Java Posse #178 - Newscast for April 8th 2008

Newscast for April 8th 2008 Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.com Navigenics has launched! http://www.navigenics.com/ And so has Google App Engine http://appengine.google.com The consume JRE is now in beta http://weblogs.java.net/blog/editors/archives/ 2008/04/new_sensation.html http://java.sun.com/javase/downloads/ea.jsp JavaZone call for papers http://www4.java.no/web/show.do?page=186;787 Jazoon, a large Java conference in Switzerland, is coming up http://weblogs.java.net/blog/cwfrei/archive/ 2008/04/jazoon08_progra_1.html http://weblogs.java.net/blog/cwfrei/archive/ 2008/03/netbeans_commun.html JDIC plus - cool browser plugin and mashup toolkit, but windows only? https://jdic.dev.java.net/documentation/ incubator/JDICplus/index.html http://weblogs.java.net/blog/editors/ archives/2008/04/what_you_need.html http://weblogs.java.net/blog/editors/ archives/2008/04/the_one_thing.html Java Project of the Week - Applino http://www.applino.com/ Quick News Items Microsoft bribes the ISO standards organization for OOXML (Office Open XML) http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/ microsofts-great-besmirching Adobe is joining the Linux Foundation http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl? sid=08/03/31/1359204&from=rss Java.net community corner at JavaOne minitalks are popular this year http://weblogs.java.net/blog/editors/archives/ 2008/03/voices_carry.html http://weblogs.java.net/blog/editors/archives/ 2008/03/need_you_tonigh.html Hudson has just passed its 200th release http://blogs.sun.com/theaquarium/entry/ a_release_every_6_days Sun has been named as one of the top 50 innovative companies by the Fast company http://weblogs.java.net/blog/marinasum/archive/ 2008/03/sun_among_the_w.html Using both Java EE and Rails technology together http://weblogs.java.net/blog/vivekp/archive/ 2008/03/using_jpa_with.html Groovy like builder capabilities for UIs in Java http://jacekfurmankiewicz.blogspot.com/ 2008/03/javabuildersorg-now-live.html The latest installment of the Busy Java Developer's Guide to Scala http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/java/library/ j-scala03268.html?ca=dgr-btw01scalaloop& S_TACT=105AGX59&S_CMP=GR What's new in Spring 2.5? http://skillsmatter.com/podcast/java-jee/ whats-new-in-spring-25-15 Glassfish v2 U1 is available that includes MySQL community server 5.0 and the MySQL JDBC driver http://blogs.sun.com/theaquarium/entry/ new_glassfish_with_mysql_bundle HowStuffWorks.com has a very simple introduction to how Java works http://computer.howstuffworks.com/program.htm The apache project has released a beta version of Ivy 2.0 http://ant.apache.org/ivy/ BoxySystems has a new Java Library that lets you use Google Analytics to track and capture usage data for any Java application http://blogs.boxysystems.com/ 2008/4/2/jgoogleanalytics http://code.google.com/p/jgoogleanalytics/ JBoss has released JBossWS (Web Services) 3 http://www.theserverside.com/news/ thread.tss?thread_id=48927 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]