Newscast for Dec 20th 2008

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• JavaFX 1.0 launched, Devoxx becomes the launch party
• http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?thread_id=52165
• http://www.weiqigao.com/blog/2008/12/04/using_javafx_1_0_on_linux.html

• The other big news from Devoxx - Java 7
• http://blogs.sun.com/darcy/entry/small_language_changes_jdk_7
• http://www.jroller.com/scolebourne/entry/java_7_small_language_changes
• http://blogs.sun.com/mr/
• http://java.dzone.com/news/jsr-310-needs-help

• In other Big News that happened while we were on the road, Google has released Native Client
• http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/12/08/Google_tests_ActiveX_alternative_1.html
• http://code.google.com/p/nativeclient/
• http://news.cnet.com/8301-1001_3-10118792-92.html?part=rss

• Java Application of the week: XMind
• http://www.xmind.net

• Java Applet of the Week: Screencast-O-Matic
  
• http://www.screencast-o-matic.com/create?step=setup
  

Quick News

• JavaOne call for papers - closes on Dec 18th
• http://blogs.sun.com/theaquarium/entry/call_for_papers_javaone_and

• The ServerSide Java Symposium
• http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?thread_id=52437

• Vita Santrucek has a quick look at the upcoming Java 6 U 12 release on his blog
• http://blogs.sun.com/vita/entry/java_se_6_update_12

• http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NjkyOQ
• https://jdk6.dev.java.net/6uNea.html

• Eric Arsenau thinks that Java on mobile phones is just the beginning
• http://research.sun.com/minds/2008-1210/

• M3DD (mobile, media and eMbedded developer days) coming up from January 21st to 22nd of January at Sun's Santa Clara campus
  
• https://developerdays.dev.java.net/nonav/overview.html
• https://lwuit.dev.java.net/servlets/ProjectProcess?tab=2
• https://developerdays.dev.java.net/nonav/agenda.html

• Jeet Kaul takes on the sticky subject of JSR 277 and OSGi on the Sun blogs
• http://blogs.sun.com/meetjeet/entry/osgi_vs_jsr_277

• Sun has release Java 6 U 11 with a number of bug fixes for the new and improved Java runtime
• http://java.sun.com/javase/downloads/index.jsp

• Spring Integration 1.0 GA has been announced at the recent SpringOne conference
• http://www.springsource.org/spring-integration

• From the whiteboards at Devoxx comes a summary blog from Stephen Colbourne
• http://www.jroller.com/scolebourne/entry/devoxx_2008_whiteboard_votes

• JBoss has release Hibernate Search 3.1 GA
• http://search.hibernate.org

• JBoss has also release JBoss AS 5.0 GA, their application server now fully supporting Java EE 5
  
• http://sacha.labourey.com/2008/12/05/as-500-we-are-done-next/

• Gradle, a new build tool that has elements of both ant and maven in its feature set, has reached version 0.5
• http://www.gradle.org/

• The Simple project has released Simple 2.0
• http://simple.sourceforge.net/

• VisualVM has now reached version 1.1
• http://eclipse.dzone.com/announcements/visualvm-11-now-available

• The first milestone of JavaRebel 2.0 is now out
• http://www.zeroturnaround.com/javarebel/
• http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?thread_id=52436

• A new web framework - Loom - has reached version 1.0
• http://loom.extrema-sistemas.com/

• JBrownie wraps the javac compiler to monitor and auto-compile changed Java source files on the fly
• http://www.onyxbits.de/jbrownie

• JSR 314 - JSF (JavaServer Faces) 2.0 is now in public review with the ballot scheduled between January 6th to the 12th 2009
• http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=314

• Roy van Rijn has a critical look at JSR 315 - Servlet 3.0
• http://www.theserverside.com/tt/articles/article.tss?l=PonderingAboutJSR135
• http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=315

• And another JSR in public review until January 12th is JSR 322 - Java EE Connector Architecture 1.6
• http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=322

• Stax Networks is currently running a private beta of a platform for Amazon's EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud) that allows you to write Java applications using standard APIs and tools
• http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/12/16/stax-networks-launches-google-app-engine-for-java/

• Java Simon is a simple monitoring API and has just reached version 1.0.
  
• http://code.google.com/p/javasimon/

• Adobe has release version 1.5 of AIR (the Adobe Internet Runtime) for Linux
  
• http://www.detector-pro.com/2008/12/adobe-air-15-for-linux-released.html

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