Newscast for Feb 18th 2008

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Join us for the Java Posse Roundup 2008 in Crested Butte from March 4th to 7th

http://www.mindviewinc.com/Conferences/JavaPosseRoundup/

And if you are attending the roundup, and need a place to stay, check out the

Google group document:

http://groups.google.com/group/roundup08/web/house-sharing-2008?hl=en

• JetBrains has raised the price of IntelliJ IDEA by $100 for corporate users,

but drops it to $249 for personal licenses + http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse/browse_thread/

thread/dac1f30c8eacbf49# + http://www.jetbrains.com/idea/buy/buy.html

• Eclipse 3.4 M5 has been released
• http://www.cafeaulait.org/#February_11_2008_28660
• http://eclipse.dzone.com/tips/full-screen-your-rcp-applicati
• http://download.eclipse.org/eclipse/downloads/drops/

S-3.4M5-200802071530/eclipse-news-M5.html + http://download.eclipse.org/eclipse/downloads/drops/

S-3.4M4-200712131700/eclipse-news-M4.html + http://download.eclipse.org/eclipse/downloads/drops/

S-3.4M3-200711012000/eclipse-news-M3.html + http://download.eclipse.org/eclipse/downloads/drops/

S-3.4M2-200709210919/eclipse-news-M2.html + http://download.eclipse.org/eclipse/downloads/drops/

S-3.4M1-200708091105/eclipse-news-M1.html

• Learning Scala Roundup:
• http://www.codecommit.com/blog/scala/

roundup-scala-for-java-refugees + http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/java/library/j-scala01228.html?

ca=dgr-lnxw57javascala&S_TACT=105AGX59&S_CMP=GR + http://www.nabble.com/-scala--ScalaDays-'08-td14608301.html

• Java Application(s) of the week. Javalobby did our job for us this week:

• http://java.dzone.com/tips/ten-amazing-java-applications

• Java Library of the week - Apache Abdera

• http://incubator.apache.org/abdera/
• http://blogs.sun.com/theaquarium/entry/

integrating_jersey_and_abdera

• AND a mobile app of the week - Beta of YouTube for mobile
• http://www.youtube.com/yt_mobile_app

Quick News Items* The open source drop for OpenJDK 6 has been made! + http://weblogs.java.net/blog/robogeek/archive/

2008/02/the_end_of_the.html + http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/jdk6-dev/

2008-February/000004.html

• SCO - the fat lady still hasn't sung
• http://slashdot.org/article.pl?

sid=08/02/14/2032206&from=rss + http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?

sid=08/02/16/1241247&from=rss

• Lookout Google Maps, there's a new player on the block (at least in the UK). Ordnance Survey:
• http://openspace.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/openspace/
• http://mapperz.blogspot.com/2008/02/

openspace-api-more-examples-please.html

• Apple has released another preview version of Java 6 for Leopard
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/lordy/archive/

2008/02/java_se_6_devel.html

• NetBeans 6.0.1 has been released

• http://blogs.sun.com/roumen/entry/netbeans_6_0_1_has

• A new Glassfish v3 Ruby Gem now allows jRuby-on-rails apps to be easily installed and run on a Glassfish v3

• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/arungupta/archive/

2008/02/glassfish_v3_ru.html

• EclipseZone has an article up about using Spring and Eclipse together with SpringIDE

• http://eclipse.dzone.com/news/springide-using-spring-eclipse

• Quipukit has released version 1.4 of its commercial JSF components library

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

thread_id=48385

• Lisp fans rejoice! Clojure is a new implementation of Lisp for the JVM

• http://clojure.sourceforge.net/

• Google has released a new version of the Android Developer SDK

• http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/13/

google-releases-new-android-sdk/ + http://www.cellular-news.com/story/29353.php + http://androidcoding.com/undroid-android-for-the-netbeans-ide/ + http://undroid.nolimit.cz/ + http://wiki.netbeans.org/IntroAndroidDevNetBeans

• Oracle has posted a new beta - 3.3.50 - of Berkeley DB Java Edition on the Oracle Technical Network
• http://www.oracle.com/database/berkeley-db/je/index.html

• http://www.oracle.com/database/berkeley-db/index.html

• Atlassian has release version 2.1 of Clover

• http://www.atlassian.com/software/clover/

• Sun has created the Student Developers Portal

• http://developers.sun.com/students/

• Try OpenOffice online with Ulteo

• http://www.ulteo.com/home/en/home?autolang=en

• Jazoon has an initial list of the topics that will be covered at this year's conference

• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/cwfrei/archive/

2008/01/first_list_of_t.html + http://jazoon.com/

• TheServerSide has a preview of the new features coming in EJB 3.1
• http://www.theserverside.com/tt/articles/article.tss?

l=NewFeaturesinEJB3-1 + And "why are we not using Java EE 5"? + http://java.dzone.com/articles/why-are-we-not-using-java-ee-5

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• Libsyn.com - http://www.libsyn.com - for hosting and bandwidth
• Brice Ruth and Webprojkt.com - http://webprojkt.com - for our archives site - http://archives.javaposse.com
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• Kirsty Doherty, Oliver Widder and Amy Ehmann for Java Posse artwork
• Brian Ehmann - the Java Posse intern
• Craig Muth for maintaining the Java Posse Memorizable site - http://memorizable.org/Java_Posse

• Theme Music:

  • 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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