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 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