Unsupported Operation 63 - First for 2012
Misc
Apache Maven / Sonatype
Clojure
Scala
Wednesday, February 1, 2012
Episode 63 - First for 2012
Monday, December 19, 2011
Episode 62
Unsupported Operation - Final for 2011
Java / Oracle / Tool / Language Related
- Java 7u2 released, ships with JavaFX 2.0.2 which was also released
- JavaFX 2.0 - Intro By Example is available on Kindle as well - didn’t realize there any books out on this.
- Java 6u30 also released
- eFX is a new JavaFX/Netbeans Platform framework
- NetBeans 7.1 RC1 released
- JetBrains released IntelliJ IDEA 11 - a bugfix update to TeamCity was also released last week
- Google’s Eclipse plugin is now open source
- Orion, Eclipses Cloud IDE has gone 0.4 M1 - new and noteworthy include HTML syntax highlighting, Code Mirror syntax highlighting (including mixed-mode documents, such as htmll/javascript/php), syntax validation, content type service (to store different mime types), and much more
- State of the Lambda
- JSR 292 Goodness: Almost static final fields - for the language level hackers
- JSR 352 passes with two no votes - Batch JSR
- Redline Smalltalk compiler “complete” - work on the runtime begins. Why Smalltalk on the JVM?
- Dart on Chromium
- ShaftServer is a new DartVM Application Server -
- jHiccup is a new performance monitoring/analysis tool released under Creative Commons from Azul Systems
- HP open source webos
- Interesting that they’re asking the community to decide/recommend licensing, governance etc.
- Adobe joins the OSGi Alliance Board of Directors ( Adobe’s Felix Meschberger apointed to BOD - principal developer/driver of the Apache Felix OSGi container ).
Web Server / Web Frameworks
- PrimeFaces Mobile 0.9 - JSF optimized for mobiles
- Oracle releases Weblogic 12c - which finally does full J2ee6
- Apache Geronimo goes full J2EE 6 certified
- Jetty 8 got released without much fanfare. Its available as standalone download, maven artifacts, rpm and debian packages
- Jersey 1.11 released with Eclipse MOXy support
- Apache Wicket 1.5 released
- Restfuse 1.0 has been released - its a test framework for REST apis running with junit.
- DropWizard - REST framework from Coda Hale / Yammer - has nice heartbeat system for built-in monitoring/testing
Misc
- Hibernate 4.0 Final
- Hibernate Search 4.0 Final
- Book: Practical Unit Testing with TestNG and Mockito - available Q1 2012
- Mockito 1.9 released
- Pax Exam 2.3 has been released
- Confluence 4.1 released
- JDBC driver for Neo4j from Rickard Oburg
- Google Guava 11rc1 out - changes
Android
- +Antur Kotwal is heading to Auckland on Janurary 5 to talk about new ICS APIs.
- ICS shipping to Nexus S devices over the next week or two
Spring
Groovy
- Grails 2.0
- groovy 2.0 roadmap outlined
- modularity! no more swing in your server app!
Scala
- Adopts Play framework as official
- Scala IDE for Eclipse gets an update
- Typesafe has been in damage control over recent high profile Scala dissing - introduces a paid for service that protects you against binary incompatibility, all the rest of you have to suffer
- Scala+GWT compiler has gone to version 3, seems to be following Scala’s trend of changing a lot of the internals
- And a summary of the Yammer debate
Eclipse
- Xtend 2.2 released with standalone compiler, ant task, maven plugin.
Apache Maven
- Maven 2.x Release Plugin - Version 2.2.2
- Fixed problems with version numbers in profiles not being updated, updated to SCM 1.6
- Maven Dependency Plugin - Version 2.4
- Minor changes but one HUGE improvement:
- Add to purge-local-repository goal ability to clean only snapshots
- Minor changes but one HUGE improvement:
- dependencypath-maven-plugin
- Sets a property pointing to the artifact file for each selected project dependency. Each property name will have a base name in form of groupId:artifactId:type:[classifier][.relative][.suffix]. This is similar to the /dependency:properties/ goal but with additional features, like setting a relative path and filtering.
- Maven Surefire Plugin, version 2.11
- Maven FindBugs Plugin version 2.3.3
- Mock Repository Manager version 1.0-alpha-1
- The Mock Repository Manager suite of projects are used to provide mock or lightweight Maven Repository Managers for use during integration testing of Maven plugins.
- Still no Apache Maven 3.0.4 release, rolled to rc4 after several issues were found, awaiting a re-release of Wagon to increase HTTP timeouts before rerolling rc5.
Sunday, November 13, 2011
Episode 61
Unsupported Operation 61
Java / Misc
- OpenBD 2.0 - BlueDragon Cold Fusion service
- JesCov - Javascript Coverage
- JDK7 Rhino
- The Hudson Book - free eBook
- Java for Mac OSX Updated - 6u29
- Azul JVM 5
- Flyway 1.5 database migrations framework
- Jersey 1.5
- New Release of Restlet 2.1 with improved OSGi support available
- Artifactory 2.4 - can now operate as a YUM/APT repositories
- PCollections 2.1.2 - not sure when this was release but only just discovered. Nice persistent collections framework for Java.
- BicaVM - a JVM written.... in JavaScript
- Wireframe Sketcher 3 released - UI mockup designer.
- Adobe kills Mobile Flash, “Open Sources” FLEX
- Apache Tika 1.0 - Standards-based, Content and Metadata Detection and Analysis Toolkit
Groovy
- Groovy 1.8.4 - fixed issues with gradle and frails, and 2.0-beta-1 - invoke dynamic support, static type checking, and more
Maven
- Apache Maven PMD Plugin 2.6
- Vote for Maven 3.0.4 on now!
Clojure
- Pomegranate is a new REPL/script based dependency manager from Chas Emerick, somelike like Grapes/@Grab from Groovy
- Clojure-conj 2011 is on - I’m still on the fence for eyes-forward conferences, for deep technical topics like a lot of things here I think it works well.
Android
- Any.do is a new Todo/GTD app for Android ( and iPhone, and web ) - startup gets $1mil funding. Their first app was Taskos, which was awesome - and explains some of its similarities.
- Apple ordered to show source code to Samsung in Australia
- Faceunlock fooled by a photo - who saw that one coming?
Sunday, November 6, 2011
Episode 60
Unsupported Operation 60
Java / Misc
- Apache Harmony moved to the Attic
- JavaFX to be open sourced as JFX
- Oracle buys their way into leading the Gartner magic quadrant. The world collectively doesn’t give a shit.
- 10 years of eclipse
- Xtend is a new programming language from Eclipse
- Try Dart now has checked mode available - static javascript!
- Javascript codegen from Java - kinda like GWT, without the GWT
- Jackson 1.9.2 - 4th Nov
- Mustache.java 0.6
- Logback 1.0
- Concordion 1.4.2.
- Concordion-Extensions 1.1.0 including:
- XStream 1.4.2 released - now works on Android
- Jersey 1.10 released
- Jelastic now lets you deploy apps directly from maven - looks similar to Heroku
Android
Clojure
- Korma is not only tasty - but a new SQL DSL for Clojure - looks nice, cleaner and more readable tha ClojureQL.
- Immutant is a new clojure app server based on JBoss AS7 similar to what Torque Box does for JRuby
- Mostly Lazy is a new podcast about clojure from Chas Emerick - no episodes yet tho.
Scala
- Xitrum 1.3 has been released. Scala webframework built upon Hazelcast for distributed operation.
Misc
- Github Enterprise - $5000US per 20 users per year. Sounds expensive, but after using Gerrit, and messy command lines - this could be a worthy expense.
- Loggly - cloud based log monitoring - not sure a lot of corps. would like the upload/storing of stack traces etc. to the cloud.
Apache
- Compress Antlib 1.1
- Httpclient 4.2-alpha1
- Empire-db - another persistence api (incubator 2.2)
- Jackrabbit 2.3.2
- Commons Compress 1.3
- CXF 2.5.0
- Couchdb 1.1.1 (of interested to +Greg Amer)
Sunday, October 30, 2011
Episode 59
Unsupported Operation Episode 59
- TeamCity 6.5.5 bugfix released
- Sonar 2.11 - new cross project analytics
- Google Plus for Google Apps finally - except for Android app
- Google Dart binaries for download from DartForce
- Did we say Spring 3.1.0-RC1 was released? Its a bit yawny but I’m sure there is something in there for someone who listens.
- JBoss 4 and 5 get pwned - connects to JMX console and executes perl scripts in context of JBoss user.
- Oracle’s Anti-Android trial delayed until next year and split into 3 parts
- Stephen Coleborne critical on JCP transparency again
- Interesting point about the method reference syntax silently changed, then mentioned in a developerWorks article.
- John Smart goes all out with his Acceptance Test Driven Development framework Thucydides.
- Good to watch this project grow, from my measily contribution which was more John showing somehow how pulls worked with github.
- Apples ALAC Lossless Codec goes open source - interesting that its not long after Steve’s death and we see code being open sourced. I wonder if we’d have seen this with Steve at the helm?
- NZOUG this week - worth going?
- Android SDK r15 released just after r14 - small bugfix update.
- Ruboto - never saw this before - Ruby for Android, as both an IRB REPL/script host, or full applications.
- JDon - DDD/CQRS framework - Immutability is everything
- Apache Commons Digest 3.1 released -
- Apache Derby 10.8.2.2
- Apache Archiva 1.4-M1 - their Maven proxy server (includes OSGI metadata search)
- Apache Commons Db Utils 1.4
- Subversion 1.7.1
- OpenWebBeans 1.1.2
- Hacking a dependency
Monday, October 24, 2011
Episode 58 - Thank goodness its over
Somethings gone messy with our episode numbers - if you happen to find them, let us know?
Java
- Spring 2GX starts this week in Chicago, friend is going, conference tracks look interesting-ish for Groovy/Grails person (well, not really)
- Its held in autumn, how ironic
- It has precisely 1 Roo session
- Oracle outlines plans for next two years of Java client side. Worlds emits collective yawn.
- Java 7 update 1 released, more builds of the Mac OSX Developer Preview - they seem to be back to the 2 week build cycle.
- The same seems largely true of Ice Cream Sandwich
- New HTTP Status Codes
- For those of you trapped in the nightmare of OSGI - there is a way to get out. PojoSR.
- We’ve disucssed this before, and its actually a way IN.
- Chronon 2.0 offers post execution logging - insert logging statements where you wanted them to be and see the logging output.
- Introduced at the start of the month, Jetbrains has ANOTHER new IDE: Astella - for ActionScript, Flex, Air (yawn) and HTML5.
- Uncle Bob’s new Clean Coders episode on Architecture, Use Cases, and High Level Design is now available.
Clojure
- Rich Hickeys Strange Loop keynote “Simple Made Easy” video is now available. Not clojure specific, and well worth watching. “Complect” is my new favorite word.
Scala
- sbt-release 0.2 released - a release plugin - for something NOT maven - will miricles never cease.
Other
- AppEngine 1.5.5 released. Includes prediction API, cloud SQL, cloud storage, premier accounts.
Sunday, October 9, 2011
Episode 56
Unsupported Operation 56
Apple
- We skip EP55 and straight to 56 - RIP Steve, 56 is too early to leave this world.
Java / Misc
- Official Java 7 Developer Preview for Mac OSX
- Java 8 delayed
- Possibly induced by the open sourcing of JavaFX 2.0 - which was also released. Only for Windows tho :) Dev Preview for OSX available ( it depends on the Java 7 for OSX release in order to go “final” I believe ). Will be included with Java 8.
- Oracle also announced Project Avatar - Java backend with HTML5/DOM manipulated frontends - demonstrating apps running on iOS, Android, and Windows tablets
- Oracle Cloud / Platform as a Service
- Oracle NoSQL Database
- based on berkely db java edition, clustering/auto-balancing/distributed - actually sounds kinda nice
- Oracle “Big Data” box - Hadoop, R, Oracle NoSQL
- Google also release Cloud SQL for the GAE
- Twitter joins OpenJDK / JCP
- Java One joins Parlays.com and already have some 2011 videos up
- IntelliJ Community Edition now mirrored on Github - get your hardcore forking action on!
- Bitbucket/Atlassian now support git - unlimited private repositories
- Atlassian also purchased Source Tree - an OSX git/mercurial client - and have made it free for a limited time.
- Olsen Timezone Database closed/removed
- SureAssert puts your tests in annotations. Does that mean one test per method? Is this even a good idea?
- Eu - for simple asserts maybe - not that I like having the tests in/on production source files - but no chance for mocking here?
- SodBeans - who make an accessibility add-on for “NetBeans” won Dukes Choice Award this year. Weird name for a project.
- Typesafe launch the Typesafe Stack 1.1. Yawn.
- Java is still number 1 on the world’s stupidest language comparison website - Tiobe
Mobile / Android
- Google/Samsung delay Nexus Prime launch in respect of Steve’s passing
- HP Touchpads delivered to some customers running Android rather than WebOS
- Nokia lay off another 3500 staff, announce a low-cost/low-end linux based OS called Maltemi
Other
- Amazon lets you encrypt your data in S3 on upload.
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