Java Posse #266 - Newscast for July 9th 2009

Newscast for July 9th 2009Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.com

• Oracle has released Oracle 11g Fusion Middleware
• http://event.on24.com/event/15/02/99/rt/launch.html?eventid=150299&sessionid=1&key=409AAB2E4D0C341FD02DC012B04173EB&eventuserid=26373690
• http://www.oracle.com/technology/software/products/jdev/htdocs/soft11.html
• http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?thread_id=55108

• Google has announced Chrome OS
  • http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/07/introducing-google-chrome-os.html
  • http://lifehacker.com/5309937/nine-must+have-features-we-want-to-see-in-a-google-os

• Java Application of the Week - Sweet Home 3D version 2.0
  • http://www.sweethome3d.eu/

ScalaWags

• James Strachan - the original creator of Groovy, said on his blog this week that "I can honestly say if someone had shown me the Programming Scala book by Martin Odersky, Lex Spoon & Bill Venners back in 2003 I'd probably have never created Groovy."
  • http://macstrac.blogspot.com/2009/04/scala-as-long-term-replacement-for.html

• Donated Scala news from Josh Suereth
• Simple Build Tool has had some significant releases recently, specifically 0.5 + 0.5.1
• http://code.google.com/p/simple-build-tool/
• Dispatch
• http://databinder.net/dispatch/About
• There's a community movement to try to improve Scala's I/O and ARM features in the standard library
• http://github.com/eengbrec/Scalax.IO/tree/master
• Scala-tools.org is offering provisioning to interested scala-related projects
• scala-tools.org

Quick News

• Hudson helper has been ported to Android
  • http://greensopinion.blogspot.com/2009/06/hudson-helper-for-android.html

• PostgreSQL 8.4 has been released
  • http://www.postgresql.org/about/

• A new service - AndroLib.com - makes it easier to find applications for Android devices
  • http://lifehacker.com/5309151/androlib-does-better-anrdoid-app-searches

• Google has finally dropped the beta from a number of its services including gmail
  • http://lifehacker.com/5309230/gmail-google-calendar-docs-and-talk-leave-beta

• VirtualBox 3.0 has been released
  • http://www.virtualbox.org/
  • http://blogs.sun.com/theaquarium/entry/virtualbox_3_0_is_out

• JSR 292 - Dynamically Typed Language Support on the JVM - has now been backported to Java 6
  • http://weblogs.java.net/blog/forax/archive/2009/07/jsr292_backport.html
  • http://jcp.org/en/jsr/summary?id=292

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• Concurrency framework for groovy that's in active development. 0.8 has just been released.
• http://code.google.com/p/gparallelizer/wiki/SafeVariables
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