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• Groovy 1.5 released
• http://docs.codehaus.org/display/GROOVY/
  2007/12/07/Groovy+1.5+released
  

• David Heinemeier Hannson has release version 2.0 of the Ruby on Rails framework
• http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2007/
  12/7/rails-2-0-it-s-done

• CommunityOne call for submissions
• http://developers.sun.com/events/communityone/

• Library of the week - Scene graph
• https://scenegraph.dev.java.net/

• Application of the week - Masters of Java
• http://mastersofjava.2en40.nl/
• http://mastersofjava.2en40.nl/Articles.html
• http://mastersofjava.2en40.nl/Assignments.html

Quick News Items

• Adobe has open-sourced Blaze - the AMF protocol and
  libraries which does flex remoting more efficiently than XML or
  JSON
• http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/blazeds/
  

• Sun is going to discontinue development of the Java Studio
  Creator and Java Studio Enterprise products
• http://www.nytimes.com/idg/IDG_002570DE00740
  E18002573AE00777209.html?ref=technology

• Sasha Maps is a new library for GWT that provides easy
  Google maps support from within GWT applications. It is
  available for free under an attribution, non-commercial,
  share-alike license
• http://www.maryanovsky.com/sasha/maps/

• Sun has submitted JSR 322 - Java EE Connector Architecture
  1.6 - to the JCP for consideration
• http://www.jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=322

• Microsoft Volta, a new experimental add-on for Visual Studio
  that bears more than a passing resemblance to GWT (the
  Google Web Toolkit)
• http://blogs.zdnet.com/Burnette/?p=480

• Greg Sporar has released a six minute screencast of some of
  the new editing features in NetBeans 6.0
• http://www.netbeans.org/download/flash/
  netbeans_60/editor2/editor2.html

• Sun has a repeat of their introduction to web application
  development event on December 18th in Second life (at the
  Sun developer playground)
• http://slurl.com/secondlife/Sun%20Microsystems/172/162/9

• Atlassian have announced Fisheye 1.4 and Crucible 1.2
• http://www.theserverside.com/news/
  thread.tss?thread_id=47803

• JBoss has released JBoss Tools 2 and JBoss Developer Studio
  • http://www.theserverside.com/news/
    thread.tss?thread_id=47820

• JSR 308 - Annotations for Java Types, has entered early draft review
• http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=308

• Podcast of a Guy Steele and Richard Gabriel a keynote at ooPSLA called 50 in 50
  
• http://www.oopsla.org/oopsla2007/index.php?
  page=sub/&id=267
• http://www.podbean.com/podcast-detail-episode/
  342059/episode-19-keynote----50-in-50

• JavaRebel 1.0 released
  
• http://www.theserverside.com/news/
  thread.tss?thread_id=47771

• Apache Roller 4.0 is now out
• http://blogs.sun.com/theaquarium/entry/roller_4_0_is_out

• Liftweb, the Scala based web app framework from David
  Pollak is now at version 0.3.0
• http://scala-blogs.org/2007/12/announcing-lift-030.html

• Oracle has posted the proposed final draft for JSR 225 - the
  XQuery API for Java. This is a specification that defines a
  JDBC like API for native XML databases
• http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=225

• ReSTclient 1.1 has been release
• http://code.google.com/p/rest-client/

• Developer.com is now taking votes for the products of the year 2008
• http://solutions.internet.com/index.php/
  4431_default/d06d68c39e4b77545d082da8d2ea5d86

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• Brice Ruth and Webprojkt.com - http://webprojkt.com - for our archives site - http://archives.javaposse.com
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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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