Episode 73

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 it before. Google Play Maps Cube - requires Chrome Apache Apache Karaf 2.2.7 Cassandra 1.1 Chemistry OpenCMIS 0.7.0 Ivy 2.3.0-RC1 Gora 0.2 Jackrabbit 2.2.12 Maven New maven compiler plugin soon to be released, pulls in new maven-plexus-javac which speeds up multi-module builds by around 30%, you can use it now by adding the dependency manually. Misc Crash goes 1.0 Groovy 2.0 is as fast as Java