Newscast for February 25th 2009

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Java Posse Roundup alternative languages day details:
http://groups.google.com/group/roundup09/web/alternative-languages-day

• Groovy 1.6 released
• http://groovy.codehaus.org/
• http://groovy.codehaus.org/Immutable+AST+Macro
• http://groovy.codehaus.org/Grapes+and+grab()
• http://groovy.codehaus.org/Multiple+Assignment+Proposal

• NetBeans releases to get smaller and more frequent
• http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/NewsItemView?newsItemID=1346
• http://wiki.netbeans.org/NewAndNoteWorthy

• Java application of the week: shape collage
• http://www.vincentcheung.ca/shapecollage/download-jnlp.html

Quick News Items

• JSR 316 - Java Enterprise Edition 6, has been approved by the JCP
• http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=316

• EclipseZone blogs that the Eclipse Plugin Central (also known as EPIC) is going to be re-written
• https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=263041
• http://eclipse.dzone.com/articles/epic-20

• Jean-Francois Arcand blogs that he has got Grizzly running under Java on a hacked iPhone
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/jfarcand/archive/2009/02/running_grizzly.html

• OSGi roundup
  
• http://eclipse.dzone.com/news/osgi

• John Rose has published a highly technical description of the new invokedynamic bytecode
• http://blogs.sun.com/jrose/entry/simple_java_linkage_with_invokedynamic

• Piotr Tabor has an article up at Netbeans Zone about creating a plugin for NetBeans
• http://netbeans.dzone.com/news/interview-google-protocol-buff

• Chet Haase has a Java developers view on Actionscript (Adobe's flash language) over at JavaWorld
  
• http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-02-2009/jw-02-actionscript1.html?page=3

• License4J version 1.5 is out from Smardec
• http://www.smardec.com/products/license4j.html

• Yourkit version 8.0 is now available
• http://www.yourkit.com/changes/

• Apple has just released Safari 4.0 Beta 1 for Mac OS X and Windows
• http://www.apple.com/safari/features.html
• And rumor has it that Mozilla Firefox 3.1 will not ship this quarter
• http://newtware.com/?p=237

Newscast for Feb 19th 2009

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Please join us for the next Java Posse Roundup - March 3rd to 6th 2009 in Crested Butte, CO, with a free alternative languages on the JVM day on March 2nd.
http://www.mindviewinc.com/Conferences/JavaPosseRoundup/

• Registration now open for JavaOne 2009, to be held June 2nd to 5th 2009 in the Moscone Center, SF
• http://java.sun.com/javaone/index.jsp?cid=J9JE1A
• http://blogs.sun.com/tor/entry/why_your_javaone_submission_was

• JavaFX 1.1 is now out, including official support for JavaFX Mobile
• http://javafx.com/downloads/all.jsp
• http://javafx.com/launch/index-mac.jsp
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/opinali/archive/2009/02/javafx_11_relea.html
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/terrencebarr/archive/2009/02/javafx_mobile_1.html

• Details are beginning to emerge about a second generation Android phone
  
• http://www.yopool.com/google-dream-g2-phone-sciphone-android-dream-g2-p-3846.html
• http://crave.cnet.co.uk/mobiles/0,39029453,49301115,00.htm
• http://community.zdnet.co.uk/blog/0,1000000567,10012158o-2000331761b,00.htm
• http://i.gizmodo.com/5154984/android-g2-hands-on-close-to-perfection

• Java project of the week - SAVE
  
• http://www.upi.com/Science_News/2009/02/11/Automatic_car_crash_call_system_created/UPI-88011234379095/

• Applet of the Week (kinda): Pet catalog browser
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/caroljmcdonald/archive/2009/02/javafx_restful.html

Quick News

• Jazoon is running a competition for young speakers (26 or under) to present at Jazoon 09
  
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/cwfrei/archive/2009/02/jazoon_rookie_c.html

• JetBrains has release IntelliJ IDEA 8.1
  
• http://www.jetbrains.com/idea/features/newfeatures.html
• http://www.jetbrains.com/idea/buy/index.jsp#upgradeuser

• Apple has released a new update for Java on Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
• http://zollotech.com/content/apple-releases-security-update-java-update

• Moonlight 1.0 has been officially released
  
• http://lifehacker.com/5152266/moonlight-10-gives-linux-users-silverlight-10-compatability
• http://www.go-mono.com/moonlight/

• Zero, a project to make a JVM that requires no assembly code porting, has reached a major milestone, it has passed the TCK
• http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/distro-pkg-dev/2009-February/004709.html
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/editors/archives/2009/02/another_believe.html

• The WebDAV project has announced support for JAX-RS, final version 1.0
• https://webdav.dev.java.net/
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/mkarg/archive/2009/02/release_10_of_w_1.html

• Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz announced that there have been 100 million downloads of the JavaFX runtime already
• http://www.atomicsub.net/2009/02/sun-ceo-praises-javafx-platform/

• NetBeans portal pack 3.0 is now available for download
• http://portalpack.netbeans.org/servlets/NewsItemView?newsItemID=1342

• OpenWebBeans 1.0.0 M1 has been released
• http://incubator.apache.org/openwebbeans/1.0.0-SNAPSHOT/index.html

• And staying with JSR 299 - it has been approved for inclusion in Java EE 6 despite a few lingering concerns
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/editors/archives/2009/02/perfectionist.html
• http://jcp.org/en/jsr/results?id=4748
• http://blogs.sun.com/theaquarium/entry/jsr_299_nee_webbeans_public

• JSR 303 - Bean Validation, led by Emmanuel Bernard of JBoss/RedHat (and not Sun as we have reported in the past) has also been accepted
  
• http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=303

• A FOSDEM 09 interview with Martin Odersky gives details about new language features coming in Scala 2.8
• http://fosdem.org/2009/interview/martin+odersky

• Kirill Grouchnikov has release version 4.0 final of Flamingo
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/kirillcool/archive/2009/02/substance_51_of.html
• https://flamingo.dev.java.net/
  

• Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 - codenamed Lenny - has been released
• http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?thread_id=53658

• Groovy and Grails training courses offered by Scott David and Andrew Glover
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/johnsmart/archive/2009/02/learn_about_gro.html

• The reference implementation for Distributed OSGi, now officially known as OSGi 4.2, is now available at Apache CXF
• http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?thread_id=53569
• http://www.eclipsecon.org/2009/

• Scala and mixing it in with some Java code
• http://www.codecommit.com/blog/java/interop-between-java-and-scala

• The 7th annual Duke's Choice awards are accepting nominations
• http://java.sun.com/community/dukeawards/dukesChoice_form_new.html

JavaFX Interview

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A JavaFX interview conducted at Devoxx 2008 with Josh Marinacci, Jasper Potts, Richard Bair and Martin Brehovsky about the JavaFX release, why a new language, what features does it sport, etc. This interview is also available in video form on Parleys.com. http://tinyurl.com/brjf2a

• Parleys:
• http://parleys.com
• JavaFX
• http://www.sun.com/software/javafx/
• http://www.sun.com/software/javafx/script/
• Developer Home
  
• http://java.sun.com/javafx/
• Project scene graph
• https://scenegraph.dev.java.net/
• JavaFX Tools
  
• http://java.sun.com/javafx/downloads/
• IDEs
• NetBeans - http://www.netbeans.org/features/javafx/
• Eclipse - http://download.java.net/general/javafx/eclipse/tutorial.html

Thanks

• Libsyn.com - http://www.libsyn.com - for hosting and bandwidth
• Brice Ruth and Webprojkt.com - http://webprojkt.com - for our archives site - http://archives.javaposse.com
• Feedburner.com - http://www.feedburner.com - for feed redirect
• Kirsty Doherty, Oliver Widder and Amy Ehmann for Java Posse artwork
• Brian Ehmann - the Java Posse intern
• Craig Muth for maintaining the Java Posse Memorizable site - http://memorizable.org/Java_Posse
• Theme Music:
  • 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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Newscast for Feb 6th 2009

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• Java EE 6 (JSR 316) has entered the public review draft phase
• http://blogs.sun.com/theaquarium/entry/java_ee_6_public_review
• http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=316
• http://in.relation.to/Bloggers/RevisedPublicDraftOfJSR299JavaContextsAndDependencyInjection
• http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=299
• http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id-311
• http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=303
• http://www.theserverside.com/tt/articles/article.tss?l=JavaEE6Overview
• http://blogs.sun.com/kchung/entry/jsr_245_mr_part_i
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/cayhorstmann/archive/2009/02/towards_java_ee.html
  

• Project Coin
  
• http://blogs.sun.com/darcy/entry/project_coin

• Sun layoffs, will it affect the Java strategies (particularly open source?)
• http://www.cafeaulait.org/#January_27_2009_67192
• http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=3318
• http://blogs.sun.com/jonathan/entry/understanding_sun_s_business_q1

• Eclipse 3.5 M 5 (Galileo) has been released
• http://www.cafeaulait.org/#February_4_2009_18479

• Java Mobile application of the week, kind of: Google mobile search-by-voice for Android
  
• http://lifehacker.com/5145630/google-mobile-search+by+voice-comes-to-android
  

• Java Project of the week - Java Closures for Eclipse
• http://code.google.com/p/lambda4jdt/

• Java project of the week bonus edition: Swing 2.0
• http://www.jogiles.co.nz/blog/?p=207

Quick News

• Java 6 U 12 is now out, and with it comes the 64 bit Java plugin
• http://blogs.sun.com/theplanetarium/entry/upgrade_to_java_se_6u12
• http://www.dailytech.com/Sun+Releases+64bit+Java+PlugIn/article14121.htm

• eWeek's Chief technology analyst, Jim Rapoza, has been trying out Java FX and has given it a pretty glowing review
• http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Application-Development/Sun-Muscles-into-RIA-Space-with-JavaFX/1/

• The dates for the 2009 Devoxx conference in Belgium have been announced
• http://www.devoxx.com/display/JV08/Home

• And, the first of the devoxx talks from the 2008 conference have started to appear on Parleys.com
• http://www.parleys.com

• NetBeans.org is electing a new NetBeans governance board
• http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/NewsItemView?newsItemID=1335

• Oracle has submitted JSR 329 - Portlet 2.0 Bridge for JavaServer Faces 1.2
• http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=329

• Jesse Wilson and James Lemieux have release version 1.8.0 of Glazed Lists
• https://glazedlists.dev.java.net/

• Glassfish v2.1 has been released
• https://glassfish.dev.java.net/public/downloadsindex.html

• QCon London, coming up in March just after the Java Posse Roundup 2009
• http://qconlondon.com/london-2009/schedule/wednesday.jsp

• Dick did a talk at the University of Kent (of which he is an Alumnus) about software engineering
• http://www.cs.kent.ac.uk/coe/

• The Apache Jakarta project has released Cactus 1.8.1
  
• http://jakarta.apache.org/cactus/index.html

• Jetty may be moving to Eclipse
• http://eclipse.dzone.com/news/jetty-eclipse

• The JCP has announced a special election to fill a vacated seat on the mobile edition JCP executive committee
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/editors/archives/2009/02/start_now.html

• JetBrains has release IntelliJ IDEA 8.0.1
• http://www.jetbrains.com/idea/features/release_notes801.html

• A boost in the grizzly community in January resulted in enough submissions and improvements for a Grizzly community release, 1.9.5
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/jfarcand/archive/2009/02/grizzly_communi.html

• Registration is open for SpringOne Europe 2009, which will be held in Amsterdam from April 27th to 29th
• https://secure.trifork.com/europe-2009/registration/

• Google has released the final version of the JSR 284 - Resource Consumption Management API spec
• http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=284

• Oracle has an Oracle Technology Network Developer Day in New York on Feb 23rd at the New Yorker hotel
• http://www.oracle.com/webapps/events/EventsDetail.jsp?p_eventId=90027&src=6635701&src=6635701&Act=127

• Adobe has opted to publish the Real-Time Messaging Protocol (RTMP) specification
• http://www.infoq.com/news/2009/01/rtmp-to-open

• JBoss has announced RESTeasy GA, a fully certified open source JAX-RS implementation
• http://www.jboss.org/resteasy/

• DevNexus 2009 will be held on March 10th and 11th at the Cobb Galleria center in Atlanta, GA
  
• http://www.devnexus.com/

• JavaFX mobile
• http://steveonjava.com/2009/01/22/widgetfx-m3dd-conference/

Roundup 08 - Scala in the Enterprise

Recorded at the Java Posse Roundup 2008 - a technical session on using Scala in the enterprise, and what we can learn from Java

Please join us for the next Java Posse Roundup - March 3rd to 6th 2009 in Crested Butte, CO, with a free alternative languages on the JVM day on March 2nd.
http://www.mindviewinc.com/Conferences/JavaPosseRoundup/

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• Scala Language
• http://www.scala-lang.org/
• Function composition
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Function_composition
• Software Transactional Memory in Scala
• http://www.codecommit.com/blog/scala/software-transactional-memory-in-scala
• Dependency Injection in Scala
• http://www.artima.com/forums/flat.jsp?forum=270&thread=240193
• http://jonasboner.com/2008/10/06/real-world-scala-dependency-injection-di/
• Lift Web Framework for Scala
• http://liftweb.net/index.php/Main_Page
• Scala IDE support
• http://www.scala-lang.org/node/91#ide_plugins
• Combinators for Contracts
• http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/1283
• DSLs in Scala
• http://camel.apache.org/scala-dsl.html
• http://www.artima.com/forums/flat.jsp?forum=270&thread=231515
• Actors in Scala
• http://www.scala-lang.org/node/242
• http://lamp.epfl.ch/~phaller/actors.html
• Cay Horstmann's Scala lectures
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/cayhorstmann/archive/2008/09/teaching_progra_1.html
• Scala Traits
• http://www.scala-lang.org/node/126
• Web Beans Stereotypes
• http://docs.jboss.org/webbeans/spec/PDR/html/componentmodel.html
• Guice in Scala
• http://snippets.dzone.com/posts/show/5853
• Lift and JPA
• http://liftweb.net/index.php/Lift_and_JPA_%28javax.persistence%29#JPA_Objects_and_config
• Scala, Actors and Terracotta
• http://jonasboner.com/2008/01/25/clustering-scala-actors-with-terracotta/
• Properties in Scala
• http://www.codecommit.com/blog/scala/scala-for-java-refugees-part-2
• http://opencomponent.blogspot.com/2008/05/get-smart-with-properties-in-scala.html
• XMonad
• http://xmonad.org/
• The ScalaX Community Library
• http://scalax.scalaforge.org/
• GData Scala Libraries
• http://code.google.com/p/gdata-scala-client/
• Scala by Example
• http://www.scala-lang.org/docu/files/ScalaByExample.pdf
• Programming in Scala book
  
• http://www.artima.com/shop/programming_in_scala
• Programming Scala book
• http://pragprog.com/titles/vsscala/programming-scala
• Ted Neward Scala articles
• http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/java/library/j-scala01228.html
• F# for .NET
• http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/cambridge/projects/fsharp/default.aspx
• Smalltalk
• http://www.smalltalk.org/main/