Unsupported Operation

Episode 62

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Unsupported Operation - Final for 2011

Java / Oracle / Tool / Language Related

  • Java 7u2 released, ships with JavaFX 2.0.2 which was also released
    • JavaFX 2.0 - Intro By Example is available on Kindle as well - didn’t realize there any books out on this.
    • Java 6u30 also released
    • eFX is a new JavaFX/Netbeans Platform framework
    • NetBeans 7.1 RC1 released
    • JetBrains released IntelliJ IDEA 11 - a bugfix update to TeamCity was also released last week
    • Google’s Eclipse plugin is now open source
    • Orion, Eclipses Cloud IDE has gone 0.4 M1 - new and noteworthy include HTML syntax highlighting, Code Mirror syntax highlighting (including mixed-mode documents, such as htmll/javascript/php), syntax validation, content type service (to store different mime types), and much more
    • State of the Lambda
    • JSR 292 Goodness: Almost static final fields - for the language level hackers
    • JSR 352 passes with two no votes - Batch JSR
    • Redline Smalltalk compiler “complete” - work on the runtime begins. Why Smalltalk on the JVM?
    • Dart on Chromium
    • ShaftServer is a new DartVM Application Server -
    • jHiccup is a new performance monitoring/analysis tool released under Creative Commons from Azul Systems
    • HP open source webos
      • Interesting that they’re asking the community to decide/recommend licensing, governance etc.
      • Adobe joins the OSGi Alliance Board of Directors (  Adobe’s Felix Meschberger apointed to BOD - principal developer/driver of the Apache Felix OSGi container ).
        • Web Server / Web Frameworks
        • PrimeFaces Mobile 0.9 - JSF optimized for mobiles
        • Oracle releases Weblogic 12c - which finally does full J2ee6
        • Apache Geronimo goes full J2EE 6 certified
        • Jetty 8 got released without much fanfare. Its available as standalone download, maven artifacts, rpm and debian packages
        • Jersey 1.11 released with Eclipse MOXy support
        • Apache Wicket 1.5 released
        • Restfuse 1.0 has been released - its a test framework for REST apis running with junit.
        • DropWizard - REST framework from Coda Hale / Yammer - has nice heartbeat system for built-in monitoring/testing
          • Misc
          • Hibernate 4.0 Final
          • Hibernate Search 4.0 Final
          • Book: Practical Unit Testing with TestNG and Mockito - available Q1 2012
          • Mockito 1.9 released
            • Awesomely improved documentation
            • Pax Exam 2.3 has been released
            • Confluence 4.1 released
            • JDBC driver for Neo4j from Rickard Oburg
            • Google Guava 11rc1 out - changes

              • Android

              • +Antur Kotwal is heading to Auckland on Janurary 5 to talk about new ICS APIs.
              • ICS shipping to Nexus S devices over the next week or two

                • Spring

                • Spring Social 1.0.1
                • Spring 3.1

                  • Groovy

                  • Grails 2.0
                    • Heroku announces “native” support for Grails
                    • groovy 2.0 roadmap outlined
                      • modularity! no more swing in your server app!

                        • Scala

                        • Adopts Play framework as official
                        • Scala IDE for Eclipse gets an update
                        • Typesafe has been in damage control over recent high profile Scala dissing - introduces a paid for service that protects you against binary incompatibility, all  the rest of you have to suffer
                        • Scala+GWT compiler has gone to version 3, seems to be following Scala’s trend of changing a lot of the internals
                        • And a summary of the Yammer debate

                          • Eclipse

                          • Xtend 2.2 released with standalone compiler, ant task, maven plugin.

                            • Apache Maven

                            • Maven 2.x Release Plugin - Version 2.2.2
                              • Fixed problems with version numbers in profiles not being updated, updated to SCM 1.6
                              • Maven Dependency Plugin - Version 2.4
                                • Minor changes but one HUGE improvement:
                                  • Add to purge-local-repository goal ability to clean only snapshots
                                  • dependencypath-maven-plugin
                                    • Sets a property pointing to the artifact file for each selected project dependency. Each property name will have a base name in form of groupId:artifactId:type:[classifier][.relative][.suffix]. This is similar to the /dependency:properties/ goal but with additional features, like setting a relative path and filtering.
                                    • Maven Surefire Plugin, version 2.11
                                      • Includes changes to the proposed plugin API
                                      • Maven FindBugs Plugin version 2.3.3
                                      • Mock Repository Manager version 1.0-alpha-1
                                        • The Mock Repository Manager suite of projects are used to provide mock or lightweight Maven Repository Managers for use during integration testing of Maven plugins.
                                        • Still no Apache Maven 3.0.4 release, rolled to rc4 after several issues were found, awaiting a re-release of Wagon to increase HTTP timeouts before rerolling rc5.



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