Java Posse #169 - Newscast for March 9th 2008

Newscast for March 9th 2008 Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.com 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 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]