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Episode 64

noreply@blogger.com (Mark Derricutt, Richard Vowles) — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 02:20:37 PST

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

noreply@blogger.com (Mark Derricutt, Richard Vowles) — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 02:43:29 PST

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

noreply@blogger.com (Mark Derricutt, Richard Vowles) — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 02:08:10 PST

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

Spring

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

noreply@blogger.com (Mark Derricutt, Richard Vowles) — Sun, 13 Nov 2011 02:00:14 PST

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

noreply@blogger.com (Mark Derricutt, Richard Vowles) — Sun, 06 Nov 2011 02:08:45 PST

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)

Episode 59

noreply@blogger.com (Mark Derricutt, Richard Vowles) — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 00:38:49 PDT

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

Episode 58 - Thank goodness its over

noreply@blogger.com (Mark Derricutt, Richard Vowles) — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 03:15:39 PDT

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
- Google confirmed ICS is Open Source
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.
- Basement Coders interview
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.

Episode 56

noreply@blogger.com (Mark Derricutt, Richard Vowles) — Sun, 09 Oct 2011 03:03:33 PDT

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
- Building Blocks
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.

Episode 54

noreply@blogger.com (Mark Derricutt, Richard Vowles) — Sun, 02 Oct 2011 02:50:27 PDT

No real news - actually, no news at all - it's Java One time people - the news will be coming!

Episode 53

noreply@blogger.com (Mark Derricutt, Richard Vowles) — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 02:40:40 PDT

Unsupported Operation 53

Java / News

Changes to Henri’s OSX OpenJDK installer - Following changes in the bundle image, the installation process for OpenJDK for OS/X package requires directory /Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines to exist before, users should also install the new Apple Developper JDK preview.
Frege is a new Haskell like JVM language from Ingo Wechsung.
Betamax is a new HTTP record/playback test tool
Terastore 0.8.2
New to me - reflections and reflections-mojo - annotation scanning on steroids. Maven mojo stores precomputed annotion map, would be very useful for OSGi.
Twitter opensources Storm live from Strangeloop keynote - 1st pull request DURING THE KEYNOTE :)
Glassfish 4.0 roadmap, build #2
YourKit Profiler 10 out
Redline Smalltalk gets an eclipse plugin

Scala

Xitrum 1.1 - a Scala web framework - Xitrum is an async and clustered Scala web framework and web server on top of Netty and Hazelcast
Akka 1.2
IntelliJ IDEA Scala Plugin Nightly builds for IDEA 11

Clojure

Clojure 1.3 released for the JVM as well as the CLR
SCIP has been updated for .mobi and Kindle formats

Eclipse

Jetbrains

JBoss

Apache

Android / Google

Android SDK Rev 13 released
Inferno replaces the -entire- Java stack on Android
The #maven #android plugin just got renamed to the #android #maven plugin
Indash car Android Project with car-computer integration - video - photo
Google Flights lists World Trade Center - oops
New release of Google Closure Templates
Crashplan backup software now for Android/iOS - view/restore only I believe

Episode 52

noreply@blogger.com (Mark Derricutt, Richard Vowles) — Sun, 11 Sep 2011 03:45:14 PDT

Unsupported Operation 52

Java

As discussed in newsgroup, Lamba syntax essentially decided
JavaZone 2011 videos on vimeo

Google

Is Dash the death of GWT or JavaScript? Google releases new Dash “semantec web language” from Lars Bak and Gilad Bracha

Scala

Scalate 1.5.2 released - template library
Play 2.0 - available for Java as well, but looks extra nice for Scala. Drops Groovy based templates for Scala based ones.

Apache

Commons Configuration 1.7 released
Wicket 1.5 released.
Tomcat continues to have security issues - this time an authentication bypass. Seems to affect AJP users - really you should be using http proxy not AJP - however REMOTE_USER is not passed in http proxy by default.
Apache POI hit its 10th anniversay and released 3.8 beta 4. Changes here.
Apache James hits beta3 of 3.0
Apache MyFaces Core hits 2.0.8 - lots of bug fixes and improvements (list is quite long).
Apache MyFaces Extensions CDI 1.0.1 released (no idea what CDI is)
Apache JackRabbit continues its march of endless releases just like a real rabbit. Hits 2.2.8 - I actually like this.
Open Web Beans 1.1.1
Aether and Sisu are now officially Eclipse Aether and Eclipse Sisu. Provisioning requests have been made, we'll be up and running soon!

Episode 51

noreply@blogger.com (Mark Derricutt, Richard Vowles) — Mon, 05 Sep 2011 04:31:13 PDT

Unsupported Operation 51

Java

Java 7u2 Developer Preview available
sun-java-6 packages to be removed from ubuntu/debian and all linux distributions, Oracle terminates distribution license
All videos from this years JVM Language summit now online
Gosling quits google for ocean robotics company - given he was doing a lot of autonomous car stuff before makes sense.
AppleScript javax.scripting support added to the Mac OpenJDK port - binary installer for OS/X
Doug Lea’s committed a candidate replacement of ConcurrentHashMap for JDK8 designed to more amenable to upcoming support for aggregate parallel operations including memoization support via computerIfAbsent
JSR 348 (JCP.next) is in Public Review - please provide feedback, summary of changes
Restlet 2.0.9 and 2.1M6 - we missed this last week.
Heroku now supports Java
Tapestry 5.3 beta
ZK 5.0.8 maintenance release
HawtDB 1.6
Findbugs-guice 0.1 - findbugs plugin for Google Guice related issues.
Disrupter 2.0
Pax URL 1.3.5

Jetbrains

IntelliJ IDEA 10.5.2 released
TeamCity 7 EAP opened
Jetbrains “Back to Office” sale - up to 50% off
QA Plug 1.2.8 and QA Plug - Checkstyle 1.2.6 - not from Jetbrains, but another inspection framework - supports PMD, Checkstyle, FindBugs, and Hammurapi

Spring

Spring AMQP 1.0GA
Spring 3.0.6 maintenance release
Spring Data Graph 1.1.0 with Neo4J support
Micro Cloud Foundry - run your cloud app locally, just like it would in the real cloud.

Atlassian

Apache

Apache Bigtop 0.10 hits the Incubator - Bigtop is a project for the development of packaging and tests of the Apache Hadoop ecosystem.
Apache James 3 beta 3
Apache Tomcat 6.0.33 bug/security fix release
Apache Tomcat 7.0.20 ( and now .21)
Apache Tomcat 5.5 End of Life
Apache Karaf 2.2.3
NSA wrote a NoSQL database, and has now donated it to Apache
Apache Subversion 1.7-rc2
Apache Server 2.2.20 - to fix DoS attack

Apache Maven / Sonatype

The vote has passed 12/22 PMC members to release Apache Maven 3.0.4 with an EPL Aether/Sisu binary dependency - as soon as these two libraries official EPL/Ecipse released artifacts the maven release can go ahead. *YAY*
Maven Archetype Plugin version 2.1 - you can now filter the archetype list!
Maven jar plugin, version 2.3.2 and maven-archiver 2.4.2 - Specific news for this release is the support for java7 file attributes, which can give a noticeable performance boost on linux and mac running java7. Certain performance improvements can also be expected on Java1.5/Java6 on linux and mac. Both releases require java 1.5 or newer.
maven-deploy-plugin 2.7, maven-gpg-plugin 1.4
maven-compiler-plugin has issues with JDK7’s javac output. A new version of the plugin is due hopefully this/next week with a fix for this.
SQL Maven Plugin version 1.5
Selenium Maven Plugin 2.0 - updated to selenium sever 2.2.0, support for passing system properties
Maven Site Plugin version 3.0 and Maven Reporting Exec version 1.0.1
AspectJ Maven Plugin version 1.4
nbm-maven-plugin 3.6 ( netbeans module plugin )
webtest-maven-plugin version 1.0.0 - runs canoo web test
Nexus 1.9.2.2
Sonar 2.10 released - internationalization, manual measures, notifications

Android / Google

AChartEngine - open source charting lib for Android
Cyanogen Mod 7 running on the HP TouchPad
Github issue tracker for Android - why you would want to track/raise issues on a mobile I never know - GET SOME DOWNTIME PEOPLE!
Baidu forks Android
GMail Offline returns - to the Chrome Store ONLY.

Misc

Episode 50

noreply@blogger.com (Mark Derricutt, Richard Vowles) — Fri, 26 Aug 2011 21:02:18 PDT

Unsupported Operation 50

Java

Java 6u27 released
Project Lambda now generates methods, not objects.
Java FX 2.0 beta 40
Dean Iverson has also just posted a screencast on writing JavaFX applications with Griffon.
JBoss Developer Studio 4.1
CloudBees releases Eclipse plugin
Hibernate 3.6.7 Final
Hibernate 4.0.0.CR1
Mobicents SIP Servlets 1.6.0-FINAL
Cucumber JVM opens its doors to the world
PIT 0.21 mutation testing
Alberto Savoia from Google has released a free PDF booklet on Pretotype testing, “Between abstract ideas and ‘proper prototypes’ there are pretotypes.”
Oracle releases JCP.next - indicates development has to be open, but does not deal with licensing issues that have led to split in JCP itself.
Wing Hang Li is a student studying an MSc in Information Technology at Glasgow University has developed a Java Fork Join Profiler which aims to expose some of the behaviour of programs using the Fork Join library. It does this using an instrumented version of the jsr166y library and other tools like HProf. Currently it can show the number of tasks within the Fork Join pool, the mean and standard deviation of those tasks within the worker threads, the amount of garbage collection taking place and the amount of activity within each method. He’s looking for volunteers to help his research/project by supplying stats/profiles of real code using Fork/Join. Java 6 version, Java 7 version, any comments/feedback sent them do 1001759l@student.gla.ac.uk, or take the survey.

Jetbrains

IntelliJ IDEA 10.5.2 RC

Android

DroidUX Component Library for Android

Apache

Apache JMeter 2.5
Tomcat 6.0.33 - a security and some bug fixes
Apache Maven 3.0.4 release imminent

Sonatype

Java.NET moves to Maven Central

Atlassian

Confluence 4 Beta

Misc

Watch Minecraft creator Notch write a game from scratch in 48 hours
Videos from this weekends RESTFest conference are being posted to vimeo.
There is a whole BOOK on the SPDY protocol from PragProg
Grails archetype is arse
Google purchased Motorola Mobility, but we aren’t sure what to say about that
Firefox is dropping visible version numbers (like Chrome)

Episode 49

noreply@blogger.com (Mark Derricutt, Richard Vowles) — Sun, 14 Aug 2011 04:39:07 PDT

Unsupported Operation 49

Java

Java 7 Q&A
http://terrencebarr.wordpress.com/2011/08/12/lwuit-1-5-released/ - Light Weight User Interface Toolkit, good discussion/interview about the featues of the update on the latest Java Spotlight podcast.
Tattletale - Dependency discovery tool
Pulse CI Server 2.4
TorqueBox 1.1.1 - JRuby based AppServer built upon JBoss AS Server - updated to JRuby 1.6.3, improved support for Rails 3.1,

Jetbrains

IDEA 10.5.2 EAP 107.509 - The most important thing to note about this build is that Jetbrains finally tracked down the cause of the problem causing stale error markers to remain in the editor, and we hope that it has now been fixed. So please test and report.
Source of StarTeam plugin released - whats interesting about this is the mentioning of the Jetbrains Github account which houses a lot of tools, including the Clojure plugin, which is seeing updates/commits here - more so than the old repository I originally knew about. Youtrack-vcs-hooks project looks really interesting.

Apache

Apache Tomcat 5.5 End of Life
Apache Tomcat 7.0 - 7.0.16 - The re-factoring of XML validation for Tomcat 7.0.x re-introduced the vulnerability previously reported as CVE-2009-0783
Apache Tomcat 7.0.20 released

JSP files with dependencies in JARs are no longer recompiled on every access thereby improving performance.
Update to version 1.1.22 of the native component of the AJP and HTTP APR/native connectors.
Update to Commons Daemon 1.0.7.

Apache Commons Daemon 1.07 fixing below vulnerabilities
Apache Commons Daemon vulnerability - affects Tomcat 7.0 - 7.0.19, Tomcat 6.0.30 - 6.0.32, 5.5.32 - 5.5.33
- Due to a bug in the capabilities code, jsvc (the service wrapper for
- Linux that is part of the Commons Daemon project) does not drop
- capabilities allowing the application to access files and directories
- owned by superuser. This vulnerability only applies if:
- a) Tomcat is running on a Linux operating system
- b) jsvc was compiled with libcap
- c) -user parameter is used
- The Tomcat versions above shipped with source files for jsvc that included this vulnerability.

Atlassian

Crucible 2.6.3 / FishEye 2.6.3

Android

Unlock with Wifi - disable your lockcode when connected to certain wifi networks. handy.
Cling 1.0 - Java/Android UPnP library/tool stack for discovering, and uses UPnP devices/services.
Spirit HD - awesome addictive game

Other

Thoughtworks proves yet again its a bunch of tired has-been hacks with its Technology Radar. I suspect its “Radar” is pointing up the arse of Martin Fowler to come up with this tosh.
coffeescript-maven-plugin 1.3 released - now expirimenting with native compilation support to .class files - why - I’m crazy mad :)
Mindmeister launched new site/app

Episode 48

noreply@blogger.com (Mark Derricutt, Richard Vowles) — Sun, 07 Aug 2011 04:02:14 PDT

Unsupported Operation 48

Java

IntelliJ IDEA 10.5.2 EAP build 107.481 is available
Eclipse 3.8M1 has Java 7 support. A bit slow?
TeamCity 6.5.3
Why Jetbrains needs Kotlin -
Atlassian Jira 4.4 - new installer, support for user timezones, gui workflow viewer, gui workflow designer, new project centered admin
EhCahe 2.5 goes beta
Joda-time 2.0 - now with generics ( not sure where tho ), mostly binary and source compatible, some changes if you wrote/extended your own Chronologies
JavaFX 2.0 gets FXML - XML based UI markup - XAML anyone? Reminds me of Apache Pivot.
Ted Neward responds to Dr Dobbs potshots at Oracle/J7 bugs
- he is wrong in that the first bug related to the issue was the 13th of May. Not 5 days. And they could have just turned the flag off by default - in 5 days. Or a month as the case may be.
Qi4j 1.4 - Composite Oriented Programming - programming framework with based on mixins.
Resteasy 2.2.2

Apache

JCS (java caching) and BCEL moved to Apache Commons
Apache LDAP API 1.0-M6 released - this is their new client library
Apache Commons Compress 1.2, bug fixes, announcement of EOL for Java 1.4 with this release
Apache James jDKIM 0.2 - support for verification and signing for maillets
Apache HttpComponents HttpCore 4.1.3 GA released

Groovy

Gaelyk 1.0
Groovy with a static mode - I think the chosen name is extremely rude and obnoxious
- “Not being statically typed is a connoisseurs criticism, and connoisseurs generally chase after things that are interesting rather than good”
- “In my opinion there are three large barriers to Groovy adoption in the mainstream: performance, tooling, and bugs”
- Jochen clarified saying the mode would be @StaticTyped or similar and would not provide anything other than compilation errors - no performance improvements. Much of the work is already done in Eclipse so it would be pulling that out.

Patent Talk

Microsoft reveals they invited Google to the consortium to buy the Novell patents - Google saw it as a trap (groklaw) as did everyone else.

Episode 47

noreply@blogger.com (Mark Derricutt, Richard Vowles) — Mon, 01 Aug 2011 04:38:23 PDT

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

noreply@blogger.com (Mark Derricutt, Richard Vowles) — Mon, 25 Jul 2011 03:39:14 PDT

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
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

noreply@blogger.com (Mark Derricutt, Richard Vowles) — Thu, 14 Jul 2011 03:26:59 PDT

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

noreply@blogger.com (Mark Derricutt, Richard Vowles) — Tue, 05 Jul 2011 02:51:26 PDT

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

noreply@blogger.com (Mark Derricutt, Richard Vowles) — Sun, 26 Jun 2011 04:44:09 PDT

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

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

noreply@blogger.com (Mark Derricutt, Richard Vowles) — Wed, 15 Jun 2011 01:47:09 PDT

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.

noreply@blogger.com (Mark Derricutt, Richard Vowles) — Mon, 06 Jun 2011 03:40:41 PDT

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

Episode 40 - And now for the odd stuff...

noreply@blogger.com (Mark Derricutt, Richard Vowles) — Sun, 29 May 2011 04:33:52 PDT

Episode 40 - And now for the odd stuff...

Java

The OpenJDK Build Group has agreed to sponsor the JDK 8 Project - 5 yes votes out of 6, one person on leave.
Unicode updates for regex in JDK7
Second Milestone for Project Lambda

Autumnal - convert spring XML file to a POJO - from Exceptional attendee Amir.
JavaFX 2.0 beta now available with Netbeans 7 - windows only, OSX available in the “partner program” only currently
- Netbeans 7 patch 1 also available
- Netbeans 7 Cookbook is a new book from Packt publishing.
Amino 1.0 released - scenegraph for java and javascript from Josh Marinacci
Sonar 2.8 - now with code reviews.
https://maven.java.net launched - Nexus for java.net replacing the old maven2-repository project.
Google kills of Google Translate API and 17 others - 3 year deprecation period tho.

News

Software AG buys Terracotta. This makes no sense.

Apache

OGNL moved to Apache
libcloud becomes a top level project
Archiva 1.3.5 - primarily a security a bug fix release

OSGi

Pax Exam 2.0

Maven

cobertura-maven-plugin 2.5.1
maven site plugin 2.3
maven changes plugin 2.5

Jetbrains

Groovy

New Grails Concordion plugin

Scala

Simply Lift free eBook from David Pollak
Updated versions of Scala By Example, Scala Reference, and the Scala Tutorial PDFs available

Misc

http://codereview.stackexchange.com - stackoverflow for the anal retentive code reviewer :P I like this, good to read the reviews/critiques of ACTUAL code

Episode 39 - Ooh yeah!

noreply@blogger.com (Mark Derricutt, Richard Vowles) — Sun, 22 May 2011 04:23:25 PDT

Episode 39.

From the Software Gardeners.

Java / Tools / Misc

Spark is a new Micro web framework inspired by Sinatra ( ruby )
- like Ratpack for Groovy
Springsource has put up a roadmap talk for 3.2 and beyond
Oracle proposes changes to JCP
- all discussions must take place in public (no closed discussions)
- make JSRs update more often
- Kill ones that drag (e.g. 294 - OSGI)
- J2ME and j2SE merged into one group
- Further changes promised to address some of Apache’s concerns
- Cameron Purdy from Oracle indicates current JSRs won’t change to new rules
JRockit is now free
Groovy + 0.4.243 released - getting closer to the 0.5 release
JUnitParams is a new way of doing parameterized JUnit tests - looks very much like TestNG data providers.
JMongoBrowser is a GUI app for managing a MonoDB cluster
Concordion Extensions 1.0.2 released by Nigel Charman
GAE moves out of Preview and into a more pay as you go model

Free Apps: Similar to the Free Apps of today but with more restrictive quotas
Paid Apps: Similar to Apps which have Billing Enabled today, except they will have a 99.95% SLA and cost $9/app/month in addition to usage fees. Customers will need to opt-in to this.
Premier Accounts: A new offering which will allow a company to not pay for individual Apps but rather use as many as they need. Premier Accounts will be eligible to receive Operational Support for $500/month in addition to usage fees.

ThoughtWorks tries to gain traction for Go (ex-Cruise). Not to be confused with Go or Go!
James Gosling wishes he was able to push out an update to 1.4.2 to cause it to just die.
Tomcat 7 adds “Crawler Valve” to limit resource sucking

Jetbrains

WebStorm 2.1 released - based on IDEA 10.5

JavaScript debugger in Google Chrome / htaccess support / HTML tag tree highlighting / Easier code completion that does not require you to press Shift for uppercase letters / Reworked UI for Search/Replace / New Diff tools for comparing directories, images and DB's / 'Change Signature' refactoring for JavaScript / Misc. improvements for all supported VCS and noticeable improvements in performance

Android

Interesting

I wasn’t aware of this patent battle - Microsoft vs i4i which involves RedHat and Google and Apple and Intel on M$’s side, and US govt and pharms on other.
Remember Me - Macho Man Randy Savage

Episode 38 - Red bags always give me the shivers

noreply@blogger.com (Mark Derricutt, Richard Vowles) — Tue, 17 May 2011 04:51:37 PDT

Red bags always give me the shivers

Java / Tools / Misc

Oracle have subpoenaed Apache for details relating to Apache Harmony. Another article on INfoq.
Oracle proposes to move Hudson to Eclipse - whoops we didn’t want it after all. Still own the name?
- Good analysis and commentary from Ian Skerrit
- Sonatype have announced they’re donating all their Maven3/Hudson work to the Hudson project.
Oracle ordered to reduce claims against Google from 132 to 3
JCP Special Election Results
Steve Northover - father of SWT joins Oracle of Client Java lead
Attachmate lays off 300+ Mono developers - project is well - potentially, and effectively dead?
- Update - this story doesn’t seem as bad as it did originally, looks like its only 30 or so Mono developers, but 700+ developers in total let go. Sounds likes it may only be MonoTouch based folk...
Xeblum - mixing Selenium and Fitnesse together
Puppet Labs releases Faces, and changes to Apache License (from GPL)
1.0.7 of PrettyTime - social style time formatting for #Java
Hibernate 3.6.4 Final - minor updates. Hibernate Core 4.0.0 Alpha3 also available
Hazelcast 1.9.3 final
SpringSource Tool Suite 2.6.1 released
Spring Android 1.0.0.M3
Whiley 0.3.5 released - compiler now split into two components - wyc which emits wyil bytecode, and wycj which converts wyil to java bytecode, paving the way to potentially emit llvm bytecode in the future.
#Brisk now available - #Hadoop powered by #Cassandra http://bit.ly/gnUY6E #NoSQL
Lily 1.0 released - Hadoop+Solr+Lucene CMS
Membrane 2 released - HTTP/SOAP/JSON monitor
Smack 3.2.0 / Spark 2.6.0
Elastic Search 0.16.1
Alex Blewit’s posted a nice screencast on using Git + Gerrit + Jenkins for iOS development
Mozilla Rhino makes it move to Github

Jetbrains

IntelliJ IDEA 10.5RC2 is out ( release notes ), adds remote debugging support to Android.
New IDEA Keyboard stickers available
New TeamCity 6.5 EAP out - final version out shortly. Removes most restrictions apart from builds, improved git branching/personal build support - no more user name required.

Google

Web Foo

Vaadin 6.6.0 aka San Francisco released, updated with GWT 2.3, new mobile focus, new filtering API, new visual designer for Eclipse.
ZK 5.0.7 released (full release notes) - IE9, FF4 support,

Apache

Traffic Server 2.1.8 unstable released (weird!) - its a caching proxy server
Tomcat 7.0.14 - minor release, but includes all the changes from the unreleased 7.0.13 release
Commons Discovery 0.5 released - discovering implementations for pluggable interfaces
Apache jumps into the AMQP fray with Qpid 0.10 - Java/C++ impls and lots of client libs. More palatable than Erlang IMHO.
OpenNLP 1.5.1-incubator release - its a machine learning package. Something very important to Google on reading Into the Plex.
Apache Derby 10.8.1.2 - support JDK7 JDBC and lots of other stuff
Karaf 2.2.1 -
Apache Roller 5.0 -

Apache Maven

Maven Doxia Tools 1.4
Maven Javadoc Plugin 2.8
Maven Shared Resources 1 - Horrible version number, just a single number... yuck.
Maven License Verifier 0.4
Maven Deploy Plugin 2.6 - deployed snapshot name has different build numbers
for multiple artifacts of the same build and other minor updates
Browsing central now redirects you to search.maven.org
Sonatype Nexus 1.9.1.1 - fixes bug with wrong repo url if have define a base url with a trailing slash
Maven Coffee Plugin 1.1.0 - simple coffeescript-to-javascript compiler plugin for maven ( by Mark )
- vim coffee plugin
- jasmine runner 0.2.1 supports coffee from the command line
Maven Central IP change ( temp. ) coming up on Monday

Groovy

Groovy Eclipse 2.5
Gaelyk 0.7 - support for Groovy 1.8, App Engine 1.5

Scala

Martin Odersky and the Scala Solutions team joining with Jonas Boner and forming TypeSafe
Why we invested in Typesafe ( Greylock Partners - $3mil investment )
Scala 2.9 released
Akka 1.1 released - Actors and now Monads - oh dear, we’ll never understand Scala now.

Clojure

Clojure 1.3 Alpha 7
Clojure Atlas now available
Seesaw 1.0 - Clojure/Swing bridge
Reminder: clojure-contrib is deprecated, look to github.com/clojure to find the new library you actually want #clojure
Marginalia 0.5.1

Misc

PostgreSQL 9.0.4 released, 9.1beta available for testing.
OWASP New Zealand Day is on 7 July