Java Posse #340 - Newscast for Feb 4th 2011

Newscast for Feb 4th 2011 Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.com Join us for the Java Posse Roundup 2011 in beautiful (snowy) Crested Butte, CO from February 22nd to 25th with a free coding dojo day on the 21st. http://www.mindviewinc.com/Conferences/JavaPosseRoundup/ Oracle/Google/Android update. http://fosspatents.blogspot.com/2011/01/new-evidence-supports-oracles-case.html http://www.zdnet.com/blog/burnette/oops-no-copied-java-code-or-weapons-of-mass-destruction-found-in-android/2162 http://www.androidguys.com/2011/01/26/oracles-suit-google/ http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20110122054409107 Oracle's continuing mis-steps with the Java community. https://pelegri.wordpress.com/2011/01/16/a-year-after-the-open-source-projects/ http://jenkins-ci.org/content/hudsons-future http://www.i-programmer.info/news/136-open-source/1898-libre-office-.html http://www.libreoffice.org/ http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/openofficeorg-and-libreoffice-release-candidates-duke-it-out http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/libreoffice-33-release-brings-new-feature Java.net poll: Which area of Java/JVM technology most desperately needs serious attention in 2011? http://weblogs.java.net/blog/editor/archive/2011/02/01/poll-result-java-desktop-desperate-need Ruby on Rails support dropped from NetBeans 7.0 http://wiki.netbeans.org/RubySupport http://www.jetbrains.com/ruby/buy/index.jsp Forrester on the future of Java. http://blogs.forrester.com/john_r_rymer/11-01-23-the_future_of_java http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=61738 Quick News SouJava has been nominated by Oracle for an executive committee seat on the JCP http://weblogs.java.net/blog/brunos/archive/2011/01/26/soujava-nominated-jcp-ec http://blogs.sun.com/pcurran/entry/jugs_and_the_jcp http://blogs.oracle.com/henrik/2011/01/oracle_nominates_bruno_souza_of_soujava_to_jcp_ec.html Apache Tomcat 7.0.6 has been released. http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-7.0-doc/changelog.html http://tomcat.apache.org/migration.html#6.0.x_to_7.0.x Amazon has added Java Platform as a Service to it's amazon web service offerings in the form of the AWS Elastic Beanstalk. http://aws.amazon.com/elasticbeanstalk/ Time to start talking about Java EE 7? http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=338 http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=339 http://blogs.sun.com/theaquarium/entry/jax_rs_2_0_jpa ScalaWags Lift 2.2 has been released. http://www.scala-lang.org/node/8632 http://liftweb.com/ The Scala team at EPFL has won a 5 year European Research grant to tackle the "popular parallel programming" challenge. http://www.scala-lang.org/node/8579 Android The Android 3.0 preview SDK has been released by Google. http://www.i-programmer.info/news/83-mobliephone/1910-android-30-platform-preview-and-sdk.html http://developer.android.com/sdk/preview/index.html http://www.androidguys.com/2011/01/26/google-unveils-android-30-preview-sdk-highlights/ http://www.androidguys.com/2011/02/02/google-sheds-brighter-light-honeycomb-unveils-webbased-android-market Also - a new browser based, much improved Android Market. http://market.android.com The upcoming Amazon Android App store. http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20110105/tc_pcworld/amazonreadieslaunchofandroidmarketcompetitor The Motorola Xoom http://www.androidguys.com/2011/01/27/motorola-xoom-specs-compared-original-ipad/ NotionInk Adam tablet ships! http://www.androidguys.com/2011/01/24/hell-freezes-unprecedented-time-notion-ink-adam-ships/ http://www.notioninkfan.com/2011/01/unboxing-videos.html Android surpassed Symbian based phone shipments to become the number one smart phone platform. http://www.androidguys.com/2011/01/31/android-eclipses-symbian-1-smart-phone-platform-world And Google is now actively seeking to hire Android App developers with ideas for new and cool apps according to the Wall Street Journal. http://www.androidguys.com/2011/01/31/app-idea-apply-google Samsung Galaxy Tab claims, then un-claims big market share gains. http://www.engadget.com/2011/01/31/canalys-android-overtakes-symbian-as-worlds-best-selling-smart/ http://www.engadget.com/2011/01/31/samsung-says-galaxy-tab-sales-to-consumers-actually-quite-small/ Random Crap Verizon iPhone is out - same device, better voice network http://daringfireball.net/2011/02/verizon_iphone_4 iPad 2 / iOS 4.3 supposedly announcing next week! http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/11/02/03/rumor_apple_plans_to_unveil_second_gen_ipad_at_ios_event_next_week.html Larry Page to become CEO of Google on April 4th. http://java.dzone.com/dose/daily-dose-121 Vainworks - finally someone executes on Dick's crazy idea for turning a rear facing camera into a front facing one, kinda... http://www.androidguys.com/2011/01/03/vainworks-lets-change-rearfacing-camera-forwardfacing 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. 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