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The Eclipse Foundation has announced the immediate availability of Eclipse Indigo - Eclipse 3.7. This release follows the Eclipse tradition of the annual Eclipse Release train. This year, the key new features for the release include: EGit 1.0 release provides first-class support for Java developers using Git for source code management WindowBuilder, a world-class Eclipse-based GUI builder, is now available as an Eclipse open source project Automated functional GUI testing for Java and HTML applications is included via Jubula m2eclipse brings tight integration with Maven and the Eclipse workspace, enabling developers to work with Maven projects directly from Eclipse Mylyn 3.6 supports Hudson build monitoring directly from the Eclipse workspace Eclipse Marketplace Client now supports drag and drop installation of Eclipse-based solutions directly into Eclipse making it significantly easier to install new solutions. Several different versions of Eclipse are available including...

JBoss 5 is supplied with 5 different server configurations: minimal default all standard web When JBoss AS is started, the server configuration can be specified using the -cswitch, so for example, to start the minimal configuration, you would start JBoss as: run.bat -c minimal But what do the different configurations include? Each configuration contains a different set of services, for example clustering, which is only supported by the all configuration. The JBoss Installation and Getting Started Guide contains details of what is in each different server configuration.

VMWare has announced the release of VMWare vFabric Cloud Application Platform. vFabric reportedly allows developers to build cloud applications up to 50% faster with Spring that can be run on premise or in the cloud. Develop virtual and cloud applications up to 50% faster using the Spring framework and deploy them to a runtime environment that is optimized for Spring, ideally suited for virtual infrastructures and appropriate for the needs of modern applications, with the VMware vFabric Cloud Application Platform. With support for web-oriented, data-intensive and dynamic applications, vFabric is the best platform to build, run and scale modern applications on-premise or in the public cloud. Full information about vFabric can be found on VMWare's site and in the product datasheet .

James Sutherland has published a blog post  showing how to significantly increase JPA performance. In the post, he provides 11 different optimizations, such as pagination and query caching that can be applied to JPA.  The EclipseLink JPA 3.2 implementation of JPA is used throughout the post. This is a good article and well worth reading by anyone that develops database systems using JPA.

The second milestone release of Spring 3.1 has been released. The software can be obtrained from SpringSource's Maven repository (  http://maven.springframework.org/milestone ) or from the SpringSource community download page . New features in this release include: Code equivalents for Spring's XML namespaces Builder-style APIs for code-based Hibernate configuration TestContext framework support for @Configuration classes and bean definition profiles Support for injection against non-standard JavaBeans setters Support for Servlet 3 code-based configuration of Servlet container Support for Servlet 3 MultipartResolver JPA EntityManagerFactory bootstrapping without persistence.xml New HandlerMethod-based Support Classes For Annotated Controller Processing Consumes and Produces @RequestMapping Conditions Working With URI Template Variables In Controller Methods Validation For @RequestBody Method Arguments