JExplorer (derivative from Java Explorer) provides a convenient Java API for integrating Microsoft Internet Explorer into Java applications. With JExplorer, you can use the IE browser as a Java Swing UI component, in headless mode, or programmatically manipulate it without embedding in the UI. You can do all these and many other integration tasks purely in the Java language. No specific knowledge of COM or the Microsoft Internet Explorer API is required.

Realizing that Flash is a better name than Flex for a platform, Adobe is now referring to everything it does related to Flash (including the Flash Player, Adobe AIR, Flex developer tools, and Flash media servers) as the Flash Platform. That’s what I’ve been calling it anyway, so I’m glad they finally caught up. Beyond the marketing shift, Adobe will be making some more significant announcements at its MAX developer conference this week.

ItsNat approach "The Browser Is The Server" (TBITS) simulates a Universal W3C Java Browser in the server, client events are sent to the server via AJAX and converted to W3C Java DOM Events, changes in DOM server are automatically sent to the client as JavaScript updating the client DOM.

I am pleased to announce the first release of SmartGWT - GWT API's for SmartClient . This release is extremely feature rich and has been thoroughly tested, with around 250 samples in the Showcase illustrating various features and patterns. A huge thanks to the early adopters who have been using / testing / contributing samples over the past four weeks.

Stripes-Quickstart is an Ant script that speeds up the process of creating a new Stripes project.

A completely different approach: PrettyFaces preserves parameter values between requests, and is faster than other Pretty URL tools; it uses only one request/response to re-render a pretty URL, where other OpenSource solutions require two. Page-load actions, integration with faces navigation, dynamic view-id assignment, and managed parameter parsing are all features of PrettyFaces.

JAVASOFT Software Engineering is pleased to announce a new Synthetica and SyntheticaAddons release. Please find the most relevant improvements below - a complete list of changes can be found here.

Following the previously-announced schedule, today the Django team has released Django 1.0.1. This is a bugfix-only release containing fixes and improvements to the Django 1.0 codebase, and is a recommended upgrade for anyone using or targeting Django 1.0.

I'm pleased to announce the first release of Grails since the acquisition of G2One by SpringSource. Grails 1.0.4 includes a number of improvements as well as upgrades to key libraries that underpin Grails and can be downloaded from the Grails download page. More specifically Grails 1.0.4 ships with the latest Spring 2.5.6 release that came out a week or so ago.

A simple css framework to layout web-based interfaces, based on the printed layout techniques of 4 columns but with capabilities to unlimited column combinations. and capacity to make elastic, fixed and liquid layout easily.

For anyone standardized on Eclipse Europa (3.3)... you are not forgotten. MyEclipse is proud to announce MyEclipse 6.6. This latest release of MyEclipse is specifically for those still using Eclipse 3.3 and includes a full implementation of Maven 2 among other upgrades.

The PHPClasses.org site is encouraging the production and sharing of slide presentations about PHP components, so PHP users may benefit of better learning materials.

CampMobile is first native Basecamp client that is now available in Apple AppStore. There is a support for viewing/adding/editing/deleting of messages, todo lists, todo items, milestones and comments. All your Basecamp items are saved locally on the iPhone, so you don’t need internet connection all the time. There is a nice Dashboard view and most of the other functionalities you would expect.

I'm pleased to announce that S#arp Architecture 0.9 has been released at http://code.google.com/p/sharp-architecture/downloads/list. Along with completely updated documentation (in /docs) and migration guidance (in /VersionHistory.txt), this release has a number of improvements to the SharpArch libraries.

Today, FlexServerLib, the BlazeDS extension library was announced. The goal of FlexServerLib is to provide off-the-shelf access to services Flex developers would not normally be used to coding, like email, pdf generation, etc.

On behalf of the IzPack project, I am very pleased to announce the immediate availability of the version 4.1.1 of the project! IzPack version 4.1.1 is a maintenance release to the IzPack 4.1 branch that provides useful fixes. As a consequence, we advise our users to switch to this new release.

Script Monkey breaks the boundaries of Java and helps Java achieve the power & flexibilities of interpreted/dynamic languages. In other words, it helps Java achieve the best of both worlds.

Today, Tasktop release the Autumn 2008 version of the tool, adding Linux and Firefox support. I met with Mik Kersten,Tasktop CEO and Eclipse Mylyn project lead to discuss the release and to find out exactly where the line between Tasktop and Mylyn lies.

A lot of the press has focused on Windows 7, and that's understandable since Windows is what many of us stare all day. I've been running Windows 7 myself since Sunday, in an pre-beta build, and I'm both impressed and unimpressed...

Just to make disclaimer immediately at the beginning. I don't really thing that working with Grails is really expensive, I would display it as expensive from the funny point of view.

From the Planetarium: Sun announces the release date of the JavaFX 1.0 release, and a survey of some recent articles and blogs about JavaFX

Today, SpringSource announce yet another important milestone in it's rise as one of the biggest players in the Enterprise Java arena with the acquisition of G2One, the company behind Groovy and Grails. I spoke with Rod Johnson, CEO of SpringSource and Graeme Rocher, CTO and co-founder of G2One to discuss the announcement and what it means for developers and the companies involved.

Umm, w00t! It’s been a little over two years since merb was a twinkle in my eye, and a pastie. Since then it has undergone many drastic transformations, working its way towards a very solid, fast foundation for people to build their homesteads on.

ZK Studio 0.9.0 enables WYSIWYG Editor and Filtering feature in Ajax Widget Palette.

Latest release includes Line Numbering, Find and Replace Dialog, and support for C. C++, Ruby and Python Languages. All what you need is include the jar file in your classpath, and set your JEditorPane contentType to the language needed.