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IBM announced last week that they have moved the resposibility for it’s Websphere platform products to it’s Rational group, which it purchased about a year ago.

The move is said to clarify the company’s position on it’s products, and will likely lead to tighter integration between design tools such as Rational XDE and IBM Websphere Studio Application Developer.

IBM has says the Rational tools will still retain a 50/50 split between J2EE and .NET

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.

Hibernate 2.1 final was released yesterday – downloads are here:

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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…