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

Sun, 27 September 2009

Java Posse #280 - Newscast for Sept 25th 2009

Newscast for Sept 25th 2009

Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.com

Devoxx and Codemash

JVM Language summit impressions

JDK 7 Project Coin language features finalized

http://weblogs.java.net/blog/forax/archive/2009/08/27/diamond-gate

Google has released the 1.6 version of the Android Development Kit

Java Library of the Week - Mockito

http://mockito.org/

Android application of the Week: Layar

Quick News

Apple has released Java for Mac OS X 10.5 Update 5

http://support.apple.com/downloads/Java_for_Mac_OS_X_10_5_Update_5

Josh Marinacci has announced a new competition for JavaFX

http://jfxstudio.wordpress.com/2009/08/31/jfxstudio-challenge-small-is-the-new-big/

JavaFX 1.2.1 has been released by Sun

http://weblogs.java.net/blog/opinali/archive/2009/09/09/javafx-121-out-fixes-binding-leaks-and-performance

JavaRebel has undergone a name change to JRebel

http://www.zeroturnaround.com/blog/community-renames-javarebel-to-jrebel/

Bill Pugh and the University of Maryland have released version 1.3.9 of Findbugs

http://findbugs.sourceforge.net/

HTMLUnit 2.6 has been released

http://htmlunit.sourceforge.net/

JSR 299 - Java Contexts and Dependency Injection, and JSR 330 - Dependency Injection for Java

http://weblogs.java.net/blog/rogerk/archive/2009/09/04/contexts-and-dependency-injection-jsr-299-and-glassfish

Terrence Barr links to 4 new screencasts about Java mobile technology

http://weblogs.java.net/blog/terrencebarr/archive/2009/09/04/4-new-screencasts-lwuit-jdtf-jsr-290-and-javacard

JBoss has released the first beta of Hibernate Core 3.5

http://in.relation.to/12153.lace

Nominations are being solicited for the NetBeans governance board

http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/NewsItemView?newsItemID=1422

A new library, Bolts, available in version 1.0 has been released

http://bitbucket.org/stepancheg/bolts/wiki/Home

The recent eclipse day held at the Googleplex was once again a successful conference

http://eclipse.dzone.com/articles/recap-eclipse-day-googleplex

Apache has released the first version of a new project called Wink

http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?thread_id=57282

Apache has also released version 1.3 of pivot

http://weblogs.java.net/blog/gkbrown/archive/2009/08/27/announcing-apache-pivot-13

A new static analysis tool, XDepend, promises the ability to X-ray your Java code

http://www.xdepend.com/

ScalaWags

Professor Kunle Olukotun, director of the Stanford Pervasive Parallelism Laboratory, recently delivered a talk at EPFL about how Scala is a core part of the laboratory strategy

http://www.scala-lang.org/node/3200

Version 2.7.6 of Scala has been released

http://www.scala-lang.org/node/3250

Caoyuan continues work on the Scala plugin re-write in Scala that takes advantage of the new scala compiler toolability features

http://blogtrader.net/dcaoyuan/

GridGain has provided a technical blog article on using GridGain map/reduce from Scala

http://www.jroller.com/nivanov/entry/mapreduce_with_scala_and_gridgain

Maxime Biais has an exploration of the uses of underscore in Scala

http://www.biais.org/blog/index.php/2009/09/20/75-understanding-the-_-underscore-in-scala

Listener Feedback - Scala edition

New Scala Forum

http://scala-forum.org

Scalawag News - User Group Meetup in Norway

http://www.java.no/web/show.do?page=191;7&appmode=/showReply&articleid=20922

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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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