Misc - Borland announces plans to sell JBuilder

Borland Software Corporation (NASDAQ NM: BORL), today announced aggressive plans to drive its Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) business forward. As part of that plan, Borland has agreed to buy Segue Software Inc. (NASDAQ CM: SEGU), the Massachusetts-based provider of global software quality and testing solutions. In addition, Borland announced plans to seek a buyer for the portion of its business associated with the Integrated Development Environment (IDE), including the award-winning Borland Developer Studio (Delphi®, C++Builder® and C#Builder®) and JBuilder® product lines.
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Misc - Read a full book in a minute or less

We at Book-A-Minute understand that your time is valuable. You want to experience the wonder and excitement of the fine art of literature, but reading actual books requires a significant time investment. We've got the solution for you. Our ultra-condensed books are just the ticket.
http://www.rinkworks.com/bookaminute/

Web App Frameworks - Tacos 4-beta1 released - AJAX for Tapestry

he Tacos library project provides components and ajax behaviour for the Tapestry java web application framework. Most of the functionality is based on the exceptional dojo javascript library.
http://tacos.sourceforge.net/

*ware - Extend Firefox Contest Finalists

We are happy to announce the finalists in our Extend Firefox Contest, a contest held to award the best and brightest extension developers in the Firefox community.
https://addons.mozilla.org/finalists.php

AJAX / CSS - JavaScript in NetBeans IDE

A JavaScript editor for NetBeans 5.0
- syntax highlight
- automatic indentation of code
- class creation wizard
more features, like code completion are still being developed
http://www.liguorien.com/blog/post.do?id=154

*ware - Opera 9 TP2 released

We've released a technology preview of Opera 9, codenamed Merlin, on Opera Labs. There are some very cool features we want you to try:

- Opera Widgets - small AJAX applications that provide specific functionality;
- BitTorrent - We built it right into the browser so you can download torrent files easily;
- Customize your search engines;
- Improved content blocker;
- Improved pop-up blocker;
- Site specific preferences;
- Thumbnail preview;
http://labs.opera.com/downloads/

POJ - Meet SIP (An introduction to SIP)

Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) is an important signaling protocol that the telecommunications industry is rapidly moving to for next-generation applications. Java is an excellent platform for SIP development, especially on the server side. Similar to HTTP servlets, the SIP Servlet API allows easier development of SIP services. This article describes SIP servlet technology and provides an annotated example.
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POJ - Equinox (jini.org)

Equinox (equinox.jini.org) is a new project to develop a Jini-based container for the Spring framework.
The Spring framework, originally targeted at JEE applications, can dramatically simplify code and improve component design by "keeping the container out of the code".
Applications that use Spring can eliminate explicit dependencies on the JEE container and typical JEE boilerplate code, introducing a new dimension of portability.
The Equinox container will host new and existing Spring-based applications in a dynamic Jini environment.
The container implementation will transparently leverage Jini's service discovery, transaction management and fault tolerance, and will facilitate the application's use of characteristic features like JavaSpaces.

http://equinox.jini.org/

thanks to N.Barrocas for this one!