Newscast for Feb 6th 2009

• Java EE 6 (JSR 316) has entered the public review draft phase
• http://blogs.sun.com/theaquarium/entry/java_ee_6_public_review
• http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=316
• http://in.relation.to/Bloggers/RevisedPublicDraftOfJSR299JavaContextsAndDependencyInjection
• http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=299
• http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id-311
• http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=303
• http://www.theserverside.com/tt/articles/article.tss?l=JavaEE6Overview
• http://blogs.sun.com/kchung/entry/jsr_245_mr_part_i
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/cayhorstmann/archive/2009/02/towards_java_ee.html
  

• Project Coin
  
• http://blogs.sun.com/darcy/entry/project_coin

• Sun layoffs, will it affect the Java strategies (particularly open source?)
• http://www.cafeaulait.org/#January_27_2009_67192
• http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=3318
• http://blogs.sun.com/jonathan/entry/understanding_sun_s_business_q1

• Eclipse 3.5 M 5 (Galileo) has been released
• http://www.cafeaulait.org/#February_4_2009_18479

• Java Mobile application of the week, kind of: Google mobile search-by-voice for Android
  
• http://lifehacker.com/5145630/google-mobile-search+by+voice-comes-to-android
  

• Java Project of the week - Java Closures for Eclipse
• http://code.google.com/p/lambda4jdt/

• Java project of the week bonus edition: Swing 2.0
• http://www.jogiles.co.nz/blog/?p=207

Quick News

• Java 6 U 12 is now out, and with it comes the 64 bit Java plugin
• http://blogs.sun.com/theplanetarium/entry/upgrade_to_java_se_6u12
• http://www.dailytech.com/Sun+Releases+64bit+Java+PlugIn/article14121.htm

• eWeek's Chief technology analyst, Jim Rapoza, has been trying out Java FX and has given it a pretty glowing review
• http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Application-Development/Sun-Muscles-into-RIA-Space-with-JavaFX/1/

• The dates for the 2009 Devoxx conference in Belgium have been announced
• http://www.devoxx.com/display/JV08/Home

• And, the first of the devoxx talks from the 2008 conference have started to appear on Parleys.com
• http://www.parleys.com

• NetBeans.org is electing a new NetBeans governance board
• http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/NewsItemView?newsItemID=1335

• Oracle has submitted JSR 329 - Portlet 2.0 Bridge for JavaServer Faces 1.2
• http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=329

• Jesse Wilson and James Lemieux have release version 1.8.0 of Glazed Lists
• https://glazedlists.dev.java.net/

• Glassfish v2.1 has been released
• https://glassfish.dev.java.net/public/downloadsindex.html

• QCon London, coming up in March just after the Java Posse Roundup 2009
• http://qconlondon.com/london-2009/schedule/wednesday.jsp

• Dick did a talk at the University of Kent (of which he is an Alumnus) about software engineering
• http://www.cs.kent.ac.uk/coe/

• The Apache Jakarta project has released Cactus 1.8.1
  
• http://jakarta.apache.org/cactus/index.html

• Jetty may be moving to Eclipse
• http://eclipse.dzone.com/news/jetty-eclipse

• The JCP has announced a special election to fill a vacated seat on the mobile edition JCP executive committee
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/editors/archives/2009/02/start_now.html

• JetBrains has release IntelliJ IDEA 8.0.1
• http://www.jetbrains.com/idea/features/release_notes801.html

• A boost in the grizzly community in January resulted in enough submissions and improvements for a Grizzly community release, 1.9.5
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/jfarcand/archive/2009/02/grizzly_communi.html

• Registration is open for SpringOne Europe 2009, which will be held in Amsterdam from April 27th to 29th
• https://secure.trifork.com/europe-2009/registration/

• Google has released the final version of the JSR 284 - Resource Consumption Management API spec
• http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=284

• Oracle has an Oracle Technology Network Developer Day in New York on Feb 23rd at the New Yorker hotel
• http://www.oracle.com/webapps/events/EventsDetail.jsp?p_eventId=90027&src=6635701&src=6635701&Act=127

• Adobe has opted to publish the Real-Time Messaging Protocol (RTMP) specification
• http://www.infoq.com/news/2009/01/rtmp-to-open

• JBoss has announced RESTeasy GA, a fully certified open source JAX-RS implementation
• http://www.jboss.org/resteasy/

• DevNexus 2009 will be held on March 10th and 11th at the Cobb Galleria center in Atlanta, GA
  
• http://www.devnexus.com/

• JavaFX mobile
• http://steveonjava.com/2009/01/22/widgetfx-m3dd-conference/