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The Atlassian Summit Conference has been announced and there is currently a call for speakers. Normally I wouldn’t take interest in a relatively small vendor conference, but having worked with Atlassian products for the last year I have a keen interest. The conference runs May 30 – June 1 in San Francisco, California.
The high-level tracks currently include:
The Art of Collaboration
Who: Confluence admins and wiki champions
JIRA Everywhere
Who: JIRA “fanbois” of all shapes and sizes
Art of Scrum & Kanban
Who: Scrum masters and dev managers
The Art of DevOps
Who: DevOps folks, build engineers & dev managers
The Art of Dev Speed
Who: Software devs and dev managers
High Performance Admin
Who: JIRA and Confluence admins
Plugin Developer
Who: Corporate and indie devs
In its fourth year, this conference seems to appeal to a mix of team members. I will definitely have to consider whether to go or not.
To create custom plugins and functionality for Atlassian products, you can download and use the Atlassian plugin SDK following instructions here : https://developer.atlassian.com/display/DOCS/Installing+the+Atlassian+Plugin+SDK
The key part is to add the atlassian SDK BIN directory to your path.
After the plugin project is initially created the Maven project comes up as “unloadable” in the NetBeans Projects window. Also, nodes like “Source Packages” do not show up.
Next, the official instructions here say that once you generate a new project, the Maven POM for that project needs to be modified as specified here : https://developer.atlassian.com/display/DOCS/Configuring+NetBeans+to+use+the+Atlassian+Plugin+SDK
I will shortly be starting a series of articles and observations about the Atlassian suites of products such as :
Bamboo
JIRA
Greenhopper
Bonfire
Crowd
Confluence
Gliffy
Fisheye
Crucible
Clover
I have begun to use many of these products and their related plugins both during my day job and through many projects at night. As such I wanted to document my experiences and learnings with them.
Adam
If you are browsing around the NetBeans Wiki you may have noticed the NetBeans 7.2 features “New and Noteworthy” have started to develop. http://wiki.netbeans.org/NewAndNoteworthyNB72
There are some interesting planned features such as the ability to import/export projects a zip files, the Maven repositories are getting their own top-level node in the Services window instead of having a separate Maven Repository window, and a very interesting feature for allowing debugger breakpoints to conditionally enable/disable other breakpoints.
So far, the new debugger feature is most interesting and I’ll be testing it out in daily builds as soon as I get a chance.
NetBeans 7.1.1 is intended to be a bug fix release. You can view the details here : http://wiki.netbeans.org/NetBeans_711
For those that follow such trivial pieces of news like me, the NetBeans team has updated the visual roadmap to include tentative release timelines for NetBeans 7.1.1 and 7.2.
See here : http://netbeans.org/community/releases/roadmap.html
Oracle has released the Java 6 Update 30 JDK. The following are some of the updates and bugs fixed:
Java VisualVM 1.3.2
Java VisualVM based on VisualVM 1.3.2 is included in Java SE 6u30. This release introduces the following features and enhancements:
Issue 428: Show CompositeType field descriptions in tooltips
Tracking (hash)map resize events by Tracer-Collections plugin
For more information, see the VisualVM 1.3.2 release notes : http://visualvm.java.net/relnotes132.html
The following table lists the fixes in Java SE 6u30:
| Bug ID | Category | Sub-Category | Synopsis |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7041100 | hotspot | compiler2 | The load in String.equals intrinsic executed before null check |
| 6755621 | hotspot | svc_agent | Include SA binaries into Windows JDK |
| 6981400 | java | classes_awt | Tabbing between textfield do not work properly when ALT+TAB |
| 6987967 | java | classes_awt | D3D preloading thread should initialize COM |
| 7029903 | java | classes_awt | Splash screen is not shown in 64-bit Linux with 16-bit color depth |
| 7073337 | java | classes_awt | Crash after playing Java game on Pogo |
| 7074386 | java | classes_fontprop | Fall back to fontconfig file based on only OS major version number on Linux |
| 7086240 | java | classes_fontprop | [11203-lin64-110708]nls: oui can’t display japanese character on ol6 jp locale |
| 4947220 | java | classes_lang | (process) Runtime.exec() cannot invoke applications with unicode parameters (win) |
| 6761678 | java | classes_lang | (ann) SecurityException in AnnotationInvocationHandler.getMemberMethods |
| 6670868 | java | classes_net | StackOverFlow with authenticated Proxy tunnels |
| 7041800 | java | classes_net | URI.equals may incorrectly return true with escaped octets |
| 7068416 | java | classes_net | Lightweight HTTP Server should support TCP_NODELAY |
| 6898310 | java | classes_nio | (cs) Charset cache lookups should be synchronized |
| 7002957 | java | classes_nio | (fc) FileChannel.transferTo fails to load libsendfile on Solaris 64-bit |
| 7053398 | java | classes_sound | Gervill for 6uXX (1): integrate Gervill into 6uXX |
| 7014263 | java | classes_util_concurrent | NegativeArraySizeException reported in ArrayBlockingQueue under load |
| 6984762 | java | classes_util_i18n | Invalid close of file descriptor ‘-1′ in findZoneinfoFile |
| 7090844 | java | classes_util_i18n | Support a timezone whose offset is changed more than once in the future |
| 7092679 | java | classes_util_i18n | (tz) Java getting wrong timezone/DST info on Solaris 11 |
| 7103405 | java | classes_util_i18n | Correct display names for Pacific/Apia timezone |
| 6751338 | java | classes_util_jarzip | ZIP inflater/deflater performance |
| 6858865 | java | classes_util_jarzip | Fix for 6728376 causes regression if the size of “data” is 0 and malloc returns Null for 0-length |
| 7011162 | java | classes_util_jarzip | REGRESSION, incorrect header handling of extra gzip fields |
| 6337964 | java | compiler | should ignore last comma in annotation array |
| 6512707 | java | compiler | “incompatible types” after (unrelated) annotation processing |
| 6682380 | java | compiler | Foreach loop with generics inside finally block crashes javac with -target 1.5 |
| 7024568 | java | compiler | Very long method resolution causing OOM error |
| 7078543 | java | compiler | Accepted syntax change b/w JDK 6 & 7 w/ -source 6: trailing ‘,’ in ann value array |
| 7079713 | java | compiler | javac hangs when compiling a class that references a cyclically inherited class |
| 7011591 | java | debugger | JDWP socket transport should restart interrupted system calls (EINTR) |
| 7066203 | java | localization | Update currency data to the latest ISO 4217 standard |
| 7049774 | java | rmi | UID construction appears to hang if time changed backwards |
| 7102369 | java | rmi | remove java.rmi.server.codebase property parsing from registyimpl |
| 7102914 | java_deployment | security | REGRESSION: secure cookies is always dropped if network connection is triggered via liveconnect |
| 6953625 | java_plugin | iexplorer | SSV Helper Add-on doesn’t get registered on IE |
| 6994562 | java_plugin | iexplorer | Swing classes (both JTextArea and JTextField) don’t support caret width tuning |
| 6929996 | java_plugin | plugin2 | Request for method to disable the next gen plugin for end user managed account on Windows |
| 7002572 | java_plugin | plugin2 | [plugin2] showDocument() open browser window behind of applet in Firefox 3.6.xx |
| 7021429 | java_plugin | plugin2 | Jar file used by JRE1.4.2 won’t be cached if it runs on New Generation Plugin. |
| 7022938 | java_plugin | plugin2 | New Java Plug-in occasionally fails to load first applet of two on IE 6 |
| 7041125 | jndi | ldap | LDAP API does not catch malformed filters that contain two operands for the ! operator |
| 7103725 | jsse | runtime | REGRESSION – 6u29 breaks ssl connectivity using TLS_DH_anon_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA |
| 7010928 | visualvm | tool | Update Java VisualVM in 6ux |
| 7065822 | xml | jaxb | Namespace of xml elements can change when un/marshalling xml using jaxb |
Additional Details can be found here : http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/6u30-relnotes-1394870.html
Oracle has release the Java 6 Update 29 JDK. The following are some of the updates and bugs fixed:
Additional Details can be found here : http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/6u29-relnotes-507960.html
| Bug ID | Category | Sub-Category | Synopsis |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7041200 | java | classes_net | java.net.InterfaceAddress’s equals method may throw NPE |
| 6942989 | java | classes_util_logging | Memory leak of java.lang.ref.WeakReference objects |
| 7037336 | java_deployment | download | Downloading of resources with redirect URL should remember final URL |
| 7038810 | java_plugin | misc | Regression: JNLP applet with file protocol failed to download |
| 7032687 | java_plugin | plugin | Dragged-out applet can be closed when close browser |
In a wonderful article from Geertjan Wielenga, NetBeans is highlighted over Eclipse in its selection by Microchip to power its IDE for MPLAB.
Check it out here : http://blogs.oracle.com/geertjan/entry/open_source_framework_powers_latest
Oracle has release the Java 6 Update 27 JDk. The following are some of the updates and bugs fixed:
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