Java Posse #246 - Newscast for April 23rd 2009

Newscast for April 23rd 2009 Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.com Carl's new Tesla: http://joeracer.blogspot.com/2009/04/carls-new-tesla.html http://www.flickr.com/photos/joenuxoll/sets/72157617107562108/ Oracle buys Sun for 7.4 Billion http://java.dzone.com/articles/oracles-effect-java http://java.dzone.com/articles/oracle-buys-sun-coverage http://blogs.sun.com/theaquarium/entry/sun_and_oracle http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/04/20/128246&from=rss http://weblogs.java.net/blog/cayhorstmann/archive/2009/04/my_oracle_prono.html http://weblogs.java.net/blog/johnreynolds/archive/2009/04/oracle_buys_jav.html Google App Engine for Java Opinions http://weblogs.java.net/blog/fabriziogiudici/archive/2009/04/google_apple_en.html http://weblogs.java.net/blog/wiverson/archive/2009/04/google_app_engi.html http://weblogs.java.net/blog/kirillcool/archive/2009/04/googles_java_ed.html Java Project of the Week - Sonar http://sonar.codehaus.org/ Quick News JavaOne News Heating Up http://weblogs.java.net/blog/editors/archives/2009/04/javaone_session.html Java 6 U 14 will include G1 (Garbage First) https://jdk6.dev.java.net/6uNea.html HTMLUnit 2.5 has been released http://htmlunit.sourceforge.net/ Jersey 1.0.3 released https://jersey.dev.java.net/ Grizzly 2.0 M1 http://weblogs.java.net/blog/jfarcand/archive/2009/04/grizzly_200m1_r.html Apache Pivot 1.1 http://incubator.apache.org/pivot/ Christian Neukirchen has a guide to writing Android applications in Scala http://chneukirchen.org/blog/archive/2009/04/programming-for-android-with-scala.html Codehaus has released Cargo 1.0 http://cargo.codehaus.org/License Android is expanding its horizons onto NetBooks http://blogs.computerworld.com/first_google_android_netbooks_spotted The Java ME SDK team has formally announced the Java ME SDK 3 release http://blogs.sun.com/javamesdk/entry/released_java_me_platform_sdk The PhoneME project has released feature milestone 4 https://phoneme.dev.java.net/servlets/NewsItemView?newsItemID=7170 EJB 3.1 - A Significant Step Towards Maturity http://www.theserverside.com/tt/articles/article.tss?l=EJB3-1Maturity Hudson version 1.300 has been released http://weblogs.java.net/blog/kohsuke/archive/2009/04/hudson_hits_130.html Squawk to be available for the FIRST Robotics Competition next year http://research.sun.com/spotlight/2009/2009-04-16_squawk.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. (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 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TAX0gJt-aZg 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 Pose a question on our Google Moderator group - http://tinyurl.com/q4javaposse Call us with questions and feedback - (408) 465 4626 Or send us email - [email protected] The Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall