Newscast for May 21st 2009

• Eclipse 3.5 RC1 has been released by the Eclipse foundation
• http://download.eclipse.org/eclipse/downloads/drops/S-3.5RC1-200905151143/index.php

• Java App of the Week: aPlayer
• http://www.atunes.org/

Quick News

• Version 1.6.3 of Groovy has been released
  
• http://docs.codehaus.org/display/GROOVY/2009/05/13/Groovy+1.6.3+is+out
• http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/GROOVY?report=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.project:changelog-panel

• Google has updated the API for Java on the Google App Engine to version 1.2.1
• http://googleappengine.blogspot.com/2009/05/java-sdk-version-121-now-available.html

• There still a few open slots for the community corner podcast schedule at the Java.net booth for JavaOne
• https://java-net.dev.java.net/podcast_schedule.html
• http://wiki.java.net/bin/view/Javaone/CommunityCorner

• In anticipation of the upcoming Eclipse 3.5 release, there are a number of demo camps happening around the world
• http://wiki.eclipse.org/Eclipse_DemoCamps_Galileo_2009

• JSF 2.0 is in final vote until May 26th
• http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=314
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/edburns/archive/2009/05/slides_and_feed.html

• And, David Geary has started up a new series of articles on JSF 2.0
• http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/java/library/j-jsf2fu1/index.html

• Hudson now has a Selenium Grid plugin available
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/kohsuke/archive/2009/05/hudson_selenium.html

• There is now a PXE (preboot execution environment) plugin available for Hudson
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/kohsuke/archive/2009/05/hudson_pxe_plug.html

• After the recent release of Android 1.5 cupcake
• http://www.geek.com/articles/mobile/top-10-features-youll-love-about-android-15-2009058/

• Developer.com has a new article about using the Drools 5 rules engine (recently released)
• http://www.developer.com/java/ent/article.php/3821101
  
• http://www.jboss.org/drools/
  
• http://blog.athico.com/2009/03/drools-boot-camp-san-francisco-june.html
  

ScalaWags

• The NeoDatis object database (ODB) version 1.9 has been released
• http://www.neodatis.org/release-1-9

• Our first ScalaWags library of the week. ScalaZ, described as Scala on Steroids
• http://code.google.com/p/scalaz/

• Toby Reyelts, Alex Rudnick and Lex Spoon have written an article on running Scala on the Google App Engine
• http://www.scala-lang.org/node/1826

• Frank Sommers and James Ward have teamed up for an article about using Scala and Flex together
  
• http://www.artima.com/articles/flex_and_scala.html

• Ted Neward has an article up on DeveloperWorks about using Scala with Twitter
• http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/java/library/j-scala05059.html?ca=dgr-twtrScitter&S_TACT=105AGY83&S_CMP=TWDW
• http://talkingpuffin.org/

• Debasish Ghosh has been busy working on a CouchDB API for Scala
• http://debasishg.blogspot.com/2009/05/couchdb-and-scala-updates-on-scouchdb.html
• http://debasishg.blogspot.com/2009/05/scouchdb-gets-view-server-in-scala.html
• http://couchdb.apache.org/

• Jim McBeath has a Scala Syntax Primer on his blog that can ramp you up quickly on some of the syntactic differences from Java
• http://jim-mcbeath.blogspot.com/2008/09/scala-syntax-primer.html

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