I’m happy to an­nounce that we just re­leased the new ver­sion 1.1.0 of GeoR­ocket OSS. GeoR­ocket is a high-per­form­ance data store for geo­spa­tial files that we de­velop at the Fraunhofer In­sti­tute for Com­puter Graph­ics Re­search IGD in Darm­stadt, Ger­many. It can store GeoJSON files, 3D city mod­els (e.g. CityGML), GML files or any other XML-based geo­spa­tial data sets. GeoR­ocket provides the fol­low­ing fea­tures:

The new ver­sion of the Gradle plug­in gradle-down­load-task 3.2.0 has just been re­leased. The plug­in provides a Download task that dis­plays pro­gress in­form­a­tion while down­load­ing files, just like Gradle does when it fetches an ar­ti­fact from a re­pos­it­ory.

The new ver­sion of Act­son 1.2.0 has just been re­leased. Act­son is a re­act­ive JSON parser (some­times re­ferred to as non-block­ing or asyn­chron­ous). It is event-based and can be used to­gether with re­act­ive lib­rar­ies/​tool-kits such as Rx­Java or Vert.x.

Today I’m happy to an­nounce the very first ver­sion of Act­son, a re­act­ive JSON parser (some­times re­ferred to as non-block­ing or asyn­chron­ous). Act­son is event-based and can be used to­gether with re­act­ive lib­rar­ies/​tool-kits such as Rx­Java or Vert.x. The lib­rary is very small and has no de­pend­en­cies. It only re­quires Java 7 (or higher).

The new ver­sion of the Gradle plug­in gradle-down­load-task 3.0.0 has just been re­leased. The plug­in provides a Download task that dis­plays pro­gress in­form­a­tion while down­load­ing files, just like Gradle does when it fetches an ar­ti­fact from a re­pos­it­ory.

I re­ceived a couple of re­quests lately con­cern­ing com­mon prob­lems when down­load­ing files in Gradle build scripts us­ing gradle-down­load-task. Al­most all of these is­sues could be solved by just us­ing gradle-down­load-task the right way in­stead of ex­tend­ing the plug­in. I have col­lec­ted a num­ber of ex­ample build scripts for these is­sues over the last months and I thought it would be good idea to sum­mar­ize them here.