Java News from Friday, May 4, 2007

Sun has posted the second early draft review of JSR-286 Java Portlet Specification 2.0 . New features in 2.0 include:

• Events – enabling a portlet to send and receive events and perform state changes or send further events as a result of processing an event.
• Shared render parameters – allowing portlets to share render parameters with other portlets.
• Resource serving – provides the ability for a portlet to serve a resource.
• Portlet filter – allowing on the fly transformations of information in both the request to and the response from a portlet

Comments are due by May 16.

MySQL A.B. has released Eventum 2.0, an open source issue tracking system designed for the needs of technical support teams in particular. This release adds a new d new 'Estimated Development Time' report; adds Swedish, Finnish, and Italian localizations; and fixes many bugs. Eventum is published under the GPL.