JAXB 2.0 Early Access Implemention   12 Apr 2005 04:00 GMT
The JAXB project has announced the availability of a early release of their JAXB 2.0 implementation. It includes near 100% support for W3C XML schema, binding Java to XML support, the reduction of generated schema-derived classes, and more.
Source: Java.net

Jaxen 1.1 Beta 4 - XPath 1.0 engine   11 Apr 2005 04:00 GMT
The Codehaus has released version 1.1 Beta 4 of the Jaxen project. "1.1 is a major upgrade that significantly improves jaxen's conformance to the underlying XPath specs. Even though it's officially a beta, it is a vast improvement over 1.0, and all users are strongly encouraged to upgrade. Witha few small exceptions (e.g. the the document() function has moved to the org.jaxen.function.xslt package and the ElectricXML navigator has been deleted) it is backwards compatible with code written to the 1.0 APIs."
Source: Java.net

OpenWFE 1.5.1   11 Apr 2005 04:00 GMT
Open source workflow engine OpenWFE has released version 1.5.1 - its first under the BSD license. Project lead John Mettraux writes in, "The configurability of any character encoding throughout each components has been enforced. The variable system has been completely reworked with distribution and clustering in mind. New functions got added to the process definition language, especially the 'tadd' which allows to added durations and which, combined with the 'when' expression allows for precise temporal based workflows."
Source: Java.net

Hibernate Annotations Alpha4   11 Apr 2005 04:00 GMT
JBoss has announced the availability of Hibernate Annotations project's Alpha4 release. New features for the Hibernate annotations project include better EDR2 support, hibernate extentions, a more complete test and better documentation. "The Hibernate 3.0 annotations project provides standalone EJB 3.0 annotation mappings for persistent objects."
Source: Java.net

JBoss EJB 3.0 Preview 5   11 Apr 2005 04:00 GMT
JBoss has announced the release of preview 5 of EJB 3.0. New features include tight integration to the Hibernate Annotations project, application transactions, Hibernate 3.0 integration, full clustering support, a richer documentation set. "JBoss EJB 3.0 provides an implementation of both the EJB and Persistence specifications of EDR2."
Source: Java.net

FireStorm/DAO 2.4   11 Apr 2005 04:00 GMT
The FireStorm/DAO project has announced the release of version 2.4 with major feature enhancements. "This release now includes full support for generating Java persistence code for calling Stored Procedures (Oracle, SQL Server, Sybase). Other enhancements include an improved user interface, and new wizards for generating code." Firestorm generates Java code to import existing database schemas.
Source: Java.net

Apache Maven 2 Technology Preview   11 Apr 2005 04:00 GMT
The Apache Maven 2 project, a software project management and comprehension tool, has announced the release of a technology preview (version Alpha 1). "Maven 2.0 is a rewrite of the popular Maven application to achieve a number of goals, and to provide a stable basis to take it into the future. It is currently available as a Technology Preview." A Maven 1.0 vs 2.0 FAQ is available.
Source: Java.net

JPOX Release: 1.1.0-beta-3   10 Apr 2005 19:12 GMT
JPOX is an OpenSource Java Data Objects (JDO) implementation providing transparent persistence of java objects. JPOX implements the JDO1 and JDO2 specifications and passes the JDO1 TCK. JPOX supports RDBMS datastores. More: http://sourceforge.net/projects/jpox/
Source: JavaKB

Released EulerSharp 1.2.2   10 Apr 2005 19:01 GMT
Euler is an inference engine supporting logic based proofs. It is a backward-chaining reasoner enhanced with Euler path detection. There is a 100% Java version and a C# version. Via N3 it is interoperable with W3C Cwm. More: http://sourceforge.net/projects/eulersharp/
Source: JavaKB

JSwat 2.34   07 Apr 2005 04:21 GMT
Nathan Fiedler has released JSwat 2.34, a graphical, stand-alone Java debugger built on top of the Java Platform Debugger Architecture. Features include breakpoints with conditionals and monitors; colorized source code display; graphical display panels showing threads, stack
Source: JavaKB