JBossESB and Mustang Beta 2

JBoss, now part of RedHat, has acquired Rosetta ESB, which itself was developed using the JBoss Enterprise Middleware Suite (JEMS).

The JBossESB

JBoss will incorporate Rosetta ESB into its own ESB, and release the software as open-source, with a beta planned in Q3 of this year. The acquisition addresses concerns about JBoss’ own ESB (such as the ability of JBoss to keep up with user demands), and should accelerate its release. You can read more about the acquisition in the blogs posted on JBoss’ web site.

Java SE 6 (Mustang) Beta 2

Version 6 of the Java Platform, Standard Edition (Java SE), code-named Mustang, is currently in its second beta release – which is right on track for moving along to its Fall general release. You can download the latest beta version at http://java.sun.com/javase/6.

The current list of approved Java SE 6 features are listed below (courtesy of Sun Microsystems, Inc.):

Client (Desktop)	Core	Enterprise
2D - GIF image writer	JSR 223: Scripting for the Java Platform	JSR 250: Common annotations
AWT - Access to Desktop helper applications - Fast splash screens - Improved modal dialogs - System-tray support	Debug - Access to heap contents - Attach-on-demand - Multiple simultaneous agents	JDBC - JSR 221: JDBC 4.0
Internationalization - Pluggable locale data - Resource-bundle enhancements - Unicode string normalization	Libs - Array reallocation - Collections: Deques - Collections: Sorted sets and maps with bidirectional navigation - Critical file-I/O enhancements - Floating point: Add core IEEE 754 recommended functions - java.util.concurrent updates JSR 202: Java Class-File Specification Update - Password prompting - Reflective access to parameter names - Service-provider lookup	XML - JavaBeans Activation Framework (JAF) 1.1 - JSR 173: Streaming API for XML (StAX) - JSR 181: Web Services Metadata - JSR 222: Java Architecture for XML Binding (JAXB) 2.0 - JSR 224: Java API for XML Web Services (JAX-WS) 2.0
Swing - Baseline/gap APIs - Improve Swing drag-and-drop - JTabbedPane: Tabs as components - JTable sorting, filtering, and highlighting - SwingWorker - Text-component printing	Management & Monitoring - Generalized lock monitoring - Generalized MBean descriptors - Generic annotations for MBean descriptor contents - MXBeans
	Net - Internationalized domain names - Internationalized resource identifiers - Programmatic access to network parameters - Simple HTTP cookie manager
	Security - JSR 105: XML Digital-Signature APIs
	Tools - JSR 199: Java Compiler API - JSR 269: Pluggable Annotation-Processing API
Features Co-Bundled With the JDK
Java DB, based on Apache Derby
Rhino JavaScript engine

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