Sun Hits the Jackpot

At JavaOne, Sun introduced Jackpot. Now it's your turn to "pull the handle" and try your luck with this new code refactoring tool.

Sun Jackpot

Jackpot is a platform library to help you easily find and correct patterns in Java source code using static analysis. Jackpot currently plugs into NetBeans, but will replace NetBeans’ built-in code refactoring in the near future. The plug-ins provide a user interface to perform refactoring, as well as a development environment to create and use custom refactoring queries.

To learn more about Jackpot, and how it differs from today’s refactoring tools, visit the NetBeans site.

Hydrate 2.0 Released

Hydrate is a Java tool that transforms data between three different representations: relational databases, objects in an object-oriented programming language, and extended markup language (XML). Hydrate supports EJB3 persistence, and includes a GUI to help with data mapping chores.

Liferay Portal 4.0.0 Released

Liferay Portal is an open-source portal that helps you collaborate more efficiently by providing a consolidated view of disparate applications. Liferay provides a hot deployable theme architecture that allows you to change the look and feel of the portal without modifying source code. There are currently two editions of Liferay Portal: Liferay Portal Professional (runs in any Servlet container / web server); and Liferay Portal Enterprise (requires a Java EE compliant application server).

Liferay supports the JSR-168 Portlet specification; Hibernate for persistence; integration with JavaServer Faces; Ajax; lightweight frameworks such as Spring and Struts; the Velocity template engine; and the WSRP standard for portlet publication.

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