Newscast for April 2nd 2009 Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.com
* Chris Adamson has stepped down as the Java.net editor as of March 31st + http://weblogs.java.net/blog/editors/archives/2009/03/this_is_how_i_d.html

  • EclipseCon 2009 happened, and we were there (at least for the day)
  • http://eclipse.dzone.com/articles/eclipsecon-2009-day-one
  • http://eclipse.dzone.com/articles/eclipsecon-2009-day-two
  • http://eclipse.dzone.com/articles/eclipsecon-2009-day-three
  • http://eclipse.dzone.com/articles/eclipsecon-2009-day-four
  • The eclipse community award winners were announced
  • http://eclipse.dzone.com/articles/eclipse-community-awards-2009
  • Eclipse announced SwordFish, a next generation ESB (Enterprise Service Bus)
  • http://www.eclipse.org/org/press-release/20090323_swordfish.php
  • Mylyn 3.1 and TaskTop 1.4 (a commercial tool based on Mylyn) were announced
  • http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?thread_id=53997
  • http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?thread_id=53993
  • Atlassian has now integrated crucible (code reviewing) and bamboo (continuous integration) into mylyn
  • http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?thread_id=54059
  • AWS toolkit for Eclipse
  • http://aws.amazon.com/eclipse/
  • http://aws.amazon.com/what-is-aws/
  • Oracle has released the eclipse enterprise pack 11g
  • http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/enterprise-pack-for-eclipse/index.html

  • http://www.oracle.com/technology/software/products/oepe/index.html

  • Stephen Colbourne thinks that while there will be a JDK 7, there might not be a Java 7?

  • http://www.jroller.com/scolebourne/entry/no_more_java_7
  • Meanwhile, sadly, it seems there will be no JSR 310 in Java 7
  • http://www.h-online.com/open/Interview-Patrick-Curran-chair-of-the-JCP--/features/112862
  • Concerns about Java 7 openness notwithstanding, Mark Reinhold blogs about the path OpenJDK will take to get to a JDK 7 implementation

  • http://blogs.sun.com/mr/entry/jdk7

  • Java App of the Week: Personal Brain

  • http://www.thebrain.com/

Quick News

  • Sun has announced an update to Java 6. U 13 brings fixes to security issues in JDK/JRE 6

  • http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2239238/java-gets-update

  • Sun has announced a JavaFX coding challenge to create a rich media application using JavaFX

  • http://javafx.com/challenge/

  • The proposed final draft of JSR 317 - JPA 2.0, has been released in the JCP

  • http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=317

  • Jazoon 2009 has announced several community days around the event

  • http://weblogs.java.net/blog/cwfrei/archive/2009/03/jazoon09_commun.html

  • Typesafe Pair and Triple article

  • http://www.developer.com/java/ejb/article.php/3813031

  • The JavaZone call for papers is closing on April 15th

  • http://www.java.no/javazone/2009/program.html

  • Swing labs has released SwingX 0.9.6

  • http://wiki.java.net/bin/view/Javadesktop/SwingXChanges#0_9_6

  • Instantiations has released WindowBuilder Pro v7.0

  • http://www.instantiations.com/windowbuilder/

  • JavaRebel 2.0 has been release by ZeroTurnaround

  • http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?thread_id=54088

  • Maven 2.1.0 has been released

  • http://maven.apache.org/release-notes.html

  • The glassfish project has released a glassfish/eclipse bundle

  • http://download.java.net/glassfish/eclipse/

  • http://java.dzone.com/articles/glassfish-and-osgi-part-i-look

  • AhmedSoft has released Ropes for Java v1.25

  • http://ahmadsoft.org/ropes/

  • http://www.cs.ubc.ca/local/reading/proceedings/spe91-95/spe/vol25/issue12/spe986.pdf

  • JSR 282 - the real time spec for Java, version 1.1, is now in early draft review

  • http://www.jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=282

  • GMock 0.7 brings mock objects to Groovy with a simple, readable approach

  • http://gmock.org/

  • Tigris has released version 1.6 of Subversion

  • http://subversion.tigris.org/svn_1.6_releasenotes.html

  • If you are at all curious about Scala, Bill Venners blogs that his talk from Devoxx, entitled "The Feel of Scala" is now up on Parleys

  • http://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=253855

  • A new extension to JUnit called Jitr is available

  • http://www.jitr.org/

  • Continuing the OSGi integration, the glassfish project now notes that Grizzly, the very fast HTTP engine based on NIO, is now available as an OSGi bundle

  • http://blogs.sun.com/theaquarium/entry/grizzly_news_logo_and_osgi

  • OSGi Discontent - No Migration Path!

  • http://java.dzone.com/news/osgi-discontent-no-migration
  • JavaLobby has a handy OSGi primer that covers the basics about OSGi and points to a tutorial from the Knoplerfish team.

  • http://java.dzone.com/articles/osgi-primer

  • NetBeans has released version 6.5.1

  • http://blogs.sun.com/theaquarium/entry/netbeans_6_5_1_now

  • GraniteDS (data services) v2.0.0 beta 1 has just been released

  • http://www.graniteds.org/confluence/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=229378

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