Newscast for June 26th 2009

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Controversy week!

  • Google: Are they missing the point of Java?
  • http://java.dzone.com/videos/google-wave-most-innovative
  • http://code.google.com/webtoolkit/
  • http://code.google.com/appengine/

  • http://www.google.com/mobile/android

  • OSGi and Jigsaw flaming up again.

  • http://eclipse.dzone.com/articles/gosling-osgi-jigsaw-and
  • http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Application-Development/
    Gosling-Whats-Good-for-Google-May-Not-be-Good-for-Java-254444/1/

  • http://www.infoq.com/news/2009/06/jigsaw

  • Eclipse 3.5 Galileo has been released.

  • http://www.eclipse.org/org/press-release/20090624_galileo.php
  • http://eclipse.dzone.com/articles/eclipse-galileo-how-release
  • http://eclipse.dzone.com/articles/eclipse-galileo-mac-cocoa-or

Quick News

  • Google has announced the 2009 eclipse day at the GooglePlex.

  • http://ianskerrett.wordpress.com/2009/06/08/
    announcing-eclipse-day-at-the-googleplex-2009/

  • Apple has release Java for Mac OS X 10.5 Update 4.

  • http://lists.apple.com/archives/Security-announce/2009/Jun/msg00003.html

  • http://it.slashdot.org/story/09/06/15/2352200/
    Apple-Finally-Patches-Java-Vulnerability?from=rss

  • Larry Ellison's appearance at JavaOne 2009 has easily topped a poll over at Java.net for the most significant thing about JavaOne 2009.

  • http://today.java.net/pub/pq/261

  • http://www.java.net/pub/pq/262

  • IBM Developer Works has a technical article up on using Android's hardware sensors from Java source code.

  • http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/opensource/library/os-android-sensor/index.html?
    ca=dgr-jw22Android-Sensors&S_TACT=105AGX59&S_CMP=grjw22

  • SpringSource has announced SpringOne 2GX 2009, a conference that combines SpringOne and the Groovy and Grails.

  • http://www.springone2gx.com/conference/new_orleans/2009/10/home

  • JBoss has release RESTEasy 1.1, an implementation of JAX-RS for writing web services and clients in Java.

  • http://www.jboss.org/resteasy/

  • Project Coin - small language changes for JDK 7, has released a second candidate list including 5 new proposals.

  • http://www.infoq.com/news/2009/06/coin2

  • http://www.infoq.com/news/2009/03/java7_update

  • Josh Marinacci has created a Q&A about the Java Store.

  • http://weblogs.java.net/blog/joshy/archive/2009/06/the_java_store.html

  • Java Simon v2.0 has been released.

  • http://code.google.com/p/javasimon/

  • Apache Commons has released their Commons Pool object pooling API version 1.5, closely followed by 1.5.1.

  • http://commons.apache.org/pool/

  • Gavin King has now submitted the proposed final draft of JSR-299 - Java Contexts and Dependency Injection.

  • http://in.relation.to/Bloggers/JSR299ProposedFinalDraftSubmitted

  • JSR-255 - JMX 2.0, has been postponed.

  • http://weblogs.java.net/blog/emcmanus/archive/2009/06/jsr_255_jmx_api.html

  • http://java.sun.com/developer/technicalArticles/J2SE/jmx.html

  • DZone has a new refcard available for JSF 2.0 (JavaServer Faces).

  • http://weblogs.java.net/blog/cayhorstmann/archive/2009/06/jsf_20_refcard.html

  • GeniusWiki 1.6.5 has been released.

  • http://www.geniuswiki.com/page/page.do

  • Amy Fowler has published a guide to mixing JavaFX and Swing together.

  • http://weblogs.java.net/blog/aim/archive/2009/06/insiders_guide.html

  • JaQue has announced a complete implementation of Microsoft LINQ (Language Integrated Query) for Java!

  • http://code.google.com/p/jaque/wiki/Version_One_dot_Five

  • http://code.google.com/p/jaque/

  • Ken Orr has released version 0.9.5 of Mac Widgets for Java.

  • http://explodingpixels.wordpress.com/2009/06/23/mac-widgets-for-java-0-9-5/

  • And, JBoss has released JBoss messaging 2.0 beta.

  • http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?thread_id=54886

ScalaWags

  • Debashish Ghosh and Steve Vinoski have released an article about Scala and lift in the May/June issue of IEEE computing.
  • http://steve.vinoski.net/pdf/IC-Scala_and_Lift.pdf
  • http://www2.computer.org/portal/web/computingnow/functionalweb

  • http://debasishg.blogspot.com/2009/06/scalalift-article-available-as-podcast.html

  • A new Erlang plugin for NetBeans 6.7 has been released.

  • http://blogtrader.net/dcaoyuan/entry/erlang_plugin_version_1_for

  • Erlang the movie: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uKfKtXYLG78

  • Debashish Ghosh has been hard at work on SCouchDB.

  • http://debasishg.blogspot.com/2009/06/scouchdb-views-now-interoperable-with.html
  • http://debasishg.blogspot.com/2009/06/scouchdb-scala-view-server-gets-reduce.html

  • http://code.google.com/p/scouchdb/

  • Limerik

  • There once was a language called scala,
  • whose closures tail recurse from its calla,
  • with objects and functions
  • and plenty of gumption,
  • it's a language worth more than a dolla.

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