JIDE Software Products 1.8.0   10 Jun 2005 04:00 GMT
JIDE Software has announced the 1.8.0 release of all their products. "The most exciting feature is probably the new Visual Designer. Visual Designer allows you to use drag-n-drop to visually design the layout of dockable frames and command bars, and save it as an xml file...JIDE supports many different LookAndFeels such as Office 2003, Vsnet, Eclipse, Aqua etc. In this release, we introduced a new one call Xerto LookAndFeel...We introduced several new components. CheckBoxList is a list that supports JCheckBox as list element. AutoResizingTextArea is a special text area which automatically resizes itself vertically when its content grows. JideScrollPane now supports scroll bar corners. With this enhancement, you can do some cool features of scroll bar as you see in Microsoft Office or Adobe Acrobat.... We also introduced BeanProperty and BeanIntrospector in JIDE Grids to support PropertyTable.... We added anti-alias text support for JDK 1.5...."
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Ravenous 0.1.15   10 Jun 2005 04:00 GMT
The Ravenous Java webserver project has released version 0.1.15 with feature enhancements. "This release includes several minor bugfixes, as well as new functionality which allow you to create methods on your controllers which will be executed daily, weekly, or monthly."
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PKLite 2.0 Beta2   10 Jun 2005 04:00 GMT
The PKLite SQL tool project has released their second beta for version 2.0. It is mostly a stabilizing release with some code refactoring.
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GeoServer 0.2 Alpha - WCS   10 Jun 2005 04:00 GMT
The GeoServer, J2EE implementation of OpenGIS's web server specification, project has announced the release of version 0.2-alpha. "This version has the same capabilities as the GeoServer 1.3-RC1, but with new support for coverages. It implements a large portion of the WCS specification. The ArcGrid, GeoTIFF, Image, and GRIB formats are supported. It features an easy-to-use, Web-based interface for data configuration and sharing through WCS and WMS."
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JOSSO Single Sign-On 1.3   10 Jun 2005 04:00 GMT
The JOSSO (Java Open Single Sign-On) project, an open source J2EE-based SSO infrastructure, has released version 1.3. They write in, "The 1.3 release includes the following significant changes: support for JBoss 4.0.2 application server, support for Jakarta Tomcat 5.5.9 web container, compatibility with JDK5, enhanced build system for easier implementation of container compatibility plugins, avalability of a Jakarta Tomcat 5.5 and JBoss 4.0.2 bundles , and several bug fixes and minor enhancements."
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Log4RSS - Initial Release   10 Jun 2005 04:00 GMT
The Log4RSS project has announced their initial release. "Log4rss is a Log4J RSS Appender. It can generate an RSS newsfeed from logging events inside your application, ready for you to view in a standard RSS newsreader."
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JFindReplace 1.1   09 Jun 2005 04:00 GMT
JAPISoft has released version 1.1 of JFindReplace, a complete find/replace swing dialog similar to Eclipse's. They write in, "This release fixes a find problem and adds minor features like a replacing mode or a way to maintain the same dialog for several text components."
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AnyTerm 1.0.1   09 Jun 2005 04:00 GMT
The AnyTerm, terminal emulator project, has released version 1.0.1 to address a major bug. "This version fixes a bug that could lead to 'Session timed out' messages when trying to open new terminals."
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CODAF 1.5 Stable - Compiere 2.5.2c Support   09 Jun 2005 04:00 GMT
Daffodil Software Ltd., has announced the stable release of its CODAF (Compiere+Daffodil DB) version 1.5, incorporating support for Compiere 2.5.2c. They write in, "The beta version of CODAF 1.5 has been tried and tested by the community and all known issues have been fixed in this final release. The new CODAF version continues to make it easier for the user to install and deploy both- Compiere and Daffodil DB. "
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Early Review: JSR 198 - A Standard Extension API for Integrated Development Environments   09 Jun 2005 04:00 GMT
Oracle has submitted a early draft of JSR 198 - A Standard Extension API for Integrated Development Environments for review to the JCP. "This proposed specification has the goal of defining a standard IDE extension API that allows developers to implement IDE addin modules once and have their feature run with any IDE supporting the standard specification."
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