The NetBeans Team has released NetBeans IDE 7.0.1, with full support for the official release of the Java SE 7 platform. NetBeans is an open IDE for Java, C++, PHP and Groovy which includes tight integration of Java EE application servers, unit tests, revision control, build / CI tools, and recently announced 1,000,000 active users.
If you already have NetBeans IDE 7.0 installed, launch the IDE and an update notification will appear. Click the alert-box to install the updates.
July 28, 2011 – GlassFish 3.1.1 (the reference implementation of Java EE 6) supports Java 7 and it’s now available, it also adds support for additional platforms (AIX, 64-bit load-balancer), upgrades the versions of the product components such as Weld, EclipseLink, Jersey, etc and includes hundreds of fixes.
GlassFish includes OpenMQ as Java Message Service (JMS) provider, a message oriented middleware which also supports non-Java clients, including Delphi and Free Pascal.
July 12, 2011 – Six months after the release of JBoss AS 6, Red Hat has now released version 7 of the open source Java EE application server. The new version is based on a new micro services container with better startup times – according to the product page, JBoss AS 7 offers a 10-fold reduction in startup time over previous versions.
JBoss AS includes HornetQ as Java Message Service (JMS) provider, a message oriented middleware which also supports non-Java clients, including Delphi and Free Pascal.
July 13, 2011 – A new blog entry on the HornetQ page shows impressive performance test results for the open source JMS message broker HornetQ. HornetQ is an open source project from the JBoss Community to build a multi-protocol, embeddable, very high performance, clustered, asynchronous messaging system.Through its Stomp acceptor, non-Java clients can use HornetQ for application integration, including Delphi and Free Pascal applications.
The NetBeans team has just delivered NetBeans 7, a new major IDE release. Its feature list includes support for the draft Java SE 7 specification including hints to refactor existing code to take advantage of new language features (diamond operator, multi-catch, ARM blocks). Improved Java EE 6 support, support for recent versions of Oracle WebLogic Server and GlassFish, Maven 3, better Oracle DB integration, Git and enhanced PHP support are other new features in this release. Get the full list from this page.
JBoss today announced the release of version 2.2.2.Final of their JMS message broker HornetQ. It is available here with docs here. Changes include a REST interface, new improved failover, a new paging model and Large Message Compression. Delphi can integrate with HornetQ using Habari HornetQ Client libraries.
March 8, 2011 – OpenMQ 4.5 b29-FCS is available now for download. OpenMQ is the JMS provider in the GlassFish v3 Java Platform, Enterprise Edition (JEE) 6 application server.
Delphi and Free Pascal users can integrate OpenMQ in applications with Habari OpenMQ Client libraries.
A JSR has been filed for the new Java Message Service (JMS) 2.0 API specification. Planned are changes to improve ease of development, clarification of the relationship between the JMS and other Java Platform, Enterprise Edition (JEE) specifications and a new mandatory API for the integration of any JMS provider in Java EE application servers, extensions to take advantage of JSR 299 (Contexts and dependency injection) and more.
GlassFish Server Open Source Edition 3.1 now offers full clustering, centralized admin and many more production features while preserving the developer friendliness with its modular design.
GlassFish uses Open Message Queue (OpenMQ) as the default JMS provider. This message broker allows non-Java client applications – including Delphi and Free Pascal – to be integrated using the peer-to-peer or the publish and subscribe communication model.
