Spread the word, boo 0.5 is out!!

Lots of goodies in this release.

Thanks to the growing boo community for making this ride so fun.

Special thanks go in random moustache size order to *Daniel Grunwald*, *Ian MacLean*, *Latexer*, *Bill Wood*, *Doug Holton*, *Aaron Washington* and *Scott Fleckenstein*.

Hey you all, have fun!

Drone is a Java IRC bot written with the RIFE framework. It has a modular API that makes it possible to easily extend and customize the active feature set.

It sports a modern web administration interface to handle all common tasks and a public logging section with an advanced web search. It also provides a remote IRC messaging REST API to allow easy integration with notification services. Installation is done by simply dropping a war in your servlet container or by running it straight from the standalone distribution.

The highlights of this release are:

• fixed MySQL support
• support for MckoiSQL, Apache Derby, HsqlDB and DaffodilDB
• additional configuration settings
• detection of dropped socket connections
• measures to proactively keep a socket active
• bugfixes

Visit the homepage at for more details:
http://drone.codehaus.org

You can see it running at:
http://servlet.uwyn.com/drone

Download it from:
http://drone.codehaus.org/Installation

Have fun!

backport175 1.0 RC 1 has been released.

backport175 is backport of the Java 5 annotations (JSR-175) specification. Making strongly typed annotation available for Java 1.3/1.4 platforms. They are bytecode compatible with Java 5 annotations making them available for use by tools etc.

backport175 is Open Source and freely available under Apache License Version 2.0.

Modules

It has two separate modules:

• Compiler - which compiles the backport175 annotations and puts them into the bytecode of the class (compatible with regular Java 5 RuntimeVisible annotations).

• Reader - which allows you to read the backport175 annotations as well as regular Java 5 annotation through one single uniformed API. The reader also has an API for runtime management, which allows you to update the bytecode at runtime and have your changes propagated.

Plugins

It also comes with an Ant task and is fully integrated with an Eclipse plugin and an IntelliJ IDEA plugin.

Here is an example of the IDEA plugin in action:

Read more here...

Enjoy.

The Loom development team is proud to announce RC3 of the Loom application server.

RC3 represents the last release prior to 1.0. If no show stopper bugs are reported, 1.0 will be released in two weeks time.

Loom is fully backwards compatible with applications from Phoenix 4.0.

Additional information and links to download can be found here.

After a short hiatus, XFire is back in action with a 1.0-M3 release. You can find downloads here and the user's guide here.

New in this release:

• Much cleaner API via ServiceBuilder interface
• Attachment Support (Incoming only currently)
• Better processing pipelines
• Many bug fixes
• Improved Documentation

Also in CVS is support for Jabber/XMPP, support for the Loom and Phoenix containers, and some support for the Spring Framework.

XFire is a next-generation Java SOAP framework. At its core is a light message processing model used to interact with SOAP messages via STAX. Built on top is an intuitive API to create services and a sophisticated Java/XML type system which requires no DOM representation.

JetBrains has created a program for opensource projects, to allow project developers to use IntelliJ for no cost. Along with this, the Codehaus has worked with JetBrains to provide a license to all living opensource haus projects.

Like other companies that understand opensource, JetBrains has taken a great step forward with this program. IntelliJ is truly a joy to use and provides integration with various other tools, such as Ant, Maven, Clover, JUnit, Tomcat and Hibernate.

So, surf on over to their page describing the program and send Ilya your details. You'll be on your way to developing with pleasure in no time.

The Drools development team is proud to announce the release of Drools 2.0-Beta-21.

Please see the Release Notes for more details on this release.

The Project Downloads page contains full information on obtaining Drools.