I'm very happy to announce the availability of the Tattletale 1.1, the Java dependency analyzer, release.

A lot of features have been added over the last year, so I'll give a brief run-down of some of them. See our documentation for full details.

Profiles

Tattletale now features known profiles, which are well-known APIs targeting the Java Standard or Java Enterprise platforms.

The list of profiles are

• Java 5 and Java 6
• Java Enterprise Edition 5 and Java Enterprise Edition 6
• Spring 2.5 and Spring 3.0
• Contexts and Dependency Injection (CDI) 1.0 (JSR-299)
• JBoss Seam 2.2

Adding profiles to your configuration will resolve any dependencies on the specified profiles.

New reports

Tattletale 1.1 also features new reports.

• Sealed information
• Signed information
• Unused Jar archives
• Circular Dependency

which should help you make your product/project distribution even better.

Other enhancements

A lot of small/large enhancements also went in the release.

• Ability to exclude directories from the scan
• Ability to filter results from the reports
• Apache Ant support
• Apache Maven support

These features will allow you to integrate Tattletale into your QA environment and automate getting daily reports.

I want to thank the people that helped out with the release over the last year, especially Torben Jaeger who did a lot of work :)

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A quick Tattletale 1.1.0.CR2 as some critical bugs were found in the 1.1.0.CR1 release.

Full release notes are here.

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I'm happy to announce Tattletale, the Java dependency analyzer, 1.1.0.CR1 release.

Full release notes are here.

Almost done

This is the first candidate for release of the Tattletale 1.1 series, meaning that if no issues are found then it'll be promoted to the final release soon.

This release adds a scan property that will let you control which archive types that should be scanned, and the graphical dependency report will now include the images if the dot application is available.

Stay tuned for the final release :)

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I'm happy to announce that the JCA team have shipped our 9th developer snapshot of the 1.0 series.

Full release notes are here.

WorkManager

This snapshot features a WorkManager which is backed by the JBoss Threads project.

The WorkManager reference two separate threads pools; one for short running tasks and one for long running tasks. You should set the HintsContext.LONGRUNNING_HINT if your Work instance is in the latter category.

Through our vendor specific metadata file - jboss-ra.xml - you can now select which BootstrapContext that your resource adapter will use. This will give you the ability to create different BootstrapContext configurations; f.ex. a bootstrap context which uses threads with a high priority and another with threads using a low priority.

Furthermore we have made some changes that will provide better scaling when deploying multiple resource adapter within the same container.

We believe that only full SecurityContext support is missing from the implementation at this point. So send us your feedback on our WorkManager implementation.

Validator

This release also features the initial version of our standalone resource adapter validator tool. You can now execute the validator against your resource adapter by

java -jar jboss-jca-validator.jar myra.rar

In future releases we will look at how we can make it easier to use the standalone validator - and of course we will provide Apache Ant and Apache Maven plugins for the tool too.

If you want to help out with improving usability - and get your use-cases covered - for the tool drop by our forum.

The Road Ahead

The EE6 TCK is still our priority, so we will continue down that road - but be sure to send us feedback on your use-cases.

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This week we had our first meeting at the Boston JBoss User Group :)

Bill Burke gave an excellent presentation about RESTEasy and JAX-RS.

We have now uploaded the audio and video to the meetings homepage. So check it out and feel free to provide feedback.

Our next meeting will be Andrew Lee Rubinger talking about EJB 3.1 on March 9th, 2010. So sign up now for that meeting !

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