Java Posse #269 - Newscast for July 16th 2009

Newscast for July 16th 2009 Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.com

• An article on SD Times claiming that Mono development is outpacing Java on Linux has caused some energetic debate this week
• http://www.sdtimes.com/link/33597
• http://adterrasperaspera.com/blog/2009/07/09/java-development-outpaces-c-development-on-all-platforms
• http://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/07/10/1536218/Silverlight-30-Released-Allows-Apps-Outside-the-Browser?from=rss

• Java Library of the Week - jrawio
• http://java.dzone.com/announcements/jrawio-150-released-and-should
• https://jrawio.dev.java.net/

ScalaWags

• InfoQ has a roundup of news items about the possibility of Scala as a long term replacement for Java.
• http://www.infoq.com/news/2009/07/scala-replace-java

• Jean-Francois Arcand has a technical article up about using the Atmosphere API with Scala to create a Comet based chat server.
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/jfarcand/archive/2009/07/writing_comet_b.html

• A new conference taking place in Edinburgh, Scotland on the 4th September called the "Commercial Users of Functional Programming".
• http://cufp.galois.com/

• Scala website of the week - ScalaCareers.com
• http://www.scalacareers.com/

Quick News

• The NetBeans RefCard from DZone has been updated to cover NetBeans 6.7.
• http://refcardz.dzone.com/refcardz/netbeans-ide-67-update

• Google has released a free and open NX server called NeatX.
• http://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/07/13/2027224/Google-Releases-Open-Source-NX-Server?from=rss

• Linux World has an article about the fallout from Microsoft's hijacking of the ISO body to push OOXML through as a standard ahead of ODF (Open Document Format).
• http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/microsoft-ooxml-and-iso

• Tim Boudreau has a new article up about embedding JavaFX applets into wicket components.
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/timboudreau/archive/2009/07/wicket_javafx.html

• A new Kenai project is aiming to provide Google App engine support in NetBeans and already has a lot of functionality.
• http://blogs.sun.com/pblaha/entry/google_app_engine_plugin_in
• http://blogs.sun.com/geertjan/entry/developing_for_google_app_engine
• http://kenai.com/projects/nbappengine

• Kirill Grouchnikov has released version 1.0 of Trident, an animation library for Java applications.
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/kirillcool/archive/2009/07/trident_10_offi_1.html
• http://kenai.com/projects/trident

• jBoss has released jBPM version 4.0 GA.
• http://labs.jboss.com/jbossjbpm/

• Sreeram Duvur blogs about running Sailfin on Amazon EC2.
• http://blogs.sun.com/sduv/entry/using_sailfin_in_the_amazon

• Simple 2.1 has been released.
• http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?thread_id=55187

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