Newscast for November 5th 2009

• The JavaStore has released another big update
• Client: http://store.java.com/client/launcher2.jnlp
• Warehouse: http://java.sun.com/warehouse/
• http://blogs.sun.com/jag/entry/java_store_%CE%B2_payment_and

• The Mobile Edition is finally available for Mac
  
• http://terrencebarr.wordpress.com/2009/10/23/just-released-java-me-sdk-3-0-for-mac-os/
• http://java.sun.com/javame/downloads/sdk30_mac.jsp
• http://blogs.sun.com/javamesdk/entry/early_access_release_for_mac

• Java Library of the Week: JDeskew (J De Skew)
• http://www.recognition-software.com/image/deskew/

• Reza Rahman has part 1 of a series about Dependency Injection in Java EE 6
• http://www.theserverside.com/tt/articles/article.tss?l=DependencyInjectioninJavaEE6

• Java to iPhone cross compiler
• http://www.mobileium.com/fruitypops.php
• http://www.cokeandcode.com/node/1409

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Roundup 09 - Static vs Dynamic Typing

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Newscast for Oct 23rd 2009

• IntelliJ IDEA open sourced
• http://jetbrains.org
• http://www.jetbrains.com/idea/nextversion/editions_comparison_matrix.html?
  utm_source=jetbrains.org&utm_medium=Comparison&utm_campaign=IDEA9_CE
• http://java.dzone.com/articles/why-i-think-idea-going-open

• Weld 1.0 CR 1 (Candidate Release 1), the reference implementation for JSR 299, is now out
• http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?thread_id=58251

• Emmanuel Bernard and the Hibernate Team have released version 4 of Hibernate Validator
• http://in.relation.to/Bloggers/HibernateValidator4Unleashed

• JRebel, formerly known as JavaRebel has just released version 2.1
• http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?thread_id=58149

• LINQ for Scala?
• http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.scala.announce/154

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IntelliJ Idea Interview

• Community site
• http://www.jetbrains.org
• Public preview of IntelliJ IDEA Community Edition
• http://www.jetbrains.com/idea/nextversion/free_java_ide.html
• To review the detailed list of new features of IntelliJ IDEA Ultimate 9, and to download the Preview build
• http://www.jetbrains.com/idea/nextversion/index.html
• Differences between the Community Edition and the Ultimate Edition
• http://www.jetbrains.com/idea/nextversion/editions_comparison_matrix.html

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Java Posse Episode 282 - Newscast for Oct 9th 2009

• Palm's entry into the development sphere
• http://mobile.slashdot.org/story/09/10/06/1712214/Palm-Frees-Up-webOS-Development?from=rss
• http://almaer.com/blog/

• Adobe labs has announced that flash CS5 will be able to target the iPhone
• http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flashcs5/appsfor_iphone/

• Remi Forax blogs that recent builds of JDK 7 now have escape analysis enabled by default
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/forax/archive/2009/10/06/jdk7-do-escape-analysis-default

• The Editor's Daily blog has just featured a poll about whether new JVM languages are a positive development
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/editor/archive/2009/10/02/poll-result-new-jvm-languages-are-positive-development

• Ian Clarke has announced a new project, called Swarm, that will use the continuations compiler plugin available in Scala 2.8
• http://www.scala-lang.org/node/3485
• http://code.google.com/p/swarm-dpl/

• Scala project of the week: Scalalab
• https://scalalab.dev.java.net/

• Newcastle-upon-Tyne User Group
• https://jug-nut.dev.java.net/

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    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
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Roundup 09 - You Got Chocolate in My Peanut Butter

• Groovy
• http://groovy.codehaus.org
• Swing Builder
• http://groovy.codehaus.org/Swing+Builder
• Scala
• http://www.scala-lang.org/
• Ruby
• http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/
• http://jruby.org/
• Ruby Build Scripts
• http://martinfowler.com/articles/rake.html
• Testing with Groovy
• http://groovy.codehaus.org/Unit+Testing
• Neal Ford on Testing
• http://michaelkimsal.com/blog/neal-ford-keynote-codemash/
• Multiple languages on the JVM
• http://stackoverflow.com/questions/591459/can-you-mix-the-jvm-languages-ie-groovy-clojure
• http://www.artima.com/lejava/articles/dynamic_languages.html
• http://www.is-research.de/info/vmlanguages/
• JNI and Native Code (and JNA)
• http://ringlord.com/jni-howto.html
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_Native_Interface
• https://jna.dev.java.net/
• .NET and CLR
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Language_Runtime

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    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
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Newscast for Sept 25th 2009

• Devoxx and Codemash
• http://www.devoxx.com/display/DV09/Home
• http://www.codemash.org/

• JVM Language summit impressions
• http://openjdk.java.net/projects/mlvm/jvmlangsummit/
• http://wiki.jvmlangsummit.com/Presentations
• http://www.infoq.com/JVMLanguageSummit
• No-op language - http://blog.internetnews.com/skerner/2009/09/googles-open-source-noop-langu.html
• Griffon - http://griffon.codehaus.org

• JDK 7 Project Coin language features finalized
• http://blogs.sun.com/darcy/entry/project_coin_final_five
• http://www.java.net/poll/what-your-reaction-jdk-7-feature-list
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/forax/archive/2009/08/27/diamond-gate

• Java Library of the Week - Mockito
• http://mockito.org/

• 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/

• 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

• 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

Interview with Joe Darcy and Alex Buckley

• JVM Language summit
• http://openjdk.java.net/projects/mlvm/jvmlangsummit/
• http://wiki.jvmlangsummit.com/Main_Page
• Java Community Process (JCP)
• http://jcp.org/en/home/index
• Project Coin
• http://openjdk.java.net/projects/coin/
• JSR-330 - Dependency Injection for Java
• http://jcp.org/en/jsr/summary?id=330
• Da Vinci machine project
• http://wiki.jvmlangsummit.com/Da_Vinci_Machine
• http://openjdk.java.net/projects/mlvm/
• Method handles for closures
• http://blogs.sun.com/jrose/entry/method_handles_in_a_nutshell
• Meta Object Protocol
• http://wiki.jvmlangsummit.com/MOP_and_Invokedynamic
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metaobject
• Project lombok
• http://projectlombok.org/
• Annotation processor
• http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/guide/apt/
• ASM & bytecode manipulation
• http://asm.ow2.org/
• Remove checked exceptions
• http://projectlombok.org/disableCheckedExceptions.html
• Scala case classes
• http://www.scala-lang.org/node/107
• Closures proposal
• http://javac.info/
• Extension methods
• http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb383977.aspx
• Joe Darcy blog - annotation support in tools - @Property
• http://blogs.sun.com/darcy/entry/properties_via_annotation_processing
• Reified generics
• http://gafter.blogspot.com/2006/11/reified-generics-for-java.html
• JSR-14 - Generics - migration compatibility
• http://jcp.org/en/jsr/summary?id=14
• Uniform access principle
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniform_access_principle
• Operator overloading
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operator_overloading
• Design by contract
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Design_by_contract
• Alternative languages
• Groovy - http://groovy.codehaus.org
• Scala - http://www.scala-lang.org/
• JavaFX - http://javafx.com/
• Clojure - http://clojure.org/
• JRuby - http://jruby.org/
• Jython - http://www.jython.org/
• Modularity - JSR 294 and Jigsaw
• http://jcp.org/en/jsr/summary?id=294
• http://openjdk.java.net/projects/jigsaw/
• Tail calls - JSR 292
• http://blogs.sun.com/jrose/entry/tail_calls_in_the_vm

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    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
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Roundup 09 - What Do We Want From JavaFX?

• JavaFX
• http://www.sun.com/software/javafx/
• Peter Pilgrim's blog (lots of JavaFX material)
• http://www.jroller.com/peter_pilgrim/
• Mixing languages on the Java platform
• http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?thread_id=47184
• http://stackoverflow.com/questions/591459/can-you-mix-the-jvm-languages-ie-groovy-clojure
• Polyglot programming
• http://www.polyglotprogramming.com/
• Flex/Flash
• http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flex/
• Silverlight
• http://www.microsoft.com/Silverlight/
• JavaFX visual design tool
• http://sellmic.com/blog/2009/06/05/javafx-authoring-tool-demo-at-javaone-2009-with-video/
• JavaFX components
• http://java.dzone.com/tips/javafx-component-creation
• Flex events
• http://codeofdoom.com/wordpress/2009/03/02/an-indepth-look-at-flex-events/
• JavaFX events
• http://cld.blog-city.com/learning_javafx__four_examples__images__mouse_events.htm
• Transparent binding between JavaFX and other JVM languages
• http://blog.jayway.com/2009/05/12/transparent-bind-of-javafx-and-pojos/
• http://blogs.sun.com/michaelheinrichs/entry/binding_java_objects_in_javafx
• Fan development langauge
• http://www.fandev.org/
• Project Nile
• http://blogs.sun.com/javafx/entry/project_nile_the_javafx_developer

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    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
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Newscast for August 28th 2009

• Java changing the guard?
• http://projectlombok.org/
• http://code.google.com/p/lambda4jdt/
• http://code.google.com/p/lambdaj/wiki/Closures
• http://projectlombok.org/disableCheckedExceptions.html
• http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse/browse_thread/thread/26ec00e0601023d

• SpringSource has announced a new Enterprise Java Cloud offering which features stacks for enterprise Java applications providing Spring, Grails and more
• http://www.cloudfoundry.com/features.html
• http://blog.springsource.com/2009/08/19/cloud-foundry/

• Java Library of the Week - JAK - the Java API for KML
• http://labs.micromata.de/display/jak/HelloKML+(Quickstart)
• http://code.google.com/p/javaapiforkml/

• The DoJ has approved the Oracle acquisition of Sun, but Europe still has to weigh in.
• http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9136927/DOJ_approves_7.4B_Oracle_Sun_deal
• Java.net has transitioned to a new CMS platform in the last week
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/editors/archives/2009/08/big_but_seeming.html

• Caoyuan's re-write of the Scala netbeans plugin in Scala is now ready for Beta testing
• http://blogtrader.net/dcaoyuan/entry/scala_plugin_for_netbeans_rewrite2

• ComputerWorld, Australia has a new interview up with Martin Odersky, the creator of Scala
• http://www.computerworld.com.au/article/315254/-z_programming_languages_scala

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    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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