Newscast for May 2nd 2008
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Apple and Java, might they make up?
Chris Adamson has a nice roundup of the various sub-conferences and unconferences surrounding JavaOne- Chet Haase and Romain Guy are
back with a talk titled "Filthy Rich Clients: Filthier, Richer,
Clientier" as well, which has moved
- OpenJDK has announced an official project to provide a feature complete prototype of BGGA closures
- Javoxx is the new name for JavaPolis
- Java Application of the Week - JVoiceBridge
Mobile Java app of the week - Skype Mobile
- Library called ext (JavaScript) - LGPL -> GPL
Quick News
NetBeans 6.1 has been released, in plenty of time for anyone to download and install it before CommunityOne and JavaOne
- Sun has pledged a 100% open source distribution of Java, alongside the current version with some binary only parts
The new large hadron collider being constructed in CERN runs Java as a key piece of its control system
According to the server side, JSR 315 - the Servlet 3.0 spec - has hit an impasse
Stanley Ho and the EG for JSR 277 have put together the first draft of a spec for interoperability between OSGi and JSR 277
The huikau blog has published some performance comparison numbers for JRuby 1.1.1 vs Ruby 1.8.6
Sony Ericsson is bringing Flash Lite to Java ME devices
A new Groovy based build system called Gradle has been released as an early preview
The upcoming release of eclipse ganymede, later in June, will be accompanied by a number of free democamps around the world
Adobe has released a product called livecycle
Google has released a ReST based API to its search service
- Mainsoft has updated their .NET to Java EE translation tool to version 2.2
- Mule 2.0 Community Edition has been released
- Apache CXF is a new official apache software foundation project that helps you build services using APIs
- OpenEJB 3.0 final has been released by Apache - just in time for JavaOne :-)
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