Thu, 19 February 2009
Newscast for Feb 19th 2009Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.comPlease
join us for the next Java Posse Roundup - March 3rd to 6th 2009 in
Crested Butte, CO, with a free alternative languages on the JVM day on
March 2nd.
http://www.mindviewinc.com/Conferences/JavaPosseRoundup/ - Registration now open for JavaOne 2009, to be held June 2nd to 5th 2009 in the Moscone Center, SF
- JavaFX 1.1 is now out, including official support for JavaFX Mobile
- Details are beginning to emerge about a second generation
Android phone
- Java project of the week - SAVE
- Applet of the Week (kinda): Pet catalog browser
Quick News- Jazoon is running a competition for young speakers (26 or under) to present at Jazoon 09
- JetBrains has release IntelliJ IDEA 8.1
- Apple has released a new update for Java on Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
- Moonlight 1.0 has been officially released
- Zero, a project to make a JVM that requires no assembly code porting, has reached a major milestone, it has passed the TCK
- The WebDAV project has announced support for JAX-RS, final version 1.0
- Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz announced that there have been 100 million downloads of the JavaFX runtime already
- NetBeans portal pack 3.0 is now available for download
- OpenWebBeans 1.0.0 M1 has been released
- And staying with JSR 299 - it has been approved for inclusion in Java EE 6 despite a few lingering concerns
- JSR
303 - Bean Validation, led by Emmanuel Bernard of JBoss/RedHat (and not
Sun as we have reported in the past) has also been accepted
- A FOSDEM 09 interview with Martin Odersky gives details about new language features coming in Scala 2.8
- Kirill Grouchnikov has release version 4.0 final of Flamingo
- Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 - codenamed Lenny - has been released
- Groovy and Grails training courses offered by Scott David and Andrew Glover
- The reference implementation for Distributed OSGi, now officially known as OSGi 4.2, is now available at Apache CXF
- Scala and mixing it in with some Java code
- The 7th annual Duke's Choice awards are accepting nominations
Thanks
The Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall
Direct download: JavaPosse231.mp3
Category: podcasts
-- posted at: 7:57pm PDT
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Tue, 10 February 2009
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JavaFX interview conducted at Devoxx 2008 with Josh Marinacci, Jasper
Potts, Richard Bair and Martin Brehovsky about the JavaFX release, why
a new language, what features does it sport, etc. This interview is
also available in video form on Parleys.com. http://tinyurl.com/brjf2a- Parleys:
- JavaFX
- Developer Home
- Project scene graph
- JavaFX Tools
- IDEs
Thanks
The Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall
Direct download: JavaPosse230.mp3
Category: podcasts
-- posted at: 9:02am PDT
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Sat, 7 February 2009
Please
join us for the next Java Posse Roundup - March 3rd to 6th 2009 in
Crested Butte, CO, with a free alternative languages on the JVM day on
March 2nd.
http://www.mindviewinc.com/Conferences/JavaPosseRoundup/
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Java EE 6 (JSR 316) has entered the public review draft phase
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Sun layoffs, will it affect the Java strategies (particularly open source?)
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Eclipse 3.5 M 5 (Galileo) has been released
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Java Mobile application of the week, kind of: Google mobile search-by-voice for Android
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Java Project of the week - Java Closures for Eclipse
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Java project of the week bonus edition: Swing 2.0
Quick News
- Java 6 U 12 is now out, and with it comes the 64 bit Java plugin
- eWeek's Chief technology analyst, Jim Rapoza, has been trying out Java FX and has given it a pretty glowing review
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The dates for the 2009 Devoxx conference in Belgium have been announced
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And, the first of the devoxx talks from the 2008 conference have started to appear on Parleys.com
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NetBeans.org is electing a new NetBeans governance board
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Oracle has submitted JSR 329 - Portlet 2.0 Bridge for JavaServer Faces 1.2
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Jesse Wilson and James Lemieux have release version 1.8.0 of Glazed Lists
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Glassfish v2.1 has been released
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QCon London, coming up in March just after the Java Posse Roundup 2009
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Dick did a talk at the University of Kent (of which he is an Alumnus) about software engineering
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The Apache Jakarta project has released Cactus 1.8.1
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Jetty may be moving to Eclipse
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The JCP has announced a special election to fill a vacated seat on the mobile edition JCP executive committee
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JetBrains has release IntelliJ IDEA 8.0.1
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A boost in the grizzly community in January resulted in enough
submissions and improvements for a Grizzly community release, 1.9.5
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Registration is open for SpringOne Europe 2009, which will be held in Amsterdam from April 27th to 29th
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Google has released the final version of the JSR 284 - Resource Consumption Management API spec
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Oracle has an Oracle Technology Network Developer Day in New York on Feb 23rd at the New Yorker hotel
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Adobe has opted to publish the Real-Time Messaging Protocol (RTMP) specification
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JBoss has announced RESTeasy GA, a fully certified open source JAX-RS implementation
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DevNexus 2009 will be held on March 10th and 11th at the Cobb Galleria center in Atlanta, GA
Thanks
The Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall
Direct download: JavaPosse229.mp3
Category: podcasts
-- posted at: 4:48pm PDT
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Mon, 2 February 2009
Roundup 08 - Scala in the EnterpriseRecorded at the Java Posse Roundup 2008 - a technical session on using Scala in the enterprise, and what we can learn from Java
Please
join us for the next Java Posse Roundup - March 3rd to 6th 2009 in
Crested Butte, CO, with a free alternative languages on the JVM day on
March 2nd.
http://www.mindviewinc.com/Conferences/JavaPosseRoundup/
Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.com- Scala Language
- Function composition
- Software Transactional Memory in Scala
- Dependency Injection in Scala
- Lift Web Framework for Scala
- Scala IDE support
- Combinators for Contracts
- DSLs in Scala
- Actors in Scala
- Cay Horstmann's Scala lectures
- Scala Traits
- Web Beans Stereotypes
- Guice in Scala
- Lift and JPA
- Scala, Actors and Terracotta
- Properties in Scala
- XMonad
- The ScalaX Community Library
- GData Scala Libraries
- Scala by Example
- Programming in Scala book
- Programming Scala book
- Ted Neward Scala articles
- F# for .NET
- Smalltalk
Thanks
The Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall
Direct download: JavaPosse228.mp3
Category: podcasts
-- posted at: 8:57am PDT
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Sat, 24 January 2009
Newscast for January 22nd 2009
Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.com
Please
join us for the next Java Posse Roundup - March 3rd to 6th 2009 in
Crested Butte, CO, with a free alternative languages on the JVM day on
March 2nd.
http://www.mindviewinc.com/Conferences/JavaPosseRoundup/
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Details on Project Jigsaw, or is this simply out of data information? Plus, Eclipse plans for OSGi
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Mobile Java app of the week - Skype Lite
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Java app of the week - GTD Free
Quick News
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Sun Tech Days 2009 has announced that the conference will stop in Hyderabad from Feb 18th to 20th 2009 at the HICC
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Chris Adamson reports from Codemash, a user organized developer conference held in central Ohio
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Party time is a new grails platform that simplifies the creation of
social networking applications in the groovy based web framework
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GridGain 2.1 has been released
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QCon London 2009 has been announced
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The Apache project has announced commons digester 2.0, a library to convert XML objects into Java
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Palm unveiled the soon to be released palm pre
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Amy Fowler has a blog entry all about layouts in Java FX
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The mono project has found a way around the no VM's rule on the iPhone
to allow C# developed applications to run on Apple's phone
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The cloudtools project is a new google code hosted project that
provides tools for deploying, managing and testing applications on
Amazon's EC2
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Twitter's Project Kestrel has replaced a Ruby queue implementation with a much faster Scala implementation
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Version 0.15.1 of the NetBeans Scala plugin has been released
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David Herron blogs about Java 6, Java 6 U 10, OpenJDK and Java 7
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VisualVM 1.1 has been released
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The first australian Android phone has been delayed indefinitely, just a few days before it was due to be released
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David Pollak has announced Lift 0.10, a new version of the Scala web framework
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The second part of Elliotte Rusty Harold's look at the new Math
features of Java 5 and 6 has been published at IBM's developer works
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JSR 314 (JSF 2.0), JSR 315 (Servlet 3.0) and JSR 322 (JCA 1.6) have all been approved by the JCP
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Arun Gupta has an example of how to embed EJBs into WAR (Web Archive) files using Glassfish v3
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JavaGround has announced that it's XPress suite will include the
ability to natively compile Java applications to target the iPhone
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Jim Driscoll blogs that the JSF 2.0 Public Review is now out
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Japplis has released the Japplis web site optimizer version 1.0
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NetBeans cleaned up in the 2009 Developer.com product awards
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JOpt 3.0 has been released by Paul R. Holser
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The Aerith NetBeans project has now split out several components from the demo and packaged them for your own use in NetBeans
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Transmorph 1.0.0 has been released
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The ServerSide Java Symposium has announced it's own economic stimulus
package by extending its early bird pricing for the 2009 conference
until the end of January
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JUG-USA aims to bring all Java User Groups across the USA together to share tips, resources, even speakers
Listener Feedback
- JSR-303 Bean Validation corrections
Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.com
Thanks
The Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall
Direct download: JavaPosse227.mp3
Category: podcasts
-- posted at: 9:06am PDT
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Sun, 18 January 2009
Rich Internet Application Ecosystem
Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.comThis
was recorded before the release of Java 6 U 10 and JavaFX, so many of
the points about the size and performance of Java applets are no longer
true, nor is the prediction that interest may be lost in JavaFX after
JavaOne. It will be interesting to revisit this subject at the upcoming
Java Posse Roundup 2009. - DHTML
- GWT
- Silverlight
- JavaFX
- Flex
- OpenLaszlo
- BitTorrent library for Java
- Dojo
- Java Swing
- JavaFX tooling
- JPA - Java Persistence API
- Harness JPA from Flex
Thanks
The Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall
Direct download: JavaPosse226.mp3
Category: podcasts
-- posted at: 1:04pm PDT
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Sat, 10 January 2009
Newscast for January 8th 2009
Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.com
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/
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JavaBeat has a summary of the changes coming in the new version of the Java EE spec
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Java.net has an interesting poll - what was the biggest Java related story in 2008?
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And, on the subject of Java 7, is the omission of closures a killer blow?
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Java FX Application of the Week: Widget FX
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Java Mobile App of the Week - Snaptu
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Java Apps of the Week, bonus edition
Quick News
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DZone has updated their ref-card for NetBeans 6.5
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Bill Pugh and the University of Maryland have released version 1.3.7 of Findbugs
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SwingLabs Lives! and has released version 0.9.5 of SwingX
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The JSR 319 - Availability Management for Java, has been posted as a public review draft by Ericsson
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DWR has reached version 3.0 RC 1
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10th Anniversary JCP party at the computer history museum in Mountain View, CA
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Sun has posted the public review draft of JSR 303 - Bean Validation
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MockFtpServer 2.0 has been released
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JFrog has released version 2.0 of Artifactory, a Maven repository manager
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Google video titled "the nuts, bolts and springs of distributed OSGi applications"
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FEST is a new project offering a fluent interface for testing Swing UIs
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Kirill Grouchnikov has released version 4.0 feature freeze preview of flamingo
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Jeet Kaul, VP of Client Software for Sun Microsystems, has a useful blog Q&A up about JavaFX
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Apache Commons Config 1.6 is out
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Jazoon has issued a call for papers for the Jazoon 2009 conference to be held from June 22nd to 25th in Zurich
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Java runs faster on Linux
Listener Feedback
http://tinyurl.com/q4javaposse
Thanks
The Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall
Direct download: JavaPosse225.mp3
Category: podcasts
-- posted at: 1:52pm PDT
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Sat, 3 January 2009
Holiday 2008 Special
Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.comOur
traditional Odyssey into non-Java geeking, although there is a fair
amount of Java meat if you can make it through to the latter half of
the podcast. It's long, it's rambling, it's off topic, and it was fun. New recording of Java Jing Jing by Loose Bruce Kerr at the beginning - higher quality stereo, and now with video! http://loosebrucekerr.libsyn.com/ Please
join us for the next Java Posse Roundup - March 3rd to 6th 2009 in
Crested Butte, CO, with a free alternative languages on the JVM day on
March 2nd.
http://www.mindviewinc.com/Conferences/JavaPosseRoundup/
Thanks
The Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall
Direct download: JavaPosse224.mp3
Category: podcasts
-- posted at: 4:16pm PDT
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