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