Java Posse #284 - Newscast for Oct 23rd 2009

Newscast for Oct 23rd 2009 Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.com Talks at CodeMash: http://www.codemash.org/Devoxx soon: http://devoxx.com/display/DV09/Home

• IntelliJ IDEA open sourced
• http://jetbrains.org
• http://www.jetbrains.com/idea/nextversion/editions_comparison_matrix.html?utm_source=jetbrains.org&utm_medium=Comparison&utm_campaign=IDEA9_CE
• http://java.dzone.com/articles/why-i-think-idea-going-open

• Oracle OpenWorld has just finished
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/cayhorstmann/archive/2009/10/11/oracle-openworld-day-zero
• http://blog.arungupta.me/2009/10/oracle-open-world-2009-in-pictures/
• http://blog.devx.com/2009/10/-normal-0-false-false.html
• http://blogs.sun.com/theaquarium/entry/openworld_2009_links_scott_s

• Sun has announced that 3000 jobs will go, and places the blame firmly on the doorstep of Brussels and the EU
• http://www.itwire.com/content/view/28713/53/
• http://java.dzone.com/news/did-crooked-ibm-exec-derail

• Droid takes on Apple, and Android 2.0 shaping up
• http://www.ilounge.com/index.php/news/comments/verizon-attacks-iphone-with-new-droid-campaign/
• http://lifehacker.com/5384896/android-20-features-combined-inbox-car-home
• http://www.barnesandnoble.com/nook/features/

Quick News

• JSR 316 - Java EE 6 - has now entered proposed final draft
• http://jcp.org/en/jsr/summary?id=316

• Weld 1.0 CR 1 (Candidate Release 1), the reference implementation for JSR 299, is now out
• http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?thread_id=58251

• JSR 330 - Dependency Injection for Java, approved and released
• http://jcp.org/en/jsr/summary?id=330
• http://blogs.sun.com/theaquarium/entry/jsr_330_approved_dependency_injection
• http://jcp.org/en/jsr/results?id=4992

• Mojarra 2.0.0 final is now available
• http://blogs.sun.com/rlubke/entry/mojarra_2_0_0_is
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/driscoll/archive/2009/10/09/jsf-2-custom-java-components-and-ajax-behaviors
• http://www.netbeans.org/kb/docs/web/jsf20-support.html

• Emmanuel Bernard and the Hibernate Team have released version 4 of Hibernate Validator
• http://in.relation.to/Bloggers/HibernateValidator4Unleashed

• JRebel, formerly known as JavaRebel has just released version 2.1
• http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?thread_id=58149

• IBM's developer works site has just celebrated its 10th year
• http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-10-2009/091005-ibm-developerworks.html

• The Eclipse foundation has just released version 7.0 of Jetty
• http://eclipse.org/jetty/
• http://java.dzone.com/news/jetty-70-here-java-app-server

• JFrog has just released Artifactory 2.1
• http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?thread_id=58155

• The ServerSide Java Symposium comes to Prague, Czech Republic, next week
• http://javasymposium.techtarget.com/?Offer=JSEnljavnet105

• Eclipse Summit Europe taking place in Ludwigsburg, Germany
• http://www.eclipsecon.org/summiteurope2009/

• Instantiations has released GWT Designer 7.2
• http://www.instantiations.com/gwtdesigner/

• VisualVM 1.2 is now available
• http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/NewsItemView?newsItemID=1434
• http://visualvm.dev.java.net/

• John Ferguson Smart has a look ahead to Maven 3
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/johnsmart/archive/2009/10/21/writing-your-pom-files-groovy-sneek-preview-maven-3s-polyglot-feat

ScalaWags

• Bill Venners and team have released ScalaTest 1.0
• http://www.scalatest.org/

• LINQ for Scala?
• http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.scala.announce/154

• Boston, MA now has a Scala User Group
• http://boston-scala.org
• http://groups.google.com/group/boston-scala/

• Next week sees the Scala Lift Off East, which takes place on October 30th in Reston, VA
• http://www.scala-lang.org/node/3749

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