Java Posse #239 - Newscast for April 2nd 2009

Newscast for April 2nd 2009 Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.com Chris Adamson has stepped down as the Java.net editor as of March 31st http://weblogs.java.net/blog/editors/archives/2009/03/this_is_how_i_d.html EclipseCon 2009 happened, and we were there (at least for the day) http://eclipse.dzone.com/articles/eclipsecon-2009-day-one http://eclipse.dzone.com/articles/eclipsecon-2009-day-two http://eclipse.dzone.com/articles/eclipsecon-2009-day-three http://eclipse.dzone.com/articles/eclipsecon-2009-day-four The eclipse community award winners were announced http://eclipse.dzone.com/articles/eclipse-community-awards-2009 Eclipse announced SwordFish, a next generation ESB (Enterprise Service Bus) http://www.eclipse.org/org/press-release/20090323_swordfish.php Mylyn 3.1 and TaskTop 1.4 (a commercial tool based on Mylyn) were announced http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?thread_id=53997 http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?thread_id=53993 Atlassian has now integrated crucible (code reviewing) and bamboo (continuous integration) into mylyn http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?thread_id=54059 AWS toolkit for Eclipse http://aws.amazon.com/eclipse/ http://aws.amazon.com/what-is-aws/ Oracle has released the eclipse enterprise pack 11g http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/enterprise-pack-for-eclipse/index.html http://www.oracle.com/technology/software/products/oepe/index.html Stephen Colbourne thinks that while there will be a JDK 7, there might not be a Java 7? http://www.jroller.com/scolebourne/entry/no_more_java_7 Meanwhile, sadly, it seems there will be no JSR 310 in Java 7 http://www.h-online.com/open/Interview-Patrick-Curran-chair-of-the-JCP--/features/112862 Concerns about Java 7 openness notwithstanding, Mark Reinhold blogs about the path OpenJDK will take to get to a JDK 7 implementation http://blogs.sun.com/mr/entry/jdk7 Java App of the Week: Personal Brain http://www.thebrain.com/ Quick News Sun has announced an update to Java 6. U 13 brings fixes to security issues in JDK/JRE 6 http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2239238/java-gets-update Sun has announced a JavaFX coding challenge to create a rich media application using JavaFX http://javafx.com/challenge/ The proposed final draft of JSR 317 - JPA 2.0, has been released in the JCP http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=317 Jazoon 2009 has announced several community days around the event http://weblogs.java.net/blog/cwfrei/archive/2009/03/jazoon09_commun.html Typesafe Pair and Triple article http://www.developer.com/java/ejb/article.php/3813031 The JavaZone call for papers is closing on April 15th http://www.java.no/javazone/2009/program.html Swing labs has released SwingX 0.9.6 http://wiki.java.net/bin/view/Javadesktop/SwingXChanges#0_9_6 Instantiations has released WindowBuilder Pro v7.0 http://www.instantiations.com/windowbuilder/ JavaRebel 2.0 has been release by ZeroTurnaround http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?thread_id=54088 Maven 2.1.0 has been released http://maven.apache.org/release-notes.html The glassfish project has released a glassfish/eclipse bundle http://download.java.net/glassfish/eclipse/ http://java.dzone.com/articles/glassfish-and-osgi-part-i-look AhmedSoft has released Ropes for Java v1.25 http://ahmadsoft.org/ropes/ http://www.cs.ubc.ca/local/reading/proceedings/spe91-95/spe/vol25/issue12/spe986.pdf JSR 282 - the real time spec for Java, version 1.1, is now in early draft review http://www.jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=282 GMock 0.7 brings mock objects to Groovy with a simple, readable approach http://gmock.org/ Tigris has released version 1.6 of Subversion http://subversion.tigris.org/svn_1.6_releasenotes.html If you are at all curious about Scala, Bill Venners blogs that his talk from Devoxx, entitled "The Feel of Scala" is now up on Parleys http://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=253855 A new extension to JUnit called Jitr is available http://www.jitr.org/ Continuing the OSGi integration, the glassfish project now notes that Grizzly, the very fast HTTP engine based on NIO, is now available as an OSGi bundle http://blogs.sun.com/theaquarium/entry/grizzly_news_logo_and_osgi OSGi Discontent - No Migration Path! http://java.dzone.com/news/osgi-discontent-no-migration JavaLobby has a handy OSGi primer that covers the basics about OSGi and points to a tutorial from the Knoplerfish team. http://java.dzone.com/articles/osgi-primer NetBeans has released version 6.5.1 http://blogs.sun.com/theaquarium/entry/netbeans_6_5_1_now GraniteDS (data services) v2.0.0 beta 1 has just been released http://www.graniteds.org/confluence/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=229378 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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