Newscast for Oct 23rd 2008

Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.com

• The Android project has been released as open source, beating the rumored launch date for the source code by several months
• http://source.android.com/
• And, Gizmodo and ZDNet both offer in-depth reviews of the T-Mobile G1
• http://gizmodo.com/5062977/t+mobile-
  g1-google-android-phone-review 
• http://blogs.zdnet.com/cell-phones/?p=179 
• http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS6126688892.html?kc=rss 
• http://code.google.com/p/i-jetty/
  
• http://lifehacker.com/5059266/give-android-a-spin-online

• Java 6 Update 10 final has been released by Sun
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/opinali/archive/
  2008/10/java_se_6_updat.html 
• http://www.netbeans.tv/interviews/David-Strupl-392/

• Adobe has release Flash 10 for all supported platforms, including a simultaneous release for Linux
• http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flashplayer10/
  

• Fabrizio Guidici is asking what scripting language people would like to see in BlueMarine
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/fabriziogiudici/
  archive/2008/10/suggest_me_a_sc_1.html
  
• https://bluemarine.dev.java.net/ 
• http://code.google.com/p/kahlua/ 
• http://www.jython.org/Project/ 
• http://jruby.codehaus.org/ 
• http://groovy.codehaus.org/
  

Quick News

• Registration is now open for the next Mobile and Embedded Developer Days
• https://developerdays.dev.java.net/nonav/overview.html 

• Thoughtworks has announced a new product, Twist, that aims to ease functional testing of web and Java applications
  
• http://studios.thoughtworks.com/twist-agile-test-automation/ 

• Mark Reinhold has written a "wouldn't it be cool" blog that mentions some "wishes"
• http://blogs.sun.com/mr/entry/cool 

• The JCP Executive Committee Elections on the PriceWaterhouse Cooper JCP elections site
• http://jcp.org/en/whatsnew/elections 

• John O'Connor blogs that Jersey, the JAX-RS reference implementation, has reached 1.0
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/joconner/archive/
  2008/10/jaxrs_and_jerse.html 

• A new Microsoft excel to Java bridge, Obba
• http://www.obba.info/ 

• Barton George has left Sun after 13 years
• http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/10/07/
  barton_george_quits_sun/ 

• Mozilla has released Firefox 3.1 beta
• http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20081014-first-
  look-firefox-3-1-beta-1-officially-released.html 

• In a couple of recent tips of the day, Arun Gupta has covered how to port a JSF (JavaServer Faces) 1.2 application up to 2.0
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/arungupta/archive/
  2008/10/totd_48_convert.html 

• The JSR 277 (Java Module System) spec lead, Stanley Ho, is stepping down as spec lead and leaving Sun for RIM (Research in Motion)
• http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/
  jsr277-eg-observer/2008-October/000307.html
  
• http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=277 

• At a recent Google Developer Day in Bangalore, Prasad Ram, director of Google R&D for Bangalore, stated that the Google AppEngine will support Java
  
• http://www.controlenter.in/2008/10/google-developer-day-bangalore-
  google-app-engine-to-support-java-android-sdk-release-on-oct-22/ 
• http://www.controlenter.in/2008/10/java-support-to-appengine-to-
  counter-microsofts-cloud-initiatives-microsoft-strata/ 

• NetBeans has just turned 10 years old
• http://netbeans.tv/interviews/
  James-Gosling-on-Ten-Years-of-NetBeans-395/ 

• Vuze, formally known as Azureus, reaches version 4.0.0
  
• http://www.vuze.com/app
  

• The NetBeans wiki has a very simple introduction to creating your first JavaFX Applet
• http://wiki.netbeans.org/JavaFXApplet 

• A new application toolkit, pivot, has been released
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/gkbrown/archive/
  2008/10/pivot_10_releas_1.html
• http://pivot-toolkit.org/
  
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/gkbrown/archive/
  2008/10/pivot_starter_k.html
  

• Jazoon has announced a call for papers for the 2009 conference
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/cwfrei/archive/
  2008/10/jazoon09_launch.html 
• http://jazoon.com/ 

• Sun Microsystems has announced a loss for the quarter
• http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?thread_id=51294 

• Comcast in cooperation with Panasonic is now offering tru2way support in Chicago and Denver
  
• http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/
  Comcast-Panasonic-Offer-Tru2Way-Sets-98469 

• Oracle has released Oracle JDeveloper 11g and Oracle ADF 11g
  
• http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?thread_id=51030 

• Ed Burns needs YOU for JSF 2.0
  
• http://wiki.java.net/bin/view/Projects/JsfExtensionSurvey 

• Mono 2.0 has been released
  
• http://www.mono-project.com/Release_Notes_Mono_2.0
• http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/10/06/
  Mono_2_lets_Net_apps_run_on_Linux_1.html
  
• http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/
  3776201/Is+NET+on+Linux+Finally+Ready.htm 
• http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Application-Development/
  Mono-20-Takes-NET-Cross-Platform/

• BlueJ has reached version 2.5
  
• http://www.cafeaulait.org/#October_6_2008_23602 

• Christopher Brock has released version 2.0 Beta of MVEL - the MV Flex Expression Language
  
• http://mvel.codehaus.org/ 

• Rudie Ekkelenkamp has announced GRAG 1.0, the Grails Application Generator
  
• http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?thread_id=50894 

• WebSynergy has added support for JSR 286 portlets to be written in Groovy in its portal pack 3.0
  
• http://blogs.sun.com/theaquarium/entry/
  groovy_portlet_support_and_websynergy 

• Foxtrot promises simple synchronous Swing programming without the GUI freeze problems
  
• http://foxtrot.sourceforge.net/
  

• Reza Rahman has just wrapped up a five part series about EJB 3.1 new features
• http://www.theserverside.com/tt/articles/
  article.tss?l=NewFeaturesinEJB31-Part5

• RIM (Research in Motion) has announced the next version of its developer tools for the BlackBerry Storm
• http://www.foxbusiness.com/story/markets/industries/technology/
  rim-announces-new-developer-tools-blackberry-storm-
  blackberry-bold-blackberry-1374778263/