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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

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