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Commons DbUtils 1.1 is a bugfix release resolving most of the issues raised over the last couple of years.
Commons Discovery 0.4 is a long overdue release (0.3 failed at the last hurdle to actually be released). Discovery is not an actively developed component, so this release is chiefly to mark a stable point that the users of discovery can depend on.
Seam 1.1.0 CR2 includes numerous bug fixes and enhancements and includes sample applications deployable to JBoss, Glassfish and Tomcat.
Java Web services, Part 2: Digging into Axis2: AXIOM. The Apache Axis2 Web services framework builds on the new AXIOM XML document model for efficient SOAP message processing. Learn why this on-demand construction is a great approach for SOAP processing, and how XOP/MTOM attachments, data binding, and performance fit into the picture.
Developers Embrace Java, Drop Visual Basic. Use of Visual Basic has dropped 35% since the spring, says a poll of more than 430 North American developers done by research company Evans Data Corp.
Wicked Shell 2.0 enables the use of a shell directly from the Eclipse IDE.
EasyEclipse 1.2.1 packages together Eclipse and selected open source plug-ins. This new version is based on Eclipse 3.2.1 Callisto.
Web services hints and tips: JAX-RPC vs. JAX-WS, Part 2. JAX-WS 2.0, the successor to JAX-RPC 1.1, has evolved its data mapping methods by using JAXB (the Java Architecture for XML Binding), a JCP-defined technology. This second tip in a series compares the data mappings of these two Web services specifications.
EJOE 0.3.9.1 featuring improvements like remote reflection, different serialization strategies, crispy and wsif extensions, and HTTP support.
Aranea Web Framework 1.0.3 is an Open-Source Java MVC Web Framework that provides a common Object-Oriented approach to building the web applications, reusing GUI logic and extending the framework.
Sleep 2.1-b11 (perl-like scripting language for Java) adds a built-in profiler, fixes several parser bugs, and fixes an issue with coroutines.
dsj 0_8_2 is a minimal library volume, high performance java wrapper to fundamentals of the DirectShow api. It covers media file & stream playback, encoding, capture, digital TV + low level graph building.
VisualKii 1.0. Visual programming software for experimenting with various technologies, from very simple ones to more advanced, e.g. Semantic Web.