Episode 77

Unsupported Operation 77

General News

• JRuby smokes normal Ruby
• Apache Camel seems to be getting strong enough so that Red Hat purchased Fuse Source
• Mule 3.3 released
• IntelliJ IDEA 12 “Leda” EAP opened
• New compiler mode brings eclipse like continuous compilation, and other improvements.
• Eclipse 4.2 released
• Eclipse Xtend 1.0 released
• Ceylon Milestone 3 was released, with a new JS compiler - discussed on the latest JBoss Asylum podcast.
• Weka is a new data mining tool from the University of Waikato - It includes an extensive series of pre-implemented machine learning algorithms, including well known classification and clustering algorithms. If you’ve ever been curious how Bayes Theorem works, this is a great tool to get up and running.

Google News

• IO obviously happened this week:
• New JellyBean, but not sure what new APIs
• Cloud messaging grows up
• Google Now - event reminders with estimated travel times to destination, advance Siri beating voice search etc. etc.
• New Google TV APIs
• New YouTube APIs
• Web Intents
• Google Compute Engine
• Adobe has killed Flash for Android 4.1
• Mark and I used Party Mode on a trip today, worked great! Remember to turn your calendar from “yes accept any and all invitations” to “no” if thats what its setting is and you want to be more careful.
• Oddly - the photo I took when in Party Mode never uploaded...
• Google did not gloat at IO about Oracle case as far as I saw
• GWT 2.5 RC/beta?
• GWT control seeded to external standards group/organisation/steering committee - Red Hat coming on board, Vaadin, and others
• Vaadin 7 Alpha 3 also released
• now includes full GWT for client side JS development, new navigation apis, js execution apis, JS based components,

Groovy

• 2.0 released
• a static type checker to let the compiler tell you about the correctness of your code,
• static compilation for the performance of the critical parts of your application,
• modularity, splitting the Groovy JAR into smaller feature-oriented JARs and letting you create your own extension modules,
• JDK 7 Project Coin syntax enhancements, so that Groovy is still as friendly as possible with its Java cousin,
• and JDK 7 Invoke Dynamic integration to benefit from the support of the JVM for dynamic languages.
• Grails 2.1.0-RC3
• Greame Rocher happy with Grails smoking Play.
• Did we say Gradle went 1.0?

Apache News

• Apache Tomcat 7.0.28
• Phonegap 1.9.0 released ( now Apache Cordova I believe )

Other

• Amazon EC2 down and took out Instagram, Netflix, and lots of others, followed up by a leap second bug taking out java apps everywhere - YAY.

Episode 76

Unsupported Operation 76

Snakes are like small children

• Oracle ordered to pay Googles Legal Fees
• Oracle Cloud launched
• Apple/Google(Motorola) case thrown out by Judge - as neither side could proove damages, Judge thru out the case - good to see judges with balls lately - call it “not in the public interest” to continue it.

• jdk 7u 5
• Neo4j 1.8M04
• NetBeans 7.2 introduces TestNG

• Glu 4.4.0 released ( a month ago ), but I just discovered the project. Looks very nice for coordinated/automated deployments. Video presentation.
• Kotlin Milestone 2also running on Android ( hello world in kotlin - super awesome 5 line example :), more examples )

• Cucumber JVM 1.0.9 and Cucumber C++ 1.0
• Zipkin - an Open Source distributed tracing system from Twitter. cassandra/zookeeper based tracing tool to help performance monitor your systems.
• Storm 0.8 dev release
• Eclipse Juno 4.2RC3 available
• Zanata - Seam based translation tool for .po files (and other) - sponsored by Red Hat, looks nice.

Apache

• Apache Oozie 3.2.0 released - Hadoop workflow/coordination system with DAGs
• Nutch 1.5 - web search, now based on SOLR instead of lucene directly. Apache Tika and Hadoop involved?
• Rave 0.12 - Alpha
• Apache Syncope 1.0.0-incubating - Open Source Identity Management for enterprises

• HttpComponents HttpCore 4.2.1GA released
• Felix Configuration Admin 1.4.0 released
• Apache Jackrabbit 2.4.2

Groovy

• Groovy 2.0 RC

Misc

• Angular goes 1.0
• Google IO in 2 weeks
• Scalathon 2012 announced
• The tables turn,Enterprise Java is going after Spring
• News for organisations that do webdev -PageSpeed Insights 2.0 released, Firefox & Chrome extensions.

Episode 75

Unsupported Operation 75

Java / Misc

• Gerrit 2.4 released
• Cucumber-JVM 1.0.8
• ErrorProne - another build time error catcher
• Huge Collections - another large collections library for java
• JNario - new Executable Specifications testing tool for Java, based on Eclipse Xtend.
• Looks awesome, but... Jnario requires Eclipse ≥3.6 with the latest milestone releases of Xtext 2.3 and Xtend 2.3.
• Mocikto 1.9.5-rc1 - One of the biggest new things is the MockMaker API, making the default cglib proxy generator pluggable, with..... dexmaker for live, on the fly Android proxy generation.
• Lockitron - use NFC to unlock your house...
• OrientDB 1.0 released ( a few weeks back now )
• Hibernate 4.1.4
• Loop - New haskell/ruby/scheme inspired JVM language from Dhanji
• WebMotion 2.2 - a new Java web framework
• I say new, but 1.0 came out mid-last year - never heard of it before.
• Templating is via StringTemplate - an interesting choice
• EE6/Servlet 3 based
• Exhaustive documentation - win!
• GetDown - a lightweight replacement for Java WebStart.
• YouTrack 4.0 Release Date pushed back - after getting feedback from the community, JetBrains have decided to push back the YT4.0 release back a month to add in some extra new features to new the Agile/Kanban/Scrum portion of YouTrack - which looks awesome. A webinar of the 4.0 Agile features is also available.

Apache

• JMeter 2.7
• Apache Log4j 1.2.17 - first (maintainance) release in 2 years!
• Tomcat Connectors 1.2.37
• Buildr 1.4.7
• PDFBox 1.7.0
• WSIF retierd
• Wink 1.2.0-incubating
• Libcloud 0.10.1
• HttpComponents HttpClient 4.2GA
• Apache Qpid 0.16

Groovy / Grails

• http://grails.org/2.0.4+Release+Notes
• http://grails.org/1.3.9+Release+Notes
• http://grails.org/2.1.0.RC1+Release+Notes
• Gaelyk 1.2
• Groovy 2.0 RC

Scala

• ScalaGWT

Clojure

• Clojure 1.5.0 alpha 1
• Timbre - pure clojure logging library
• Neocons - feature rich clojure client library for Neo4J REST Server
• Carmine - Clojure Redis Client

Maven

• maven clean plugin 2.5
• maven compiler plugin 2.5
• maven changes plugin 2.7.1
• maven invoker 1.6
• release:perform
• maven truezip plugin 1.0
• maven license plugin 1.1
• maven remote resources plugin 1.3
• maven shade plugin 1.7
• maven release plugin 2.3.1
• maven plugin plugin 3.0.0 released, now fully/officially supporting JDK annotations.

Episode 74

Unsupported Operation 74

Java / Misc

• Xtend 2.3 beta now available
• Xtend language web console
• Groovy Eclipse moved to Github
• Vert.x 1.0, some interesting performance stats against node.js
• Vibe.d - new async I/O web framework for D
• Neo4J 1.8M01, interesting new interactive Neo4j console.
• WebSphere Application Server V8.5 Announced
• Brackets - new open source IDE for HTML/CSS/JavaScript from Adobe
• JRebel 4.6.2
• pit mutation testing 0.27
• IntelliJ 11.1.2RC
• ActiveMQ 5.6.0
• Groovy 2.0beta3
• Cassandra Maven Plugin - Version 1.1.0-1
• logback 1.0.3
• Weld 1.1.8
• Hibernate 4.3 final
• The Great JSR-310 Naming Poll

Google

• Guava 12.0 released - FluentIterable is glorious. If you’re stuck in javaland that is.

Clojure

• New Reduces library coming in 1.5 - looking awesome, and mind-bendy

Apache

• Karaf 2.2.7
• Apache OpenOffice 3.4

Apache Maven

• buildnumber-maven-plugin 1.1
• buildversion-plugin
• appassembler-maven-plugin 1.2.2
• Maven Site Plugin 3, version 3.1
• Maven Site Plugin 2, version 2.4
• PHP-Maven Plugin 2.0.0
• Fitness maven plugin
• plan-maven-plugin
• Artifactory 2.6

Misc

• PostgreSQL 9.2 Draft Release Notes - release is soon, so you might want to start planning

Episode 73

Unsupported Operation 73

Java

• JDK 7u4 released, AND for the Mac!
  • JRE 7u6 for mac available as developer preview, brings applets/javafx etc
  • 7u4 will become the default JRE for end users in a few weeks as well. Finally, we’ll be able to say that “Java 7 is released - proper like”
  • Some new things added to the dist
• Doug Lea proposes extensions in JDK7 for Concurrency for lambas
• Pig 0.10 released
• New release of WebGoat - OWASP “deliberately insecure webapp” for teaching purposes - never come across it before.

Google

• Play Maps Cube - requires Chrome

Apache

• Apache Karaf 2.2.7
• Cassandra 1.1
• Chemistry OpenCMIS 0.7.0
• Ivy 2.3.0-RC1
• Gora 0.2
• Jackrabbit 2.2.12

Maven

• New maven compiler plugin soon to be released, pulls in new maven-plexus-javac which speeds up multi-module builds by around 30%, you can use it now by adding the dependency manually.

Misc

• Crash goes 1.0
• Groovy 2.0 is as fast as Java

Episode 72

Unsupported Operation 72

• Google/Oracle trial. APIs are apparently copyright. Huh? So Harmony was infringing copyright all along?
  • The Judge has made the call that HE will decide - I don’t think he has yet done so…?
• Google acquires Unisys Parents, including Java API patents
  • Generation of Java language application programming interface for an object-oriented data store JDBC? EJB ‘reposistories’?, JCR content repositories?…
  • Common gateway which allows JAVA applets to make program calls to OLTP applications executing on an enterprise server reference to co-pending applications
• Henri Gomez’s JDK build project now has JDK8 builds for Llambda and Jigsaw.
• Gerrit 2.3 is out - new draft reviews - nice.
• FEST-Reflect 1.3
• FEST-Assert 2.0m2
• Flyway DB Migrations 1.6.1
• Damn Handy URI Templates
• Sonar 3 is out, new developer cockpit - looks nice but EXPENSIVE - per developer stats

Jetbrains

• Kotlin M1 - Maven repository

Clojure

• Chas Emerick releases Friend - an auth lib for Clojure
• Clojure 1.4 released - not yet mentioned on the website it seems tho.
• New clojars’s application/site release

Scala

• Typesafe Stack 2.0.1 released
• Scala IDE for Eclipse M1 released

Groovy

• Grails is now 2.0.3 after Windows related issued found.

Apache

• Compress Antlib 1.2 released
• Commons Compress 1.4
• Open Web Beans 1.1.4
• Tomcat 7.0.27
• IvyDE 2.2.0 beta 1
• Camel 2.9.2
• CXF 2.6.0
• HTTP Server 2.4.2
• Rave 0.10.1 (mashup engine)
• OFBiz 10.04.02
• Commons IO 2.3
• BVal 0.4 (implements Bean Validation 1.0 spec)
• Axion 1.2.13 - xml model something or other that was part of Axis 2
• Lucene and Solr 3.6 (does this mean a new version of Elastic Search soon?)
• MyFaces Core 2.1.7 / 1.2.12 / 1.1.10
• Accumulo 1.4.0 (key/value store big table based on hadoop, zookeeper and thrift)
• Empire DB 3.0 - alternative to JPA - http://empire-db.apache.org/empiredb/hibernate.htm

Other

• Meteor decides to change their license to MIT
• Lean is officially cooler than Agile

Episode 71

Unsupported Operation Episode 71

• Android Tap Keyboard - youtube demo video
• OpenJDK 7 and 8 for OSX - OpenJDK 8 for Mac now with Jigsaw modules!
• OpenJDK 7 ported to Haiku ( screenshot )
• JDK8 - Selected Updates
• Apple releases 2nd Java Update in 2 days
• TeamCity 7.0.2 from Jetbrains.
• Youtrack 4.0 EAP with new Agile/Scrum board.
• Clojure Programming from Chas Emerick now available on Amazon Kindle.
• async-http-client 1.7.2 released.
• Built with Apache Wicket is a new tumblr blog showcasing various apps/sites built with the Apache Wicket web framework.

Episode 70 - Important Java News EVERYONE needs to hear.

Welcome to Unsupported Operation Episode 70, this episode includes details of several upcoming and game changing news to both the java community and its ecosystem.

 

Episode 69

Unsupported Operation Episode 69

• Chronon 3 beta - 10x performance improvement, massive memory usage improvement
• Continuous Deployment with Jenkins/Tomcat
• Exploiting Tomcat - all your ROOT are belond to us.
• Cliff Click leaves Azul systems to form 0xdata and build H2O database
• Pangool - an easy to use fluent Java DSL for Hadoop queries
• ZooKeeper 3.3.5
• Weld 1.1.6
• A model for improving names
• PHPStorm / WebStorm 4.0 EAP 117.65
• IntelliJ IDEA 11.1 RC3
• jClouds bindings for clojure - from HP Cloud
• Archiva gets a new website thanks for the Maven Fluido skin
• HTTP “Prefer” header draft
• clojure-maven-plugin 1.3.10
• Microsoft tries to stay relevant and adds Git to Codeplex

Episode 68

Unsupported Operation Episode 68

Java / Misc

• Preview JDK - 7u4 b16
• Oracle delays public JIRA project for OpenJDK
• Play 2.0 released
  • Now part of the Typesafe Stack 2.0
  • Reports ofperformance issues compiling with scala under 2.0.
• Easy-Cassandra - ORM - now works with maven, I wonder if you’d loose a lot of the power of NoSQL just
  wrapping it up in an ORM?
• coffeescript-maven-plugin Gotta love pull requests that come with new IT tests!
• Can you afford to not know git any longer
• codeline-enforcer-rule - a simple Maven Enforcer rule to block classes from import statements, or general regex patterns in source lines.
• JDeodorant for class refactoring - eclipse plugin
• Google Summer of Code 2012 accepted organisations
• TestNG 6.4 now “supported” by current builds of IntelliJ IDEA - plugin now forces you to use the version shipped with the plugin, tells you when theirs a version conflict and offers to update the version in the plugin directory if you wish.
• JRebel 4.6.1
  • GWT plugin was improved in terms of deployment performance
  • Spring 3.1 specific features handling was improved
• Sonatype 2012 Open Source Development Survey Results
• Jetty now supports SPDY - not sure if we mentioned it… SPDY jars were however accidentally left out of the distribution packages for 7.6.2/8.1.2 and will be bundled with 7.6.3 and 8.1.3, they are dowloadable from Maven Central tho.
• Freemarker 2.3.19 Includes some non-backwards compatible security fixes. Read the changelog before updating.
• iText 5.2.0 released, iText Summit is next week ( an entire conference on iText? ), still released with the evil AGPL. It’s a shame as the product is nice and has gotten some awesome improvements since the last GPL release.

Apache

• Thoughtworks technology radar is out and lists Maven as a “hold”, due to its lack of flexibility and support for automation best practices - whatever that may mean…..
• Apache Shiro 1.2
• Cleaning your local Maven Repo with Groovy - Mark’s taken to also using the dependency:purge-local-repository goal of the maven-dependency-plugin.

Scala

• New language modularisation SIP for Scala - even some of the Scala folk seem up in arms over it.

Misc

• Ice Cream Sandwich Holo themepack for Gnome 3
• Google App Engine outages outrage…

Episode 67

Unsupported Operation 67

Java

• Oracle pulls support for JavaFX Script
• Java 7u4b15 developer preview available

Misc

• DataStax has quietly made their Cassandra documentation available in PDF
• ExcelTestNG - interesting - webdriver/selenium testing driven by Excel spreadsheets, and TestNG.
• Practical Unit Testing with Mockito and TestNG is nearing publication - now has an ISBN!
• LogBack 1.0.1
• Hibernate 4.1
• Hazelcast 2.0 released - release notes.
• AIDE - IDE for Android, ON Android
• Terminal-IDE is similar, but gives you a vi based environment.
• SmartGIT 3.0.1 available - changes - GUI Git client in Java. now supports mercurial and svn since I last checked it out.
• Gerrit 2.3rc0 available
• Atlassian buys an IRC/IM client/server company - closes a 7 year ticket “won’t fix”

Web Stuff

• NettoSphere - A WebSocket and HTTP server based on Atmosphere and Netty.
• vert.x - node.js like asynchronous web server/platform - lets you write applications in js, ruby, and java. comes with distributed event bus, websocket support, tcp/ssl, pre made modules for mailer, authentication, work queues
• Thymeleaf 2.0 - XML/HTML specific template engine.
• GateIN 3.2.0 Final - people still use portal servers?
• JRebel 4.6 released, JRebel for Vaadin announced

Apache / Maven / Related

• Shavenmaven - super-lightweight dependency management - NO XML - just URLs
• Grails 2.0.1 now uses RichardStyle composites, and hopefully will make its way to “Apache Maven Central” soon.
• Apache Jena 0.9.0 - Java framework for building Semantic Web
• Commons Math 3.0
• Apache Camel 2.9.1
• Apache Hama 0.4 - incubating - metrics on Hadoop
• Apache Rave 0.8 - incubating - social mashup
• Apache Tomcat Native 1.1.23
• Apache Ant 1.8.3
• Directory studio 2.0.M3
• ApacheDS 2.0.0-M6
• Apache Directory LDAP 1.0.0-M11
• Apache Commons Daemon 1.0.10
• Apache ACE has become a top level project
• Apache OFBiz 09.04.02 (2nd TLD in a month - DeltaCloud was the other)
• Apache MyFaces extension for CDI 1.0.4

Jetbrains

• IntelliJ IDEA 11.1 to support JavaScript.next with Traceur compiler.
• AppCode 1.5 RC

Groovy

• First official GroovyFX release

Scala

• Akka moved to a new Akka Organisation on Github
• Akka 2.0 also released!
• New Scala proposal for value types

Clojure

• Clojure 1.4 beta 4

• First Github got hacked, then node.js’s NPM, Clojars takes precautions:

  Hello folks!

  In light of the recent break-in to the Node.js package hosting site (https://gist.github.com/2001456), I’ve decided to bump the priority of increasing the security on Clojars. I’ve deployed a fix that uses bcrypt (http://codahale.com/how-to-safely-store-a-password/) for password hashing. The first time you log in, it will re-hash your password using bcrypt and wipe the old weak hash.

  Note that Clojars has NOT had a security breach at this time. This is a preventative measure to protect your password in the event of a future breach. We are also looking into allowing signed jars (and possibly requiring them for releases). If you’re interested in helping out with this effort, (design or code) please join the clojars-maintainers mailing list: http://groups.google.com/group/clojars-maintainers

  Because we can’t ensure that everyone will log in to re-hash their password, at some point in the future (probably 2–3 weeks out) we will WIPE all the old password hashes. Otherwise users who have stopped using Clojars or missed the announcement could have their passwords exposed in the event of a future break-in. I will be sure to send out a few more warnings before this happens, but even if your password has been wiped it’s easy to reset it via the “forgot password” functionality.

  If you have any applications storing passwords hashed with SHA1 (even if you use a salt) I highly recommend you take the same steps; refer to http://codahale.com/how-to-safely-store-a-password/ for details.

  please log into Clojars to re-hash your password.

  Thanks for your attention.

  -Phil

• Related news - Bouncy Castle 1.46 released
• Static code analyzer for Clojure - kibit 0.0.2 now released
• Marginalia v0.7.0 - documentation generator for clojure
• lein 2.0 preview releases are out, and now preview2 is supported by Travis-CI
• lein-navem is a lein plugin that converts a maven pom.xml into lein project.clj
• Datomic is a new database service from Rich Hickey. And dayam it looks nice. Some really nice ideas in here.

Episode 66

Unsupported Operation 66

Java

• JLine 2.6 released! A milestone in good command line java support.  This release has been a LONG time coming.
• TestNG 6.4 was released the other week with some funky new CSS based reports, breaks under IntelliJ due to a protocol change, and how the IntelliJ plugin operates - hopefully will be resolved soon.
• Atlassian to abandon the Mac App Store
• New JSR for Money and Currency - aims to solve the deficiencies in java.util.Currency - a class I never really knew existed until a few months ago! Stephe Coleborne (Joda-Time, Joda-Money) was on the expert group, but no longer appears to be.
• Restlet officially company name to “Restlet”
  • new Eclipse IDE for model driven REST APIs
  • RestletApps - premade restlet based apps to reuse
  • RestletCloud - cloud server/paas for hosting restlet apps.
• SolrCloud - distributed indexing

Apache

• Http Async got a 4.0 beta 1 release
• Tomcat 7.0.26 got a bugfix
• OpenJPA 2.2.0
• forgot to mention on Feb 2 that JMeter 2.6 was released
• Apache Http Server went 2.4 with their 17th birthday

Other

• Amazon released their Simple workflow service (SWF???). Not gone into it, but some people seem excited by it (Alex from Kotlin, ex Groovy++)

Active Google Code

• http://code.google.com/p/zxing/ - zebra crossing
  • 1d/2d barcode generation/parsing - “barcodescanner” uses it.
• http://code.google.com/p/wiquery/
  • Jquery and jQuery UI bindings for Apache Wicket - moved to github.

Active Github Projects

• Jetbrais Kotlin
  • Interesting that James Strachan, Groovy Creator is a committer for the language/libraries.  Moved on from Scala love then?
• Java Chronicle
  • This library is an ultra low latency, high throughput, persisted, messaging and event driven in memory database.  The typical latency is as low at 16 nano-seconds and supports throughputs of 5-20 million messages/record updates per second.
• Action Bar Sherlock
  • Use the action bar in all versions of Android, uses native ActionBar when available, or automatically wrapping your existing layouts when not.  Version 4.0 coming soon with Ice Cream Sandwich action bar.
    
• Microsoft Translator Java API

 

 

 

 

Episode 65

Unsupported Operation 65

Java

• Java SE 7u3 released, plus Java SE 6 Update 31 and JavaFX 2.0.3.  Along with indepth specifications and documentation on the SE7 Language Spec and VM spec.
• EOL extended to November 2012.

Other / Misc

• Play 2.0 RC2 available. When asked where the webframework for Kotlin is at JFokus, JB reps said “Look at Play 2.0, we’ll make it work with Kotlin”. Good to know they’re not interested in reinventing every wheel out there.

• DropWizard went 0.2.0 - guys get your versions sorted!
• lamdaj 2.4 released - looks nice, but after using Kotlin/Xtend - these all feel too hacked on - even more so than they did before.
• Netty 3.3.1 released - supports SPDY, SPDY seems to be gaining traction and a call for it to be included in HTTP 2.0 has also been made.
• HalBuilder 1.0.1 released to Maven Central.
• Gerrit is now available at the Eclipse foundation

Jetbrains

• TeamCity 7.0 RC
• IntelliJ IDEA 11.1 114.145 EAP
  • new Groovy Console / REPL - doesn’t work against grails apps apparently (yet)
  • More SVN 1.7 improvements
• Kotlin build tools available - Evgeny Goldin has been writing the maven plugin, which currently relies upon his ivy-plugin to download the latest kotlin from teamcity ( which exposes artifacts as an Ivy repo - NOT a maven repo ).
  • Did we say Kotlin was open sourced?
• A decompiled Kotlin class shows how named parameters, nullability, and type reification works to enhance IDE support.

Apache

• Apollo Action MQ Sub-project went 1.0 - Apollo's new threading model which is geared to multi-core microprocessors makes it faster, more scalable and more reliable than ActiveMQ and perhaps many other messaging projects.
• Apache Sqoop 1.4.1 incubating release - used for migrating Hadoop data between Hadoop and relational dbs
• Apache DeltaCloud announced as top level project -Apache Deltacloud defines a RESTful Web Service application programming interface (API) for interacting with Cloud service providers and resources in those clouds in a unified manner. In addition, it consists of a number of implementations of this API for the most popular Clouds such as Amazon, Eucalyptus, GoGrid, IBM, Microsoft, OpenStack, Rackspace, and more. In addition to the API server, the project also provides client libraries for a wide variety of languages.
• Apache Commons Daemon 1.0.9
• Subversion 1.7.3
• Apache DeltaSpike - CDI extentions repository for Java devs
• HttpClient 4.2.1-beta

Sonatype

• Nexus Pro 2.0 released, adds Smart Proxies - nom!
  • Can also now host your project documetation! - very nom.
  • Support for NuGet repositories - let the .NET developers share the loving

Groovy

• GroovyFX gets a new website/url - looking nice. I see the JavaFX Scenegraph was opensourced this week as well.
• Grails 2.0.1 was released 80 bug fixes (they say they have been aggressively attacking bugs people reported around moving from 1.3.x)

Scala

• Twitter has open sourced its Effective Scala guide on Github.

JBoss/Redhat

• JBoss AS 7.1.0 Final “Thunder” - Java EE 6 Full Profile Certified

Google

• Android 5.0 “Jelly Bean” reportedly by June 2012 - Maybe for ONE handset.....
• CloudBees posted a good article on doing Continuous Integration of Android apps in the cloud.
• Calabash - automated functional testing of Android Apps
• Tech preview of Chromium with Dart engine built in now available. Let the fragmentation begin!

Misc

• Microsoft’s new logo is FOUR BLUESCREENS - respecting their heritage ;-)

Episode 64

Unsupported Operation 64

Java / Misc

• JavaFX 2.1 gets MPEG4 playback
• Scala artifacts now in central
• Github's mashup of Jenkins called Janky
• The state of IcedTea and IcedTeaWeb video from FOSDEM
• Spring Data JPA 1.1.0 RC1 and 1.0.3 GA Releasedhttp://bit.ly/xkOR9C
• PrimeFaces 3.0 - a year long development, its tagline is Ajax, Mobile and IE9 components. IE9 components????
• Scandal: ICEFaces is just a rip off of PrimeFaces
• Spring Roo 1.2.1 available, patch release which brings support for the new PrimeFaces and latest GAE
• Query Time Joining makes it into Lucene 3.6 (but a different impl from 4.0 which is 3x faster)

Google

• Google App Engine "Community Support" moved to Stack Overflow
• Fails in its attempt to keep email out of court on Android

Hardware x-over

• Sheeva Plug, the box from Globalscale that the FreedomBox is based on also has a JVM+OSGI kit on an SD card.
• Speaking of OSGi, Distributed OSGi RI 1.3 is out, based on Apache CXF

Apache

• Richard moved to Maven 3.0.4 and is having no problems
• Apache Jackrabbit 2.4.0, 2.2.11 released http://jackrabbit.apache.org - lots of new features, fixes and improvements
• (not Java, but) Apache libcloud gone 0.8.0 http://libcloud.apache.org/
• Apache MyFaces CVE-2011-4367
  Apache MyFaces information disclosure vulnerability
  • affects MyFaces 2.0.1 - 2.0.11, 2.1.0 - 2.1.5
  • MyFaces JavaServer Faces (JSF) allows relative paths in the
  • javax.faces.resource 'ln' parameter or writing the url so the resource
  • name include '..' sequences . An attacker could use the security
  • vulnerability to view files that they should not be able to.
  • http://<hostname>:<port>/<context-root>/faces/javax.faces.resource/../WEB-INF/web.xml
  • MyFaces Core 2.0.12 and 2.1.6 released
• Apache Directory Studio 2.0M2
• Apache Directory DS 2.0.0-M5
• Apache LDAP API 1.0.0-M10
• HttpClient 4.1.3 GA
• Apache Hive 0.8.1 - distributed data warehouse on top of Hadoop
• Commons Configuration 1.8
• Commons Validator 1.4
• Lucy 0.3 (incubating)
  Apache Lucy is full-text search engine library written in C and targeted at dynamic languages

Episode 63 - First for 2012

Unsupported Operation 63 - First for 2012

Misc

• Sensei DB - Open-source, distributed, realtime, semi-structured database from LinkedIn
• Resteasy 2.3.1
• Gitblit 0.8.2 - pure java git repo manager
• Guartz 1.1 out - Guice + Quartz
• New chromedriver release from SeleniumHQ - release notes - download - interesting, downloads are from the chromium google code site, not selenium? Oo - this is the server...
• Eclipse Orion - new content assist ( live templates ) a lot of nice improvements in this new milestone release.

Apache Maven / Sonatype

• Apache Maven 3.0.4 FINAL release ;-)
  • Maven central changed from http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/ to http://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2/ - see the Release Notes and MNG-5151 for details. Essentially - the central repositories domain name is now under Apache’s control.
• Eclipse Aether gets a top level website
• Nexus OSS changes license to EPL
• Maven FindBugs Plugin version 2.4.0
• Maven EAR Plugin, version 2.7
• Maven Skins v6 released, Fluido is new and based on Twitter’s bootstrap project:
  • Maven Application Skin 1.0
  • Maven Default Skin 1.1
  • Maven Classic Skin 1.1
  • Maven Stylus Skin 1.4)
  • Maven Fluido Skin 1.1
• Apache HTTP Server 2.2.222 released - 6 security vulnerabilities and some additional features.
• Apache Camel 2.8.4, bug fixes and more stuff
• Apache Rave 0.7-INCUBATING - web mashup engine (in Java)
• Apache Qpid 0.14 - AMQP solution with lots of brokers
• Struts, Tomcat, Directory Studio, MyFaces Extensions CDI, Commons Pool, Kafka, Hadoop went 1.0 (Jan 5), HttpComponents HttpCore, POI and Archiva all had releases in our hiatus

Clojure

• IClojure is a new Clojure REPL with advanced tab completion - awesome.
• Forthcoming clojure-maven-plugin release now supports iClojure as its REPL.

Scala

• Lift 2.4
• http://ls.implicit.ly - card catalog/search engine for scala libraries
• Scala-tools gone bye bye - or becoming a polical commentary site after Dave Pollock’s exit from Scalaland