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The Apache Lucene Project has released the version 2.3.0 of Lucene Java.
Many new features, optimizations, and bug fixes have been added since 2.2, including:

significantly improved indexing performance
segment merging in background threads
refreshable IndexReaders
faster StandardAnalyzer and improved Token API
TermVectorMapper to customize how term vectors are loaded
live backups (without pausing indexing) with SnapshotDeletionPolicy
CheckIndex tool to test & recover […]

Sun Microsystems is now consent for buying MySQL AB for $1B, just to provide the additional leverage to the open source community and also enables access to MySQL to its larger corporations. It is expecting to close the deal during the third or fourth quarter.
The big question arises here is: what does this mean in […]

Artifactory Maven, Artifactory 1.2.5, Maven 2 Enterprise Repository Released
The Artifactory Team is pleased to announce the availability of Artifactory 1.2.5 final release.
Artifactory is an open source enterprise artifacts repository for Maven 2. It offers advanced proxying, caching and security features for creating a solid, reproducible and independent build environment when using Maven inside a corporate. […]

Apache Lenya, Apache Lenya 2.0 released
The open source Content Management System Apache Lenya’s version 2.0 is just released
Apache Lenya is an Open Source Java/XML Content Management System and comes with revision control, multi-site management, scheduling, search, WYSIWYG editors, and workflow.
There are many new features and improvements in Apache Lenya 2.0.
Here is the list of new […]

JSF Technology
New Tutorials on JSF Technology Released
This JSF Tutorial contains readable and interesting content organized in proper and sequential manner. Each concept has been explained by simple examples so that you can understand easily and implement immediately into your java web application. It provides coverage of key JSF concepts such as User Interface(UI) components, […]

JPPF 1.0 grid platform generally is now available
JPPF is a grid toolkit for Java that makes it easy to run applications in parallel, and speed up their execution by orders of magnitude. Write once, deploy once, execute everywhere!
In this version:
A new, very efficient load balancing algorithm was added.
The administration console was upgraded accordingly.
The server performance […]

Trace Modeler v1.0, smart UML Sequence Diagram Editor Released
The Trace Modeler v1.0 has been released. Trace Modeler is an easy-to-use and smart UML sequence diagram editor.
It combines the immediate and automatic layout of UML sequence diagrams with a simple drag and drop interface. And it’s cross-platform to boot.
Here’s a 30 sec demo of Trace Modeler […]

WingSBuilder is a Groovy builder for the wingS framework that will let you build UIs in the same fashion as SwingBuilder does for Swing. The project is located at http://groovy.codehaus.org/WingSBuilder.
Most of the constructs provided by the original SwingBuilder are supported in WingSBuilder, thanks to the efforts of the wingS team in following the Swing model […]