Java Posse #289 - Newscast for December 11th 2009

Newscast for December 11th 2009 Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.com Inclusion of closures in Java 7 http://blogs.sun.com/mr/entry/closures_qa http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/announce/2009-December/000087.html http://www.javac.info/closures-v06a.html http://www.java.net/poll/what-do-you-think-about-closures-jdk-7 http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~mr/lambda/straw-man/ GWT 2.0 released http://code.google.com/webtoolkit/ http://www.infoq.com/news/2009/12/Speed-Tracer-GWT-2 http://css.dzone.com/news/gwt-20-adds-bunch-new-tools JSR 316 - Java EE 6 - has been approved by the JCP http://jcp.org/en/jsr/results?id=5025 http://sacha.labourey.com/2009/12/03/ee6-has-been-approved-yet/ http://java.dzone.com/videos/gavin-king-jsr299 https://glassfish.dev.java.net/ http://in.relation.to/Bloggers/IntroducingJBossAS600M1 http://www.sun.com/aboutsun/pr/2009-12/sunflash.20091210.2.xml http://www.developer.com/java/ent/article.php/3852641/article.htm http://weblogs.java.net/blog/binod/archive/2009/12/10/v3-java-ee-6-and-sip-servlets NetBeans 6.8 released http://wiki.netbeans.org/NewAndNoteworthyNB68 http://www.netbeans.org/community/news/show/1448.html http://netbeans.org/community/releases/68/ http://netbeans.org/features/javafx/index.html NetBeans Platform on the move http://platform.netbeans.org/screenshots.html http://platform.netbeans.org/whatsnew/67.html http://platform.netbeans.org/whatsnew/68.html http://platform.netbeans.org/articles/diff-nb-eclipse.html Quick News IntelliJ IDEA 9.0 final has been released http://www.jetbrains.com/idea/whatsnew/index.html Jazoon 2010 will be held in Zurich, Switzerland from June 1st to 3rd and has issued a call for papers, open immediately http://jazoon.com/Contribute Apple has released a pair of Java updates for Mac OS X http://www.roboxpress.com/technology/iphone-technology/apple-issues-java-update-mac-os-105-106/ Chromium OS Diet includes Java but is missing the graphics support http://www.cynosurex.com/Forums/DisplayComments.php?file=Java/Chromium_OS_Crippled_Java. Google Chrome for Mac and Linux (beta) released this week http://www.google.com/chrome Eclipse Marketplace has now gone live http://marketplace.eclipse.org/ EclipseCon has issued a call for papers for the EclipseCon 2010 conference to be held in Santa Clara, CA from March 22nd to 25th http://www.eclipse.org/org/press-release/20091104_eclipseconcfp.php JProfiler 6.0 has been released http://www.ej-technologies.com/products/jprofiler/whatsnew6.html ScalaWags Scala Days 2010 has been announced, to take place at EPFL in Lausanne, Switzerland on April 15th and 16th 2010 http://www.scala-lang.org/node/4155 http://www.scala-lang.org/days2010 Andre is trying to set up a Scala users group in Dublin, Ireland http://scala-dub.blogspot.com/ http://groups.google.com/group/scala-dub/browse_thread/thread/bf59b1b603546f7a JavaFX Fix! A Silicon Valley JavaFX user group has been founded and has held its first meeting http://www.svjugfx.org/ Thanks Libsyn.com - http://www.libsyn.com - for hosting and bandwidth Feedburner.com - http://www.feedburner.com - for feed redirect Kirsty Doherty and Amy Ehmann for Java Posse artwork 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