Release Fever Update

Quite a number of new releases (that bother me) hit us the last few days (weeks) and more to come.

• Ubuntu 9.10 (the broken Koala) (link)
• Netbeans 6.8 BETA (link)
• Java EE6 in NB 6.8B (official release eventually in December) (link)
• ZK 3.6.3 (link)

News: Netbeans, Groovy

• Netbeans 6.8 M1
  The first stable milestone is available for download. The first version being more EE6′ish with JSF 2.0, JPA 2.0 and finally a build-in browser. Of course there is more stuff in the box, so find infos on feature and download at Netbeans.org.
• Groovy 1.7
  We can look forward to get our hands on 1.7 soon, beta version is available for download. For production a stable 1.6.4 is released with minor bug fixing. Find info and downloads at codehaus.org

Android News: DroidDraw, Simple Basic

• DroidDraw
  Until any IDE plugin can do the job of allowing us to arrange screen components visually, you can do it with DroidDraw, a tool available online, for Windows, Linux and Mac at www.droiddraw.org
• simple
  For folks who are beginners in programming or just for doing some simple stuff, any taste of Basic usually was (is) a good development tool. Now Android goes Basic too. Check out simple at code.google.com. It comes in the 3 flavors Windows, Linux and Mac.

News: Virtualbox, PostgreSQL

3 more application join the release-fever spreading the last few days:

• Virtualbox
  Now available in release 3.0 offering experimental support for DirectX 8 and 9, supporting Open GL 2.0. Plus quite a number of bugfixes. The continuous train of update releases is really amazing for a freely available product (for private use though). Download and changelog at virtualbox.org (link)
• PostgrSQL
  After 1 year of development the version 8.4 is ready for download. Find all the details and the download at postgresql.org (link)
• pgAdmin
  And along comes the latest version 1.10.0 of the PostgrSQL administration tool pgAdmin. Download and Info at pgadmin.org (link).

News: Netbeans 6.7, ZK

• Netbeans 6.7
  Finally the production version was released. With some great new features like Hudson,Kenai Integration  and Load-on-demand, Fullscreen-mode and many more, a major step forward for the Netbeans community. More infos and download at netbeans.org (link)
• ZK 3.6.2
  With a few days delay after releasing the latest version 3.6.2, the newest Netbeans plugin is available as well. Download at sourceforge.net (link).

News: Netbeans, Glassfish, EE6

• Netbeans RC2
  The second release candidate is available for download. Download at Netbeans.org (link) We should he seeing the final release soon in June.
• EE6 Preview SDK
  Glassfish V3 preview comes together with samples and tutorials giving a preview on the upcoming EE6. Still most of it is based on JSR’s that are not final yet.
  Some feedback from JavaOne regarding release dates on Jim Whites’s Blog (link)

News: OpenSolaris 2009.06 released

The latest version of OpenSolaris is available for download ! Whats new in these release (link) ?
Released at CommunityOne on June 1st. Check it out and download at opensolaris.com (link)
If you have time drop the recorded webast at sun.com (link)

News: JavaFX 1.2, NB 6.7 RC1

• JavaFX SDK 1.2
  Not sure if I missed the big announcement, but the SDK is released in version 1.2 and even more exciting, it supports LINUX and OpenSolaris.
  Go get your copy at javafx.com (link)
• Netbeans 6.7 RC1
  We are walking fast towards the final 6.7 release of Netbeans. The RC1 is out now. Check it out at netbeans.org (link)

News: Java

• Java SE 6 update 14
  Release 14 is available at sun (link). Releasenotes (link)
• JSF 2.0 approved
  Finally JSF 2.0, aka JSR 314,  is approved. Details at jcp.org (link). GUess we can expect lots of updated frameworks and books in near future.
• JavaOne 2009 Release News ?
  Usually there are a lot of announcements and releases during JavaOne. Let’s see which of Anthony Goubard’s pedicions become reality (link)

News: Java ME 3.0, Drools 5.0

• Java ME 3.0 SDK
  Personally I expected Java ME to get lost or merge into other mobile technologies, right at that moment SUN announced the release of 3rd version of the Micro Edition.  More infos and downloads at SUN (link).
  Is the equation Java ME + Java FX versus Android ?
• Drools 5.0
  I am very attracted by workflow and rules engine after working with hardcoded business rules in various legacy systems. The learning curve seems to be very steep to me, but this investment will be returned once you get it rolling. Drools now comes as 4 modules (Guvnor, Expert, Fusion,Flow) to cover an integrated platform for Rules, Workflow and Event Processing. More infos and download at JBoss (link)