Episode 68

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 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-rule - a simple Maven Enforcer rule to block classes from import statements, or general regex patterns in source lines. JDeodorant for class refactoring - eclipse plugin Google Summer of Code 2012 accepted organisations TestNG 6.4 now “supported” by current builds of IntelliJ IDEA - plugin now forces you to use the version shipped with the plugin, tells you when theirs a version conflict and offers to update the version in the plugin directory if you wish. JRebel 4.6.1 GWT plugin was improved in terms of deployment performance Spring 3.1 specific features handling was improved Sonatype 2012 Open Source Development Survey Results Jetty now supports SPDY - not sure if we mentioned it… SPDY jars were however accidentally left out of the distribution packages for 7.6.2/8.1.2 and will be bundled with 7.6.3 and 8.1.3, they are dowloadable from Maven Central tho. Freemarker 2.3.19 Includes some non-backwards compatible security fixes. Read the changelog before updating. iText 5.2.0 released, iText Summit is next week ( an entire conference on iText? ), still released with the evil AGPL. It’s a shame as the product is nice and has gotten some awesome improvements since the last GPL release. Apache Thoughtworks technology radar is out and lists Maven as a “hold”, due to its lack of flexibility and support for automation best practices - whatever that may mean….. Apache Shiro 1.2 Cleaning your local Maven Repo with Groovy - Mark’s taken to also using the dependency:purge-local-repository goal of the maven-dependency-plugin. Scala New language modularisation SIP for Scala - even some of the Scala folk seem up in arms over it. Misc Ice Cream Sandwich Holo themepack for Gnome 3 Google App Engine outages outrage…