Java Posse #097 - Newscast for December 19th 2006

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Newscast for December 19th 2006

• Google Web Toolkit 1.3 - Open Sourced
• http://googlewebtoolkit.blogspot.com/2006/12/
  gwt-13-release-candidate-is-100-open_12.html
• http://ajaxian.com/archives/
  google-web-toolkit-13-open-source
• http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20061213-8411.html
• http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20061213-8411.html

• Seam 1.1 has been released
• http://www.theserverside.com/news/
  thread.tss?thread_id=43487
• http://blog.hibernate.org/cgi-bin/blosxom.cgi/
  2006/12/13#seam11-goes-ga

• The JavaOne 2007 call for papers closed last Friday, but if you missed it and you just have to talk about something, The Server Side Java Symposium 2007 for Europe registration opened
• http://www.theserverside.com/news/
  thread.tss?thread_id=43503

• Matthew Schmidt at Java Lobby talks about the rumor that Java 6 final on the mac will only be available for Mac OS X 10.5
• http://www.javalobby.org/java/forums/t86155.html

• Webstarted app of the Week - Google Calendar Desktop Client
• http://www.javalobby.org/java/forums/t85677.html

• Applet of the week - Dasher
• http://blogs.sun.com/korn/date/20061211

Quick News Items

• James Gosling has written an open letter to the Java community
• http://www.oreillynet.com/onjava/blog/2006/12/
  james_goslings_letter_to_the_j.html?CMP=OTC-FP2116136014&
  ATT=James+Gosling+s+Letter+to+the+Java+Community

• Eclipse 3.3 Milestone 4 has been released
• http://download.eclipse.org/eclipse/downloads/drops/
  S-3.3M4-200612141445/eclipse-news-M4.html

• Mylar, the eclipse based, intent-focused plugin, has reached version 1.0
• http://www.theserverside.com/news/
  thread.tss?thread_id=43440
• http://www.eclipse.org/org/press-release/
  20061212_mylar.php

• The netbeans 5.5 multi-lingual release is now out
• http://www.netbeans.org/community/
  news/index.html#975

• Sun continues to open up the process of planning JavaOne
• http://forums.java.net/jive/forum.jspa?
  forumID=110&start=0

• Grasshopper 2.0 preview from Mainsoft is an updated of their grasshopper .NET to Java compatibility suite
• http://dev.mainsoft.com/default.aspx?
  tabid=235&utm_source=vend

• Gigaspaces version 5.2 is out
• http://www.theserverside.com/news/
  thread.tss?thread_id=43451
• http://www.gigaspaces.com/
• http://www.gigaspaces.com/wiki/display/
  GS/Jini+Transaction+Manager
• http://www.gigaspaces.com/wiki/display/
  GS/JavaSpaces

• Dave Gilbert asks, and answers, is Java 6 faster than Java 5
• http://jroller.com/page/dgilbert?entry=is_java_se_1_6
• http://www.jfree.org/jfreechart/

• The Sun Tutorial Divas have a blog entry about using jMaki (the AJAX wrapper library for Java) under the new Netbeans Visual Web Pack to visually create an AJAX application
• http://blogs.sun.com/divas/entry/
  using_jmaki_in_a_visual

• JTrac, the Java based open source issue tracking system, has reached version 2.0
• http://www.javalobby.org/java/forums/t86138.html

• Firebug 1.0 beta has been released to the public
• http://www.getfirebug.com/blog/
  2006/12/04/firebug-10-news/
• http://www.getfirebug.com/

• Infragistics has just released Version 2.0 of NetAdvantage for JSF 2006
• http://infragistics.com/java/netadvantage/
  jsf.aspx#Overview

• How to actually build Java from source
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/kellyohair/
  archive/2006/12/jdk6_build_chea.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 for Java Posse artwork
• Nick Trefz, the voice of TopCoder, for the voiceovers
• Brian Ehmann - the Java Posse intern
  
• 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://www.loosebrucekerr.com
  • Closing - A track written by Dick in Apple's Garageband
    

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