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The Sonatype Nexus team has been working intensely for five months to deliver Nexus 1.0 which is now available for <a href="http://nexus.sonatype.org/download.html">download</a>.

The Pro Java EE Spring Patterns book, written by Dhrubojyoti Kayal, provides rich information on how to implement the Java EE design patterns using the Spring framework. This is a review of the book.

The latest stable release of the JavaRebel code reloading agent includes a plugin for Spring that reloads Spring configuration on-the-fly boosting development productivity even more.

Mihai Lucian explores asynchronous I/O in Apache Jakarta Tomcat along with the staged event-driven architecture(SEDA) model implemented in Mule for executing fast and long-running business processes. Through performance testing, he notes that this architecture can be reasonably scalable.

Code in .NET, build in Java, deploy to Linux. Grasshopper is a free tool that dynamically translates .NET code into Java that can be run on Tomcat under Linux.

Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) provides block level storage volumes for use with Amazon EC2 instances. Amazon EBS volumes are off-instance storage that persists independently from the life of an instance.

Use Apache Commons Configuration, without adding dependencies to your application and obtaining your configurations by JNDI lookups. And with the ability to reload without restart!<br><br>I made this small lib because i need it, now i want to share, it would be util for someone.<br><br>See the article: <a href="http://www.ibstaff.net/fmartinez/?p=52" target="_blank">http://www.ibstaff.net/fmartinez/?p=52</a>

Bushel provides utility classes for Ant Ivy that allow a developer to use a directory of OSGi bundles as a dependency repository. It does this through a custom metadata parser that converts a MANIFEST.MF file into a valid ivy.xml. The aim is to assist IDE-free OSGi development and continuous integration best practice.

A look at the current java open source toolsets to help implement a Service Oriented Architecture. This book provides good code samples as well.

Joshua Partogi offers his thoughts on the improvements in usability in Tapestry 5 over the previous version.

The first alpha version of JBoss Tools 3 out. The highlights in this release are: Ganymede/Eclipse 3.4, Graphical Seam pages.xml editor, Hibernate in Dali, Portlet wizards, JBossWS, Eclipse BIRT Hibernate datasource.

The JPPF team is pleased to announce long-awaited features in this version, extending the JPPF ease of use, range of capabilities and power.

WSO2 ESB Team has done the 1.7.1 release of the product which is a minor bug fix release of the user interface layer in-order to support the Firefox3 browser

Tangosol sitings are a bit fewer since the company became part of Oracle. SearchSOA.com ran a piece in which a Coherence user speaks a bit about event processing for a rare-book site. Oracle has made a push to in-memory architecture and application caching, not to mention Grid. [Or Cloud if you prefer.]

"Asynchronous Processes Modeled as Persistent Finite State Machines" by Benjamin Possolo describes and implements a finite state machine for asynchronous services using JEE.

The <a href="http://www.simpleframework.org/">Simple</a> HTTP engine has released version 4.0. Simple is a truly asynchronous HTTP engine capable of scaling to enormous loads with a limited number of servicing threads. It also has a fully comprehensive API that provides as much, if not more, convenience to the developer than the Java Servlet API.

Stripes 1.5 is available for immediate download. Stripes is a presentation framework for building web applications using the latest Java technologies.

Jitterbit Inc., a provider of open source integration software, today announced the availability of Jitterbit 2.0 Enterprise and Community.

Jt2.7 has been released. Jt is a pattern oriented framework for the rapid implementation of Java applications. Jt has been utilized in several large mission critical systems. Jt implements many well-known patterns including Data Access Objects (DAO), GoF design patterns and J2EE patterns.