Episode 47

Unsupported Operation 47

Java

• Java 7 released - much faster startup time, but real buggy
  • Last month ago some new patches/tests were added to Apache Lucene which triggered/unveiled some serious bugs in Hotspots's loop optimization which is now enabled by default in JDK7.
  • Cay Horstman calls Java 7 unsafe at any speed.
  • Mark Reinhold told me there should be an update release soon with the fixes.  Oracle seems very good at update releases, usually one a month for security/critical fixes.
  • “These problems were detected only 5 days before the official Java 7 release, so Oracle had no time to fix those bugs, affecting also many more applications. In response to our questions, they proposed to include the fixes into service release u2 (eventually into service release u1, see [http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/hotspot-compiler-dev/2011-July/005971.html]). This means you cannot use Lucene/Solr with Java 7 releases before Update 2! If you do, please don't open bug reports, it is not the committers' fault! At least disable loop optimizations using the -XX:-UseLoopPredicate JVM options“
  • Java 7 paralyzes Lucene/Solr
  • Don’t use Java - are you kidding me? Putting things in perspective
  • Martin Clausen has put together a nice table/blog post outlining “Oracle Java 7 and ‘Commercial Features’” - listing what parts of the stack can, or cannot be freely installed.  Whilst the wording in the new license agreement has changed, and seems to have a few people up in arms, it doesn’t look that much different to Suns old license.  IANAL tho.
• Java Magazine now available
• Glassfish 3.3.1
• Netbeans 7.0.1
• OSCON Java 2011
• Jitescript - fluent Java API for generating java classes on the fly - kinda scary code, but combine that with something like Parboiled PEG Parser/ANTLR and you could have something very powerful.
• JBoss OSGi 1.0.0 released

Google

• Google buys IBM patents
• iMacs to be banned in US? Violates patent on video cards - patends now owned by HTC
• Internal email drafts could be Google’s downfall?

Apache

• Apache Camel 2.8
• Knapsack is a new launcher project wrapping the Apache Felix OSGi container

Sonatype / Maven

• Jason van Zyl made a “maven” 3.0.4-SONATYPE distribution available including patches not yet pushed to upstream due to the Aether EPL licensing issue.  This is NOT an official Apache Maven release but does fix Richard’s dependency resolution issue, among other things.
• New maven-release-plugin should be released soon which fixes the -SNAPSHOT tagging issue.

Scala

• ScalaConsole - a Swing console similar to GroovyConsole

Misc

• Structure 1.1 for JIRA released
• coffeescript-maven-plugin 1.1.2 released with <joinSet/> support
• Microsoft coins new term - Open Surface
• Microsofts parody add - The Gmail Man

Episode 46

Unsupported Operation 46

Java

• Apple releases OSX Lion - removes Java
• Jenkins - The Definitive Guide by John Furgusson Smart
• highj - Haskell style type classes in Java
• TinyBundles 1.0 and Pax Exam 2.2 released
  • TinyBundles is a Java API for generating OSGi bundles in tests, most likely using Pax Exam.
• Groovy 1.8.1 and 1.9-beta-1 released
• Glassfish 3.1.1 RC-2 out
• Prudence 1.1 - Prudence is an open source container and platform for scalable web frontends and network services. It comes in several flavors: Python, Ruby, Clojure, JavaScript, PHP and Groovy.
• Nashorn - new Invoke Dynamic based JavaScript engine from Oracle, to be shipped with JDK 8

Jetbrains

• Kotlin - new statically typed language
  • Jetbrains Wiki
  • JVM Language Summit Slides
  • Cedric Beust’s Five Reasons you should rejoice about Kotlin - Coolness (in that its a new language, not that it is cool in and of itself), Reified generics, IDE support, Commercial support, No Java Successor. We should discuss just how arse this post is.
• PHP Storm 2.1.2
• WebStorm 2.1.2

Clojure

• ClojureScript announced
  • Introdution to ClojureScript
  • Presentation video by Rich Hickey
  • One syntax to rule them all
• Zi - new maven clojure plugin, in clojure - from Hugo Duncan

Apache

• Commons Lang 3.0 released - JDK 1.5+, not backwards compatible (package name change, generics)
• Tomcat 7.0.19 - security fixes and bug fixes
• CouchDB 1.0.3 (even if it is Erlang)
• HttpComponents HttpCore 4.1.2 - fixes bugs found in 4.1.1 - good to see  they release minor versions of sub-components!

DVCS

• SourceGear’s Veracity is starting to try and push again, it uses a distributed database for its repository, allowing it to version records and fields (as well as files, directories). Allows you to store your version control repo in an enterprise database for example.
• code.google.com now supports Git, InfoQ says that SVN’s days are numbered.

Other

• Android 3.2 rolling out to Xoom next week

 

Episode 45

Episode 45

Java

• Java 7 launched
  • Webcast of launch
  • Java Stakeholders Adam Messinger, Mark Reinhold, John Rose and Joe Darcy as they discuss how they are Moving Java Forward with Java 7
  • http://sellmic.com/blog/2011/07/08/7-new-cool-features-in-java-7/
  • They launched the RC? Final is due July 28.
  • http://download.java.net/jdk7/docs/technotes/guides/vm/multiple-language-support.html
• JRebel 4.0
• Selenium 2.0 released
• MPS 2.x screencast series by Marcus Voelter (of Software Engineering Radio fame)
• The return of The Bile Blog - a bit rusty I though, but a fun read.

Apache

• Apache Karaf 2.2.2
  • 2.1.x branch has been END OF LIFED, a 2.1.6 release will be forthcoming and final.
• Apache Karaf Cellar 2.2.1
  • Karaf Cellar is a clustering solution for Apache Karaf powered by Hazelcast.
• Apache Maven Dependency Plugin 2.3
• Apache Maven Wagon 1.0 - Maven Wagon is a transport abstraction that is used in Maven's artifact and repository handling code.  No real diff. to 1.0-beta7, but was time to remove the beta monikor.
• maven-bundle-plugin 2.3.5 and Bundle Repository 1.6.6
• build-helper-maven-plugin 1.7
  • Set a property based on the current time/date
  • Set a property by applying a regex replacement rule to a value
• Nexus 1.9.2

Android

• PayPal announce Phone-to-phone NFC payments for Android

Eclipse

• BIRT 3.7

Clojure

• clojure-maven-plugin 1.3.8 out *finally*

Jetbrains

• TeamCity 6.5.2

 

Episode 44

Episode 44

Java

• Duke gets dressed up for this Thursdays release party
• WebSphere 8 - how burritos can we stuff into one oven?
  • Shows there is still corporate demand for J2EE solutions (!!!!)
  • Interesting note that Websphere is the 3rd server to be J2EE6 certified - BEA Weblogic is NOT
• Jetbrains
  • IntelliJ IDEA 10.5.1
  • MPS 2.0 M6 available
  • Resharper 6 for those .NET listeners
• Charles Nutter now working on Rhino
• TestNG 6.1
• The Apache Tomcat 7.0.17 release process has just started.
• Apache Karaf 2.2.2 past the release vote and will be available soon.

Apache Maven

• maven-release-plugin 2.2 released
  • Big thing for me - new postPrepareGoals setting - will be very handy.

• Apache Hadoop team from Yahoo now spun into new company. Competing with Cloudera?
  • Like Apache Maven, Apache is getting nasty about naming.
• Open Office officially now an Apache Incubator project - I guess we have to call it AOO now.

Groovy

• Grails 2.0

Clojure

• emacs-clojure-vagrant - vagrant box setup for emacs/clojure development from Justin Lily, a work in progress
• Midge’s Leiningen plugin is now standalone

Other

• Gitslave - how have I not found this before.  Looks to be an awesome solution/alternative to submodules.

Episode 43

Unsupported Operation 43

Java

• Hibernate OGM - Open Grid Mapping, JPA engine for distributed NoSQL stores.
• Eric Evans from Rackspace giving a talk on Cassandras new Query Language
• 1.1.3 of the Checkers Framework and Type Annotation Compiler
• Jetbrains IntelliJ IDEA 10.5.1 RC
• Jetbrains release You Track 3 - graphical MPS based workflow editor, free for 10 users.
• RESTEasy 2.2.1 - maintenance release
• New JavaZone X Conference trailer - The Streaming
• Back in Ep 23 we mentioned the LMAX presentation by Martin Thompson and Michael Barker, Michael Barker contacted us to say they’ve decided to open source some the code for the ring buffer based pattern talked about in that presentation: http://code.google.com/p/disruptor/.  It's a high-performance alternative to a Queue.

JBoss

• Drools 5.2
• jBPM 5.1

Eclipse

• Eclipse 3.7
  • lots of reports of m2eclipse pain
• Eclipse BIRT 3.7 - support for Hadoop/Hive

Apache

• Apache Tomcat 7.0.16
• NIO implementation of the AJP connector
• Enable Servlet 3 asynchronous processing support when using clustering
• Add parallel deployment support to the Manager's Ant tasks
• Apache Karaf celebrates 1 year as a top level project
• Maven
  • Surefire plugin 2.9
  • Remote resources plugin 1.2.1
  • Verifier 1.3
  • EAR plugin 2.6
  • maven-changes-plugin 2.6
  • Maven Plugin Plugin and Plugin Tools 2.8 released
  • There’s a proposal/process currently being discussed to move maven’s JIRA from codehaus to issues.apache.org to bring everything “maven” under the Apache umbrella.
  • Some surprise PMC Changes.

Android

• TouchQode - code editor for touch devices....  The video looks like a usability nightmare.
• 17 or 21 claims in (one of Oracles Patents) rejected by USPTO after reexamining the patent

Clojure

• Clojure 1.3 Beta 1 released
• The Joy of Clojure now available as ePub/mobi
• WebNoir is a new web framework built ontop of compojure - very nice looking.
  • Uses Hiccup for HTML generation, would be nice to also see Enlive also supported, altho Hiccup/Webnoir + Sitemesh would be good.

Scala

• Dick Wall from The Java Posse recently released Subcut - an IoC/DI framework for Scala - Subcut is a backcronym for Scala Uniquely Bound Classes Under Traits.

Misc

• Microsoft withdraws XML patent application - congrats to the NZOSS.
• Google release DOMSnitch security checking extension for Chrome
• Github release an OSX native application - bizarre...
• Firefox 5 release, 4.x retired from security updates
• Puppet 2.7.0

Episode 42 - The Big Fizz in the Yellow Can

Unsupported Operation 42

Java

• Erich Gamma - once a lead on Eclipse for IBM has joined Microsoft on Visual Studio. Microsoft will create a lab in Zurich led by him.
• Oracle vs Google scheduled for October
  • Barnes & Noble are using the attempt to prevent competition argument against Microsoft for the Nook-e battle.
  • Oracle want a per copy royalty + royalties from mobile searches
• Seam Reports 3.0.0.Alpha1 released (do you release alphas?)
  • WTF - Release Management done ‘right’
• Orion 0.2M8 - lots of Git support (and Github)
• jcloud hits 1.0.0
• JDK 1.6u26 released
• 2 Months till JDK7 launch - July 28th, could we have had JDK7 without Java 7? JDK7 built purely on OpenJDK codebase, no binary shims.
  • JDK8 lambda syntax discussion rises again
• JDeveloper 11g R2 gets OSGi tooling - Oracle embracing OSGi again?
• JasperWave - Eclipse based JasperReports designer
• Spark / Sherpa released - JDBC like drivers for SPARQL and RDF
  • Sherpa is a high-performance, language-agnostic, binary protocol for SPARQL processor communication, using Apache Avro to define the protocol.
• JLine 1.0 released (finally) but maven issues getting in the way of getting it to central currently.
• Jetbrains release Team City 6.5.1 - Eclipse plugin updated for Eclipse 3.7, memory leak fix, lots of bug fixes.

Atlassian

• 2011 Codegeist winners announced, ePub export looks awesome.

Clojure

• Programming Clojure now available in O’Reily Rough Cuts
• Clojure 1.3alpha8

Scala

• Scala moves to github - 1GB checkout?  nasty!
• ScalaTypes is a new podcast for scala love.  Follow them on Twitter.

Apache

• Apache Nutch 1.3 - Apache Nutch is an extensible framework for building out large-scale web-based search.
• Apache MyFaces 2.0.7/2.1.1

Groovy

• Grails 1.4M1 came out

 

Episode 41 - The only water in the forest is the river.

Enjoy ;-)

Java / Tools / Misc

• structur - new CMS built on Java and Neo4j
• Jease 2.1 - CMS gets Tika support for searching/previewing binary documents, based on ZK web framework.
• ZK Spreadsheet 2.1
• Mule 3.1.2
• Chex4j - another pre/post condition processor
• JRebel 4.0
  • Spring going after same space as JRebel for tcServer in STS 2.6
• VIDEO: Anil Madan on Hadoop at eBay
• REST Easy 2.2
• LOG Faces 3 released - centralized logging, built on open source but seems commercial.
• Joda-beans from Stephen Colebourne - another properties implementation.
• Cassandra 0.8 - now with CQL query language, JDBC drivers, and distributed counters.
• Spring ToolSuite 2.6
• Groovy Eclipse compiler now available for maven as alternative for GMaven

One Liners

• Groovy / Scala / Coffeescript / Ruby / Python / Haskel / Clojure / C# /  F#

Google

• Google to now offer a paid version of Translate API

Atlassian

• Bamboo 3.1.1

Scala

• Typesafe Migration Manager 0.1 - Checks your code/binaries for migration issues between versions of Scala.  Also generates NEW class files with migrated bytecode for any classes that have been moved/renamed.
• Cloud Foundary now supports Scala and Lift

Apache

• Apache Solr 3.2
• Apache Lucene 3.2
• Maven GPG 1.3
• Apache Hama 0.2 incubating release
• And for a laugh: Apache Lucy - a C port of Lucene. Why???
• Apache Open Office