Newscast for March 19th 2009 Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.com
* Java Posse Roundup 09 + http://blogs.sun.com/tor/entry/java_posse_roundup_2009

• IBM to buy Sun?
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/kalali/archive/2009/03/ibm_in_talks_to.html
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/fabriziogiudici/archive/2009/03/so_what_if_ibm.html
• http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/sns-ap-ibm-sun-micro,0,764716.story
• Reactions from the community mixed (and fairly negative overall in the Java Posse google group)
• http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/161471/
  java_crowd_has_mixed_views_on_potential_sunibm_deal.html
• http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse/browse_thread/thread/488db39bb969a157

• http://blogs.computerworld.com/the_rise_of_the_blue_sun_ibm_and_sun

• JavaOne sessions finalized and published

• http://java.sun.com/javaone/2009/sessions.jsp
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/editors/archives/2009/03/bring_on_the_da.html
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/editors/archives/2009/03/far_pavilions.html
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/sonyabarry/archive/2009/03/community_corne.html
• JavaOne for free
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/van_riper/archive/2009/03/spring_fling_co_1.html
• JavaZone call for papers
• http://www.javazone.no/

• http://www.java.no/submitit/

• Proposed Final Draft of EJB 3.1

• http://www.jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=318

• RIA sampling shows Flash is still king, Silverlight is on the rise, and Java fares well except on Linux!

• http://www.infoq.com/news/2009/03/Flash-Silverlight

• http://www.riastats.com/#

• Applet of the Week: JPC running Linux in an applet!

• http://www-jpc.physics.ox.ac.uk/DemoLinux.html

Quick News

• Grails 1.1 has been released

• http://grails.org/1.1+Release+Notes

• NextReports 2.0 is out (the next version of NextReports?)

• http://www.nextreports.ro/index.php/buy.html

• The ServerSide Java Symposium

• http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?thread_id=53939

• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/kito75/archive/2009/02/check_out_great.html

• JAX-RS 2.2 and Metro 2.0 nightly builds are now available

• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/ramapulavarthi/archive/2009/03/jaxws_22_nightl.html

• The eclipse foundation has announced a new mobile platform initiative called Pulsar

• http://www.eclipse.org/org/press-release/20090310_pulsar.php

• JSR 299 - Java Contexts and Dependency Injection, Beta 1 is out

• http://in.relation.to/Bloggers/FirstBetaOfWebBeansAvailable

• The NetBeans Governance Board has selected new community representatives

• http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/NewsItemView?newsItemID=1354

• There are some interesting results from the latest TIOBE programming language index

• http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/content/paperinfo/tpci/index.html

• A reminder that EclipseCon starts next week, on the 23rd of March, in Santa Clara, CA

• http://www.eclipsecon.org/2009/

• http://eclipse.dzone.com/articles/getting-ready-eclipsecon

• Sonatype has released Nexus 1.3.0. Nexus is a repository manager for Maven repositories

• http://www.sonatype.com/people/2009/03/nexus-130-released/

• Version 4.0 of the Magnolia CMS has been released

• http://www.magnolia-cms.com/4-0

• Bill Pugh and the University of Maryland have released version 1.3.8 of Findbugs

• http://findbugs.sourceforge.net/

• The eclipse foundation has released version 1.0 of Riena

• http://www.eclipse.org/org/press-release/20090302riena10.php

• Project Coin has been approved and created by the OpenJDK project

• http://openjdk.java.net/projects/coin/

• The ROME project has made it's 1.0 final release

• https://rome.dev.java.net/
• http://wiki.java.net/bin/view/Javawsxml/PoweredByRome

• http://wiki.java.net/bin/view/Javawsxml/Rome

• Oracle's JRockit JVM (acquired from BEA) has set a new performance benchmark

• http://www.oracle.com/us/corporate/press/018046_EN

• SpringSource has released the Spring Tool Suite 2.0

• http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/3810886/New+Spring+in+Javas+Step.htm

• Alexander Potochkin blogs that the Swing app framework (JSR 296) is still alive

• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/alexfromsun/archive/2009/03/swing_applicati_1.html

• Google has announced the 2009 Google summer of code program

• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/felipegaucho/archive/2009/03/google_summer_o.html

• Lift, the Scala based web framework inspired by ruby on rails, has reached version 1.0

• http://liftweb.net/

• http://scala-blogs.org/2009/02/lift-10-released.html

• Good news for JavaFX mobile. Sony Ericsson has announced that it will support the JavaFX platform in its upcoming mobile phones

• http://seloyalist.blogspot.com/2009/02/sony-ericsson-to-support-javafx.html

• The 2009 Jolt Awards have been announced at SDWest

• http://www.joltawards.com/winners.html#mobile

• Mark Volkmann has an introduction to Clojure

• http://ociweb.com/mark/clojure/article.html

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• 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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