Penrose 0.9.4 Released: The open source virtual directory implementation now has ACL support.

New in this release:
• Improved join engine.
• Improved cache performance.
• Support of Access Control.
• CA Siteminder interoperability.
• Improved Penrose Studio interface.
• Various bug fixes.

You can find more information in the release notes.

The XFire team is proud to announce the 1.0-M5 release. XFire is an MIT licensed, next generation SOAP stack. It provides an easy API to work with web services supporting both POJO and schema first development. It is built on a fast, low memory StAX based XML messaging model. On top of this is built support for many different bindings, containers, and transports.

New in this release:

• Improved Spring support
• Improved "Aegis" POJO binding
• Transport and Channel API
• WSDL generation for services with XMLBeans
• WS-Addressing Support
• JMS Transport
• Many, many bug fixes and improvements.

You can find more information in the release notes. If you are interested in joining the XFire team, please contact us with your thoughts, ideas and contributions!

The long awaited ActiveMQ 3.1 Release is finally out. Who-hoo! Many thanks to all those on the Team who've helped.

This release includes support for Ruby and Perl (with C and Python coming soon) thanks to the Stomp project together with heaps of new features such as better persistence, journalling and integration with JNDI, JCA, Servlets, Spring, WebLogic and JBoss.

Go on, download it today!

Enjoy!

The ServiceMix Team have just released the 1.0 version of ServiceMix!

ServiceMix is an open source, Apache 2.0 licensed, ESB built from the ground up on JBI (JSR 208) principles, semantics and APIs

New and noteworthy in this release

* a new RSS component for integrating and processing RSS news feeds in JBI
* a sophisticated XPath and XSLT based XPath Router and transformer JBI component
* migrated the JCA components to work with Jencks the Spring based JCA container which integrates with Geronimo JTA, JCA connectors and security components.

For more details please see the Release Notes. We welcome contributions.

Lingo is an implementation of Spring Remoting which works with JMS and JCA. This release includes:-

* synchronous, asynchronous oneway and async request-response method calls using JMS queues and/or topics
* pure JMS and server side JCA support using Jencks
* plugable marshaler such as XStream support for XML payloads

For more details see the Release Notes

Jencks is an open source Spring based JCA container for working with Message Driven POJOs, JCA or the the J2EE TransactionManager or WorkManager from Spring reusing code from Geronimo.

This is the first major milestone release of Jencks which includes

* working inbound JMS consumption using regular JMS transactions or full XA transactions with full recovery if a durable message log, like Howl is configured
* Spring factory beans for Geronimo connector and transaction components such WorkManager, TransactionManager, BootstrapContext
* migration of ActiveMQ's JCA Container into Jencks
* reuse on Geronimo implementation code by default for WorkManager and TransactionManager but allows different providers to be plugged in.

For more details see the Release Notes

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

Mevenide Netbeans site

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:

New Features:

o Dependencies now visible and editable in Project View. Add/Edit/Remove
dependency actions easily accessible from project explorer. One can
download the missing dependencies, download/view it's javadoc etc.
See a descriptive screenshot
o MEVENIDE-165 - allow user to check the remote repositories for javadocs and
sources of project's dependencies.
o Added the default Netbeans IDE webapp/j2ee deployment. Allows deploying and
debugging on IDE-supported servers.
o Access pom and property files from the project view.

Multiple bugs fixed as usual.

Have fun!
-The mevenide team

The ServiceMix Team are pleased to announce the 1.0-M2 release of ServiceMix. You can download it here

ServiceMix is an open source ESB designed from the ground up on JBI (JSR 208) principles, semantics and APIs. ServiceMix is the first Apache 2.0 licensed complete JBI container including the Normalised Message Service and Router, the JBI Management MBeans, support for JBI deployment units and Ant tasks to install components and manage the container.

This release adds

• Completed BPEL integration using the PXE's full JBI deployment unit for the BPEL engine and JBI deployment units for the actual processes, together with a working example
• High performance content based router and transformation engine using XPath
• Rules based routing and transformations using Drools
• More Examples on how to use ServiceMix

For more details see the Release Notes