Unsupported Operation: December 2010

Monday, December 20, 2010

GWT 2.1.1 now available
Minor update with improvements to 2.1’s RequestFactory based on feedback, and non-googler patches.
Includes updates to Google Plugin for Eclipse and the GWT Designer.
QCon video - LMAX: How to do 100k TPS at leass than 1ms latency
Martin Thompson and Michael Barker talk about building a HPC financial system handling over 100k TPS.
Infinispan 4.2.0 Final released ( also, 5.0.0.ALPHA1 released) - what used to be JBoss Cache, in memory cache that supports JTA,
JSR-107 JCACHE, persistent and relicated/distributed.
Google set to launch the WindowBuilder Java GUI designer and CodePro Profiler at Eclipse, donating code worth over $5 million
Cezanne is an awesome looking LAF for Swing - and when we say awesome, we mean sexy.
Tapestry 5.2.4 available.
Sonar 2.4 released
Jetbrains release YouTrack 2.2 - Christmas Edition
- OpenSearch Support
- Code prettify ( uses google-code-prettify library )
- “christmas tricks” hidden unobtrusively in the install….
Activiti in Action book - now in MEAP by Tijs Rademakers and Ron Van Liempd

Solving the expression problem with clojure by Stuart Sierra, not a “release”, but a great article.

GPars 0.11 released
Groovy 1.7.6 released - moved to JUnit 4.8.2 and IVY 2.2.0, some testing done with Java 7 builds

MINA - their NIO protocol stack went 2.0.2, mostly around bugs (but these kinds of bugs tend to be difficult)
JackRabbit 2.2.0, interesting they switched to logback (from logs) as their default but use sl4fj
Derby 10.7.1.1
UIMA - component architecture and framework for the analysis of unstructured content like text, video and audio data - hits 2.3.1

Git Jungle is a new git visualisation tool from PlasticSCM. Mono based
but visually very nice.
Plastic SCM Plug-in for Zutubi Pulse
Google Guice 3 RC1 now available, Cedric Beust also updates TestNG with
Guice support

Groovy ++ 0.4.9.7 released, accepted that it needs to be Groovy rather than Groovy/Java mix
Peter Niederweiser of Spock fame joins Gradle team
Groovy 1.7.5 feature gets around not being able to exit from closures in a loop (findResult)

Apache Abdera hits 1.1.1 - Abdera is IETF Atom Syndication Format (RFC 4287) and Atom Publishing Protocol
2nd MyFaces extensions for CDI

Android 2.3 released to developers, first device (Nexus-S) ships on Dec 16th in US, Nexus 1 should start rolling out soon according to the team
New Maps app with 3d buildings and stuff for new 2.3 release
New Marketplace - returning the app for refund drops from 24 hrs to 15 mins!!