Java Posse #173 - Newscast for March 20th 2008

Newscast for March 20th 2008 Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.com Big announcements from EclipseCon which was held in Santa Clara this week: http://ianskerrett.wordpress.com/2008/ 03/17/the-next-thing-at-eclipse/ http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=2136 http://www.eclipse.org/equinox-portal/ http://eclipse.dzone.com/announcements/ eclipselink-project-deliver-jp http://blogs.sun.com/theaquarium/entry/ eclipselink_in_glassfish_v3_as http://eclipse.dzone.com/announcements/ springsource-announce-tool-sui http://www.eclipse.org/org/press-release/ 20080314_NewBoard.php http://eclipse.dzone.com/news/ eclipsecon-day-one-roundup http://eclipse.dzone.com/news/ eclipsecon-day-two-roundup http://www.eclipse.org/org/press-release/ 20080318_AwardsWinners.php http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3- 9898168-7.html?tag=bl Android Application of the Week - WikiNotes for Android http://code.google.com/p/apps-for-android/ http://android-developers.blogspot.com/ Quick News Eric Klein, Sun's VP of Java marketing, has held out an olive branch to Apple http://thestandard.com/news/2008/03/14/ suns-plan-java-iphone-could-hit-roadblock New Atlanta Corporation has announced that BlueDragon will be open source http://www.newatlanta.com/corporate/news/ bluedragon_opensource_announce.jsp The eclipse zone details a number of upcoming eclipse webinars http://eclipse.dzone.com/announcements/ eclipse-webinars http://live.eclipse.org/ Show of your app or project for 20 minutes at the Java.net booth at JavaOne http://weblogs.java.net/blog/editors/ archives/2008/03/silent_all_thes.html Java.net poll: "Which JVM language do you think you will be using most by the end of 2008?" http://www.java.net/pub/pq/200 TSS Q&A at the ServerSide Java Symposium http://www.theserverside.com/news/ thread.tss?thread_id=48770 OpenGrok 0.6 has been released http://opensolaris.org/os/project/opengrok/ IDEs of March (Beware!) http://weblogs.java.net/blog/fabriziogiudici/ archive/2008/03/a_success_for_t.html Listener Feedback Mono on the iPhone - Correction http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08_4erDQUB8 http://anonsvn.mono-project.com/viewcvs/ trunk/objc2-sharp/ Java on the iPhone - howto http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/java/ library/os-eclipse-iphone More Closures and Stuff http://www.artima.com/weblogs/ viewpost.jsp?thread=182412 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]