Newscast for March 9th 2008

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Recorded in Gunnison and Denver airports!

• It's JRuby all over again, but this time for Python
• http://blog.internetnews.com/apatrizio/2008/
  03/sun-is-continuing-its-acquisit.html
  
• http://www.pythonthreads.com/news/latest/
  sun-invests-into-python-scripting--
  -hires-jython-developers.html
  

• Apple released their iPhone SDK today
• http://lifehacker.com/364723/iphone-gets-
  official-third+party-apps-aim-and-enterprise-support
  

• The feel of Java revisited
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/cayhorstmann/
  archive/2008/03/feel_of_java_re.html
  

• The winners of the 2008 Jolt awards were announced at SDWest
• http://www.drdobbs.com/blog/portal/archives/
  2008/03/jolt_award_winn.html
  

• A new set of open source modules for Guice from wideplay
• http://www.theserverside.com/news/
  thread.tss?thread_id=48595 
• http://www.wideplay.com/
  

• Java Project of the Week - jHeidi
• http://www.blogadresse.de/2008/03/04/
  jheidi-is-heidisql-is-for-mac-and-linux/ 
• http://www.heidisql.com/jheidi/
  

• Library of the week - Simple JPA - an implementation of JPA for the Amazon SimpleDB
• http://code.google.com/p/simplejpa/ 
• http://www.theserverside.com/news/
  thread.tss?thread_id=48542
  

Quick News Items

• There are new JSF components from project Woodstock in the NetBeans 6.1 preview releases
• http://blogs.sun.com/theaquarium/entry/
  new_woodstock_components_in_netbeans
  

• Chris Adamson highlights a new alternative to JNI, JNA
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/editors/archives/
  2008/03/the_bitterest_p.html
  

• Sun has released Update 5 of Java SE 6
• http://www.comvan.com/2008/03/05/
  java-se-runtime-environment-6-update-5/ 
• http://java.sun.com/javase/6/webnotes/
  ReleaseNotes.html
  

• OpenXava 3.0 has been released
  
• http://www.gestion400.com/web/guest/home 
• http://www.gestion400.com/web/guest/MySchool
  

• Ars Technica looks at Adobe AIR 1.0
• http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/
  20080303-first-look-breathe-in-the-air.html
  

• Sun has released the early draft review of JSR 318 - Enterprise Javabeans 3.1
• http://www.cafeaulait.org/#March_1_2008_59307 
• http://jcp.org/aboutJava/
  communityprocess/edr/jsr318/
  
• And if you would like to know more about these profiles for Java EE 6 - take a look at Roberto Chinnici's blog on the subject
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/robc/
  archive/2008/02/profiles_in_the_1.html
  

• The finalists have been announced for the 2008 Eclipse community awards
• http://www.eclipse.org/org/press-release/
  20080304_AwardsFinalists.php
  

• OpenDS has reached 1.0 milestone 1
• https://opends.dev.java.net/
  

• BEA and VMWare have put together virtualcenter
• http://www.bea.com/framework.jsp?CNT=pr01903.htm
  &FP=/content/news_events/press_releases/
  2008&WT.ac=hp_news_expanded_vmware
  

• The GNU project has released version 0.97 of GNU Classpath
• http://www.gnu.org/software/classpath/
  announce/20080222.html
  

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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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