Cloud computing is growing and expanding very fast, demonstrating a strong tendency of being the technology that defines the roadmap for future IT infrastructure.
Already available is the first release candidate for ASM4. ASM, a Java-based bytecode manipulation framework, offers functions and features similar to those of the Byte Code Engineering Library and SERP.
After four release candidates being under consideration the final choice by the Groovy team was given to version 1.8.0. This new release will introduce built-in JSON support, Domain-Specific Language authoring capabilities, as well as new functional programming features of closures.
The third milestone of Gradle 1.0, recently made available, alters the way Ivy repositories are defined: now Gradle will choose the right repository implementation basing on the URL patterns that are supplied by the developer.