Java Posse #246 - Newscast for April 23rd 2009

Newscast for April 23rd 2009 Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.comCarl's new Tesla: http://joeracer.blogspot.com/2009/04/carls-new-tesla.htmlhttp://www.flickr.com/photos/joenuxoll/sets/72157617107562108/

• Oracle buys Sun for 7.4 Billion
• http://java.dzone.com/articles/oracles-effect-java
• http://java.dzone.com/articles/oracle-buys-sun-coverage
• http://blogs.sun.com/theaquarium/entry/sun_and_oracle
• http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/04/20/128246&from=rss
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/cayhorstmann/archive/2009/04/my_oracle_prono.html
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/johnreynolds/archive/2009/04/oracle_buys_jav.html

• Google App Engine for Java Opinions
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/fabriziogiudici/archive/2009/04/google_apple_en.html
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/wiverson/archive/2009/04/google_app_engi.html
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/kirillcool/archive/2009/04/googles_java_ed.html

• Java Project of the Week - Sonar
• http://sonar.codehaus.org/

Quick News

• JavaOne News Heating Up
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/editors/archives/2009/04/javaone_session.html

• Java 6 U 14 will include G1 (Garbage First)
• https://jdk6.dev.java.net/6uNea.html

• HTMLUnit 2.5 has been released
• http://htmlunit.sourceforge.net/

• Jersey 1.0.3 released
• https://jersey.dev.java.net/

• Grizzly 2.0 M1
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/jfarcand/archive/2009/04/grizzly_200m1_r.html

• Apache Pivot 1.1
• http://incubator.apache.org/pivot/

• Christian Neukirchen has a guide to writing Android applications in Scala
• http://chneukirchen.org/blog/archive/2009/04/programming-for-android-with-scala.html

• Codehaus has released Cargo 1.0
• http://cargo.codehaus.org/License

• Android is expanding its horizons onto NetBooks
• http://blogs.computerworld.com/first_google_android_netbooks_spotted

• The Java ME SDK team has formally announced the Java ME SDK 3 release
• http://blogs.sun.com/javamesdk/entry/released_java_me_platform_sdk

• The PhoneME project has released feature milestone 4
• https://phoneme.dev.java.net/servlets/NewsItemView?newsItemID=7170

• EJB 3.1 - A Significant Step Towards Maturity
• http://www.theserverside.com/tt/articles/article.tss?l=EJB3-1Maturity

• Hudson version 1.300 has been released
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/kohsuke/archive/2009/04/hudson_hits_130.html

• Squawk to be available for the FIRST Robotics Competition next year
• http://research.sun.com/spotlight/2009/2009-04-16_squawk.html

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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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