Fri, 11 December 2009
Newscast for December 11th 2009
Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.com - Inclusion of closures in Java 7
- JSR 316 - Java EE 6 - has been approved by the JCP
- NetBeans 6.8 released
- NetBeans Platform on the move
Quick News- IntelliJ IDEA 9.0 final has been released
- Jazoon 2010 will be held in Zurich, Switzerland from June 1st to 3rd and has issued a call for papers, open immediately
- Apple has released a pair of Java updates for Mac OS X
- Chromium OS Diet includes Java but is missing the graphics support
- Google Chrome for Mac and Linux (beta) released this week
- Eclipse Marketplace has now gone live
- EclipseCon has issued a call for papers for the EclipseCon 2010 conference to be held in Santa Clara, CA from March 22nd to 25th
- JProfiler 6.0 has been released
ScalaWags- Scala Days 2010 has been announced, to take place at EPFL in Lausanne, Switzerland on April 15th and 16th 2010
- Andre is trying to set up a Scala users group in Dublin, Ireland
JavaFX Fix!- A Silicon Valley JavaFX user group has been founded and has held its first meeting
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Fri, 4 December 2009
Roundup 09 - API Design
Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.comRecorded at the Java Posse Roundup 2009 in Crested Butte, CO. - Assembly Language libraries
- C libraries
- Python libraries
- Principle of least astonishment
- Bean Managed Persistence vs JPA
- Standard Java libraries
- Java 5 collections
- Pythonic
- Groovy
- Levels of abstraction
- Test/Contract driven API design
- Builder Pattern
- Breaking changes in APIs
- EJB 2.x & EJB 3.x
- CORBA
- Design by committee
- Abstract Syntax Tree (AST)
- NetBeans Modules
- OSGi
- Classloader
- Annotations
- Ski symbols
- Wordstar
- Javadoc
- @Deprecated
- Annotation parameters
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Wed, 25 November 2009
Thanks again to Atlassian for the beer
- Roundup 2010 - Crested Butte, CO in Early March - Geek and Ski - Theme: Best Practices
- Closures in JDK 7
- Fork/Join in JDK 7 (+ other JDK 7 features)
- Java 7 date slipped
- Java EE 6 release date - Dec 10th
- Bad code credits?
- Adobe AIR 2.0 beta
- New JavaFX 1.3 components
- Java FX RAD tool
- Java FX Designer Tool
- Adobe catalyst designer tool
- Parleys 3.0
ScalaWags- Oracle - Scala/Lift in the keynote
Thanks
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Thu, 5 November 2009
Newscast for November 5th 2009
Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.com
Now with more listener feedback!
- The JavaStore has released another big update
- Oracle has made several statements about the future of Sun Java products
- The Mobile Edition is finally available for Mac
- Java Library of the Week: JDeskew (J De Skew)
Quick News
- Reza Rahman has part 1 of a series about Dependency Injection in Java EE 6
- The open handset alliance has announced 5 android developer lab days around the world
- Kevin Farnham at the editor's daily blog has a great summary of the new features in the just-released NetBeans 6.8 Beta
- Java.net has a new section called Java Tech
Listener Feedback
- Java to iPhone cross compiler
Thanks
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Mon, 2 November 2009
Roundup 09 - Static vs Dynamic Typing
Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.com
Recorded at the Java Posse Round 2009 in Crested Butte, CO. A discussion about statically and dynamically typed languages. - Dynamically typed languages for large projects
- Perl for large team development
- Zope
- Duck typing
- Advantages/disadvantages of dynamically or statically typed languages
- Importance of testing, testing vs compilation
- Contract for parameters - satisfied methods, etc.
- Open Classes - decorate existing classes with new methods
- CCP Eve online RPG - dynamically typed
- Tooling
- Expression Language in Java (JSR)
- Reflection
- Classloaders
- Generated bytecode
- JRebel hotswapping
- Default and named parameters
- Multiple return values
- Refactorings in dynamically typed languages
- Dynamic proxies
- Missing method handler
- Actors as an alternative to missing method handler
- Groovy calling Java/Scala
- Cross site scripting, other exploits
- Tainted mode in Perl
- Java security manager
- Java Web Start
Thanks
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Sat, 24 October 2009
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IntelliJ IDEA open sourced
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Oracle OpenWorld has just finished
- Sun has announced that 3000 jobs will go, and places the blame firmly on the doorstep of Brussels and the EU
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Droid takes on Apple, and Android 2.0 shaping up
Quick News
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JSR 316 - Java EE 6 - has now entered proposed final draft
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Weld 1.0 CR 1 (Candidate Release 1), the reference implementation for JSR 299, is now out
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JSR 330 - Dependency Injection for Java, approved and released
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Mojarra 2.0.0 final is now available
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Emmanuel Bernard and the Hibernate Team have released version 4 of Hibernate Validator
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JRebel, formerly known as JavaRebel has just released version 2.1
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IBM's developer works site has just celebrated its 10th year
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The Eclipse foundation has just released version 7.0 of Jetty
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JFrog has just released Artifactory 2.1
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The ServerSide Java Symposium comes to Prague, Czech Republic, next week
- Eclipse Summit Europe taking place in Ludwigsburg, Germany
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Instantiations has released GWT Designer 7.2
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VisualVM 1.2 is now available
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John Ferguson Smart has a look ahead to Maven 3
ScalaWags
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Bill Venners and team have released ScalaTest 1.0
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Boston, MA now has a Scala User Group
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Next week sees the Scala Lift Off East, which takes place on October 30th in Reston, VA
Moderator questions
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Thu, 15 October 2009
Roman Strobl and Dmitry Jemerov from JetBrains join us to talk about the new open source Community edition of IntelliJ IDEA!
- Community site
- Public preview of IntelliJ IDEA Community Edition
- To review the detailed list of new features of IntelliJ IDEA Ultimate 9, and to download the Preview build
- Differences between the Community Edition and the Ultimate Edition
Thanks
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Sat, 10 October 2009
Java Posse Episode 282 - Newscast for Oct 9th 2009
Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.com - Palm's entry into the development sphere
- Have we had the last JavaOne?
- Questions raised about the openness of Google's Android
- Java Application of the Week - the new improved Java Store
- Java Online Game of the Week: Pirate Galaxy
Quick News- Next week sees the Oracle OpenWorld 2009 at the Moscone Center in San Francisco
- The Eclipse project has released version 3.5.1 of Eclipse Galileo
- Adobe labs has announced that flash CS5 will be able to target the iPhone
- Remi Forax blogs that recent builds of JDK 7 now have escape analysis enabled by default
- Chas Emerick states that Java is dead, and that's a good thing
- The Editor's Daily blog has just featured a poll about whether new JVM languages are a positive development
- Josh Marinacci has announced the results of the first 30 line challenge for JavaFX
- Arun Gupta has a summary of his impressions of the 2009 Silicon Valley code camp which has just taken place
- The ReSTlet extension for ADO.Net services, part of the Noelios's Restlet 2.0 M5 open source framework
- The Apache Jakarta project has released version 3.5 of POI
- Austin, TX and Toronto, Canada will both be hosting EclipseRT days in the middle of November
- Richard
Hightower has a couple of articles up at IBM's developer works that
cover both first steps in Google App Engine for Java, and building the
killer application using GAE/J
- Carol McDonald has some concurrent Java tips for you
ScalaWags- Ian Clarke has announced a new project, called Swarm, that will use the continuations compiler plugin available in Scala 2.8
- Jonathan Gilbert on the Atlassian Blog has a technical article up about writing confluence plugins using Scala
- Matthew
Might has a new technical article that teaches Scala using the REPL
(the interactive shell) and a series of small scripts that each
demonstrate a new facet of the language
- Ivan Memruk has a technical blog up about using Scala, Wicket and Jetty together
- Scala project of the week: Scalalab
Listener Feedback- Newcastle-upon-Tyne User Group
Thanks
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Mon, 5 October 2009
Roundup 09 - You Got Chocolate in My Peanut Butter
Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.com
Recorded
at the Java Posse Roundup 2009 in Crested Butte, CO - a discussion
about the issues faced when mixing development languages on a single
project, and more generally about the languages available on the JVM. - Groovy
- Swing Builder
- Scala
- Ruby
- Ruby Build Scripts
- Testing with Groovy
- Neal Ford on Testing
- Multiple languages on the JVM
- JNI and Native Code (and JNA)
- .NET and CLR
Thanks
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Sun, 27 September 2009
Newscast for Sept 25th 2009
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JVM Language summit impressions
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JDK 7 Project Coin language features finalized
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Google has released the 1.6 version of the Android Development Kit
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Java Library of the Week - Mockito
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Android application of the Week: Layar
Quick News
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Apple has released Java for Mac OS X 10.5 Update 5
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Josh Marinacci has announced a new competition for JavaFX
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JavaFX 1.2.1 has been released by Sun
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JavaRebel has undergone a name change to JRebel
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Bill Pugh and the University of Maryland have released version 1.3.9 of Findbugs
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HTMLUnit 2.6 has been released
- JSR 299 - Java Contexts and Dependency Injection, and JSR 330 - Dependency Injection for Java
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Terrence Barr links to 4 new screencasts about Java mobile technology
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JBoss has released the first beta of Hibernate Core 3.5
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Nominations are being solicited for the NetBeans governance board
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A new library, Bolts, available in version 1.0 has been released
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The recent eclipse day held at the Googleplex was once again a successful conference
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Apache has released the first version of a new project called Wink
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Apache has also released version 1.3 of pivot
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A new static analysis tool, XDepend, promises the ability to X-ray your Java code
ScalaWags
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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
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Version 2.7.6 of Scala has been released
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Caoyuan continues work on the Scala plugin re-write in Scala that takes
advantage of the new scala compiler toolability features
- GridGain has provided a technical blog article on using GridGain map/reduce from Scala
- Maxime Biais has an exploration of the uses of underscore in Scala
Listener Feedback - Scala edition
- Scalawag News - User Group Meetup in Norway
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