Grzegorz Kowal has posted the first beta of Launch4j 2.0, an open source (MIT License) tool for wrapping Java applications distributed as jars in Windows native executables.
Enterprise Distributed Technologies has released edtFTPj 1.4.9, a free (LGPL) FTP library for Java. A $1999 payware version adds support for FTP over SSL. 1.4.9 can set the port number range for active mode transfers.