Java Posse #280 - Newscast for Sept 25th 2009

Newscast for Sept 25th 2009 Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.com Devoxx and Codemash http://www.devoxx.com/display/DV09/Home http://www.codemash.org/ JVM Language summit impressions http://openjdk.java.net/projects/mlvm/jvmlangsummit/ http://wiki.jvmlangsummit.com/Presentations http://www.infoq.com/JVMLanguageSummit No-op language - http://blog.internetnews.com/skerner/2009/09/googles-open-source-noop-langu.html Griffon - http://griffon.codehaus.org JDK 7 Project Coin language features finalized http://blogs.sun.com/darcy/entry/project_coin_final_five http://www.java.net/poll/what-your-reaction-jdk-7-feature-list http://weblogs.java.net/blog/forax/archive/2009/08/27/diamond-gate Google has released the 1.6 version of the Android Development Kit http://developer.android.com/sdk/android-1.6-highlights.html Plus - Android apps http://lifehacker.com/5359672/remember-the-milk-task-manager-hits-android http://lifehacker.com/5347358/my-tracks-for-android-is-a-fitness-geeks-dream http://www.fbreader.org/FBReaderJ/ http://apple.slashdot.org/story/09/08/24/2041248/Why-the-Google-Android-Phone-Isnt-Taking-Off?from=rss Java Library of the Week - Mockito http://mockito.org/ Android application of the Week: Layar http://layar.com/ http://lifehacker.com/5357691/layar-brings-semi+augmented-reality-to-your-android-phone Quick News Apple has released Java for Mac OS X 10.5 Update 5 http://support.apple.com/downloads/Java_for_Mac_OS_X_10_5_Update_5 Josh Marinacci has announced a new competition for JavaFX http://jfxstudio.wordpress.com/2009/08/31/jfxstudio-challenge-small-is-the-new-big/ JavaFX 1.2.1 has been released by Sun http://weblogs.java.net/blog/opinali/archive/2009/09/09/javafx-121-out-fixes-binding-leaks-and-performance JavaRebel has undergone a name change to JRebel http://www.zeroturnaround.com/blog/community-renames-javarebel-to-jrebel/ Bill Pugh and the University of Maryland have released version 1.3.9 of Findbugs http://findbugs.sourceforge.net/ HTMLUnit 2.6 has been released http://htmlunit.sourceforge.net/ JSR 299 - Java Contexts and Dependency Injection, and JSR 330 - Dependency Injection for Java http://weblogs.java.net/blog/rogerk/archive/2009/09/04/contexts-and-dependency-injection-jsr-299-and-glassfish Terrence Barr links to 4 new screencasts about Java mobile technology http://weblogs.java.net/blog/terrencebarr/archive/2009/09/04/4-new-screencasts-lwuit-jdtf-jsr-290-and-javacard JBoss has released the first beta of Hibernate Core 3.5 http://in.relation.to/12153.lace Nominations are being solicited for the NetBeans governance board http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/NewsItemView?newsItemID=1422 A new library, Bolts, available in version 1.0 has been released http://bitbucket.org/stepancheg/bolts/wiki/Home The recent eclipse day held at the Googleplex was once again a successful conference http://eclipse.dzone.com/articles/recap-eclipse-day-googleplex Apache has released the first version of a new project called Wink http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?thread_id=57282 Apache has also released version 1.3 of pivot http://weblogs.java.net/blog/gkbrown/archive/2009/08/27/announcing-apache-pivot-13 A new static analysis tool, XDepend, promises the ability to X-ray your Java code http://www.xdepend.com/ ScalaWags Professor Kunle Olukotun, director of the Stanford Pervasive Parallelism Laboratory, recently delivered a talk at EPFL about how Scala is a core part of the laboratory strategy http://www.scala-lang.org/node/3200 Version 2.7.6 of Scala has been released http://www.scala-lang.org/node/3250 Caoyuan continues work on the Scala plugin re-write in Scala that takes advantage of the new scala compiler toolability features http://blogtrader.net/dcaoyuan/ GridGain has provided a technical blog article on using GridGain map/reduce from Scala http://www.jroller.com/nivanov/entry/mapreduce_with_scala_and_gridgain Maxime Biais has an exploration of the uses of underscore in Scala http://www.biais.org/blog/index.php/2009/09/20/75-understanding-the-_-underscore-in-scala Listener Feedback - Scala edition New Scala Forum http://scala-forum.org Scalawag News - User Group Meetup in Norway http://www.java.no/web/show.do?page=191;7&appmode=/showReply&articleid=20922 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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