Java Posse Episode 158 - January 9th 2008
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Bruce Eckel: should we simply stop adding new features to Java?
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Apple has released an updated developer preview version of Java 6
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Two Professors from NYU have slammed Java as a teaching language
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Library of the week - PDF Renderer
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Up and coming Project of the Week - Mighty Box
Quick News Items
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JSR 271 - The Mobile Information Device Profile 3 (better known as MIDP 3)
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Chris Adamson has issued a call for comments on how java.net might be improved in 2008
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Motorola has released a new version of the ROKR music playing phone
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Apache Wicket 1.3 has been released
- JSR 286 - the Java Portlet Specification 2.0
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JSR 255 - JMX (the Java Management Extensions) version 2.0
- JSR 279 - Service Connection API for Java ME
- JSR 235 - Service Data Objects - has been stalled for about 3 years
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Apache Jakarta have released a new version Commons configuration
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There is a new preview version of Oracle JDeveloper 11g available
- Using Erlang (a functional language) and Java together
- Pearson Education held a four day GWT conference in San Francisco
- The NetBeans source code is being moved to Mercurial
- Django is getting very close to running on top of Jython
- NetBeans has once again kicked off it's world tour
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The Java 2 Fifth Edition Complete Reference is now available for free as a PDF download
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Groovy 1.5.1 has been released
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The JDIC project have updated their netbeans plugin for NetBeans 6
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Infoworld reckons that Sun Microsystems is back in the game
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Nominations for the 2008 Eclipse Community Awards are now being accepted
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Jason LaPier has put together a NetBeans cheat sheet for Ruby and Rails development
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On a related note, Glassfish v2 update release 1 is also now available
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Metro versions 1.0.1 and 1.1 have been released
- A new version of Excelsior JET is now available
- JRuby 1.1RC1 released
Bonus End Story
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