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
- 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
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
