Java Posse #274 - Newscast for Aug 17th 2009

Newscast for August 17th 2009 Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.com Lombok + audio feedback - play the audio feedback http://weblogs.java.net/blog/fabriziogiudici/archive/2009/07/lombok_needs_ne.html VMWare to acquire SpringSource for $362M http://java.dzone.com/articles/vmware-acquire-springsource JVM Summit coming - we will be there (at least some of us) http://openjdk.java.net/projects/mlvm/jvmlangsummit/ Java project of the week - Project Greenfire https://greenfire.dev.java.net/ http://developers.sun.com/learning/javaoneonline/j1sessn.jsp?sessn=TS-3890&yr=2009&track=embedded Quick News It looks like JSR 299 (Java Contexts and Dependency Injection) and JSR 330 (Dependency Injection for Java) have settled their differences http://weblogs.java.net/blog/robc/archive/2009/08/dependency_inje.html Oracle has just released the Oracle Enterprise Pack 11g R1 http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/enterprise-pack-for-eclipse/whatsnew.html http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SRHrSEn_PNU Nokia has released a beta of the Nokia Java Runtime 2.0 for Symbian Series 60 phones http://betalabs.nokia.com/apps/nokia-java-runtime-20-for-s60 Caucho - creator of Resin, a lightweight and performant open source application server written in Java, have published an article on their experiences with OSGi http://blog.caucho.com/?p=213 http://rinswind.blogspot.com/2009/06/current-state-of-affairs.html http://blogs.sun.com/dochez/entry/glassfish_v3_runs_on_osgi The Fan language is now getting support in NetBeans http://fanide.colar.net/home http://fandev.org/ Fabrizio Giudici has released version 1.3.0 of Better Beans Binding http://kenai.com/projects/betterbeansbinding/pages/Home The JAOO Conference will be taking place in Aarhus, Denmark from Oct 5th to 7th, and with tutorial days on the 4th, 8th and 9th http://jaoo.dk/aarhus-2009/ Apache Jakarta has released version 2.0 of commons-math, a common set of mathematical related utilities for Java http://commons.apache.org/math/userguide/overview.html Apache Wicket 1.4 has been released http://wicket.apache.org/apache-wicket-14-takes-type-safety-to-the-next-level.html The ever-so-informal but often interesting poll over at java.net recently asked people's opinions on the phone platform that offers developers the greatest capability http://today.java.net/pub/pq/270 Meanwhile, another poll about JDK 7 features somewhat slams JDK 7 for not addressing the big issues http://weblogs.java.net/blog/editors/archives/2009/07/poll_reveals_di.html Another option for developers and companies wanting to host their Java based applications on Amazon's EC2 http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?thread_id=55356 Sun now offers commercial support for Hudson if desired http://blogs.sun.com/theaquarium/entry/hudson_commercial_support_from_sun Groovy 1.6.4 has been released, plus 1.7 beta 1 http://groovy.codehaus.org/Download Dr. Heinz Kabutz has an extensive look at Strings http://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=4864 Sun has released a new version of JavaDB http://developers.sun.com/javadb/ DZone has a chance to meet the Groovy Eclipse team in an interview article http://groovy.dzone.com/news/interview-meet-groovy-eclipse The Linux and Mac builds of the early access Chromium browsers (the open source project behind the Google chrome browser) have added support for plugins http://lifehacker.com/5327102/linux-chrome-builds-get-plug+in-support ScalaWags A new library from Jonas Boner called Akka offers a new feature in Scala - Transactors! http://wiki.github.com/jboner/akka http://www.slideshare.net/jboner/state-youre-doing-it-wrong-javaone-2009 Caoyuan has completed a partial re-write of the NetBeans Scala plugin, using Scala http://blogtrader.net/dcaoyuan/entry/scala_plugin_for_netbeans_rewrite1 Other Stuff Linux on Netbooks (according to Dell), not 4-5 times higher return rate as Microsoft claims http://linux.slashdot.org/story/09/08/14/1457257/Dell-Says-High-Linux-Netbook-Returns-a-Non-Issue?from=rss 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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