Newscast for April 16th 2009

Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.com

• 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