Newscast for Feb 6th 2009

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• Java EE 6 (JSR 316) has entered the public review draft phase
• http://blogs.sun.com/theaquarium/entry/java_ee_6_public_review
• http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=316
• http://in.relation.to/Bloggers/RevisedPublicDraftOfJSR299JavaContextsAndDependencyInjection
• http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=299
• http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id-311
• http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=303
• http://www.theserverside.com/tt/articles/article.tss?l=JavaEE6Overview
• http://blogs.sun.com/kchung/entry/jsr_245_mr_part_i

• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/cayhorstmann/archive/2009/02/towards_java_ee.html

• Project Coin

• http://blogs.sun.com/darcy/entry/project_coin

• Sun layoffs, will it affect the Java strategies (particularly open source?)

• http://www.cafeaulait.org/#January_27_2009_67192
• http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=3318

• http://blogs.sun.com/jonathan/entry/understanding_sun_s_business_q1

• Eclipse 3.5 M 5 (Galileo) has been released

• http://www.cafeaulait.org/#February_4_2009_18479

• Java Mobile application of the week, kind of: Google mobile search-by-voice for Android

• http://lifehacker.com/5145630/google-mobile-search+by+voice-comes-to-android

• Java Project of the week - Java Closures for Eclipse

• http://code.google.com/p/lambda4jdt/

• Java project of the week bonus edition: Swing 2.0

• http://www.jogiles.co.nz/blog/?p=207

Quick News

• Java 6 U 12 is now out, and with it comes the 64 bit Java plugin
• http://blogs.sun.com/theplanetarium/entry/upgrade_to_java_se_6u12

• http://www.dailytech.com/Sun+Releases+64bit+Java+PlugIn/article14121.htm

• eWeek's Chief technology analyst, Jim Rapoza, has been trying out Java FX and has given it a pretty glowing review

• http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Application-Development/Sun-Muscles-into-RIA-Space-with-JavaFX/1/

• The dates for the 2009 Devoxx conference in Belgium have been announced

• http://www.devoxx.com/display/JV08/Home

• And, the first of the devoxx talks from the 2008 conference have started to appear on Parleys.com

• http://www.parleys.com

• NetBeans.org is electing a new NetBeans governance board

• http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/NewsItemView?newsItemID=1335

• Oracle has submitted JSR 329 - Portlet 2.0 Bridge for JavaServer Faces 1.2

• http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=329

• Jesse Wilson and James Lemieux have release version 1.8.0 of Glazed Lists

• https://glazedlists.dev.java.net/

• Glassfish v2.1 has been released

• https://glassfish.dev.java.net/public/downloadsindex.html

• QCon London, coming up in March just after the Java Posse Roundup 2009

• http://qconlondon.com/london-2009/schedule/wednesday.jsp

• Dick did a talk at the University of Kent (of which he is an Alumnus) about software engineering

• http://www.cs.kent.ac.uk/coe/

• The Apache Jakarta project has released Cactus 1.8.1

• http://jakarta.apache.org/cactus/index.html

• Jetty may be moving to Eclipse

• http://eclipse.dzone.com/news/jetty-eclipse

• The JCP has announced a special election to fill a vacated seat on the mobile edition JCP executive committee

• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/editors/archives/2009/02/start_now.html

• JetBrains has release IntelliJ IDEA 8.0.1

• http://www.jetbrains.com/idea/features/release_notes801.html

• A boost in the grizzly community in January resulted in enough submissions and improvements for a Grizzly community release, 1.9.5

• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/jfarcand/archive/2009/02/grizzly_communi.html

• Registration is open for SpringOne Europe 2009, which will be held in Amsterdam from April 27th to 29th

• https://secure.trifork.com/europe-2009/registration/

• Google has released the final version of the JSR 284 - Resource Consumption Management API spec

• http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=284

• Oracle has an Oracle Technology Network Developer Day in New York on Feb 23rd at the New Yorker hotel

• http://www.oracle.com/webapps/events/EventsDetail.jsp?p_eventId=90027&src=6635701&src=6635701&Act=127

• Adobe has opted to publish the Real-Time Messaging Protocol (RTMP) specification

• http://www.infoq.com/news/2009/01/rtmp-to-open

• JBoss has announced RESTeasy GA, a fully certified open source JAX-RS implementation

• http://www.jboss.org/resteasy/

• DevNexus 2009 will be held on March 10th and 11th at the Cobb Galleria center in Atlanta, GA

• http://www.devnexus.com/

• JavaFX mobile

• http://steveonjava.com/2009/01/22/widgetfx-m3dd-conference/

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  • Opening - "Java" the parody song Copyright 1997 Broken Records and Marjorie Music Publ. (BMI),

  written and performed by Loose Bruce Kerr of the Dr. Demento Show and Sun Microsystems attorney.

  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 + Closing - Juan Carlos Jimenez - In the House (Intro No. 1)

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