We are happy to announce the first public release of Blobstore components. Blobstore allows the programmer to read and write binary large objects within atomic transactions.

Everit Blobstore has in-memory and JDBC-based implementations. While the in-memory implementation can be used to write unit tests, the other one supports several relational database types: Apache Derby, Hsqldb, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Microsoft SQLServer, Oracle

As always, the artifacts are available on maven-central.

For more information, see the site of Blobstore: http://www.everit.org/blobstore.html

New versions of the configuration projects are available:

• coding-conventions: 9.0.7
• maven-main: 7.0.7
• maven-oss: 6.0.7

The new version of coding-conventions and maven-main exclude the com.sun:tools dependency of Checkstyle. By doing that the m2e code quality extensions can auto-configure eclipse on any system.

We are proud to announce that the first release of jTDS OSGi component is released.

This bundle contains a configurable component that can instantiate a JtdsDataSource and register it as an OSGi service with the following types:

• DataSource
• XADataSource
• ConnectionPoolDataSource
• JtdsDataSource

All attributes that are defined by jTDS can be configured in a type-safe way. The list of configuration options are available at http://jtds.sourceforge.net/faq.html#urlFormat.

Although usage of DataSourceFactory is popular in the OSGi world, we decided to discontinue its support. The reason is simply that developers and sys-admins can work more effectively with components that have the exact type-safe configuration possibilities the JDBC driver offers.

I am happy to announce the new versions of our Coding Conventions project.

The major changes are the following according to the Checkstyle rules:

• License changed from LGPL 3.0 to Apache 2.0
• Java 8 support
• Maximum line length 100
• Indentation offset 2 spaces
• Custom rule for ignoring code marked with @Generated annotation (the jar file of the conventions artifact must be copied to the “dropins” folder of Eclipse)

<groupId>org.everit.config</groupId>
<artifactId>org.everit.config.conventions</artifactId>
<version>9.0.3</version>

The parent pom-s are also updated. The major changes are the following:

• The maven build will fail if certain Checkstyle, Findbugs or PMD rules are violated (part of the “quality” profile)
• Baselining introduced with baselining-maven-plugin to help us in Semantic Versioning

<groupId>org.everit.config</groupId>
<artifactId>org.everit.config.main</artifactId>
<version>7.0.3</version>

<groupId>org.everit.config</groupId>
<artifactId>org.everit.config.oss</artifactId>
<version>6.0.3</version>

Note: To disable the Checkstyle, Findbugs and PMD checks, execute your Maven command with “-P!quality”.