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Tor Norbye (Google), Carl Quinn (Netflix), Dick Wall (Escalate), Chet Haase (Google)

Fri, 20 March 2009

Java Posse #235 - Newscast for March 19th 2009

Newscast for March 19th 2009

Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.com

Java Posse Roundup 09

http://blogs.sun.com/tor/entry/java_posse_roundup_2009

IBM to buy Sun?

http://weblogs.java.net/blog/kalali/archive/2009/03/ibm_in_talks_to.html
http://weblogs.java.net/blog/fabriziogiudici/archive/2009/03/so_what_if_ibm.html
http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/sns-ap-ibm-sun-micro,0,764716.story
Reactions from the community mixed (and fairly negative overall in the Java Posse google group)
http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/161471/
java_crowd_has_mixed_views_on_potential_sunibm_deal.html
http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse/browse_thread/thread/488db39bb969a157
http://blogs.computerworld.com/the_rise_of_the_blue_sun_ibm_and_sun

JavaOne sessions finalized and published

Proposed Final Draft of EJB 3.1

http://www.jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=318

RIA sampling shows Flash is still king, Silverlight is on the rise, and Java fares well except on Linux!

Applet of the Week: JPC running Linux in an applet!

http://www-jpc.physics.ox.ac.uk/DemoLinux.html

Quick News

Grails 1.1 has been released

http://grails.org/1.1+Release+Notes

NextReports 2.0 is out (the next version of NextReports?)

http://www.nextreports.ro/index.php/buy.html

The ServerSide Java Symposium

JAX-RS 2.2 and Metro 2.0 nightly builds are now available

http://weblogs.java.net/blog/ramapulavarthi/archive/2009/03/jaxws_22_nightl.html

The eclipse foundation has announced a new mobile platform initiative called Pulsar

http://www.eclipse.org/org/press-release/20090310_pulsar.php

JSR 299 - Java Contexts and Dependency Injection, Beta 1 is out

http://in.relation.to/Bloggers/FirstBetaOfWebBeansAvailable

The NetBeans Governance Board has selected new community representatives

http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/NewsItemView?newsItemID=1354

There are some interesting results from the latest TIOBE programming language index

http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/content/paperinfo/tpci/index.html

A reminder that EclipseCon starts next week, on the 23rd of March, in Santa Clara, CA

Sonatype has released Nexus 1.3.0. Nexus is a repository manager for Maven repositories

http://www.sonatype.com/people/2009/03/nexus-130-released/

Version 4.0 of the Magnolia CMS has been released

http://www.magnolia-cms.com/4-0

Bill Pugh and the University of Maryland have released version 1.3.8 of Findbugs

http://findbugs.sourceforge.net/

The eclipse foundation has released version 1.0 of Riena

http://www.eclipse.org/org/press-release/20090302riena10.php

Project Coin has been approved and created by the OpenJDK project

http://openjdk.java.net/projects/coin/

The ROME project has made it's 1.0 final release

Oracle's JRockit JVM (acquired from BEA) has set a new performance benchmark

http://www.oracle.com/us/corporate/press/018046_EN

SpringSource has released the Spring Tool Suite 2.0

http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/3810886/New+Spring+in+Javas+Step.htm

Alexander Potochkin blogs that the Swing app framework (JSR 296) is still alive

http://weblogs.java.net/blog/alexfromsun/archive/2009/03/swing_applicati_1.html

Google has announced the 2009 Google summer of code program

http://weblogs.java.net/blog/felipegaucho/archive/2009/03/google_summer_o.html

Lift, the Scala based web framework inspired by ruby on rails, has reached version 1.0

Good news for JavaFX mobile. Sony Ericsson has announced that it will support the JavaFX platform in its upcoming mobile phones

http://seloyalist.blogspot.com/2009/02/sony-ericsson-to-support-javafx.html

The 2009 Jolt Awards have been announced at SDWest

http://www.joltawards.com/winners.html#mobile

Mark Volkmann has an introduction to Clojure

http://ociweb.com/mark/clojure/article.html

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Kirsty Doherty, Oliver Widder and Amy Ehmann for Java Posse artwork
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 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TAX0gJt-aZg
- Closing - Juan Carlos Jimenez - In the House (Intro No. 1)

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