehaus.org/

Grails

http://grails.org/

Generics

http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/guide/language/generics.html

Java -source flag

http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/tooldocs/windows/javac.html#options

Reification in Generics

http://gafter.blogspot.com/2006/11/reified-generics-for-java.html

Option types in Scala

http://blog.lostlake.org/index.php?/archives/50-The-Scala-Option-class-and-how-lift-uses-it.html

Higher order functions

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-highfunc.html

Java exceptions multiple catch proposal

http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/coin-dev/2009-February/000003.html

Checked exceptions vs Runtime exceptions

http://www.oracle.com/technology/pub/articles/dev2arch/2006/11/effective-exceptions.html

Findbugs

http://findbugs.sourceforge.net/

PHP and Zend

http://www.zend.com/en/

Technical Debt

http://blogs.construx.com/blogs/stevemcc/archive/2007/11/01/technical-debt-2.aspx

Python 3000

http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-3000/

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 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 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TAX0gJt-aZg
- Closing - Juan Carlos Jimenez - In the House (Intro No. 1)

To contact us:
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Java Posse #252 - Newscast for May 21st 2009

javaposse@gmail.com (Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll, Dick Wall) — Fri, 22 May 2009 09:23:00 -0700

Newscast for May 21st 2009

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Eclipse 3.5 RC1 has been released by the Eclipse foundation

http://download.eclipse.org/eclipse/downloads/drops/S-3.5RC1-200905151143/index.php

Spring and Guice pair up to standardize Dependency Injection, but what about JSR 299?

http://in.relation.to/11211.lace

Also, Guice 2.0 has just been released
http://code.google.com/p/google-guice/
http://google-code-updates.blogspot.com/2009/05/guice-deuce.html
And DZone has an interview and podcast with Pete Muir about JSR 299
http://java.dzone.com/articles/java-contexts-dependency-injection

An unpatched vulnerability has left Mac OS X users wide open to a major security flaw

http://landonf.bikemonkey.org/code/macosx/CVE-2008-5353.20090519.html
http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/05/19/2344239&from=rss
And Landon Fuller is still hard at work making sure the BSD port of OpenJDK keeps up on the mac
http://lists.macosforge.org/pipermail/macports-changes/2009-May/032814.html

Java App of the Week: aPlayer

http://www.atunes.org/

Quick News

Jonathan Schwartz has announced the creation of a Java app store

http://blogs.sun.com/jonathan/

http://weblogs.java.net/blog/opinali/archive/2009/05/suns_new_app_st.html

Also the upcoming 1.5 release of JavaFX will include Solaris and Linux as fully supported platforms

http://weblogs.java.net/blog/opinali/archive/2009/05/full_javafx_com.html

And Ed Ort has an article highlighting JavaFX applications from the community in JavaFX App-O-Rama

http://java.sun.com/developer/technicalArticles/javafx/AppORama/

Version 1.6.3 of Groovy has been released

There is a new Java podcast available. IllegalArgument is a Java/JVM focused podcast from 3 New Zealanders

http://www.illegalargument.com/

And yet more podcasts, Abraham Otero wrote in to tell us about JavaHispano, a Java podcast in the Spanish language

Google has updated the API for Java on the Google App Engine to version 1.2.1

http://googleappengine.blogspot.com/2009/05/java-sdk-version-121-now-available.html

There still a few open slots for the community corner podcast schedule at the Java.net booth for JavaOne

In anticipation of the upcoming Eclipse 3.5 release, there are a number of demo camps happening around the world

http://wiki.eclipse.org/Eclipse_DemoCamps_Galileo_2009

JSF 2.0 is in final vote until May 26th

And, David Geary has started up a new series of articles on JSF 2.0

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/java/library/j-jsf2fu1/index.html

Hudson now has a Selenium Grid plugin available

http://weblogs.java.net/blog/kohsuke/archive/2009/05/hudson_selenium.html

There is now a PXE (preboot execution environment) plugin available for Hudson

http://weblogs.java.net/blog/kohsuke/archive/2009/05/hudson_pxe_plug.html

After the recent release of Android 1.5 cupcake

http://www.geek.com/articles/mobile/top-10-features-youll-love-about-android-15-2009058/

Developer.com has a new article about using the Drools 5 rules engine (recently released)

The organizers of Jazoon 2009 have confirmed that James Gosling will deliver the Opening Keynote

http://weblogs.java.net/blog/felipegaucho/archive/2009/05/james_gosling_l.html

Apache Tapestry 5.1 final has been released

http://tapestry.apache.org/tapestry5.1/

The SpringSource Tool Suite is now available for free

http://blog.springsource.com/2009/05/07/springsource-tool-suite-now-free/

The proposed final draft for the Servlet 3.0 spec (JSR 315) is now available

LambdaJ - the 1.8 version has just been released

http://code.google.com/p/lambdaj/

Kent Beck and David Saff have released version 4.6 of JUnit

http://junit.org/taxonomy/term/11%2B5

Atlassian, awesome beer sponsor and developer tools vendor, has released version 2.5 of clover

http://blogs.atlassian.com/news/2009/05/clover_25_relea.html

ScalaWags

The NeoDatis object database (ODB) version 1.9 has been released

http://www.neodatis.org/release-1-9

Our first ScalaWags library of the week. ScalaZ, described as Scala on Steroids

http://code.google.com/p/scalaz/

Toby Reyelts, Alex Rudnick and Lex Spoon have written an article on running Scala on the Google App Engine

http://www.scala-lang.org/node/1826

Frank Sommers and James Ward have teamed up for an article about using Scala and Flex together

http://www.artima.com/articles/flex_and_scala.html

Ted Neward has an article up on DeveloperWorks about using Scala with Twitter

Debasish Ghosh has been busy working on a CouchDB API for Scala

Jim McBeath has a Scala Syntax Primer on his blog that can ramp you up quickly on some of the syntactic differences from Java

http://jim-mcbeath.blogspot.com/2008/09/scala-syntax-primer.html

Listener Feedback

Java Posse Debates

... I've recently been enjoying the debate on Gavin King's JSR-299 and Bob Lee's @Inject spec here and here. These threads are very informative and really help in understanding the issues on both sides of this important topic....

Tesla and Java

http://www.capgemini.com/technology-blog/2009/05/the_tesla_cloud_mobile_model_s.php

JUG USA Summit on June 2nd

http://tinyurl.com/jug-usa-summit

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 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 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TAX0gJt-aZg
- 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