- Google App Engine, Now for Java
- The
IBM/Sun acquisition talks that we brought you rumors of in a previous
Java Posse episode, turned out to be true, and also fell through
- Swing 2.0 - let's get into it
- Application, Applet and AJAX Web app of the week: JSpresso
Quick News
- Google has an early access release of Android 1.5 (codename: cupcake)
- Bill Venners has an interview up at Artima.com with three developers from Twitter about their increasing use of Scala
- Sacha Labourey, the CTO of JBoss, has announced that he will be leaving the company
- Emmanuel
Bernard has started a French language podcast dedicated to Java called
LesCastCodeurs along with Guillaume Laforge, Antonio Goncalves and
Vincent Massol
- Atlassian are holding a user conference, the AtlasCamp++, from May 31st to June 2nd in San Francisco
- Sonya Barry has more information on the Community Corner podcasts at this year's JavaOne
- The JavaOne Script Bowl 2009 is calling for ideas
- The Aquarium notes that you can now register for the community one west unconferences
- The second annual Scala Lift Off unconference will be held in San Francisco on Saturday 6th (just after JavaOne)
- SwingLabs have released 0.9.7 of the SwingX components
- The 1.0 version of the DTrace GUI plugin for NetBeans is now available
- The Processing and Analytics Workbench
- Java.net is preparing to make some changes
- The
Department of Health and Human Services in the US has selected the Sun
sponsored open source, Java based, OpenESB project for construction of
a Nationwide Health Information Network
- Versions 1.5.8 and 1.6.1 of the Groovy programming language have been released
- Grails 1.1 is now available on the GlassFish v2 update center
- The Eclipse project has release Eclipse 3.4.2
- JBoss has released JBoss tools 3 offering many improvements and new features
- Adobe has made FlexBuilder Pro freely available to anyone who is currently unemployed
- The dates for the ServerSide Java Symposium Europe 2009 have been announced
- Eclipse has joined the Symbian foundation, and Symbian has joined the eclipse foundation
- Extreme
Component have just released their JComponentPack 3.0 which includes
over 20 components that will likely be of use to enterprise and
intranet Swing developers
- NetBeans 6.7 M3 is now available
Thanks
The Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall