The Cafes seems to be off and running. There were a few initial glitches that I have now cleaned up. There's some interesting discussion in the comments fora for On Iterators and Indexes and Overloading Int Considered Harmful. Today's project is to make the staging server work enough like the production server that I can use it for testing and debugging without affecting the production server. Yesterday I got stymied by a slight difference in how the PHP engines were configured. (The staging server didn't have libtidy support that the site relies on heavily.) I had planned to post a backlist article today, but instead I found myself forced to think about spam.
Sleepycat Software has released Berkeley DB Java edition 1.7.0. Berkeley DB JE is an open source, non-relational embedded database written in Java. The data is exposed through "a Java Collections-style interface, as well as a programmatic interface similar to the Berkeley DB API." This release fixes bugs and improves performance. Java 1.4.2 or later is required.
Gaudenz Alder has released JGraph 5.2, a free-as-in-speech (GPL) graph component for Swing that requires Java 1.4 or later. JGraph is accompanied by Graphpad, an open-source diagram editor for Swing that offers Automatic Layout, Printing, Zoom, and much more. It is available in English, German and French. Version 5.2 fixes some bugs and dual licenses under the Mozilla Public License.