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  • Landon Fuller has released the second developer preview edition of Java 6 for Mac OS 10.5 (Leopard) and Mac OS 10.4 (Tiger)
  • http://www.cafeaulait.org/#November_20_2007_29531

  • http://landonf.bikemonkey.org/code/macosx/

  • Tis the season to consider language changes for Java 7, the latest question: why not support primitives in collections directly?

  • http://weblogs.java.net/blog/editors/archives/

2007/11/have_a_heart.html + http://today.java.net/pub/a/today/2007/11/27/

AutoboxedCollectionSQ20.html

  • Bill Pugh, from the University of Maryland, and well known to Posse listeners, has released version 1.3.0 of FindBugs

    • http://findbugs.sourceforge.net/

  • NetBeans 6.0 FCS green-lighted

  • http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/

NewsItemView?newsItemID=1157

  • Applet of the week - MindMap Viewer by Eric Blue
  • http://eric-blue.com/blog/2007/11/

mindmap_viewer_share_and_embed.html + http://eric-blue.com/projects/mindmapviewer/

  • Mobile Application of the Week - Ebook Reader for Java enabled phones

  • http://tequilacat.org/dev/br/index-en.html

  • Mobile application of the week - bonus - Google Maps for Mobile, now with my location

  • http://www.google.com/gmm/

mylocation.html?hl=en

Quick News Items * JSR 294 (superpackages for the Java language) early draft is now available + http://blogs.sun.com/andreas/entry/

edr_of_jsr_294_superpackages

  • Java running on the iPhone (and the iPod touch)
  • http://iphone.fiveforty.net/wiki/index.php/IPhone_Java
  • http://gnu.wildebeest.org/diary/2007/

11/22/free-your-iphone/

  • The fedora wiki has an interview with Thomas Fitzsimmons about the inclusion of IcedTea with the newly released Fedora 8
  • http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Interviews/

ThomasFitzsimmons

  • Sun has released a new version of the Sun Contribution Agreement
  • http://blogs.sun.com/theaquarium/

entry/what_is_with_the_new

  • There is a new flavor of the Gnu General Public License (GPL) called the Affero General Public License that has been written to cope with a peculiarity of web applications

  • http://www.cafeaulait.org/#November_23_2007_66268

  • The Exploring Beautiful Languages blog has an article on writing NetBeans Ruby hints using Scala

  • http://langexplr.blogspot.com/2007/11/

creating-netbeans-ruby-hints-with-scala.html

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