Java Posse #235 - Newscast for March 19th 2009

Newscast for March 19th 2009 Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.com Java Posse Roundup 09 http://blogs.sun.com/tor/entry/java_posse_roundup_2009 IBM to buy Sun? http://weblogs.java.net/blog/kalali/archive/2009/03/ibm_in_talks_to.html http://weblogs.java.net/blog/fabriziogiudici/archive/2009/03/so_what_if_ibm.html http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/sns-ap-ibm-sun-micro,0,764716.story Reactions from the community mixed (and fairly negative overall in the Java Posse google group) http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/161471/ java_crowd_has_mixed_views_on_potential_sunibm_deal.html http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse/browse_thread/thread/488db39bb969a157 http://blogs.computerworld.com/the_rise_of_the_blue_sun_ibm_and_sun JavaOne sessions finalized and published http://java.sun.com/javaone/2009/sessions.jsp http://weblogs.java.net/blog/editors/archives/2009/03/bring_on_the_da.html http://weblogs.java.net/blog/editors/archives/2009/03/far_pavilions.html http://weblogs.java.net/blog/sonyabarry/archive/2009/03/community_corne.html JavaOne for free http://weblogs.java.net/blog/van_riper/archive/2009/03/spring_fling_co_1.html JavaZone call for papers http://www.javazone.no/ http://www.java.no/submitit/ Proposed Final Draft of EJB 3.1 http://www.jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=318 RIA sampling shows Flash is still king, Silverlight is on the rise, and Java fares well except on Linux! http://www.infoq.com/news/2009/03/Flash-Silverlight http://www.riastats.com/# Applet of the Week: JPC running Linux in an applet! http://www-jpc.physics.ox.ac.uk/DemoLinux.html Quick News Grails 1.1 has been released http://grails.org/1.1+Release+Notes NextReports 2.0 is out (the next version of NextReports?) http://www.nextreports.ro/index.php/buy.html The ServerSide Java Symposium http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?thread_id=53939 http://weblogs.java.net/blog/kito75/archive/2009/02/check_out_great.html JAX-RS 2.2 and Metro 2.0 nightly builds are now available http://weblogs.java.net/blog/ramapulavarthi/archive/2009/03/jaxws_22_nightl.html The eclipse foundation has announced a new mobile platform initiative called Pulsar http://www.eclipse.org/org/press-release/20090310_pulsar.php JSR 299 - Java Contexts and Dependency Injection, Beta 1 is out http://in.relation.to/Bloggers/FirstBetaOfWebBeansAvailable The NetBeans Governance Board has selected new community representatives http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/NewsItemView?newsItemID=1354 There are some interesting results from the latest TIOBE programming language index http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/content/paperinfo/tpci/index.html A reminder that EclipseCon starts next week, on the 23rd of March, in Santa Clara, CA http://www.eclipsecon.org/2009/ http://eclipse.dzone.com/articles/getting-ready-eclipsecon Sonatype has released Nexus 1.3.0. Nexus is a repository manager for Maven repositories http://www.sonatype.com/people/2009/03/nexus-130-released/ Version 4.0 of the Magnolia CMS has been released http://www.magnolia-cms.com/4-0 Bill Pugh and the University of Maryland have released version 1.3.8 of Findbugs http://findbugs.sourceforge.net/ The eclipse foundation has released version 1.0 of Riena http://www.eclipse.org/org/press-release/20090302riena10.php Project Coin has been approved and created by the OpenJDK project http://openjdk.java.net/projects/coin/ The ROME project has made it's 1.0 final release https://rome.dev.java.net/ http://wiki.java.net/bin/view/Javawsxml/PoweredByRome http://wiki.java.net/bin/view/Javawsxml/Rome Oracle's JRockit JVM (acquired from BEA) has set a new performance benchmark http://www.oracle.com/us/corporate/press/018046_EN SpringSource has released the Spring Tool Suite 2.0 http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/3810886/New+Spring+in+Javas+Step.htm Alexander Potochkin blogs that the Swing app framework (JSR 296) is still alive http://weblogs.java.net/blog/alexfromsun/archive/2009/03/swing_applicati_1.html Google has announced the 2009 Google summer of code program http://weblogs.java.net/blog/felipegaucho/archive/2009/03/google_summer_o.html Lift, the Scala based web framework inspired by ruby on rails, has reached version 1.0 http://liftweb.net/ http://scala-blogs.org/2009/02/lift-10-released.html Good news for JavaFX mobile. Sony Ericsson has announced that it will support the JavaFX platform in its upcoming mobile phones http://seloyalist.blogspot.com/2009/02/sony-ericsson-to-support-javafx.html The 2009 Jolt Awards have been announced at SDWest http://www.joltawards.com/winners.html#mobile Mark Volkmann has an introduction to Clojure http://ociweb.com/mark/clojure/article.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. 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