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Unsupported Operation Episode 86 The president has decided to press the “Undo Java” button - removing Java... forever.Open GL port of SWT JDK 8 almost feature completeOracle 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 3.2.3Spring Tool Suite and Groovy/Grails Tool Suite 3.3.0.M2 RELEASEDHalBuilder 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 SourceScala 2.10.2 released - second maintenance release for the 2.10 series, 2.11m1 was also recently released.Slick 1.0.1 releasedApache Maven 3.1-alpha-1 released - go test this suck

Unsupported Operation 85 Misc VertX 2.0 not far away now, remains a fast option for deploymentJDK 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 2.1.4JSR-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 supportApache 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 formatYou can set it to prevent release if they don’tYou can tell it to add the necessary formatting Scala Lift 2.5 releasedStackifier 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

Unsupported Operation 84 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 support

Unsupported Operation Episode 83 Misc JDK 8 build b90 - closures work well on my Mac, except for when using the method handler reference i.e. Integer::parseIntTestNG 6.8.5 released, along with new Eclipse pluginGerrit 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 0.3IntelliJ 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-pluginrelease-pom pluginLicense Maven Plugin 1.5Maven Dependency Plugin 2.8 ReleasedMaven Site Plugin 3.3 ReleasedMaven Project Info Reports Plugin version 2.7 ReleasedGString Maven Plugin - as

Unsupported Operation Episode 82 Misc JavaBlogs.com closed by Atlassian.Latest Dart VM beats Java 64 bit VM in Delta Blue BenchmarkJava version number scheme officially updated to make managing all these security fixes easierNewly minted just in time for more unmaintainable build messes: Gradle 1.6? Progress being made on Android build system, facebook builds their own BuckIntelliJ IDEA 12.1.3 - moar upgrades!YourKit Java Profiler 12.0.5Typesafe release Typesafe Activator- part of the Typesafe PlatformJaCoCoverage: java 7 code coverage for NetbeansBefore 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 GroovyCassaforte - 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

Unsupported Operation Episode 81 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 updatesJava 8 officially delayed till 2014/03/18IntelliJ IDEA 12.1.2Hibernate 4.2.1, 4.1.12 - so much for the final the 4.1.x series.Gradle Golo PluginApache TomEE 1.5.2Big Faceless PDF Library 2.13.1DocBook Doclet 6.1.0-644XWiki 5.0-rc-1Jackson 2.2.0Unirest - new multi-language REST client API libraryClahub - Contributor Licence Agreements for GithubWeb Performance Specs Round 3Facebook 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

Unsupported Operation 80 Java 7u21, 5 & 6 also got new versions, despite being out of supportNew Server JRE which removes all Applet and jfx stuffSlow Train Coming - Java 8 delayed Secure the trainThe Delay of Java 8Proposed new schedule for JDK8JDK 8 Javadoc gets a light tweaking for method listingsJava 8 OptionalVirgil is a new Function/OO hybrid language for the JVM and native platforms. PLDI paper.TeamCity 7.1.5IntelliJ 12.1.2 EAP builds already showing upNetRexx 3.02RC - The Original JVM Scripting Language returnsSneaky peek at Redline Smalltalk plugin for IntelliJ IDEAJBoss Application Server renamed to WildFlyCodeMania 2013 talks appearing on YouTube ChannelGVM 1.0 releasedOpenJPA 1.2.3Wicket 6.7Derby 10.10.1.1 OpenNLP 1.5.3MRUnit 1.0.0Bloodhound 0.5.3

Unsupported Operation 79IntelliJ IDEA 12.1.1 availableJavaZ - new functional patterns library for Java - looks interesting, but UGLYLambda Ladies - Recently started group to promote functional programming to women in techSonatype’s gateway to Central upgraded to Nexus 2.4 - what version is your nexus?JMS2, Bean Validation 1.1, JBatch, JSON-P go finalResteasy 3.0-beta-4 and 2.3.6.Final ReleasedRedline-RPM - Native Java RPM generation - no need for native rpm-tools installhttps://github.com/stephenc/non-maven-jar-maven-plugincucumber-testng-factory 1.0.1 released.KotlinfunKTionale 0.1.5 is readyScalaAtomic Scala print book now availableClojureClojureWerkz Money 1.2.0 - wrapper library for Joda MoneyRunning and debugging Clojure with IntelliJ IDEAlein-thriftc - Apache Thrift plugin for LeiningenGroovy2.1.3 availableApacheHttpClient 4.2.4 releasedMaven Compiler 3.1 releasedMaven Surefire 2.14.1Maven Shared Utils 0.4Wink 1.3.0 - Apache Wink is a simple yet solid framework for building RESTful Web services. It is c

Unsupported Operation 78 Misc IntelliJ IDEA 12.1Kotlin Milestone 5.2Sonar goes 3.5.1Concordion moved to Github + GradleGradle 1.5MAJOR PostgreSQL Security UpdateScridb reveals it was hacked this week, says < 1% of users of passworks compromisedPicketLink 3.0 Alpha1 - CDI based security framework for Java EE from JBoss, essentially the successor to Seam SecurityApache Maven 3.1alpha1 staged ** Release notes** Staging repository** Staged distributionmaven-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 BinariesBootstrap Rich Text EditorWebsite Walkthroughs for Documentation - intro.js and chardin.jsApple’s “Slide to Unlock” patent ruled invalidGoloVertX GoloPlay 2.1.1unfiltered 0.6.8Grizzly 2.3+SPDY/3Framework performance round 2 resultsCodeRu Google Google App Drive Data FoldersBlink Clojure mimr - clojure based rule engineFW/1 - Framework One: Clojure MVC for CFML) moves to new Github Organis

Unsupported Operation 77General NewsJRuby smokes normal RubyApache Camel seems to be getting strong enough so that Red Hat purchased Fuse SourceMule 3.3 releasedIntelliJ IDEA 12 “Leda” EAP openedNew compiler mode brings eclipse like continuous compilation, and other improvements.Eclipse 4.2 releasedEclipse Xtend 1.0 releasedCeylon 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 NewsIO obviously happened this week:New JellyBean, but not sure what new APIsCloud messaging grows upGoogle Now - event reminders with estimated travel times to destination, advance Siri beating voice search etc. etc.New Google TV APIsNew YouTube APIsWeb IntentsGoogle Compute EngineAd

Unsupported Operation 76 Snakes are like small childrenOracle ordered to pay Googles Legal FeesOracle Cloud launchedApple/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 5Neo4j 1.8M04NetBeans 7.2 introduces TestNGGlu 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++ 1.0Zipkin - an Open Source distributed tracing system from Twitter. cassandra/zookeeper based tracing tool to help performance monitor your systems.Storm 0.8 dev releaseEclipse Juno 4.2RC3 availableZanata - Seam based translation tool for .po files (and other) - sponsored by Red Hat, looks nice.ApacheApache Oozie 3.2.0 released - Hadoop workflow/coordina

Unsupported Operation 75Java / MiscGerrit 2.4 releasedCucumber-JVM 1.0.8ErrorProne - another build time error catcherHuge Collections - another large collections library for javaJNario - new Executable Specifications testing tool for Java, based on Eclipse Xtend.Looks awesome, but... Jnario requires Eclipse ≥3.6 with the latest milestone releases of Xtext 2.3 and Xtend 2.3.Mocikto 1.9.5-rc1 - One of the biggest new things is the MockMaker API, making the default cglib proxy generator pluggable, with..... dexmaker for live, on the fly Android proxy generation.Lockitron - use NFC to unlock your house...OrientDB 1.0 released ( a few weeks back now ) Hibernate 4.1.4Loop - New haskell/ruby/scheme inspired JVM language from DhanjiWebMotion 2.2 - a new Java web frameworkI say new, but 1.0 came out mid-last year - never heard of it before.Templating is via StringTemplate - an interesting choiceEE6/Servlet 3 basedExhaustive documentation - win!GetDown - a lightweight replacement for Java WebStart.YouTrack 4.0 Release

Unsupported Operation 74Java / MiscXtend 2.3 beta now availableXtend language web consoleGroovy Eclipse moved to GithubVert.x 1.0, some interesting performance stats against node.jsVibe.d - new async I/O web framework for DNeo4J 1.8M01, interesting new interactive Neo4j console.WebSphere Application Server V8.5 AnnouncedBrackets - new open source IDE for HTML/CSS/JavaScript from AdobeJRebel 4.6.2pit mutation testing 0.27IntelliJ 11.1.2RCActiveMQ 5.6.0Groovy 2.0beta3Cassandra Maven Plugin - Version 1.1.0-1logback 1.0.3Weld 1.1.8Hibernate 4.3 finalThe Great JSR-310 Naming PollGoogleGuava 12.0 released - FluentIterable is glorious. If you’re stuck in javaland that is.ClojureNew Reduces library coming in 1.5 - looking awesome, and mind-bendyApacheKaraf 2.2.7Apache OpenOffice 3.4Apache Mavenbuildnumber-maven-plugin 1.1buildversion-pluginappassembler-maven-plugin 1.2.2Maven Site Plugin 3, version 3.1Maven Site Plugin 2, version 2.4PHP-Maven Plugin 2.0.0Fitness maven pluginplan-maven-pluginArtifactory 2.6MiscPostgre

Unsupported Operation 73JavaJDK 7u4 released, AND for the Mac!JRE 7u6 for mac available as developer preview, brings applets/javafx etc7u4 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 distDoug Lea proposes extensions in JDK7 for Concurrency for lambasPig 0.10 releasedNew release of WebGoat - OWASP “deliberately insecure webapp” for teaching purposes - never come across it before.GooglePlay Maps Cube - requires ChromeApacheApache Karaf 2.2.7Cassandra 1.1Chemistry OpenCMIS 0.7.0Ivy 2.3.0-RC1Gora 0.2Jackrabbit 2.2.12MavenNew 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.MiscCrash goes 1.0Groovy 2.0 is as fast as Java

Unsupported Operation 72 Google/Oracle trial. APIs are apparently copyright. Huh? So Harmony was infringing copyright all along? The Judge has made the call that HE will decide - I don’t think he has yet done so…?Google acquires Unisys Parents, including Java API patents Generation of Java language application programming interface for an object-oriented data storeJDBC? EJB ‘reposistories’?, JCR content repositories?…Common gateway which allows JAVA applets to make program calls to OLTP applications executing on an enterprise server reference to co-pending applicationsHenri Gomez’s JDK build project now has JDK8 builds for Llambda and Jigsaw.Gerrit 2.3 is out - new draft reviews - nice.FEST-Reflect 1.3FEST-Assert 2.0m2Flyway DB Migrations 1.6.1Damn Handy URI TemplatesSonar 3 is out, new developer cockpit - looks nice but EXPENSIVE - per developer stats Jetbrains Kotlin M1 - Maven repository Clojure Chas Emerick releases Friend - an auth lib for ClojureClojure 1.4 released - not yet mentioned

Unsupported Operation Episode 71 Android Tap Keyboard - youtube demo videoOpenJDK 7 and 8 for OSX - OpenJDK 8 for Mac now with Jigsaw modules!OpenJDK 7 ported to Haiku ( screenshot )JDK8 - Selected UpdatesApple releases 2nd Java Update in 2 daysTeamCity 7.0.2 from Jetbrains.Youtrack 4.0 EAP with new Agile/Scrum board.Clojure Programming from Chas Emerick now available on Amazon Kindle.async-http-client 1.7.2 released.Built with Apache Wicket is a new tumblr blog showcasing various apps/sites built with the Apache Wicket web framework.

Welcome to Unsupported Operation Episode 70, this episode includes details of several upcoming and game changing news to both the java community and its ecosystem. 

Unsupported Operation Episode 69Chronon 3 beta - 10x performance improvement, massive memory usage improvementContinuous Deployment with Jenkins/TomcatExploiting Tomcat - all your ROOT are belond to us.Cliff Click leaves Azul systems to form 0xdata and build H2O databasePangool - an easy to use fluent Java DSL for Hadoop queriesZooKeeper 3.3.5Weld 1.1.6A model for improving namesPHPStorm / WebStorm 4.0 EAP 117.65IntelliJ IDEA 11.1 RC3jClouds bindings for clojure - from HP CloudArchiva gets a new website thanks for the Maven Fluido skinHTTP “Prefer” header draftclojure-maven-plugin 1.3.10Microsoft tries to stay relevant and adds Git to Codeplex

Unsupported Operation Episode 68Java / MiscPreview JDK - 7u4 b16Oracle delays public JIRA project for OpenJDKPlay 2.0 released Now part of the Typesafe Stack 2.0Reports 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 longercodeline-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 pluginGoogle Summer of Code 2012 accepted organisationsTestNG 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 performanceSpring

Unsupported Operation 67JavaOracle pulls support for JavaFX ScriptJava 7u4b15 developer preview availableMiscDataStax has quietly made their Cassandra documentation available in PDFExcelTestNG - interesting - webdriver/selenium testing driven by Excel spreadsheets, and TestNG.Practical Unit Testing with Mockito and TestNG is nearing publication - now has an ISBN!LogBack 1.0.1Hibernate 4.1Hazelcast 2.0 released - release notes.AIDE - IDE for Android, ON AndroidTerminal-IDE is similar, but gives you a vi based environment.SmartGIT 3.0.1 available - changes - GUI Git client in Java. now supports mercurial and svn since I last checked it out.Gerrit 2.3rc0 availableAtlassian buys an IRC/IM client/server company - closes a 7 year ticket “won’t fix”Web StuffNettoSphere - A WebSocket and HTTP server based on Atmosphere and Netty.vert.x - node.js like asynchronous web server/platform - lets you write applications in js, ruby, and java. comes with distributed event bus, websocket support, tcp/ssl, pre made modules for