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Here is a raw recording of the JUG BOF at DEVOXX with James Recording. Detailed list of topics discussed by timeline of the MP3 recording. MP3 is 19MB to download and is 40+ min long.
Today, a tantalizing announcement by Mark Reinhold about closures in Java 7 has made its way through the twittersphere. On the same day, Neal Gafter updated his closures proposal. Here are some use cases and my unbiased opinion on this proposal. No lambdas have been harmed in the writing of this blog article.
Also This WeekThe JT Harness 4.2.1 milestone release contains a large number of bug fixes, including fixes in the following areas:
(Nov 17, 2009)
 I participated Symbian Exchange in London last week. We had a small Birds of Feather session there about Runtimes on Symbian. For that I prepared a small roadmap presentation giving out information of what new features our future Java Runtime releases will contain for developers. It's a roadmap and work in progress so any changes should be expected.
(Nov 17, 2009)
 Slightly off-topic, but very cool: Josh Marinacci just announced the first public version of Project MaiTai.Josh describes MaiTai this way: MaiTai is an open source tool for building interactive artwork. You create interesting sketches by wiring different blocks together with lines. There are blocks to produce graphics, process mouse and keyboard inputs, connect to webservices, and perform complex graphical transformations. The end result is limited only by your imagination.
(Nov 16, 2009)
Google's Android is set to receive some competition with the news that Samsung is launching its own Linux-based smartphone platform dubbed "bada."
(Nov 16, 2009)
 There’s been an important and relatively sudden change taking place over the last couple of years in the way that we interact with the Web. While direct access or search activity has been (and still is) the most common way that we access the content and applications of the Web, new ways have been rapidly growing and competing with how we work online, both at home and at work.
(Nov 16, 2009)
 CNET's Tom Krazit and Molly Wood sit down with Google CEO Eric Schmidt to discuss the future of Android, the Chrome OS, the problem of real-time search indexing, and more.
(Nov 12, 2009)
 Snaptu is a free Java ME technology-enabled mobile app that offers a selection of interfaces into different popular services, like Twitter, Facebook, and, and, uhhh... did I say Twitter already? How about Facebook? Well, are there any other services other than Twitter and Facebook?
(Nov 12, 2009)
 The first carriers for the Android-based phone will be China Mobile and Brazil's Claro. Details on the devices? Those will come later.
(Nov 13, 2009)
 Last week, PayPal announced their PayPal X Adaptive Payment API. Coinciding with that announcement Sun enabled the Java Store to take advantage of these new payment services.Starting immediately with the U.S., content developers can price their applications in the Java Store and leverage payment processing by PayPal, resulting in a convenient in-store billing mechanism for customers and developers.
(Nov 12, 2009)
Microlog is a small, yet powerful logging library for mobile devices based on the Log4j API. Supports Java ME (J2ME) and Android. Logs to device, to PC or to servers online. Used in all phases from development on emulator/device to outdoor field-testing.
(Nov 11, 2009)
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java.net CommunitiesSpotlightsJosh Marinacci's has created a new JavaFX open source interactive artwork project, Project MaiTai: "What is MaiTai? MaiTai is an open source tool for building interactive artwork. You create interesting sketches by wiring different blocks together with lines. There are blocks to produce graphics, process mouse and keyboard inputs, connect to webservices, and perform complex graphical transformations. The end result is limited only by your imagination. MaiTai can export a Java Webstart application or a QuickTime movie..."
Events by Date
2009 Rocky Mountain Software Symposium: Fall Edition
November 20-22 12:00 PM-5:30 PM
November 20
22, 2009
JavaEdge '09, Israeli Conference for Java Technologies
November 26-26 5:06 PM-5:06 PM
November 26
26, 2009
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Java Card 3.0 was released a couple of months ago – and the second update (version 3.0.2) is scheduled for December. If you haven’t paid much attention to Java on smart cards because you thought it’s not “real” Java – well, look again.
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