Java Posse #249 - Newscast for May 8th 2009

Newscast for May 8th 2009 Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.com

• JavaOne less than a month away!
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/kfarnham/archive/2009/05/the_javanet_jav.html
• http://java.sun.com/javaone/
• http://developers.sun.com/events/communityone/2009/west/sessions.jsp

• Oracle/Sun fallout. The pundits have had a while to digest the news about Oracle buying Sun, and have responded with all manner of speculation:
• http://www.cafeaulait.org/#April_29_2009_20105
• http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Linux-and-Open-Source/Questions-About-How-Oracle-Will-Handle-Suns-Open-Source-Commitments-385813/1/
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/editors/archives/2009/04/java_technologi.html

• NetBeans 6.7 Beta has been released
• Go to the "New and Noteworthy" document for the full details:
• http://wiki.netbeans.org/NewAndNoteWorthyNB67
• http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/NewsItemView?newsItemID=1374

• And Google has released Android v1.5 Final. Codenamed cupcake
• http://developer.android.com/sdk/RELEASENOTES.html

Quick News

• Rich Hickey has released Clojure 1.0
• http://clojure.blogspot.com/2009/05/clojure-10.html

• IBM has now doubled their rewards for ditching Sun hardware in favor of IBM Power servers
• http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/05/04/166204&from=rss

• The excellently named ProtoJ project provides a new alternative to build environments like Ant and Maven
• http://code.google.com/p/protoj/
• Gant and Gradle: http://gant.codehaus.org/ http://www.gradle.org/index.php

• JetBrains has released TeamCity 4.5
• http://www.jetbrains.com/teamcity/features/newfeatures.html

• SwingX 1.0 is about to be released
• http://forums.java.net/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=60685&tstart=0

• SpringSource has acquired Hyperic
• http://www.hyperic.com/springsource/
• http://news.cnet.com/8301-13505_3-10232113-16.html
• http://blog.springsource.com/2009/05/04/hyperic/
• http://www.hyperic.com/blog/springsource,/

• JBoss has release Tattletale 1.0.0
• http://www.jboss.org/tattletale

• Novell has release Mono 2.4
• http://www.mono-project.com/Release_Notes_Mono_2.4

• Hudson has recently release build 1.300 (that's 300 releases)
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/kohsuke/archive/2009/04/hudson_hits_130.html
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/kohsuke/archive/2009/05/hudson_cli_and.html

• InvokeDynamic, is now in JDK 7
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/forax/archive/2009/04/invokedynamic_n_1.html

• BetterBeansBinding based on the now apparently defunct Beans Binding (JSR 295)
• http://kenai.com/projects/betterbeansbinding/
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/fabriziogiudici/archive/2009/04/betterbeansbind.html

• A new project, Simplium, marries Selenium RC (Remote Control) and JUnit 4.5
• http://simplium.sektor.se/

• A newly updated refcard on DZone for IntelliJ 8.1
• http://refcardz.dzone.com/refcardz/intellij-idea-update?oid=hom10151

• Star spec leads by the Java Community process
• https://mail.google.com/mail/#label/%40Newscast/120fcf833706304b

ScalaWags. Yarrrr.

• A preview article of the features coming in Scala 2.8 is available on the Scala language site
• http://www.scala-lang.org/node/1564

• Meanwhile, Scala 2.7.4 final has been released
• http://www.scala-lang.org/node/1593

• Bill Venners has an interview with Martin Odersky talking about the origins of Scala
• http://www.artima.com/scalazine/articles/origins_of_scala.html

• Functional recipes for Scala and Lift
• http://steve.vinoski.net/pdf/IC-Scala_and_Lift.pdf
• http://steve.vinoski.net/blog/

• The NetBeans Scala plugin has received some more love
• http://blogtrader.net/dcaoyuan/entry/aiotrade_scala_for_netbeans_nlp

• Scala jobs are on the rise
• http://www.scala-lang.org/node/1700

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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:
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  • Closing - Juan Carlos Jimenez - In the House (Intro No. 1)

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