A new 0.9 release of Mevenide for Netbeans has been released. It includes multiple bugfixes, doesn't require Maven to be installed anymore and works with the new Netbeans 5.0 beta.
See the complete list of changes. If you already have mevenide installed, use the autoupdate center to upgrade. You can also download it at the mevenide site.

Enjoy.

Jencks is a lightweight JCA container which is easy to deploy inside Spring to provide Message Driven POJOs.

In addition Jencks supports inbound and outbound messaging using APIs like JMS, JAX-RPC, JBI and JCA CCI as well as providing an XA based pooling mechanism for JDBC. e.g. here is how to use Outbound JMS.

Jencks by default reuses the Geronimo JCA connector, WorkManager and TransactionManager - though there are no fixed runtime dependencies on Geronimo so you should be able to use Jencks with JOTM and Jonas too - though we recommend the Geronimo implementations as they are heavily tested and support full XA recovery.

Grab it while its hot or browse the release notes.

Penrose 0.9.5 Released: The open source virtual directory implementation now support SQL/JDBC filter.

New in this release:
• Support for various mapping configurations with examples.
• Support for JDBC filter.
• Support running as Windows service.
• Improved Penrose Studio interface.
• Various bug fixes and performance enhancements.

You can find more information in the release notes.