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Quick News

  • POI 3.1 has been released by the Apache Jakarta project

  • http://poi.apache.org/index.html

  • Josh Bloch has an interview at the Sun Developer Network about his new Effective Java book

  • http://java.sun.com/developer/technicalArticles/

Interviews/bloch_effective_08_qa.html

  • PalmSource has revealed its ALP 3.0 (Access Linux Platform)
  • http://www.mobiletechaddicts.com/2008/

10/24/palm-os-alp-30-revealed/ + http://www.mobileburn.com/news.jsp?Id=5569

  • A number of Eclipse demo camps are being held all over the world

  • http://wiki.eclipse.org/Eclipse_DemoCamps_November_2008

  • IBM Alphaworks has released version 2.7 of HeapAnalyzer

  • http://www.alphaworks.ibm.com/tech/heapanalyzer

  • Jonathan Schwartz has a video up on NetBeans.tv celebrating 10 years of NetBeans

  • http://netbeans.tv/interviews/Jonathan-Schwartz-on-NetBeans-409/

  • Another DZone refcard is available, this time covering getting started with MyEclipse

  • http://refcardz.dzone.com/refcardz/myeclipse

  • The final version of MVEL 2.0 is out

  • http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?thread_id=51495

  • The Apache Jakarta project has released Commons::Net 2.0

  • http://commons.apache.org/net/changes-report.html#a2.0

  • Support for a 64 bit Java plugin for Windows and Linux 64 bit operating systems has been pledged for early 2009 in the Java 6 update 12 release

  • http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=4802695

  • Ted Neward's Busy Java Developer's Guide to Scala continues with a 2 part examination of building a calculator in Scala

  • http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/views/java/libraryview.jsp?

search_by=scala

  • JBoss has released version 2.0.0 General Access of JBoss AOP (Aspect Oriented Programming)
  • http://www.jboss.org/jbossaop/downloads/

  • http://www.jboss.org/jbossaop/docs/2.0.0.GA/RELEASE_NOTES.html

  • Seam 2.1.0 General Access has been released by JBoss

  • http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?thread_id=51382

  • JavaWorld has a nice introduction to ReST

  • http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-10-2008/

jw-10-rest-series-1.html + http://www.restlet.org/ + http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=311

  • John Ferguson Smart has a unique response to the current economic downturn: be more productive
  • http://weblogs.java.net/blog/johnsmart/archive/

2008/10/software_develo.html

  • ASM now has support for the InvokeDynamic byte code that John Rose recently completed a prototype for
  • http://weblogs.java.net/blog/forax/archive/

2008/10/asm_and_invoked.html + http://asm.objectweb.org/

  • MuleSource has release Mule 2.1 Enterprise and Mule Galaxy 1.5
  • http://mulesource.com/download/#muleee

  • http://mule.mulesource.org/display/MULE/Home

  • The free Java Decompiler project (yes, that is the name) looks like a useful tool

  • http://java.decompiler.free.fr/

  • Java 5 and 6 - the improved math library

  • http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/j-math1/

index.html?ca=dgr-btw01JavaPart1&

S_Tact=105AGX59&S_cmp=GRsitebtw01

  • Numiton has ported WordPress to Java
  • http://sourceforge.net/projects/nwordpress

  • http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?thread_id=50890

  • Linux Journal has a round up of Java audio software for Linux

  • http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/

java-sound-music-software-linux-part-3

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  • http://sebastian-bergmann.de/archives/

822-Of-Lambda-Functions,-Closures,-and-Traits.html

  • EasyMock and PowerMock

  • http://www.powermock.org

  • Mac Widgets for Java

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