Episode 40 - And now for the odd stuff...
Java
- The OpenJDK Build Group has agreed to sponsor the JDK 8 Project - 5 yes votes out of 6, one person on leave.
- Unicode updates for regex in JDK7
- Second Milestone for Project Lambda
- Autumnal - convert spring XML file to a POJO - from Exceptional attendee Amir.
- JavaFX 2.0 beta now available with Netbeans 7 - windows only, OSX available in the “partner program” only currently
- Netbeans 7 patch 1 also available
- Netbeans 7 Cookbook is a new book from Packt publishing.
- Amino 1.0 released - scenegraph for java and javascript from Josh Marinacci
- Sonar 2.8 - now with code reviews.
- https://maven.java.net launched - Nexus for java.net replacing the old maven2-repository project.
- Google kills of Google Translate API and 17 others - 3 year deprecation period tho.
- Software AG buys Terracotta. This makes no sense.
- OGNL moved to Apache
- libcloud becomes a top level project
- Archiva 1.3.5 - primarily a security a bug fix release
- cobertura-maven-plugin 2.5.1
- maven site plugin 2.3
- maven changes plugin 2.5
- Simply Lift free eBook from David Pollak
- Updated versions of Scala By Example, Scala Reference, and the Scala Tutorial PDFs available
- http://codereview.stackexchange.com - stackoverflow for the anal retentive code reviewer :P I like this, good to read the reviews/critiques of ACTUAL code
