Newscast for December 11th 2009

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• Inclusion of closures in Java 7
• http://blogs.sun.com/mr/entry/closures_qa
• http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/announce/2009-December/000087.html
• http://www.javac.info/closures-v06a.html
• http://www.java.net/poll/what-do-you-think-about-closures-jdk-7
• http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~mr/lambda/straw-man/

• GWT 2.0 released
• http://code.google.com/webtoolkit/
• http://www.infoq.com/news/2009/12/Speed-Tracer-GWT-2
• http://css.dzone.com/news/gwt-20-adds-bunch-new-tools

• IntelliJ IDEA 9.0 final has been released
• http://www.jetbrains.com/idea/whatsnew/index.html

• Jazoon 2010 will be held in Zurich, Switzerland from June 1st to 3rd and has issued a call for papers, open immediately
• http://jazoon.com/Contribute

• Scala Days 2010 has been announced, to take place at EPFL in Lausanne, Switzerland on April 15th and 16th 2010
• http://www.scala-lang.org/node/4155
• http://www.scala-lang.org/days2010

• A Silicon Valley JavaFX user group has been founded and has held its first meeting
• http://www.svjugfx.org/

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• 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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