JBoss AOP 1.3.0   23 Jun 2005 04:00 GMT
The JBoss Group has announced the availability of JBoss AOP 1.3.0. "We put in a bunch of work to optimize load-time weaving and also pointcut matching in general. You should see huge improvements of boot time when running with load-time weaving and also noticable improvements in overall startup time of JBoss AOP. Special thanks goes out to Miro Technologies for subsidizing this work."
Source: Java.net

Oracle Freeing JDeveloper for Developers   23 Jun 2005 04:00 GMT
According to Line56, Oracle is set to free JDeveloper for developers. "We're making our complete SOA development environment, JDeveloper 10g, available for free to all developers,' says Rick Schultz, VP of Oracle Fusion Middleware. 'It's more than a Java development environment, it includes Web services functionality, UML modeling, service orchestration, and business process flows.'"
Source: Java.net

The JCP Program Celebrates Java Technology's 10th Anniversary   23 Jun 2005 01:58 GMT
The Java Community Process (JCP(SM)) Program Management Office (PMO) and Executive Committees today announced strong results on multiple fronts. On the process side, one year after launch, JCP 2.6 program gets members' appreciation for the developer-friendly changes it introduced ...
Source: JavaKB

Bytecode Outline Plugin for Eclipse 2.0.2   22 Jun 2005 04:00 GMT
The ObjectWeb Consortium has published version 2.0.2 of the Bytecode Outline plugin for Eclipse. "This version includes a new 'Bytecode Reference' View that is kept in sync with selection in the 'Bytecode' view and also provides link to the JavaDoc for the correspond method of the ASM's MethodVisitor interface."
Source: Java.net

JSAP 2.0 - Command Line Parser   22 Jun 2005 04:00 GMT
Martian Software has released version 2.0 of its command line parser JSAP. They write in, "New features include improvements in auto-generated help, several new StringParsers (for handling different data types on the command line), support for no-space short options ('-b5' is now equivalent to '-b 5'), experimental XML-based configurations to reduce code, and several other minor changes."
Source: Java.net

PMD 3.2   22 Jun 2005 04:00 GMT
Tom Copeland has released version 3.2 of his Java source code analyzer PMD. "Three new rules were added. Bugfixes were made. Various internal improvements were done to make writing rules easier."
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JXP 1.3.7: XPath API   22 Jun 2005 04:00 GMT
JAPISoft has released version 1.3.7 of JXP, its XPath API. This new package includes a 25% speed increase provided by some performance bug fixes.
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GeoTools 2.1.RC1   22 Jun 2005 04:00 GMT
The GeoTools team has announced a release candidate for their 2.1 development branch. They write in, "This release, and with the switch to the 2.0 version of GeoAPI completed, only fixes to bugs lie between here and the final 2.1 release. If you are developing aginst the 2.0 branch then now is a good time to start thinking about switching to 2.1 as all new (and thus experimental features) are being done on the 2.2 branch with only bug fixes and optimizations scheduled for the 2.1 branch."
Source: Java.net

JBossRemoting 1.2.0   22 Jun 2005 04:00 GMT
The JBoss Group has relased version 1.2.0 of their JBossRemoting application. The new version adds SSL support, HTTP/HTTPS proxy and basic authentication, servlet based invoker, connection failure detection, and more. "The purpose of JBoss Remoting is to provide a single API for most network based invocations and related service that uses pluggable transports and data marshallers."
Source: Java.net

Sun Microsystems Addresses SOA Governance with Sun Service Registry   21 Jun 2005 13:11 GMT
Sun Microsystems, Inc. (Nasdaq: SUNW) last week announced the early access availability of the Sun Service Registry for customers who need to track and manage increasing numbers of web services. Sun's Service Registry also includes an integrated repository for storing service ...
Source: JavaKB