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.