Java Posse #227 - Newscast for Jan 22nd 2009

Newscast for January 22nd 2009 Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.com Please join us for the next Java Posse Roundup - March 3rd to 6th 2009 in Crested Butte, CO, with a free alternative languages on the JVM day on March 2nd. http://www.mindviewinc.com/Conferences/JavaPosseRoundup/

• Details on Project Jigsaw, or is this simply out of data information? Plus, Eclipse plans for OSGi
• http://www.javabeat.net/articles/101-introduction-to-java-module-system-in-java-70-1.html
• http://eclipse.dzone.com/articles/plans-2009
• http://eclipse.dzone.com/articles/meet-refcard-author-equinox-wi
• http://refcardz.dzone.com/refcardz/equinox?oid=ban00027-0

• Mobile Java app of the week - Skype Lite
• http://smarttouchphones.com/smartphones/t-mobile-g1/ t-mobile-g1-apps/skype-lite-app-t-mobile-g1-android-cell-phones/
• http://skype.com/mobile/#panelPreset2

• Java app of the week - GTD Free
• http://gtd-free.sourceforge.net/

Quick News

• Sun Tech Days 2009 has announced that the conference will stop in Hyderabad from Feb 18th to 20th 2009 at the HICC
• http://www.sercononline.com/suntechdays09/index.htm

• Chris Adamson reports from Codemash, a user organized developer conference held in central Ohio
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/editors/archives/2009/01/rockstar.html

• Peaberry 1.0 RC2 is out
• http://code.google.com/p/peaberry/
• http://code.google.com/p/peaberry/wiki/UserGuide

• Party time is a new grails platform that simplifies the creation of social networking applications in the groovy based web framework
• http://code.google.com/p/party-time/

• GridGain 2.1 has been released
• http://www.gridgain.com/

• QCon London 2009 has been announced
• http://qconlondon.com/london-2009/conference/

• The Apache project has announced commons digester 2.0, a library to convert XML objects into Java
• http://www.linuxpromagazine.com/online/news/ xml_fodder_for_java_objects_with_commons_digester_2_0

• Palm unveiled the soon to be released palm pre
• http://www.mobiletopsoft.com/board/4316/ full-specs-of-the-new-palm-pre-smartphone-based-on-webos.html
• http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/palm-pre-belle-ball-linux-her-arm
• http://www.slashgear.com/palm-announces-webos-mojo-sdk-1230062/

• Amy Fowler has a blog entry all about layouts in Java FX
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/aim/archive/2009/01/layout_primer_f.html

• The mono project has found a way around the no VM's rule on the iPhone to allow C# developed applications to run on Apple's phone
• http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20090108- open-source-mono-framework-brings-c-to-iphone-and-wii.html

• The cloudtools project is a new google code hosted project that provides tools for deploying, managing and testing applications on Amazon's EC2
• http://code.google.com/p/cloudtools/
• http://hostedftp.wordpress.com/2009/01/10/ google-code-cloudtools-for-deploying-java-applications-on-amazon-ec2/
• And Sun Microsystems has acquired Q-layer
• http://www.sun.com/aboutsun/pr/2009-01/sunflash.20090107.1.xml

• Twitter's Project Kestrel has replaced a Ruby queue implementation with a much faster Scala implementation
• http://robey.livejournal.com/53832.html
• http://github.com/robey/kestrel/tree/master

• Version 0.15.1 of the NetBeans Scala plugin has been released
• http://blogtrader.net/page/dcaoyuan/entry/scala_plugin_0_15_1

• David Herron blogs about Java 6, Java 6 U 10, OpenJDK and Java 7
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/robogeek/archive/2009/01/it_will_be_open.html

• VisualVM 1.1 has been released
• http://blogs.sun.com/nbprofiler/entry/visualvm_1_1_released

• The first australian Android phone has been delayed indefinitely, just a few days before it was due to be released
• http://www.news.com.au/technology/story/0,28348,24920806-5014239,00.html

• David Pollak has announced Lift 0.10, a new version of the Scala web framework
• http://scala-blogs.org/2009/01/folks-after-many-months-of-breaking.html
• http://liftweb.net/index.php/Main_Page

• The second part of Elliotte Rusty Harold's look at the new Math features of Java 5 and 6 has been published at IBM's developer works
• http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/java/library/j-math2.html

• JSR 314 (JSF 2.0), JSR 315 (Servlet 3.0) and JSR 322 (JCA 1.6) have all been approved by the JCP
• http://blogs.sun.com/theaquarium/entry/public_review_drafts_of_jsf

• Arun Gupta has an example of how to embed EJBs into WAR (Web Archive) files using Glassfish v3
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/arungupta/archive/2009/01/ejbs_in_a_war_s.html

• JavaGround has announced that it's XPress suite will include the ability to natively compile Java applications to target the iPhone
• http://www.javaground.com/solution.html
• http://www.developmag.com/news/31128/Javaground-releases-Java-to-iPhone-converter

• Jim Driscoll blogs that the JSF 2.0 Public Review is now out
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/driscoll/archive/2009/01/jsf_20_pr_relea.html
• https://javaserverfaces.dev.java.net/

• Japplis has released the Japplis web site optimizer version 1.0
• http://website-optimizer.japplis.com/

• NetBeans cleaned up in the 2009 Developer.com product awards
• http://www.developer.com/java/other/article.php/3795991

• JOpt 3.0 has been released by Paul R. Holser
• http://jopt-simple.sourceforge.net/

• The Aerith NetBeans project has now split out several components from the demo and packaged them for your own use in NetBeans
• http://code.google.com/p/aerithnetbeans/

• Transmorph 1.0.0 has been released
• http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?thread_id=53146
• http://transmorph.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Main_Page

• The ServerSide Java Symposium has announced it's own economic stimulus package by extending its early bird pricing for the 2009 conference until the end of January
• http://javasymposium.techtarget.com/index.html?Offer=JStsspost119

• JUG-USA aims to bring all Java User Groups across the USA together to share tips, resources, even speakers
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/van_riper/archive/2009/01/jugusa_the_whol.html

Listener Feedback

• JSR-303 Bean Validation corrections
• http://in.relation.to/Bloggers/BeanValidationJSR303PublicDraftGiveUsFeedback
• http://forum.hibernate.org/viewforum.php?f=26

• Blu Ray Discs using BDJ
• http://www.blueboard.com/bluray/reviews.htm
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BD-J#BD-J_Enhanced_Movie_Titles

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