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Posted by editor on November 10, 2006 at 7:09 AM PST


Lunch with 1/4 of the Java Posse

It turns out that Dick Wall of the Java Posse podcast works just 15 minutes down I-75 from me here in Atlanta, so while swapping mail about their upcoming conference, he suggested we get together for lunch sometime. We finally did so yesterday, and only as I listened to their latest show on the way down to the restaurant did I realize that he's taken a job with Google in California and is finishing up here and preparing a move... OK, now I felt like kind of a heel for taking up an hour of his time when so much is going on.

One of the things I find so surprising about the Posse is that their interest in Java is genuine and infective. Considering that I'm dealing with Java blurbs, weblogs, and articles all day, I would think that the last thing I'd want to listen to in my time off is four guys talking about Java. I should want to run away and listen to one of the 4,000 mediocre anime podcasts in my iTunes directory, right? Yet, I often find myself turning to the Posse to get their take on what's up in Java, to hear them kicking around the ideas and news items featured on java.net and elsewhere.

The latest episode announced dates (March 6-9, 2007) for the "Java Posse Roundup", a small unconference to be held in Crested Butte, Colorado, with the assistance of Thinking in Java author Bruce Eckel. Talking Java by morning and skiing by afternoon sounds like a nice way to spend a late-winter week, don't you think?

We're linking to the latest episode of the Java Posse Podcast today, as this grab-bag episode
catches up with a number of popular topics among the java.net readership, including the release of NetBeans 5.5, a huge JSR roundup, and Romain Guy's announcement of an upcoming "Filthy Rich Clients" book co-authored with Chet Haase. They also discuss Mono and its relationship to Java EE, the latest GWT release, GMail for Java ME, and more.

Also in the
Java Today section,
the Sun Grid Cool Apps Developer Contest has come to a close and the winners have been announced. The article Spotlights on the Sun Grid Cool Apps Contest Winners introduces each developer and their winning projects, ranging from Neural Networks and fractal based images to search engines. The article says that "many of the winners are looking for developers to contribute to their project. It's a great way to get started on the Sun Grid!"

Balloting for the 2006 JCP Executive Committee Elections ends on Monday, November 13. The election will fill the open seats on the SE/EE and ME executive committees and is open to registered JCP members. SE/EE Executive Committee nominees are Capgemini, Tom Crosman, Jean-Marie Dautelle, Doug Lea, Justen M. Stupka, Evan Summers, and Mauro Do Valle. The ME nominees are Jean-Marie Dautelle, Ericsson AB, and Sirf Technology Holdings, Inc.

Reacting to discussion of the doc.java.sun.com project, James Gosling acknowledges
Contribution agreements considered "just stupid"

in today's Weblogs.
"I happen to agree with the commentator on my doc.java.sun.com post. There ought to be a better way. But contribution agreements are remarkably common. Take a look at the one that the Apache Project uses. It's even longer than ours."

Mohamed Abdelaziz has an introduction to JXTA-based
Shoal Dynamic Clustering:
"A few days ago http://shoal.dev.java.net was open sourced. Shoal is a java based clustering framework that provides the foundation for building fault tolerance, reliability and availability. The Shoal project was initiated a few months ago as a collaborative effort between the GlassFish appserver group at Sun and the JXTA group at Sun."

Finally, Joshua Marinacci has an update on
My first two weeks at Netbeans:
"Greetings from Prague. I've been at Netbeans for about two weeks now and it's been quite a busy time. I think I'm really going to like it here. Everyone is very friendly, the city is beautiful, and they have excellent..."

In today's Forums,

paulby reports on Project Looking Glass getting a good reception, in the post
LG3D at the Ubuntu Developer Summit:
"I've spent most of this week at the Ubuntu Developer Summit which has been very interesting. There is an enormous amount of enthusiasm here for visually rich desktops and we hope to capatilise on this energy. The main outcome of the discussions here is that we have been asked to include lg3d in the Multiverse (or possibly universe) for the Ubuntu Feisty release."

docampbell asks:
Can we have an additional Web Service contructor generated - please ?:
"Can wsimport et. al. please generate, in addition to the current constructors, an additional single parameter constructor that does not require passing in the QName details for the service that is being called (e.g. {http://some.namespace}SuperService)? The reason I ask is that all the QName details are already in the generated class and when specifying a "dynamic" address for the web service, this is 99.99% of the time simply because it is hosted at a different location to the original that was used to generate the code. The QName details for the service are exactly the same, so all I want to do is specify a new location."

zafoe wants total control over his JDIC browser component in
JDIC Browser - force native browser version?:
"I am looking at the JDIC Browser for a product I am working on and so far really like what I am seeing. But what I would like to do is force the browser to use FireFox rather than any other browser if FireFox is installed. So I guess my question(s) is/are : Can I force the control to use a particular version? And if so ... how do I get a list of installed browsers so I know I can force it?"

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