5p4m d14r10: 2005-11-06

Security services for The Spring Framework.

This release includes 70 improvements and fixes, with several new features including JCaptcha (human user detection) support, a web.xml to Acegi Security migration tool, Java 5 annotations, "switch user" style capabilities for web applications, and SiteMinder integration.
http://acegisecurity.org/

Google - Google Talk 1.0.0.76 released

http://www.google.com/talk/

AJAX / CSS - Ajax with Direct Web Remoting

xciting as it is, adding Ajax functionality to your applications can mean a lot of hard work. In this third article in the Ajax for Java? developers series, Philip McCarthy shows you how to use Direct Web Remoting (DWR) to expose JavaBeans methods directly to your JavaScript code and automate the heavy-lifting of Ajax.
Data serialization doesn't get any easier than this!

POJ - Hibernate and Spring Presentation

Presentation at the Los Angeles BEA Users Group (LABEAUG) on Hibernate and Spring
Prakash Malani's Blog

Google - Video Plug-In for GoogleTalk (and Skype)

Google Talk, Google's messaging and VOIP application, is now Video enabled with a new plug-in from Festoon. Using the video plug-in, Google Talk users can now see who they are talking to, in real time. Festoon, which also has the most popular video plug-in for Skype with more than 2.75 million downloads, allows Google Talk users to talk to and see each other, play games, share pictures, or conducting business.
http://www.searchenginejournal.com/index.php?p=2465

POJ - jTDS JDBC driver 1.2 released

New features:
- Support for Sybase ASE 15
- Improved support for SQL Server 2005 varchar(max) and varbinary(max)
- Complete handling of cursor exceptions and downgrading
- Better handling of cancels and timeouts
- Configurable socket timeout
- Subclasses of basic JDBC types recognized as setObject() values

Major bug fixes (out of over 30 fixes):
- Statement pool memory leak
- Java 1.5 BigDecimal problems
- Possible synchronization problems
- setAutoCommit() behavior not according to specification
- getTimestamp() returns invalid value after calling getString()
- Cursor opens fails when cursor threshold <> -1
- iso_1 charset and Sybase
- "All pipe instances are busy" not handled properly
- SSL fails with SQL Server 2005
- Sybase: insert UTF8 string fails when length is 255
https://sourceforge.net/projects/jtds/

*ware - Firefox and Thunderbird RC2 candidate build available for testing

http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/qa/archives/2005/11/firefox_and_thunderbird_rc2_ca.html

ware - BEA Workshop 3.0 Now Available*

BEA announces the release of BEA Workshop 3.0. This release represents a major advance in providing tools for the Blended Environment. While I have written on the Blended Environment before, it is important to know that the Blended Environment is one that comprises both commercial frameworks and execution environments as well as BEA Workshop 3.0 makes use of our acquisition of M7 to provide tooling support for major open source frameworks like:

* Struts
* JavaServer Faces
* Spring(through the use of Spring IDE via separate download)
* Hibernate (through BEA Workshop ORM functionality)

Bill Roth's Blog