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Java

• Logback 0.9.24 is out. Logback is an implementation of a slf4j written by the same person as slf4j and is typically used through that API. Logback recently added supported for Groovy log configuring. You would use it instead of log4j. (yeah, definately! don't you want something that is fixed fast rather than on a slow release schedule? also see...)

• Apache PDF Box 1.2.0 released. Apache PDFBox is an open source Java library for working with PDF documents. Sounds somewhat similar to iText.

• HSQLDB had a major new release in June. Seems to be renamed "HyperSQL". (H2 also put out a minor release :-)

• Hazelcast 1.8.5 released - simple easy to use, yet powerful library for in-memory datagrids: distributed hashmaps, queues, lists etc.

• Lucene 3.0.2 and 2.9.3 released - Search engine library for Java, is the basis for Hibernate Search amongst other things.

• Lucene In Action, Second Edition final ebook is out.

• Apache Solr 1.4.1 Released (bugfix release) - Solr is a search engine implementation based on Lucene, provides an interface and REST API for lucene, and more.

• Apache Nutch 1.1 released - web search engine - built on top of Lucene and Solr, adds web crawlers, link graphs, parsers for HTML and other formats etc.

• Hibernate Validator 4.1.0 Final released - are you validated, or do you need closure?

• Spring Security 3.0.3 released, this follows the Spring 3.0.3, and Spring Webflow 2.1 releases from late last month. Could be related to the spring zero day attack.

• JxCapture 2 out - never come across this before, but is a library for doing screen capture in java into image and video. Could be usefull for recording Selenium/WebDriver runs. (java.awt.Robot!)

Clojure

• Midge 0.1.1 - mocking framework for clojure from Brian Marrick

• cljr (was clj project) - REPL and package management system for Clojure from David Edgar Liebke.

• cache-dot-clj - enhanced memoisation library for clojure

• Trammel is a new contracts library for clojure from Michael Fogus

• Radagast is a new test coverage tool for clojure from Phil Hagelberg, author of Leiningen

• Clojure for Beginners is a new book from Satish Talim - email satishtalim@gmail.com for a free copy

JavaFX

• Alex Ruiz of FEST fame joins the JavaFX Controls team...

Groovy

• GroovyServ 0.2 out - reminds me of nailgun. Speed up Groovy startup.

• Griffon in Action new MEAP is out - chapters on integration and testing.

• Support for Groovy 1.7.3's new @InheritedConstructors landed in the IntelliJ IDEA Community git repository this week. It's a 600mb checkout if you want to pull it out and compile it yourself...

Scala

• Scala 2.8 RC 7 out

• Lift 2.0 Released - yay for web frameworks :)

• The scala plugin for eclipse has moved to http://www.scala-ide.org Follow on twitter for updates @ScalaIDE

• David Pollack the creator of Liftweb has an interview on twit.tv

• David Pollack and others have started Fresh Scala, read about it at dzone. From the article " The Fresh Scala Initiative aims to address the issue of version fragility in the ecosystem." basically it is building common projects against Scala 2.8 to ensure binary compatibility.

• Thoughtworks rename Cruise to Go - awful awful name.

• TeamCity Twitter Notifier - great for open source projects. (Just what the world needs -- more twitter messages)

• Cloudera Hadoop Distribution 3 - Updated pig / zookeeper, flume for streaming data processing, and cloudera desktop tools.

• Adobe releases Puppet recipes for Hadoop

• Has the ability to start nodes on remote hosts - thats cool.