RedHat have announced their first combined product release since buying out JBoss. The product offering combines Red Hat Enterprise Linux, JBoss Application Server, Hibernate, and Tomcat. The combination of products is a commercial release, with prices starting at $1,999 per server per year.
Romain Guy continues demos of awesome looking Swing apps
Romain Guy presented JavaZone 2006 yesterday and has a link to his presentation slides and screenshots of his demo application on his blog.
If you didn’t see or you didn’t hear about the Aerith demo at JavaOne this year, you must check this out, as it will completely change your mind about what is possible in Swing.
2007 Daylight Savings Time in US may affect older JREs
The US is changing the begin and end dates for Daylight Savings Time in 2007, and this is not accounted for in older JREs.
Most recent JRE releases have been updated to take account of this change – JDK 6 beta, Java 5 update 6 or later, and J2SE 1.4.2_11.
Read more about this in this article.
Netbeans 5.5 Beta2 available with bundled JBoss 4.0.4 server
The Netbeans and JBoss development teams have been working together to provide a single download with bundled support for JBoss 4.0.4. More info in this post on Javalobby.