binkley's BLOG

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Current released version is 6. View javadoc.

• Annotation - Help for Java annotation processors
• Concurrent - Completable executor services
• Convert - Inverse of toString()
• CORBA - Helpers for CORBA
• Guice - Sample Guice modules and helper code
• Logging - Small logging improvements and OSI logback configuration
• Lombok - Lombok annotations
• Mixin - Mixins for Java via JDK proxies and method handles
• Spring - Examples with Spring
• Testing - Small testing improvements
• Utility - Bug, CheckedStream and friends
• Value type - Java annotation and processor for value types
• Xio - Pulling out interfaces from JDK I/O
• XML - Experiments in XML
• XProperties - Extended Java properties
• YAML compile - Java code generation from YAML
• YAML runtime - Java code generation from YAML

• Simpler versioning.
• Added TypesafeHeterogenousMap.
• Added StringX for additional formatting.
• Added annotation module.
• Added yaml module.
• Completable executors can unwrap interrupts.
• Added Matching for DSL akin to lesser pattern matching (no implicit destructuring)
• Added SQLTransactionRule for running tests in a SQL transaction and rolling back after
• Added SpringSQLTransactionRule for Spring-JDBC help with SQLTransactionRule

• Added corba module.
• Added ProvidePort junit rule.
• Added several Hamcrest matchers (in support of other code).
• Added StackTraceFocuser to simplify traces.
• Added LinkedIterable.
• Added ParameterizedHelper for junit.
• More Java 8-isms.
• Taught Mixin to handle interface default methods.
• Added lombok module.
• Added xml module.
• Added Notices for Martin Fowler's post.

• Dropped finance module: use JSR 354.
• Fixed issues with support loggers. OSI logging is no longer beta.
• Default OSI logging level is INFO, not WARN.
• Added support for ANSI codes in logging via OSI and other improvements.
• OSI logging requires a minimum of Java 7 or higher.
• Various converters reorganized.