Newscast for June 26th 2009
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Controversy week!
- Google: Are they missing the point of Java?
Quick News
- Google has announced the 2009 eclipse day at the GooglePlex.
- Apple has release Java for Mac OS X 10.5 Update 4.
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Larry Ellison's appearance at JavaOne 2009 has easily topped a poll
over at Java.net for the most significant thing about JavaOne 2009.
- IBM Developer Works has a technical article up on using Android's hardware sensors from Java source code.
- SpringSource has announced SpringOne 2GX 2009, a conference that combines SpringOne and the Groovy and Grails.
- JBoss has release RESTEasy 1.1, an implementation of JAX-RS for writing web services and clients in Java.
- Project Coin - small language changes for JDK 7, has released a second candidate list including 5 new proposals.
- Josh Marinacci has created a Q&A about the Java Store.
- Java Simon v2.0 has been released.
- Apache Commons has released their Commons Pool object pooling API version 1.5, closely followed by 1.5.1.
- Gavin King has now submitted the proposed final draft of JSR-299 - Java Contexts and Dependency Injection.
- JSR-255 - JMX 2.0, has been postponed.
- DZone has a new refcard available for JSF 2.0 (JavaServer Faces).
- GeniusWiki 1.6.5 has been released.
- Amy Fowler has published a guide to mixing JavaFX and Swing together.
- JaQue has announced a complete implementation of Microsoft LINQ (Language Integrated Query) for Java!
- Ken Orr has released version 0.9.5 of Mac Widgets for Java.
- And, JBoss has released JBoss messaging 2.0 beta.
ScalaWags
- Debashish Ghosh and Steve Vinoski have released an article about Scala and lift in the May/June issue of IEEE computing.
- A new Erlang plugin for NetBeans 6.7 has been released.
- Debashish Ghosh has been hard at work on SCouchDB.
- Limerik
- There once was a language called scala,
- whose closures tail recurse from its calla,
- with objects and functions
- and plenty of gumption,
- it's a language worth more than a dolla.
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- Hibernate Profiler
- Kiva - a non-profit lending website - join the JUG team
- Scala Oracle Performance Tool
- Stephen Colbourne, Apache Software Foundation, and the Java Community Process
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Based on the WWI popular song, "Ja-da." Ukelele style on the recording taught to Bruce by his dad.
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- Closing - Juan Carlos Jimenez - In the House (Intro No. 1)
- Opening - "Java" the parody song Copyright 1997 Broken Records and Marjorie Music Publ. (BMI),
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