Java Posse #222 - Newscast for Dec 20th 2008

Newscast for Dec 20th 2008 Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.com Java Posse Roundup signup page available. Please join us for the best value Java conference on the calendar. http://www.mindviewinc.com/Conferences/JavaPosseRoundup/ JavaFX 1.0 launched, Devoxx becomes the launch party http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?thread_id=52165 http://www.weiqigao.com/blog/2008/12/04/using_javafx_1_0_on_linux.html The other big news from Devoxx - Java 7 http://blogs.sun.com/darcy/entry/small_language_changes_jdk_7 http://www.jroller.com/scolebourne/entry/java_7_small_language_changes http://blogs.sun.com/mr/ http://java.dzone.com/news/jsr-310-needs-help In other Big News that happened while we were on the road, Google has released Native Client http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/12/08/Google_tests_ActiveX_alternative_1.html http://code.google.com/p/nativeclient/ http://news.cnet.com/8301-1001_3-10118792-92.html?part=rss Java Application of the week: XMind http://www.xmind.net Java Applet of the Week: Screencast-O-Matic http://www.screencast-o-matic.com/create?step=setup Quick News JavaOne call for papers - closes on Dec 18th http://blogs.sun.com/theaquarium/entry/call_for_papers_javaone_and The ServerSide Java Symposium http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?thread_id=52437 Vita Santrucek has a quick look at the upcoming Java 6 U 12 release on his blog http://blogs.sun.com/vita/entry/java_se_6_update_12 http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NjkyOQ https://jdk6.dev.java.net/6uNea.html Eric Arsenau thinks that Java on mobile phones is just the beginning http://research.sun.com/minds/2008-1210/ M3DD (mobile, media and eMbedded developer days) coming up from January 21st to 22nd of January at Sun's Santa Clara campus https://developerdays.dev.java.net/nonav/overview.html https://lwuit.dev.java.net/servlets/ProjectProcess?tab=2 https://developerdays.dev.java.net/nonav/agenda.html Jeet Kaul takes on the sticky subject of JSR 277 and OSGi on the Sun blogs http://blogs.sun.com/meetjeet/entry/osgi_vs_jsr_277 Sun has release Java 6 U 11 with a number of bug fixes for the new and improved Java runtime http://java.sun.com/javase/downloads/index.jsp Spring Integration 1.0 GA has been announced at the recent SpringOne conference http://www.springsource.org/spring-integration From the whiteboards at Devoxx comes a summary blog from Stephen Colbourne http://www.jroller.com/scolebourne/entry/devoxx_2008_whiteboard_votes JBoss has release Hibernate Search 3.1 GA http://search.hibernate.org JBoss has also release JBoss AS 5.0 GA, their application server now fully supporting Java EE 5 http://sacha.labourey.com/2008/12/05/as-500-we-are-done-next/ Gradle, a new build tool that has elements of both ant and maven in its feature set, has reached version 0.5 http://www.gradle.org/ The Simple project has released Simple 2.0 http://simple.sourceforge.net/ VisualVM has now reached version 1.1 http://eclipse.dzone.com/announcements/visualvm-11-now-available The first milestone of JavaRebel 2.0 is now out http://www.zeroturnaround.com/javarebel/ http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?thread_id=52436 A new web framework - Loom - has reached version 1.0 http://loom.extrema-sistemas.com/ JBrownie wraps the javac compiler to monitor and auto-compile changed Java source files on the fly http://www.onyxbits.de/jbrownie JSR 314 - JSF (JavaServer Faces) 2.0 is now in public review with the ballot scheduled between January 6th to the 12th 2009 http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=314 Roy van Rijn has a critical look at JSR 315 - Servlet 3.0 http://www.theserverside.com/tt/articles/article.tss?l=PonderingAboutJSR135 http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=315 And another JSR in public review until January 12th is JSR 322 - Java EE Connector Architecture 1.6 http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=322 Stax Networks is currently running a private beta of a platform for Amazon's EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud) that allows you to write Java applications using standard APIs and tools http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/12/16/stax-networks-launches-google-app-engine-for-java/ Java Simon is a simple monitoring API and has just reached version 1.0. http://code.google.com/p/javasimon/ Adobe has release version 1.5 of AIR (the Adobe Internet Runtime) for Linux http://www.detector-pro.com/2008/12/adobe-air-15-for-linux-released.html Listener Feedback Equals properties: http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse/browse_thread/thread/9d446c8d29b234f6/ef1c4736e4680f5f?show_docid=ef1c4736e4680f5f Running C# on the JVM http://dev.mainsoft.com/ 50 in 50 talk http://blog.jaoo.dk/2008/11/21/art-and-code-obscure-or-beautiful-code/ Thanks Libsyn.com - 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