Java Posse #204 - Newscast for Sept 4th 2008

Newscast for Sept 4th 2008 Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.com Google has released a new Browser, Google Chrome http://www.google.com/chrome http://www.google.com/googlebooks/chrome/# http://dev.chromium.org/ http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid= 08/09/01/162224&from=rss http://www.google.com/support/chrome/bin/ answer.py?answer=95282&topic=14683 http://blog.internetnews.com/skerner/2008/ 09/mozilla-firefox-strikes-back-a.html http://arstechnica.com/journals/apple.ars/2008/09/03/ google-chrome-brought-to-you-in-part-by-a-camino-dev http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/pinkerton/archives/019560.html InvokeDynamic - it's ALIVE! http://blogs.sun.com/jrose/entry/ international_invokedynamic_day http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=292 Java Project of the Week - SocialSite https://socialsite.dev.java.net/ Java App of the Week - JavE - the Java ASCII Versatile Editor http://www.jave.de/ Java App of the Week Bonus - Wordle http://wordle.net/ Quick News OpenJDK 7 makes a comeback on the Mac http://landonf.bikemonkey.org/code/java/ SoyLatte_Meets_OpenJDK.20080819.html http://weblogs.java.net/blog/editors/ archives/2008/08/time_wont_wait.html There are two noteworthy Eclipse conferences coming up this fall in the US http://eclipse.dzone.com/articles/eclipse-conference-season The Apache Commons project has released Apache Commons BeanUtils version 1.8.0 http://commons.apache.org/beanutils/ Inovaworks, a Portuguese startup, has announced jaiPhon http://www.jaiphon.com/ http://www.theserverside.com/news/ thread.tss?thread_id=50503 Apple has also been hit with a lawsuit in the U.K. http://weblogs.java.net/blog/terrencebarr/ archive/2008/08/get_real_apple.html JBoss Cache 2.2.0 - codenamed "Poblano" - has been released with General Availability http://jbosscache.blogspot.com/2008/08/ poblano-goes-ga.html The apache project has release version 2.0.2 of Apache Lenya http://lenya.apache.org/ http://www.theserverside.com/news/ thread.tss?thread_id=50504 InfoQ has a short interview with Dmitry Jeremov of JetBrains about the upcoming IntelliJ IDEA 8.0 http://www.infoq.com/news/2008/08/intellij_8_M1 GWT 1.5 final is now out http://googlewebtoolkit.blogspot.com/2008/ 08/gwt-15-now-available.html Sun has announced the Sun Tech Days 2008/2009 starting with an event in Sao Paulo, Brazil in September http://developers.sun.com/events/techdays/ The latest build of the Hudson continuous integration engine offers project level security http://weblogs.java.net/blog/johnsmart/archive/ 2008/09/hudson_projectb.html https://hudson.dev.java.net/ Oracle has released the Oracle Enterprise Pack for Eclipse http://www.oracle.com/tools/enterprise-eclipse-pack.html http://eclipse.dzone.com/announcements/ oracle-enterprise-pack-eclipse IBM AlphaWorks has an article about FluidSync http://www.alphaworks.ibm.com/tech/fluid?open&S_TACT =105AGX59&S_CMP=GRsite-btw01&ca=dgr-btw01awfluid Jason Baragry details how he set up Project Wonderland to give product workshops on OpenESB and JavaCAPS http://blogs.sun.com/jason/entry/openesb_in_wonderland A new application, uncrustify, from Ben Gardner http://uncrustify.sourceforge.net/ The Nexus Maven repository manager v1.0 has been released http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss? thread_id=50473 Substance 5.0 RC1 is out https://substance.dev.java.net/ http://www.pushing-pixels.org/?p=449 Firebug 1.2 final has been released http://ejohn.org/blog/firebug-12-released/ JavaRebel 1.2 has been released http://www.zeroturnaround.com/javarebel-devel-changelog/ SlickEdit core for Eclipse offers eclipse developers on windows the ability to embed slickedit as their core editor for eclipse http://eclipse.dzone.com/announcements/ slickedit-inc-announces-releas-0 DocBook Doclet (or dbdoclet) from Michael Fuchs http://www.dbdoclet.org/ Mainsoft has released GrassHopper v2.5 http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss? thread_id=50450 Kevin Bourrillion and Jared Levy have posted a new version 0.8 Alpha of the Google Collection Library http://code.google.com/p/google-collections/ Mark Volkmann has created a new API for writing XML called WAX http://www.ociweb.com/jnb/jnbSep2008.html Thanks Libsyn.com - http://www.libsyn.com - for hosting and bandwidth Brice Ruth and Webprojkt.com - http://webprojkt.com - for our archives site - http://archives.javaposse.com Feedburner.com - http://www.feedburner.com - for feed redirect Kirsty Doherty, Oliver Widder and Amy Ehmann for Java Posse artwork Brian Ehmann - the Java Posse intern Craig Muth for maintaining the Java Posse Memorizable site - http://memorizable.org/Java_Posse Theme Music: Opening - "Java" the parody song Copyright 1997 Broken Records and Marjorie Music Publ. 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