Early Draft Review: JSR 221 - JDBC 4.0 API   14 Jun 2005 04:00 GMT
Lance Anderson of Sun Microsystems has released an early draft for review of JSR 221 - JDBC 4.0 API to the JCP. "The JDBC 4.0 API specification seeks to improve Java application access to SQL data stores by the provision of ease-of-development focused features and improvements at both the utility and API level. Using new Java language features planned for JSR-176 Java 2 Standard Edition 1.5, features such as annotations as defined in JSR-175, generics defined in JSR-014 in to addition to supplying a set of JDBC utility classes, SQL savvy developers will be able to more easily access SQL data sources while still benefiting from the full power of the JDBC API."
Source: Java.net

BEA Releases AquaLogic SOA Suite   14 Jun 2005 04:00 GMT
BEA has announced the release of AquaLogic, a development suite they claim is the first to be built from scratch with SOA in mind. "It enables services built on virtually any platform—J2EE, .NET, SAP, Oracle, IBM, etc.—to be discovered, secured, managed, and assembled into composite applications and processes. For enterprises seeking to successfully deploy SOA across the enterprise, BEA AquaLogic is the most comprehensive product suite available for achieving the SOA benefits of better business agility and efficiency."
Source: Java.net

TopCoder Announces Registration for 2005 TopCoder Open Programming Tournament   13 Jun 2005 14:59 GMT
TopCoder, Inc., the leader in online programming competition, skills assessment and competitive software development, today announced that registration for the 2005 TopCoder Open will begin Monday, June 13th for the Component competition and Monday, August 1st for the Algorithm ...
Source: JavaKB

Boeing Selects JXTA Technology For U.S. Army Future Combat Systems   13 Jun 2005 12:43 GMT
Sun Microsystems, Inc. today announced that Boeing, the lead systems integrator for the U.S. Army's multi-billion dollar Future Combat Systems (FCS) initiative, has selected JXTA technology to provide the P2P discovery service for the System of Systems Common Operating ...
Source: JavaKB

xframe - xsddoc 0.8-beta: XML Schema Documentation Tool   13 Jun 2005 04:00 GMT
The xframe team has announced release 0.8-beta of the sub project xsddoc. "This release contains fixes for bugs reported by the community since the previous release and some usefull new options for easier integration into existing tools. The future plan is to release a new version approximately every three months until all missing features are implemented and all reported bugs are fixed. Hopefully in spring 2005 we want to release the first release candidate. " xsddoc is an open source documentation tool for W3C XML Schema based on XSLT. With xsddoc you can generate documentation of your XML Schema in a JavaDoc like visualisation.
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Columba 1.0 RC3 - Email Client   13 Jun 2005 04:00 GMT
The Columba email client project has announced version 1.0 RC3. They write in, "Here are the highlights of this release of Columba: vFolders are now actively monitoring folders and reflect changes of these folders automatically; message viewer shows attachments inline, if enabled in the Mail Options Dialog. Especially, useful when viewing images, or text attachments; new filter toolbar for message list, lets you quickly filter the message list; a new Groovy interpreter plugin, allows you to write plugins in the Groovy language; added a Groovy language Hello World plugin; integration of JDIC for Trayicon support and opening attachments with the system's default application... Additionally, we fixed about 60 bugs and user interface inconsistencies found by our users since the RC2 release."
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JFormula 3.2 - Math expressions API   13 Jun 2005 04:00 GMT
JAPISoft has released version 3.2 of JFormula, a library for evaluating various mathematical expressions. They write in "This release added a new separator for multiple expressions, it included a better multiple operands evaluation and fixed some API parts."
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JAXB Workshop 1.1   13 Jun 2005 04:00 GMT
The JAXB Workshop has announced its new release 1.1. "The main features added, ability to rerun XJC and edit XSD files make the XJC explorer a combined viewer and editor for JAXB 2.0. This release also includes bundled latest snapshots of JAXB 2.0, SJSXP and Substance look and feel."
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Workeffort 1.1 Task & Time Tracking System   13 Jun 2005 04:00 GMT
New project Workeffort has announced the release of version 1.1 of their work task & time tracking application. "It is built using some of the most popular and widely used open source frameworks in the J2EE space. It supports multiple databases, multiple browsers, internationalization, clustering, role based access control etc, and is designed to scale. It can be deployed using a servlet container. The new version replaces Struts with SpringMVC."
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JIRA 3.2   13 Jun 2005 04:00 GMT
Atlassian Software has released version 3.2 of their issue tracking and project management application JIRA. "Included in this release: customisable fields for transitions, tabbed field screens, contextual custom fields, extended Bulk Edit Capabilities, improved internationalisation, improved performance... and much more!"
Source: Java.net