Java Posse #206 - Newscast for Sept 17th 2008

Newscast for Sept 17th 2008Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.com

• Java complexity again, but from a different angle:
• http://forums.java.net/jive/thread.jspa?messageID=298125&tstart=0#298125

• JVM Language summit - the details emerge
• http://openjdk.java.net/projects/mlvm/jvmlangsummit/agenda.html

• Delegates for Java?
• http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2003/05/21/delegates.html?page=1

• Java Project of the week - Tokyo Jogging
• http://www.tokyo-jogging.com/
• http://code.google.com/p/tokyo-jogging/

Quick News

• JavaPolis, which had been renamed to Javoxx, is now known as Devoxx
• http://devoxx.com/display/JV08/Home
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/fabriziogiudici/archive/2008/09/javapolis_javox.html

• Ji Hoon Kim has announced the JSF Flex project, which aims to bring Flex components to JavaServer Faces
• http://www.theserverside.com/tt/articles/article.tss?l=JSFFlex

• A new library called JavaPlot from Panayotis Katsaloulis lets Java developers harness gnuplot from a Java API
• http://gnujavaplot.sourceforge.net/JavaPlot/About.html

• Chrome browser (actually Chromium - the open source project) is now running on Mac and Linux using Crossover technology
• http://www.codeweavers.com/about/people/blogs/jwhite/2008/9/15/fire-drills-and-proving-a-point

• The NetBeans BlueJ team has announced the first release of the BlueJ Plugin for NetBeans 6.1
• http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/NewsItemView?newsItemID=1281

• Grizzly 2.0 has just been pushed to the Java.net Maven repository
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/jfarcand/archive/2008/09/growing_the_lat.html
• http://blogs.sun.com/oleksiys/entry/grizzly_2_0_is_available
• https://grizzly.dev.java.net/

• JBoss has released the Seam 2 feature pack for JBoss EAP 4.3
• http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?thread_id=50621

• A new Java IDE for Windows, JCoder, has reached version 1.0
• http://www.jcoder.com/detail.html

• Instantiations has released a new version of GWT designer for GWT 1.5
• http://eclipse.dzone.com/announcements/instantiations-updates-gwt-des

• JSFOne has concluded and from the reports was a great success
• http://blogs.jsfcentral.com/editorsdesk/entry/jsfone_day_1

• JRubyStack 1.1.4 has been released
• http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?thread_id=50615

• The Eclipse foundation and 14 foundation member companies have announced a new Eclipse training program in 31 cities around the world
• http://www.eclipse.org/community/training/2008fall.php

• Norman Lahme-Hütig has release jSefa 0.9.2
• http://jsefa.sourceforge.net/
• http://jsefa.sourceforge.net/quick-tutorial.html

• A new 0.9.4 version of the SwingX extended Swing components has been released
• https://swingx.dev.java.net/
• http://swinglabs.java.sun.com/downloads.jsp

• CMP West has announced a call for papers for SD West 2009
• https://www.cmpevents.com/SDw9/a.asp?option=N&V=3&CPid=237&Mgt=Y

• Cay Horstmann reports that in the next semester at SJSU, he will be replacing Scheme with Scala for the functional language part of the undergraduate programming languages course
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/cayhorstmann/archive/2008/09/teaching_progra_1.html
• http://horstmann.com/sjsu/cs152/schedule.html

• PGP (Pretty Good Privacy) is leading efforts to save Bletchley Park
• http://news.cnet.com/Bletchley-Park-restoration-short-on-funds/2100-7348_3-6240587.html
• http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-10034884-83.html

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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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