Java Posse #254 - Newscast for May 27th 2009

Newscast for May 27th 2009 Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.com Microsoft has a keynote at JavaOne http://www.pcworld.com/article/165432/microsoft_to_give_its_first_javaone_keynote.html http://java.sun.com/webservices/technologies/index.jsp http://www.microsoft.com/net/wcf/champ/ Java Application of the Week: DirSync Pro http://directorysync.sourceforge.net/ Quick News The Glassfish Tools Bundle v1.0 for Eclipse has been released http://blogs.sun.com/theaquarium/entry/glassfish_tools_bundle_for_eclipse Drools 5.0 final has been released by JBoss http://www.jboss.org/drools/ Eclipse is experimenting with a novel fund-raising idea: Friends of Eclipse http://eclipse.dzone.com/articles/friends-get-it-sooner-and Eclipse 3.5.0 (Galileo) RC1 downloads are now available http://www.eclipse.org/org/press-release/20090525_galileoblogathon.php IntelliJ now has an early access version of IDEA 9 (codenamed Maia) including support for Java EE 6 http://blogs.jetbrains.com/idea/2009/05/maia-eap-is-finally-here/ Loom 1.5 has been released http://loom.extrema-sistemas.org/ The ServerSide Java Symposium Europe has issued a call for papers http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?thread_id=54730 Kirill Grouchnikov has released version 4.1 of Flamingo, and version 5.2 of Substance look and Feel http://weblogs.java.net/blog/kirillcool/archive/2009/05/flamingo_41_off.html http://weblogs.java.net/blog/kirillcool/archive/2009/05/substance_52_of.html ScalaWags Martin Odersky will be joining us at TwitterHQ in SF on Thursday night http://groups.google.com/group/scala-base And! Don't forget the Scala LiftOff on the Saturday after JavaOne. http://scalaliftoff.com/ Listener Feedback JClouds-S3 http://code.google.com/p/jclouds/ Guice 2.0 released http://crazybob.org/2009/05/guice.html Electric vehicle information http://www.7gen.com/blog/20090409/25530-electric-motorcycles http://visforvoltage.org/forums/electric-racing/ev-racing http://www.7gen.com/blog/20090411/25537-podcast http://www.7gen.com/blog/20090412/25538-podcast http://www.7gen.com/blog/20090413/25539-electric-vehicle-racing TTXGP Race Course http://www.ttxgp.com/index_nav.php?page=thecourse Functional Java http://code.google.com/p/functionaljava 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 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TAX0gJt-aZg 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 Pose a question on our Google Moderator group - http://tinyurl.com/q4javaposse 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