• NetBeans 6.5 release candidate 2 is out
• http://www.netbeans.org/community/releases/65/ 
• http://wiki.netbeans.org/NewAndNoteWorthy
• http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/NewsItemView?newsItemID=1304
  

• Alex Miller over at JavaLobby has a couple of articles looking ahead to JSR 203 - NIO 2
• http://java.dzone.com/articles/some-jsr-203-examples 
• http://java.dzone.com/articles/some-more-jsr203-examples
• http://homepages.borland.com/bstone/opentools/doc/ref/OpenToolsAPI/
  com/borland/primetime/vfs/package-frame.html
  
• http://today.java.net/pub/a/today/2008/07/03/jsr-203-new-file-apis.html

• An interesting discussion and poll over at Java.net pits SOAP vs. ReST
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/editors/archives/2008/10/this_aint_a_sce.html 
• http://www.java.net/pub/pq/231 
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/cayhorstmann/archive/2008/10/restless_about.html 

• Application of the week - Thinkfree Office Netbook Edition
• http://product.thinkfree.com/mobile/netbook
  
• http://www.thinkfree.com/views/jsp/user/etc/netbook_survey.jsp
  

• Project of the week: jLab
• https://jlab.dev.java.net/
  

• And, Mobile application of the week: GMail 2.0, now with offline features
• http://googlemobile.blogspot.com/2008/10/introducing-gmail-for-mobile-20.html
• http://m.google.com/mail

• Bonus mobile application of the week: BooksInMyPhone
• http://www.booksinmyphone.com/index.php
  

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

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