Java Posse #215 - Quick News/Feedback for Nov 3rd 2008

QuickNews and Feedback for November 3rd 2008 Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.com Quick News POI 3.1 has been released by the Apache Jakarta project http://poi.apache.org/index.html Josh Bloch has an interview at the Sun Developer Network about his new Effective Java book http://java.sun.com/developer/technicalArticles/ Interviews/bloch_effective_08_qa.html PalmSource has revealed its ALP 3.0 (Access Linux Platform) http://www.mobiletechaddicts.com/2008/ 10/24/palm-os-alp-30-revealed/ http://www.mobileburn.com/news.jsp?Id=5569 A number of Eclipse demo camps are being held all over the world http://wiki.eclipse.org/Eclipse_DemoCamps_November_2008 IBM Alphaworks has released version 2.7 of HeapAnalyzer http://www.alphaworks.ibm.com/tech/heapanalyzer Jonathan Schwartz has a video up on NetBeans.tv celebrating 10 years of NetBeans http://netbeans.tv/interviews/Jonathan-Schwartz-on-NetBeans-409/ Another DZone refcard is available, this time covering getting started with MyEclipse http://refcardz.dzone.com/refcardz/myeclipse The final version of MVEL 2.0 is out http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?thread_id=51495 The Apache Jakarta project has released Commons::Net 2.0 http://commons.apache.org/net/changes-report.html#a2.0 Support for a 64 bit Java plugin for Windows and Linux 64 bit operating systems has been pledged for early 2009 in the Java 6 update 12 release http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=4802695 Ted Neward's Busy Java Developer's Guide to Scala continues with a 2 part examination of building a calculator in Scala http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/views/java/libraryview.jsp? search_by=scala JBoss has released version 2.0.0 General Access of JBoss AOP (Aspect Oriented Programming) http://www.jboss.org/jbossaop/downloads/ http://www.jboss.org/jbossaop/docs/2.0.0.GA/RELEASE_NOTES.html Seam 2.1.0 General Access has been released by JBoss http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?thread_id=51382 JavaWorld has a nice introduction to ReST http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-10-2008/ jw-10-rest-series-1.html http://www.restlet.org/ http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=311 John Ferguson Smart has a unique response to the current economic downturn: be more productive http://weblogs.java.net/blog/johnsmart/archive/ 2008/10/software_develo.html ASM now has support for the InvokeDynamic byte code that John Rose recently completed a prototype for http://weblogs.java.net/blog/forax/archive/ 2008/10/asm_and_invoked.html http://asm.objectweb.org/ MuleSource has release Mule 2.1 Enterprise and Mule Galaxy 1.5 http://mulesource.com/download/#muleee http://mule.mulesource.org/display/MULE/Home The free Java Decompiler project (yes, that is the name) looks like a useful tool http://java.decompiler.free.fr/ Java 5 and 6 - the improved math library http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/j-math1/ index.html?ca=dgr-btw01JavaPart1& S_Tact=105AGX59&S_cmp=GRsitebtw01 Numiton has ported WordPress to Java http://sourceforge.net/projects/nwordpress http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?thread_id=50890 Linux Journal has a round up of Java audio software for Linux http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/ java-sound-music-software-linux-part-3 Listener Feedback 408 465 4626 - Our grandcentral number Library Search http://www.springsource.com/repository/app/faq What about Traits? http://sebastian-bergmann.de/archives/ 822-Of-Lambda-Functions,-Closures,-and-Traits.html EasyMock and PowerMock http://www.powermock.org Mac Widgets for Java http://code.google.com/p/macwidgets/ http://explodingpixels.wordpress.com/ 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