Java Posse #158 - Newscast for Jan 9th 2008

Java Posse Episode 158 - January 9th 2008 Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.com T-shirt is available -- http://www.zazzle.com/javaposse Roundup - only days left for the early bird price - sign up before January 15th or it goes up from $600 to $750 http://www.mindviewinc.com/Conferences/JavaPosseRoundup/

• Bruce Eckel: should we simply stop adding new features to Java?
• http://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=221903

• Apple has released an updated developer preview version of Java 6
• http://developer.apple.com/java/
• http://developer.apple.com/java/overview.html
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/fabriziogiudici/ archive/2007/12/java_6_mac_os_x.html

• Two Professors from NYU have slammed Java as a teaching language
• http://www.stsc.hill.af.mil/CrossTalk/2008/01/ 0801DewarSchonberg.html

• Scala Roundup:
• Jorge Ortiz has been solving maths puzzles from project Euler using Scala
• http://scala-blogs.org/2007/12/project-euler-fun-in-scala.html
• Meanwhile, Scala now runs on Android
• http://www.scala-lang.org/downloads/targets/android.html
• The scala plugins for NetBeans are also moving along
• http://blogtrader.org/page/dcaoyuan/entry/ scala_support_for_netbeans_screenshot

• Library of the week - PDF Renderer
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/editors/archives/2007/12/little_favours.html
• What other file formats would we like to see supported in Java libraries?
• http://www.java.net/pub/pq/188

• Up and coming Project of the Week - Mighty Box
• http://www.eyalw.com/drupal/node/20
• http://www.eyalw.com/drupal/image/tid/2

Quick News Items

• JSR 271 - The Mobile Information Device Profile 3 (better known as MIDP 3)
• http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=271

• Chris Adamson has issued a call for comments on how java.net might be improved in 2008
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/editors/archives/
• 2008/01/time_breaks_dow.html

• Is Rails a Ghetto?
• http://www.theserverside.com/news/ thread.tss?thread_id=48013
• http://www.zedshaw.com/rants/rails_is_a_ghetto.html

• Motorola has released a new version of the ROKR music playing phone
• http://www.mobilesworld.ca/mobiles-news/2008/01/07/ motorola-rokr-e8-with-touch-screen-user-interface/

• Apache Wicket 1.3 has been released
• http://wicket.apache.org/

• JSR 286 - the Java Portlet Specification 2.0
• http://jcp.org/aboutJava/communityprocess/pfd/jsr286/index.html

• JSR 255 - JMX (the Java Management Extensions) version 2.0
• http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=255
• http://jcp.org/aboutJava/communityprocess/ edr/jsr255/index.html

• JSR 279 - Service Connection API for Java ME
• http://jcp.org/aboutJava/communityprocess/edr/jsr279/index.html

• JSR 235 - Service Data Objects - has been stalled for about 3 years
• http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=235

• Apache Jakarta have released a new version Commons configuration
• http://commons.apache.org/configuration/

• There is a new preview version of Oracle JDeveloper 11g available
• http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/jdev/11/index.html

• Using Erlang (a functional language) and Java together
• http://www.theserverside.com/tt/articles/article.tss ?l=IntegratingJavaandErlang

• Pearson Education held a four day GWT conference in San Francisco
• http://googlewebtoolkit.blogspot.com/2008/01/ videos-presentations-from-pearsons-gwt.html
• http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=24044DF77EB53015
• http://voicesthatmatter.com/gwt2007/presentations/

• The NetBeans source code is being moved to Mercurial
• http://blogs.sun.com/octav/entry/netbeans_moving_to_mercurial

• Django is getting very close to running on top of Jython
• http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?thread_id=47992

• NetBeans has once again kicked off it's world tour
• http://www.netbeans.org/community/news/calendar.html#156

• The Java 2 Fifth Edition Complete Reference is now available for free as a PDF download
• http://ecyclopedia.blogspot.com/2008/01/ java-programming-ebook-java-2-complete.html

• Groovy 1.5.1 has been released
• http://docs.codehaus.org/display/GROOVY/2007/ 12/21/Groovy+1.5.1+bug+fix+release

• The JDIC project have updated their netbeans plugin for NetBeans 6
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/richunger/archive/ 2008/01/jdic_netbeans_i.html

• Infoworld reckons that Sun Microsystems is back in the game
• http://www.infoworld.com/article/07/12/28/ 52FE-underreported-sun_1.html
• http://blogs.smugmug.com/don/2007/12/13/ companies-that-listen-sun/

• Nominations for the 2008 Eclipse Community Awards are now being accepted
• http://www.eclipse.org/org/press-release/20071214_awards.php

• Jason LaPier has put together a NetBeans cheat sheet for Ruby and Rails development
• http://offtheline.net/2007/12/11/netbeans-6-0-cheat-sheet

• Grizzly 1.7 is out
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/jfarcand/archive/ 2007/12/hohohoho_grizzl_1.html

• On a related note, Glassfish v2 update release 1 is also now available
• http://wiki.glassfish.java.net/Wiki.jsp?page= GlassFishV2UR1WhatsNew

• Metro versions 1.0.1 and 1.1 have been released
• https://metro.dev.java.net/discover/
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/arungupta/archive/ 2007/12/metro_101_and_1.html

• A new version of Excelsior JET is now available
• http://www.excelsior-usa.com/jet.html
• http://www.excelsior-usa.com/jetlatest.html
• JRuby 1.1RC1 released
• http://docs.codehaus.org/display/JRUBY/2008/01/08/ The+JRuby+community+is+pleased+to+announce+ the+release+of+JRuby+1.1+RC+1

Bonus End Story

• BluRay Wins?
• http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5iGIl39vo9p- D_x8VpJuPTB1e7hSAD8U1AG5O4
• http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/01/05/1337258

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