Java Posse #252 - Newscast for May 21st 2009

Newscast for May 21st 2009 Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.com

• Eclipse 3.5 RC1 has been released by the Eclipse foundation
• http://download.eclipse.org/eclipse/downloads/drops/S-3.5RC1-200905151143/index.php

• Spring and Guice pair up to standardize Dependency Injection, but what about JSR 299?
• http://in.relation.to/11211.lace
• Also, Guice 2.0 has just been released
• http://code.google.com/p/google-guice/
• http://google-code-updates.blogspot.com/2009/05/guice-deuce.html
• And DZone has an interview and podcast with Pete Muir about JSR 299
• http://java.dzone.com/articles/java-contexts-dependency-injection

• An unpatched vulnerability has left Mac OS X users wide open to a major security flaw
• http://landonf.bikemonkey.org/code/macosx/CVE-2008-5353.20090519.html
• http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/05/19/2344239&from=rss
• And Landon Fuller is still hard at work making sure the BSD port of OpenJDK keeps up on the mac
• http://lists.macosforge.org/pipermail/macports-changes/2009-May/032814.html

• Java App of the Week: aPlayer
• http://www.atunes.org/

Quick News

• Jonathan Schwartz has announced the creation of a Java app store
• http://blogs.sun.com/jonathan/
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/opinali/archive/2009/05/suns_new_app_st.html

• Also the upcoming 1.5 release of JavaFX will include Solaris and Linux as fully supported platforms
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/opinali/archive/2009/05/full_javafx_com.html

• And Ed Ort has an article highlighting JavaFX applications from the community in JavaFX App-O-Rama
• http://java.sun.com/developer/technicalArticles/javafx/AppORama/

• Version 1.6.3 of Groovy has been released
• http://docs.codehaus.org/display/GROOVY/2009/05/13/Groovy+1.6.3+is+out
• http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/GROOVY?report=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.project:changelog-panel

• There is a new Java podcast available. IllegalArgument is a Java/JVM focused podcast from 3 New Zealanders
• http://www.illegalargument.com/

• And yet more podcasts, Abraham Otero wrote in to tell us about JavaHispano, a Java podcast in the Spanish language
• http://www.javahispano.org/
• http://javahispano.net/
• http://planeta.javahispano.org/
• http://www.javahispano.org/podcasts.xml

• Google has updated the API for Java on the Google App Engine to version 1.2.1
• http://googleappengine.blogspot.com/2009/05/java-sdk-version-121-now-available.html

• There still a few open slots for the community corner podcast schedule at the Java.net booth for JavaOne
• https://java-net.dev.java.net/podcast_schedule.html
• http://wiki.java.net/bin/view/Javaone/CommunityCorner

• In anticipation of the upcoming Eclipse 3.5 release, there are a number of demo camps happening around the world
• http://wiki.eclipse.org/Eclipse_DemoCamps_Galileo_2009

• JSF 2.0 is in final vote until May 26th
• http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=314
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/edburns/archive/2009/05/slides_and_feed.html

• And, David Geary has started up a new series of articles on JSF 2.0
• http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/java/library/j-jsf2fu1/index.html

• Hudson now has a Selenium Grid plugin available
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/kohsuke/archive/2009/05/hudson_selenium.html

• There is now a PXE (preboot execution environment) plugin available for Hudson
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/kohsuke/archive/2009/05/hudson_pxe_plug.html

• After the recent release of Android 1.5 cupcake
• http://www.geek.com/articles/mobile/top-10-features-youll-love-about-android-15-2009058/

• Developer.com has a new article about using the Drools 5 rules engine (recently released)
• http://www.developer.com/java/ent/article.php/3821101
• http://www.jboss.org/drools/
• http://blog.athico.com/2009/03/drools-boot-camp-san-francisco-june.html

• The organizers of Jazoon 2009 have confirmed that James Gosling will deliver the Opening Keynote
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/felipegaucho/archive/2009/05/james_gosling_l.html

• Apache Tapestry 5.1 final has been released
• http://tapestry.apache.org/tapestry5.1/

• The SpringSource Tool Suite is now available for free
• http://blog.springsource.com/2009/05/07/springsource-tool-suite-now-free/

• The proposed final draft for the Servlet 3.0 spec (JSR 315) is now available
• http://jcp.org/en/jsr/results?id=4786
• http://blogs.sun.com/theaquarium/entry/new_security_annotations_in_servlet

• LambdaJ - the 1.8 version has just been released
• http://code.google.com/p/lambdaj/

• Kent Beck and David Saff have released version 4.6 of JUnit
• http://junit.org/taxonomy/term/11%2B5

• Atlassian, awesome beer sponsor and developer tools vendor, has released version 2.5 of clover
• http://blogs.atlassian.com/news/2009/05/clover_25_relea.html

ScalaWags

• The NeoDatis object database (ODB) version 1.9 has been released
• http://www.neodatis.org/release-1-9

• Our first ScalaWags library of the week. ScalaZ, described as Scala on Steroids
• http://code.google.com/p/scalaz/

• Toby Reyelts, Alex Rudnick and Lex Spoon have written an article on running Scala on the Google App Engine
• http://www.scala-lang.org/node/1826

• Frank Sommers and James Ward have teamed up for an article about using Scala and Flex together
• http://www.artima.com/articles/flex_and_scala.html

• Ted Neward has an article up on DeveloperWorks about using Scala with Twitter
• http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/java/library/j-scala05059.html?ca=dgr-twtrScitter&S_TACT=105AGY83&S_CMP=TWDW
• http://talkingpuffin.org/

• Debasish Ghosh has been busy working on a CouchDB API for Scala
• http://debasishg.blogspot.com/2009/05/couchdb-and-scala-updates-on-scouchdb.html
• http://debasishg.blogspot.com/2009/05/scouchdb-gets-view-server-in-scala.html
• http://couchdb.apache.org/

• Jim McBeath has a Scala Syntax Primer on his blog that can ramp you up quickly on some of the syntactic differences from Java
• http://jim-mcbeath.blogspot.com/2008/09/scala-syntax-primer.html

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