In my continuing efforts
to make XML dead-bang easy to manipulate with Java,
I've posted beta 7 of XOM, my dual streaming/tree API for processing XML with Java. This release fixes a few bugs and approximately doubles the performance of a few common operations including
getValue(), toXML(), DOM and SAX conversion, canonicalization, and XSL transformation.
This is the first release candidate. There are still a few open issues with regard to error handling in XInclude that require clarification from the XInclude working group. If they decide that how XOM currently behaves is correct, then XOM 1.0 is essentially complete. If they decide to require different behavior, a few changes may yet need to be made.
The Apache Software Foundation has released Maven 1.0.1, an open source "Java project management and project comprehension tool. Maven is based on the concept of a project object model (POM) in that all the artifacts produced by Maven are a result of consulting a well defined model for your project. Builds, documentation, source metrics, and source cross-references are all controlled by your POM.... Maven has many goals, but in a nutshell Maven aims to make the developer's life easier by providing a well defined project structure, well defined development processes to follow, and a coherent body of documentation that keeps your developers and clients apprised of what's happening with your project." 1.0.1 appears to be a bug fix release.
The NetBeans Project has posted the third alpha release of a profiler based on Sun Labs' JFluid. It can profile memory and CPU usage. New features in this release include NetBeans 4.0 support and various usability enhancements and bug fixes.