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 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…

Unsupported Operation 85 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, ava…

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 upd…

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::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 crossi…

Unsupported Operation Episode 82 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, f…

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 updates Java 8 officially delayed till 2014/03/18 IntelliJ IDEA 12.1.2 Hiberna…

Unsupported Operation 80 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…

Unsupported Operation 79 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 g…

Unsupported Operation 78 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 succes…

Unsupported Operation 77 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 Mileston…

Unsupported Operation 76 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 Net…

Unsupported Operation 75 Java / Misc Gerrit 2.4 released Cucumber-JVM 1.0.8 ErrorProne - another build time error catcher Huge Collections - another large collections library for java JNario - new Executable Specifications testing tool for Java, based on Eclipse Xtend. Looks awesome, but... Jnario requires Eclipse ≥3.6 with the latest milestone rel…

Unsupported Operation 74 Java / Misc Xtend 2.3 beta now available Xtend language web console Groovy Eclipse moved to Github Vert.x 1.0, some interesting performance stats against node.js Vibe.d - new async I/O web framework for D Neo4J 1.8M01, interesting new interactive Neo4j console. WebSphere Application Server V8.5 Announced Brackets - new open…

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 …

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-o…

Unsupported Operation Episode 71 Android Tap Keyboard - youtube demo video OpenJDK 7 and 8 for OSX - OpenJDK 8 for Mac now with Jigsaw modules! OpenJDK 7 ported to Haiku ( screenshot ) JDK8 - Selected Updates Apple releases 2nd Java Update in 2 days TeamCity 7.0.2 from Jetbrains. Youtrack 4.0 EAP with new Agile/Scrum board. Clojure Programming from…

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.By Mark Derricutt, Richard Vowles

Unsupported Operation Episode 69 Chronon 3 beta - 10x performance improvement, massive memory usage improvement Continuous Deployment with Jenkins/Tomcat Exploiting Tomcat - all your ROOT are belond to us. Cliff Click leaves Azul systems to form 0xdata and build H2O database Pangool - an easy to use fluent Java DSL for Hadoop queries ZooKeeper 3.3.…

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 …

Unsupported Operation 67 Java Oracle pulls support for JavaFX Script Java 7u4b15 developer preview available Misc DataStax has quietly made their Cassandra documentation available in PDF ExcelTestNG - interesting - webdriver/selenium testing driven by Excel spreadsheets, and TestNG. Practical Unit Testing with Mockito and TestNG is nearing publicat…

Unsupported Operation 66 Java JLine 2.6 released! A milestone in good command line java support. This release has been a LONG time coming. TestNG 6.4 was released the other week with some funky new CSS based reports, breaks under IntelliJ due to a protocol change, and how the IntelliJ plugin operates - hopefully will be resolved soon. Atlassian to …

Unsupported Operation 65 Java Java SE 7u3 released, plus Java SE 6 Update 31 and JavaFX 2.0.3. Along with indepth specifications and documentation on the SE7 Language Spec and VM spec. EOL extended to November 2012. Other / Misc Play 2.0 RC2 available. When asked where the webframework for Kotlin is at JFokus, JB reps said “Look at Play 2.0, we’ll …

Unsupported Operation 64 Java / Misc JavaFX 2.1 gets MPEG4 playback Scala artifacts now in central Github's mashup of Jenkins called Janky The state of IcedTea and IcedTeaWeb video from FOSDEM Spring Data JPA 1.1.0 RC1 and 1.0.3 GA Releasedhttp://bit.ly/xkOR9C PrimeFaces 3.0 - a year long development, its tagline is Ajax, Mobile and IE9 components.…

Unsupported Operation 63 - First for 2012 Misc Sensei DB - Open-source, distributed, realtime, semi-structured database from LinkedIn Resteasy 2.3.1 Gitblit 0.8.2 - pure java git repo manager Guartz 1.1 out - Guice + Quartz New chromedriver release from SeleniumHQ - release notes - download - interesting, downloads are from the chromium google code…

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…