Java News Headlines

February 26, 2007
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December 22, 2006
JAXB 2.1 FinalSun Microsystems has finalized JSR 222 - Java Architecture for XML Binding (JAXB) 2.0. "JAXB 2.0 is a follow-on to JSR 31 Java XML Data Binding Specification building upon the architecture introduced in JAXB 1.0 JAXB 1.0 lowered the barrier for developers manipulating XML content from Java TM applications."[The JCP Permalink]
Jess 7.0p1The Jess rules engine project has announced the release of version 7.0p1. "Several minor bugs from the 7.0 release are fixed. Formatting and syntax coloring in the JessDE are no longer confused by multiline strings and comments. The JessDE contains a few new selection and formatting commands."[Jess Project Permalink]
TrueZIP 6.4The TrueZip project has released version 6.4. They write in, "A minor release number increase, but a major improvement: TrueZIP 6.4 fixes all known bugs, significantly improves performance in many sectors and comes with an overall updated Javadoc for the core package de.schlichtherle.io."[TrueZIP Project Permalink]
HttpAuth 0.6The HttpAuth project has announced the release of version 0.6. "A crash which occurred when doing some sort of Basic authentication was fixed. Numbers are now allowed in handler names. The program reconnects properly to httpauthd when that daemon has been restarted. The Java (Jetty) authenticator now supports NTLM properly. A bug where Apache 2.x wouldn't lock down credentials for NTLM properly to a single connection was fixed."[HttpAuth Project Permalink]
SQLiteJDBC 031The SQLiteJDBC project has announced the release of version 031. "This release adds stricter control of statements to avoid unfinalized errors on close."[SQLiteJDBC Project Permalink]
FindBugs 1.1.2-rc6The FindBugs project has announced the release of version 1.1.2-rc6. "Fixed some small bugs in the eclipse plugin; some small changes in core findbugs, having to do with uniqueIds and instanceHashes for bugs. Shouldn't effect anything, but testing would be appreciated."[FindBugs Project Permalink]
Apache Cocoon 2.1.10The Apache Cocoon project has announced the release of version 2.1.10. "This release includes many bug fixes and smaller enhancements."[ApacheNews Permalink]
Generic Algorithms for Java 0.8The Generic Algorithms for Java (JGA) project has released version 0.8. They write in, "The major focus of this release is incorporating feedback from users. There are two major changes in this release based on such feedback. First, to make it a lot easier for new users to find and use the algorithmic functionality, there is now a new package that exposes the various supported algorithms (find, filter/remove, merge/append, unique, transform, summarize, and sort) in static classes based on what they each do. Second, a popular suggestion is to make the functors available via static methods in leiu of calling their individual constructors. There are also updates in the swing package, extensions to the Hacker's worksheet, and additional functionality in JFXG."[JGA Project Permalink]
December 21, 2006
iText 1.4.8The iText project has announced the release of version 1.4.8. "This release is meant to be the final one before iText 1.5. It brings several bugfixes that were reported on the mailing list and the Author Online forum at Manning."[iText Project Permalink]
FoCuS 1.3.3IBM alphaWorks has released version 1.3.3 of coverage testing tool FoCuS. "Extensive code coverage views and many improvements in the user interface."[IBM alphaWorks Permalink]
ConcurrentTesting 2.4.3IBM alphaWorks has released version 2.4.3 of ConcurrentTesting. "Code coverage support improved to support new FoCuS view; improved lock discipline mechanism."[IBM alphaWorks Permalink]
StreamCruncher 1.01 BetaThe StreamCruncher project has announced the release of version 1.01 Beta. "JavaDocs were added for test cases. A complex co-related sub-query test case was added. An SLA alert use case was added."[StreamCruncher Project Permalink]
Apache Tomcat JK 1.2.20The Apache Tomcat development team has announced the release of Apache Tomcat JK 1.2.20 Web Server Connector. "This version contains several enhancements and fixes a number of minor bugs of the previous version 1.2.19."[ApacheNews Permalink]
YourKit Java Profiler 6.0.2The YourKit Java Profiler project has announced the release of version 6.0.2. "Eclipse 3.3 M3 and later are supported. Several dead-locks on startup and class loading issues were fixed."[YourKit Java Profiler Project Permalink]
December 18, 2006
GlassFish 2 M3The GlassFish project has announced the release of version 2 M3. "This release includes many new features and improvements; some of them are: Profile support (developer, enterprise, cluster), initial Update Center Support, JSR-196 Public Draft, WS Interoperability (WSIT) Functionality Integrated. JBI Support Integrated.", and more.[GlassFish Project Permalink]
Mantissa 7.0The Mantissa mathematical algorithms library project has announced the release of version 7.0. Rusty Elliot notes: "For many basic objects provided by Mantissa like Vector3D, Rotation, and the various Polynomial classes, instances are now guaranteed to be immutable. This greatly simplifies safe sharing of instances without forcing users to either put severe restrictions on their use of Mantissa classes or make numerous copies just to make sure everything is safe. Since the change is a semantic change on the contract of the classes, this version introduces some incompatibilities with respect to previous ones. Upgrading to this version is not difficult, though."[Mantissa Project Permalink]
UMLGraph 4.5The UMLGraph project has released version 4.5. They write in, "With release 4.5 UmlGraphDoc now handles filenames with embedded spaces. This version also corrects the appearance of generic names, the running of the UmlGraphDoc tests, and the JavaDoc generation."[UMLGraph Project Permalink]
Eclipse 3.3 M4The Eclipse project has announced the release of version 3.3 M4. Elliotte Rusty Harold notes: "New features in this release. mostly minor, include: The DateTime control now supports the SWT.SHORT, SWT.MEDIUM, and SWT.LONG styles; Much finer control of line attributes, including fractional line widths, dashed line offsets, and miter limits; SWT libraries automatically found; Possible to see the invisible whitespace characters in textual editors; Spell checking in text editor; Faster text diffing; Custom tooltips for tree and table cells; Undo Delete in Package Explorer; The CVS Apply Patch wizard now allows you to manually apply any unmatched patch segments to the local file; Create resources with paths longer than 260 characters on Windows."[Eclipse Project Permalink]
GNU Classpath 0.93The GNU Classpath project has announced the release of version 0.93 "Dreamland". "Highlights of new features in this release...: NIO Selector epoll (linux 2.6 kernel) and kio (BSD and Darwin) notification mechanisms added. Fast, direct call, support for in runtime CORBA objects. Support for user JNDI context factories (plus corbaname: and rmi: jndi urls). New javah tool included. JSSE SSLEngine support including TLSv1.1 and pre-shared key ciphersuites. Full lang.management MX Beans ManagementFactory implementation. 99.95% api coverage for 1.4, 95.5% api coverage for 1.5. Much better swing HTML support (aka JGecko). Graphics2D on cairo speedups and make it respects interpolation hints, better gradient support and custom Composites and Paints."[GNU Classpath Project Permalink]
mobber Initial ReleaseThe mobber project has announced its initial release: "Mobber is a mobile communicator based on the Jabber/XMPP protocol for cell phones with GPRS. It is written in Java (MID Profile Version 1.0), and should work on any device that supports Java and sockets."[mobber Project Permalink]
December 15, 2006
db4o 6.0The db4o project has announced the release of version 6.0. "This release comes with a new BTree architecture and major performance enhancements resulting from a new query processor that runs on the new BTrees. Deterministic immediate query responses were made possible using a new 'Lazy Query Evaluation' algorithm."[db4o Project Permalink]
ProGuard 3.7The ProGuard Java class file shrinker, optimizer, and obfuscator project has released version 3.7. They write in, "The latest release accepts class files that were compiled for Java 6. Incremental obfuscation has been improved, with a new option -useuniqueclassmembernames. Several optimization bugs have been fixed."[ProGuard Project Permalink]
Jameleon 3.3-M4The Jameleon testing framework project has announced the release of version 3.3-M4. "This release includes four new features and fixes four bugs. A notable new feature is an experimental Selenium plug-in. One of the fixed bugs includes a fix to a performance slow-down in the Jiffie plug-in introduced back in the 3.3-M2 release."[Jameleon Project Permalink]
Java EE SDK Update 2Project Glassfish has announced the release of Java EE SDK Update 2. "These new versions bundle JDK 6 and are fully tested with JDK 6 as well as JDK 5.0. In addition, the Java Application Platform SDK includes Access Manager (7.1 Beta), JBI Runtime with BPEL from project Open ESB and a beta version of Portlet Container to enable development and testing of JSR 168 portlets. Developer content such as Java EE 5 samples, blueprints, tutorial and API javadocs are also included."[Project Glassfish Permalink]
StreamCruncher Initial ReleaseThe StreamCruncher project has announced its initial release. "StreamCruncher is an Event Processor. It supports a language based on SQL which allows you to define Event Processing constructs like Sliding Windows, Time Based Windows, Partitions and Aggregates. Queries can be written using this language, which are used to monitor streams of incoming Events. StreamCruncher is a multi-threaded Kernel that runs on Java."[StreamCruncher Project Permalink]
Coadunation Initial ReleaseThe Coadunation project has announced its initial release. "Coadunation is a Java based daemon server. It enables developers to quickly and easily develop daemons, and supplies them with JNDI, RMI/IIOP, container-based security, threading, Automated Deployment, Clustering, Cosnaming, data sources, and much more."[Coadunation Project Permalink]
December 14, 2006
Seam 1.1Gavin King has announced the release of Seam 1.1 GA. "This morning I uploaded a GA release of Seam 1.1. For those who've been following the development of Seam 1.1, there is not much new in this compared to the two CR releases. The only significant improvements compared to CR2 are that we now have the Hibernate and JPA example applications running out of the box on WebLogic (as well as JBoss, GlassFish and Tomcat), a number of enhancements to seam-gen, and a nice built-in datepicker control."[Gavin King Permalink]
wingS 2.1The wingS development team has released version 2.1. They write in, "In parallel, we are working on a AJAX- ified version of wingS. The goal is to make the use of AJAX completely transparent to the developer. During the event dispatching process, components get dirty. The dirty components are collected by the reload manager. When event dispatching has returned, incremental updates for the dirty components are sent to the client. While the AJAX branch is by far not production ready yet, we've already achieved quite promising results. On our demo server, there is an application, that runs with both, the 2.1 jars and the current build from the AJAX branch."[wingS Project Permalink]
JTrac 2.0The JTrac issue tracking project has released version 2.0. "Support for multiple languages was added. Translations were added for (German, French, Italian, Polish, and Dutch). Lots of new features and improvements were added."[JTrac Project Permalink]
Sequoia 2.10.3The Sequoia clustered databases project has released version 2.10.3. "This release includes a number of bugfixes, mainly for single controller or single database configurations. A new script-based backuper is also available to customize the backup/restore mechanism at will. The group communication and demos have been upgraded."[Sequoia Project Permalink]
Liferay Portal 4.2The Liferay Portal project has released version 4.2. New features are numerous including new ESB support, asynchronous Portlet Rendering Engine, Single Sign-On, jBPM workflow integration, a selection of portlets, and new translations.[Liferay Portal Project Permalink]
Spring Modules 0.7The Spring Modules project has released version 0.7. "The new version contains the following notable features: new Ant module - access Spring beans from Ant., jbpm module - fixed cleanup of static fields which allow reuse of JBPM configuration in the same classloader (such as with testing), XT module - new HTML component added along with some important fixes, and all the modules have upgraded their Spring dependency to 2.0.1"[Spring Framework Permalink]
SQLG2 Initial ReleaseThe SQLG2 project has announced its initial release. "SQLG2 is preprocessor and library that combines ideas of JDBC, SQLJ and iBATIS to simplify writing DB access code for small and medium-sized applications, making it similar to PL/SQL development. It is intended for use under JDK 1.5 or later."[SQLG2 Project Permalink]
December 13, 2006
ZK 2.2The ZK project has released version 2.2. They write in, "Support ZUML annotations, databinders to access database in ZUML with zero Java codes, sizable windows, grid, listbox and tree with sizable columns, and many more features and bug fixes." [http://www.zkoss.org Permalink]
SQLiteJDBC 030The SQLiteJDBC project has released version 030. "A pure Java JDBC driver based on NestedVM was added."[SQLiteJDBC Project Permalink]
EasyEclipse 1.2.1.1The EasyEclipse project has announced the release of version 1.2.1.1. They write in, "We released this week-end an important update for the C/C++, Ruby, PHP, Python and LAMP distros. The 1.2.1 release had two bugs in the built-in Java runtime that those distro require. Many people had reported issues when using non-English languages and non western European character sets. Linux users may also have experienced weird crashes and other unexplained problems."[EasyEclipse Team Permalink]
Java Studio Enterprise 8.1Sun Microsystems has released version 8.1 of Java Studio Enterprise. "Java Studio Enterprise is branded and matched to the release of Java Enterprise System, see http://www.sun.com/software/javaenterprisesystem/ to support development using the latest Java Enterprise System."[Chris Webster (Sun) Permalink]
JSwat Java Debugger 3.14The JSwat Java Debugger project has released version 3.14. "An NPE is avoided by not clearing the default group field. RFE 1092 was implemented to store session settings for launched API."[JSwat Java Debugger Project Permalink]
Berkeley DB Java Edition 3.2.13Oracle has released Berkeley DB Java Edition version 3.2.13. "Three new parameters have been added to limit the amount of I/O performed by background threads, BigInteger is now supported as a binding, and in the DPL, deferred Write mode is now available in the DPL, and several bug fixes."[Oracle Permalink]