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the fifth GA release of the 1.1 line of Pluto. It also supports JSP 2.1. Current Pluto 1.1.4 release has binary compatability with Pluto 1.1.3 which its earlier versions lacked.

Apache Geronimo
v2.0 - Release delayed due to security issue


The Apache Geronimo project produces a server runtime framework that pulls together the best Open Source alternatives to create runtimes that fulfil the needs of developers and system a d m i n i s t r a t o r s .

The release of Apache Geronimo v2.0 has been delayed due to the detection of a security bug. The origin of this problem has been taken into consideration and some tests are going on to fix this problem.


JGroups 2.5 Released: Boosting Group
Communication


JGroups is a toolkit, which is used for the development of distributed Java applications based on group communication. It has a feature of flexible protocol stack, which meets the developer’s application requirements. The release of JGroups 2.5
  has made the things much easier as it includes upgraded features like multiplexer mprovements, concurrent stack, new failure detection protocols etc. This release offers major improvements over previous releases most notably concurrent messages delivery, channel multiplexing and full virtual synchronous support. JGroups
users may upgrade their applications to 2.5 releases [4] as it is a traight forward process; API is backward ompatible to 2.2.7 release, the only change should be made in the channel configuration files.


Swerve Framework Beta 0.9 Released:

Swerve SOA which is a full stack POJO framework has arrived for developing Flex 2 / Java RIA solutions with the ant script build support.

Its provides support for:

• Asynchronous processing that may be in-lined, queued, or fully concurrent.

• Text, XML, binary, and AMF0 return types.

• POJO based REST API to quickly implement REST based services.

• SEDA based messaging fabric with integrated CometD.

• Fast XML Marshalling API.
 

Jython 2.2 Released: Implements Python 2.2 and 2.3

Jython 2.2 has arrived with the implementation of the internal architecture of Python 2.2. It also contains some features from Python 2.3. Jython that is integrated with the Java platform is an implementation of the highlevel, dynamic, objectoriented language. The updates that have
been made in this release are:

• Java Collections integration
• Support for the iterators and generators
• Compatible with both JDK1.5 and 1.6


CodeGear’s JGear Eclipse Plug-ins Revealed:

A set of specialized plugins has been revealed by CodeGear from Borland Corporation for the Eclipse open-source development platform:

JGear. The new JGear has the following features:

• JGear LiveSource for Eclipse.
• JGear Team for Eclipse (both Client and Server editions).
• JGear Performance for Eclipse – contains features such as memory and CPU profiling and debugging;
real-time monitoring of programs’ use of virtual machine memory; automatic detection of potential memory leaks etc.

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