Java Posse #227 - Newscast for Jan 22nd 2009

Newscast for January 22nd 2009 Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.com Please join us for the next Java Posse Roundup - March 3rd to 6th 2009 in Crested Butte, CO, with a free alternative languages on the JVM day on March 2nd. http://www.mindviewinc.com/Conferences/JavaPosseRoundup/ Details on Project Jigsaw, or is this simply out of data information? Plus, Eclipse plans for OSGi http://www.javabeat.net/articles/101-introduction-to-java-module-system-in-java-70-1.html http://eclipse.dzone.com/articles/plans-2009 http://eclipse.dzone.com/articles/meet-refcard-author-equinox-wi http://refcardz.dzone.com/refcardz/equinox?oid=ban00027-0 Mobile Java app of the week - Skype Lite http://smarttouchphones.com/smartphones/t-mobile-g1/ t-mobile-g1-apps/skype-lite-app-t-mobile-g1-android-cell-phones/ http://skype.com/mobile/#panelPreset2 Java app of the week - GTD Free http://gtd-free.sourceforge.net/ Quick News Sun Tech Days 2009 has announced that the conference will stop in Hyderabad from Feb 18th to 20th 2009 at the HICC http://www.sercononline.com/suntechdays09/index.htm Chris Adamson reports from Codemash, a user organized developer conference held in central Ohio http://weblogs.java.net/blog/editors/archives/2009/01/rockstar.html Peaberry 1.0 RC2 is out http://code.google.com/p/peaberry/ http://code.google.com/p/peaberry/wiki/UserGuide Party time is a new grails platform that simplifies the creation of social networking applications in the groovy based web framework http://code.google.com/p/party-time/ GridGain 2.1 has been released http://www.gridgain.com/ QCon London 2009 has been announced http://qconlondon.com/london-2009/conference/ The Apache project has announced commons digester 2.0, a library to convert XML objects into Java http://www.linuxpromagazine.com/online/news/ xml_fodder_for_java_objects_with_commons_digester_2_0 Palm unveiled the soon to be released palm pre http://www.mobiletopsoft.com/board/4316/ full-specs-of-the-new-palm-pre-smartphone-based-on-webos.html http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/palm-pre-belle-ball-linux-her-arm http://www.slashgear.com/palm-announces-webos-mojo-sdk-1230062/ Amy Fowler has a blog entry all about layouts in Java FX http://weblogs.java.net/blog/aim/archive/2009/01/layout_primer_f.html The mono project has found a way around the no VM's rule on the iPhone to allow C# developed applications to run on Apple's phone http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20090108- open-source-mono-framework-brings-c-to-iphone-and-wii.html The cloudtools project is a new google code hosted project that provides tools for deploying, managing and testing applications on Amazon's EC2 http://code.google.com/p/cloudtools/ http://hostedftp.wordpress.com/2009/01/10/ google-code-cloudtools-for-deploying-java-applications-on-amazon-ec2/ And Sun Microsystems has acquired Q-layer http://www.sun.com/aboutsun/pr/2009-01/sunflash.20090107.1.xml Twitter's Project Kestrel has replaced a Ruby queue implementation with a much faster Scala implementation http://robey.livejournal.com/53832.html http://github.com/robey/kestrel/tree/master Version 0.15.1 of the NetBeans Scala plugin has been released http://blogtrader.net/page/dcaoyuan/entry/scala_plugin_0_15_1 David Herron blogs about Java 6, Java 6 U 10, OpenJDK and Java 7 http://weblogs.java.net/blog/robogeek/archive/2009/01/it_will_be_open.html VisualVM 1.1 has been released http://blogs.sun.com/nbprofiler/entry/visualvm_1_1_released The first australian Android phone has been delayed indefinitely, just a few days before it was due to be released http://www.news.com.au/technology/story/0,28348,24920806-5014239,00.html David Pollak has announced Lift 0.10, a new version of the Scala web framework http://scala-blogs.org/2009/01/folks-after-many-months-of-breaking.html http://liftweb.net/index.php/Main_Page The second part of Elliotte Rusty Harold's look at the new Math features of Java 5 and 6 has been published at IBM's developer works http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/java/library/j-math2.html JSR 314 (JSF 2.0), JSR 315 (Servlet 3.0) and JSR 322 (JCA 1.6) have all been approved by the JCP http://blogs.sun.com/theaquarium/entry/public_review_drafts_of_jsf Arun Gupta has an example of how to embed EJBs into WAR (Web Archive) files using Glassfish v3 http://weblogs.java.net/blog/arungupta/archive/2009/01/ejbs_in_a_war_s.html JavaGround has announced that it's XPress suite will include the ability to natively compile Java applications to target the iPhone http://www.javaground.com/solution.html http://www.developmag.com/news/31128/Javaground-releases-Java-to-iPhone-converter Jim Driscoll blogs that the JSF 2.0 Public Review is now out http://weblogs.java.net/blog/driscoll/archive/2009/01/jsf_20_pr_relea.html https://javaserverfaces.dev.java.net/ Japplis has released the Japplis web site optimizer version 1.0 http://website-optimizer.japplis.com/ NetBeans cleaned up in the 2009 Developer.com product awards http://www.developer.com/java/other/article.php/3795991 JOpt 3.0 has been released by Paul R. Holser http://jopt-simple.sourceforge.net/ The Aerith NetBeans project has now split out several components from the demo and packaged them for your own use in NetBeans http://code.google.com/p/aerithnetbeans/ Transmorph 1.0.0 has been released http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?thread_id=53146 http://transmorph.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Main_Page The ServerSide Java Symposium has announced it's own economic stimulus package by extending its early bird pricing for the 2009 conference until the end of January http://javasymposium.techtarget.com/index.html?Offer=JStsspost119 JUG-USA aims to bring all Java User Groups across the USA together to share tips, resources, even speakers http://weblogs.java.net/blog/van_riper/archive/2009/01/jugusa_the_whol.html Listener Feedback JSR-303 Bean Validation corrections http://in.relation.to/Bloggers/BeanValidationJSR303PublicDraftGiveUsFeedback http://forum.hibernate.org/viewforum.php?f=26 Blu Ray Discs using BDJ http://www.blueboard.com/bluray/reviews.htm http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BD-J#BD-J_Enhanced_Movie_Titles Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.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. 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