Java Posse: Newscast for May 27th 2009

Newscast for May 27th 2009

• Microsoft has a keynote at JavaOne
• http://www.pcworld.com/article/165432/microsoft_to_give_its_first_javaone_keynote.html
• http://java.sun.com/webservices/technologies/index.jsp
• http://www.microsoft.com/net/wcf/champ/

• Java Application of the Week: DirSync Pro
• http://directorysync.sourceforge.net/

Quick News

• The Glassfish Tools Bundle v1.0 for Eclipse has been released
• http://blogs.sun.com/theaquarium/entry/glassfish_tools_bundle_for_eclipse

• Drools 5.0 final has been released by JBoss
• http://www.jboss.org/drools/

• Eclipse is experimenting with a novel fund-raising idea: Friends of Eclipse
  
• http://eclipse.dzone.com/articles/friends-get-it-sooner-and

• Eclipse 3.5.0 (Galileo) RC1 downloads are now available
• http://www.eclipse.org/org/press-release/20090525_galileoblogathon.php

• IntelliJ now has an early access version of IDEA 9 (codenamed Maia) including support for Java EE 6
• http://blogs.jetbrains.com/idea/2009/05/maia-eap-is-finally-here/

• Loom 1.5 has been released
• http://loom.extrema-sistemas.org/

• The ServerSide Java Symposium Europe has issued a call for papers
• http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?thread_id=54730

• Kirill Grouchnikov has released version 4.1 of Flamingo, and version 5.2 of Substance look and Feel
  
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/kirillcool/archive/2009/05/flamingo_41_off.html
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/kirillcool/archive/2009/05/substance_52_of.html

ScalaWags

• Martin Odersky will be joining us at TwitterHQ in SF on Thursday night
• http://groups.google.com/group/scala-base

• And! Don't forget the Scala LiftOff on the Saturday after JavaOne.
  
• http://scalaliftoff.com/

Listener Feedback

• JClouds-S3
• http://code.google.com/p/jclouds/

• Guice 2.0 released
• http://crazybob.org/2009/05/guice.html

• Electric vehicle information
• http://www.7gen.com/blog/20090409/25530-electric-motorcycles
• http://visforvoltage.org/forums/electric-racing/ev-racing
• http://www.7gen.com/blog/20090411/25537-podcast
• http://www.7gen.com/blog/20090412/25538-podcast
  
• http://www.7gen.com/blog/20090413/25539-electric-vehicle-racing
• TTXGP Race Course
• http://www.ttxgp.com/index_nav.php?page=thecourse

• Functional Java
• http://code.google.com/p/functionaljava

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. (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)
    

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