Red Hat and Sun Collaborate on Java Development

Open source solution vendor Red Hat has signed an OpenJDK Community agreement and joined the Open Java project. Now, all Red Hat engineers can join any of Sun-led free and open source projects and also get access to Sun’s Java test suite to ensure complete compatibility
for developed Java applications. Now the community gets a more open, collaborative development process on Java, which will result in faster release cycles. “Through these strategic agreements, Red Hat commits to contribute to
the Java platform and distribute a compatible, open source Java software implementation.”, said Sacha Labourey, chief technical officer at JBoss, a division of Red Hat.

Eclipse, a new member of JCP

Now, Eclipse Foundation, open-source tooling organization, is one of the newly elected members of Java Community Process (JCP) executive committee.

Milinkovich, executive director of Eclipse, said, “We are very honored to be elected to the JCP executive committee. The success of the Java community is very important to the long-term success of Eclipse. Therefore, I expect to be an active participant in ensuring the JCP moves towards a more open and collaborative
environment for setting the future direction of Java.”

Patrick Curran, director of the JCP Program at Sun, said, “Eclipse adds open-source expertise, which will help the JCP broaden its push toward greater collaboration and openness.”

Google Releases Android SDK Preview

Google has released an “early look” version of its SDK (software development kit) for mobile phones. Android SDK is Eclipse-based that lets the user write Java applications. These applications run on Dalvik, which is a virtual machine, designed to run on top of Linux in
embedded applications.

Spring Framework 2.5 Released

SpringSource, an open source software provider, formerly known as Interface21, has released Spring Framework 2.5, the latest upgrade to its Java/J2EE application framework. It adds configuration approaches with broad support for configuration annotations like JSR
250’s @PostConstruct, @PreDestroy and @Resource, Java EE 5’s @WebServiceRef and @EJB and Spring’s @Autowired. It adds full Java 6 and Java EE 5 support. Additional messaging support, testing capabilities have been improved with this release.

Jasypt 1.4 released

Jasypt 1.4 (Java Simplified Encryption) has been released. New features in version 1.4 include encryptable properties files, encryptable Hibernate data source configuration, new command line tools, Apache wicket integration for URL encryption and upgraded documentation. Jasypt is a java library that enables developers to add basic encryption capabilities to their projects in a simple way without having to know much about cryptography.