Java Advanced Imaging and Java Advanced Imaging Image I/O Tools add 64-bit Support   28 Apr 2005 04:00 GMT
The Java Media project has announced support for 64-bit platforms. "The native portions of the jai-core and jai-imageio-core projects have been updated to support the 64-bit platforms Solaris-sparcv9, Solaris-AMD64, and Linux-AMD64. These additions represent a major portion of the changes for the upcoming JAI 1.1.3-alpha and JAI Image I/O Tools 1.1-alpha milestones."
Source: Java.net

Twister BPEL Engine Begins Apache Incubation   28 Apr 2005 04:00 GMT
Matthieu Riou of the Twister BPEL engine project has announced that the project has begun the incubation stage of joining the Apache Software Foundation. "Twister is moving to Apache's Incubator! It's actually going to be merged with an existing incubated project named Agila. Agila will have two major components: Agila BPEL (Twister) and Agila BPM. The first is the Web Service orchestration solution based on the WS-BPEL specifications and the second is an end-user oriented workflow...Current Twister users don't need to worry, only the packaging is going to change a bit but all current interfaces will remain supported."
Source: Java.net

NASA Releases 'Java PathFinder' Code Analyzer   28 Apr 2005 04:00 GMT
NASA has released Java PathFinder, a computer code analyzer, as an open source project. "NASA Ames is providing Java PathFinder as 'open source' code at no cost to people who would like to use it, according to Penix. 'This will enable other people to help us improve the PathFinder software,' he said. 'NASA will benefit from the improvements. We're doing this so we can leverage the open-source community,' he added."
Source: Java.net

Enhydra 5.3-1   28 Apr 2005 04:00 GMT
The Objectweb Consortium has announced the release of version 5.3-1 of Enhydra. Changes include Java 5 support, new implementations of StandardConnectionAllocator and DataSourceConnectionAllocator, as well as several minor bug fixes and enhancements.
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Ivy 1.0 Final - Dependency Manager   28 Apr 2005 04:00 GMT
Jayasoft has released version 1.0 Final of Java dependency manager Ivy. "Apart its strong dependency management engine, Ivy also benefits from a growing user community, a public repository of common ivy files, and professional quality services from the source." Outlined for coming releases are tools named Subversion Dependency resolver, and Ivy Eclipse Classpath.
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Kaffe 1.1.5   28 Apr 2005 04:00 GMT
Jim Pick of the Kaffe project has announced the development release of version 1.1.5. "It has been tested, but not as thoroughly as a production release would be. It contains major improvements over 1.1.4, which was released one year ago. I anticipate that most people will have less trouble with this release, and more fun. Even though this is not a production release, it contains a large number of improvements over 1.0.7, which was released over two years ago. Don't use 1.0.7, it's ancient! We will release a new production release very soon." Improvements include a resync with GNU Classpath, improved AWT implementations, many updates and fixes.
Source: Java.net

Enhydra Octopus 3.3   27 Apr 2005 04:00 GMT
The Objectweb Consortium has announced the release of version 3.3 of relational database transaction tool Enhydra Octopus. Minor enhancements include a changed csvjdbc driver, additional parameters, and a bugfix for double quotes.
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Super 6.00 - J2EE Tools   27 Apr 2005 04:00 GMT
Acelet has announced the release of version 6.00 of its suite of J2EE tools - Super. "This new version comes with a now module: SuperDashboard, which is a JMX (Java Management Extensions) client. SuperDashboard can export selected data to SuperShcheduler and SuperWatchdog as tasks. It also can export MBean's notification to SuperWatchdog as a trigger."
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OpenReports 0.9.0 - Web Reporting   27 Apr 2005 04:00 GMT
The OpenReports project has announced the release of versions 0.9.0 of OpenReports and 1.3.0 of OpenReports Designer. "OpenReports 0.9.0 includes support for DrillDown reports and JasperReports 0.6.5. OpenReports 0.9.0 also features the ability to customize the output of QueryReports through the use of Velocity templates. OpenReports Designer 1.3.0 includes support for JasperReports 0.6.5 and a new Element Property Editing system that is easier to use and maintain then the individual element panels used inprevious releases. "
Source: Java.net

JVoiceXML 0.0.2   27 Apr 2005 04:00 GMT
The JVoiceXML project has released version 0.0.2. Changes include: initial support for VoiceXML document creation and parsing; support for all tags; initial implementation of the form interprretation algorithm; basic support for form, block, prompt; and initial implementation of the form interprretation algorithm. "JVoiceXML is an implementation of VoiceXML 2.0, the Voice Extensible Markup Language
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