Newscast for Feb 19th 2009Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.com
Please join us for the next Java Posse Roundup - March 3rd to 6th 2009 in Crested Butte, CO, with a free alternative languages on the JVM day on March 2nd.
http://www.mindviewinc.com/Conferences/JavaPosseRoundup/
Please join us for the next Java Posse Roundup - March 3rd to 6th 2009 in Crested Butte, CO, with a free alternative languages on the JVM day on March 2nd.
http://www.mindviewinc.com/Conferences/JavaPosseRoundup/
- Registration now open for JavaOne 2009, to be held June 2nd to 5th 2009 in the Moscone Center, SF
- JavaFX 1.1 is now out, including official support for JavaFX Mobile
- Details are beginning to emerge about a second generation
Android phone
- Java project of the week - SAVE
- Applet of the Week (kinda): Pet catalog browser
- Jazoon is running a competition for young speakers (26 or under) to present at Jazoon 09
- JetBrains has release IntelliJ IDEA 8.1
- Apple has released a new update for Java on Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
- Moonlight 1.0 has been officially released
- Zero, a project to make a JVM that requires no assembly code porting, has reached a major milestone, it has passed the TCK
- The WebDAV project has announced support for JAX-RS, final version 1.0
- Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz announced that there have been 100 million downloads of the JavaFX runtime already
- NetBeans portal pack 3.0 is now available for download
- OpenWebBeans 1.0.0 M1 has been released
- And staying with JSR 299 - it has been approved for inclusion in Java EE 6 despite a few lingering concerns
- JSR
303 - Bean Validation, led by Emmanuel Bernard of JBoss/RedHat (and not
Sun as we have reported in the past) has also been accepted
- A FOSDEM 09 interview with Martin Odersky gives details about new language features coming in Scala 2.8
- Kirill Grouchnikov has release version 4.0 final of Flamingo
- Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 - codenamed Lenny - has been released
- Groovy and Grails training courses offered by Scott David and Andrew Glover
- The reference implementation for Distributed OSGi, now officially known as OSGi 4.2, is now available at Apache CXF
- Scala and mixing it in with some Java code
- The 7th annual Duke's Choice awards are accepting nominations
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