Newscast for February 25th 2009

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Java Posse Roundup alternative languages day details:
http://groups.google.com/group/roundup09/web/alternative-languages-day

• Groovy 1.6 released
• http://groovy.codehaus.org/
• http://groovy.codehaus.org/Immutable+AST+Macro
• http://groovy.codehaus.org/Grapes+and+grab()
• http://groovy.codehaus.org/Multiple+Assignment+Proposal

• NetBeans releases to get smaller and more frequent
• http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/NewsItemView?newsItemID=1346
• http://wiki.netbeans.org/NewAndNoteWorthy

• Java application of the week: shape collage
• http://www.vincentcheung.ca/shapecollage/download-jnlp.html

Quick News Items

• JSR 316 - Java Enterprise Edition 6, has been approved by the JCP
• http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=316

• EclipseZone blogs that the Eclipse Plugin Central (also known as EPIC) is going to be re-written
• https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=263041
• http://eclipse.dzone.com/articles/epic-20

• Jean-Francois Arcand blogs that he has got Grizzly running under Java on a hacked iPhone
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/jfarcand/archive/2009/02/running_grizzly.html

• OSGi roundup
  
• http://eclipse.dzone.com/news/osgi

• John Rose has published a highly technical description of the new invokedynamic bytecode
• http://blogs.sun.com/jrose/entry/simple_java_linkage_with_invokedynamic

• Piotr Tabor has an article up at Netbeans Zone about creating a plugin for NetBeans
• http://netbeans.dzone.com/news/interview-google-protocol-buff

• Chet Haase has a Java developers view on Actionscript (Adobe's flash language) over at JavaWorld
  
• http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-02-2009/jw-02-actionscript1.html?page=3

• License4J version 1.5 is out from Smardec
• http://www.smardec.com/products/license4j.html

• Yourkit version 8.0 is now available
• http://www.yourkit.com/changes/

• Apple has just released Safari 4.0 Beta 1 for Mac OS X and Windows
• http://www.apple.com/safari/features.html
• And rumor has it that Mozilla Firefox 3.1 will not ship this quarter
• http://newtware.com/?p=237