New features:
^^^^^^^^^^
- RainLayout is now available under BSD license (in separate package).
- JTabbedPaneExt - this JTabbedPane extension allows easy adding icons to

The ActiveBPEL(tm) engine (http://www.activebpel.org) is a Business
Process Management (BPM) runtime environment for executing process
definitions created to the Business Process Execution Language for Web
Services (BPEL) 1.1 spec. It is written in Java and released under the

The Apache Directory team has announced the release of MINA, a network application framework, version 0.9.
Apache MINA (Multipurpose Infrastructure for Network Applications) is a network application framework which helps users develop network applications easily by providing ...

HXTT Text (CSV) contains the type 4 JDBC(1.2, 2.0, 3.0) driver packages
for raw data, flat text , CSV file, TSV file, fixed-length, and
variable-length binary file, which supports all transactions level of
READ UNCOMMITTED,READ COMMITTED, REPEATABLE READ, and SERIALIZABLE,

Paris, France - December 2005 -
Koalog announces the release of Koalog Constraint Solver v3.0.
Koalog Constraint Solver (KCS) is a powerful Java library for Constraint
Programming. It provides cutting-edge technology for solving satisfaction

Excelsior has released today the latest update to its flagship product, Excelsior JET 4.1. This release improves ease-of-use and enhances the application deployment facilities.
Excelsior JET is a complete solution for acceleration, protection and deployment of Java applications, ...

StelsCSV is a JDBC driver that allows to perform SQL queries and other
JDBC operations on text files (CSV, DSV, tab-separated, fixed-length,
etc). Using this driver, you can easily create a fast database
consisting of plain text files. Also, the driver can be used for

yWorks ( http://www.yworks.com/ ) is proud to announce yFiles version 2.4, the
new major release of its outstanding Java class library for analysis, automatic
layout, and visualization of diagrams, networks, and graphs.
http://www.yworks.com/products/yfiles

The wingS project has just released version 2.0 of its framework with lots of major improvements.
wingS is a component based web framework resembling the Java Swing API with its MVC paradigm and event oriented design principles. It utilizes the models, events, and event listeners ...

No Magic announced the release of MagicDraw UML 10.5, an upgrade of No Magic’s award-winning UML-based architecture tool. MagicDraw 10.5 extends its business process modeling capabilities to export Business Process Execution Language (BPEL 1.1) compliant code from Business ...

The Apache team is proud to announce the 0.93 release of Axis2 - an implementation of the Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) Recommendation from the W3C. Axis2 can be used to provide and consume Web Services.You can download the release from: http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer ...

Linkoping, Sweden
December 4, 2005
NNL Technology AB announces the release of new versions of the InfoNode
Swing products. All products are available under two licenses, GPL and

I would like to inform you that a new version
of the actiWATE (Actimind Web Application
Testing Environment) is available for free-of-
charge download on:

The second edition of the programming contest TopDev2006 will take
place on January 28th-29th 2006.
This contest is original by its independance from any languages. The
winners will not be the fastest programmer, but the ones who will

ECF-JSF is a framework to build Java Server Faces Web applications
using a simple scripting language.
This framework is built on top of Java Server Faces and the IENJINIA
PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE (http://sourceforge.net/projects/ienjinia) to

Cleveland, OH - November 29, 2005 - Urbancode, Inc. is proud to announce the
release of version 2.5 of Anthill Pro, their pioneering, award-winning Build
Management server software. This new version includes a host of upgrades to
Anthill Pro's repository drivers and user ...

On java.sun.com, Sun's main Java site, there's a long interview
(http://java.sun.com/developer/technicalArticles/Interviews/livschitz2_qa.html)
with Sun's Victoria Livschitz in which she envisions a new software
language called "Metaphors".

FireStorm/DAO is a Java Code Generator that can import existing
database schemas (from a SQL script or from a live JDBC connection) and
can then generate a complete persistence tier based on any of the
following Java persistence technologies: