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Thursday, January 12, 2006 (Permalink)
Grzegorz Kowal has released Launch4j 2.1, an open source (MIT License) tool for wrapping Java applications distributed as jars in Windows native executables.

Wednesday, January 11, 2006 (Permalink)
YourKit, LLC has released YourKit Java Profiler 5.0.9, a 295€ payware tool for detecting memory leaks and memory consumption bottlenecks. It features memory leak detection, an object heap browser, JUnit integration, IntelliJ IDEA, Borland JBuilder, NetBeans, and Eclipse integration. This is a bug fix release. Upgrades from 4.0 are free.

Tuesday, January 10, 2006 (Permalink)
MySQL A.B. has posted a beta of MySQL Connector/J 5.0.0, the Type-IV all-Java JDBC driver for MySQL. According to MYSQL's Mark Matthews

Sunday, January 8, 2006 (Permalink)
Julien Ponge has released IzPack 3.8.1, an open source tool for building cross-platform installers in Java. 3.8.1 fixes bugs and adds Greek and Korean support. IzPack is published under the Apache License 2.0.

Saturday, January 7, 2006 (Permalink)
The Apache Project has released Geronimo 1.0, and a security hole has already been found in its bundled Jetty Web Container. What's an Apache Project doing using Jetty instead of Tomcat anyway?. Don't install this, at least not on Windows. Wait for 1.0.1.

Sunday, January 8, 2006
Julien Ponge has released IzPack 3.8.1, an open source tool for building cross-platform installers in Java. 3.8.1 fixes bugs and adds Greek and Korean support. IzPack is published under the Apache License 2.0. Saturday, January 7, 2006
The Apache Project has released Geronimo 1.0, and a security hole has already been found in its bundled Jetty Web Container. What's an Apache Project doing using Jetty instead of Tomcat anyway?. Don't install this, at least not on Windows. Wait for 1.0.1.
Friday, January 6, 2006
The XNap Commons project has posted Gettext Commons 0.9, a Java binding for GNU gettext. "The lightweight Gettext Commons library combines the power of the Unix-style GNU gettext tools with the widely used Java ResourceBundles. We find that the usual Java i18n approach of using custom property keys rather than the original text is cumbersome to use and makes programs harder to read. All user visible text is replaced by arbitrary keys complicating lookups of strings in the source." This is published under the LGPL.