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Bruce Johnson, Engineering Manager for the Google Web Toolkit (GWT) has  announced  the availability of version 1.5 of GWT. In his release announcement he says: "GWT 1.5 delivers what we think are an impressive number of improvements, about four hundred issues if you're counting." The new features supported in version 1.5 include: Java 5 language support Enhanced JRE emulation classes (e.g. StringBuilder, TreeMap) Many performance enhancements (up to 10x in some cases) Better JavaScript interoperability New sample application demoing all the new widget features GWT can be downloaded from the project's  home page .

The JBoss Seam team have  released  the first beta of Seam verson 2.1.0. Issues due to be fixed in the coming versions of the software, before 2.1.0 is released, can be found in the product RoadMap . The  Seam  team describe Seam as "a powerful open source development platform for building rich Internet applications in Java. Seam integrates technologies such as Asynchronous JavaScript and XML (AJAX), JavaServer Faces (JSF), Java Persistence (JPA), Enterprise Java Beans (EJB 3.0) and Business Process Management (BPM) into a unified full-stack solution, complete with sophisticated tooling." This version of Seam contains many new features including: Wicket  Support Identity and permissions management Excel and CSV report creation from  Facelets  tags URL Rewriting REST API  support (JSR 311) The full list of bug fixes and feature enhancements in this version can be found in the  release notes . The software can be downloaded from  SourceForge .

About.com JavaScript guru, Stephen Chapman has awarded Stoyan Stefanov's 'Object-Oriented JavaScript' book 4/5 stars in his latest review. Describing it as "A book that demonstrates some of what JavaScript can really do", Chapman goes on to herald the book as "a must have for any serious JavaScript programmer." Read about the book at:  http://www.packtpub.com/object-oriented-javascript-applications-libraries/book

Max Andersen has  announced  the availability of JBoss Tools 3.0.0 Alpha 1. This is the first non-daily release of JBoss Tools that works with Eclipse 3.4 - Ganymede. In his  announcement , Max states that there are many new features to be available in the 3.0 release of the software including: Graphical Seam pages.xml editor BIRT SUPPORT EL Variable substitution Dali support for Hibernate any many  more  features Although this software is still at an Alpha release stage, I'd recommend people try it out on non-production environments so that JBoss can get feedback and improve the toolset. JBoss Tools is available for Windows, Linux and MacOS and can be downloaded from the  JBoss web site .

Packt is pleased to announce a new book on extreme Java application testing. Written by Tim Lavers and Lindsay Peters, Swing Extreme Testing is a practical guide to automated software testing for extreme Java programming using Swing GUIs. Swing was developed to provide a more sophisticated set of GUI components than the earlier Abstract Window Toolkit. Swing is a widget toolkit for Java and it is part of Sun Microsystems' Java Foundation Classes (JFC) - an Application Programming Interface (API) for providing a graphical user interface (GUI) for Java programs. This book will teach users how to automatically test user interfaces (Swing GUIs), the help system, internationalization, log files, spreadsheets, email, and web services, how to perform tests involving multiple JVMs, and a host of other things. This book is a practical guide based on the authors' daily experience developing and maintaining a cutting-edge Artificial Intelligence system. Every chapter comes up with real-li...

The MyFaces team has released version 1.0.9 of  MyFaces Trinidad . Trinidad is a JSF framework including a large, enterprise quality component library, supporting critical features such as accessibility (e.g. Section 508), right-to-left languages, client-side validation etc. The  release notes  for version 1.0.9 show numerous bug fixes have been completed in this version along with several improvements and a new feature - support for the autocomplete attribute on input fields. This latest version of Trinidad can be downloaded from http://myfaces.apache.org/trinidad/download.html

Landon Fuller has  announced  the release of version 1.0.2 of SoyLatte. Unlike Apple's Java 6 implementation for the Mac, SoyLatte works with both Tiger and Leopard on both 32 bit and 64 bit architectures. SoyLatte is a functional, X11-based port of the FreeBSD Java 1.6 patchset to Mac OS X Intel machines. SoyLatte is initially focused on supporting Java 6 development; however, the long-term view far more captivating: open development of Java 7 for Mac OS X, with a release available in concert with the official Sun release, supported on all recent versions of Mac OS X. This new release fixes several bugs in the software and can be downloaded from the SoyLatte project page.