Newscast for August 15th, 2008

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• A preview of JavaFX has been released.
• http://javafx.com/
  
• http://www.prweb.com/releases/javafx/
  preview/prweb1165664.htm
  
• http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/
  2008/07/31/sun-releases-javafx-preview
  
• http://www.javafx.com/htdocs/downloadpage.html
  
• http://java.sun.com/javase/downloads/ea/
  6u10/6u10rcDownload.jsp#6u10JDKs 
• http://blogs.sun.com/javafx/entry/this_ain_t_your_dad 
• http://www.kodewerk.com/javafx_are_we_there_yet.htm
  
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/joshy/archive/
  2008/08/javafx_bleg.html
  

• BGGA closures implementation is now feature complete
• http://gafter.blogspot.com/2008/08/
  java-closures-prototype-feature.html
• http://www.javac.info/closures.tar.gz
  
• http://today.java.net/pub/pq/220
  

• IntelliJ IDEA 8.0 Beta (codenamed Diana) has been released by JetBrains
• http://www.artima.com/forums/flat.jsp?
  forum=270&thread=235969
  
• http://www.cafeaulait.org/#July_31_2008_75240
  

• NetBeans 6.5 Beta (also known as Milestone 2) is available
• http://wiki.netbeans.org/NewAndNoteWorthyMilestone2NB65#
  section-NewAndNoteWorthyMilestone2NB65-
  NetBeansIDE6.5NewAndNoteworthyInMilestone2 
• http://www.netbeans.org/community/releases/65/
  

• The Anti-Java professor is speaking up again
• http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/columns/
  article.php/3763651/The+TIOBE+List+Director+
  vs.+the+Anti-Java+Professor.htm
  
• http://catsonkeyboards.blogspot.com/2008/08/
  anti-java-professor-still-off-base.html
  

• Applet of the week - Search engine optimization (SEO) advice in a mindmap
• http://merseyinternet.com/seoliverpool.htm 
• http://merseyinternet.com/serendipity/archives/
  3-Put-your-thoughts-in-order-with-an-SEO-Mind-Map.html
  

Quick News

• Sun has released its Q4 financial results
• http://www.cafeaulait.org/#August_6_2008_22184 

• JSR 296 - Swing Application Framework update
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/alexfromsun/
  archive/2008/08/swing_applicati.html
  

• Microsoft have joined the Apache Software Foundation as a platinum member
• http://apache.slashdot.org/article.pl?
  sid=08/07/25/2135202&from=rss
  

• JSR 255 JMX (Java Management Extensions) 2.0 API
  
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/emcmanus/
  archive/2008/08/playing_with_th.html 

• The latest Tiobe programming language report once again places Java on top
• http://news.cnet.com/8301-13505_3-
  10009669-16.html?tag=bl 

• Oracle has released WebLogic  Server 10g release 3
• http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?
  thread_id=50305 

• IBM has submitted JSR 326 - Post Mortem JVM Diagnostics API, to the JCP
• http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=326 

• A quick reminder about the upcoming JSF One conference in Vienna, VA
  
• http://www.jsfone.com/show_topics.jsp?showId=166 

• The JavaGit project has just released a Java API for accessing Git repositories
• http://javagit.sourceforge.net/ 

• JavaLobby has a podcast interview with Peter Muir about Seam 2.1
• http://java.dzone.com/articles/whats-new-seam-21-an-interview
  

• The Apache Jakarta project has release version 6.0.18 of Tomcat
• http://www.cafeaulait.org/#August_5_2008_24610 

• Demo from JUG Genova of a Wii remote being used to control NASA's world wind
  
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/fabriziogiudici/
  archive/2008/08/nasa_world_wind.html 

• Java 6 Update 10 release will patch existing JREs in-place
  
• https://jdk6.dev.java.net/6u10ea.html 

• The Ubuntu project has promoted OpenJDK 6 to main
• http://weblog.loadfoo.web.id/2008/07/31/
  ubuntu-810-turns-to-openjdk-6/ 
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/fabriziogiudici/archive/
  2008/08/the_openjdk_mis.html
  

• HermesJMS has just reached version 1.13
  
• http://hermesjms.com/confluence/display/HJMS/Home 

• IBM has released WebSphere Application Server, community edition v2.1
  
• http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?
  thread_id=50185 

• Glossitope revived for JavaFX under the name WidgetFX
• http://code.google.com/p/widgetfx/ 

• FormDev software has released JFormDesigner 4.0
• http://www.formdev.com/download/
  
• http://eclipse.dzone.com/announcements/
  jformdesigner-40-released-with-0
  

• Sun has shipped OpenDS Standard Edition 1.0
  
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/marinasum/archive/
  2008/07/opends_standard.html 

• JavaLobby opines that JavaFX will succeed because it works on Linux
• http://java.dzone.com/articles/javafxs-killer-feature 

• The gdata-scala-client project on Google code hosting is the start of a Google Data API library for Scala
• http://code.google.com/p/gdata-scala-client/ 

• The EasyMock project has released version 2.4 of EasyMock
• http://www.easymock.org/
  

• InfoQ has a video interview with Neal Gafter from QCon London 2008
• http://www.infoq.com/interviews/gafter-closures-language-
  features-optional-typing;jsessionid=
  36BEECA9F21B74DE17FED1AC3DA256B1 

• The openJDK project has approved two new projects
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/editors/archives/
  2008/08/dont_want_to_kn.html 

• The next Mobile and Embedded Developer Days conference has been announced for November 12-13th 2008 at the Santa Clara auditorium
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/brinkley/archive/
  2008/08/mobile_media_an_1.html 

• A draft spec of the JSR 277 (Java Module System) OSGi support is currently under discussion in the JSR 277 expert group
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/mandychung/archive/
  2008/07/osgi_repository.html 

• A roundup of Grails news
  
• http://blogs.sun.com/theaquarium/entry/
  jndi_data_sources_in_grails
  
• http://www.manning.com/gsmith/ 

• JSR 289 - SIP servlet v1.1 is now final
  
• http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=289
  
• http://blogs.sun.com/theaquarium/entry/jsr_289_sip_servlet_v1 

• New Maven plugin for creating Apple Mac OS X applications is now available
• http://mojo.codehaus.org/osxappbundle-maven-plugin/
• http://simplericity.org/macify/

• Java.net has released the latest JavaOne community podcast with a special guest - James Gosling
• http://today.java.net/pub/a/today/2008/
  07/25/j1-2k8-mtW10.html
  

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• JBoss/Hibernate Lawsuit
• http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/06/12/
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• http://rulesfestregistration.dallasrulesgroup.org/