Newscast for January 21st 2010

Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.comPlease, 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.phpAnd 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)

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