Misc
- VertX 2.0 not far away now, remains a fast option for deployment
- JDK 7 and 8 to get RetinaTM support in next update
- JDK8 b91 didn’t solve my method handle issue, which has now been reported upstream.
- Interesting research with release of Groovy 2.1.4
- JSR-352 RI - Batch Applications for the Java Platform 1.0 release, available in maven central ( part of EE 7 I believe )
- Semantic Merge gets Java support
- Apache Archiva 1.4 M4 released
Maven Plugin of the Week - Maven License Plugin
- Allows you to check all your source files have licenses in the right format
- You can set it to prevent release if they don’t
- You can tell it to add the necessary formatting
Scala
- Lift 2.5 released
- Stackifier for Scala
Other
- Google has released an Admin app) for Google Apps users on Android
- Aspiring writers - Asciidoc 0.1.3 released, includes Font Awesome icons
