Episode 62

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.