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 g...

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 lic...

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 we...

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!
• ...

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 Go...

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
  • Secure the train
  • The Delay of Java 8
  • Proposed new schedule for JDK8
• 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. PL...

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 - Nati...

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 ** Re...

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...

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...

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.
• ...

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
• pi...

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 r...

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’...

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 ...

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 11...

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 O...

Unsupported Operation 67

Java

• Oracle pulls support for JavaFX Script
• Java 7u4b15 developer preview available

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 pu...