Unsupported Operation

Episode 86

noreply@blogger.com (Mark Derricutt, Richard Vowles) — Sun, 9 Jun 2013 05:40:00 -0700

Unsupported Operation Episode 86

The president has decided to press the “Undo Java” button - removing Java... forever.
Open GL port of SWT
JDK 8 almost feature complete
Oracle discontinues “free” JDK TimeZone updates - tzupdater still available to paid up licenses, but still shipped for free in the JDK, which now gets regular 4 monthly updates. Not sure I ever manually used tzupdater either...
Open source git server for windows: Bonobo - uses GitSharp - I think I’d still just run GitBlit tho.
Spring 4.0m1 and 3.2.3
Spring Tool Suite and Groovy/Grails Tool Suite 3.3.0.M2 RELEASED
HalBuilder 2.0.2 maintenance release, allows for _ prefix properties, restructuring work for 2.1.x ongoing - not split into 3-4 more artifacts.
Kotlin M5.3 - delegated properties looks quite cool and powerful, yet simplistic to reason about.
- Kotlin Delegates Source
Scala 2.10.2 released - second maintenance release for the 2.10 series, 2.11m1 was also recently released.
Slick 1.0.1 released
Apache Maven 3.1-alpha-1 released - go test this sucker on your esoteric plugin configurations.
Latest release of OWL API for OWL Web Ontologies released (3.4.4)
Everyone wants to run PHP on their VM and XP Framework is a great library to help you do it. Release 5.9.0 this week.
Moskito hit its 2.3.5 release this week.
OSGI moves to the cloud. Everyone quake as further complexity is introduced.

Maven plugin of the week

maven-bundle-plugin

Episode 85

noreply@blogger.com (Mark Derricutt, Richard Vowles) — Mon, 3 Jun 2013 04:58:00 -0700

Unsupported Operation 85

Misc

VertX 2.0 not far away now, remains a fast option for deployment
JDK 7 and 8 to get RetinaTM support in next update
JDK8 b91 didn’t solve my method handle issue, which has now been reported upstream.
Interesting research with release of Groovy 2.1.4
JSR-352 RI - Batch Applications for the Java Platform 1.0 release, available in maven central ( part of EE 7 I believe )
Semantic Merge gets Java support
Apache Archiva 1.4 M4 released

Maven Plugin of the Week - Maven License Plugin

Allows you to check all your source files have licenses in the right format
You can set it to prevent release if they don’t
You can tell it to add the necessary formatting

Scala

Lift 2.5 released
Stackifier for Scala

Other

Google has released an Admin app) for Google Apps users on Android
Aspiring writers - Asciidoc 0.1.3 released, includes Font Awesome icons

Episode 84

noreply@blogger.com (Mark Derricutt, Richard Vowles) — Sun, 26 May 2013 02:15:00 -0700

Unsupported Operation 84

Misc

Not really “new”, but I rediscovered the fact that since Git 1.8.2, that submodules now support following a branch rather than a fixed commit SHA1 - this actually makes them somewhat usable.
JDK8 Build 91 available - Sadly, this didn't fix my method handle issue.
Atlassian JIRA 6 was released - teases with Bamboo 5 updates
Yourkit Profiler 2013 EAP launched, personal licences only US$99 until June 4, 2013.
Spring 4 announced, indicates support for JSE8 and Groovy 2 as the first class language, pushing Groovy 2 bigtime.
Action Launcher Pro 1.7 for Android was released - best launcher ever. Adds support for icon packs and just makes it that bit more... awesome.
Big changes for Redline Smalltalk - now scans classpath for .st files, so works nicely with artifacts/jar files etc. etc.
Google Code removes file downloads

Maven - Spotlight Plugin of the Week

maven-shade-plugin

Apache

Apache Maven 3.1-alpha-1 available for testing/voting. Release Notes.
Maven ShadePlugin, version 2,1 supporting the above 3.1 release
Open Web Beans 1.2
Apache Ant 1.9.1
Apache Wicket 6.8
Commons-Logging 1.1.3 (please still remove it from your archives)
Subversion 1.8-rc2
JSPWiki incubating 2.9.1

Clojure

MD did a short clojure-maven-plugin history presentation at the 2nd Auckland Clojure Meetup, this seems to have awaked the bug reporters...
Released 1.3.16 and then followed up with 1.3.17 of the clojure-maven-plugin

Scala

Scala 2.10.2-RC1 now available
dispatch 0.10.1 released, HTTP client library
Scala on Android - new book from Lean Pub, being written by Geoffroy Couprie (@gcouprie)

Groovy

Groovy 2.1 showcased and goes type checking mad
Groovy 2.1 type checking extensions for SQL inside a string discussed
Cedric shows Groovy type checking printf type and number of params Docs for type checking extensions released by Cedric
Gaelyk 2.0 released

Episode 83

noreply@blogger.com (Mark Derricutt, Richard Vowles) — Mon, 20 May 2013 04:24:00 -0700

Unsupported Operation Episode 83

Misc

JDK 8 build b90 - closures work well on my Mac, except for when using the method handler reference i.e. Integer::parseInt
TestNG 6.8.5 released, along with new Eclipse plugin
Gerrit 2.5.4 released, small security upgrade, 2.6rc3 out, along with 2.7rc1 ( two RC’s out concurrently is odd, I knew the Doctor crossing his timelines would have repercussions ).
OSDC NZ2013 website now live - now sure when that actually happened. If there was ever a developer focused conference in NZ to go to - I think this would be the more appropriate.
JavaFX Gradle Plugin 0.3
IntelliJ IDEA 13 EAP opened

Google

Introducing Android Studio - new IntelliJ IDEA based IDE for Android, wither Eclipse?
New shiny Google+
Google Cloud APIs

Grails

Announces new REST plans for 2.3 - chooses Spring HATEOS

Maven

karma-maven-plugin
release-pom plugin
License Maven Plugin 1.5
Maven Dependency Plugin 2.8 Released
Maven Site Plugin 3.3 Released
Maven Project Info Reports Plugin version 2.7 Released
GString Maven Plugin - as heard on the last IA - Richard loves his gstrings.

Clojure

getclojure.org - search for usages of function compositions
Grojure 0.7 - Groovy like syntax for Clojure
Screencast on using Clojure + Sublime Text

Scala

Scalabitz launched this week - new news site collating everything Scala orientated.
Scalabitz led me to g8ling - a website cataloging giter8 templates.
Giter8 itself is a Scala based project templating tool, similar to maven archetypes but project/language independent (tho mostly used by scala), template projects are stored on github.

Next Codelounge: Docker

Episode 82

noreply@blogger.com (Mark Derricutt, Richard Vowles) — Sun, 12 May 2013 03:13:00 -0700

Unsupported Operation Episode 82

Misc

JavaBlogs.com closed by Atlassian.
Latest Dart VM beats Java 64 bit VM in Delta Blue Benchmark
Java version number scheme officially updated to make managing all these security fixes easier
Newly minted just in time for more unmaintainable build messes: Gradle 1.6? Progress being made on Android build system, facebook builds their own Buck
IntelliJ IDEA 12.1.3 - moar upgrades!
YourKit Java Profiler 12.0.5
Typesafe release Typesafe Activator- part of the Typesafe Platform
JaCoCoverage: java 7 code coverage for Netbeans
Before Google I/O, Square announce Seven Days of Open Source and release (thus far) - OkHttp, Dagger, MimeCraft, ProtoParser, JavaWriter, Roboelectric 2.0, Intellij Plugins - a lot focused around Android.
Java gets a REPL - scary, and awesome, but very, very scary.
Sonar Groovy
Cassaforte - Client client API for Apache Cassandra 1.2+

Apache

Apache Camel 2.11 - new Camel CMIS module for integration with CMS systems, new camel-couchdb, camel-elasticsearch modules.
Three major defects found in Tomcat (groan, yes again) - Chunked transfer encoding extension size is not limited, Session fixation with FORM authenticator, Request mix-up if AsyncListener method throws RuntimeException. Tomcat 6.0.37 released. 7. something too.
Apache Curator 2.0.0-incubator - A ZooKeeper Keeper - utils making ZooKeeper easier to use.
Apache Gora 0.3 - in memory and persistence for Big Data for using Hadoop
Apache HttpComponents HttpCore 4.3-beta2
Apache Buildr 1.4.12
Apache Giraph 1.0 - first release out of incubation - Apache Giraph is an scalable and distributed iterative graph processing system that is inspired by BSP (bulk synchronous parallel) and Google's Pregel. Giraph distinguishes itself from those projects by being open-source, running on Hadoop infrastructure, and going beyond the Pregel model with features such as master computation, sharded aggregators, out-of-core support, no single point of failure design, and more.
Lucene and Solar 4.3
Commons Codec 1.8
Apache Marmotta 3.0 - incubating - Apache Marmotta is an extensible and modular implementation of a Linked Data Platform and contains a server component as well as many useful libraries for accessing Linked Data resources. Apache Marmotta is a continuation of the Linked Media Framework (LMF) originally developed by Salzburg Research, but considerably improved with respect to modularity, reliability, performance and also licensing. Since the last LMF release was the 2.x series, Apache Marmotta starts with the version number 3.0.0-incubating.
Open JPA 2.2.2

Other news

Greg’s favourite NoSQL database gets incremental backup

Episode 81

noreply@blogger.com (Mark Derricutt, Richard Vowles) — Sun, 28 Apr 2013 02:55:00 -0700

Unsupported Operation Episode 81

Experimenting with the audio recording here - not sure I like it, but I'm not going to re-record ;p

Last week we mentioned 7u21, well there’s already a security hole :(
Next release to possibly be 7u40, to give room for many more security updates
Java 8 officially delayed till 2014/03/18
IntelliJ IDEA 12.1.2
Hibernate 4.2.1, 4.1.12 - so much for the final the 4.1.x series.
Gradle Golo Plugin
Apache TomEE 1.5.2
Big Faceless PDF Library 2.13.1
DocBook Doclet 6.1.0-644
XWiki 5.0-rc-1
Jackson 2.2.0
Unirest - new multi-language REST client API library
Clahub - Contributor Licence Agreements for Github
Web Performance Specs Round 3
Facebook open sources it’s Buck build tool for Android/Java

Scala

Scala.Rx 0.1 on maven central - reactive API for Scala

Clojure

Immutant 0.10.0 released - application server for Clojure, based on JBoss AS7

Episode 80

noreply@blogger.com (Mark Derricutt, Richard Vowles) — Sun, 21 Apr 2013 03:31:00 -0700

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
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

noreply@blogger.com (Mark Derricutt, Richard Vowles) — Sun, 14 Apr 2013 04:01:00 -0700

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

noreply@blogger.com (Mark Derricutt, Richard Vowles) — Mon, 8 Apr 2013 03:17:00 -0700

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

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

noreply@blogger.com (Mark Derricutt, Richard Vowles) — Mon, 2 Jul 2012 01:54:00 -0700

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

noreply@blogger.com (Mark Derricutt, Richard Vowles) — Sun, 17 Jun 2012 03:56:00 -0700

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

noreply@blogger.com (Mark Derricutt, Richard Vowles) — Sun, 3 Jun 2012 19:41:00 -0700

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

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

noreply@blogger.com (Mark Derricutt, Richard Vowles) — Sun, 13 May 2012 05:02:00 -0700

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

Apache Maven

Misc

PostgreSQL 9.2 Draft Release Notes - release is soon, so you might want to start planning

Episode 73

noreply@blogger.com (Mark Derricutt, Richard Vowles) — Sun, 29 Apr 2012 05:00:00 -0700

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

noreply@blogger.com (Mark Derricutt, Richard Vowles) — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 03:48:00 -0700

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

Episode 71

noreply@blogger.com (Mark Derricutt, Richard Vowles) — Sun, 8 Apr 2012 00:37:00 -0700

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.

Episode 70 - Important Java News EVERYONE needs to hear.

noreply@blogger.com (Mark Derricutt, Richard Vowles) — Sun, 1 Apr 2012 02:50:00 -0700

Welcome to Unsupported Operation Episode 70, this episode includes details of several upcoming and game changing news to both the java community and its ecosystem.

Episode 69

noreply@blogger.com (Mark Derricutt, Richard Vowles) — Sun, 25 Mar 2012 02:56:00 -0700

Unsupported Operation Episode 69

Chronon 3 beta - 10x performance improvement, massive memory usage improvement
Continuous Deployment with Jenkins/Tomcat
Exploiting Tomcat - all your ROOT are belond to us.
Cliff Click leaves Azul systems to form 0xdata and build H2O database
Pangool - an easy to use fluent Java DSL for Hadoop queries
ZooKeeper 3.3.5
Weld 1.1.6
A model for improving names
PHPStorm / WebStorm 4.0 EAP 117.65
IntelliJ IDEA 11.1 RC3
jClouds bindings for clojure - from HP Cloud
Archiva gets a new website thanks for the Maven Fluido skin
HTTP “Prefer” header draft
clojure-maven-plugin 1.3.10
Microsoft tries to stay relevant and adds Git to Codeplex

Episode 68

noreply@blogger.com (Mark Derricutt, Richard Vowles) — Sun, 18 Mar 2012 02:59:00 -0700

Unsupported Operation Episode 68

Java / Misc

Preview JDK - 7u4 b16
Oracle delays public JIRA project for OpenJDK
Play 2.0 released
- Now part of the Typesafe Stack 2.0
- Reports ofperformance issues compiling with scala under 2.0.
Easy-Cassandra - ORM - now works with maven, I wonder if you’d loose a lot of the power of NoSQL just
wrapping it up in an ORM?
coffeescript-maven-plugin Gotta love pull requests that come with new IT tests!
Can you afford to not know git any longer
codeline-enforcer-rule - a simple Maven Enforcer rule to block classes from import statements, or general regex patterns in source lines.
JDeodorant for class refactoring - eclipse plugin
Google Summer of Code 2012 accepted organisations
TestNG 6.4 now “supported” by current builds of IntelliJ IDEA - plugin now forces you to use the version shipped with the plugin, tells you when theirs a version conflict and offers to update the version in the plugin directory if you wish.
JRebel 4.6.1
- GWT plugin was improved in terms of deployment performance
- Spring 3.1 specific features handling was improved
Sonatype 2012 Open Source Development Survey Results
Jetty now supports SPDY - not sure if we mentioned it… SPDY jars were however accidentally left out of the distribution packages for 7.6.2/8.1.2 and will be bundled with 7.6.3 and 8.1.3, they are dowloadable from Maven Central tho.
Freemarker 2.3.19 Includes some non-backwards compatible security fixes. Read the changelog before updating.
iText 5.2.0 released, iText Summit is next week ( an entire conference on iText? ), still released with the evil AGPL. It’s a shame as the product is nice and has gotten some awesome improvements since the last GPL release.

Apache

Thoughtworks technology radar is out and lists Maven as a “hold”, due to its lack of flexibility and support for automation best practices - whatever that may mean…..
Apache Shiro 1.2
Cleaning your local Maven Repo with Groovy - Mark’s taken to also using the dependency:purge-local-repository goal of the maven-dependency-plugin.

Scala

New language modularisation SIP for Scala - even some of the Scala folk seem up in arms over it.

Misc

Episode 67

noreply@blogger.com (Mark Derricutt, Richard Vowles) — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 03:26:00 -0700

Unsupported Operation 67

Java

Misc

DataStax has quietly made their Cassandra documentation available in PDF
ExcelTestNG - interesting - webdriver/selenium testing driven by Excel spreadsheets, and TestNG.
Practical Unit Testing with Mockito and TestNG is nearing publication - now has an ISBN!
LogBack 1.0.1
Hibernate 4.1
Hazelcast 2.0 released - release notes.
AIDE - IDE for Android, ON Android
Terminal-IDE is similar, but gives you a vi based environment.
SmartGIT 3.0.1 available - changes - GUI Git client in Java. now supports mercurial and svn since I last checked it out.
Gerrit 2.3rc0 available
Atlassian buys an IRC/IM client/server company - closes a 7 year ticket “won’t fix”

Web Stuff

NettoSphere - A WebSocket and HTTP server based on Atmosphere and Netty.
vert.x - node.js like asynchronous web server/platform - lets you write applications in js, ruby, and java. comes with distributed event bus, websocket support, tcp/ssl, pre made modules for mailer, authentication, work queues
Thymeleaf 2.0 - XML/HTML specific template engine.
GateIN 3.2.0 Final - people still use portal servers?
JRebel 4.6 released, JRebel for Vaadin announced

Apache / Maven / Related

Shavenmaven - super-lightweight dependency management - NO XML - just URLs
Grails 2.0.1 now uses RichardStyle composites, and hopefully will make its way to “Apache Maven Central” soon.
Apache Jena 0.9.0 - Java framework for building Semantic Web
Commons Math 3.0
Apache Camel 2.9.1
Apache Hama 0.4 - incubating - metrics on Hadoop
Apache Rave 0.8 - incubating - social mashup
Apache Tomcat Native 1.1.23
Apache Ant 1.8.3
Directory studio 2.0.M3
ApacheDS 2.0.0-M6
Apache Directory LDAP 1.0.0-M11
Apache Commons Daemon 1.0.10
Apache ACE has become a top level project
Apache OFBiz 09.04.02 (2nd TLD in a month - DeltaCloud was the other)
Apache MyFaces extension for CDI 1.0.4

Jetbrains

IntelliJ IDEA 11.1 to support JavaScript.next with Traceur compiler.
AppCode 1.5 RC

Groovy

First official GroovyFX release

Scala

Clojure

Clojure 1.4 beta 4
First Github got hacked, then node.js’s NPM, Clojars takes precautions:

Hello folks!

In light of the recent break-in to the Node.js package hosting site (https://gist.github.com/2001456), I’ve decided to bump the priority of increasing the security on Clojars. I’ve deployed a fix that uses bcrypt (http://codahale.com/how-to-safely-store-a-password/) for password hashing. The first time you log in, it will re-hash your password using bcrypt and wipe the old weak hash.

Note that Clojars has NOT had a security breach at this time. This is a preventative measure to protect your password in the event of a future breach. We are also looking into allowing signed jars (and possibly requiring them for releases). If you’re interested in helping out with this effort, (design or code) please join the clojars-maintainers mailing list: http://groups.google.com/group/clojars-maintainers

Because we can’t ensure that everyone will log in to re-hash their password, at some point in the future (probably 2–3 weeks out) we will WIPE all the old password hashes. Otherwise users who have stopped using Clojars or missed the announcement could have their passwords exposed in the event of a future break-in. I will be sure to send out a few more warnings before this happens, but even if your password has been wiped it’s easy to reset it via the “forgot password” functionality.

If you have any applications storing passwords hashed with SHA1 (even if you use a salt) I highly recommend you take the same steps; refer to http://codahale.com/how-to-safely-store-a-password/ for details.

please log into Clojars to re-hash your password.

Thanks for your attention.

-Phil
Related news - Bouncy Castle 1.46 released
Static code analyzer for Clojure - kibit 0.0.2 now released
Marginalia v0.7.0 - documentation generator for clojure
lein 2.0 preview releases are out, and now preview2 is supported by Travis-CI
lein-navem is a lein plugin that converts a maven pom.xml into lein project.clj
Datomic is a new database service from Rich Hickey. And dayam it looks nice. Some really nice ideas in here.

Episode 66

noreply@blogger.com (Mark Derricutt, Richard Vowles) — Sun, 26 Feb 2012 01:40:00 -0800

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

noreply@blogger.com (Mark Derricutt, Richard Vowles) — Sun, 19 Feb 2012 01:25:00 -0800

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

noreply@blogger.com (Mark Derricutt, Richard Vowles) — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 02:20:00 -0800

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, 1 Feb 2012 02:43:00 -0800

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 02:08:00 -0800

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.