Java Posse #231 - Newscast for Feb 19th 2009

Newscast for Feb 19th 2009Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.comPlease 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/

• Registration now open for JavaOne 2009, to be held June 2nd to 5th 2009 in the Moscone Center, SF
• http://java.sun.com/javaone/index.jsp?cid=J9JE1A
• http://blogs.sun.com/tor/entry/why_your_javaone_submission_was

• JavaFX 1.1 is now out, including official support for JavaFX Mobile
• http://javafx.com/downloads/all.jsp
• http://javafx.com/launch/index-mac.jsp
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/opinali/archive/2009/02/javafx_11_relea.html
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/terrencebarr/archive/2009/02/javafx_mobile_1.html

• Details are beginning to emerge about a second generation Android phone
• http://www.yopool.com/google-dream-g2-phone-sciphone-android-dream-g2-p-3846.html
• http://crave.cnet.co.uk/mobiles/0,39029453,49301115,00.htm
• http://community.zdnet.co.uk/blog/0,1000000567,10012158o-2000331761b,00.htm
• http://i.gizmodo.com/5154984/android-g2-hands-on-close-to-perfection

• Java project of the week - SAVE
• http://www.upi.com/Science_News/2009/02/11/Automatic_car_crash_call_system_created/UPI-88011234379095/

• Applet of the Week (kinda): Pet catalog browser
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/caroljmcdonald/archive/2009/02/javafx_restful.html

Quick News

• Jazoon is running a competition for young speakers (26 or under) to present at Jazoon 09
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/cwfrei/archive/2009/02/jazoon_rookie_c.html

• JetBrains has release IntelliJ IDEA 8.1
• http://www.jetbrains.com/idea/features/newfeatures.html
• http://www.jetbrains.com/idea/buy/index.jsp#upgradeuser

• Apple has released a new update for Java on Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
• http://zollotech.com/content/apple-releases-security-update-java-update

• Moonlight 1.0 has been officially released
• http://lifehacker.com/5152266/moonlight-10-gives-linux-users-silverlight-10-compatability
• http://www.go-mono.com/moonlight/

• Zero, a project to make a JVM that requires no assembly code porting, has reached a major milestone, it has passed the TCK
• http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/distro-pkg-dev/2009-February/004709.html
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/editors/archives/2009/02/another_believe.html

• The WebDAV project has announced support for JAX-RS, final version 1.0
• https://webdav.dev.java.net/
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/mkarg/archive/2009/02/release_10_of_w_1.html

• Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz announced that there have been 100 million downloads of the JavaFX runtime already
• http://www.atomicsub.net/2009/02/sun-ceo-praises-javafx-platform/

• NetBeans portal pack 3.0 is now available for download
• http://portalpack.netbeans.org/servlets/NewsItemView?newsItemID=1342

• OpenWebBeans 1.0.0 M1 has been released
• http://incubator.apache.org/openwebbeans/1.0.0-SNAPSHOT/index.html

• And staying with JSR 299 - it has been approved for inclusion in Java EE 6 despite a few lingering concerns
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/editors/archives/2009/02/perfectionist.html
• http://jcp.org/en/jsr/results?id=4748
• http://blogs.sun.com/theaquarium/entry/jsr_299_nee_webbeans_public

• JSR 303 - Bean Validation, led by Emmanuel Bernard of JBoss/RedHat (and not Sun as we have reported in the past) has also been accepted
• http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=303

• A FOSDEM 09 interview with Martin Odersky gives details about new language features coming in Scala 2.8
• http://fosdem.org/2009/interview/martin+odersky

• Kirill Grouchnikov has release version 4.0 final of Flamingo
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/kirillcool/archive/2009/02/substance_51_of.html
• https://flamingo.dev.java.net/

• Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 - codenamed Lenny - has been released
• http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?thread_id=53658

• Groovy and Grails training courses offered by Scott David and Andrew Glover
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/johnsmart/archive/2009/02/learn_about_gro.html

• The reference implementation for Distributed OSGi, now officially known as OSGi 4.2, is now available at Apache CXF
• http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?thread_id=53569
• http://www.eclipsecon.org/2009/

• Scala and mixing it in with some Java code
• http://www.codecommit.com/blog/java/interop-between-java-and-scala

• The 7th annual Duke's Choice awards are accepting nominations
• http://java.sun.com/community/dukeawards/dukesChoice_form_new.html

Thanks

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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 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TAX0gJt-aZg
  • Closing - Juan Carlos Jimenez - In the House (Intro No. 1)

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