Newscast for June 12th 2009

Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.com* JavaOne over for another year + http://weblogs.java.net/blog/editors/archives/2009/06/is_java_becomin.html + http://weblogs.java.net/blog/editors/archives/2009/06/javaone_2009_ge.html + http://java.dzone.com/articles/javaone-2009-recap + http://weblogs.java.net/blog/cayhorstmann/archive/2009/06/java_one_2009_d_4.html + http://www.thebitsource.com/2009/06/05/the-javafx-phone-the-htc-touch-diamond/ + http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?thread_id=54827 + http://weblogs.java.net/blog/rah003/archive/2009/06/swingx_10_relea.html

• Tor's secret project unveiled at JavaOne - the JavaFX Designer Tool
• http://java.sun.com/javaone/2009/articles/gen_javafxinaction.jsp
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/joshy/archive/2009/06/top_5_most_impo.html
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/fabriziogiudici/archive/2009/06/not_yet_javafx.html

Quick News* JSR 330 will standardize a dependency injection API (including standard annotations) for Java SE + http://blogs.sun.com/theaquarium/entry/jsr_330_inject_accepted_by + http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=330

• NetBeans 6.7 RC2 is already available
• http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/NewsItemView?newsItemID=1390

• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/fabriziogiudici/archive/2009/06/netbeans_67_rc1.html

• On June 26th, the Eclipse foundation will be presenting a virtual conference called Galileo in Action

• http://www.eclipse.org/org/press-release/20090608_galileoinaction.php

• Google has released a Java ME Orkut application that works on most Java enabled mobile devices

• http://m.google.com/orkut

• Java 6 U 14 has been released by Sun

• http://java.sun.com/javase/downloads/index.jsp

• The blow-up about the new Garbage First GC only being available to customers paying Sun for Java support has turned out to be false

• http://www.infoq.com/news/2009/06/g1-free-or

• LinuxDevices reports that the Android stack has been ported to MIPS processors

• http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS2820170679.html

• Developers using the Hudson continuous integration engine might well be interested in a new iPhone and iPod touch application

• http://greensopinion.blogspot.com/2009/05/hudson-helper-hudson-on-your-iphone.html

• FasterXML has released version 1.0 of the Jackson JSON open source processor

• http://jackson.codehaus.org/

ScalaWags* Caoyuan has released version 1.0 of the Scala Plugin for NetBeans + http://blogtrader.net/dcaoyuan/entry/scala_plugin_version_1_for

• Hot on the heels of Scala 2.7.4, 2.7.5 has now been released

• http://www.scala-lang.org/node/2061

• scouchDB - the scala couchDB API by Debashish Ghosh, now has support for Reduce functions written in Scala

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

• 3 of the top 10 selling books at JavaOne are Scala books!

• http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?thread_id=54862

• The Scala language site has a new series of articles about the upcoming 2.8 release

• http://www.scala-lang.org/node/2097
• http://www.scala-lang.org/node/2096
• http://www.scala-lang.org/node/2060
• http://www.scala-lang.org/node/2075
• http://www.scala-lang.org/node/2119

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  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 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TAX0gJt-aZg + Closing - Juan Carlos Jimenez - In the House (Intro No. 1)

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