Java Posse #175 - Newscast for March 27th 2008

Java Posse Episode 175 - Newscast for March 27th 2008 Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.com JavaOne 2008 less than 6 weeks away! http://weblogs.java.net/blog/editors/archives/ 2008/03/bouncing_off_cl.html http://www.nabble.com/-scala--ScalaDays -'08-td14608301.html Combine OpenJDK and Mono? http://cgwalters.livejournal.com/14913.html What do you want from Eclipse 4.0? http://eclipse.dzone.com/news/ glimpse-future-eclipse-40 Java Mobile application of the week - Teashark http://www.teashark.com/help.html Java Application of the Week - Bioclipse http://eclipse.dzone.com/news/ eclipse-biochemistry-bioclipse Quick News After Sun buying MySQL, IBM invests in PostgreSQL http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl? sid=08/03/25/207211&from=rss The Army has appointed the first ever Geospatial Information Officer http://www.spatiallyadjusted.com/2008/03/24/ army-appoints-services-first-geospatial-information-officer/ The Apache Jakarta project has just release Commons Lang 2.4 http://www.cafeaulait.org/#March_24_2008_26066 Ed Burns has a three part series examining other large companies using JSF now http://www.theserverside.com/tt/articles/ article.tss?l=JSFatBigLots http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss? thread_id=48803 Google now has a code university online http://code.google.com/edu/languages/index.html Webtide has got Jetty running on Android http://code.google.com/p/i-jetty/ http://www.mobilemarketer.com/cms/ news/software-technology/705.html SourceLabs has launched a new Linux and Java support service http://www.sourcelabs.com/ http://www.itjungle.com/tlb/ tlb031808-story06.html Dick has a new article up over at developer.com about the Google Collections Library http://www.developer.com/java/other/ article.php/3735441 ProSyst have released a beta version of OSGi for the Android platform http://eclipse.dzone.com/announcements/ prosyst-publishes-osgi-android Remi Forax has added runtime properties to the Da Vinci experimental JVM as a prototype implementation http://weblogs.java.net/blog/forax/archive/ 2008/03/da_vinci_runtim.html http://docs.google.com/View? docid=dfhbvdfw_1f7mzf2 Sun has posted the early draft review for JSR 303 - Bean Validation http://jcp.org/aboutJava/communityprocess/ edr/jsr303/ 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]