Java Posse #161 - Newscast for Jan 28th 2008

Newscast for January 28th 2008 Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.com 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 is holding another Second Life virtual meeting, this time talking about NetBeans 6.0 http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/NewsItemView? newsItemID=1178 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/ Thanks Libsyn.com - http://www.libsyn.com - for hosting and bandwidth Brice Ruth and Webprojkt.com - http://webprojkt.com - for our archives site - http://archives.javaposse.com Feedburner.com - http://www.feedburner.com - for feed redirect 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 Closing - Juan Carlos Jimenez - In the House (Intro No. 1) To contact us: Visit our homepage - http://javaposse.com Post on our Google Group - http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse Call us with questions and feedback - (408) 465 4626 Or send us email - [email protected]