This is an API addition to Sun's JavaMail API which provides simple encryption and decryption of emails using S/MIME and/or OpenPGP. The intent is to provide a single, easy-to-use API for email clients that want to send and received encrypted email in either of the two most popular email encryption formats.

The OpenUDDI project is focused on creating a high performance, easy to use UDDI v3 compliant server and client library. The server and client is built using Java, version 5 for the server and version 1.4 for the client. The server uses Hibernate, and supports a wide variety of SQL databases, as well as LDAP for data storage.

One of the most useful things you can do when designing any presentation layer is to enforce Separated Presentation. Once you've done this, the next step is to think about how the presentation logic itself is going to be organized. For a simple window, a single class may well suffice. But more complex logic leads to a wider range of breakdowns.

Let's familiarize ourselves with the Spring RCP. New life seems to have been blowing into this project: after almost two years of hiatus, the 1.0.0 release came out a few months ago. Let's leave aside the question about its direction and so on and, instead, let's look purely at the technology itself to see exactly what it offers. In that light, I've made available a simple plugin for NetBeans IDE that provides samples and templates to get things started. Below, I walk through a basic scenario using the plugin. However, even those who are not NetBeans users could learn a lot about Spring RCP by reading the steps in this tutorial and the explanations that accompany them.

XMLTool is a very simple Java library to be able to do all sorts of common operations with an XML document. As a Java developer, I often end up writing the always the same code for processing XML, transforming, ... So i decided to put all in a very easy to use class using the Fluent Interface pattern to facilitate XML manipulations.

In this third look at using the JMX Web Services Connector, I will use WinRM and JConsole to access attributes and operations of a custom MBean via the JMX Web Services Connector. This will demonstrate how easy it is to apply the JMX Web Services Connector to custom MBeans and will also demonstrate some additional syntax that can be used in WinRM to use the JMX Web Services Connector.

Keyczar is an open source cryptographic toolkit designed to make it easier and safer for developers to use cryptography in their applications. Keyczar supports authentication and encryption with both symmetric and asymmetric keys. Some features of Keyczar include:

* A simple API
* Key rotation and versioning
* Safe default algorithms, modes, and key lengths
* Automated generation of initialization vectors and ciphertext signatures
* Java and Python implementations (C++ coming soon)
* International support in Java (Python coming soon)

Deploying ESB projects using Ant

This post is to summarize and correct some of the information which can be found on this thread: Dealing with changing service wsdl locations in the ESB. (A big thanks to all the people who participated on this thread!)

Let’s start with some issues a lot of people, including me, have run into.

Apache Camel is a powerful Spring based Integration Framework.

Camel implements the Enterprise Integration Patterns allowing you to configure routing and mediation rules in either a Java based Domain Specific Language (or Fluent API) or via Spring based Xml Configuration files. Either approaches mean you get smart completion of routing rules in your IDE whether in your Java or XML editor.

With this open source Java library. Architecture Rules leverages an XML configuration and/or programmatic configuration to assert your code's architecture via unit tests, Maven, or ant tasks.

This article critically evaluates the role of XML binding frameworks play in the context of service-oriented architecture (SOA) platforms, and it also provides an objective evaluation of the popular XML binding frameworks in a J2EE environment.

Java parser performance

Sherlok is a Java application monitor that can show you what is happening within a program with respect to memory usage, performance of methods, contentions, and more.

Compass is an open source project built on top of Lucene aiming at simplifying the integration of search into any Java application.

insideApps from determyne: Transaction-level performance monitoring for J2EE applications. Correlates and reports on transactions across HTTP server, J2EE container, and database layers. Pinpoints the source of performance issues in real time.

Swing Explorer is a tool for Swing developers. It is intended for visual exploring of Swing-based application internals. It finds all windows in explored Swing application and displays their component hierarchies as a tree. Each component in the tree can

Chaperon is a project that converts structured text to XML. It includes a strong LALR(1) parser to parse the text and a tree builder, which creates an XML document.

Jazz is an IBM Rational project to build a scalable, extensible team collaboration platform for integrating work across the phases of the development lifecycle. We believe Jazz will help teams build software more effectively...