Eric and Ken talk about Amazon's new DNS server, Route 53, discuss Matt Raible's excellent web frameworks comparison study, discuss resources for Scala from the Basement Coders, talk about a new mixin feature request around the Ruby language, and more.

Disclaimers: Chariot is a SpringSource partner, and uses Amazon and Google services. The opinions of Eric and Ken do not reflect anything other than their viewpoints. Enjoy.

• Raible Designs | My Comparing JVM Web Frameworks Presentation from Devoxx 2010
• InfoQ: Amazon Route 53, a DNS Server in the Cloud
• Scala Language Tour
• Ruby Refinements: An Overview of a New Proposed Ruby Feature
• App Engine gets Streaming API and longer background tasks
• InfoQ: Spring Integration 2.0 Released

James Ward has been a guest on numerous podcasts (ETE Evening Podcast - 2010, Episode 34, Episode 18).

He is here this week to give us the state of the state in Adobe's Flash-based RIA technologies, including Flex 4, Flash Catalyst, Air 2.5, and Adobe's support for HTML 5 and CSS 3.  We discuss mobile platform technologies as well, including how Air is being targeted as the mobile flash platform for Android, the Blackberry tablet, and iOS.

Links:

• First Steps in Flex - screencasts with Bruce Eckel (includes link to the book)
• James Ward's homepage / blog - jamesward.com
• James Ward's GitHub Repository
• Jangaroo, an ActionScript -> JavaScript cross-compiler
• The Adobe Edge Prototype - HTML 5 editor ala Dreamweaver, Flash Builder, etc...
• What's new in Air 2.5

Today's conference session is a talk from this week's Mobile Application Developer seminar series, held by Chariot Solutions, in Philadelphia. 

The talk, "State of the Art for Mobile Application Development", was given by Chariot's Don Coleman, who develops both enterprise and mobile applications in a variety of platforms and languages.  In this talk, he surveys the current landscape of APIs and platforms, and gives his perspective on where things are today, and where they may be moving to in the future.

Links

• Presentation Slides
• Javascript frameworks
  • jqTouch - http://jqtouch.com
  • Sencha Touch - http://sencha.com
  • SproutCore - http://sproutcore.com
  • IUI - http://code.google.com/p/iui
  • XUI - http://xuijs.com
  • Zepto - http://zeptojs.com
  • Phone Gap - http://phonegap.com
  • Rho Mobile - http://rhomobile.com
  • Titanium Appcelerator - http://appcelerator.com
  • Corona - http://www.anscamobile.com
  • Adobe Air 2.5 - http://adobe.com

This week's show includes BREAKING NEWS (we need some sort of web effect for this) - Apple is joining the Open JDK.  Should really mix things up.

• Oracle and Apple Announce OpenJDK Project for Mac OS X | Business Wire
• Apache threatens Oracle with Java exit • The Register
• PhoneGap Build
• Pyspread
• Django 1.3 Alpha 1 Released
• Socializing Spring Applications | SpringSource Team Blog
• Dan Allen's Open Letter to the JCP Executive Committee calling for JCP reform - TheServerSide.com
• Worth Repeating: Your Application is NOT Lightweight If... - TheServerSide.com
• RSpec best practices
• Spring Web Flow 2.2.0 Released | SpringSource.org

This podcast is brought to you by Chariot Solutions.  We're hiring!  Visit our recruiting page for more details. 

Sponsored Events:

• December 1, 2010 @ Conshohocken Marriott - Continuous Integration for the Enterprise
• December 7, 2010 @ Chariot - Enterprise Integration with Spring
• December 14, 2010 @ Chariot - Rich Web Applications with Spring

Act now for savings - use discount code 'spring25' for 25% off either of the Spring courses.

Recap session with Chariot's Gordon Dickens and Dmitry Sklyut.

Chariot is a SpringSource Education and Consulting partner.

Topics

• Keynote
• Spring Core
• Spring Data
• Grails and Reddis
• git.springsource.org
• Spring Integration
• Roo 1.1 release

Ken 

Sponsor Note

Visit Chariot Solutions' Education Calendar for details on upcoming training courses in Spring, Maven

There is still time to register for our Mobile Event and our Continuous Integration event, both held in the Philadelphia area.

 

Ok, folks.  So many things happened in the past week that we needed to get an episode out to talk about them. Not that Eric or me have any line into correct reasoning behind anything, but we wanted to talk, so here it is:  our Cats-and-Dogs episode!

We have several debates raging in Java-land right now, between the "Spring is a legacy framework" bruhaha, the movement to OpenJDK by IBM, and Apple's deprecation of the OS X JDK.  We attempt to take no side, but we also leave no stone unturned (or is that Tern unstoned) in our efforts to open up debate on these topics...

Links

• Russian Army Upgrades Its Inflatable Weapons
• Lincoln Baxter - Moving from Spring to Java EE 6: The age of Frameworks is Over
• Matt Raible - RE: Moving from Spring to Java EE 6: The Age of Frameworks is Over
• A follow-on Post on RedHat's site which links to a seminar - and the SlideShare presentation
• Apple Deprecates its JVM - Another view on Apple and Java
• IBM moving to OpenJDK - Slashdot Developers Story | IBM and Oracle To Collaborate On OpenJDK
• NOSQL in the house… Riak 0.13 Released

Standard Podcast Disclaimers:

• The views expressed are not those of Chariot Solutions, and are opinions of Ken and Eric
• Chariot Solutions partners with JBoss and SpringSource

Send feedback to us on twitter!  @techcast for the show, or @krimple for Ken, @time2code for Eric

Thanks,

Ken and Eric

Interview with Mark Fisher - SpringSource, a division of VMWare on Spring Integration

Hosts:  Ken Rimple & Gordon Dickens

Mark Fisher is an engineer at SpringSource, a division of VMWare, who leads the Spring Integration project.  He is a Spring consultant, contributor to the core framework, and works on projects such as Spring Flex Integration and the Spring AQMP project.  A long time member of SpringSource, back to the Interface21 days, Mark has deep roots in what makes Spring tick.

Spring Integration is, as Mark describes it, Spring meets Enterprise Integration Patterns.  In this talk, we discuss:

• How Mark got involved in the Spring Framework
• An overview of Spring Integration
• Discussion of version 2.0 features, including a number of new adapters, additional patterns, enhancements brought with Spring 3.0 and more

Mark is also working on Spring Integration In Action for Manning, which should be released early next year.  He will be doing three talks at SpringOne in Chicago next week, covering Spring Integration, 

Technologies mentioned in this podcast include:

• Spring 3.0
• Apache Activiti
• Spring Integration
• Spring Batch
• Spring Roo
• Grails

Disclosure : Chariot is a SpringSource consulting and education partner.

Sponsor Announcement

The Chariot TechCast podcast is sponsored by Chariot Solutions.

Chariot is holding training in various Spring courses before the end of the year, including the Spring Enterprise Integration course, which covers Spring Integration as well as Spring Batch, on 12/7.  More details can be found on our training calendar.

Do you know why you're binding those HQL parameters? Want to make the simplest AppEngine application in Groovy? How about learning about why you're such a bad programmer (that includes all of us, according to the post).

All this and more in today's Developer News for Thursday October 7, 2010.

• The Future of Java: forking, death, or stasis
• Do You Know Ruby's Chainsaw Method?
• Uncle Bob Martin's - "Clojure - Up Close and Personal"
• Coté's People Over Process » Liferay evolving beyond portals – the app server vacuum – Quick Analysis
• InfoQ: Revving Up Your Hibernate Engine
• Grails - 1.3.5 Release Notes
• thejavajar » Blog Archive » Gaelyk: Routes + Parameters + Binding = Simple Controller
• Daily Dose - Helios First Service Release
• You're a Bad Programmer. Embrace It. | Agile Zone
• Drools 5.1 Released

Have a great week!  - Ken and Eric.

Sponsored by: Chariot Solutions Events and Training for Fall/Winter 2010/11:

• Event: Chariot Solutions Mobile Application Development Series - Tuesday November 9th 8:30 - 10:30 AM
• Training: Core Spring Training - November 9 - 12, 2010
• Training: Enterprise Integration with Spring - December 7 - 10, 2010
• Training: Rich Web Applications with Spring - December 14 - 17, 2010
• Training: Hibernate with Spring - January 11 - 14, 2011

We've all been very busy of late.  Just got a chance to catch up and so we have lots to talk about in episode #24. 

Links

• Python Package Index : jellyfish 0.1.2
• Pyjamas - Python Javascript Compiler, Desktop Widget Set and RIA Web ...
• The Go Programming Language
• PostgreSQL: News: PostgreSQL 9.0 Final Release Available Now!
• Jeff's Blog - Building a fast, lightweight REST service with Rails 3
• End Times and the Release of Java 7 - TheServerSide.com
• Announcing GORM for Redis | SpringSource Team Blog
• Apple's new developer terms: What's in, what's out | Mobile | iOS Central | Macworld
• Green Unicorn - Welcome
• Statement by Apple on App Store Review Guidelines

Upcoming Events

• October 5 - Core Spring Training @ Chariot Solutions 
• October 12 - Continuous Integration for the Enterprise

(Sorry for the delay between shows lately.  It's the summer, and I was away on vacation...)

Especially THIS week, the opinions of Ken and Eric do not reflect the opinions of Chariot Solutions...

Speaking of this week, here are the links, found also on delicious.com at delicious.com/developernews/23

Links you can use!

• Release Notes - Grails - Version 1.3.4 - HTML format - jira.codehaus.org
• Headius: My Thoughts on Oracle v Google
• Quite the firestorm : On a New Road
• InfoQ: Oracle Sues Google Over Java in Android
• A List Apart: Articles: Good Help is Hard to Find
• Rails 3 Interview « Envy Labs

Blog / Podcast Disclosure:  we have partnered or worked in various capacities with a number of the companies mentioned in the show, including Sun, Oracle, Google and SpringSource.