Drools 2.0   02 Jun 2005 04:00 GMT
The Drools development team has announced the release of Drools 2.0 final. They write in, "Drools is a Rete-based Rules Engine written in Java, but able to run on Java and .Net. Drools is designed to allow pluggeable language implementations. Currently rules can be written in Java, Python and Groovy. " Aside from stability the release only contains updated documentation.
Source: Java.net

Second Final Proposed Draft: JSR 208 - Java Business Integration (JBI)   02 Jun 2005 04:00 GMT
Sun Microsystems has published their second proposed final draft of JSR 208 - Java Business Integration (JBI) to the JCP. "Java Business Integration JSR (JBI) extends J2EE with business integration SPIs. These SPIs enable the creation of a Java business integration environment for specifications such as WSCI, BPEL4WS and the W3C Choreography Working Group."
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[ANN] Unified I/O 2.30 beta released   01 Jun 2005 18:16 GMT
UnifiedIO allows random access to files, arrays, streams (even over HTTP), and gives a clear difference between read only and read/write access. Features: ^^^^^^^
Source: JavaKB

Jindent 4.0 - Java Source Code Formatter released   01 Jun 2005 18:16 GMT
Dangberg Software Solutions, author of the Java source code formatter Jindent, announces Jindent 4.0 available immediately. A major milestone has been achieved by supporting more than 300 formatting options and all language features of Java 5.0 including generics and all other
Source: JavaKB

Jacket Inital Release - SOAP Client   01 Jun 2005 04:00 GMT
The Jacket project, a Java SOAP client, has made its initial release announcement. "Jacket is an intentionally simple Java SOAP client that allows you to you to prepare a request and process the results using StAX. It features no compile time code generation, and users must process the result XML directly, so that it's easy to layer more sophisticated processing."
Source: Java.net

JasperAssistant 1.5.4   01 Jun 2005 04:00 GMT
The JasperAssistant project has released version 1.5.4 of their report designer tool for JasperReports open-source reporting engine. They write in, "This release comes with extensive user interface improvements and adds support for the latest versions of Eclipse and JasperReports."
Source: Java.net

Substance Look & Feel First Release   01 Jun 2005 04:00 GMT
The Substance look and feel project has announced its first release They write in, "The LAF provides UIs for 28 different J2SE standard components. The complete screenshot gallery is available at https://substance.dev.java.net/screenshots.html."
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jGnash 1.9.2   01 Jun 2005 04:00 GMT
Everyone's favorite open source Java accounting package, jGnash, has released ,a href="http://freshmeat.net/projects/jgnash/?branch_id=16163&release_id=197534">version 1.9.2 to fix some critical bugs. "Several fixes have been made to the GnuCash import. The client / server mode now handles Reminders and split transactions correctly. A couple of small Reminder bugs were fixed."
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Anyterm 1.1.0 - Adds WAP Terminal   01 Jun 2005 04:00 GMT
WAP happy mobile users should rejoice as the Anyterm project adds WAP support vith version 1.1.0. " Experimental support was added for WAP browsers, so you can log on to your machine from your mobile phone."
Source: Java.net