Howard Lewis Shipp, developer of Jakarta Tapestry and Jakarta HiveMind, writes in his Tapestry and HiveMind blog [http://howardlewisship.com/blog/2006/02/tapestry-promoted-to-apache-top-level.html] this week that the Apache Board unanimously voted to promote the Tapestry project to the top level.
Rackspace Managed Hosting and JBoss said on Tuesday they have made an agreement to create Intensive Hosting for Linux-JBoss Edition.
Yesterday, Sun Microsystems released its beta Java Platform, Standard Edition 6 (Java SE 6).
nVision Software released yesterday an enterprise continuous-availability app called AppVision-CA.
Software AG announced a new service-oriented development environment for its Natural app dev platform as the first new product under its Natural 2006 product line.
Sun Microsystems and the NetBeans community said yesterday that NetBeans IDE is available for download.
Unify has released Unify NXJ Composer, designed to give Lotus Notes developers the ability to build Lotus Notes-like applications in J2EE without having to code by hand.
JetBrains has released IntelliJ IDEA 5.1, the latest version of its Java IDE.
Pros and cons of a central component repository for Java
BEA Systems is announcing the latest version of its Eclipse-based BEA Workshop Studio.
Leveraging Java’s networking strengths to ignite its commercial component marketplace
Open-source solution provider Covalent Technologies will offer full commercial support for Apache Geronimo 1.0, an open-source J2EE application server developed and recently made available by the Apache Software Foundation and distributed under the Apache license.
LogicLibrary has announced its flagship Logidex solution now integrates with Eclipse's Business Intelligence and Reporting Toolkit (BIRT).
On Monday, the Eclipse Foundation released version 2.0 of its Business Intelligence and Reporting Tools (BIRT) project.
jProductivity has released Protection! v. 2.0, a licensing framework for Java that ensures users will adhere to the terms of their application licensing agreements, according to the company.
This year could bring relief for mainframe organizations struggling to justify the cost of running native COBOL or Assembly applications in the IBM z/OS.
The early draft of Sun's JSR 270 specification, which governs the content of the Java SE 6 Mustang release, is now available, says Sun's chief Java2 engineer, Mark Reinhold in a recent blog post (http://weblogs.java.net/blog/mreinhold).
The Apache Software Foundation has released Apache Geronimo 1.0, its Java app server.
ClearNova is releasing ThinkCAP JX, a visual dev environment for building rich Internet apps with AJAX, as open source.