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