Full Java 7 Support for ASM 4
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. The new release offers more support for Java 7, though introduces changes in the bytecode format (which means all other versions of ASM become unable to deal with ASM 4's new format). The support of invokedynamic has been renovated to support bootstrap method arguments and new encoding, while the API has also been generified in order to use varargs and generics.
Spring Roo 1.1.3 New Release for Cloud Foundry Support
A new upgrade Spring Roo 1.1.3 was released that supports Cloud Foundry, VMware's new open source PaaS platform and service. To users this integration gives the opportunity to deploy, manage and build Cloud Foundry applications immediately from the Roo shell. Roo shell itself underwent considerable improvements resulting in Spring Roo being able to operate now a continuous integration build server. Another novelty is the integration of new features: Op4J addons and SiteMesh.
Cactus, Released by OpenStack Cloud Project
The release of “Cactus” was announced by the OpenStack scalable cloud operating system project. This release functions across OpenStack Storage, Image and Compute Service. New virtualisation technologies, live migration support for KVM-based systems as well as multi-cluster region support are added also by the 'Nova' version for OpenStack Compute. Meanwhile a new command line interface tool, as well as support for multiple image formats have been incorporated into the Glance version for OpenStack Image Registry and Delivery. And, at last, 'Swift' for OpenStack Object Storage offers the option of serving static website content right from a Swift installation.
Beta for Xtend Programming Language
The announced new Beta of the Xtend, a statically-typed programming language for the JVM, focuses particularly on executing dependency-injected components. It is tailored specifically for performing code generation. The language also offers support for advanced type Java Generics, and closures inference. Xtend allows its users to enhance closed types with new, JSR-330 injected functionality. The Xtend library interacts with both Java Xtend code the very same way.
Opening of Eclipse Community Survey
The Eclipse Community Survey for 2011 has been announced open. Its closing date is May 13th, at 5pm ET. The publication of the results is expected in early June.