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. Sp...
Jun 09, 2013
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 Li...
Jun 03, 2013
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 ...
May 26, 2013
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 focuse...
May 20, 2013
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 Ty...
May 12, 2013
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...
Apr 28, 2013
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. PLDI paper . TeamCity 7.1.5 IntelliJ 12.1.2 EAP builds already showing up NetRexx 3.02RC - The ...
Apr 21, 2013
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.co...
Apr 14, 2013
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 releas...
Apr 08, 2013
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 N ew 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 Waika...
Jul 02, 2012
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 deploymen...
Jun 17, 2012
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 pl...
Jun 04, 2012
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 Mav...
May 13, 2012
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 i...
Apr 29, 2012
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 appl...
Apr 23, 2012
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/...
Apr 08, 2012
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.
Apr 01, 2012
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 Archiv...
Mar 25, 2012
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 of performance 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-rul...
Mar 18, 2012
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 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...
Mar 12, 2012
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...
Feb 26, 2012
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...
Feb 19, 2012
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 Released http://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 Pri...
Feb 12, 2012
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...
Feb 01, 2012
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, Eclip...
Dec 19, 2011
