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Thu, 26 June 2008

Java Posse #194 - Newscast for June 26th 2008

Newscast for June 26th 2008

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Eclipse 3.4 - Ganymede - has been released

Java Open Source news: IcedTea passes the TCK, fully open source OpenJDK by the end of the year

JSF to get its own conference - JSF One

Lookout Scala, another candidate for the Java 3 mantle? Fan.

Java Application of the Week - Atunes

Java project of the week - JSqueak

http://research.sun.com/projects/JSqueak/

Quick News

Nokia is offering to buy out symbian and create a foundation to open source the Symbian OS

http://www.symbianfoundation.org/

The Portlet Specification 2.0 (JSR 286) has been released

http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=286

AND - JBoss has released version 2.0 of their portlet container

http://www.theserverside.com/news/
thread.tss?thread_id=49710

Subversion 1.5 was release recently

http://today.java.net/pub/a/today/
2008/06/25/j1-2k8-mtT15.html

Work has begun on Grizzly 2.0

http://blogs.sun.com/theaquarium/
entry/grizzly_2_0_started

The apocalisp blog has a great technical article on using the concurrency library in Java 5+ effectively

http://apocalisp.wordpress.com/2008/06/18/
parallel-strategies-and-the-callable-monad/

Sun has a new release of the Java CAPS (Composite Application Platform Suite) and Master Data Management suite

http://www.sun.com/aboutsun/pr/
2008-06/sunflash.20080609.1.xml

Whither Quicktime for Java?

http://lists.apple.com/archives/quicktime-java/
2008/Jun/msg00018.html

JavaWorld closures debate summary

http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/
jw-06-2008/jw-06-closures.html?page=5

LinkMingle has a handy list of Java decompilers

http://linkmingle.com/list/
List-of-Free-Java-Decompilers-java

The release candidate for OpenDS 1.0 is available from Java.net

https://opends.dev.java.net/

Oracle has released version 3.3 of the Berkeley DB Java Edition

http://www.oracle.com/database/
berkeley-db/index.html

Some of the rumors from WWDC seem to indicate that a Cocoa port of the Java SWT library for Mac OS X might be on the way, led by Adobe

http://www.builderau.com.au/blogs/
codemonkeybusiness/viewblogpost.htm?p=339270988

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- Closing - Juan Carlos Jimenez - In the House (Intro No. 1)

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