The Esper development team is proud to announce the release of Esper 1.0 final. Esper is an event stream processing (ESP) and event correlation engine (CEP) written in Java.

A more complete description of the project goals and history has been published on InfoQ.

Esper is open-source software available under the LPGL license.
Please visit Esper at Codehaus for tutorial, case studies and downloads.

The Mevenide team is proud to announce new release of Mevenide2 Netbeans 2.2. It allows to open existing Maven2 projects in the IDE, allows to create new projects, helps with writing the Maven project files etc.

For download, installation instructions and tutorials:
http://mevenide.codehaus.org/m2-site

Noteworthy additions:
Create new Maven projects from templates (archetypes)
Hyperlinking in POMs (Project Object Model)
Manually installing dependency artifacts, javadocs and sources.
Dependency removal/transitive dependency exclusion from project view.

Bugs fixed

Feedback welcome.

The Codehaus XFire team is proud to announce XFire 1.2-RC! XFire is an open source Java SOAP framework built on a high performance, streaming XML model. XFire includes support for web service standards, an easy to use API, Spring integration, JBI support, and plugable bindings for POJOs, JAXB, and XMLBeans.

Please see the release notes for download information and upgrade instructions:

XFire 1.2-RC incorporates several new features and improvements since 1.1:

• Aegis binding inheritance support
• HTTP GZIP Support
• WSDL2Java now auto generates services.xml
• Option to disable server stub generation

Many thanks to those who helped build and test this release!