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JavaPosse Episode 158

By tvik
This is a tracklist of a JavaPosse Episode.
Original shownotes and the audible mp3 can be found here.
More tracklists can be found here.

Newcast for January 9th 2008

00:25 Intro (T-shirt is available)
01:44 Roundup - only days left for the early bird price
02:35 Bruce Eckel: should we simply stop adding new features to Java?
17:40 Apple has released an updated developer preview version of Java 6
22:50 Two Professors from NYU have slammed Java as a teaching language
33:20 Scala Roundup
38:00 Library of the week - PDF Renderer
40:30 Up and coming Project of the Week - Mighty Box

Quick News Items

44:00 JSR 271 - The Mobile Information Device Profile 3 (better known as MIDP 3)
44:23 Chris Adamson has issued a call for comments on how java.net might be improved in 2008
44:48 Is Rails a Ghetto?
45:51 Apache Wicket 1.3 has been released
46:09 Motorola has released a new version of the ROKR music playing phone
46:15 JSR 286 - the Java Portlet Specification 2.0
46:33 JSR 255 - JMX (the Java Management Extensions) version 2.0
46:45 JSR 279 - Service Connection API for Java ME
47:12 JSR 235 - Service Data Objects - has been stalled for about 3 years
48:20 Apache Jakarta have released a new version Commons configuration
48:43 There is a new preview version of Oracle JDeveloper 11g available
49:05 Using Erlang (a functional language) and Java together
49:30 Pearson Education held a four day GWT conference in San Francisco
49:50 The NetBeans source code is being moved to Mercurial
50:18 Django is getting very close to running on top of Jython
50:35 NetBeans has once again kicked off it's world tour
51:00 The Java 2 Fifth Edition Complete Reference is now available for free as a PDF download
51:19 Groovy 1.5.1 has been released
51:34 The JDIC project have updated their netbeans plugin for NetBeans 6
51:47 Infoworld reckons that Sun Microsystems is back in the game
52:16 Nominations for the 2008 Eclipse Community Awards are now being accepted
52:43 Jason LaPier has put together a NetBeans cheat sheet for Ruby and Rails development
53:00 Grizzly 1.7 is out
53:20 On a related note, Glassfish v2 update release 1 is also now available
53:30 Metro versions 1.0.1 and 1.1 have been released
53:46 A new version of Excelsior JET is now available
54:09 JRuby 1.1RC1 released

54:20 BluRay Wins?
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