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• 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.
• Spring 4.0m1 and 3.2.3
• Spring Tool Suite and Groovy/Grails Tool Suite 3.3.0.M2 RELEASED
• HalBuilder 2.0.2 maintenance release, allows for _ prefix properties, restructuring work for 2.1.x ongoing - not split into 3-4 more artifacts.
• Kotlin M5.3 - delegated properties looks quite cool and powerful, yet simplistic to reason about.
  • Kotlin Delegates Source
• Scala 2.10.2 released - second maintenance release for the 2.10 series, 2.11m1 was also recently released.
• Slick 1.0.1 released
• Apache Maven 3.1-alpha-1 released - go test this sucker on your esoteric plugin configurations.
• Latest release of OWL API for OWL Web Ontologies released (3.4.4)
• Everyone wants to run PHP on their VM and XP Framework is a great library to help you do it. Release 5.9.0 this week.
• Moskito hit its 2.3.5 release this week.
• OSGI moves to the cloud. Everyone quake as further complexity is introduced.

Maven plugin of the week

• maven-bundle-plugin

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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 License Plugin

• Allows you to check all your source files have licenses in the right format
• You can set it to prevent release if they don’t
• You can tell it to add the necessary formatting

Scala

• Lift 2.5 released
• Stackifier for Scala

Other

• Google has released an Admin app) for Google Apps users on Android
• Aspiring writers - Asciidoc 0.1.3 released, includes Font Awesome icons

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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 as the first class language, pushing Groovy 2 bigtime.
• Action Launcher Pro 1.7 for Android was released - best launcher ever. Adds support for icon packs and just makes it that bit more... awesome.
• Big changes for Redline Smalltalk - now scans classpath for .st files, so works nicely with artifacts/jar files etc. etc.
• Google Code removes file downloads

Maven - Spotlight Plugin of the Week

• maven-shade-plugin

Apache

• Apache Maven 3.1-alpha-1 available for testing/voting. Release Notes.
• Maven ShadePlugin, version 2,1 supporting the above 3.1 release
• Open Web Beans 1.2
• Apache Ant 1.9.1
• Apache Wicket 6.8
• Commons-Logging 1.1.3 (please still remove it from your archives)
• Subversion 1.8-rc2
• JSPWiki incubating 2.9.1

Clojure

• MD did a short clojure-maven-plugin history presentation at the 2nd Auckland Clojure Meetup, this seems to have awaked the bug reporters...
• Released 1.3.16 and then followed up with 1.3.17 of the clojure-maven-plugin

Scala

• Scala 2.10.2-RC1 now available
• dispatch 0.10.1 released, HTTP client library
• Scala on Android - new book from Lean Pub, being written by Geoffroy Couprie (@gcouprie)

Groovy

• Groovy 2.1 showcased and goes type checking mad
• Groovy 2.1 type checking extensions for SQL inside a string discussed
• Cedric shows Groovy type checking printf type and number of params Docs for type checking extensions released by Cedric
• Gaelyk 2.0 released

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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 focused conference in NZ to go to - I think this would be the more appropriate.
• JavaFX Gradle Plugin 0.3
• IntelliJ IDEA 13 EAP opened

Google

• Introducing Android Studio - new IntelliJ IDEA based IDE for Android, wither Eclipse?
• New shiny Google+
• Google Cloud APIs

Grails

• Announces new REST plans for 2.3 - chooses Spring HATEOS

Maven

• karma-maven-plugin
• release-pom plugin
• License Maven Plugin 1.5
• Maven Dependency Plugin 2.8 Released
• Maven Site Plugin 3.3 Released
• Maven Project Info Reports Plugin version 2.7 Released
• GString Maven Plugin - as heard on the last IA - Richard loves his gstrings.

Clojure

• getclojure.org - search for usages of function compositions
• Grojure 0.7 - Groovy like syntax for Clojure
• Screencast on using Clojure + Sublime Text

Scala

• Scalabitz launched this week - new news site collating everything Scala orientated.
• Scalabitz led me to g8ling - a website cataloging giter8 templates.
• Giter8 itself is a Scala based project templating tool, similar to maven archetypes but project/language independent (tho mostly used by scala), template projects are stored on github.

Next Codelounge: Docker

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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 Typesafe Platform
• JaCoCoverage: java 7 code coverage for Netbeans
• Before Google I/O, Square announce Seven Days of Open Source and release (thus far) - OkHttp, Dagger, MimeCraft, ProtoParser, JavaWriter, Roboelectric 2.0, Intellij Plugins - a lot focused around Android.
• Java gets a REPL - scary, and awesome, but very, very scary.
• Sonar Groovy
• Cassaforte - Client client API for Apache Cassandra 1.2+

Apache

• Apache Camel 2.11 - new Camel CMIS module for integration with CMS systems, new camel-couchdb, camel-elasticsearch modules.
• Three major defects found in Tomcat (groan, yes again) - Chunked transfer encoding extension size is not limited, Session fixation with FORM authenticator, Request mix-up if AsyncListener method throws RuntimeException. Tomcat 6.0.37 released. 7. something too.
• Apache Curator 2.0.0-incubator - A ZooKeeper Keeper - utils making ZooKeeper easier to use.
• Apache Gora 0.3 - in memory and persistence for Big Data for using Hadoop
• Apache HttpComponents HttpCore 4.3-beta2
• Apache Buildr 1.4.12
• Apache Giraph 1.0 - first release out of incubation - Apache Giraph is an scalable and distributed iterative graph processing system that is inspired by BSP (bulk synchronous parallel) and Google's Pregel. Giraph distinguishes itself from those projects by being open-source, running on Hadoop infrastructure, and going beyond the Pregel model with features such as master computation, sharded aggregators, out-of-core support, no single point of failure design, and more.
• Lucene and Solar 4.3
• Commons Codec 1.8
• Apache Marmotta 3.0 - incubating - Apache Marmotta is an extensible and modular implementation of a Linked Data Platform and contains a server component as well as many useful libraries for accessing Linked Data resources. Apache Marmotta is a continuation of the Linked Media Framework (LMF) originally developed by Salzburg Research, but considerably improved with respect to modularity, reliability, performance and also licensing. Since the last LMF release was the 2.x series, Apache Marmotta starts with the version number 3.0.0-incubating.
• Open JPA 2.2.2

Other news

• Greg’s favourite NoSQL database gets incremental backup

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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 6.1.0-644
• XWiki 5.0-rc-1
• Jackson 2.2.0
• Unirest - new multi-language REST client API library
• Clahub - Contributor Licence Agreements for Github
• Web Performance Specs Round 3
• Facebook open sources it’s Buck build tool for Android/Java

Scala

• Scala.Rx 0.1 on maven central - reactive API for Scala

Clojure

• Immutant 0.10.0 released - application server for Clojure, based on JBoss AS7

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• 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 Original JVM Scripting Language returns
• Sneaky peek at Redline Smalltalk plugin for IntelliJ IDEA
• JBoss Application Server renamed to WildFly
• CodeMania 2013 talks appearing on YouTube Channel
• GVM 1.0 released
• OpenJPA 1.2.3
• Wicket 6.7
• Derby 10.10.1.1
• OpenNLP 1.5.3
• MRUnit 1.0.0
• Bloodhound 0.5.3

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• 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.com/stephenc/non-maven-jar-maven-plugin
• cucumber-testng-factory 1.0.1 released.

Kotlin

• funKTionale 0.1.5 is ready

Scala

• Atomic Scala print book now available

Clojure

• ClojureWerkz Money 1.2.0 - wrapper library for Joda Money
• Running and debugging Clojure with IntelliJ IDEA
• lein-thriftc - Apache Thrift plugin for Leiningen

Groovy

• 2.1.3 available

Apache

• HttpClient 4.2.4 released
• Maven Compiler 3.1 released
• Maven Surefire 2.14.1
• Maven Shared Utils 0.4
• Wink 1.3.0 - Apache Wink is a simple yet solid framework for building RESTful Web services. It is comprised of a Server module and a Client module for developing and consuming RESTful Web services
• Apache PDF Box 1.8.1
• Apache Wookie 0.14 - Apache Wookie is a Java server application that allows you to upload and deploy widgets for your applications; widgets can not only include all the usual kinds of mini-applications, badges, and gadgets, but also fully-collaborative applications such as chats, quizzes, and games. Wookie is based on the W3C Widgets specification, but widgets can also be included that use extended APIs such as Google Wave Gadgets and OpenSocial
• Apache CouchDB 1.3.0
• Apache Struts 1 end of life - going to the Attic
• Apache cTAKES becomes a top level project: (clinical Text Analysis and Knowledge Extraction System) is an Open Source natural language processing system for information extraction from electronic medical record clinical free-text. Widely used in production by numerous organisations across the healthcare sector, cTAKES was started in 2006 by a team of physicians, computer scientists and software engineers at Mayo Clinic, and was submitted to the Apache Incubator in June 2012
• Pig 0.11.1
• Apache Bloodhound 0.5.2 is a tool to track progress and defects in software products. Sits on Trac.
• The Apache Accumulo 1.4.3 - sorted, distributed key/value store is a robust,scalable, high performance data storage system that features cell-based access control and customizable server-side processing. It is based on Google's BigTable design and is built on top of Apache Hadoop, Zookeeper, and Thrift.
• Apache Syncope 1.0.7 is an Open Source system for managing digital identities in enterprise environments, implemented in JEE technology Apache Commons-FileUpload 1.3 - bug fixes, enhancements, drops pre 1.5 support
• Apache Rave 0.20.2 is a new web and social mashup engine. It provides an out-of-the-box, as well as extendible, lightweight Java platform to host, serve and manage OpenSocial, W3C and other web widgets.

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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 release - restores git support!
• Hibernate 4.2.0.Final / 4.1.11.Final - this is also the final release for the 4.1.x series.
• Bintray - Github For Binaries
• Bootstrap Rich Text Editor
• Website Walkthroughs for Documentation - intro.js and chardin.js
• Apple’s “Slide to Unlock” patent ruled invalid
• Golo
• VertX Golo
• Play 2.1.1
• unfiltered 0.6.8
• Grizzly 2.3+SPDY/3
• Framework performance round 2 results
• CodeRu

Google

• Google App Drive Data Folders
• Blink

Clojure

• mimr - clojure based rule engine
• FW/1 - Framework One: Clojure MVC for CFML) moves to new Github Organisation
• Functional Design Patterns - talk by Stuart Sierra from Strange Loop

Theme music "Emotional Upgrade" by John Zealey.

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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
  • New 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 Waikato - It includes an extensive series of pre-implemented machine learning algorithms, including well known classification and clustering algorithms. If you’ve ever been curious how Bayes Theorem works, this is a great tool to get up and running.

Google News

• IO obviously happened this week:
  • New JellyBean, but not sure what new APIs
    • Cloud messaging grows up
    • Google Now - event reminders with estimated travel times to destination, advance Siri beating voice search etc. etc.
  • New Google TV APIs
  • New YouTube APIs
  • Web Intents
  • Google Compute Engine
  • Adobe has killed Flash for Android 4.1
• Mark and I used Party Mode on a trip today, worked great! Remember to turn your calendar from “yes accept any and all invitations” to “no” if thats what its setting is and you want to be more careful.
  • Oddly - the photo I took when in Party Mode never uploaded...
• Google did not gloat at IO about Oracle case as far as I saw
• GWT 2.5 RC/beta?
  • GWT control seeded to external standards group/organisation/steering committee - Red Hat coming on board, Vaadin, and others
  • Vaadin 7 Alpha 3 also released
    • now includes full GWT for client side JS development, new navigation apis, js execution apis, JS based components,

Groovy

• 2.0 released
  • a static type checker to let the compiler tell you about the correctness of your code,
  • static compilation for the performance of the critical parts of your application,
  • modularity, splitting the Groovy JAR into smaller feature-oriented JARs and letting you create your own extension modules,
  • JDK 7 Project Coin syntax enhancements, so that Groovy is still as friendly as possible with its Java cousin,
  • and JDK 7 Invoke Dynamic integration to benefit from the support of the JVM for dynamic languages.
• Grails 2.1.0-RC3
  • Greame Rocher happy with Grails smoking Play.
• Did we say Gradle went 1.0?

Apache News

• Apache Tomcat 7.0.28
• Phonegap 1.9.0 released ( now Apache Cordova I believe )

Other

• Amazon EC2 down and took out Instagram, Netflix, and lots of others, followed up by a leap second bug taking out java apps everywhere - YAY.

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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 deployments. Video presentation.
• Kotlin Milestone 2also running on Android ( hello world in kotlin - super awesome 5 line example :), more examples )

• Cucumber JVM 1.0.9 and Cucumber C++ 1.0
• Zipkin - an Open Source distributed tracing system from Twitter. cassandra/zookeeper based tracing tool to help performance monitor your systems.
• Storm 0.8 dev release
• Eclipse Juno 4.2RC3 available
• Zanata - Seam based translation tool for .po files (and other) - sponsored by Red Hat, looks nice.

Apache

• Apache Oozie 3.2.0 released - Hadoop workflow/coordination system with DAGs
• Nutch 1.5 - web search, now based on SOLR instead of lucene directly. Apache Tika and Hadoop involved?
• Rave 0.12 - Alpha
• Apache Syncope 1.0.0-incubating - Open Source Identity Management for enterprises

• HttpComponents HttpCore 4.2.1GA released
• Felix Configuration Admin 1.4.0 released
• Apache Jackrabbit 2.4.2

Groovy

• Groovy 2.0 RC

Misc

• Angular goes 1.0
• Google IO in 2 weeks
• Scalathon 2012 announced
• The tables turn,Enterprise Java is going after Spring
• News for organisations that do webdev -PageSpeed Insights 2.0 released, Firefox & Chrome extensions.