Newscast for May 27th 2009

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* Microsoft has a keynote at JavaOne + http://www.pcworld.com/article/165432/microsoft_to_give_its_first_javaone_keynote.html + http://java.sun.com/webservices/technologies/index.jsp + http://www.microsoft.com/net/wcf/champ/

• Java Application of the Week: DirSync Pro
• http://directorysync.sourceforge.net/

Quick News* The Glassfish Tools Bundle v1.0 for Eclipse has been released + http://blogs.sun.com/theaquarium/entry/glassfish_tools_bundle_for_eclipse

• Drools 5.0 final has been released by JBoss

• http://www.jboss.org/drools/

• Eclipse is experimenting with a novel fund-raising idea: Friends of Eclipse

• http://eclipse.dzone.com/articles/friends-get-it-sooner-and

• Eclipse 3.5.0 (Galileo) RC1 downloads are now available

• http://www.eclipse.org/org/press-release/20090525_galileoblogathon.php

• IntelliJ now has an early access version of IDEA 9 (codenamed Maia) including support for Java EE 6

• http://blogs.jetbrains.com/idea/2009/05/maia-eap-is-finally-here/

• Loom 1.5 has been released

• http://loom.extrema-sistemas.org/

• The ServerSide Java Symposium Europe has issued a call for papers

• http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?thread_id=54730

• Kirill Grouchnikov has released version 4.1 of Flamingo, and version 5.2 of Substance look and Feel

• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/kirillcool/archive/2009/05/flamingo_41_off.html
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/kirillcool/archive/2009/05/substance_52_of.html

ScalaWags* Martin Odersky will be joining us at TwitterHQ in SF on Thursday night + http://groups.google.com/group/scala-base

• And! Don't forget the Scala LiftOff on the Saturday after JavaOne.
• http://scalaliftoff.com/

Listener Feedback* JClouds-S3 + http://code.google.com/p/jclouds/

• Guice 2.0 released

• http://crazybob.org/2009/05/guice.html

• Electric vehicle information

• http://www.7gen.com/blog/20090409/25530-electric-motorcycles
• http://visforvoltage.org/forums/electric-racing/ev-racing
• http://www.7gen.com/blog/20090411/25537-podcast
• http://www.7gen.com/blog/20090412/25538-podcast
• http://www.7gen.com/blog/20090413/25539-electric-vehicle-racing
• TTXGP Race Course

• http://www.ttxgp.com/index_nav.php?page=thecourse

• Functional Java

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

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