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The first alpha version of JBoss Tools 3 <a href="http://www.jboss.org/tools/download/index.html#development">out</a><br><br>The highlights in this release are: Ganymede/Eclipse 3.4, Graphical Seam pages.xml editor, Hibernate in Dali, Portlet wizards, JBossWS, Eclipse BIRT Hibernate datasource...

The JPPF team is pleased to announce long-awaited features in this version, extending the JPPF ease of use, range of capabilities and power.

WSO2 ESB Team has done the 1.7.1 release of the product which is a minor bug fix release of the user interface layer in-order to support the Firefox3 browser

Tangosol sitings are a bit fewer since the company became part of Oracle. SearchSOA.com ran a piece in which a Coherence user speaks a bit about event processing for a rare-book site. Oracle has made a push to in-memory architecture and application caching, not to mention Grid. [Or Cloud if you prefer.]

"Asynchronous Processes Modeled as Persistent Finite State Machines" by Benjamin Possolo describes and implements a finite state machine for asynchronous services using JEE.

The <a href="http://www.simpleframework.org/">Simple</a> HTTP engine has released version 4.0. Simple is a truly asynchronous HTTP engine capable of scaling to enormous loads with a limited number of servicing threads. It also has a fully comprehensive API that provides as much, if not more, convenience to the developer than the Java Servlet API.

Stripes 1.5 is available for immediate download. Stripes is a presentation framework for building web applications using the latest Java technologies.

Jitterbit Inc., a provider of open source integration software, today announced the availability of Jitterbit 2.0 Enterprise and Community.

Jt2.7 has been released. Jt is a pattern oriented framework for the rapid implementation of Java applications. Jt has been utilized in several large mission critical systems. Jt implements many well-known patterns including Data Access Objects (DAO), GoF design patterns and J2EE patterns.

Elastica 1.3.0 has just been released and is available for free download. Elastica is a highly efficient and extensible, rules-based load-balancer for JBoss 4 that adds dynamic behavior to EJB load balancing. Rules can be defined to redirect EJB requests according to request data, server performance data, or even the time of day.

Nicholas Whitehead, a senior technology architect from ADP, authored one of the best, most detailed guides to live, granular JVM monitoring, how to instrument an application after it's built, and how to live monitor a whole group of high-performance systems working together.

Projectivity 3.0 the Open Source Enterprise Management Platform has just been released. Interesting enterprise management platform that includes some commercial support.

New features in NetBeans IDE 6.5 Beta include support for Groovy and Grails, built-in support for Hibernate, Compile/Deploy on Save, JavaScript debugging for Firefox and IE, and much more.

Our sister event, The Ajax Experience, comes to Boston this fall and TheServerSide.com community is entitled to a special discount. We recommend this conference for developers working or thinking about working with Ajax or rich Web technologies. The Ajax Experience is put on by Ajaxian.com, which is community-driven and vendor-neutral.

SlickEdit Inc., provider of the most advanced code editors available, announces the release of SlickEdit Core v3.4 for Eclipse. This latest release of SlickEdit Core supports Eclipse Ganymede, version 3.4, and is updated with the latest capabilities from SlickEdit 2008. <a href="http://www.slickedit.com/content/view/74/59/" target="_blank">http://www.slickedit.com/content/view/74/59/</a>

Navicat Oracle GUI Admin Tool is an ideal solution for Oracle administration and development which lets you create, edit databases, run SQL queries and connect to remote Oracle in an easier way.<br>See details at: <a href="http://oracle.navicat.com/download.html" target="_blank">http://oracle.navicat.com/download.html</a><br>Jcoder is an efficient and easy to use Java IDE for Windows.<br>See details at: <a href="http://www.jcoder.com" target="_blank">http://www.jcoder.com</a>

Nick Heudecker reviews newly released and eagerly anticipated <i>Wicket In Action</i>, available from Manning Publications.

Gurock Software released SmartInspect 3.0, a new version of their logging tool for Java, .NET and Delphi. The new release introduces a new log server application (SmartInspect Router), a high-performance named pipe protocol for local live logging, asynchronous logging for even better logging performance, the ability to encrypt log files and a lot more.

Squish for Web, a professional automated GUI testing tool now also supports creating and running tests in Firefox 3.0.

Oracle is also delivering the Eclipse tools for Oracle WebLogic Server 10gR3 with a simpler packaging (just one, with all features), and a new price (free!). This release of Workshop for WebLogic 10g R3 combines all the features of the other products.