NetBeans Profiler Milestone 6   18 Apr 2005 04:00 GMT
The Netbeans Profiler project has released milestone 6. The new package features JDK 5/6 support, a new control panel, other minor enhancements and various bug fixes.
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Apache HTTPD 2.0.54   18 Apr 2005 04:00 GMT
The Apache HTTPD Webserver development team has released version 2.0.54. "This release is compatible with modules compiled for 2.0.42 and later versions. We consider this release to be the best version of Apache available and encourage users of all prior versions to upgrade." It is mostly a bug fix release.
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JBoss, Inc. Announces New Project Releases Aimed at Simplifying Java Development   17 Apr 2005 16:37 GMT
JBoss(R), Inc., the Professional Open Source company, has announced on April 12 an update of recent releases of its open source projects. These latest releases from March are aimed at simplifying Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE(TM)) and continue to build on the JBoss ...
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Sun reports third quarter 2005 results   16 Apr 2005 17:42 GMT
Summary: - quarterly revenue of $2.63 billion, down 1 percent from $2.65 billion in the previous third quarter; - GAAP operating loss of $9 million, or $0.00 per share;
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Sun Offers 5 % Discount for Exam Orders   16 Apr 2005 17:27 GMT
Sun Microsystems has recently announced a 5 percent discount on exams purchased through the company's Web site. The offer is valid in the United States and Canada for Sun training ecommerce purchases made online between April 1, 2005 and June 30, 2005 only.
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Clover 1.3.6   15 Apr 2005 04:00 GMT
Cenqua has announced version 1.3.6 of their Java unit test tool Clover. "Clover 1.3.6 includes bugfixes and minor improvements. Note that the output of the ConsoleReporter and Ant task has changed slightly. This may cause minor problems if the output is being parsed."
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Compound XML Document Editor Initial Release   15 Apr 2005 04:00 GMT
IBM's alphaWorks has announced the initial release of CXDE (Compound XML Document Editor). They write in, "[CXDE] from IBM’s software group uses Eclipse Modeling Framework (EMF) to provide a more customized editing experience for developers. CXDE offers a standards-based, model-driven editor for mixed-namespace XML documents such as: XHTML, XForms, XML-Events, SMIL, SVG, VoiceXML, XUL, and MathML."
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Park 1.0.3 - JFC toolkit   15 Apr 2005 04:00 GMT
Platespiller has announced version 1.0.3 of JFC toolkit Park. They write in, "Park makes you a more efficient JFC user interface programmer by providing a rapid application development toolkit and an XML transformer backend which enables you to write XML format importers in XSLT for the XML Schema based Bean Persistence XMLDecoder. With Park, you can write a simple XUL, XAML or XForm engine in very little time. Or you can use the View and Do UI builder classes to maximize your programming efficiency."
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Zeus Java Swing Components Library 1.08   15 Apr 2005 04:00 GMT
The Zeus Java Swing Compenents library project has announced the release of version 1.08 with major feature enhancements. "The position for 'autopositioned' frames is now reset to 0,0 within the desktop if it is the first frame placed in the desktop. In JConsole, the configuration process for the console was redesigned with simple getXXX() and setXXX() methods. The autosave and dump of messages to log files was also redesigned. A StringBuffer was created for storing all messages ever printed, and a property file for GUI strings was added. A modified swingworker was included along with the swingworker v3 class provided by Sun's tutorial."
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Carol 2.0.0 - RMI Library   15 Apr 2005 04:00 GMT
The ObjectWeb Consortium has has released version 2.0.0 of RMI library Carol. " This version is used by JOnAS 4.4 which is a J2EETM compliant application server. There was a lot of code refactoring in this version and a lot of cleanup. Monolog which was used for logging has been replaced by Jakarta commons logging. There is a new Wrapper for JacORB which is used for RMI-IIOP protocol which support CSIv2. Also, commons-cli is not used anymore. Many new tests have been developed to avoid new errors. Please see here for detailed information on this release."
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