Java Posse #244 - Newscast for April 16th 2009

Newscast for April 16th 2009

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• Google App Engine, Now for Java
• http://blog.springsource.com/2009/04/07/write-your-google-app-engine-applications-in-groovy/
• http://java.dzone.com/articles/google-appengine-uses-jetty
• http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/04/08/165243&from=rss
• http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?thread_id=54215
• http://google-code-updates.blogspot.com/2009/04/standards-based-persistence-for-java.html
• http://www.itworld.com/open-source/66329/suns-open-source-boss-slams-app-engines-java-support
• http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/java/jrewhitelist.html
• http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine-java/web/will-it-play-in-app-engine

• The IBM/Sun acquisition talks that we brought you rumors of in a previous Java Posse episode, turned out to be true, and also fell through
• http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/I/IBM_SUN_MICROSYSTEMS?SITE=TXDAM&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=BUSINESS.html&CTIME=2009-04-06-07-53-25
• http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/apr2009/tc2009045_914072.htm/?chan=top+news_top+news+index+-+temp_top+story
• http://www.cafeaulait.org/#April_6_2009_28216

• Swing 2.0 - let's get into it
• http://jonathangiles.net/blog/
• http://blogs.sun.com/theplanetarium/entry/the_future_of_swing
• http://elliotth.blogspot.com/2009/02/swing-2-pissing-in-wind.html
• http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/uiswing/concurrency/index.html

• Application, Applet and AJAX Web app of the week: JSpresso
• http://www.jspresso.org/page/jspresso-demo-area
• http://www.jspresso.org/

Quick News

• Google has an early access release of Android 1.5 (codename: cupcake)
• http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2009/04/getting-ready-for-android-15.html
• http://lifehacker.com/5211616/android-15-adds-soft-keyboard-video-recording-loads-more

• Bill Venners has an interview up at Artima.com with three developers from Twitter about their increasing use of Scala
• http://www.artima.com/scalazine/articles/twitter_on_scala.html

• Sacha Labourey, the CTO of JBoss, has announced that he will be leaving the company
• http://www.infoworld.com/d/adventures-in-it/jboss-cto-leaving-company-116

• Emmanuel Bernard has started a French language podcast dedicated to Java called LesCastCodeurs along with Guillaume Laforge, Antonio Goncalves and Vincent Massol
• http://lescastcodeurs.com

• Atlassian are holding a user conference, the AtlasCamp++, from May 31st to June 2nd in San Francisco
• http://www.atlassian.com/summit/

• Sonya Barry has more information on the Community Corner podcasts at this year's JavaOne
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/sonyabarry/archive/2009/04/community_corne_2.html

• The JavaOne Script Bowl 2009 is calling for ideas
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/robc/archive/2009/04/javaone_2009_sc.html

• The Aquarium notes that you can now register for the community one west unconferences
• http://blogs.sun.com/theaquarium/entry/glassfish_and_identity_unconferences_registrations

• The second annual Scala Lift Off unconference will be held in San Francisco on Saturday 6th (just after JavaOne)
• http://scalaliftoff.com/index

• SwingLabs have released 0.9.7 of the SwingX components
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/rah003/archive/2009/04/swingx_097_rele_1.html

• The 1.0 version of the DTrace GUI plugin for NetBeans is now available
• http://dtrace.netbeans.org/

• The Processing and Analytics Workbench
• http://www.pawanalytics.com/What_Data_Analysis.php

• Java.net is preparing to make some changes
• https://5dot2stage-site-issues.dev.java.net/

• The Department of Health and Human Services in the US has selected the Sun sponsored open source, Java based, OpenESB project for construction of a Nationwide Health Information Network
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/editors/archives/2009/04/sun_applies_ope.html

• Versions 1.5.8 and 1.6.1 of the Groovy programming language have been released
• http://docs.codehaus.org/display/GROOVY/2009/04/07/Groovy+1.5.8+and+1.6.1+are+out

• Grails 1.1 is now available on the GlassFish v2 update center

• http://blogs.sun.com/theaquarium/entry/grails_1_1_on_glassfish

• The Eclipse project has release Eclipse 3.4.2
• http://www.eclipse.org/eclipse/development/readme_eclipse_3.4.2.html

• JBoss has released JBoss tools 3 offering many improvements and new features
• http://in.relation.to/Bloggers/JBossTools3IsHere

• Adobe has made FlexBuilder Pro freely available to anyone who is currently unemployed
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/dsuspense/archive/2009/04/unemployed_get.html

• The dates for the ServerSide Java Symposium Europe 2009 have been announced
• http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?thread_id=54249

• Eclipse has joined the Symbian foundation, and Symbian has joined the eclipse foundation
• http://eclipse.dzone.com/articles/symbian-and-eclipse

• Extreme Component have just released their JComponentPack 3.0 which includes over 20 components that will likely be of use to enterprise and intranet Swing developers
• http://www.zfqjava.com/docs-JComponentPack.html

• NetBeans 6.7 M3 is now available
• http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/NewsItemView?newsItemID=1364

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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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