It’s been a while since I pos­ted up­dates on bson4­jack­son here on this blog, so now that ver­sion 2.9.2 has just been re­leased, I figured it would be a good idea to fill you all in on what has happened in the lib­rar­y’s de­vel­op­ment lately. bson4­jack­son is an ex­ten­sion to the Jack­son JSON pro­cessor adding sup­port for BSON, a bin­ary rep­res­ent­a­tion of JSON.

The new ver­sion 3.4.0 of gradle-down­load-task, a Gradle plug­in provid­ing a Download task that dis­play pro­gress in­form­a­tion, has just been re­leased. It con­tains many new fea­tures and up­dat­ing is re­com­men­ded for all users.

The new ver­sion of the Gradle plug­in gradle-down­load-task 3.3.0 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’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.