Java Posse: Newscast for April 2nd 2010

• Apple, Android, HTC, marketplaces and ex-CEOs.
  • http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2010/03/02patents.html
  • http://techcrunch.com/2010/03/02/apple-goes-after-htc-in-lawsuit-over-20-iphone-patents/
  • http://techcrunch.com/2010/03/02/the-complaint-apples-patent-lawsuit-against-htc-is-all-about-android/
  • http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE62H0EA20100318
  • http://java.dzone.com/dose/dzone-daily-dose-34
  • http://threatpost.com/en_us/blogs/htc-phones-pre-installed-mariposa-bot-client-030910
  • http://www.petitiononline.com/androidm/
  • http://www.ilounge.com/index.php/news/comments/eff-posts-apples-iphone-developer-agreement-online/
  • http://jonathanischwartz.wordpress.com/2010/03/09/good-artists-copy-great-artists-steal/

• Tim Bray, co-editor of the XML specifications and former Sun director of web technologies, joins Google as developer advocate.
  • http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/201x/2010/03/15/Joining-Google
  • http://ruby.dzone.com/dose/dzone-daily-dose-316

• Is Java.net going to Sonatype for infrastructure?
  • http://java.dzone.com/news/maven-studio-announced-oracle
  • http://weblogs.java.net/blog/fabriziogiudici/archive/2010/03/23/oracle-officially-asked-sonatype-back-javanet
  • http://weblogs.java.net/blog/kfarnham/archive/2010/03/23/no-formal-arrangementagreement-exists-between-javanet-and-sonatype

• Miguel De Icaza speaks out against microsoft's handling of .NET, then the article mysteriously disappears (but Google still has it cached).
  • http://74.125.153.132/search?q=cache:http://www.sdtimes.com/link/34203&hl=en
  • http://www.itwire.com/opinion-and-analysis/open-sauce/37880-microsoft-has-shot-net-ecosystem-in-foot-de-icaza
  • http://java.dzone.com/dose/dzone-daily-dose-326
  • http://tirania.org/blog/archive/2010/Mar-25.html

• Fallout from the Oracle acquisition of Sun continues, with Simon Phipps, former Sun open source officer, being elected to the OSI (Open Source Initiative) board of directors.
  • http://webmink.com/2010/03/08/sundown/
  • http://webmink.com/
  • http://java.dzone.com/dose/dzone-daily-dose-312
  • http://www.opensource.org/
  • http://www.infoworld.com/d/developer-world/java-pioneer-distances-himself-jcp-932

• A quick mention: the large hadron collider in CERN has had its first successful run.
  • http://javaposse.com/index.php?post_id=347725
    http://lhc.web.cern.ch/lhc/

Quick News

• The Eclipsecon e4-rover mars challenge winner was announced at EclipseCon last week.
  • http://ianskerrett.wordpress.com/2010/03/26/winners-of-the-e4-rover-mars-challenge/
  • http://recombu.com/news/iphone-app-developed-to-control-nasa-mars-robot_M11588.html

• Amazon announced a new Java SDK for Amazon Web Services at EclipseCon.
  • http://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2010/03/22/announcing-the-aws-sdk-for-java/

• DZone has a write up of the major news from EclipseCon.
  • http://eclipse.dzone.com/articles/eclipsecon-2010-report

• 11 sessions from the Glassfish virtual conference are now available in podcast form.
  • http://blogs.sun.com/glassfishpodcast/

• Primefaces, available for both JSF 1.0 and 2.0, has just been released open source under the Apache v2 license.
  • http://www.primefaces.org/

• Google has launched the Google Apps Marketplace (not to be confused with the Android marketplace).
  • http://www.google.com/enterprise/marketplace/home

• Aaron Houston has joined Adobe as the community manager for several of their user groups including Flex, Air and ColdFusion.
  • http://weblogs.java.net/blog/sunahouston/archive/2010/03/15/houston-go-adobe-ive-made-it-other-side

• There may yet be hope for an improved Date and Time API for Java 7.
  • http://jcp.org/en/jsr/summary?id=310
  • http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=59624

• How to kill an OSGi project in 10 questions by Adam Bien.
  • http://java.dzone.com/articles/how-kill-osgi-project-10

ScalaWags

• It looks like the first Scala Days event, to be held in Lausanne, Switzerland on April 15th and 16th is assured success.
  • http://days2010.scala-lang.org/node/132
  • http://days2010.scala-lang.org/program

• The Scala team is organizing proposals for this year's Google summer of code.
  • http://www.scala-lang.org/node/5543
  • http://www.scala-lang.org/gsoc2010

• And a Scala application of the week. Kojo is a Scala learning environment written using the NetBeans rich client platform.
  • http://netbeans.dzone.com/learn-scala-with-kojo

Groovy, Baby!

• IndicThreads has more information about Groovy++.
  • http://www.indicthreads.com/7355/what-is-groovy-how-does-it-compare-with-java-and-groovy/

Listener Feedback

• Buttons stop working on Linux, the truth revealed
  • https://bugs.launchpad.net/gtk/+bug/442078
• PDF based replacement for Help
  • http://www.pdfhelp.org
• HTTPCache4J
  • http://httpcache4j.codehaus.org/

Thanks

• Libsyn.com - http://www.libsyn.com - for hosting and bandwidth
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• 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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