Happy New Year 2010

I wish all my readers an exciting year 2010. I am looking forward to lots of interesting blogs, screencasts and news from the Java, EE6 and Groovy & Grails ecosystem.

Java EE6 Virtual Conference

For those who could not attend the conference (sorry, not my timezone!), here the screencasts (you need a SDN account)

www.sun.com/events/javaee6glassfishv3/virtualconference

ZK NB Plugin News

As expected, as a matter of not even days, the Netbeans plugin for ZK 3.6.3 was released. Download it from sourceforge.net.

You might also notice they released a plugin for the release candidate of ZK5 (which you find in the same download section). Though the plugin creates a J2EE 1.4 web application, it might be worth installing to test the features of the upcoming version.

Release Fever Update

Quite a number of new releases (that bother me) hit us the last few days (weeks) and more to come.

• Ubuntu 9.10 (the broken Koala) (link)
• Netbeans 6.8 BETA (link)
• Java EE6 in NB 6.8B (official release eventually in December) (link)
• ZK 3.6.3 (link)

News: Netbeans, Groovy

• Netbeans 6.8 M1
  The first stable milestone is available for download. The first version being more EE6′ish with JSF 2.0, JPA 2.0 and finally a build-in browser. Of course there is more stuff in the box, so find infos on feature and download at Netbeans.org.
• Groovy 1.7
  We can look forward to get our hands on 1.7 soon, beta version is available for download. For production a stable 1.6.4 is released with minor bug fixing. Find info and downloads at codehaus.org

Android News: DroidDraw, Simple Basic

• DroidDraw
  Until any IDE plugin can do the job of allowing us to arrange screen components visually, you can do it with DroidDraw, a tool available online, for Windows, Linux and Mac at www.droiddraw.org
• simple
  For folks who are beginners in programming or just for doing some simple stuff, any taste of Basic usually was (is) a good development tool. Now Android goes Basic too. Check out simple at code.google.com. It comes in the 3 flavors Windows, Linux and Mac.

News: Virtualbox, PostgreSQL

3 more application join the release-fever spreading the last few days:

• Virtualbox
  Now available in release 3.0 offering experimental support for DirectX 8 and 9, supporting Open GL 2.0. Plus quite a number of bugfixes. The continuous train of update releases is really amazing for a freely available product (for private use though). Download and changelog at virtualbox.org (link)
• PostgrSQL
  After 1 year of development the version 8.4 is ready for download. Find all the details and the download at postgresql.org (link)
• pgAdmin
  And along comes the latest version 1.10.0 of the PostgrSQL administration tool pgAdmin. Download and Info at pgadmin.org (link).

News: Netbeans 6.7, ZK

• Netbeans 6.7
  Finally the production version was released. With some great new features like Hudson,Kenai Integration  and Load-on-demand, Fullscreen-mode and many more, a major step forward for the Netbeans community. More infos and download at netbeans.org (link)
• ZK 3.6.2
  With a few days delay after releasing the latest version 3.6.2, the newest Netbeans plugin is available as well. Download at sourceforge.net (link).

News: Netbeans, Glassfish, EE6

• Netbeans RC2
  The second release candidate is available for download. Download at Netbeans.org (link) We should he seeing the final release soon in June.
• EE6 Preview SDK
  Glassfish V3 preview comes together with samples and tutorials giving a preview on the upcoming EE6. Still most of it is based on JSR’s that are not final yet.
  Some feedback from JavaOne regarding release dates on Jim Whites’s Blog (link)

News: OpenSolaris 2009.06 released

The latest version of OpenSolaris is available for download ! Whats new in these release (link) ?
Released at CommunityOne on June 1st. Check it out and download at opensolaris.com (link)
If you have time drop the recorded webast at sun.com (link)