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Glassfish v3

Posted on May 8th, 2008 in Building Blocks, Programming | No Comments »

Over at Sun’s Java site, there’s a lot of attention on Glassfish, in particular with it v3 release. The Glassfish v3 Technology Preview 2 gives an early look at what’s to come.

What is Glassfish? It’s a new application server for Jave Enterprise Edition platofmr, based on source code by Sun and Oracle’s TopLink Persistence system, which uses uses a relational database to store Java objects for persistence. Glassfish uses a derivative of Apache Tomcat as servlet container, but incorporates the Grizzly Java NIO (a collection of Java APIs for intensive I/O operations) for scalability and speed.

Crow Designer 2.11.3

Posted on April 19th, 2008 in Application Development, Building Blocks, Programming | No Comments »

Crow Designer is a GUI builder for the GTK+ toolkit. It is an IDE-embeddable RAD tool designed to fulfill the needs of desktop programmers who want to create multi-platform GTK+ based applications with minimal GUI coding. The project is targeted to develop a tool that is coherent and productive for experienced GTK+ users as well as simple and accessible for newcomers.

Crow Designer 2.11.3 was just released recently.