Episode 53

Unsupported Operation 53

Java / News

• Changes to Henri’s OSX OpenJDK installer - Following changes in the bundle image, the installation process for OpenJDK for OS/X package requires directory /Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines to exist before, users should also install the new Apple Developper JDK preview.
• Frege is a new Haskell like JVM language from Ingo Wechsung.
• Betamax is a new HTTP record/playback test tool
• Terastore 0.8.2
• New to me - reflections and reflections-mojo - annotation scanning on steroids. Maven mojo stores precomputed annotion map, would be very useful for OSGi.
• Twitter opensources Storm live from Strangeloop keynote - 1st pull request DURING THE KEYNOTE :)
• Glassfish 4.0 roadmap, build #2
• YourKit Profiler 10 out
• Redline Smalltalk gets an eclipse plugin

Scala

• Xitrum 1.1 - a Scala web framework - Xitrum is an async and clustered Scala web framework and web server on top of Netty and Hazelcast
• Akka 1.2
• IntelliJ IDEA Scala Plugin Nightly builds for IDEA 11

Clojure

• Clojure 1.3 released for the JVM as well as the CLR
• SCIP has been updated for .mobi and Kindle formats

Eclipse

• EGit / JGit 1.1 released
• Eclipse 3.7.1 with Java 7 support

Jetbrains

• AppCode goes beta with a 50% discount
• IDEA 11 EAP Opened
• TeamCity 6.5.4

JBoss

• JBoss 7.0.2 must be out - people are tweeting about how uber-fast it is to start
• And out it is

Apache

• Apache Camel 2.8.1
• Speed up Maven with a (soon) to be new Cargo
• Maven jslint plugin
• license maven plugin 1.0
• exec-maven-plugin 1.2.1

Android / Google

• Android SDK Rev 13 released
• Inferno replaces the -entire- Java stack on Android
• The #maven #android plugin just got renamed to the #android #maven plugin
• Indash car Android Project with car-computer integration - video - photo
• Google Flights lists World Trade Center - oops
• New release of Google Closure Templates
• Crashplan backup software now for Android/iOS - view/restore only I believe

 

Episode 52

Unsupported Operation 52

Java

• As discussed in newsgroup, Lamba syntax essentially decided
• JavaZone 2011 videos on vimeo

Google

• Is Dash the death of GWT or JavaScript? Google releases new Dash “semantec web language” from Lars Bak and Gilad Bracha

Scala

• Scalate 1.5.2 released - template library
• Play 2.0 - available for Java as well, but looks extra nice for Scala.  Drops Groovy based templates for Scala based ones.

Apache

• Commons Configuration 1.7 released
• Wicket 1.5 released.
• Tomcat continues to have security issues - this time an authentication bypass. Seems to affect AJP users - really you should be using http proxy not AJP - however REMOTE_USER is not passed in http proxy by default.
• Apache POI hit its 10th anniversay and released 3.8 beta 4. Changes here.
• Apache James hits beta3 of 3.0
• Apache MyFaces Core hits 2.0.8 - lots of bug fixes and improvements (list is quite long).
• Apache MyFaces Extensions CDI 1.0.1 released (no idea what CDI is)
• Apache JackRabbit continues its march of endless releases just like a real rabbit. Hits 2.2.8 - I actually like this.
• Open Web Beans 1.1.1
• Aether and Sisu are now officially Eclipse Aether and Eclipse Sisu. Provisioning requests have been made, we'll be up and running soon!

Episode 51

Unsupported Operation 51

Java

• Java 7u2 Developer Preview available
• sun-java-6 packages to be removed from ubuntu/debian and all linux distributions, Oracle terminates distribution license
• All videos from this years JVM Language summit now online
• Gosling quits google for ocean robotics company - given he was doing a lot of autonomous car stuff before makes sense.
• AppleScript javax.scripting support added to the Mac OpenJDK port - binary installer for OS/X
• Doug Lea’s committed a candidate replacement of ConcurrentHashMap for JDK8 designed to more amenable to upcoming support for aggregate parallel operations including memoization support via computerIfAbsent
• JSR 348 (JCP.next) is in Public Review - please provide feedback, summary of changes
• Restlet 2.0.9 and 2.1M6 - we missed this last week.
• Heroku now supports Java
• Tapestry 5.3 beta
• ZK 5.0.8 maintenance release
• HawtDB 1.6
• Findbugs-guice 0.1 - findbugs plugin for Google Guice related issues.
• Disrupter 2.0
• Pax URL 1.3.5

Jetbrains

• IntelliJ IDEA 10.5.2 released
• TeamCity 7 EAP opened
• Jetbrains “Back to Office” sale - up to 50% off
• QA Plug 1.2.8 and QA Plug - Checkstyle 1.2.6 - not from Jetbrains, but another inspection framework - supports PMD, Checkstyle, FindBugs, and Hammurapi

Groovy

• Groovy turns 8

Scala

• Scala for the Impatient by Cay Horstman - free ebook sample.
• Looks like we never learn from logging - scala future facades
• Scala 2.9.1 Final

Clojure

• Ringfinger is another web framework
• Clooj 0.1.32 - simple IDE for clojure released.
• Clojure 1.3.0-beta3 out

JBoss

• Hibernate Search 3.4.1

Spring

• Spring AMQP 1.0GA
• Spring 3.0.6 maintenance release
• Spring Data Graph 1.1.0 with Neo4J support
• Micro Cloud Foundry - run your cloud app locally, just like it would in the real cloud.

Atlassian

• Confluence 3.5.11
• Fish Eye 2.6.5
• Crucible 2.6.5

Apache

• Apache Bigtop 0.10 hits the Incubator - Bigtop is a project for the development of packaging and tests of the Apache Hadoop ecosystem.
• Apache James 3 beta 3
• Apache Tomcat 6.0.33 bug/security fix release
• Apache Tomcat 7.0.20 ( and now .21)
• Apache Tomcat 5.5 End of Life
• Apache Karaf 2.2.3
• NSA wrote a NoSQL database, and has now donated it to Apache
• Apache Subversion 1.7-rc2
• Apache Server 2.2.20 - to fix DoS attack

Apache Maven / Sonatype

• The vote has passed 12/22 PMC members to release Apache Maven 3.0.4 with an EPL Aether/Sisu binary dependency - as soon as these two libraries official EPL/Ecipse released artifacts the maven release can go ahead.  *YAY*
• Maven Archetype Plugin version 2.1 - you can now filter the archetype list!
• Maven jar plugin, version 2.3.2 and maven-archiver 2.4.2 - Specific news for this release is the support for java7 file attributes, which can give a noticeable performance boost on linux and mac running java7. Certain performance improvements can also be expected on Java1.5/Java6 on linux and mac. Both releases require java 1.5 or newer.
• maven-deploy-plugin 2.7, maven-gpg-plugin 1.4
• maven-compiler-plugin has issues with JDK7’s javac output. A new version of the plugin is due hopefully this/next week with a fix for this.
• SQL Maven Plugin version 1.5
• Selenium Maven Plugin 2.0 - updated to selenium sever 2.2.0, support for passing system properties
• Maven Site Plugin version 3.0 and Maven Reporting Exec version 1.0.1
• AspectJ Maven Plugin version 1.4
• nbm-maven-plugin 3.6 ( netbeans module plugin )
• webtest-maven-plugin version 1.0.0 - runs canoo web test
• Nexus 1.9.2.2
• Sonar 2.10 released - internationalization, manual measures, notifications
  • Sonar 2.10 in screenshots
  • Release Notes
  • Downloads

Android / Google

• AChartEngine - open source charting lib for Android
• Cyanogen Mod 7 running on the HP TouchPad
• Github issue tracker for Android - why you would want to track/raise issues on a mobile I never know - GET SOME DOWNTIME PEOPLE!
• Baidu forks Android
• GMail Offline returns - to the Chrome Store ONLY.

Misc

• PostgreSQL 9.1 RC1
• Linux moves to github