Newscast for August 17th 2009

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• Lombok + audio feedback - play the audio feedback
  
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/fabriziogiudici/archive/2009/07/lombok_needs_ne.html

• VMWare to acquire SpringSource for $362M
• http://java.dzone.com/articles/vmware-acquire-springsource

• JVM Summit coming - we will be there (at least some of us)
• http://openjdk.java.net/projects/mlvm/jvmlangsummit/

• Java project of the week - Project Greenfire
• https://greenfire.dev.java.net/
• http://developers.sun.com/learning/javaoneonline/j1sessn.jsp?sessn=TS-3890&yr=2009&track=embedded

• It looks like JSR 299 (Java Contexts and Dependency Injection) and JSR 330 (Dependency Injection for Java) have settled their differences
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/robc/archive/2009/08/dependency_inje.html

• Oracle has just released the Oracle Enterprise Pack 11g R1
  
• http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/enterprise-pack-for-eclipse/whatsnew.html
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SRHrSEn_PNU

• Nokia has released a beta of the Nokia Java Runtime 2.0 for Symbian Series 60 phones
• http://betalabs.nokia.com/apps/nokia-java-runtime-20-for-s60

• Caucho - creator of Resin, a lightweight and performant open source application server written in Java, have published an article on their experiences with OSGi
• http://blog.caucho.com/?p=213
• http://rinswind.blogspot.com/2009/06/current-state-of-affairs.html
• http://blogs.sun.com/dochez/entry/glassfish_v3_runs_on_osgi

• The Fan language is now getting support in NetBeans
• http://fanide.colar.net/home
• http://fandev.org/

• Fabrizio Giudici has released version 1.3.0 of Better Beans Binding
• http://kenai.com/projects/betterbeansbinding/pages/Home

• The JAOO Conference will be taking place in Aarhus, Denmark from Oct 5th to 7th, and with tutorial days on the 4th, 8th and 9th
• http://jaoo.dk/aarhus-2009/

• Apache Jakarta has released version 2.0 of commons-math, a common set of mathematical related utilities for Java
• http://commons.apache.org/math/userguide/overview.html

• Apache Wicket 1.4 has been released
• http://wicket.apache.org/apache-wicket-14-takes-type-safety-to-the-next-level.html

• The ever-so-informal but often interesting poll over at java.net recently asked people's opinions on the phone platform that offers developers the greatest capability
• http://today.java.net/pub/pq/270
• Meanwhile, another poll about JDK 7 features somewhat slams JDK 7 for not addressing the big issues
  
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/editors/archives/2009/07/poll_reveals_di.html

• Another option for developers and companies wanting to host their Java based applications on Amazon's EC2
• http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?thread_id=55356

• Sun now offers commercial support for Hudson if desired
• http://blogs.sun.com/theaquarium/entry/hudson_commercial_support_from_sun

• Groovy 1.6.4 has been released, plus 1.7 beta 1
• http://groovy.codehaus.org/Download

• Dr. Heinz Kabutz has an extensive look at Strings
• http://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=4864

• Sun has released a new version of JavaDB
• http://developers.sun.com/javadb/

• DZone has a chance to meet the Groovy Eclipse team in an interview article
• http://groovy.dzone.com/news/interview-meet-groovy-eclipse

• The Linux and Mac builds of the early access Chromium browsers (the open source project behind the Google chrome browser) have added support for plugins
• http://lifehacker.com/5327102/linux-chrome-builds-get-plug+in-support

• A new library from Jonas Boner called Akka offers a new feature in Scala - Transactors!
• http://wiki.github.com/jboner/akka
• http://www.slideshare.net/jboner/state-youre-doing-it-wrong-javaone-2009

• Caoyuan has completed a partial re-write of the NetBeans Scala plugin, using Scala
• http://blogtrader.net/dcaoyuan/entry/scala_plugin_for_netbeans_rewrite1

Other Stuff

• Linux on Netbooks (according to Dell), not 4-5 times higher return rate as Microsoft claims
• http://linux.slashdot.org/story/09/08/14/1457257/Dell-Says-High-Linux-Netbook-Returns-a-Non-Issue?from=rss

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