Java Posse #244 - Newscast for April 16th 2009

Newscast for April 16th 2009 Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.com Google App Engine, Now for Java http://blog.springsource.com/2009/04/07/write-your-google-app-engine-applications-in-groovy/ http://java.dzone.com/articles/google-appengine-uses-jetty http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/04/08/165243&from=rss http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?thread_id=54215 http://google-code-updates.blogspot.com/2009/04/standards-based-persistence-for-java.html http://www.itworld.com/open-source/66329/suns-open-source-boss-slams-app-engines-java-support http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/java/jrewhitelist.html http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine-java/web/will-it-play-in-app-engine The IBM/Sun acquisition talks that we brought you rumors of in a previous Java Posse episode, turned out to be true, and also fell through http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/I/IBM_SUN_MICROSYSTEMS?SITE=TXDAM&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=BUSINESS.html&CTIME=2009-04-06-07-53-25 http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/apr2009/tc2009045_914072.htm/?chan=top+news_top+news+index+-+temp_top+story http://www.cafeaulait.org/#April_6_2009_28216 Swing 2.0 - let's get into it http://jonathangiles.net/blog/ http://blogs.sun.com/theplanetarium/entry/the_future_of_swing http://elliotth.blogspot.com/2009/02/swing-2-pissing-in-wind.html http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/uiswing/concurrency/index.html Application, Applet and AJAX Web app of the week: JSpresso http://www.jspresso.org/page/jspresso-demo-area http://www.jspresso.org/ Quick News Google has an early access release of Android 1.5 (codename: cupcake) http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2009/04/getting-ready-for-android-15.html http://lifehacker.com/5211616/android-15-adds-soft-keyboard-video-recording-loads-more Bill Venners has an interview up at Artima.com with three developers from Twitter about their increasing use of Scala http://www.artima.com/scalazine/articles/twitter_on_scala.html Sacha Labourey, the CTO of JBoss, has announced that he will be leaving the company http://www.infoworld.com/d/adventures-in-it/jboss-cto-leaving-company-116 Emmanuel Bernard has started a French language podcast dedicated to Java called LesCastCodeurs along with Guillaume Laforge, Antonio Goncalves and Vincent Massol http://lescastcodeurs.com Atlassian are holding a user conference, the AtlasCamp++, from May 31st to June 2nd in San Francisco http://www.atlassian.com/summit/ Sonya Barry has more information on the Community Corner podcasts at this year's JavaOne http://weblogs.java.net/blog/sonyabarry/archive/2009/04/community_corne_2.html The JavaOne Script Bowl 2009 is calling for ideas http://weblogs.java.net/blog/robc/archive/2009/04/javaone_2009_sc.html The Aquarium notes that you can now register for the community one west unconferences http://blogs.sun.com/theaquarium/entry/glassfish_and_identity_unconferences_registrations The second annual Scala Lift Off unconference will be held in San Francisco on Saturday 6th (just after JavaOne) http://scalaliftoff.com/index SwingLabs have released 0.9.7 of the SwingX components http://weblogs.java.net/blog/rah003/archive/2009/04/swingx_097_rele_1.html The 1.0 version of the DTrace GUI plugin for NetBeans is now available http://dtrace.netbeans.org/ The Processing and Analytics Workbench http://www.pawanalytics.com/What_Data_Analysis.php Java.net is preparing to make some changes https://5dot2stage-site-issues.dev.java.net/ The Department of Health and Human Services in the US has selected the Sun sponsored open source, Java based, OpenESB project for construction of a Nationwide Health Information Network http://weblogs.java.net/blog/editors/archives/2009/04/sun_applies_ope.html Versions 1.5.8 and 1.6.1 of the Groovy programming language have been released http://docs.codehaus.org/display/GROOVY/2009/04/07/Groovy+1.5.8+and+1.6.1+are+out Grails 1.1 is now available on the GlassFish v2 update center http://blogs.sun.com/theaquarium/entry/grails_1_1_on_glassfish The Eclipse project has release Eclipse 3.4.2 http://www.eclipse.org/eclipse/development/readme_eclipse_3.4.2.html JBoss has released JBoss tools 3 offering many improvements and new features http://in.relation.to/Bloggers/JBossTools3IsHere Adobe has made FlexBuilder Pro freely available to anyone who is currently unemployed http://weblogs.java.net/blog/dsuspense/archive/2009/04/unemployed_get.html The dates for the ServerSide Java Symposium Europe 2009 have been announced http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?thread_id=54249 Eclipse has joined the Symbian foundation, and Symbian has joined the eclipse foundation http://eclipse.dzone.com/articles/symbian-and-eclipse Extreme Component have just released their JComponentPack 3.0 which includes over 20 components that will likely be of use to enterprise and intranet Swing developers http://www.zfqjava.com/docs-JComponentPack.html NetBeans 6.7 M3 is now available http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/NewsItemView?newsItemID=1364 Thanks Libsyn.com - 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