Java Posse #206 - Newscast for Sept 17th 2008

Newscast for Sept 17th 2008 Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.com Java complexity again, but from a different angle: http://forums.java.net/jive/thread.jspa? messageID=298125&tstart=0#298125 JVM Language summit - the details emerge http://openjdk.java.net/projects/mlvm/ jvmlangsummit/agenda.html Delegates for Java? http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2003/05/ 21/delegates.html?page=1 Java Project of the week - Tokyo Jogging http://www.tokyo-jogging.com/ http://code.google.com/p/tokyo-jogging/ Quick News JavaPolis, which had been renamed to Javoxx, is now known as Devoxx http://devoxx.com/display/JV08/Home http://weblogs.java.net/blog/fabriziogiudici/archive/ 2008/09/javapolis_javox.html Ji Hoon Kim has announced the JSF Flex project, which aims to bring Flex components to JavaServer Faces http://www.theserverside.com/tt/articles/article.tss?l=JSFFlex A new library called JavaPlot from Panayotis Katsaloulis lets Java developers harness gnuplot from a Java API http://gnujavaplot.sourceforge.net/JavaPlot/About.html Chrome browser (actually Chromium - the open source project) is now running on Mac and Linux using Crossover technology http://www.codeweavers.com/about/people/blogs/jwhite/ 2008/9/15/fire-drills-and-proving-a-point The NetBeans BlueJ team has announced the first release of the BlueJ Plugin for NetBeans 6.1 http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/NewsItemView? newsItemID=1281 Grizzly 2.0 has just been pushed to the Java.net Maven repository http://weblogs.java.net/blog/jfarcand/archive/ 2008/09/growing_the_lat.html http://blogs.sun.com/oleksiys/entry/grizzly_2_0_is_available https://grizzly.dev.java.net/ JBoss has released the Seam 2 feature pack for JBoss EAP 4.3 http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss? thread_id=50621 A new Java IDE for Windows, JCoder, has reached version 1.0 http://www.jcoder.com/detail.html Instantiations has released a new version of GWT designer for GWT 1.5 http://eclipse.dzone.com/announcements/ instantiations-updates-gwt-des JSFOne has concluded and from the reports was a great success http://blogs.jsfcentral.com/editorsdesk/entry/jsfone_day_1 JRubyStack 1.1.4 has been released http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss? thread_id=50615 The Eclipse foundation and 14 foundation member companies have announced a new Eclipse training program in 31 cities around the world http://www.eclipse.org/community/training/2008fall.php Norman Lahme-Hütig has release jSefa 0.9.2 http://jsefa.sourceforge.net/ http://jsefa.sourceforge.net/quick-tutorial.html A new 0.9.4 version of the SwingX extended Swing components has been released https://swingx.dev.java.net/ http://swinglabs.java.sun.com/downloads.jsp CMP West has announced a call for papers for SD West 2009 https://www.cmpevents.com/SDw9/a.asp? option=N&V=3&CPid=237&Mgt=Y Cay Horstmann reports that in the next semester at SJSU, he will be replacing Scheme with Scala for the functional language part of the undergraduate programming languages course http://weblogs.java.net/blog/cayhorstmann/archive/ 2008/09/teaching_progra_1.html http://horstmann.com/sjsu/cs152/schedule.html PGP (Pretty Good Privacy) is leading efforts to save Bletchley Park http://news.cnet.com/Bletchley-Park-restoration-short-on-funds/ 2100-7348_3-6240587.html http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-10034884-83.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. (BMI), written and performed by Loose Bruce Kerr of the Dr. Demento Show and Sun Microsystems attorney. Based on the WWI popular song, "Ja-da." Ukelele style on the recording taught to Bruce by his dad. Re-produced with kind permission from "Loose" Bruce Kerr - http://loosebrucekerr.libsyn.com Closing - Juan Carlos Jimenez - In the House (Intro No. 1) To contact us: Visit our homepage - http://javaposse.com Post on our Google Group - http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse Call us with questions and feedback - (408) 465 4626 Or send us email - [email protected] The Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall