You may have already heard JAX-RS 2.0 (JSR-339) has been released. This is a very good news for Java developers building their RESTful HTTP applications and here are the reasons why.

The 2.0 API  offers a lot of new enhancements on top of already very capable JAX-RS 1.1 (JSR-311) API and spec. It has really been a very serious push to the next level across all the API and the specification text. And what is really good is that the community can ...
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The latest Cellar release (2.2.5) didn’t work with the new Karaf branch and release: 2.3.0. If the first purpose of Cellar 2.3.0 is to be able to work with Karaf 2.3.x, actually, it’s more than that. Let’s take a tour in the new Apache Karaf Cellar 2.3.0. Apache Karaf 2.3.x support Cellar 2.3.0 is fully
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Apache CXF 2.7.5 has been released. The list of issues fixed is available here. The following security fixes of note have been made in this release:

• The OpenSAML dependency has been upgraded from 2.5.1 to 2.5.3.
• A change was made to the logic the STS uses to encrypt tokens that it issues. Previously it threw an exception if a key could not be found (at either service or at a more generic level) to use to encrypt the token. Now it only encrypts the ...

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This extension will be available in CXF release 2.7.6 which is not yet available. But you can run tests with the SNAPSHOT build till this version is released. Please provide feedback to the CXF mailing list.

Different logging frameworks (SLF4J, Log4J, Logback, JUL) can be used to log events for Apache CXF STS. The configuration allows to define which logger should log messages till to which log level. That works fine to drill down generic issues but ...

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With my new gig at Talend I have requested a MacBook Pro as a company computer, thinking that since I’m now an architect I will have to do more writing and (god forbid) slides. Of course I will continue to develop software, both for the company and in my open source work. For years, my preferred development platform has been Unix (shows how old I am, I really mean Unix) or Linux. And I have had to work on all three of Windows, Linux and the ...

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