Newscast for May 8th 2009
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http://javaposse.com
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JavaOne less than a month away!
- Oracle/Sun
fallout. The pundits have had a while to digest the news about Oracle
buying Sun, and have responded with all manner of speculation:
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NetBeans 6.7 Beta has been released
- And Google has released Android v1.5 Final. Codenamed cupcake
Quick News
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Rich Hickey has released Clojure 1.0
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IBM has now doubled their rewards for ditching Sun hardware in favor of IBM Power servers
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The excellently named ProtoJ project provides a new alternative to build environments like Ant and Maven
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JetBrains has released TeamCity 4.5
- SwingX 1.0 is about to be released
- SpringSource has acquired Hyperic
- JBoss has release Tattletale 1.0.0
- Novell has release Mono 2.4
- Hudson has recently release build 1.300 (that's 300 releases)
- InvokeDynamic, is now in JDK 7
- BetterBeansBinding based on the now apparently defunct Beans Binding (JSR 295)
- A new project, Simplium, marries Selenium RC (Remote
Control) and JUnit 4.5
- A
newly updated refcard on DZone for IntelliJ 8.1
- Star spec leads
by the Java Community process
ScalaWags. Yarrrr.
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A preview article of the features coming in Scala 2.8 is available on the Scala language site
- Meanwhile, Scala 2.7.4 final has been released
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Bill Venners has an interview with Martin Odersky talking about the origins of Scala
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Functional recipes for Scala and Lift
- The NetBeans Scala plugin has received some more love
- Scala jobs are on the rise
Thanks
The Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall