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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 completeOracle 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 3.2.3Spring Tool Suite and Groovy/Grails Tool Suite 3.3.0.M2 RELEASEDHalBuilder 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 SourceScala 2.10.2 released - second maintenance release for the 2.10 series, 2.11m1 was also recently released.Slick 1.0.1 releasedApache 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

Unsupported Operation 85 Misc VertX 2.0 not far away now, remains a fast option for deploymentJDK 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 2.1.4JSR-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 supportApache 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 formatYou can set it to prevent release if they don’tYou can tell it to add the necessary formatting Scala Lift 2.5 releasedStackifier 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

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 releaseOpen Web Beans 1.2Apache Ant 1.9.1Apache Wicket 6.8Commons-Logging 1.1.3 (please still remove it from your archives)Subversion 1.8-rc2JSPWiki 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 availabledispatch 0.10.1 released, HTTP client libraryScala on Android - new book from Lean Pub, being written by Geoffroy Couprie (@gcouprie) Groovy Groovy 2.1 showcased and goes type checking madGroovy 2.1 type checking extensions for SQL inside a string discussedCedric shows Groovy type checking printf type and number of params Docs for type checking extensions released by CedricGaelyk 2.0 released

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::parseIntTestNG 6.8.5 released, along with new Eclipse pluginGerrit 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 0.3IntelliJ 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-pluginrelease-pom pluginLicense Maven Plugin 1.5Maven Dependency Plugin 2.8 ReleasedMaven Site Plugin 3.3 ReleasedMaven Project Info Reports Plugin version 2.7 ReleasedGString Maven Plugin - as heard on the last IA - Richard loves his gstrings. Clojure getclojure.org - search for usages of function compositionsGrojure 0.7 - Groovy like syntax for ClojureScreencast 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

Unsupported Operation Episode 82 Misc JavaBlogs.com closed by Atlassian.Latest Dart VM beats Java 64 bit VM in Delta Blue BenchmarkJava version number scheme officially updated to make managing all these security fixes easierNewly minted just in time for more unmaintainable build messes: Gradle 1.6? Progress being made on Android build system, facebook builds their own BuckIntelliJ IDEA 12.1.3 - moar upgrades!YourKit Java Profiler 12.0.5Typesafe release Typesafe Activator- part of the Typesafe PlatformJaCoCoverage: java 7 code coverage for NetbeansBefore 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 GroovyCassaforte - 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 HadoopApache HttpComponents HttpCore 4.3-beta2Apache Buildr 1.4.12Apache 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 4.3Commons Codec 1.8Apache 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

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 updatesJava 8 officially delayed till 2014/03/18IntelliJ IDEA 12.1.2Hibernate 4.2.1, 4.1.12 - so much for the final the 4.1.x series.Gradle Golo PluginApache TomEE 1.5.2Big Faceless PDF Library 2.13.1DocBook Doclet 6.1.0-644XWiki 5.0-rc-1Jackson 2.2.0Unirest - new multi-language REST client API libraryClahub - Contributor Licence Agreements for GithubWeb Performance Specs Round 3Facebook 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

Unsupported Operation 80 Java 7u21, 5 & 6 also got new versions, despite being out of supportNew Server JRE which removes all Applet and jfx stuffSlow Train Coming - Java 8 delayed Secure the trainThe Delay of Java 8Proposed new schedule for JDK8JDK 8 Javadoc gets a light tweaking for method listingsJava 8 OptionalVirgil is a new Function/OO hybrid language for the JVM and native platforms. PLDI paper.TeamCity 7.1.5IntelliJ 12.1.2 EAP builds already showing upNetRexx 3.02RC - The Original JVM Scripting Language returnsSneaky peek at Redline Smalltalk plugin for IntelliJ IDEAJBoss Application Server renamed to WildFlyCodeMania 2013 talks appearing on YouTube ChannelGVM 1.0 releasedOpenJPA 1.2.3Wicket 6.7Derby 10.10.1.1 OpenNLP 1.5.3MRUnit 1.0.0Bloodhound 0.5.3

Unsupported Operation 79IntelliJ IDEA 12.1.1 availableJavaZ - new functional patterns library for Java - looks interesting, but UGLYLambda Ladies - Recently started group to promote functional programming to women in techSonatype’s gateway to Central upgraded to Nexus 2.4 - what version is your nexus?JMS2, Bean Validation 1.1, JBatch, JSON-P go finalResteasy 3.0-beta-4 and 2.3.6.Final ReleasedRedline-RPM - Native Java RPM generation - no need for native rpm-tools installhttps://github.com/stephenc/non-maven-jar-maven-plugincucumber-testng-factory 1.0.1 released.KotlinfunKTionale 0.1.5 is readyScalaAtomic Scala print book now availableClojureClojureWerkz Money 1.2.0 - wrapper library for Joda MoneyRunning and debugging Clojure with IntelliJ IDEAlein-thriftc - Apache Thrift plugin for LeiningenGroovy2.1.3 availableApacheHttpClient 4.2.4 releasedMaven Compiler 3.1 releasedMaven Surefire 2.14.1Maven Shared Utils 0.4Wink 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 servicesApache PDF Box 1.8.1Apache 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 OpenSocialApache CouchDB 1.3.0Apache Struts 1 end of life - going to the AtticApache 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 2012Pig 0.11.1Apache 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 supportApache 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.

Unsupported Operation 78 Misc IntelliJ IDEA 12.1Kotlin Milestone 5.2Sonar goes 3.5.1Concordion moved to Github + GradleGradle 1.5MAJOR PostgreSQL Security UpdateScridb reveals it was hacked this week, says < 1% of users of passworks compromisedPicketLink 3.0 Alpha1 - CDI based security framework for Java EE from JBoss, essentially the successor to Seam SecurityApache Maven 3.1alpha1 staged ** Release notes** Staging repository** Staged distributionmaven-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 BinariesBootstrap Rich Text EditorWebsite Walkthroughs for Documentation - intro.js and chardin.jsApple’s “Slide to Unlock” patent ruled invalidGoloVertX GoloPlay 2.1.1unfiltered 0.6.8Grizzly 2.3+SPDY/3Framework performance round 2 resultsCodeRu Google Google App Drive Data FoldersBlink Clojure mimr - clojure based rule engineFW/1 - Framework One: Clojure MVC for CFML) moves to new Github OrganisationFunctional Design Patterns - talk by Stuart Sierra from Strange Loop Theme music "Emotional Upgrade" by John Zealey.

Unsupported Operation 77General NewsJRuby smokes normal RubyApache Camel seems to be getting strong enough so that Red Hat purchased Fuse SourceMule 3.3 releasedIntelliJ IDEA 12 “Leda” EAP openedNew compiler mode brings eclipse like continuous compilation, and other improvements.Eclipse 4.2 releasedEclipse Xtend 1.0 releasedCeylon 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 NewsIO obviously happened this week:New JellyBean, but not sure what new APIsCloud messaging grows upGoogle Now - event reminders with estimated travel times to destination, advance Siri beating voice search etc. etc.New Google TV APIsNew YouTube APIsWeb IntentsGoogle Compute EngineAdobe has killed Flash for Android 4.1Mark 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 sawGWT 2.5 RC/beta?GWT control seeded to external standards group/organisation/steering committee - Red Hat coming on board, Vaadin, and othersVaadin 7 Alpha 3 also releasednow includes full GWT for client side JS development, new navigation apis, js execution apis, JS based components, Groovy2.0 releaseda 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-RC3Greame Rocher happy with Grails smoking Play.Did we say Gradle went 1.0?Apache NewsApache Tomcat 7.0.28Phonegap 1.9.0 released ( now Apache Cordova I believe ) OtherAmazon EC2 down and took out Instagram, Netflix, and lots of others, followed up by a leap second bug taking out java apps everywhere - YAY.

Unsupported Operation 76 Snakes are like small childrenOracle ordered to pay Googles Legal FeesOracle Cloud launchedApple/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 5Neo4j 1.8M04NetBeans 7.2 introduces TestNGGlu 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++ 1.0Zipkin - an Open Source distributed tracing system from Twitter. cassandra/zookeeper based tracing tool to help performance monitor your systems.Storm 0.8 dev releaseEclipse Juno 4.2RC3 availableZanata - Seam based translation tool for .po files (and other) - sponsored by Red Hat, looks nice.ApacheApache Oozie 3.2.0 released - Hadoop workflow/coordination system with DAGsNutch 1.5 - web search, now based on SOLR instead of lucene directly. Apache Tika and Hadoop involved?Rave 0.12 - AlphaApache Syncope 1.0.0-incubating - Open Source Identity Management for enterprisesHttpComponents HttpCore 4.2.1GA releasedFelix Configuration Admin 1.4.0 releasedApache Jackrabbit 2.4.2GroovyGroovy 2.0 RCMiscAngular goes 1.0Google IO in 2 weeksScalathon 2012 announcedThe tables turn,Enterprise Java is going after SpringNews for organisations that do webdev -PageSpeed Insights 2.0 released, Firefox & Chrome extensions.

Unsupported Operation 75Java / MiscGerrit 2.4 releasedCucumber-JVM 1.0.8ErrorProne - another build time error catcherHuge Collections - another large collections library for javaJNario - 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 4.1.4Loop - New haskell/ruby/scheme inspired JVM language from DhanjiWebMotion 2.2 - a new Java web frameworkI say new, but 1.0 came out mid-last year - never heard of it before.Templating is via StringTemplate - an interesting choiceEE6/Servlet 3 basedExhaustive 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.ApacheJMeter 2.7Apache Log4j 1.2.17 - first (maintainance) release in 2 years!Tomcat Connectors 1.2.37Buildr 1.4.7PDFBox 1.7.0WSIF retierdWink 1.2.0-incubatingLibcloud 0.10.1HttpComponents HttpClient 4.2GAApache Qpid 0.16Groovy / Grailshttp://grails.org/2.0.4+Release+Noteshttp://grails.org/1.3.9+Release+Noteshttp://grails.org/2.1.0.RC1+Release+NotesGaelyk 1.2Groovy 2.0 RCScalaScalaGWTClojureClojure 1.5.0 alpha 1Timbre - pure clojure logging libraryNeocons - feature rich clojure client library for Neo4J REST ServerCarmine - Clojure Redis ClientMavenmaven clean plugin 2.5maven compiler plugin 2.5maven changes plugin 2.7.1maven invoker 1.6release:performmaven truezip plugin 1.0maven license plugin 1.1maven remote resources plugin 1.3maven shade plugin 1.7maven release plugin 2.3.1maven plugin plugin 3.0.0 released, now fully/officially supporting JDK annotations.

Unsupported Operation 74Java / MiscXtend 2.3 beta now availableXtend language web consoleGroovy Eclipse moved to GithubVert.x 1.0, some interesting performance stats against node.jsVibe.d - new async I/O web framework for DNeo4J 1.8M01, interesting new interactive Neo4j console.WebSphere Application Server V8.5 AnnouncedBrackets - new open source IDE for HTML/CSS/JavaScript from AdobeJRebel 4.6.2pit mutation testing 0.27IntelliJ 11.1.2RCActiveMQ 5.6.0Groovy 2.0beta3Cassandra Maven Plugin - Version 1.1.0-1logback 1.0.3Weld 1.1.8Hibernate 4.3 finalThe Great JSR-310 Naming PollGoogleGuava 12.0 released - FluentIterable is glorious. If you’re stuck in javaland that is.ClojureNew Reduces library coming in 1.5 - looking awesome, and mind-bendyApacheKaraf 2.2.7Apache OpenOffice 3.4Apache Mavenbuildnumber-maven-plugin 1.1buildversion-pluginappassembler-maven-plugin 1.2.2Maven Site Plugin 3, version 3.1Maven Site Plugin 2, version 2.4PHP-Maven Plugin 2.0.0Fitness maven pluginplan-maven-pluginArtifactory 2.6MiscPostgreSQL 9.2 Draft Release Notes - release is soon, so you might want to start planning

Unsupported Operation 73JavaJDK 7u4 released, AND for the Mac!JRE 7u6 for mac available as developer preview, brings applets/javafx etc7u4 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 distDoug Lea proposes extensions in JDK7 for Concurrency for lambasPig 0.10 releasedNew release of WebGoat - OWASP “deliberately insecure webapp” for teaching purposes - never come across it before.GooglePlay Maps Cube - requires ChromeApacheApache Karaf 2.2.7Cassandra 1.1Chemistry OpenCMIS 0.7.0Ivy 2.3.0-RC1Gora 0.2Jackrabbit 2.2.12MavenNew 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.MiscCrash goes 1.0Groovy 2.0 is as fast as Java

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 storeJDBC? 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 applicationsHenri Gomez’s JDK build project now has JDK8 builds for Llambda and Jigsaw.Gerrit 2.3 is out - new draft reviews - nice.FEST-Reflect 1.3FEST-Assert 2.0m2Flyway DB Migrations 1.6.1Damn Handy URI TemplatesSonar 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 ClojureClojure 1.4 released - not yet mentioned on the website it seems tho.New clojars’s application/site release Scala Typesafe Stack 2.0.1 releasedScala IDE for Eclipse M1 released Groovy Grails is now 2.0.3 after Windows related issued found. Apache Compress Antlib 1.2 releasedCommons Compress 1.4Open Web Beans 1.1.4Tomcat 7.0.27IvyDE 2.2.0 beta 1Camel 2.9.2CXF 2.6.0HTTP Server 2.4.2Rave 0.10.1 (mashup engine)OFBiz 10.04.02Commons IO 2.3BVal 0.4 (implements Bean Validation 1.0 spec)Axion 1.2.13 - xml model something or other that was part of Axis 2Lucene and Solr 3.6 (does this mean a new version of Elastic Search soon?)MyFaces Core 2.1.7 / 1.2.12 / 1.1.10Accumulo 1.4.0 (key/value store big table based on hadoop, zookeeper and thrift)Empire DB 3.0 - alternative to JPA - http://empire-db.apache.org/empiredb/hibernate.htm Other Meteor decides to change their license to MITLean is officially cooler than Agile

Unsupported Operation Episode 71 Android Tap Keyboard - youtube demo videoOpenJDK 7 and 8 for OSX - OpenJDK 8 for Mac now with Jigsaw modules!OpenJDK 7 ported to Haiku ( screenshot )JDK8 - Selected UpdatesApple releases 2nd Java Update in 2 daysTeamCity 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.

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. 

Unsupported Operation Episode 69Chronon 3 beta - 10x performance improvement, massive memory usage improvementContinuous Deployment with Jenkins/TomcatExploiting Tomcat - all your ROOT are belond to us.Cliff Click leaves Azul systems to form 0xdata and build H2O databasePangool - an easy to use fluent Java DSL for Hadoop queriesZooKeeper 3.3.5Weld 1.1.6A model for improving namesPHPStorm / WebStorm 4.0 EAP 117.65IntelliJ IDEA 11.1 RC3jClouds bindings for clojure - from HP CloudArchiva gets a new website thanks for the Maven Fluido skinHTTP “Prefer” header draftclojure-maven-plugin 1.3.10Microsoft tries to stay relevant and adds Git to Codeplex

Unsupported Operation Episode 68Java / MiscPreview JDK - 7u4 b16Oracle delays public JIRA project for OpenJDKPlay 2.0 released Now part of the Typesafe Stack 2.0Reports 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 longercodeline-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 pluginGoogle Summer of Code 2012 accepted organisationsTestNG 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 performanceSpring 3.1 specific features handling was improvedSonatype 2012 Open Source Development Survey ResultsJetty 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.ApacheThoughtworks 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 1.2Cleaning your local Maven Repo with Groovy - Mark’s taken to also using the dependency:purge-local-repository goal of the maven-dependency-plugin.ScalaNew language modularisation SIP for Scala - even some of the Scala folk seem up in arms over it.MiscIce Cream Sandwich Holo themepack for Gnome 3Google App Engine outages outrage…

Unsupported Operation 67JavaOracle pulls support for JavaFX ScriptJava 7u4b15 developer preview availableMiscDataStax has quietly made their Cassandra documentation available in PDFExcelTestNG - 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 1.0.1Hibernate 4.1Hazelcast 2.0 released - release notes.AIDE - IDE for Android, ON AndroidTerminal-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 availableAtlassian buys an IRC/IM client/server company - closes a 7 year ticket “won’t fix”Web StuffNettoSphere - 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 queuesThymeleaf 2.0 - XML/HTML specific template engine.GateIN 3.2.0 Final - people still use portal servers?JRebel 4.6 released, JRebel for Vaadin announcedApache / Maven / RelatedShavenmaven - super-lightweight dependency management - NO XML - just URLsGrails 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 WebCommons Math 3.0Apache Camel 2.9.1Apache Hama 0.4 - incubating - metrics on HadoopApache Rave 0.8 - incubating - social mashupApache Tomcat Native 1.1.23Apache Ant 1.8.3Directory studio 2.0.M3ApacheDS 2.0.0-M6Apache Directory LDAP 1.0.0-M11Apache Commons Daemon 1.0.10Apache ACE has become a top level projectApache OFBiz 09.04.02 (2nd TLD in a month - DeltaCloud was the other)Apache MyFaces extension for CDI 1.0.4JetbrainsIntelliJ IDEA 11.1 to support JavaScript.next with Traceur compiler.AppCode 1.5 RCGroovyFirst official GroovyFX releaseScalaAkka moved to a new Akka Organisation on GithubAkka 2.0 also released!New Scala proposal for value typesClojureClojure 1.4 beta 4First 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-maintainersBecause 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.-PhilRelated news - Bouncy Castle 1.46 releasedStatic code analyzer for Clojure - kibit 0.0.2 now releasedMarginalia v0.7.0 - documentation generator for clojurelein 2.0 preview releases are out, and now preview2 is supported by Travis-CIlein-navem is a lein plugin that converts a maven pom.xml into lein project.cljDatomic is a new database service from Rich Hickey. And dayam it looks nice. Some really nice ideas in here.

Unsupported Operation 66Java 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 StoreNew 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 APIsRestletApps - premade restlet based apps to reuseRestletCloud - cloud server/paas for hosting restlet apps.SolrCloud - distributed indexingApache Http Async got a 4.0 beta 1 releaseTomcat 7.0.26 got a bugfix OpenJPA 2.2.0forgot to mention on Feb 2 that JMeter 2.6 was releasedApache 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    

Unsupported Operation 65JavaJava 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 / MiscPlay 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 foundationJetbrainsTeamCity 7.0 RCIntelliJ IDEA 11.1 114.145 EAP new Groovy Console / REPL - doesn’t work against grails apps apparently (yet)More SVN 1.7 improvementsKotlin 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.ApacheApollo 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 dbsApache 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 1.0.9Subversion 1.7.3Apache DeltaSpike - CDI extentions repository for Java devsHttpClient 4.2.1-betaSonatypeNexus 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 lovingGroovyGroovyFX 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)ScalaTwitter has open sourced its Effective Scala guide on Github.JBoss/RedhatJBoss AS 7.1.0 Final “Thunder” - Java EE 6 Full Profile CertifiedGoogleAndroid 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 AppsTech preview of Chromium with Dart engine built in now available. Let the fragmentation begin!MiscMicrosoft’s new logo is FOUR BLUESCREENS - respecting their heritage ;-)

Unsupported Operation 64Java / MiscJavaFX 2.1 gets MPEG4 playbackScala artifacts now in centralGithub's mashup of Jenkins called JankyThe state of IcedTea and IcedTeaWeb video from FOSDEMSpring Data JPA 1.1.0 RC1 and 1.0.3 GA Releasedhttp://bit.ly/xkOR9CPrimeFaces 3.0 - a year long development, its tagline is Ajax, Mobile and IE9 components. IE9 components????Scandal: ICEFaces is just a rip off of PrimeFacesSpring Roo 1.2.1 available, patch release which brings support for the new PrimeFaces and latest GAEQuery Time Joining makes it into Lucene 3.6 (but a different impl from 4.0 which is 3x faster)GoogleGoogle App Engine "Community Support" moved to Stack OverflowFails in its attempt to keep email out of court on AndroidHardware x-overSheeva 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 CXFApacheRichard moved to Maven 3.0.4 and is having no problemsApache 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-2011-4367Apache MyFaces information disclosure vulnerability affects MyFaces 2.0.1 - 2.0.11, 2.1.0 - 2.1.5MyFaces JavaServer Faces (JSF) allows relative paths in thejavax.faces.resource 'ln' parameter or writing the url so the resourcename include '..' sequences . An attacker could use the securityvulnerability to view files that they should not be able to.http://://faces/javax.faces.resource/../WEB-INF/web.xmlMyFaces Core 2.0.12 and 2.1.6 releasedApache Directory Studio 2.0M2Apache Directory DS 2.0.0-M5Apache LDAP API 1.0.0-M10HttpClient 4.1.3 GAApache Hive 0.8.1 - distributed data warehouse on top of HadoopCommons Configuration 1.8Commons Validator 1.4Lucy 0.3 (incubating)Apache Lucy is full-text search engine library written in C and targeted at dynamic languages

Unsupported Operation 63 - First for 2012 Misc Sensei DB - Open-source, distributed, realtime, semi-structured database from LinkedInResteasy 2.3.1Gitblit 0.8.2 - pure java git repo managerGuartz 1.1 out - Guice + QuartzNew 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 / SonatypeApache 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 websiteNexus OSS changes license to EPLMaven FindBugs Plugin version 2.4.0Maven EAR Plugin, version 2.7Maven 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 stuffApache Rave 0.7-INCUBATING - web mashup engine (in Java)Apache Qpid 0.14 - AMQP solution with lots of brokersStruts, 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 hiatusClojureIClojure is a new Clojure REPL with advanced tab completion - awesome.Forthcoming clojure-maven-plugin release now supports iClojure as its REPL.ScalaLift 2.4http://ls.implicit.ly - card catalog/search engine for scala librariesScala-tools gone bye bye - or becoming a polical commentary site after Dave Pollock’s exit from Scalaland 

Unsupported Operation - Final for 2011Java / Oracle / Tool / Language RelatedJava 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 releasedeFX is a new JavaFX/Netbeans Platform frameworkNetBeans 7.1 RC1 releasedJetBrains released IntelliJ IDEA 11 - a bugfix update to TeamCity was also released last weekGoogle’s Eclipse plugin is now open sourceOrion, 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 moreState of the LambdaJSR 292 Goodness: Almost static final fields - for the language level hackersJSR 352 passes with two no votes - Batch JSRRedline Smalltalk compiler “complete” - work on the runtime begins. Why Smalltalk on the JVM?Dart on ChromiumShaftServer is a new DartVM Application Server - jHiccup is a new performance monitoring/analysis tool released under Creative Commons from Azul SystemsHP 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 FrameworksPrimeFaces Mobile 0.9 - JSF optimized for mobilesOracle releases Weblogic 12c - which finally does full J2ee6 Apache Geronimo goes full J2EE 6 certifiedJetty 8 got released without much fanfare. Its available as standalone download, maven artifacts, rpm and debian packagesJersey 1.11 released with Eclipse MOXy supportApache Wicket 1.5 releasedRestfuse 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/testingMiscHibernate 4.0 FinalHibernate Search 4.0 FinalBook: Practical Unit Testing with TestNG and Mockito - available Q1 2012Mockito 1.9 released Awesomely improved documentation Pax Exam 2.3 has been releasedConfluence 4.1 releasedJDBC driver for Neo4j from Rickard OburgGoogle Guava 11rc1 out - changesAndroid+Antur Kotwal is heading to Auckland on Janurary 5 to talk about new ICS APIs.ICS shipping to Nexus S devices over the next week or twoSpringSpring Social 1.0.1Spring 3.1GroovyGrails 2.0 Heroku announces “native” support for Grailsgroovy 2.0 roadmap outlined modularity! no more swing in your server app!ScalaAdopts Play framework as officialScala IDE for Eclipse gets an updateTypesafe 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 sufferScala+GWT compiler has gone to version 3, seems to be following Scala’s trend of changing a lot of the internalsAnd a summary of the Yammer debateEclipseXtend 2.2 released with standalone compiler, ant task, maven plugin.Apache MavenMaven 2.x Release Plugin - Version 2.2.2 Fixed problems with version numbers in profiles not being updated, updated to SCM 1.6Maven Dependency Plugin - Version 2.4 Minor changes but one HUGE improvement: Add to purge-local-repository goal ability to clean only snapshotsdependencypath-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 APIMaven FindBugs Plugin version 2.3.3Mock 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.