Newscast for January 8th 2009
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Java Posse Roundup in Crested Butte, CO, from March 3rd to 6th (but
come a day early for a free alternative languages day on the JVM - to
be held on the 2nd). Time is running out for the early bird price -
please sign up by January 20th. It saves you money, and it really helps
us with planning.
http://www.mindviewinc.com/Conferences/JavaPosseRoundup/
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JavaBeat has a summary of the changes coming in the new version of the Java EE spec
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Java.net has an interesting poll - what was the biggest Java related story in 2008?
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And, on the subject of Java 7, is the omission of closures a killer blow?
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Java FX Application of the Week: Widget FX
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Java Mobile App of the Week - Snaptu
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Java Apps of the Week, bonus edition
Quick News
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DZone has updated their ref-card for NetBeans 6.5
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Bill Pugh and the University of Maryland have released version 1.3.7 of Findbugs
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SwingLabs Lives! and has released version 0.9.5 of SwingX
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The JSR 319 - Availability Management for Java, has been posted as a public review draft by Ericsson
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DWR has reached version 3.0 RC 1
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10th Anniversary JCP party at the computer history museum in Mountain View, CA
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Sun has posted the public review draft of JSR 303 - Bean Validation
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MockFtpServer 2.0 has been released
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JFrog has released version 2.0 of Artifactory, a Maven repository manager
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Google video titled "the nuts, bolts and springs of distributed OSGi applications"
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FEST is a new project offering a fluent interface for testing Swing UIs
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Kirill Grouchnikov has released version 4.0 feature freeze preview of flamingo
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Jeet Kaul, VP of Client Software for Sun Microsystems, has a useful blog Q&A up about JavaFX
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Apache Commons Config 1.6 is out
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Jazoon has issued a call for papers for the Jazoon 2009 conference to be held from June 22nd to 25th in Zurich
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Java runs faster on Linux
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The Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall