Newscast for January 8th 2009

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Java Posse Roundup in Crested Butte, CO, from March 3rd to 6th (but come a day early for a free alternative languages day on the JVM - to be held on the 2nd). Time is running out for the early bird price - please sign up by January 20th. It saves you money, and it really helps us with planning.

http://www.mindviewinc.com/Conferences/JavaPosseRoundup/

• JavaBeat has a summary of the changes coming in the new version of the Java EE spec
• http://www.javabeat.net/articles/99-new-features-in-java-ee-60-1.html

• Java.net has an interesting poll - what was the biggest Java related story in 2008?
• http://java.net/pub/pq/241

• And, on the subject of Java 7, is the omission of closures a killer blow?
• http://www.infoq.com/news/2009/01/java7-updated

• Java FX Application of the Week: Widget FX
• http://widgetfx.org/
• http://code.google.com/p/widgetfx/

• Java Mobile App of the Week - Snaptu
• http://www.snaptu.com/

• Java Apps of the Week, bonus edition
• http://www.ilabz.net/?p=731

Quick News

• A new service - SVNsite
• http://www.svnsite.com/start

• DZone has updated their ref-card for NetBeans 6.5
• http://netbeans.dzone.com/announcements/updated-netbeans-java-editor-r

• Chenille Kit
  
• http://www.chenillekit.org/license.html

• Bill Pugh and the University of Maryland have released version 1.3.7 of Findbugs
• http://findbugs.sourceforge.net/

• SwingLabs Lives! and has released version 0.9.5 of SwingX
  
• http://swinglabs.org/projects.jsp

• The JSR 319 - Availability Management for Java, has been posted as a public review draft by Ericsson
  
• http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=319

• DWR has reached version 3.0 RC 1
• http://directwebremoting.org/blog/joe/2008/12/16/dwr_version_3_0_release_candidate_1.html 

• 10th Anniversary JCP party at the computer history museum in Mountain View, CA
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/van_riper/archive/2009/01/the_audacity_of_1.html
• http://svscala.ning.com/events/scala-base-meeting-8-1132009

• Sun has posted the public review draft of JSR 303 - Bean Validation
  
• http://jcp.org/aboutJava/communityprocess/pr/jsr303/index.html

• MockFtpServer 2.0 has been released
  
• http://mockftpserver.sourceforge.net/

• JFrog has released version 2.0 of Artifactory, a Maven repository manager
• http://www.jfrog.org/products.php

• Google video titled "the nuts, bolts and springs of distributed OSGi applications"
• http://eclipse.dzone.com/videos/the-nuts-bolks-and-springs-dis

• FEST is a new project offering a fluent interface for testing Swing UIs
• http://code.google.com/p/fest/

• Kirill Grouchnikov has released version 4.0 feature freeze preview of flamingo
  
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/kirillcool/archive/2008/12/_pushing_pixels.html

• Jeet Kaul, VP of Client Software for Sun Microsystems, has a useful blog Q&A up about JavaFX
• http://blogs.sun.com/meetjeet/entry/javafx_the_road_ahead

• Apache Commons Config 1.6 is out
• http://commons.apache.org/configuration/

• Jazoon has issued a call for papers for the Jazoon 2009 conference to be held from June 22nd to 25th in Zurich
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/felipegaucho/archive/2008/12/jazoon_call_for.html

• Java runs faster on Linux
  
• http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=java_vm_performance&num=1

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• 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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