Episode 66

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

 

 

 

 

Episode 65

Unsupported Operation 65

Java

• Java SE 7u3 released, plus Java SE 6 Update 31 and JavaFX 2.0.3.  Along with indepth specifications and documentation on the SE7 Language Spec and VM spec.
• EOL extended to November 2012.

Other / Misc

• Play 2.0 RC2 available. When asked where the webframework for Kotlin is at JFokus, JB reps said “Look at Play 2.0, we’ll make it work with Kotlin”. Good to know they’re not interested in reinventing every wheel out there.

• DropWizard went 0.2.0 - guys get your versions sorted!
• lamdaj 2.4 released - looks nice, but after using Kotlin/Xtend - these all feel too hacked on - even more so than they did before.
• Netty 3.3.1 released - supports SPDY, SPDY seems to be gaining traction and a call for it to be included in HTTP 2.0 has also been made.
• HalBuilder 1.0.1 released to Maven Central.
• Gerrit is now available at the Eclipse foundation

Jetbrains

• TeamCity 7.0 RC
• IntelliJ IDEA 11.1 114.145 EAP
  • new Groovy Console / REPL - doesn’t work against grails apps apparently (yet)
  • More SVN 1.7 improvements
• Kotlin build tools available - Evgeny Goldin has been writing the maven plugin, which currently relies upon his ivy-plugin to download the latest kotlin from teamcity ( which exposes artifacts as an Ivy repo - NOT a maven repo ).
  • Did we say Kotlin was open sourced?
• A decompiled Kotlin class shows how named parameters, nullability, and type reification works to enhance IDE support.

Apache

• Apollo Action MQ Sub-project went 1.0 - Apollo's new threading model which is geared to multi-core microprocessors makes it faster, more scalable and more reliable than ActiveMQ and perhaps many other messaging projects.
• Apache Sqoop 1.4.1 incubating release - used for migrating Hadoop data between Hadoop and relational dbs
• Apache DeltaCloud announced as top level project -Apache Deltacloud defines a RESTful Web Service application programming interface (API) for interacting with Cloud service providers and resources in those clouds in a unified manner. In addition, it consists of a number of implementations of this API for the most popular Clouds such as Amazon, Eucalyptus, GoGrid, IBM, Microsoft, OpenStack, Rackspace, and more. In addition to the API server, the project also provides client libraries for a wide variety of languages.
• Apache Commons Daemon 1.0.9
• Subversion 1.7.3
• Apache DeltaSpike - CDI extentions repository for Java devs
• HttpClient 4.2.1-beta

Sonatype

• Nexus Pro 2.0 released, adds Smart Proxies - nom!
  • Can also now host your project documetation! - very nom.
  • Support for NuGet repositories - let the .NET developers share the loving

Groovy

• GroovyFX gets a new website/url - looking nice. I see the JavaFX Scenegraph was opensourced this week as well.
• Grails 2.0.1 was released 80 bug fixes (they say they have been aggressively attacking bugs people reported around moving from 1.3.x)

Scala

• Twitter has open sourced its Effective Scala guide on Github.

JBoss/Redhat

• JBoss AS 7.1.0 Final “Thunder” - Java EE 6 Full Profile Certified

Google

• Android 5.0 “Jelly Bean” reportedly by June 2012 - Maybe for ONE handset.....
• CloudBees posted a good article on doing Continuous Integration of Android apps in the cloud.
• Calabash - automated functional testing of Android Apps
• Tech preview of Chromium with Dart engine built in now available. Let the fragmentation begin!

Misc

• Microsoft’s new logo is FOUR BLUESCREENS - respecting their heritage ;-)

Episode 64

Unsupported Operation 64

Java / Misc

• JavaFX 2.1 gets MPEG4 playback
• Scala artifacts now in central
• Github's mashup of Jenkins called Janky
• The state of IcedTea and IcedTeaWeb video from FOSDEM
• Spring Data JPA 1.1.0 RC1 and 1.0.3 GA Releasedhttp://bit.ly/xkOR9C
• PrimeFaces 3.0 - a year long development, its tagline is Ajax, Mobile and IE9 components. IE9 components????
• Scandal: ICEFaces is just a rip off of PrimeFaces
• Spring Roo 1.2.1 available, patch release which brings support for the new PrimeFaces and latest GAE
• Query Time Joining makes it into Lucene 3.6 (but a different impl from 4.0 which is 3x faster)

Google

• Google App Engine "Community Support" moved to Stack Overflow
• Fails in its attempt to keep email out of court on Android

Hardware x-over

• Sheeva Plug, the box from Globalscale that the FreedomBox is based on also has a JVM+OSGI kit on an SD card.
• Speaking of OSGi, Distributed OSGi RI 1.3 is out, based on Apache CXF

Apache

• Richard moved to Maven 3.0.4 and is having no problems
• Apache Jackrabbit 2.4.0, 2.2.11 released http://jackrabbit.apache.org - lots of new features, fixes and improvements
• (not Java, but) Apache libcloud gone 0.8.0 http://libcloud.apache.org/
• Apache MyFaces CVE-2011-4367
  Apache MyFaces information disclosure vulnerability
  • affects MyFaces 2.0.1 - 2.0.11, 2.1.0 - 2.1.5
  • MyFaces JavaServer Faces (JSF) allows relative paths in the
  • javax.faces.resource 'ln' parameter or writing the url so the resource
  • name include '..' sequences . An attacker could use the security
  • vulnerability to view files that they should not be able to.
  • http://<hostname>:<port>/<context-root>/faces/javax.faces.resource/../WEB-INF/web.xml
  • MyFaces Core 2.0.12 and 2.1.6 released
• Apache Directory Studio 2.0M2
• Apache Directory DS 2.0.0-M5
• Apache LDAP API 1.0.0-M10
• HttpClient 4.1.3 GA
• Apache Hive 0.8.1 - distributed data warehouse on top of Hadoop
• Commons Configuration 1.8
• Commons Validator 1.4
• Lucy 0.3 (incubating)
  Apache Lucy is full-text search engine library written in C and targeted at dynamic languages

Episode 63 - First for 2012

Unsupported Operation 63 - First for 2012

Misc

• Sensei DB - Open-source, distributed, realtime, semi-structured database from LinkedIn
• Resteasy 2.3.1
• Gitblit 0.8.2 - pure java git repo manager
• Guartz 1.1 out - Guice + Quartz
• New chromedriver release from SeleniumHQ - release notes - download - interesting, downloads are from the chromium google code site, not selenium? Oo - this is the server...
• Eclipse Orion - new content assist ( live templates ) a lot of nice improvements in this new milestone release.

Apache Maven / Sonatype

• Apache Maven 3.0.4 FINAL release ;-)
  • Maven central changed from http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/ to http://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2/ - see the Release Notes and MNG-5151 for details. Essentially - the central repositories domain name is now under Apache’s control.
• Eclipse Aether gets a top level website
• Nexus OSS changes license to EPL
• Maven FindBugs Plugin version 2.4.0
• Maven EAR Plugin, version 2.7
• Maven Skins v6 released, Fluido is new and based on Twitter’s bootstrap project:
  • Maven Application Skin 1.0
  • Maven Default Skin 1.1
  • Maven Classic Skin 1.1
  • Maven Stylus Skin 1.4)
  • Maven Fluido Skin 1.1
• Apache HTTP Server 2.2.222 released - 6 security vulnerabilities and some additional features.
• Apache Camel 2.8.4, bug fixes and more stuff
• Apache Rave 0.7-INCUBATING - web mashup engine (in Java)
• Apache Qpid 0.14 - AMQP solution with lots of brokers
• Struts, Tomcat, Directory Studio, MyFaces Extensions CDI, Commons Pool, Kafka, Hadoop went 1.0 (Jan 5), HttpComponents HttpCore, POI and Archiva all had releases in our hiatus

Clojure

• IClojure is a new Clojure REPL with advanced tab completion - awesome.
• Forthcoming clojure-maven-plugin release now supports iClojure as its REPL.

Scala

• Lift 2.4
• http://ls.implicit.ly - card catalog/search engine for scala libraries
• Scala-tools gone bye bye - or becoming a polical commentary site after Dave Pollock’s exit from Scalaland

 

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
  • Awesomely improved documentation
• 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

• Spring Social 1.0.1
• Spring 3.1

Groovy

• Grails 2.0
  • Heroku announces “native” support for Grails
• 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
• 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
  • Includes changes to the proposed plugin API
• 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.

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
  • rpm-maven-plugin
• 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?

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

• Writing Android applications with Apache Maven
• nbAndroid updated

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)