Episode 43

Unsupported Operation 43

Java

• Hibernate OGM - Open Grid Mapping, JPA engine for distributed NoSQL stores.
• Eric Evans from Rackspace giving a talk on Cassandras new Query Language
• 1.1.3 of the Checkers Framework and Type Annotation Compiler
• Jetbrains IntelliJ IDEA 10.5.1 RC
• Jetbrains release You Track 3 - graphical MPS based workflow editor, free for 10 users.
• RESTEasy 2.2.1 - maintenance release
• New JavaZone X Conference trailer - The Streaming
• Back in Ep 23 we mentioned the LMAX presentation by Martin Thompson and Michael Barker, Michael Barker contacted us to say they’ve decided to open source some the code for the ring buffer based pattern talked about in that presentation: http://code.google.com/p/disruptor/.  It's a high-performance alternative to a Queue.

JBoss

• Drools 5.2
• jBPM 5.1

Eclipse

• Eclipse 3.7
  • lots of reports of m2eclipse pain
• Eclipse BIRT 3.7 - support for Hadoop/Hive

Apache

• Apache Tomcat 7.0.16
• NIO implementation of the AJP connector
• Enable Servlet 3 asynchronous processing support when using clustering
• Add parallel deployment support to the Manager's Ant tasks
• Apache Karaf celebrates 1 year as a top level project
• Maven
  • Surefire plugin 2.9
  • Remote resources plugin 1.2.1
  • Verifier 1.3
  • EAR plugin 2.6
  • maven-changes-plugin 2.6
  • Maven Plugin Plugin and Plugin Tools 2.8 released
  • There’s a proposal/process currently being discussed to move maven’s JIRA from codehaus to issues.apache.org to bring everything “maven” under the Apache umbrella.
  • Some surprise PMC Changes.

Android

• TouchQode - code editor for touch devices....  The video looks like a usability nightmare.
• 17 or 21 claims in (one of Oracles Patents) rejected by USPTO after reexamining the patent

Clojure

• Clojure 1.3 Beta 1 released
• The Joy of Clojure now available as ePub/mobi
• WebNoir is a new web framework built ontop of compojure - very nice looking.
  • Uses Hiccup for HTML generation, would be nice to also see Enlive also supported, altho Hiccup/Webnoir + Sitemesh would be good.

Scala

• Dick Wall from The Java Posse recently released Subcut - an IoC/DI framework for Scala - Subcut is a backcronym for Scala Uniquely Bound Classes Under Traits.

Misc

• Microsoft withdraws XML patent application - congrats to the NZOSS.
• Google release DOMSnitch security checking extension for Chrome
• Github release an OSX native application - bizarre...
• Firefox 5 release, 4.x retired from security updates
• Puppet 2.7.0

Episode 42 - The Big Fizz in the Yellow Can

Unsupported Operation 42

Java

• Erich Gamma - once a lead on Eclipse for IBM has joined Microsoft on Visual Studio. Microsoft will create a lab in Zurich led by him.
• Oracle vs Google scheduled for October
  • Barnes & Noble are using the attempt to prevent competition argument against Microsoft for the Nook-e battle.
  • Oracle want a per copy royalty + royalties from mobile searches
• Seam Reports 3.0.0.Alpha1 released (do you release alphas?)
  • WTF - Release Management done ‘right’
• Orion 0.2M8 - lots of Git support (and Github)
• jcloud hits 1.0.0
• JDK 1.6u26 released
• 2 Months till JDK7 launch - July 28th, could we have had JDK7 without Java 7? JDK7 built purely on OpenJDK codebase, no binary shims.
  • JDK8 lambda syntax discussion rises again
• JDeveloper 11g R2 gets OSGi tooling - Oracle embracing OSGi again?
• JasperWave - Eclipse based JasperReports designer
• Spark / Sherpa released - JDBC like drivers for SPARQL and RDF
  • Sherpa is a high-performance, language-agnostic, binary protocol for SPARQL processor communication, using Apache Avro to define the protocol.
• JLine 1.0 released (finally) but maven issues getting in the way of getting it to central currently.
• Jetbrains release Team City 6.5.1 - Eclipse plugin updated for Eclipse 3.7, memory leak fix, lots of bug fixes.

Atlassian

• 2011 Codegeist winners announced, ePub export looks awesome.

Clojure

• Programming Clojure now available in O’Reily Rough Cuts
• Clojure 1.3alpha8

Scala

• Scala moves to github - 1GB checkout?  nasty!
• ScalaTypes is a new podcast for scala love.  Follow them on Twitter.

Apache

• Apache Nutch 1.3 - Apache Nutch is an extensible framework for building out large-scale web-based search.
• Apache MyFaces 2.0.7/2.1.1

Groovy

• Grails 1.4M1 came out

 

Episode 41 - The only water in the forest is the river.

Enjoy ;-)

Java / Tools / Misc

• structur - new CMS built on Java and Neo4j
• Jease 2.1 - CMS gets Tika support for searching/previewing binary documents, based on ZK web framework.
• ZK Spreadsheet 2.1
• Mule 3.1.2
• Chex4j - another pre/post condition processor
• JRebel 4.0
  • Spring going after same space as JRebel for tcServer in STS 2.6
• VIDEO: Anil Madan on Hadoop at eBay
• REST Easy 2.2
• LOG Faces 3 released - centralized logging, built on open source but seems commercial.
• Joda-beans from Stephen Colebourne - another properties implementation.
• Cassandra 0.8 - now with CQL query language, JDBC drivers, and distributed counters.
• Spring ToolSuite 2.6
• Groovy Eclipse compiler now available for maven as alternative for GMaven

One Liners

• Groovy / Scala / Coffeescript / Ruby / Python / Haskel / Clojure / C# /  F#

Google

• Google to now offer a paid version of Translate API

Atlassian

• Bamboo 3.1.1

Scala

• Typesafe Migration Manager 0.1 - Checks your code/binaries for migration issues between versions of Scala.  Also generates NEW class files with migrated bytecode for any classes that have been moved/renamed.
• Cloud Foundary now supports Scala and Lift

Apache

• Apache Solr 3.2
• Apache Lucene 3.2
• Maven GPG 1.3
• Apache Hama 0.2 incubating release
• And for a laugh: Apache Lucy - a C port of Lucene. Why???
• Apache Open Office