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The Java Posse

Newscast for Nov 21st 2008

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Dick and Carl at Devoxx - http://www.devoxx.com/display/JV08/Home

Dick at the University of Kent - http://www.cs.kent.ac.uk/coe/

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• Correction: MSN Live toolbar with Java download is an opt-out, not opt-in!
• http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/11/10/sun_stows_ms_search_on_java/

• Dynamic support coming in C# for version 4.0
• http://www.nikhilk.net/Entry.aspx?id=210

• Chris Adamson links to results from Google analytics for Java applet availability
  
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/editors/archives/2008/11/so_alive.html
  

• Sun and Java news roundup: Sun Microsystems cutting 6000 jobs, has JavaFX hurt client side Java (slight reprise) and does Java's ubiquity render Sun irrelevant to the future of Java anyway?
• http://money.cnn.com/2008/11/14/news/companies/sun_microsystems/index.htm?postversion=2008111408 
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/kirillcool/ 
• http://www.javaworld.com/community/node/1887 
• http://www.javaworld.com/community/node/1595
  

Quick News

• NetBeans 6.5 final is now out
  
• http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/NewsItemView?newsItemID=1313 
• http://www.netbeans.org/kb/index.html 
• http://www.netbeans.org/features/index.html
  

• Sun has released version 9 of StarOffice
• http://www.informationweek.com/news/software/enterpriseapps/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=212100362&subSection=Integration
  
• http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/11/15/1958234&from=rss
  

• The ServerSide Java Symposium web site is now up
• http://javasymposium.techtarget.com/
  

• Adobe has released a beta (or is it an alpha) 64 bit version of the flash plugin for Linux
  
• http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flashplayer10/ 
• http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/11/17/adobe_64_bit_linux_flash_10_alpha/
  
• Adobe AIR 1.5 has been released but not for Linux
  
• http://www.adobe.com/devnet/logged_in/rchristensen_lpolanco_air_1.5.html 
• http://www.scmagazineus.com/Adobes-AIR-15-update-addresses-Flash-Player-vulnerabilities/article/121176/
  

• The expert group for JSR 317 - Java Persistence 2.0 (also known as JPA 2.0) has released the public review draft
• http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=317 
• http://blogs.sun.com/ldemichiel/entry/java_persistence_2_0_public
  

• Bill Pugh of the University of Maryland has released version 1.3.6 of the excellent findbugs
• http://findbugs.sourceforge.net/
  

• Joakim Ohlrogge has advice for people who want to try out Scala - "just do it"
• http://johlrogge.wordpress.com/2008/09/01/phasing-over-from-java-to-scala-pt-1/

Thanks

• Libsyn.com - http://www.libsyn.com - for hosting and bandwidth
• Brice Ruth and Webprojkt.com - http://webprojkt.com - for our archives site - http://archives.javaposse.com
• Feedburner.com - http://www.feedburner.com - for feed redirect
• Kirsty Doherty, Oliver Widder and Amy Ehmann for Java Posse artwork
• Brian Ehmann - the Java Posse intern
• Craig Muth for maintaining the Java Posse Memorizable site - http://memorizable.org/Java_Posse
• Theme Music:
  • Opening - "Java" the parody song Copyright 1997 Broken Records and Marjorie Music Publ. (BMI),
    written and performed by Loose Bruce Kerr of the Dr. Demento Show and Sun Microsystems attorney.
    Based on the WWI popular song, "Ja-da." Ukelele style on the recording taught to Bruce by his dad.
    Re-produced with kind permission from "Loose" Bruce Kerr - http://loosebrucekerr.libsyn.com
  • Closing - Juan Carlos Jimenez - In the House (Intro No. 1)
    

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