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.