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JavaPosse Episode 158

This is a tracklist of a JavaPosse Episode. Original shownotes and the audible mp3 can be found here . More tracklists can be found here . Newcast for January 9th 2008 00:25 Intro (T-shirt is available) 01:44 Roundup - only days left for the early bird price 02:35 Bruce Eckel: should we simply stop adding new features to Java? 17:40 Apple has released an updated developer preview version of Java 6 22:50 Two Professors from NYU have slammed Java as a teaching language 33:20 Scala Roundup 38:00 Library of the week - PDF Renderer 40:30 Up and coming Project of the Week - Mighty Box Quick News Items 44:00 JSR 271 - The Mobile Information Device Profile 3 (better known as MIDP 3) 44:23 Chris Adamson has issued a call for comments on how java.net might be improved in 2008 44:48 Is Rails a Ghetto? 45:51 Apache Wicket 1.3 has been released 46:09 Motorola has released a new version of the ROKR music playing phone 46:15 JSR 286 - the Java Portlet Specification 2.0 46:33 JSR 255 - JMX (the Java M

JavaPosse Episode 163

This is a tracklist of a JavaPosse Episode. Original shownotes and the audible mp3 can be found Shownotes . More tracklists can be found More Tracklists . 00:30 Intro -couple of guests in studio, club feeling, somebody is speaking from the cupboard. Roundup, Sun / MySQL, etc. 17:28 Grails 1.0 released 21:10 Registration for JavaOne is now open 30:25 Closures 38:50 JSF has passed Swing as the number one GUI component model for job demand 42:20 JavaFX update N, reinventing client Java 49:40 Nymbus Look and Feel 52:10 Font rendering Quick News 64:00 A NetBeans Innovators Grants program has been introduced by Sun 64:50 How to write a full application that uses JSF, Seam 2.0 and JPA together, Carol McDonald's blog 65:26 Duke's Choice Award (deadline is 14th March) 65:40 Opera Mobile 69:37 TheServerSide.com has an introduction to using MapReduce in Java applications 69:58 Sun has released a new version of their Solaris Express Developer Edition 70:57 Sun has also posted a pro

JavaPosse Episode 162

This is a tracklist of a JavaPosse Episode. Original shownotes and the audible mp3 can be found here . More tracklists can be found here . Interview with Dalibor Topic about Open JDK, the JCP, Kaffe, Iced Tea and more 00:40 Intro 01:44 About Kaffe project 05:28 What's the current state of Kaffe now? 07:35 Are annotations and generics supported by Kaffe now? 09:15 What were the trade-offs between those two licenses and why did you end up picking the GPL side of the two? 10:45 How difficult is it to hit a moving target like the Java Language Specification in a project like Kaffe? 12:26 What do you think is the future for Kaffe? 14:25 ... Are you seeing now that OpenJDK is open sourced or at least mostly open sourced that it's definitely being picked up from those kind of distributions? (Java in Linux) 16:25 Any other project you are involved? (GNU classpath) 17:20 Dalibor's relationship with OpenJDK. 20:33 The OpenJDK was released under the GPLv2 with the classpath exception.

JavaPosse Episode 161

This is a tracklist of a JavaPosse Episode. Original shownotes and the audible mp3 can be found here . More tracklists can be found here . Open JavaME and JavaSE interviews 00:30 Intro : About roundup signups, skiing, next episode (will be a listener feedback session), etc 05:00 About interview at Sun Java Mobile and Embedded Developer Days 06:10 Sun aquiring MySQL 12:52 Oracle acquiring BEA 17:25 Is the Geronimo in trouble? 20:00 Applet of the Week: Sea Level applets 21:05 Project of the week - LoboBrowser Quick News 23:43 JDK6u4 24:00 CommunityOne 2008 call for participation 24:38 JavaZone 2008 call for presentations 25:17 Jazoon 08 25:50 EclipseCon 26:21 Artifactory, Maven 26:34 Chris Richardson's blog entry 27:04 JSR 323 - Strong Mobility for Java 27:41 Bill Venners has released a new testing tool - ScalaTest ('JUnit for Scala') 28:06 The Developer.com product awards for 2008 have been announced 28:32 JackRabbit 1.4 28:49 Apache Jakarta Commons Pool 1.4 29:10 Neal Gafte

JavaPosse Episode 159

This is a tracklist of a JavaPosse Episode. Original shownotes and the audible mp3 can be found here . More tracklists can be found here . Open source ME and SE interviews 00:30 Intro, background 01:16 Interview with Terence Barr, introduction 02:11 What happened since the announcement of open sourcing JavaME? 03:21 What were the reasons for applying GPLv2 without the classpath exception? Has it turned out to be a good choice in retrospect? 05:53 Had commercial licensees react to the open sourcing of JavaME? 07:42 What the deal is with JavaME CLDC and JavaME CDC? It was reported earlier that CLDC was being killed. What's going on here? 10:02 Have you seen any unusual or unexpected port JavaME since it was open sourced? 12:52 Do you think JavaME development has accelerated as a result of its open sourcing? 14:06 How will the JavaFX script work in JavaME? When will we see FX script running on mobile devices any time soon? 15:45 What's the story with device availability? Are there

JavaPosse Episode 155

This is a tracklist of a JavaPosse Episode. Original shownotes and the audible mp3 can be found here . More tracklists can be found here . 00:25 Prologue 00:50 Introducing Martin Odersky 05:14 How long have you been working on Scala? 06:35 Do you think Scala can be a general purpose language? 08:58 Why Scala is a much more practical approach to functional programming than something like Miranda is? 11:37 What are monets? (?) 13:42 What do you suggest for Java programmers to get started in Scala? (First steps to Scala) 17:16 Earliest real world examples of Scala usage 20:00 What other applications do you see as perfect fits for Scala? 22:00 Why immutability is kind of that important in functional languages or Scala? 24:10 About XML 'efficiency' in Java 26:00 What do you think about closures in Java? 28:28 Embedding XML in Scala 30:52 What's your strategy about (backward) compatibility? 34:00 ending

JavaPosse Episode 153

This is a tracklist of a JavaPosse Episode. Original shownotes and the audible mp3 can be found here . More tracklists can be found here . Newscast for Dec 6th 2007 02:55 NetBeans 6.0 GWT plugin, Scala plugin(s) 09:05 Spring 2.5 has been released 11:25 Applets of the Week: Maths, Physics and Engineering applets 14:30 Android news: Robert Cooper's article 15:20 Carlos Bazarella from Polipus, ME4Android 15:40 OHA member Ascender announced 'Droid Fonts' 16:52 Starting with android. Article from John Lombardo 17:12 AndroidPort - new Google Group 17:22 Karl Pauls of Luminis has managed, to get Apache Felix to work on Android Quick New Items 17:44 TheServerSide article about RestFaces 18:45 Mark Reinhold, Governance Board 20:00 Think Record Storage 20:30 Atlassian Software has released version 1.2 of Crowd 20:50 The Apache project has released version 1.1 Final of Continuum 21:00 JBoss has released a JSF unit testing tool: JSFUnit 21:46 Project Mojarra 23:46 JSR321 - Trusted Comp

JavaPosse Episode 160

This is a tracklist of a JavaPosse Episode. Original shownotes and the audible mp3 can be found here . More tracklists can be found here . Interview with Bob Lee about Guice (Guice is an IoC framework.) 00:30 Intro 00:47 What is Guice? 03:56 What was the reason to start a new framework? 10:23 Have you seen people use it for really small things? 12:51 What's coming up? 22:50 Some things about Google Collections API 23:55 Differences between weak and soft references 26:15 Interesting combinations of strong and weak references in practice 28:18 What are the other things that you think are coming in the future for Google Collections? 30:30 Anything else, goodbye, outro...