Java Posse: Java Posse #225 - Newscast for January 8th 2009

Newscast for January 8th 2009
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Java Posse Roundup in Crested Butte, CO, from March 3rd to 6th (but come a day early for a free alternative languages day on the JVM - to be held on the 2nd). Time is running out for the early bird price - please sign up by January 20th. It saves you money, and it really helps us with planning.

http://www.mindviewinc.com/Conferences/JavaPosseRoundup/

• JavaBeat has a summary of the changes coming in the new version of the Java EE spec
• http://www.javabeat.net/articles/99-new-features-in-java-ee-60-1.html

• Java.net has an interesting poll - what was the biggest Java related story in 2008?
• http://java.net/pub/pq/241

• And, on the subject of Java 7, is the omission of closures a killer blow?
• http://www.infoq.com/news/2009/01/java7-updated

• Java FX Application of the Week: Widget FX
• http://widgetfx.org/
• http://code.google.com/p/widgetfx/

• Java Mobile App of the Week - Snaptu
• http://www.snaptu.com/

• Java Apps of the Week, bonus edition
• http://www.ilabz.net/?p=731

Quick News

• A new service - SVNsite
• http://www.svnsite.com/start

• DZone has updated their ref-card for NetBeans 6.5
• http://netbeans.dzone.com/announcements/updated-netbeans-java-editor-r

• Chenille Kit
  
• http://www.chenillekit.org/license.html

• Bill Pugh and the University of Maryland have released version 1.3.7 of Findbugs
• http://findbugs.sourceforge.net/

• SwingLabs Lives! and has released version 0.9.5 of SwingX
  
• http://swinglabs.org/projects.jsp

• The JSR 319 - Availability Management for Java, has been posted as a public review draft by Ericsson
  
• http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=319

• DWR has reached version 3.0 RC 1
• http://directwebremoting.org/blog/joe/2008/12/16/dwr_version_3_0_release_candidate_1.html 

• 10th Anniversary JCP party at the computer history museum in Mountain View, CA
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/van_riper/archive/2009/01/the_audacity_of_1.html
• http://svscala.ning.com/events/scala-base-meeting-8-1132009

• Sun has posted the public review draft of JSR 303 - Bean Validation
  
• http://jcp.org/aboutJava/communityprocess/pr/jsr303/index.html

• MockFtpServer 2.0 has been released
  
• http://mockftpserver.sourceforge.net/

• JFrog has released version 2.0 of Artifactory, a Maven repository manager
• http://www.jfrog.org/products.php

• Google video titled "the nuts, bolts and springs of distributed OSGi applications"
• http://eclipse.dzone.com/videos/the-nuts-bolks-and-springs-dis

• FEST is a new project offering a fluent interface for testing Swing UIs
• http://code.google.com/p/fest/

• Kirill Grouchnikov has released version 4.0 feature freeze preview of flamingo
  
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/kirillcool/archive/2008/12/_pushing_pixels.html

• Jeet Kaul, VP of Client Software for Sun Microsystems, has a useful blog Q&A up about JavaFX
• http://blogs.sun.com/meetjeet/entry/javafx_the_road_ahead

• Apache Commons Config 1.6 is out
• http://commons.apache.org/configuration/

• Jazoon has issued a call for papers for the Jazoon 2009 conference to be held from June 22nd to 25th in Zurich
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/felipegaucho/archive/2008/12/jazoon_call_for.html

• Java runs faster on Linux
  
• http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=java_vm_performance&num=1

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