Newscast for May 2nd 2008
Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at
http://javaposse.com
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Apple and Java, might they make up?
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Chris Adamson has a nice roundup of the various sub-conferences and unconferences surrounding JavaOne
- Chet Haase and Romain Guy are
back with a talk titled "Filthy Rich Clients: Filthier, Richer,
Clientier" as well, which has moved
- OpenJDK has announced an official project to provide a feature complete prototype of BGGA closures
- Javoxx is the new name for JavaPolis
- Java Application of the Week - JVoiceBridge
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Mobile Java app of the week - Skype Mobile
- Library called ext (JavaScript) - LGPL -> GPL
Quick News
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NetBeans 6.1 has been released, in plenty of time for anyone to download and install it before CommunityOne and JavaOne
- Sun has pledged a 100% open source distribution of Java, alongside the current version with some binary only parts
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The new large hadron collider being constructed in CERN runs Java as a key piece of its control system
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According to the server side, JSR 315 - the Servlet 3.0 spec - has hit an impasse
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Stanley Ho and the EG for JSR 277 have put together the first draft of a spec for interoperability between OSGi and JSR 277
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The huikau blog has published some performance comparison numbers for JRuby 1.1.1 vs Ruby 1.8.6
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Sony Ericsson is bringing Flash Lite to Java ME devices
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A new Groovy based build system called Gradle has been released as an early preview
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The upcoming release of eclipse ganymede, later in June, will be accompanied by a number of free democamps around the world
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Adobe has released a product called livecycle
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Google has released a ReST based API to its search service
- Mainsoft has updated their .NET to Java EE translation tool to version 2.2
- Mule 2.0 Community Edition has been released
- Apache CXF is a new official apache software foundation project that helps you build services using APIs
- OpenEJB 3.0 final has been released by Apache - just in time for JavaOne :-)
Thanks
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-- posted at: 11:17am PDT