Classworlds 1.0 has been released and is ready for general use. Work will now continue on 1.1 which will allow easy class reloading and add some features specifically targeted at use in a container environment and deployment of composite components.

There's a bouncing new baby project at the Codehaus.

XStream is a simple library to serialize objects to XML and back again.

XStream requires minimal (if any at all) configuration for custom objects.

The XML produced is clean and concise and never duplicates any information that can be obtained via reflection.

XStream has a clean design, is simple to use, boasts impressive speed and is not coupled to any particular XML library.

http://xstream.codehaus.org/

Classworlds 1.0-rc3 has been released and is ready for abuse. If all goes well this week we'll release a 1.0 later on this week or early next week. Fixed some problems with resource loading and applied outstanding patches from users.

Well all got together, someone submitted a proposal, and we voted to extend congratulations to Jonas Boner for being hired, presumably as Mr. AOP, by BEA Systems. Way to go Jonas!

Pete Kazmier and Ben Walding did some designs for a logo, which Rebecca McWhirter tweaked and polished, resulting in...

The most important changes are:

- Support for components with multiple constructors
- Lazy instantiation of components
- Simplification of the API

For more detailed information, see the Changelog.

The PicoContainer Team