AppFuse 1.8.1   16 Jun 2005 04:00 GMT
Matt Raible has announced the release of version 1.8.1 of AppFuse. It's a bug fix release, but includes updated versions of the core libraries used by AppFuse.
Source: Java.net

JDK &amp JRE Critical Security Updates 1.4.2_08 and 1.5.0_03   16 Jun 2005 04:00 GMT
Sun Microsystems has released security update versions 1.4.2_08 and 1.5.0_03 for the JRE and JDK. "The flaws are 'highly critical,' security monitoring company Secunia said in an advisory posted Tuesday. Flaws that get that ranking--one notch below Secunia's most severe "extremely critical" rating--are typically remotely exploitable and can lead to full system compromise." Update now.
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Groovy JSR02   16 Jun 2005 04:00 GMT
Guillaume Laforge of the Groovy scripting language for Java project has announced the release of version groovy-jsr-02. "For us, it is a very important milestone, I should probably say a quality-focused release. We've reached 1000 test cases, and counting... But apart from the usual user support, bug fixes, applied patches provided by our active and vibrant community, we particularly focused our efforts on two main quality factors: better error reporting and improved compile-time checks."
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C-JDBC 1.3.2   16 Jun 2005 04:00 GMT
The ObjectWeb Consortium has announced version 1.3.2 of clustering application C-JDBC. "This new release includes many fixes for better portability and improved performance. We have added support for batch updates in proxying mode and fixed transaction isolation support which was broken in 1.3.1. Thanks to our contributors, we have integrated a couple of JMX fixes and improved shutdown process. C-JDBC connections are now thread-safe to prevent applications sharing the same connection in autocommit mode to break the underlying protocol. "
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Apache Axis (for Java) 1.2.1   16 Jun 2005 04:00 GMT
The Apache Axis (for Java) development team has announced the release of version 1.2.1. It includes: "Better cookie support, array handling, elementFormDefault in generated WSDL, SAAJ bug fixes, etc."
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Excelsior JET 3.7 MP2: Critical Bug Fix   16 Jun 2005 04:00 GMT
The Excelsior JET (Just in Time Compiler) project has released version 3.7 MP2 to addrss some serious bugs. "Support for J2SE 5.0 Update 3 (1.5.0_03) was added. Customer issues were fixed, including a critical incompatibility with Linux kernel 2.6.11 and higher."
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jTDS JDBC Driver 1.1   16 Jun 2005 04:00 GMT
The jTDS JDBC Driver project has released version 1.1 with major enhancements. "jTDS 1.1 is a major feature release, notable new features including much improved statement caching, configurable metadata caching, optimistic/pessimistic locking support and fast forward-only cursors. Other major changes are the switch to sp_prepare as default prepare method for prepared statements instead of temporary stored procedures -- which means better performance and no more depending on transaction rollbacks -- and optimistic concurrency instead of row locks on default updatable result sets."
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Eclipse 3.1 RC2   15 Jun 2005 04:00 GMT
The Eclipse IDE project has releasd their second release candidate for version 3.1. There are no release notes published as yet; however, there are some performance benchmark graphs.
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Sketsa SVG Graphics Editor 3.2   15 Jun 2005 04:00 GMT
Kiyut just released version 3.2 of their Sketsa SVG Graphics Editor, a cross platform vector drawing application based on SVG. They write in, "What's new: added Direct Selection Tool, improved Lasso Tool (Direct Selection), improved Property Editor (added TSpan Property), improved Document Object Model, improved CanvasBackground (add Background Color), fixed Source Editor Find/Replace bug on Windows, fixed Point Tool during Zoom, and other bug fixes."
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Review Ballot: JSR 277 - Java Module System   15 Jun 2005 04:00 GMT
Sun Microsystems has submitted JSR 277 - Java Module System to the JCP for ballot review. This JSR seeks to alleviate deployment problems such as JAR versioning and dependencies between JARs. "Its components are likely to include: a distribution format (i.e., a Java module) and its metadata as a unit of delivery for packaging collections of Java code and related resources. The metadata would contain information about a module, the resources within the module, and its dependencies upon other modules. The metadata would also include an export list to restrict resources from being exposed outside the module unintentionally. The metadata may allow subset of exposed resources to be used by other modules selectively, a versioning scheme that defines how a module declares its own version as well its versioned dependencies upon other modules, a repository for storing and retrieving modules on the machine with versioning and namespaces isolation support, Runtime support in the application launcher and class loaders for the discovery, loading, and integrity checking of modules, a set of support tools, including packaging tools as well as repository tools to support module installation and removal. We also expect the Java Module System to expose the public J2SE APIs as a virtual module in order to prevent unwanted usage of the private APIs in the implementation."
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