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:

• cleaner URLs in the public logging section
• bugfixes related to correct handling of unknown encoding characters

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!

The mevenide team is pleased to announce the Mevenide Netbeans project support
0.6 release!

Download 0.6

The project's aim to to provide Maven project type support for the Netbeans
IDE 4.0. The features include recognition of Maven projects, setup of the
project in the IDE, running Maven, editor support for configuration files etc.

Changes in this version include:

o Added remote and local repository browser. Allow to download artifacts from
remote repository.
o Added dependency editing in visual project customizer.
o Link findbugs report output with the IDE's editor. Add annotations into
editor.

It works with Netbeans 4.0 and 4.1 beta.

Have fun!
-The mevenide team

I'm pleased to announce the release of XStream 1.1.1 - the powerful, yet easy to use Java to XML serialization library.

Some of the improvements in this release:

• Converters can be registered with a priority, allowing more generic filters to handle classes that don't have more specific converters.


• Converters can now access underlying HierarchicalStreamReader/Writer implementations to make implementation specific calls.


• Improved support for classes using ObjectInputFields and ObjectInputValidation to follow the serialization specification.


• Default ClassLoader may be changed using XStream.setClassLoader().


• Loads of bugfixes and performance enhancements.

Full change log: http://xstream.codehaus.org/changes.html
Download: http://xstream.codehaus.org/download.html