Java Posse #232 - Newscast for February 25th 2009

Newscast for February 25th 2009Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.com Java Posse Roundup alternative languages day details: http://groups.google.com/group/roundup09/web/alternative-languages-day

• Groovy 1.6 released
• http://groovy.codehaus.org/
• http://groovy.codehaus.org/Immutable+AST+Macro
• http://groovy.codehaus.org/Grapes+and+grab()
• http://groovy.codehaus.org/Multiple+Assignment+Proposal

• NetBeans releases to get smaller and more frequent
• http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/NewsItemView?newsItemID=1346
• http://wiki.netbeans.org/NewAndNoteWorthy

• Java application of the week: shape collage
• http://www.vincentcheung.ca/shapecollage/download-jnlp.html

Quick News Items

• JSR 316 - Java Enterprise Edition 6, has been approved by the JCP
• http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=316

• EclipseZone blogs that the Eclipse Plugin Central (also known as EPIC) is going to be re-written
• https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=263041
• http://eclipse.dzone.com/articles/epic-20

• Jean-Francois Arcand blogs that he has got Grizzly running under Java on a hacked iPhone
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/jfarcand/archive/2009/02/running_grizzly.html

• OSGi roundup
• http://eclipse.dzone.com/news/osgi

• John Rose has published a highly technical description of the new invokedynamic bytecode
• http://blogs.sun.com/jrose/entry/simple_java_linkage_with_invokedynamic

• Piotr Tabor has an article up at Netbeans Zone about creating a plugin for NetBeans
• http://netbeans.dzone.com/news/interview-google-protocol-buff

• Chet Haase has a Java developers view on Actionscript (Adobe's flash language) over at JavaWorld
• http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-02-2009/jw-02-actionscript1.html?page=3

• License4J version 1.5 is out from Smardec
• http://www.smardec.com/products/license4j.html

• Yourkit version 8.0 is now available
• http://www.yourkit.com/changes/

• Apple has just released Safari 4.0 Beta 1 for Mac OS X and Windows
• http://www.apple.com/safari/features.html
• And rumor has it that Mozilla Firefox 3.1 will not ship this quarter
• http://newtware.com/?p=237

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• 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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