Newscast for Sept 25th 2009

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• Devoxx and Codemash
• http://www.devoxx.com/display/DV09/Home
• http://www.codemash.org/

• JVM Language summit impressions
• http://openjdk.java.net/projects/mlvm/jvmlangsummit/
• http://wiki.jvmlangsummit.com/Presentations
• http://www.infoq.com/JVMLanguageSummit
• No-op language - http://blog.internetnews.com/skerner/2009/09/googles-open-source-noop-langu.html
• Griffon - http://griffon.codehaus.org

• JDK 7 Project Coin language features finalized
• http://blogs.sun.com/darcy/entry/project_coin_final_five
• http://www.java.net/poll/what-your-reaction-jdk-7-feature-list
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/forax/archive/2009/08/27/diamond-gate

• Java Library of the Week - Mockito
• http://mockito.org/

• JavaFX 1.2.1 has been released by Sun
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/opinali/archive/2009/09/09/javafx-121-out-fixes-binding-leaks-and-performance

• JavaRebel has undergone a name change to JRebel
• http://www.zeroturnaround.com/blog/community-renames-javarebel-to-jrebel/

• Bill Pugh and the University of Maryland have released version 1.3.9 of Findbugs
• http://findbugs.sourceforge.net/

• Professor Kunle Olukotun, director of the Stanford Pervasive Parallelism Laboratory, recently delivered a talk at EPFL about how Scala is a core part of the laboratory strategy
• http://www.scala-lang.org/node/3200

• New Scala Forum 
• http://scala-forum.org

• Scalawag News - User Group Meetup in Norway 
• http://www.java.no/web/show.do?page=191;7&appmode=/showReply&articleid=20922

Interview with Joe Darcy and Alex Buckley

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Recorded at the JVM Language Summit 2009, we sync up with Joe and Alex on subjects like Projects Coin and Lombok, closures and properties for JVM languages, the JVM Language Summit, and the future of Java.

• JVM Language summit
• http://openjdk.java.net/projects/mlvm/jvmlangsummit/
• http://wiki.jvmlangsummit.com/Main_Page
• Java Community Process (JCP)
• http://jcp.org/en/home/index
• Project Coin
• http://openjdk.java.net/projects/coin/
• JSR-330 - Dependency Injection for Java
• http://jcp.org/en/jsr/summary?id=330
• Da Vinci machine project
• http://wiki.jvmlangsummit.com/Da_Vinci_Machine
• http://openjdk.java.net/projects/mlvm/
• Method handles for closures
• http://blogs.sun.com/jrose/entry/method_handles_in_a_nutshell
• Meta Object Protocol
• http://wiki.jvmlangsummit.com/MOP_and_Invokedynamic
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metaobject
• Project lombok
• http://projectlombok.org/
• Annotation processor
• http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/guide/apt/
• ASM & bytecode manipulation
• http://asm.ow2.org/
• Remove checked exceptions
• http://projectlombok.org/disableCheckedExceptions.html
• Scala case classes
• http://www.scala-lang.org/node/107
• Closures proposal
• http://javac.info/
• Extension methods
• http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb383977.aspx
• Joe Darcy blog - annotation support in tools - @Property
• http://blogs.sun.com/darcy/entry/properties_via_annotation_processing
• Reified generics
• http://gafter.blogspot.com/2006/11/reified-generics-for-java.html
• JSR-14 - Generics - migration compatibility
• http://jcp.org/en/jsr/summary?id=14
• Uniform access principle
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniform_access_principle
• Operator overloading
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operator_overloading
• Design by contract
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Design_by_contract
• Alternative languages
• Groovy - http://groovy.codehaus.org
• Scala - http://www.scala-lang.org/
• JavaFX - http://javafx.com/
• Clojure - http://clojure.org/
• JRuby - http://jruby.org/
• Jython - http://www.jython.org/
• Modularity - JSR 294 and Jigsaw
• http://jcp.org/en/jsr/summary?id=294
• http://openjdk.java.net/projects/jigsaw/
• Tail calls - JSR 292
• http://blogs.sun.com/jrose/entry/tail_calls_in_the_vm

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• 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 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TAX0gJt-aZg
  • Closing - Juan Carlos Jimenez - In the House (Intro No. 1)
    

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Roundup 09 - What Do We Want From JavaFX?

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Recorded at the Java Posse Roundup 2009 in Crested Butte, CO. A discussion about where we hope JavaFX will go in the future.

• JavaFX
• http://www.sun.com/software/javafx/
• Peter Pilgrim's blog (lots of JavaFX material)
• http://www.jroller.com/peter_pilgrim/
• Mixing languages on the Java platform
• http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?thread_id=47184
• http://stackoverflow.com/questions/591459/can-you-mix-the-jvm-languages-ie-groovy-clojure
• Polyglot programming
• http://www.polyglotprogramming.com/
• Flex/Flash
• http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flex/
• Silverlight
• http://www.microsoft.com/Silverlight/
• JavaFX visual design tool
• http://sellmic.com/blog/2009/06/05/javafx-authoring-tool-demo-at-javaone-2009-with-video/
• JavaFX components
• http://java.dzone.com/tips/javafx-component-creation
• Flex events
• http://codeofdoom.com/wordpress/2009/03/02/an-indepth-look-at-flex-events/
• JavaFX events
• http://cld.blog-city.com/learning_javafx__four_examples__images__mouse_events.htm
• Transparent binding between JavaFX and other JVM languages
• http://blog.jayway.com/2009/05/12/transparent-bind-of-javafx-and-pojos/
• http://blogs.sun.com/michaelheinrichs/entry/binding_java_objects_in_javafx
• Fan development langauge
• http://www.fandev.org/
• Project Nile
• http://blogs.sun.com/javafx/entry/project_nile_the_javafx_developer

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 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TAX0gJt-aZg
  • Closing - Juan Carlos Jimenez - In the House (Intro No. 1)
    

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The Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall