Episode 86

Unsupported Operation Episode 86

• The president has decided to press the “Undo Java” button - removing Java... forever.
• Open GL port of SWT
• JDK 8 almost feature complete
• Oracle discontinues “free” JDK TimeZone updates - tzupdater still available to paid up licenses, but still shipped for free in the JDK, which now gets regular 4 monthly updates. Not sure I ever manually used tzupdater either...
• Open source git server for windows: Bonobo - uses GitSharp - I think I’d still just run GitBlit tho.
• Spring 4.0m1 and 3.2.3
• Spring Tool Suite and Groovy/Grails Tool Suite 3.3.0.M2 RELEASED
• HalBuilder 2.0.2 maintenance release, allows for _ prefix properties, restructuring work for 2.1.x ongoing - not split into 3-4 more artifacts.
• Kotlin M5.3 - delegated properties looks quite cool and powerful, yet simplistic to reason about.
  • Kotlin Delegates Source
• Scala 2.10.2 released - second maintenance release for the 2.10 series, 2.11m1 was also recently released.
• Slick 1.0.1 released
• Apache Maven 3.1-alpha-1 released - go test this sucker on your esoteric plugin configurations.
• Latest release of OWL API for OWL Web Ontologies released (3.4.4)
• Everyone wants to run PHP on their VM and XP Framework is a great library to help you do it. Release 5.9.0 this week.
• Moskito hit its 2.3.5 release this week.
• OSGI moves to the cloud. Everyone quake as further complexity is introduced.

Maven plugin of the week

• maven-bundle-plugin

Episode 85

Unsupported Operation 85

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

Episode 84

Unsupported Operation 84

Misc

• Not really “new”, but I rediscovered the fact that since Git 1.8.2, that submodules now support following a branch rather than a fixed commit SHA1 - this actually makes them somewhat usable.
• JDK8 Build 91 available - Sadly, this didn't fix my method handle issue.
• Atlassian JIRA 6 was released - teases with Bamboo 5 updates
• Yourkit Profiler 2013 EAP launched, personal licences only US$99 until June 4, 2013.
• Spring 4 announced, indicates support for JSE8 and Groovy 2 as the first class language, pushing Groovy 2 bigtime.
• Action Launcher Pro 1.7 for Android was released - best launcher ever. Adds support for icon packs and just makes it that bit more... awesome.
• Big changes for Redline Smalltalk - now scans classpath for .st files, so works nicely with artifacts/jar files etc. etc.
• Google Code removes file downloads

Maven - Spotlight Plugin of the Week

• maven-shade-plugin

Apache

• Apache Maven 3.1-alpha-1 available for testing/voting. Release Notes.
• Maven ShadePlugin, version 2,1 supporting the above 3.1 release
• Open Web Beans 1.2
• Apache Ant 1.9.1
• Apache Wicket 6.8
• Commons-Logging 1.1.3 (please still remove it from your archives)
• Subversion 1.8-rc2
• JSPWiki incubating 2.9.1

Clojure

• MD did a short clojure-maven-plugin history presentation at the 2nd Auckland Clojure Meetup, this seems to have awaked the bug reporters...
• Released 1.3.16 and then followed up with 1.3.17 of the clojure-maven-plugin

Scala

• Scala 2.10.2-RC1 now available
• dispatch 0.10.1 released, HTTP client library
• Scala on Android - new book from Lean Pub, being written by Geoffroy Couprie (@gcouprie)

Groovy

• Groovy 2.1 showcased and goes type checking mad
• Groovy 2.1 type checking extensions for SQL inside a string discussed
• Cedric shows Groovy type checking printf type and number of params Docs for type checking extensions released by Cedric
• Gaelyk 2.0 released

Episode 83

Unsupported Operation Episode 83

Misc

• JDK 8 build b90 - closures work well on my Mac, except for when using the method handler reference i.e. Integer::parseInt
• TestNG 6.8.5 released, along with new Eclipse plugin
• Gerrit 2.5.4 released, small security upgrade, 2.6rc3 out, along with 2.7rc1 ( two RC’s out concurrently is odd, I knew the Doctor crossing his timelines would have repercussions ).
• OSDC NZ2013 website now live - now sure when that actually happened. If there was ever a developer focused conference in NZ to go to - I think this would be the more appropriate.
• JavaFX Gradle Plugin 0.3
• IntelliJ IDEA 13 EAP opened

Google

• Introducing Android Studio - new IntelliJ IDEA based IDE for Android, wither Eclipse?
• New shiny Google+
• Google Cloud APIs

Grails

• Announces new REST plans for 2.3 - chooses Spring HATEOS

Maven

• karma-maven-plugin
• release-pom plugin
• License Maven Plugin 1.5
• Maven Dependency Plugin 2.8 Released
• Maven Site Plugin 3.3 Released
• Maven Project Info Reports Plugin version 2.7 Released
• GString Maven Plugin - as heard on the last IA - Richard loves his gstrings.

Clojure

• getclojure.org - search for usages of function compositions
• Grojure 0.7 - Groovy like syntax for Clojure
• Screencast on using Clojure + Sublime Text

Scala

• Scalabitz launched this week - new news site collating everything Scala orientated.
• Scalabitz led me to g8ling - a website cataloging giter8 templates.
• Giter8 itself is a Scala based project templating tool, similar to maven archetypes but project/language independent (tho mostly used by scala), template projects are stored on github.

Next Codelounge: Docker

Episode 82

Unsupported Operation Episode 82

Misc

• JavaBlogs.com closed by Atlassian.
• Latest Dart VM beats Java 64 bit VM in Delta Blue Benchmark
• Java version number scheme officially updated to make managing all these security fixes easier
• Newly minted just in time for more unmaintainable build messes: Gradle 1.6? Progress being made on Android build system, facebook builds their own Buck
• IntelliJ IDEA 12.1.3 - moar upgrades!
• YourKit Java Profiler 12.0.5
• Typesafe release Typesafe Activator- part of the Typesafe Platform
• JaCoCoverage: java 7 code coverage for Netbeans
• Before Google I/O, Square announce Seven Days of Open Source and release (thus far) - OkHttp, Dagger, MimeCraft, ProtoParser, JavaWriter, Roboelectric 2.0, Intellij Plugins - a lot focused around Android.
• Java gets a REPL - scary, and awesome, but very, very scary.
• Sonar Groovy
• Cassaforte - Client client API for Apache Cassandra 1.2+

Apache

• Apache Camel 2.11 - new Camel CMIS module for integration with CMS systems, new camel-couchdb, camel-elasticsearch modules.
• Three major defects found in Tomcat (groan, yes again) - Chunked transfer encoding extension size is not limited, Session fixation with FORM authenticator, Request mix-up if AsyncListener method throws RuntimeException. Tomcat 6.0.37 released. 7. something too.
• Apache Curator 2.0.0-incubator - A ZooKeeper Keeper - utils making ZooKeeper easier to use.
• Apache Gora 0.3 - in memory and persistence for Big Data for using Hadoop
• Apache HttpComponents HttpCore 4.3-beta2
• Apache Buildr 1.4.12
• Apache Giraph 1.0 - first release out of incubation - Apache Giraph is an scalable and distributed iterative graph processing system that is inspired by BSP (bulk synchronous parallel) and Google's Pregel. Giraph distinguishes itself from those projects by being open-source, running on Hadoop infrastructure, and going beyond the Pregel model with features such as master computation, sharded aggregators, out-of-core support, no single point of failure design, and more.
• Lucene and Solar 4.3
• Commons Codec 1.8
• Apache Marmotta 3.0 - incubating - Apache Marmotta is an extensible and modular implementation of a Linked Data Platform and contains a server component as well as many useful libraries for accessing Linked Data resources. Apache Marmotta is a continuation of the Linked Media Framework (LMF) originally developed by Salzburg Research, but considerably improved with respect to modularity, reliability, performance and also licensing. Since the last LMF release was the 2.x series, Apache Marmotta starts with the version number 3.0.0-incubating.
• Open JPA 2.2.2

Other news

• Greg’s favourite NoSQL database gets incremental backup

Episode 80

Unsupported Operation 80

• Java 7u21, 5 & 6 also got new versions, despite being out of support
• New Server JRE which removes all Applet and jfx stuff
• Slow Train Coming - Java 8 delayed
  • Secure the train
  • The Delay of Java 8
  • Proposed new schedule for JDK8
• JDK 8 Javadoc gets a light tweaking for method listings
• Java 8 Optional
• Virgil is a new Function/OO hybrid language for the JVM and native platforms. PLDI paper.
• TeamCity 7.1.5
• IntelliJ 12.1.2 EAP builds already showing up
• NetRexx 3.02RC - The Original JVM Scripting Language returns
• Sneaky peek at Redline Smalltalk plugin for IntelliJ IDEA
• JBoss Application Server renamed to WildFly
• CodeMania 2013 talks appearing on YouTube Channel
• GVM 1.0 released
• OpenJPA 1.2.3
• Wicket 6.7
• Derby 10.10.1.1
• OpenNLP 1.5.3
• MRUnit 1.0.0
• Bloodhound 0.5.3

Episode 79

Unsupported Operation 79

• IntelliJ IDEA 12.1.1 available
• JavaZ - new functional patterns library for Java - looks interesting, but UGLY
• Lambda Ladies - Recently started group to promote functional programming to women in tech
• Sonatype’s gateway to Central upgraded to Nexus 2.4 - what version is your nexus?
• JMS2, Bean Validation 1.1, JBatch, JSON-P go final
• Resteasy 3.0-beta-4 and 2.3.6.Final Released
• Redline-RPM - Native Java RPM generation - no need for native rpm-tools install
• https://github.com/stephenc/non-maven-jar-maven-plugin
• cucumber-testng-factory 1.0.1 released.

Kotlin

• funKTionale 0.1.5 is ready

Scala

• Atomic Scala print book now available

Clojure

• ClojureWerkz Money 1.2.0 - wrapper library for Joda Money
• Running and debugging Clojure with IntelliJ IDEA
• lein-thriftc - Apache Thrift plugin for Leiningen

Groovy

• 2.1.3 available

Apache

• HttpClient 4.2.4 released
• Maven Compiler 3.1 released
• Maven Surefire 2.14.1
• Maven Shared Utils 0.4
• Wink 1.3.0 - Apache Wink is a simple yet solid framework for building RESTful Web services. It is comprised of a Server module and a Client module for developing and consuming RESTful Web services
• Apache PDF Box 1.8.1
• Apache Wookie 0.14 - Apache Wookie is a Java server application that allows you to upload and deploy widgets for your applications; widgets can not only include all the usual kinds of mini-applications, badges, and gadgets, but also fully-collaborative applications such as chats, quizzes, and games. Wookie is based on the W3C Widgets specification, but widgets can also be included that use extended APIs such as Google Wave Gadgets and OpenSocial
• Apache CouchDB 1.3.0
• Apache Struts 1 end of life - going to the Attic
• Apache cTAKES becomes a top level project: (clinical Text Analysis and Knowledge Extraction System) is an Open Source natural language processing system for information extraction from electronic medical record clinical free-text. Widely used in production by numerous organisations across the healthcare sector, cTAKES was started in 2006 by a team of physicians, computer scientists and software engineers at Mayo Clinic, and was submitted to the Apache Incubator in June 2012
• Pig 0.11.1
• Apache Bloodhound 0.5.2 is a tool to track progress and defects in software products. Sits on Trac.
• The Apache Accumulo 1.4.3 - sorted, distributed key/value store is a robust,scalable, high performance data storage system that features cell-based access control and customizable server-side processing. It is based on Google's BigTable design and is built on top of Apache Hadoop, Zookeeper, and Thrift.
• Apache Syncope 1.0.7 is an Open Source system for managing digital identities in enterprise environments, implemented in JEE technology Apache Commons-FileUpload 1.3 - bug fixes, enhancements, drops pre 1.5 support
• Apache Rave 0.20.2 is a new web and social mashup engine. It provides an out-of-the-box, as well as extendible, lightweight Java platform to host, serve and manage OpenSocial, W3C and other web widgets.

Episode 78

Unsupported Operation 78

Misc

• IntelliJ IDEA 12.1
• Kotlin Milestone 5.2
• Sonar goes 3.5.1
• Concordion moved to Github + Gradle
• Gradle 1.5
• MAJOR PostgreSQL Security Update
• Scridb reveals it was hacked this week, says < 1% of users of passworks compromised
• PicketLink 3.0 Alpha1 - CDI based security framework for Java EE from JBoss, essentially the successor to Seam Security
• Apache Maven 3.1alpha1 staged ** Release notes ** Staging repository ** Staged distribution
• maven-release-plugin 2.4.1 release - restores git support!
• Hibernate 4.2.0.Final / 4.1.11.Final - this is also the final release for the 4.1.x series.
• Bintray - Github For Binaries
• Bootstrap Rich Text Editor
• Website Walkthroughs for Documentation - intro.js and chardin.js
• Apple’s “Slide to Unlock” patent ruled invalid
• Golo
• VertX Golo
• Play 2.1.1
• unfiltered 0.6.8
• Grizzly 2.3+SPDY/3
• Framework performance round 2 results
• CodeRu

Google

• Google App Drive Data Folders
• Blink

Clojure

• mimr - clojure based rule engine
• FW/1 - Framework One: Clojure MVC for CFML) moves to new Github Organisation
• Functional Design Patterns - talk by Stuart Sierra from Strange Loop

Theme music "Emotional Upgrade" by John Zealey.

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…

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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.

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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