QuickNews and Feedback for November 3rd 2008

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Quick News

• POI 3.1 has been released by the Apache Jakarta project
• http://poi.apache.org/index.html 

• Josh Bloch has an interview at the Sun Developer Network about his new Effective Java book
• http://java.sun.com/developer/technicalArticles/
  Interviews/bloch_effective_08_qa.html 

• PalmSource has revealed its ALP 3.0 (Access Linux Platform)
• http://www.mobiletechaddicts.com/2008/
  10/24/palm-os-alp-30-revealed/
  
• http://www.mobileburn.com/news.jsp?Id=5569
  

• A number of Eclipse demo camps are being held all over the world
• http://wiki.eclipse.org/Eclipse_DemoCamps_November_2008 

• IBM Alphaworks has released version 2.7 of HeapAnalyzer
• http://www.alphaworks.ibm.com/tech/heapanalyzer 

• Jonathan Schwartz has a video up on NetBeans.tv celebrating 10 years of NetBeans
• http://netbeans.tv/interviews/Jonathan-Schwartz-on-NetBeans-409/ 

• Another DZone refcard is available, this time covering getting started with MyEclipse
• http://refcardz.dzone.com/refcardz/myeclipse 

• The final version of MVEL 2.0 is out
  
• http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?thread_id=51495 

• The Apache Jakarta project has released Commons::Net 2.0
• http://commons.apache.org/net/changes-report.html#a2.0 

• Support for a 64 bit Java plugin for Windows and Linux 64 bit operating systems has been pledged for early 2009 in the Java 6 update 12 release
• http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=4802695 

• Ted Neward's Busy Java Developer's Guide to Scala continues with a 2 part examination of building a calculator in Scala
• http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/views/java/libraryview.jsp?
  search_by=scala 

• JBoss has released version 2.0.0 General Access of JBoss AOP (Aspect Oriented Programming)
• http://www.jboss.org/jbossaop/downloads/ 
• http://www.jboss.org/jbossaop/docs/2.0.0.GA/RELEASE_NOTES.html
  

• Seam 2.1.0 General Access has been released by JBoss
  
• http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?thread_id=51382 

• JavaWorld has a nice introduction to ReST
• http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-10-2008/
  jw-10-rest-series-1.html 
• http://www.restlet.org/
  
• http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=311 

• John Ferguson Smart has a unique response to the current economic downturn: be more productive
  
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/johnsmart/archive/
  2008/10/software_develo.html 

• ASM now has support for the InvokeDynamic byte code that John Rose recently completed a prototype for
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/forax/archive/
  2008/10/asm_and_invoked.html 
• http://asm.objectweb.org/ 

• MuleSource has release Mule 2.1 Enterprise and Mule Galaxy 1.5
• http://mulesource.com/download/#muleee
• http://mule.mulesource.org/display/MULE/Home

• The free Java Decompiler project (yes, that is the name) looks like a useful tool
• http://java.decompiler.free.fr/ 

• Java 5 and 6 - the improved math library
• http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/j-math1/
  index.html?ca=dgr-btw01JavaPart1&
  S_Tact=105AGX59&S_cmp=GRsitebtw01 

• Numiton has ported WordPress to Java
  
• http://sourceforge.net/projects/nwordpress 
• http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?thread_id=50890 

• Linux Journal has a round up of Java audio software for Linux
• http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/
  java-sound-music-software-linux-part-3 

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• http://sebastian-bergmann.de/archives/
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• http://www.powermock.org
  

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• http://code.google.com/p/macwidgets/
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