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