IBM are planning on open sourcing their Java database, Cloudscape.
IBM acquired the Cloudscape product when they bought out Informix in 2001.
JUnit Recipies
Manning have just released a new book, titled ‘JUnit Recipies’, that covers examples of many different testing situations and common problems. Sounds interesting.
Eclipse WebTools project
Eclipse have a ‘WebTools’ project underway on their site, to develop and add tools to support JSP, Struts, and other J2EE technology (EJBs, Web Services) within the Eclipse environment.
Depending on the quality and success of these plugins, I wonder if IBM’s Websphere Studio Application Developer (built on Eclipse and already offering these features) will take a hit when a similar toolset for Eclipse becomes available for free (of course you won’t get the integrated test Websphere server that you do with WSAD, which if you are targeting that platform is its major plus point)
JBoss 4.0 RC1 released
JBoss have released RC1 of 4.0 this week. This is the same code base that was J2EE 1.4 certified last week, and I believe is the first J2EE App Server to be 1.4 certified.