Java Posse Episode 175 - Newscast for March 27th 2008

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• JavaOne 2008 less than 6 weeks away!
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/editors/archives/
  2008/03/bouncing_off_cl.html 
• http://www.nabble.com/-scala--ScalaDays
  -'08-td14608301.html

• Combine OpenJDK and Mono?
• http://cgwalters.livejournal.com/14913.html
  

• What do you want from Eclipse 4.0?
• http://eclipse.dzone.com/news/
  glimpse-future-eclipse-40
  

• Java Mobile application of the week - Teashark
• http://www.teashark.com/help.html
  

• Java Application of the Week - Bioclipse
• http://eclipse.dzone.com/news/
  eclipse-biochemistry-bioclipse
  

Quick News

• After Sun buying MySQL, IBM invests in PostgreSQL
• http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?
  sid=08/03/25/207211&from=rss
  

• The Army has appointed the first ever Geospatial Information Officer
• http://www.spatiallyadjusted.com/2008/03/24/
  army-appoints-services-first-geospatial-information-officer/
  

• The Apache Jakarta project has just release Commons Lang 2.4
  
• http://www.cafeaulait.org/#March_24_2008_26066
  

• Ed Burns has a three part series examining other large companies using JSF now
• http://www.theserverside.com/tt/articles/
  article.tss?l=JSFatBigLots 
• http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?
  thread_id=48803
  

• Google now has a code university online
• http://code.google.com/edu/languages/index.html
  

• Webtide has got Jetty running on Android
• http://code.google.com/p/i-jetty/
  
• http://www.mobilemarketer.com/cms/
  news/software-technology/705.html

• SourceLabs has launched a new Linux and Java support service
• http://www.sourcelabs.com/
  
• http://www.itjungle.com/tlb/
  tlb031808-story06.html

• Dick has a new article up over at developer.com about the Google Collections Library
• http://www.developer.com/java/other/
  article.php/3735441
  

• ProSyst have released a beta version of OSGi for the Android platform
• http://eclipse.dzone.com/announcements/
  prosyst-publishes-osgi-android
  

• Remi Forax has added runtime properties to the Da Vinci experimental JVM as a prototype implementation
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/forax/archive/
  2008/03/da_vinci_runtim.html 
• http://docs.google.com/View?
  docid=dfhbvdfw_1f7mzf2

• Sun has posted the early draft review for JSR 303 - Bean Validation
• http://jcp.org/aboutJava/communityprocess/
  edr/jsr303/