Newscast for May 21st 2009
Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.com- Eclipse 3.5 RC1 has been released by the Eclipse foundation
- Spring and Guice pair up to standardize Dependency Injection, but what about JSR 299?
- Also, Guice 2.0 has just been released
- http://code.google.com/p/google-guice/
- http://google-code-updates.blogspot.com/2009/05/guice-deuce.html
- And DZone has an interview and podcast with Pete Muir about JSR 299
- http://java.dzone.com/articles/java-contexts-dependency-injection
- An unpatched vulnerability has left Mac OS X users wide open to a major security flaw
- http://landonf.bikemonkey.org/code/macosx/CVE-2008-5353.20090519.html
- http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/05/19/2344239&from=rss
- And Landon Fuller is still hard at work making sure the BSD port of OpenJDK keeps up on the mac
- http://lists.macosforge.org/pipermail/macports-changes/2009-May/032814.html
- Java App of the Week: aPlayer
Quick News
- Jonathan Schwartz has announced the creation of a Java app store
- Also the upcoming 1.5 release of JavaFX will include Solaris and Linux as fully supported platforms
- And Ed Ort has an article highlighting JavaFX applications from the community in JavaFX App-O-Rama
- Version 1.6.3 of Groovy has been released
- There is a new Java podcast available. IllegalArgument is a Java/JVM focused podcast from 3 New Zealanders
- And yet more podcasts, Abraham Otero wrote in to tell us about JavaHispano, a Java podcast in the Spanish language
- Google has updated the API for Java on the Google App Engine to version 1.2.1
- There still a few open slots for the community corner podcast schedule at the Java.net booth for JavaOne
- In anticipation of the upcoming Eclipse 3.5 release, there are a number of demo camps happening around the world
- JSF 2.0 is in final vote until May 26th
- And, David Geary has started up a new series of articles on JSF 2.0
- Hudson now has a Selenium Grid plugin available
- There is now a PXE (preboot execution environment) plugin available for Hudson
- After the recent release of Android 1.5 cupcake
- Developer.com has a new article about using the Drools 5 rules engine (recently released)
- The organizers of Jazoon 2009 have confirmed that James Gosling will deliver the Opening Keynote
- Apache Tapestry 5.1 final has been released
- The SpringSource Tool Suite is now available for free
- The proposed final draft for the Servlet 3.0 spec (JSR 315) is now available
- LambdaJ - the 1.8 version has just been released
- Kent Beck and David Saff have released version 4.6 of JUnit
- Atlassian, awesome beer sponsor and developer tools vendor, has released version 2.5 of clover
ScalaWags
- The NeoDatis object database (ODB) version 1.9 has been released
- Our first ScalaWags library of the week. ScalaZ, described as Scala on Steroids
- Toby Reyelts, Alex Rudnick and Lex Spoon have written an article on running Scala on the Google App Engine
- Frank Sommers and James Ward have teamed up for an article about using Scala and Flex together
- Ted Neward has an article up on DeveloperWorks about using Scala with Twitter
- Debasish Ghosh has been busy working on a CouchDB API for Scala
- Jim McBeath has a Scala Syntax Primer on his blog that can ramp you up quickly on some of the syntactic differences from Java
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