Unsupported Operation Episode 25

A short news show today…

• Java
  
  • Hudson vote finished - Hudson becomes Jenkins
  • Checkin of code to remove termen space for OpenJDK
  • NetBeans drops Ruby
  • RubyMine welcomes all netbeans users, Rubymine Personal now with a 50% discount
  • Jersey 1.5 Releasd
  • Jersey spec lead Paul Sandoz resigns from Oracle - new spec lead to come.
  • TeamCity 6.0.2 released from Jetbrains
• Other langs
  
  • Scala gets a new web framework: Bowler
  • Lift 2.2 got released Jan 5
• SouJava nominated to fill Apaches JCP Spot - will be represented by Bruno Souza, head of the Brazillian JUG.
• Apache
  
  • Apache OFBiz 09.04.01 + 10.01
  • MyFaces Trinidad 2.0.0-beta
  • HttpClient 4.1 GA
  • Pivot 2.0
  • HttpAsyncClient 4.0-alpha1
  • Click 2.3.0 RC1 now available.
• Amazon
  
  • AWS Elastic Beanstalk
  • Tomcat + Database (Oracle, Amazon RDS (scaled mysql), Amazon SimpleDB) + auto-scaling
  • Amazon Simple Email Service lets you send 2000 emails free per day + cheap as chips for the rest of them
• Google
  
  • Android 3.0 beta released for developers
  • Guice 2.0-no-aop released to Maven central
  • Roboguice went 1.1 - its a DI framework for Android (and its pretty cool)
  • High Replication Store for App Engine (Jan 6th announcement)

Unsupported Operation Episode 24

The first news show for 2011 and I went and messed up the audio, apologies for the less-than-stellar sound on this episode.

Java / Tools

• Apache
  
  • Maven 3.0.2
  • Karaf 2.13 - based on Felix 3.0.7
  • Tomcat 7.0.6 stable
  • Tomcat 6.0.30 also released
  • Cassandra 0.7
  • Pig 0.8
• Atlassian
  
  • Crucible 2.4.4
  • FishEye 2.4.4
  • Jira 4.3 EAP 5
• Weld 1.1.0 Final
• CDI TCK 1.0.4
• Hibernate Validator 4.2.0 Beta 1
• Sonar 2.5
• JDK7 is now Feature Complete
• Open JDK Project officially opened for OSX
• Oracle issuing 66 patches
• Hudson renamed to Jenkins
• IntelliJ IDEA 10.0.2 EAP opened
• SmartGWT 2.4
• Neo4j 1.2 - new REST server API
• Google Guice 3.0 RC2 released and in Maven Central
• Spring Roo 1.1.1
• Eclipse launches Orion - web based Java IDE
• Oracle Lawyers reject JUnit from Netbeans

Clojure

• Midge 1.0 RC released

Javascript

• Mug is a new javascript compiler for the JVM, written in Clojure, uses CommonJS modules and has a nice
  CommonJS based java-interop story.

Android

• Writing Android Applications with Visage ( was JavaFX Script )
• Mug - previously mentioned, also has a sample Android application written in Javascript.
• Android NDK updated - no longer requires Java for applications/intents
• Monodroid is now open

Groovy

• Gaelyk 0.6 - updated for GAE SDK 1.4.0, Groovy 1.7.6

JRuby

• JRuby 1.6 released, bring Ruby 1.9.2 compatibility

Other

• HTML5 gets a new logo