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  • Navigenics has launched!

  • http://www.navigenics.com/

  • And so has Google App Engine

  • http://appengine.google.com

  • The consume JRE is now in beta

  • http://weblogs.java.net/blog/editors/archives/
    2008/04/new_sensation.html

  • http://java.sun.com/javase/downloads/ea.jsp

  • JavaZone call for papers

  • http://www4.java.no/web/show.do?page=186;787

  • Jazoon, a large Java conference in Switzerland, is coming up

  • http://weblogs.java.net/blog/cwfrei/archive/
    2008/04/jazoon08_progra_1.html

  • http://weblogs.java.net/blog/cwfrei/archive/
    2008/03/netbeans_commun.html

  • JDIC plus - cool browser plugin and mashup toolkit, but windows only?

  • https://jdic.dev.java.net/documentation/
    incubator/JDICplus/index.html
  • http://weblogs.java.net/blog/editors/
    archives/2008/04/what_you_need.html

  • http://weblogs.java.net/blog/editors/
    archives/2008/04/the_one_thing.html

  • Java Project of the Week - Applino

  • http://www.applino.com/

Quick News Items* Microsoft bribes the ISO standards organization for OOXML (Office Open XML) + http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/
microsofts-great-besmirching

  • Adobe is joining the Linux Foundation

  • http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?
    sid=08/03/31/1359204&from=rss

  • Java.net community corner at JavaOne minitalks are popular this year

  • http://weblogs.java.net/blog/editors/archives/
    2008/03/voices_carry.html

  • http://weblogs.java.net/blog/editors/archives/
    2008/03/need_you_tonigh.html

  • Hudson has just passed its 200th release

  • http://blogs.sun.com/theaquarium/entry/
    a_release_every_6_days

  • Sun has been named as one of the top 50 innovative companies by the Fast company

  • http://weblogs.java.net/blog/marinasum/archive/
    2008/03/sun_among_the_w.html

  • Using both Java EE and Rails technology together

  • http://weblogs.java.net/blog/vivekp/archive/
    2008/03/using_jpa_with.html

  • Groovy like builder capabilities for UIs in Java

  • http://jacekfurmankiewicz.blogspot.com/
    2008/03/javabuildersorg-now-live.html

  • The latest installment of the Busy Java Developer's Guide to Scala

  • http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/java/library/
    j-scala03268.html?ca=dgr-btw01scalaloop&
    S_TACT=105AGX59&S_CMP=GR

  • What's new in Spring 2.5?

  • http://skillsmatter.com/podcast/java-jee/
    whats-new-in-spring-25-15

  • Glassfish v2 U1 is available that includes MySQL community server 5.0 and the MySQL JDBC driver

  • http://blogs.sun.com/theaquarium/entry/
    new_glassfish_with_mysql_bundle

  • HowStuffWorks.com has a very simple introduction to how Java works

  • http://computer.howstuffworks.com/program.htm

  • The apache project has released a beta version of Ivy 2.0

  • http://ant.apache.org/ivy/

  • BoxySystems has a new Java Library that lets you use Google Analytics to track and capture usage data for any Java application

  • http://blogs.boxysystems.com/
    2008/4/2/jgoogleanalytics

  • http://code.google.com/p/jgoogleanalytics/

  • JBoss has released JBossWS (Web Services) 3

  • http://www.theserverside.com/news/
    thread.tss?thread_id=48927

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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
    • Closing - Juan Carlos Jimenez - In the House (Intro No. 1)

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