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Tor Norbye (Google), Carl Quinn (Netflix), Dick Wall (Escalate), Chet Haase (Google)

Fri, 3 April 2009

Java Posse #239 - Newscast for April 2nd 2009

Newscast for April 2nd 2009

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Chris Adamson has stepped down as the Java.net editor as of March 31st

http://weblogs.java.net/blog/editors/archives/2009/03/this_is_how_i_d.html

EclipseCon 2009 happened, and we were there (at least for the day)

http://eclipse.dzone.com/articles/eclipsecon-2009-day-one
http://eclipse.dzone.com/articles/eclipsecon-2009-day-two
http://eclipse.dzone.com/articles/eclipsecon-2009-day-three
http://eclipse.dzone.com/articles/eclipsecon-2009-day-four
The eclipse community award winners were announced
http://eclipse.dzone.com/articles/eclipse-community-awards-2009

Eclipse announced SwordFish, a next generation ESB (Enterprise Service Bus)
http://www.eclipse.org/org/press-release/20090323_swordfish.php
Mylyn 3.1 and TaskTop 1.4 (a commercial tool based on Mylyn) were announced
http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?thread_id=53997
http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?thread_id=53993
Atlassian has now integrated crucible (code reviewing) and bamboo (continuous integration) into mylyn
http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?thread_id=54059
AWS toolkit for Eclipse
http://aws.amazon.com/eclipse/
http://aws.amazon.com/what-is-aws/
Oracle has released the eclipse enterprise pack 11g
http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/enterprise-pack-for-eclipse/index.html
http://www.oracle.com/technology/software/products/oepe/index.html

Stephen Colbourne thinks that while there will be a JDK 7, there might not be a Java 7?

http://www.jroller.com/scolebourne/entry/no_more_java_7
Meanwhile, sadly, it seems there will be no JSR 310 in Java 7
http://www.h-online.com/open/Interview-Patrick-Curran-chair-of-the-JCP--/features/112862
Concerns about Java 7 openness notwithstanding, Mark Reinhold blogs about the path OpenJDK will take to get to a JDK 7 implementation
http://blogs.sun.com/mr/entry/jdk7

Java App of the Week: Personal Brain

http://www.thebrain.com/

Quick News

Sun has announced an update to Java 6. U 13 brings fixes to security issues in JDK/JRE 6

http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2239238/java-gets-update

Sun has announced a JavaFX coding challenge to create a rich media application using JavaFX

http://javafx.com/challenge/

The proposed final draft of JSR 317 - JPA 2.0, has been released in the JCP

http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=317

Jazoon 2009 has announced several community days around the event

http://weblogs.java.net/blog/cwfrei/archive/2009/03/jazoon09_commun.html

Typesafe Pair and Triple article

http://www.developer.com/java/ejb/article.php/3813031

The JavaZone call for papers is closing on April 15th

http://www.java.no/javazone/2009/program.html

Swing labs has released SwingX 0.9.6

http://wiki.java.net/bin/view/Javadesktop/SwingXChanges#0_9_6

Instantiations has released WindowBuilder Pro v7.0

http://www.instantiations.com/windowbuilder/

JavaRebel 2.0 has been release by ZeroTurnaround

http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?thread_id=54088

Maven 2.1.0 has been released

http://maven.apache.org/release-notes.html

The glassfish project has released a glassfish/eclipse bundle

AhmedSoft has released Ropes for Java v1.25

JSR 282 - the real time spec for Java, version 1.1, is now in early draft review

http://www.jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=282

GMock 0.7 brings mock objects to Groovy with a simple, readable approach

http://gmock.org/

Tigris has released version 1.6 of Subversion

http://subversion.tigris.org/svn_1.6_releasenotes.html

If you are at all curious about Scala, Bill Venners blogs that his talk from Devoxx, entitled "The Feel of Scala" is now up on Parleys

http://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=253855

A new extension to JUnit called Jitr is available

http://www.jitr.org/

Continuing the OSGi integration, the glassfish project now notes that Grizzly, the very fast HTTP engine based on NIO, is now available as an OSGi bundle

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

OSGi Discontent - No Migration Path!

http://java.dzone.com/news/osgi-discontent-no-migration
JavaLobby has a handy OSGi primer that covers the basics about OSGi and points to a tutorial from the Knoplerfish team.
http://java.dzone.com/articles/osgi-primer

NetBeans has released version 6.5.1

http://blogs.sun.com/theaquarium/entry/netbeans_6_5_1_now

GraniteDS (data services) v2.0.0 beta 1 has just been released

http://www.graniteds.org/confluence/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=229378

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- Opening - "Java" the parody song Copyright 1997 Broken Records and Marjorie Music Publ. (BMI),
  written and performed by Loose Bruce Kerr of the Dr. Demento Show and Sun Microsystems attorney.
  Based on the WWI popular song, "Ja-da." Ukelele style on the recording taught to Bruce by his dad.
  Re-produced with kind permission from "Loose" Bruce Kerr - http://loosebrucekerr.libsyn.com http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TAX0gJt-aZg
- Closing - Juan Carlos Jimenez - In the House (Intro No. 1)

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