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JDK 7 Unexpectedly Gets “Simple” Closures, but is Pushed Back to End of 2010
During his Devoxx talk, Mark Reinhold has announced that JDK 7 will have Closures. With the inclusion of this much debated feature, JDK 7 schedule will be extended until around September 2010.
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Clojars and Leiningen Automate Library and Dependency Management for Clojure
Managing libraries and dependencies is tedious. Clojars is a new hosted repository for Clojure libraries inspired by Ruby Gems and Gemcutter. Together with a new build tool, Leiningen, Clojars takes the pain out of library management. InfoQ talked to Alex Osborne about Clojars and how it works.
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Q&A with Gavin King on the Impact of JSR-299 and Weld 1.0 on Java EE and JBoss
As Red Hat ships Weld, Java EE 6's reference implementation for JSR-299 (Contexts and Dependency Injection for Java EE), InfoQ talks to specification lead Gavin King about the impact that JSR-299 will have on Java EE 6 and JBoss' products and platforms.
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Beta Versions of Flash Player 10.1 and AIR 2.0 Released
Adobe Systems has announced the availability of beta versions of Flash Player 10.1 and Adobe AIR 2.0, which can be downloaded from the Adobe Labs site.
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Duby and Surinx, an Interview With Charles Nutter
Charles Nutter talks about his two new languages for the JVM: Duby and its dynamic cousin Surinx.
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Java SE 5 Reaches End Of Service Life
Sun's implementation of J2SE 5.0 reached its End of Service Life (EOSL) on November the 3rd 2009, which is the date of the final publicly available update of version 5.0 (J2SE 5.0 Update 22). Extended support is available to customers through Sun's Java for Business program.
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EU Issues Formal Statement of Objections to Oracle's Acquisition of Sun
The European Commission has issued a formal statement of objections over Oracle's planned acquisition of Sun Microsystems, which are limited to Oracle's acquisition of MySQL. Oracle however remains confident that the deal will eventually be approved.
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Oracle Announced Plans for the Future of Sun’s Products, but Raised Concerns about NetBeans
Oracle has released an FAQ that describes its plans for the future of popular Sun technologies like GlassFish, NetBeans, MySQL and more. In some cases Oracle’s announcement is unclear and raises concerns about product viability.
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Tasktop Pro 1.6 Supports Task Management for C/C++ Projects and Automated Time Tracking
The latest version of Tasktop Pro, Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) integration suite for Eclipse IDE, supports cross-repository linking, task management focus for C/C++ Projects and agile ALM tool integration. Tasktop Technologies, creators of Eclipse Mylyn and Tasktop, announced last week the release of Tasktop Pro 1.6 version. The new release also supports automated time-tracking feature.
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JRuby Roundup: JRuby 1.4 Final Released, New Windows Native Launcher, HPricot 0.8.2
The final release of JRuby 1.4 is now available, with many performance, Java integration and other improvements. It also adds a native launcher for Windows, which works around some problems with the BAT-based launcher. Also: the Hpricot 0.8.2 release fixes problems with Hpricot on JRuby.
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Uncle Bob On The Applicability Of TDD
Following up a pot-stirring blog where he asserted that "anyone who continues to think that TDD slows you down is living in the stone age", Bob Martin takes a stab at providing some deeper insight into the real applicability, role, and benefit of TDD.
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Java Card 3 Includes Java 6 Support and an Embedded Servlet Container
Java Card version 3 includes a new Connected Edition representing the first major update to the Smart Card platform architecture for 10 years. It includes support for an embedded servlet container and a JDK6 compatible virtual machine.
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JIRA Improves and Costs Less
Atlassian has recently released JIRA 4, their issue tracking, agile project management and workflow product that has been widely adopted across the planet. InfoQ had the opportunity to get some Q&A time with Atlassian about the release and things to come.
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QConSF Nov 18-20 Coming Up: Highlights and Most Popular Sessions, Join us!
QconSF is coming up in less than a month and due to the growth in registrations we've added a new Ruby track featuring Ruby inventor Yukihiro "Matz" Matsumoto, a popular 'Java Puzzlers' talk presented by Google Chief Architect and Java Guru Joshua Bloch and Android Core Library lead Bob Lee, and more. This 3rd QConSF will be the best ever.
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Apache POI 3.5 Released with OOXML Support
Apache have released version 3.5 of the POI library for working with Microsoft Office documents. The latest version adds support for the OOXML format used by Office 2007 and higher. InfoQ spoke to Apache's Yegor Kozlov, release manager for POI 3.5, POI project founder Andrew Oliver, and Robert Duffner and Vijay Rajagopalan of Microsoft to find out more about the project.