Episode 64

Unsupported Operation 64

Java / Misc

• JavaFX 2.1 gets MPEG4 playback
• Scala artifacts now in central
• Github's mashup of Jenkins called Janky
• The state of IcedTea and IcedTeaWeb video from FOSDEM
• Spring Data JPA 1.1.0 RC1 and 1.0.3 GA Releasedhttp://bit.ly/xkOR9C
• PrimeFaces 3.0 - a year long development, its tagline is Ajax, Mobile and IE9 components. IE9 components????
• Scandal: ICEFaces is just a rip off of PrimeFaces
• Spring Roo 1.2.1 available, patch release which brings support for the new PrimeFaces and latest GAE
• Query Time Joining makes it into Lucene 3.6 (but a different impl from 4.0 which is 3x faster)

Google

• Google App Engine "Community Support" moved to Stack Overflow
• Fails in its attempt to keep email out of court on Android

Hardware x-over

• Sheeva Plug, the box from Globalscale that the FreedomBox is based on also has a JVM+OSGI kit on an SD card.
• Speaking of OSGi, Distributed OSGi RI 1.3 is out, based on Apache CXF

Apache

• Richard moved to Maven 3.0.4 and is having no problems
• Apache Jackrabbit 2.4.0, 2.2.11 released http://jackrabbit.apache.org - lots of new features, fixes and improvements
• (not Java, but) Apache libcloud gone 0.8.0 http://libcloud.apache.org/
• Apache MyFaces CVE-2011-4367
  Apache MyFaces information disclosure vulnerability
  • affects MyFaces 2.0.1 - 2.0.11, 2.1.0 - 2.1.5
  • MyFaces JavaServer Faces (JSF) allows relative paths in the
  • javax.faces.resource 'ln' parameter or writing the url so the resource
  • name include '..' sequences . An attacker could use the security
  • vulnerability to view files that they should not be able to.
  • http://<hostname>:<port>/<context-root>/faces/javax.faces.resource/../WEB-INF/web.xml
  • MyFaces Core 2.0.12 and 2.1.6 released
• Apache Directory Studio 2.0M2
• Apache Directory DS 2.0.0-M5
• Apache LDAP API 1.0.0-M10
• HttpClient 4.1.3 GA
• Apache Hive 0.8.1 - distributed data warehouse on top of Hadoop
• Commons Configuration 1.8
• Commons Validator 1.4
• Lucy 0.3 (incubating)
  Apache Lucy is full-text search engine library written in C and targeted at dynamic languages

Episode 63 - First for 2012

Unsupported Operation 63 - First for 2012

Misc

• Sensei DB - Open-source, distributed, realtime, semi-structured database from LinkedIn
• Resteasy 2.3.1
• Gitblit 0.8.2 - pure java git repo manager
• Guartz 1.1 out - Guice + Quartz
• New chromedriver release from SeleniumHQ - release notes - download - interesting, downloads are from the chromium google code site, not selenium? Oo - this is the server...
• Eclipse Orion - new content assist ( live templates ) a lot of nice improvements in this new milestone release.

Apache Maven / Sonatype

• Apache Maven 3.0.4 FINAL release ;-)
  • Maven central changed from http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/ to http://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2/ - see the Release Notes and MNG-5151 for details. Essentially - the central repositories domain name is now under Apache’s control.
• Eclipse Aether gets a top level website
• Nexus OSS changes license to EPL
• Maven FindBugs Plugin version 2.4.0
• Maven EAR Plugin, version 2.7
• Maven Skins v6 released, Fluido is new and based on Twitter’s bootstrap project:
  • Maven Application Skin 1.0
  • Maven Default Skin 1.1
  • Maven Classic Skin 1.1
  • Maven Stylus Skin 1.4)
  • Maven Fluido Skin 1.1
• Apache HTTP Server 2.2.222 released - 6 security vulnerabilities and some additional features.
• Apache Camel 2.8.4, bug fixes and more stuff
• Apache Rave 0.7-INCUBATING - web mashup engine (in Java)
• Apache Qpid 0.14 - AMQP solution with lots of brokers
• Struts, Tomcat, Directory Studio, MyFaces Extensions CDI, Commons Pool, Kafka, Hadoop went 1.0 (Jan 5), HttpComponents HttpCore, POI and Archiva all had releases in our hiatus

Clojure

• IClojure is a new Clojure REPL with advanced tab completion - awesome.
• Forthcoming clojure-maven-plugin release now supports iClojure as its REPL.

Scala

• Lift 2.4
• http://ls.implicit.ly - card catalog/search engine for scala libraries
• Scala-tools gone bye bye - or becoming a polical commentary site after Dave Pollock’s exit from Scalaland

 

Episode 62

Unsupported Operation - Final for 2011

Java / Oracle / Tool / Language Related

• Java 7u2 released, ships with JavaFX 2.0.2 which was also released
  • JavaFX 2.0 - Intro By Example is available on Kindle as well - didn’t realize there any books out on this.
• Java 6u30 also released
• eFX is a new JavaFX/Netbeans Platform framework
• NetBeans 7.1 RC1 released
• JetBrains released IntelliJ IDEA 11 - a bugfix update to TeamCity was also released last week
• Google’s Eclipse plugin is now open source
• Orion, Eclipses Cloud IDE has gone 0.4 M1 - new and noteworthy include HTML syntax highlighting, Code Mirror syntax highlighting (including mixed-mode documents, such as htmll/javascript/php), syntax validation, content type service (to store different mime types), and much more
• State of the Lambda
• JSR 292 Goodness: Almost static final fields - for the language level hackers
• JSR 352 passes with two no votes - Batch JSR
• Redline Smalltalk compiler “complete” - work on the runtime begins. Why Smalltalk on the JVM?
• Dart on Chromium
• ShaftServer is a new DartVM Application Server -
• jHiccup is a new performance monitoring/analysis tool released under Creative Commons from Azul Systems
• HP open source webos
  • Interesting that they’re asking the community to decide/recommend licensing, governance etc.
• Adobe joins the OSGi Alliance Board of Directors (  Adobe’s Felix Meschberger apointed to BOD - principal developer/driver of the Apache Felix OSGi container ).

Web Server / Web Frameworks

• PrimeFaces Mobile 0.9 - JSF optimized for mobiles
• Oracle releases Weblogic 12c - which finally does full J2ee6
• Apache Geronimo goes full J2EE 6 certified
• Jetty 8 got released without much fanfare. Its available as standalone download, maven artifacts, rpm and debian packages
• Jersey 1.11 released with Eclipse MOXy support
• Apache Wicket 1.5 released
• Restfuse 1.0 has been released - its a test framework for REST apis running with junit.
• DropWizard - REST framework from Coda Hale / Yammer - has nice heartbeat system for built-in monitoring/testing

Misc

• Hibernate 4.0 Final
• Hibernate Search 4.0 Final
• Book: Practical Unit Testing with TestNG and Mockito - available Q1 2012
• Mockito 1.9 released
  • Awesomely improved documentation
• Pax Exam 2.3 has been released
• Confluence 4.1 released
• JDBC driver for Neo4j from Rickard Oburg
• Google Guava 11rc1 out - changes

Android

• +Antur Kotwal is heading to Auckland on Janurary 5 to talk about new ICS APIs.
• ICS shipping to Nexus S devices over the next week or two

Spring

• Spring Social 1.0.1
• Spring 3.1

Groovy

• Grails 2.0
  • Heroku announces “native” support for Grails
• groovy 2.0 roadmap outlined
  • modularity! no more swing in your server app!

Scala

• Adopts Play framework as official
• Scala IDE for Eclipse gets an update
• Typesafe has been in damage control over recent high profile Scala dissing - introduces a paid for service that protects you against binary incompatibility, all  the rest of you have to suffer
• Scala+GWT compiler has gone to version 3, seems to be following Scala’s trend of changing a lot of the internals
• And a summary of the Yammer debate

Eclipse

• Xtend 2.2 released with standalone compiler, ant task, maven plugin.

Apache Maven

• Maven 2.x Release Plugin - Version 2.2.2
  • Fixed problems with version numbers in profiles not being updated, updated to SCM 1.6
• Maven Dependency Plugin - Version 2.4
  • Minor changes but one HUGE improvement:
    • Add to purge-local-repository goal ability to clean only snapshots
• dependencypath-maven-plugin
  • Sets a property pointing to the artifact file for each selected project dependency. Each property name will have a base name in form of groupId:artifactId:type:[classifier][.relative][.suffix]. This is similar to the /dependency:properties/ goal but with additional features, like setting a relative path and filtering.
• Maven Surefire Plugin, version 2.11
  • Includes changes to the proposed plugin API
• Maven FindBugs Plugin version 2.3.3
• Mock Repository Manager version 1.0-alpha-1
  • The Mock Repository Manager suite of projects are used to provide mock or lightweight Maven Repository Managers for use during integration testing of Maven plugins.
• Still no Apache Maven 3.0.4 release, rolled to rc4 after several issues were found, awaiting a re-release of Wagon to increase HTTP timeouts before rerolling rc5.

Episode 61

Unsupported Operation 61

Java / Misc

• OpenBD 2.0 - BlueDragon Cold Fusion service
• JesCov - Javascript Coverage
• JDK7 Rhino
• The Hudson Book - free eBook
• Java for Mac OSX Updated - 6u29
• Azul JVM 5
• Flyway 1.5 database migrations framework
• Jersey 1.5
• New Release of Restlet 2.1 with improved OSGi support available
• Artifactory 2.4 - can now operate as a YUM/APT repositories
  • rpm-maven-plugin
• PCollections 2.1.2 - not sure when this was release but only just discovered.  Nice persistent collections framework for Java.
• BicaVM - a JVM written.... in JavaScript
• Wireframe Sketcher 3 released - UI mockup designer.
• Adobe kills Mobile Flash, “Open Sources” FLEX
• Apache Tika 1.0 - Standards-based, Content and Metadata Detection and Analysis Toolkit

Groovy

• Groovy 1.8.4 - fixed issues with gradle and frails,  and 2.0-beta-1 - invoke dynamic support, static type checking, and more

Maven

• Apache Maven PMD Plugin 2.6
• Vote for Maven 3.0.4 on now!

Clojure

• Pomegranate is a new REPL/script  based dependency manager from Chas Emerick, somelike like Grapes/@Grab from Groovy
• Clojure-conj 2011 is on - I’m still on the fence for eyes-forward conferences, for deep technical topics like a lot of things here I think it works well.

Android

• Any.do is a new Todo/GTD app for Android ( and iPhone, and web ) - startup gets $1mil funding.  Their first app was Taskos, which was awesome - and explains some of its similarities.
• Apple ordered to show source code to Samsung in Australia
• Faceunlock fooled by a photo - who saw that one coming?

Episode 60

Unsupported Operation 60

Java / Misc

• Apache Harmony moved to the Attic
• JavaFX to be open sourced as JFX
• Oracle buys their way into leading the Gartner magic quadrant. The world collectively doesn’t give a shit.
• 10 years of eclipse
• Xtend is a new programming language from Eclipse
• Try Dart now has checked mode available - static javascript!
• Javascript codegen from Java - kinda like GWT, without the GWT
• Jackson 1.9.2 - 4th Nov
• Mustache.java 0.6
• Logback 1.0
• Concordion 1.4.2.
• Concordion-Extensions 1.1.0 including:
• XStream 1.4.2 released - now works on Android
• Jersey 1.10 released
• Jelastic now lets you deploy apps directly from maven - looks similar to Heroku

Android

• Writing Android applications with Apache Maven
• nbAndroid updated

Clojure

• Korma is not only tasty - but a new SQL DSL for Clojure - looks nice, cleaner and more readable tha ClojureQL.
• Immutant is a new clojure app server based on JBoss AS7 similar to what Torque Box does for JRuby
• Mostly Lazy is a new podcast about clojure from Chas Emerick - no episodes yet tho.

Scala

• Xitrum 1.3 has been released. Scala webframework built upon Hazelcast for distributed operation.

Misc

• Github Enterprise - $5000US per 20 users per year.  Sounds expensive, but after using Gerrit, and messy command lines - this could be a worthy expense.
• Loggly - cloud based log monitoring - not sure a lot of corps. would like the upload/storing of stack traces etc. to the cloud.

Apache

• Compress Antlib 1.1
• Httpclient 4.2-alpha1
• Empire-db - another persistence api (incubator 2.2)
• Jackrabbit 2.3.2
• Commons Compress 1.3
• CXF 2.5.0
• Couchdb 1.1.1 (of interested to +Greg Amer)

Episode 59

Unsupported Operation Episode 59

• TeamCity 6.5.5 bugfix released
• Sonar 2.11 - new cross project analytics
• Google Plus for Google Apps finally - except for Android app
• Google Dart binaries for download from DartForce
• Did we say Spring 3.1.0-RC1 was released? Its a bit yawny but I’m sure there is something in there for someone who listens.
• JBoss 4 and 5 get pwned - connects to JMX console and executes perl scripts in context of JBoss user.
• Oracle’s Anti-Android trial delayed until next year and split into 3 parts
• Stephen Coleborne critical on JCP transparency again
  • Interesting point about the method reference syntax silently changed, then mentioned in a developerWorks article.
• John Smart goes all out with his Acceptance Test Driven Development framework Thucydides.
  • Good to watch this project grow, from my measily contribution which was more John showing somehow how pulls worked with github.
• Apples ALAC Lossless Codec goes open source - interesting that its not long after Steve’s death and we see code being open sourced.  I wonder if we’d have seen this with Steve at the helm?
• NZOUG this week - worth going?
• Android SDK r15 released just after r14 - small bugfix update.
• Ruboto - never saw this before - Ruby for Android, as both an IRB REPL/script host, or full applications.
• JDon - DDD/CQRS framework - Immutability is everything

• Apache Commons Digest 3.1 released -
• Apache Derby 10.8.2.2
• Apache Archiva 1.4-M1 - their Maven proxy server (includes OSGI metadata search)
• Apache Commons Db Utils 1.4
• Subversion 1.7.1
• OpenWebBeans 1.1.2
• Hacking a dependency

Episode 58 - Thank goodness its over

Somethings gone messy with our episode numbers - if you happen to find them, let us know?

Java

• Spring 2GX starts this week in Chicago, friend is going, conference tracks look interesting-ish for Groovy/Grails person (well, not really)
  • Its held in autumn, how ironic
  • It has precisely 1 Roo session
• Oracle outlines plans for next two years of Java client side. Worlds emits collective yawn.
• Java 7 update 1 released, more builds of the Mac OSX Developer Preview - they seem to be back to the 2 week build cycle.
• The same seems largely true of Ice Cream Sandwich
  • Google confirmed ICS is Open Source
• New HTTP Status Codes
• For those of you trapped in the nightmare of OSGI - there is a way to get out. PojoSR.
  • We’ve disucssed this before, and its actually a way IN.
• Chronon 2.0 offers post execution logging - insert logging statements where you wanted them to be and see the logging output.
  • Basement Coders interview
• Introduced at the start of the month, Jetbrains has ANOTHER new IDE: Astella - for ActionScript, Flex, Air (yawn) and HTML5.
• Uncle Bob’s new Clean Coders episode on Architecture, Use Cases, and High Level Design is now available.

Clojure

• Rich Hickeys Strange Loop keynote “Simple Made Easy” video is now available.  Not clojure specific, and well worth watching.  “Complect” is my new favorite word.

Scala

• sbt-release 0.2 released - a release plugin - for something NOT maven - will miricles never cease.

Other

• AppEngine 1.5.5 released. Includes prediction API, cloud SQL, cloud storage, premier accounts.