Hibernate 2.1 final was released yesterday – downloads are here:
Oracle to release Application Server 10g today
Oracle are expected to release the latest version of their J2EE Application Server, Oracle Application Server 10g, today (Thursday 12/11/03).
New features are in line with the expected ‘Grid’ functionality of the new database server, 10g, which is expected at the end of this year.
Oracle’s new Grid functionality allows clustering of multiple servers to improve performance and reliability.
Sun details plans for new development tools
Sun announced this week further details on its goal to provide easier to use Java development tools
The new upcoming development tools will be based on a new version of NetBeans (4.0) which will include a ‘radical overhaul’ of its user interface.
Other support will include integrated support for Web Service and Web Application development.
The new tools will also include various code refactoring tools to help with the development of large projects.
Project Rave demoed at Belgian User Group meeting
There is a interesting post on java.net in Brabant’s blog this week giving his feedback from a demo of the upcoming Project Rave tool.
Brabant comments on some of the features demoed, including:
- the visual JSP/JSF page builder
- visual UI element to database binding
- an updated UI for the tool, which is supposedly still based on NetBeans, but is still a Swing application.
Apparently the audience was surprised to hear that the IDE was still based on NetBeans and Swing as it looked pretty good. There was some surprise to hear that Eclipse was not being used (as announced this week). Sounds like there are some Swing UI enhancements coming along soon as well…