Newscast for December 12th 2006

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• Sun has released Java SE 6 final (formerly known as mustang)
• http://www.pcmag.co.uk/vnunet/news/
  2170629/sun-unveils-java-se
• http://www.theserverside.com/news/
  thread.tss?thread_id=43434
• http://blogs.zdnet.com/Burnette/?p=215
• http://www.devx.com/Java/Article/33206

• In an interesting discussion, Craig W asks "what would you like to see in a Swing 2.0"
• http://www.javalobby.org/java/forums/t85782.html

• JRockit's Liquid VM brings virtualization technology to Java
• http://www.theserverside.com/news/
  thread.tss?thread_id=43424

• Application of the week - Thinking Rock
• http://www.thinkingrock.com.au/index.php

• Library of the week - Quartz
• http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/
  java/library/j-quartz/?ca=dgr-jw17JavaQuartZ
• http://www.opensymphony.com/quartz/

• Applet of the week (we spoil you guys) JScreenFix
• http://www.jscreenfix.com/#JScreenFix

• Site of the week - streampad
• http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/12/08/
  web-based-media-player-lets-you-
  stream-your-itunes-to-any-computer/

• Ed Burnette blogs that Google has joined the eclipse foundation
• http://blogs.zdnet.com/Burnette/?p=214

Quick News Items

• JSR 306 - the JSR to improve the JCP - is getting traction and feedback
  
• http://jdj.sys-con.com/read/299987.htm
• http://today.java.net/pub/pq/123

• Canoo Engineering has released the Ultralight Client (ULC) visual editor for eclipse 3.2
• http://www.canoo.com/ulc/downloads/
  visualeditor.html

• TinyLine 2D provides a CLDC 1.0 and MIDP 2.0 2d graphics engine for mobile devices
• http://www.tinyline.com/2d/index.html

• Cedric Beust blogs about an e-book on algorithms available for free from the authors website
• http://beust.com/weblog/archives/000425.html

• JFormDesigner 3.0 has been released
• http://www.formdev.com

• Mobits list their picks for the best Java ME applications
• http://mobits.com/jad/

• A newly released 1.0 from the Wazaabi project lets you create XUL (XML UI Language) using eclipse
• http://wiki.wazaabi.org/index.php/Main_Page
• http://www.javalobby.org/java/
  forums/t85916.html

• Gnu Classpath and Apache Harmony are getting ever closer to complete
• http://www.javalobby.org/java/
  forums/t85957.html

• Azul systems, makers of the crazy fast Java focused server machines has a speedbump in their new line of servers using the Vega 2 processors
• http://www.zdnetasia.com/builder/program/
  java/0,39045537,61972292,00.htm

• The groovy project, also known as JSR 241 (the groovy programming language) has released RC1
• http://today.java.net/pub/n/5327
• http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=241
• http://www.theserverside.com/news/
  thread.tss?thread_id=43375

• EasyEclipse has released a new version, 1.2.1 based on eclipse and calisto versions 3.2.1
• http://www.easyeclipse.org/site/
  distributions/index.html

• JRuby 0.9.2 was released
  
• http://docs.codehaus.org/display/JRUBY/
  2006/12/10/JRuby+0.9.2+released!

• The NetBeans Visual Web Pack has been released
• http://www.netbeans.org/products/visualweb/

• Only YOU can save Jython
• http://www.javalobby.org/java/forums/t84455.html
• http://www.jython.org/Project/index.html

• Microsoft using Java ME to deliver its Windows Live Search for Mobile
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/editors/archives/
  2006/12/simply_irresist.html

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• http://josh-in-antarctica.blogspot.com/
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