Sleep 2.0 beta 4   13 Apr 2005 04:00 GMT
Version 2.0 beta 4 of the Sleep Java scripting language project has been released. "This release adds binary data processing to the Sleep language. The IO interface has also been extend for working with binary data."
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SouJava Joins JCP   13 Apr 2005 04:00 GMT
The world's largest Java user group (JUG), SouJava, has joined the Java Community Process. "SouJava, the Brazilian Java Users Society, is the first Java Users Group (JUG) to join the JCP and the group includes Java users and Java evangelists from Brazil whose objectives are to strengthen, expand and professionalize the use of Java technology in the country. With SouJava now a member of the community, the global reach of the JCP program now expands considerably to include the largest and most active JUG in Brazil."
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X-develop - Mutli-language IDE   13 Apr 2005 04:00 GMT
Omnicorp has made available their first official release of X-develop. "X-develop is a multi-language, cross-platform IDE from Omnicore. X-develop targets the .NET platform, the Mono platform, and the Java platform. It offers advanced code analysis, project-wide on-the-fly error checking, refactoring, smart editing, fast code navigation capabilities, seamless version control system integration, and other productivity-boosting features for C#, Java, JavaServer Pages, J#, and Visual Basic.NET."
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Blitz JavaSpaces 1.08 &amp 2.1.20 - Major Bug Fix   13 Apr 2005 04:00 GMT
Dan Creswell has announced a major bugfix for Blitz JavaSpaces. "A cache-dirtying problem which under rare circumstances may have resulted in Entry loss was fixed. A problem where transaction locks might have been prematurely released was fixed. Various small optimizations to speed searching were added. Settings for Db in transient mode were tuned for better performance."
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Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger - April 29   13 Apr 2005 04:00 GMT
Apple has announced a shipping date for OS X 10.4 Tiger of April 29th. The Java technical specs state, "Apple has made Java a core component of Mac OS X. Mac OS X includes the full version of Java 2, Standard Edition, version 1.4.2 — meaning you have the Java Developer Kit (JDK) and the HotSpot virtual machine (VM) without downloading, installing or configuring anything. And because Apple has optimized Java on Mac OS X,
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PDFBox 0.7.1   12 Apr 2005 04:00 GMT
Version 0.7.1 of Java PDF library PDFBox has been released. "This release contains bug fixes and new functionality." New features include improvements to text extraction and acroforms. A full change log is available.
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JExamples.com: Java Examples in Open Source Code   12 Apr 2005 04:00 GMT
JExamples.com is a new, free website that helps Java developers find high quality example code for virtually any Java API. "We analyze the source code of production Java open source projects such as Ant, Tomcat and Batik and load that analysis into a database designed for easy searching. You enter the name of a Java Class.method you want to see example invocations of and click Search."
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Fit 1.1 - Collaboration and Testing Framework   12 Apr 2005 04:00 GMT
Ward Cunningham and James Little have announced the release of version 1.1 of their collaboration and testing framework Fit. Changes include the addition of enhancements to converting HTML to text, better error reporting, support for nested table parsing, and other minor bug fixes.
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HttpClient 3.0 RC2   12 Apr 2005 04:00 GMT
The Jakarta Commons HttpClient project has released their second release candidate for version 3.0. "Several minor issues have been fixed since RC1 and HttpClient 3.0 has made significant progess towards the final release. We are confident HttpClient 3.0 is ready to replace HttpClient 2.0 as a production quality release. We strongly recommend upgrading to HttpClient 3.0."
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Tomcat 5.5.9 Stable   12 Apr 2005 04:00 GMT
The Jakarta Tomcat development team has voted mark release 5.5.9 as stable. "This build contains numerous bug fixes, documentation updates, and other improvements. Please note that while all core features have been tested and voted stable, there is a known issue in this build related to the clustering module. The fix for this issue is available by itself at Bugzilla, and will be included in subsequent Tomcat releases. Again, this issue only impacts users of Tomcat's native clustering module."
Source: Java.net