Java Posse #294 - Newscast for Jan 21st 2010

Newscast for January 21st 2010 Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.com Please, join us for the Java Posse Roundup, March 16th to 19th in Crested Butte, CO, with a free JVM languages day on the 15th. To find out more: http://www.mindviewinc.com/Conferences/JavaPosseRoundup/ To sign up: http://www.mindviewinc.com/Conferences/JavaPosseRoundup/register.php And if you do sign up, please give us a little more information about yourself (like your T-shirt size - hint hint) at: http://tinyurl.com/jproundup2010 Android roundup http://lifehacker.com/5443156/android-21s-best-features-in-screenshots http://developer.android.com/index.html http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9143027/ Demand_for_Android_phones_makes_monstrous_250_jump http://gizmodo.com/5427938/how-carriers-and-phone-makers-are- strangling-android-and-how-google-could-save-it?skyline=true&s=x http://java.dzone.com/dose/dzone-daily-dose-119 The JavaFX Composer has been released http://wiki.netbeans.org/JavaFXComposer http://www.adam-bien.com/roller/abien/entry/java_fx_composer_designer_for1 Machinarium - flash game http://machinarium.net The EU looks close to approving the Oracle acquisition of Sun http://java.dzone.com/dose/dzone-daily-dose-116 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Widenius http://weblogs.java.net/blog/editor/archive/2010/01/01/ poll-result-oracle-acquisition-sun-most-significant-2009 http://weblogs.java.net/blog/editor/archive/2009/12/23/ speculations-2010-part-1-oracle-and-sun http://www.oracle.com/us/corporate/press/043821 Is Maven the last choice? http://kent.spillner.org/blog/work/2009/11/14/java-build-tools.html Codemash http://www.codemash.org/ Groovy, Baby Groovy, Grails and Gaelyk Groovy 1.7 http://docs.codehaus.org/display/GROOVY/Groovy+1.7+release+notes Grails 1.2 http://www.grails.org/blog/admin/Grails+1.2+Released Gaelyk http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?thread_id=59101 Quick News Metro 2.0 has been released https://metro.dev.java.net/ RedHat has released HornetQ 2.0.0 GA http://jboss.org/hornetq/ Sun has released Java 6 SE U18 http://www.developer.com/java/other/article.php/3858751/article.htm DataNucleus has released version 2.0 of AccessPlatform http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?thread_id=59201 http://www.datanucleus.org/project/download.html SpringSource has now released version 3.0 GA of Spring http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?thread_id=58985 http://javaposse.com/index.php?post_id=449043 SpringSource has also released version 1.0.0 GA of Spring Roo http://www.springsource.org/roo Google has released the final 1.0 version of the Google Collections Library http://code.google.com/p/google-collections/ Listener Feedback London Scala Users Group http://www.meetup.com/london-scala/ Stock Exchanges Running Scala http://www.cinnober.com/whom http://www.cinnober.com/files/A_Cinnober_whitepaper_on_latency_Oct2009_0.pdf GeeCON - Java conference in Poland http://www.geecon.org Last year's: http://2009.geecon.org ESDC Conference http://www.go-esdc.com/ Atlanta DevNexus 2010 Conference - AJUG http://www.devnexus.com/ Thanks Libsyn.com - http://www.libsyn.com - for hosting and bandwidth Feedburner.com - http://www.feedburner.com - for feed redirect Kirsty Doherty, Amy Ehmann for Java Posse artwork 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