Newscast for November 14th 2008

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Java Posse Roundup 2009 dates set, March 10th to 13th in Crested Butte, CO with alternative JVM language day on the 9th.
http://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=242122

• What Happened to SwingX?
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/fabriziogiudici/archive/
  2008/11/guys_dont_panic.html 
• http://forums.java.net/jive/thread.jspa?messageID=313969 
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/rbair/archive/2008/11/javafx_enterpri.html
  
• http://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=242077 
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/kirillcool/archive/2008/11/sun_setting_dow.html
  
• http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse/browse_thread/thread/
  a8f16f2aca8b5e0b/84e7d2a360f93b01?show_docid=84e7d2a360f93b01 

• JetBrains has released IntelliJ IDEA 8.0
• http://www.jetbrains.com/idea/ 
• http://www.jetbrains.com/idea/features/index.html
  

• Scala roundup
• http://www.scala-lang.org/node/348
  
• http://www.scala-lang.org/node/347 
• http://plugins.intellij.net/plugin/?id=1347 

• Sun and Google break up, big time
• http://www.tcmagazine.com/comments.php?shownews=22786 
• http://www.neowin.net/news/main/08/11/10/
  sun-to-spread-live-toolbar-via-java
  
• http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/11/10/0842255
• http://blogs.sun.com/jonathan/entry/the_value_of_distribution_java
  

• Java Project of the Week: Mobile Millenium
  
• http://traffic.berkeley.edu/ 

• Java Library of the Week: Twitter4j
• http://yusuke.homeip.net/twitter4j/en/index.html
  

Quick News

• Atlassian has released a new version of Clover, the testing and code coverage tool
• http://www.atlassian.com/software/clover/?s_kwcid=HMClover 
• http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?thread_id=51771

• The schedule for the next mobile and embedded developer days conference has been announced
  
• https://developerdays.dev.java.net/nonav/agenda.html 

• CommunityOne is adding an east coast CommunityOne to take place in New York on March 18th 2009
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/editors/archives/
  2008/11/betcha_thought.html
  

• Glassfish v3 Prelude has been released
  
• https://glassfish.dev.java.net/downloads/v3-prelude.html
  
• http://blogs.sun.com/theaquarium/entry/ejb_3_1_more_features
  
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/vivekp/archive/
  2008/11/dynamic_languag.html 

• A new version of JMaki is also available
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/carlavmott/archive/
  2008/11/jmaki_181_and_g.html
  

• Sun and IBM have teamed up to create an ODF toolkit
• http://odftoolkit.openoffice.org/ 

• MortBay Consulting has released Jetty 6.1.12
• http://www.mortbay.org/jetty/index.html 

• The latest release of soapUI has added ReST support
  
• http://www.eviware.com/
  

• OpenTrends has released OpenFrame 2.0
  
• http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?thread_id=51748 
• http://sourceforge.net/projects/openframe
  

• Quokka an alternative to Maven?
• http://quokka.ws/ 

• The JSR 299 - Web beans specification, led by Gavin King of JBoss, is currently in public review
• http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=299 

• The numbers are in for Sun's fiscal first quarter, and the news is as expected: bad
• http://www.cafeaulait.org/#November_4_2008_66764 
• OpenEco still going ahead
  
• https://www.openeco.org/ 
• http://profiles.waroengdata.com/askpc-read-222/sun-microsystem-goes-green.html

• JBoss Tools 3 Beta 1 has been released
• http://www.jboss.org/tools/
  
• http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?thread_id=51704 

• G2One Inc., the company behind groovy and grails, has been acquired by SpringSource
  
• http://www.springsource.com/g2one 

• The Roma framework has reached version 1.0.0
  
• http://www.romaframework.org/advanced_technology.htm 

• Former Java Posse mobile application of the week: Opera Mini, has reached version 4.2
  
• http://mobile.resalty.net/592/
  operamini-42-beta-best-java-internet-browser/ 

• Hyperic HQ 4.0 has been released
• http://www.hyperic.com/launch/hqe-40-launch.html 

• Aspose words for Java has a new version
• http://www.aspose.com/categories/file-format-components/
  aspose.words-for-.net-and-java/default.aspx 

• Nokia has released the completed JSR 293 - Location API 2.0
• http://jcp.org/aboutJava/communityprocess/pfd/jsr293/index.html 

• The election ballot for the Java Community Process is now open until November 17th
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/editors/archives/2008/11/move_along.html 

• ReSTlet 1.1.0 has been released
• http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?thread_id=51625 

• The Apache project has released OpenEJB 3.1
  
• http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=318 
• http://openejb.apache.org/openejb-31.html

• JPPF, a grid computing platform for Java, has release version 1.6
• http://www.jppf.org/ 

• Jython 2.5 beta "0" is now out
• http://fwierzbicki.blogspot.com/2008/10/jython-25-beta0-released.html 

• Stephen Colbourne has released JodaTime 1.6
• http://joda-time.sourceforge.net/ 

• The Java Data Pipeline has released version 2
• http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?thread_id=51654 

• The early draft review for JSR 316 - Java EE 6 - is now up at the JCP
• http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=316 

• The O'Reilly School of Technology has announced a Java certification program as an alternative to Sun's Java Certified program
• http://press.oreilly.com/pub/pr/2151 

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Roundup 08 - Don't Repeat Yourself

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Recorded at the Java Posse Roundup 2008 in Crested Butte, CO. This discussion covers topics like re-use vs. re-write, abandoned software projects, static and dynamic languages, project vibrancy, bugs and defects and lots more.

• Abandoned open source projects
• http://ask.slashdot.org/article.pl?
  sid=00/08/02/0039217&mode=thread
  
• SourceForge - http://sourceforge.net/
  
• Java.net - http://java.net/
  
• Google code - http://code.google.com/hosting/
  
• Code scavenging in the enterprise
• http://www.informs-sim.org/wsc02papers/099.pdf 
• http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/11
  /30/code_scavanging/
  
• Google code search
• http://www.google.com/codesearch
  
• Do it right the second time?
• http://www.amazon.com/Right-Second-
  Time-Benchmarking-Practices/dp/1563271753
  
• Larry Wall - Post Modern Programming
• http://www.wall.org/~larry/pm.html
  
• John Ousterhout on scripting and higher level programming
• http://www.tcl.tk/doc/scripting.html 
• DRY - Don't Repeat Yourself
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don%27t_repeat_yourself
  
• CPAN - Comprehensive Perl Archive Network
  
• http://www.cpan.org/ 
• Koders.com
• http://koders.com/ 
• POJO classes in Java EE 5
• http://java.sun.com/developer/technicalArticles/
  Interviews/shannon_qa.html
  
• http://www.theserverside.com/tt/articles
  /article.tss?l=BenefitsJavaEE5 
• Static typing vs testing
• http://www.mindview.net/WebLog/log-0066 
• http://osteele.com/archives/2003/08/test-versus-type 
• Findbugs static analysis
• http://findbugs.sourceforge.net/ 
• Glazed Lists
• http://publicobject.com/glazedlists/ 
• Google Collections Library
• http://code.google.com/p/google-collections/ 
• Java Dynamic Proxies
• http://unserializableone.blogspot.com/2007/08/
  make-use-of-java-dynamic-proxy.html
  
• http://www.devx.com/Java/Article/21463 
• The wall of typesafe erasure
• http://viewfromthefringe.blogspot.com/2007/11/
  wall-of-erasure.html 
• http://stuffthathappens.com/blog/2007/11/04/
  foiled-by-erasure/ 
• Java reflection API
• http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/reflect/index.html 
• http://today.java.net/pub/a/today/2008/02/12/
  reflection-in-action.html 
• Scala traits
• http://www.scala-lang.org/node/126 

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• 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
  • Closing - Juan Carlos Jimenez - In the House (Intro No. 1)
    

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The Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall

QuickNews and Feedback for November 3rd 2008

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Quick News

• POI 3.1 has been released by the Apache Jakarta project
• http://poi.apache.org/index.html 

• Josh Bloch has an interview at the Sun Developer Network about his new Effective Java book
• http://java.sun.com/developer/technicalArticles/
  Interviews/bloch_effective_08_qa.html 

• PalmSource has revealed its ALP 3.0 (Access Linux Platform)
• http://www.mobiletechaddicts.com/2008/
  10/24/palm-os-alp-30-revealed/
  
• http://www.mobileburn.com/news.jsp?Id=5569
  

• A number of Eclipse demo camps are being held all over the world
• http://wiki.eclipse.org/Eclipse_DemoCamps_November_2008 

• IBM Alphaworks has released version 2.7 of HeapAnalyzer
• http://www.alphaworks.ibm.com/tech/heapanalyzer 

• Jonathan Schwartz has a video up on NetBeans.tv celebrating 10 years of NetBeans
• http://netbeans.tv/interviews/Jonathan-Schwartz-on-NetBeans-409/ 

• Another DZone refcard is available, this time covering getting started with MyEclipse
• http://refcardz.dzone.com/refcardz/myeclipse 

• The final version of MVEL 2.0 is out
  
• http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?thread_id=51495 

• The Apache Jakarta project has released Commons::Net 2.0
• http://commons.apache.org/net/changes-report.html#a2.0 

• Support for a 64 bit Java plugin for Windows and Linux 64 bit operating systems has been pledged for early 2009 in the Java 6 update 12 release
• http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=4802695 

• Ted Neward's Busy Java Developer's Guide to Scala continues with a 2 part examination of building a calculator in Scala
• http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/views/java/libraryview.jsp?
  search_by=scala 

• JBoss has released version 2.0.0 General Access of JBoss AOP (Aspect Oriented Programming)
• http://www.jboss.org/jbossaop/downloads/ 
• http://www.jboss.org/jbossaop/docs/2.0.0.GA/RELEASE_NOTES.html
  

• Seam 2.1.0 General Access has been released by JBoss
  
• http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?thread_id=51382 

• JavaWorld has a nice introduction to ReST
• http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-10-2008/
  jw-10-rest-series-1.html 
• http://www.restlet.org/
  
• http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=311 

• John Ferguson Smart has a unique response to the current economic downturn: be more productive
  
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/johnsmart/archive/
  2008/10/software_develo.html 

• ASM now has support for the InvokeDynamic byte code that John Rose recently completed a prototype for
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/forax/archive/
  2008/10/asm_and_invoked.html 
• http://asm.objectweb.org/ 

• MuleSource has release Mule 2.1 Enterprise and Mule Galaxy 1.5
• http://mulesource.com/download/#muleee
• http://mule.mulesource.org/display/MULE/Home

• The free Java Decompiler project (yes, that is the name) looks like a useful tool
• http://java.decompiler.free.fr/ 

• Java 5 and 6 - the improved math library
• http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/j-math1/
  index.html?ca=dgr-btw01JavaPart1&
  S_Tact=105AGX59&S_cmp=GRsitebtw01 

• Numiton has ported WordPress to Java
  
• http://sourceforge.net/projects/nwordpress 
• http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?thread_id=50890 

• Linux Journal has a round up of Java audio software for Linux
• http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/
  java-sound-music-software-linux-part-3 

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• 408 465 4626 - Our grandcentral number

• Library Search
• http://www.springsource.com/repository/app/faq
  

• What about Traits?
• http://sebastian-bergmann.de/archives/
  822-Of-Lambda-Functions,-Closures,-and-Traits.html
  

• EasyMock and PowerMock
• http://www.powermock.org
  

• Mac Widgets for Java
• http://code.google.com/p/macwidgets/
• http://explodingpixels.wordpress.com/
  

• NetBeans 6.5 release candidate 2 is out
• http://www.netbeans.org/community/releases/65/ 
• http://wiki.netbeans.org/NewAndNoteWorthy
• http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/NewsItemView?newsItemID=1304
  

• Alex Miller over at JavaLobby has a couple of articles looking ahead to JSR 203 - NIO 2
• http://java.dzone.com/articles/some-jsr-203-examples 
• http://java.dzone.com/articles/some-more-jsr203-examples
• http://homepages.borland.com/bstone/opentools/doc/ref/OpenToolsAPI/
  com/borland/primetime/vfs/package-frame.html
  
• http://today.java.net/pub/a/today/2008/07/03/jsr-203-new-file-apis.html

• An interesting discussion and poll over at Java.net pits SOAP vs. ReST
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/editors/archives/2008/10/this_aint_a_sce.html 
• http://www.java.net/pub/pq/231 
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/cayhorstmann/archive/2008/10/restless_about.html 

• Application of the week - Thinkfree Office Netbook Edition
• http://product.thinkfree.com/mobile/netbook
  
• http://www.thinkfree.com/views/jsp/user/etc/netbook_survey.jsp
  

• Project of the week: jLab
• https://jlab.dev.java.net/
  

• And, Mobile application of the week: GMail 2.0, now with offline features
• http://googlemobile.blogspot.com/2008/10/introducing-gmail-for-mobile-20.html
• http://m.google.com/mail

• Bonus mobile application of the week: BooksInMyPhone
• http://www.booksinmyphone.com/index.php
  

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
  • Closing - Juan Carlos Jimenez - In the House (Intro No. 1)
    

• To contact us:
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  • Call us with questions and feedback - (408) 465 4626
  • Or send us email - javaposse@gmail.com

The Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall