Newscast for Sept 17th 2008
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- Java complexity again, but from a different angle:
- JVM Language summit - the details emerge
- Java Project of the week - Tokyo Jogging
Quick News
- JavaPolis, which had been renamed to Javoxx, is now known as Devoxx
- Ji Hoon Kim has announced the JSF Flex project, which aims to bring Flex components to JavaServer Faces
- A new library called JavaPlot from Panayotis Katsaloulis lets Java developers harness gnuplot from a Java API
- Chrome browser (actually Chromium - the open source project) is now running on Mac and Linux using Crossover technology
- The NetBeans BlueJ team has announced the first release of the BlueJ Plugin for NetBeans 6.1
- Grizzly 2.0 has just been pushed to the Java.net Maven repository
- JBoss has released the Seam 2 feature pack for JBoss EAP 4.3
- A new Java IDE for Windows, JCoder, has reached version 1.0
- Instantiations has released a new version of GWT designer for GWT 1.5
- JSFOne has concluded and from the reports was a great success
- JRubyStack 1.1.4 has been released
- The
Eclipse foundation and 14 foundation member companies have announced a
new Eclipse training program in 31 cities around the world
- Norman Lahme-Hütig has release jSefa 0.9.2
- A new 0.9.4 version of the SwingX extended Swing components has been released
- CMP West has announced a call for papers for SD West 2009
- Cay
Horstmann reports that in the next semester at SJSU, he will be
replacing Scheme with Scala for the functional language part of the
undergraduate programming languages course
- PGP (Pretty Good Privacy) is leading efforts to save Bletchley Park
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