Episode 62

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 ).

• 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

• 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.