Java Posse #218 - Newscast for Nov 21st 2008

Newscast for Nov 21st 2008 Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.com Dick and Carl at Devoxx - http://www.devoxx.com/display/JV08/Home Dick at the University of Kent - http://www.cs.kent.ac.uk/coe/ Questions? Feedback? Try our new moderator site: http://tinyurl.com/q4javaposse Correction: MSN Live toolbar with Java download is an opt-out, not opt-in! http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/11/10/sun_stows_ms_search_on_java/ Dynamic support coming in C# for version 4.0 http://www.nikhilk.net/Entry.aspx?id=210 Chris Adamson links to results from Google analytics for Java applet availability http://weblogs.java.net/blog/editors/archives/2008/11/so_alive.html Sun and Java news roundup: Sun Microsystems cutting 6000 jobs, has JavaFX hurt client side Java (slight reprise) and does Java's ubiquity render Sun irrelevant to the future of Java anyway? http://money.cnn.com/2008/11/14/news/companies/sun_microsystems/index.htm?postversion=2008111408 http://weblogs.java.net/blog/kirillcool/ http://www.javaworld.com/community/node/1887 http://www.javaworld.com/community/node/1595 Quick News NetBeans 6.5 final is now out http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/NewsItemView?newsItemID=1313 http://www.netbeans.org/kb/index.html http://www.netbeans.org/features/index.html Sun has released version 9 of StarOffice http://www.informationweek.com/news/software/enterpriseapps/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=212100362&subSection=Integration http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/11/15/1958234&from=rss The ServerSide Java Symposium web site is now up http://javasymposium.techtarget.com/ Adobe has released a beta (or is it an alpha) 64 bit version of the flash plugin for Linux http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flashplayer10/ http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/11/17/adobe_64_bit_linux_flash_10_alpha/ Adobe AIR 1.5 has been released but not for Linux http://www.adobe.com/devnet/logged_in/rchristensen_lpolanco_air_1.5.html http://www.scmagazineus.com/Adobes-AIR-15-update-addresses-Flash-Player-vulnerabilities/article/121176/ The expert group for JSR 317 - Java Persistence 2.0 (also known as JPA 2.0) has released the public review draft http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=317 http://blogs.sun.com/ldemichiel/entry/java_persistence_2_0_public Bill Pugh of the University of Maryland has released version 1.3.6 of the excellent findbugs http://findbugs.sourceforge.net/ Joakim Ohlrogge has advice for people who want to try out Scala - "just do it" http://johlrogge.wordpress.com/2008/09/01/phasing-over-from-java-to-scala-pt-1/ 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