Newscast for April 23rd 2009

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Carl's new Tesla:
http://joeracer.blogspot.com/2009/04/carls-new-tesla.html
http://www.flickr.com/photos/joenuxoll/sets/72157617107562108/

• Oracle buys Sun for 7.4 Billion
• http://java.dzone.com/articles/oracles-effect-java
  
• http://java.dzone.com/articles/oracle-buys-sun-coverage
  
• http://blogs.sun.com/theaquarium/entry/sun_and_oracle
  
• http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/04/20/128246&from=rss
  
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/cayhorstmann/archive/2009/04/my_oracle_prono.html
  
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/johnreynolds/archive/2009/04/oracle_buys_jav.html
  

• Java Project of the Week - Sonar
• http://sonar.codehaus.org/
  

• JavaOne News Heating Up
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/editors/archives/2009/04/javaone_session.html
  

• The PhoneME project has released feature milestone 4
• https://phoneme.dev.java.net/servlets/NewsItemView?newsItemID=7170
  

OSGi Interview

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An interview about OSGi with Peter Kriens and B.J. Hargrave

• Blogs
• OSGi - http://www.osgi.org/blog/
• Peter Kriens - http://www.aqute.biz/Blog/HomePage
• B.J. Hargrave - http://blog.bjhargrave.com/
• OSGi Alliance
• http://www.osgi.org/Main/HomePage
• OSGi Specification
• http://www.osgi.org/Specifications/HomePage
• Eclipse Equinox
  
• http://www.eclipse.org/equinox/
• Apache Felix
• http://felix.apache.org/site/index.html
• OSGi Introduction
• http://www.osgi.org/About/Technology
• Glassfish on OSGi
• http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?thread_id=49063
• LinkedIn on OSGi
• http://blog.linkedin.com/2008/06/23/osgi-at-linkedin-integrating-spring-dm-part-1/
• JSR 294 - Java Modularity
  
• http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=294
• BND - Bundle Tool
  
• http://www.aqute.biz/Code/Bnd
• Maven Dependencies
• http://maven.apache.org/guides/introduction/introduction-to-dependency-mechanism.html
• Project Jigsaw
• http://openjdk.java.net/projects/jigsaw/
• Apache Harmony
  
• http://harmony.apache.org/
• BND in Apache Felix
• http://felix.apache.org/site/apache-felix-maven-bundle-plugin-bnd.html
• Eclipse Extension Point Registry
• http://help.eclipse.org/help32/index.jsp?topic=/org.eclipse.platform.doc.isv/reference/api/org/eclipse/core/runtime/IPluginRegistry.html
• OSGi 4.2
• http://ianskerrett.wordpress.com/2008/08/27/osgi-42-draft-specs-now-available-to-everyone/
• OSGi In Action
• http://www.manning.com/hall/
• OSGi In Practice
• http://neilbartlett.name/blog/osgibook/
• OSGi Alliance Membership
• http://www.osgi.org/About/Join

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• Brice Ruth and Webprojkt.com - http://webprojkt.com - for our archives site - http://archives.javaposse.com
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• Kirsty Doherty, Oliver Widder and Amy Ehmann for Java Posse artwork
• Brian Ehmann - the Java Posse intern
• Craig Muth for maintaining the Java Posse Memorizable site - http://memorizable.org/Java_Posse
• 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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Newscast for April 16th 2009

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• Google App Engine, Now for Java
• http://blog.springsource.com/2009/04/07/write-your-google-app-engine-applications-in-groovy/
• http://java.dzone.com/articles/google-appengine-uses-jetty
• http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/04/08/165243&from=rss
• http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?thread_id=54215
• http://google-code-updates.blogspot.com/2009/04/standards-based-persistence-for-java.html
• http://www.itworld.com/open-source/66329/suns-open-source-boss-slams-app-engines-java-support
• http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/java/jrewhitelist.html
• http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine-java/web/will-it-play-in-app-engine

• The IBM/Sun acquisition talks that we brought you rumors of in a previous Java Posse episode, turned out to be true, and also fell through
• http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/I/IBM_SUN_MICROSYSTEMS?SITE=TXDAM&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=BUSINESS.html&CTIME=2009-04-06-07-53-25
• http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/apr2009/tc2009045_914072.htm/?chan=top+news_top+news+index+-+temp_top+story
• http://www.cafeaulait.org/#April_6_2009_28216

• Swing 2.0 - let's get into it
• http://jonathangiles.net/blog/
• http://blogs.sun.com/theplanetarium/entry/the_future_of_swing
• http://elliotth.blogspot.com/2009/02/swing-2-pissing-in-wind.html
• http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/uiswing/concurrency/index.html

• Application, Applet and AJAX Web app of the week: JSpresso
• http://www.jspresso.org/page/jspresso-demo-area
• http://www.jspresso.org/

• Bill Venners has an interview up at Artima.com with three developers from Twitter about their increasing use of Scala
• http://www.artima.com/scalazine/articles/twitter_on_scala.html
  

• Versions 1.5.8 and 1.6.1 of the Groovy programming language have been released
  
• http://docs.codehaus.org/display/GROOVY/2009/04/07/Groovy+1.5.8+and+1.6.1+are+out

• Grails 1.1 is now available on the GlassFish v2 update center

• http://blogs.sun.com/theaquarium/entry/grails_1_1_on_glassfish

• The Eclipse project has release Eclipse 3.4.2
• http://www.eclipse.org/eclipse/development/readme_eclipse_3.4.2.html

• JBoss has released JBoss tools 3 offering many improvements and new features
• http://in.relation.to/Bloggers/JBossTools3IsHere

• Adobe has made FlexBuilder Pro freely available to anyone who is currently unemployed
  
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/dsuspense/archive/2009/04/unemployed_get.html

• The dates for the ServerSide Java Symposium Europe 2009 have been announced
• http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?thread_id=54249

• Eclipse has joined the Symbian foundation, and Symbian has joined the eclipse foundation
• http://eclipse.dzone.com/articles/symbian-and-eclipse

• Extreme Component have just released their JComponentPack 3.0 which includes over 20 components that will likely be of use to enterprise and intranet Swing developers
  
• http://www.zfqjava.com/docs-JComponentPack.html

• NetBeans 6.7 M3 is now available
• http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/NewsItemView?newsItemID=1364

Interview with AMD Java Labs

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Azeem Jiva, Ben Pollan and Gary Frost join us from the Java labs at AMD to talk about JVM performance, multiple cores, developer tools and more.

• AMD Java Labs
• http://developer.amd.com
• http://developer.amd.com/java
• AMD Java Developer Blogs
• http://forums.amd.com/devblog/categories.cfm?catid=313&flcache=9340274&entercat=y
• java.util.concurrent - the reference
  
• http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/api/java/util/concurrent/package-summary.html
• Java Concurrency in Practice - makes it readable
• http://www.javaconcurrencyinpractice.com/
• Fork/Join (JSR 166y) - Parallel Arrays
  
• http://artisans-serverintellect-com.si-eioswww6.com/default.asp?W9
• Tail Recursion
• http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/717
• CUDA - floating point operations using GPUs
• http://www.nvidia.com/object/cuda_home.html
• http://javagl.de/jcuda/jcublas/JCublas.html
• AMD and OpenJDK
• http://forums.amd.com/devblog/blogpost.cfm?threadid=101815&catid=313
• http://forums.amd.com/devblog/blogpost.cfm?threadid=92481&catid=313
• JRockit
• http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/jrockit/index.html
• JVMTI - JVM Tool Interface
  
• http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/guide/jvmti/
• Java Hotspot
• http://java.sun.com/javase/technologies/hotspot/
• Compressed Pointers / Compressed Oops
• http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.java.openjdk.hotspot.compiler.devel/875
• http://users.elis.ugent.be/~leeckhou/papers/ecoop07.pdf
• Tuning Garbage Collection
• http://java.sun.com/docs/hotspot/gc5.0/gc_tuning_5.html
• AMD Java Tools
• http://developer.amd.com/cpu/CodeAnalyst/codeanalystwindows/codesleuth/Pages/default.aspx
• http://developer.amd.com/cpu/CodeAnalyst/Pages/default.aspx
• Other performance tools
• HProf
  
• http://java.sun.com/developer/technicalArticles/Programming/HPROF.html
• JFluid
• http://profiler.netbeans.org/jfluid.html
• http://java.sys-con.com/node/45081
• http://profiler.netbeans.org/
• OProfile
• http://oprofile.sourceforge.net/
• Eclipse Memory Analyzer
  
• http://www.eclipse.org/mat/
• Escape Analysis
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Escape_analysis
• Scala, Clojure
• http://www.scala-lang.org/
• http://clojure.org/