NetBeans IDE 6.5 offers simplified and rapid development of web, enterprise, desktop, and mobile applications with PHP, JavaScript, Java, C/C++, Ruby, and Groovy.

QF-Test the established Java GUI test tool for Java GUIs (Swing, SWT, Eclipse plugins and RCP apps, ULC, Java applets) now also provides support in version 2.2.4 Eclipse 3.4.1.

Based on Mia-Modernization, its refactoring solution for JEE existing applications, <a href="http://www.mia-software.com/">Mia-Software</a> has developed an automatic transformation from <a href="http://www.mia-software.com/solutions/moderniser/migration-vers-gwt/">Swing to GWT</a> (Google Web Toolkit) graphical interfaces .

We are trying to decide a web client framework for a new project. I am looking for community's advices on the choices.

Mainsoft Corporation today announced the Beta release of Mainsoft Document Collaboration for Rational Jazz, SharePoint Edition.

soapUI 2.5, by eviware, introduces support for testing of RESTful services, including Inspection, Invocation, Functional Tests, Assertions and LoadTests. soapUI 2.5 allows tests of both WADL supported and WADLess RESTful Services. The REST testing support makes soapUI the first testing tool to properly support REST Testing.

We're launching the Web site for the 2009 Java Symposium, along with the Java Symposium blog.

Jt2.9 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.

<a href="http://plugins.intellij.net/plugin/?id=3739">CodeExplorer</a> is a free IntelliJ Idea plugin that helps to explore method call chains. <br>Its tool window shows methods and calls between them on a handy diagram. <br>Now you can see usages and structure of several methods at once! <a href="http://plugins.intellij.net/plugin/?id=3739">Read more</a>

XpoLog released a new Application Logs analysis technology with features that helps to report on unique errors, terms and events. The new technology auto detect new messages and tag them to level of risk based on the event content. From <a href="http://www.xpolog.com" target="_blank">http://www.xpolog.com</a>

Radim Marek writes: "JBoss Microcontainer (...) is not just a new backbone of the application server, but either as a standalone library for your application or used as part the JBoss AS minimal configuration profile, it delivers something the competitors are trying to produce for long time - completely modular POJO based application platform."

eXo introduces a new product: eXo Social to create Enteprise Social Network based on <a href="http://tinyurl.com/65gfq7">Google Gadgets and Open Social</a>.<br><br>In addition to this new product eXo has also release a new JCR with support of Amazon SimpleDB storage, and a new framework to cluster Comet applications.

Play! is a full stack Java Web application framework including a simple stateless MVC model, objects persistence with Hibernate, a Groovy based template engine and everything you need to create a modern Web application ...

Recently released 3rd version of Hammurapi Rules supports both forward and backward chaining. Same rules and rulesets can be used in both inference scenarios.

Added support of Interbase 2007, JBoss 4.2 and Geronimo 2.

Added support for Opera Mobile 8.65 and 9.5 beta, Fennec, SkyFire, BlackBerry Bold and Storm. Preliminar support of "modal layers" (to build modal panels/windows in the same page).

In cost-cutting move, the software and networking company said it would reduce its payroll by up to 18% and restructure its business operations.

Fly is a lightweight Object Space that can distribute and coordinate information on clusters of computers in the form of Objects.

If you havent done this, its time now go check out ZK, a open source AJAX RIA development environment/tool/framework, which is Java driven and claims to be Direct RIA solution. Flex developers, be aware.

Download the Web Service Engine for Accelerating SOA System Development toolkit. This toolkit can transform schemas to any desired schema type; drive and stub enterprise applications; facilitate generation of highly customized data files; and reverse-engineer legacy data files.