Unsupported Operation 18

Episode 18 (mp3)

• Java
  
  • GWT 2.1 final released
  • Spring Roo 1.1 Released (with GWT 2.1 support)
  • Spring 3.0.5
  • Sonar 2.3
  • Netty 3.2.2
  • Concordion 1.4.1 - new extension API by Nigel Charman
  • Project Coin updates around multi-catch and precise rethrow
  • Follow OpenJDK on twitter
  • openjdk6 in Macports
  • New way of static methods to find their own class
  • Jasypt 1.7
  • Java Spotlight podcast
• Apache
  
  • MINA 2.0.1
  • PDFBox 1.3.1
  • Commons Daemon 1.0.4
  • Tuscany SCA
  • Commons IO 2.0
  • Open Web Beans 1.0 final
  • Ivy 2.2.0
  • Camel 1.4
  • ServiceMix 3.2.2
• Clojure
  
  • Clojure 1.3 Alpha 2
  • Clojure JIRA instance
  • Uncle Bob Martin’s Clojure Intro
  • Midje 0.7.0 out
  • Land of Lisp
• Tools
  
  • New IntelliJ IDEA X EAP with Github Support
  • Firefox 4 delayed til 2010
  • easyb moved to Github and Maven
  • Resin 4.0.12
  • Lily CMS 0.2

Unsupported Operation 17

Unsupported Operation Episode (mp3) 17

• Apple deprecates Java
  
  • OpenJDK 7 appears ported to Mac OS X already
  • New Mac AppStore guidelines are not to use deprecated or optionally installed technologies. That would
    seem to include Air.
  • Will we see a move to Delphi? Delphi starts its beta programme of native Mac support in November .
  • What about MonoMac? (which compiles to native Mac)
  • Dmitry Jemerov (Jetbrains): Right now we know as much as anyone else about this issue. We don’t plan to stop our OSX-specific Java development. Whatever the final outcome of this issue (Apple reverting its decision like it reverted its changes to the iOS developer agreement, Apple open-sourcing its Java implementation, Oracle providing its own port of Java for MacOS X, or SoyLatte becoming the de-facto standard), we’re certain that some version of Java on MacOS X will remain available. And if it means that we’ll have to do a lot of additional work to adapt our platform to the new Java implementation, well, then we’ll do it, as we don’t seem to have much choice in this regard.
• Microsoft walks away from dynamic languages
• Doug Lea heralds change in the JCP
• Eclipse Foundation declares “NO VOTE” for any JSR/proposal that does not include OSGi in Java 8
• Tomcat 7.0.4 beta release, bug fixes and reduced code duplication
• Groovy++ gets Closure level fields
• GAE gets new admin features
• Many new features are python only tho, Java left out
• JavaFX Roadmap
• AZUL’S Zing software + Vega 3 hardware stack optimized for Java shows performance 100s of times better than Oracle’s JVM (HotSpot).
• OpenCore released - highly performant low impact Java monitoring, but commercial. Part of JInspired.
• GWT 2.1 RC1 brings features from GWT 2.2, including logging and a new MVP framework. MVP is good as
  a bug in the current optimizer prevents generics from working entirely properly with the code splitter with
  such frameworks as gwt-dispatch
• New Maven mirror in france and uk.
• Artifactory 2.3 Pro has some cool new features - its a repository manager that competes with Nexus
  
  • License alerts
  • Atlassian Crowd integration
  • User plugins
  • Gradle & Ivy integration + more
• Atlassian Crucible starter licenses now available, 5 for $10
• async-http-client 1.3.1 released - 2x faster than last weeks 1.2.0 release!
• gitflow 0.4 released - intro screencast Mark recorded.
• apache commons-io 2.0 released, java 5 version

Theme music is “Emotional Upgrade” by John Zeeley, used under Creative Commons.

Unsupported Operation 16

Unsupported Operation 16

It’s been a few weeks since the last Unsupported Operation, but we’re back with another set of news and views (mp3).

Java

• Async HTTP Client 1.2.0 Released.
• Google files to have Oracle’s suit dismissed and Oracle to pay costs back
• IBM abandons Harmony and joins OpenJDK
• Oracle release Java 6u22 - LOTS of security fixes
• Oracle or Microsoft in talks to maybe buy EMC? With VMWare/Spring under the EMC wing, either outcome will be an interesting shift in the landscape.

Other

• Scala releases 2.8.1 RC3 (14 Oct)
• GWT starts to showcase features of 2.1
• Scala Solutions founded - Martin goes commercial
• Lift 2.1 Released
• Jetbrains release PyCharm 1.0 - Python IDE based on IntelliJ
• Hibernate 3.6 released, moved to git, github,and gradle.
• PostgreSQL 9 released! 9.0 includes more major features than any release before it, including:
  
  • Hot standby
  • Streaming replication
  • In-place upgrades
  • 64-bit Windows builds
  • Easy mass permissions management
  • Anonymous blocks and named parameter calls for stored procedures <- PG gets closures before Java :-)
  • New windowing functions and ordered aggregates

Groovy

• HTTP Builder 0.5.1 released - adds OAUTH support
• Big war erupts on Groovy bug list over whether “true”.toBoolean() should return true or false. Makes for hilarious read
• GWTQuery is being worked on again. Still no 1.0 release

Clojure

• Crane is a new clojure based deployment tool - similar in space as puppet, chef, ish.

Tools

• AquaFold 9 - new Open APIs
• Eclipse Virgo Milestone 5 - Milestone 5 of Eclipse Virgo 2.1.0 is available from the download page. We plan to ship the 2.1.0 release by the end of October. Highlights of this milestone:
  
  • Upgrade Equinox to 3.6.1
  • Remove unnecessary bundles from kernel and shrink the classpath
  • Distinguish more clearly between kernel and web server in documentation
  • Bug 325334: Import-Bundle of fragment that does not specify bundle version range
  • Rename service scoping control property
  • Various diagnostic improvements
  • Improve permission handling in Windows startup scripts and document a workaround
  • Add empty pickup directory to kernel zip
  • Various minor improvements
• Netbeans 6.10 renamed to Netbeans 7.0

Apache

• Maven 3
• Maven Release Plugin 2.1
• Maven Assembly Plugin 2.2
• Maven Antrun Plugin 1.6
• Maven Common Artifact Filters 1.3
• Maven Java EE 6 archetypes 1.2 released
• Maven Checkstyle Plugin 2.6
• Maven Linkcheck Plugin 1.0.1
• Apache Wicket 1.4.12 released, this release brings a fix to a critical bug which prevented ajax form submits in FireFox.
• Apache Wicket 1.5-M2.1 - This is the second milestone of the new 1.5.x Wicket series. The focus of 1.5.x is to provide our users with a more powerful and flexible request processing pipeline. This release is NOT production-ready, it is more of a technology demo that should facilitate user-feedback we can fold into the next milestone. New and noteworthy items in this milestone include Inter-component event mechanism which allows components to communicate in a decoupled fashion, and improved resource caching.
• Apache Buildr 1.4.3 released, addressed a critical fault where zip/jars could be corrupted, but a whole lot of other changes as well. Buildr is a cross between Ant and Maven, like Gradle, but written in Ruby
• Apache Derby 10.6.2.1 released
  
  • Derby is a slow as buggery Java RDBMS that is included in JDK6
  • This release addresses a data corruption issue for unique index corruption. Existing unique nullable constraints may need to be repaired [1].
    Users may also want to consider the recently found upgrade issue regarding triggers[2].
  • Adds in localization for new messages created in 10.6
  • Derby is used in Glassfish
• Apache CXF 2.3.0 finally released - Lots in this release, probably biggest for me is @WSDLDocumentation. What’s new in CXF 2.3.0:
  
  • JAX-WS 2.2 Compliant (passes TCK)
  • JAX-RS 1.1 Compliant (passes TCK)
  • New annotations for Java first use cases to reduce the need for external configuration and provide more control over the runtime and generated WSDL
  • @WSDLDocumentation annotation to add documentation nodes to generated wsdl
  • @SchemaValidation annotation to turn on schema validation
  • @DataBinding to set the databinding used (if other than JAXB)
  • @GZIP to turn on GZIP compression
  • @FastInfoset to turn on FastInfoset support
  • @Logging to turn on and control various Logging functionality
  • @EndpointProperty to configure endpoint properties
  • @Policy to associate WS-Policy documents with the service
  • SOAP/JMS spec implementation. While CXF has supported SOAP over JMS since 2.0, there wasn’t a standard specification to describe how it
    should be done so different vendors did things differently and
    interoperability was impossible. The new SOAP/JMS specification
    support implements the new SOAP/JMS spec to achieve a higher
    degree of interoperability.
  • SDO databinding
  • Schema Validation support for Aegis Databinding if Woodstox 4 is used for the Stax parser

Unsupported Operation 15

It may be slightly delayed, but here's the news (mp3):

• Checkstyle 5.2
• Oracle posts JavaOne videos
• JTestR 0.6
• JavaFX Demo at JavaOne
• Clojure Cookbook
• Clojure Maven Plugin 1.5.4
• Expectations Clojure Testing Framework
• CodeNarc 0.10 - checkstyle for groovy
• Gaelyk 0.5
• Groovy++
• Maven Android Plugin 2.6.0
• Amazon Android Store
• Android 2.2.1
• Apache Mina 2.0
• Apache Axis2 1.5.2
• Apache MyFaces 2.0.2
• Apache Bean Validator 0.2
• Apache Shindig

 Theme music is "Emotional Upgrade" by John Zeeley, used under Creative Commons.