Java Posse #217 - Newscast for Nov 14th 2008

Newscast for November 14th 2008 Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.com Java Posse Roundup 2009 dates set, March 10th to 13th in Crested Butte, CO with alternative JVM language day on the 9th. http://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=242122 What Happened to SwingX? http://weblogs.java.net/blog/fabriziogiudici/archive/ 2008/11/guys_dont_panic.html http://forums.java.net/jive/thread.jspa?messageID=313969 http://weblogs.java.net/blog/rbair/archive/2008/11/javafx_enterpri.html http://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=242077 http://weblogs.java.net/blog/kirillcool/archive/2008/11/sun_setting_dow.html http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse/browse_thread/thread/ a8f16f2aca8b5e0b/84e7d2a360f93b01?show_docid=84e7d2a360f93b01 JetBrains has released IntelliJ IDEA 8.0 http://www.jetbrains.com/idea/ http://www.jetbrains.com/idea/features/index.html Scala roundup http://www.scala-lang.org/node/348 http://www.scala-lang.org/node/347 http://plugins.intellij.net/plugin/?id=1347 Sun and Google break up, big time http://www.tcmagazine.com/comments.php?shownews=22786 http://www.neowin.net/news/main/08/11/10/ sun-to-spread-live-toolbar-via-java http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/11/10/0842255 http://blogs.sun.com/jonathan/entry/the_value_of_distribution_java Java Project of the Week: Mobile Millenium http://traffic.berkeley.edu/ Java Library of the Week: Twitter4j http://yusuke.homeip.net/twitter4j/en/index.html Quick News Atlassian has released a new version of Clover, the testing and code coverage tool http://www.atlassian.com/software/clover/?s_kwcid=HMClover http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?thread_id=51771 The schedule for the next mobile and embedded developer days conference has been announced https://developerdays.dev.java.net/nonav/agenda.html CommunityOne is adding an east coast CommunityOne to take place in New York on March 18th 2009 http://weblogs.java.net/blog/editors/archives/ 2008/11/betcha_thought.html Glassfish v3 Prelude has been released https://glassfish.dev.java.net/downloads/v3-prelude.html http://blogs.sun.com/theaquarium/entry/ejb_3_1_more_features http://weblogs.java.net/blog/vivekp/archive/ 2008/11/dynamic_languag.html A new version of JMaki is also available http://weblogs.java.net/blog/carlavmott/archive/ 2008/11/jmaki_181_and_g.html Sun and IBM have teamed up to create an ODF toolkit http://odftoolkit.openoffice.org/ MortBay Consulting has released Jetty 6.1.12 http://www.mortbay.org/jetty/index.html The latest release of soapUI has added ReST support http://www.eviware.com/ OpenTrends has released OpenFrame 2.0 http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?thread_id=51748 http://sourceforge.net/projects/openframe Quokka an alternative to Maven? http://quokka.ws/ The JSR 299 - Web beans specification, led by Gavin King of JBoss, is currently in public review http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=299 The numbers are in for Sun's fiscal first quarter, and the news is as expected: bad http://www.cafeaulait.org/#November_4_2008_66764 OpenEco still going ahead https://www.openeco.org/ http://profiles.waroengdata.com/askpc-read-222/sun-microsystem-goes-green.html JBoss Tools 3 Beta 1 has been released http://www.jboss.org/tools/ http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?thread_id=51704 G2One Inc., the company behind groovy and grails, has been acquired by SpringSource http://www.springsource.com/g2one The Roma framework has reached version 1.0.0 http://www.romaframework.org/advanced_technology.htm Former Java Posse mobile application of the week: Opera Mini, has reached version 4.2 http://mobile.resalty.net/592/ operamini-42-beta-best-java-internet-browser/ Hyperic HQ 4.0 has been released http://www.hyperic.com/launch/hqe-40-launch.html Aspose words for Java has a new version http://www.aspose.com/categories/file-format-components/ aspose.words-for-.net-and-java/default.aspx Nokia has released the completed JSR 293 - Location API 2.0 http://jcp.org/aboutJava/communityprocess/pfd/jsr293/index.html The election ballot for the Java Community Process is now open until November 17th http://weblogs.java.net/blog/editors/archives/2008/11/move_along.html ReSTlet 1.1.0 has been released http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?thread_id=51625 The Apache project has released OpenEJB 3.1 http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=318 http://openejb.apache.org/openejb-31.html JPPF, a grid computing platform for Java, has release version 1.6 http://www.jppf.org/ Jython 2.5 beta "0" is now out http://fwierzbicki.blogspot.com/2008/10/jython-25-beta0-released.html Stephen Colbourne has released JodaTime 1.6 http://joda-time.sourceforge.net/ The Java Data Pipeline has released version 2 http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?thread_id=51654 The early draft review for JSR 316 - Java EE 6 - is now up at the JCP http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=316 The O'Reilly School of Technology has announced a Java certification program as an alternative to Sun's Java Certified program http://press.oreilly.com/pub/pr/2151 Listener Feedback We have a new question moderation service, go to http://tinyurl.com/q4javaposse to ask questions, make suggestions or corrections, or vote for other questions. 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