Newscast for January 28th 2008

Join us for the Java Posse Roundup 2008 in Crested Butte from March 4th to 7th
and be a part of sessions like this yourself!
http://www.mindviewinc.com/Conferences/JavaPosseRoundup/

Terrence Barr and Roger Brinkley joined us for an interview at the
Sun Java Mobile and Embedded Developer Days, and that interview
is available in the latter half of the podcast.

• Sun acquiring MySQL
• http://blogs.sun.com/jonathan/entry/winds_of_change_are_blowing
  
• http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/01/16/sun_mysql_open_source/ 
• http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/john-dvoraks-
  second-opinion-sun-mysql/story.aspx?guid=
  %7B88606B4A-A4AF-46FC-9C80-6B186A622456%7D&dist=hplatest
  
• http://redmonk.com/sogrady/2008/01/16/sun_mysql/
  
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/mortazavi/archive/2008/01/
  james_gosling_a.html
  

• Oracle acquiring BEA
• http://bea.com/framework.jsp?CNT=pr01894.htm&
  FP=/content/news_events/press_releases/2008&
  WT.ac=hp_news_oracle_aqc
  
• http://blog.springsource.com/main/2008/01/16/
  the-power-of-adoption-why-no-company-is-big-
  enough-to-deny-developers-what-they-want/
  
• http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?thread_id=48157

• Is the Geronimo project in trouble?
• http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?thread_id=48035

• Applet of the Week: Sea Level applets
• http://merkel.zoneo.net/Topo/Applet/ 

• Project of the week - LoboBrowser
• http://lobobrowser.org/java-browser.jsp
  

Quick News

• JDK 6 Update 4 is now available and it includes JAX-WS and JAXB 2.1
  (Java API for XML, Web Services and Bindings)
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/ramapulavarthi/
  archive/2008/01/jaxws_21_and_ja.html
  

• A call for participation has been put out for CommunityOne 2008, the day before JavaOne 2008
• http://www28.cplan.com/cfp_prod/CFPLogin.jsp?wId=98RJ64
• http://wikis.sun.com/display/CommunityOne/Home

• JavaZone 2008 has also announced a call for presentations
• http://www4.java.no/web/show.do?page=186;787

• Jazoon 08 - the Java conference to be held in Zurich from June 23rd to 26th
• http://jazoon.com/
  

• And this looks to be a good year for EclipseCon as well
• http://www.eclipse.org/org/press-release/20080122_eclipsecongold.php

• Artifactory is a maven repository for open source enterprise artifacts
• http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?thread_id=48045

• Chris Richardson has an interesting blog entry about using Amazon's EC2
  (Elastic Compute Cloud) to host Java EE applications
• http://chris-richardson.blog-city.com/running_jee_applications_
  on_amazon_ec2_or_deploying_to_20_m.htm

• JSR 323 - Strong Mobility for Java - has been proposed in the JCP. UPDATE: it's already dead - it fell at the first hurdle
  
• http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=323
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/brucechapman/
  archive/2008/01/a_jsr_for_conti.html

• Bill Venners has released a new testing tool - ScalaTest
• http://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=222678

• The Developer.com product awards for 2008 have been announced
  
• http://www.developer.com/design/article.php/10925_3721761_1

• Apache has released 1.4 of JackRabbit
• http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?thread_id=48137
  

• Apache Jakarta Commons Pool 1.4 is now out
• http://commons.apache.org/pool/

• Neal Gafter poses a simple, binary answer to the question of whether Java is dead
• http://gafter.blogspot.com/2008/01/is-java-dying.html 

• Posse listeners in Pune, India might be interested in the next IndicThreads Java meet up
• http://www.indicthreads.com/news/1154/
  google_api_web2_java_meet.html 

• Apache has released Lenya 2.0
• http://lenya.apache.org/ 
  

• Sun's JavaFX tools to interop with Adobe
  
• http://www.regdeveloper.co.uk/2008/01/24/javafx_tools_adobe/

Java Mobility Podcast: http://java.net/pub/ct/mobileandembedded
Sun Java Mobile and Embedded Developer Days: https://developerdays.dev.java.net/

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• Brian Ehmann - the Java Posse intern
• Craig Muth for maintaining the Java Posse Memorizable site - http://memorizable.org/Java_Posse
• 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
  • Closing - Juan Carlos Jimenez - In the House (Intro No. 1)
    

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