Apache CouchDB 0.9.1 has been released and is available for download:

http://couchdb.apache.org/downloads.html

Apache CouchDB is a distributed, fault-tolerant and schema-free
document-oriented database accessible via a RESTful HTTP/JSON API. Among other
features, it provides robust, incremental replication with bi-directional
conflict detection and resolution, and is queryable and indexable using a
table-oriented view engine with JavaScript acting as the default view definition
language.

CouchDB is written in Erlang, but can be easily accessed from any environment
that provides means to make HTTP requests. There are a multitude of third-party
client libraries that make this even easier for a variety of programming
languages and environments.

SpringSource are offering a free 2 hour seminar covering their tc Server product.  The seminar will be run in 9 locations throughout North Americ starting on July 28th in Seattle and ending in Chicago on August 25th.  The full list of locations is as follows:

• July 28th: Seattle, WA
• July 29th: Phoenix, AZ
• July 30th: San Mateo, CA
• August 5th: Toronto, Canada & Columbia/Ft. Meade, MD
• August 11th: St Louis, MO
• August 13th: Omaha, NE
• August 19th: Raleigh, NC
• August 20th: Cincinnati, OH
• August 25th: Chicago, IL

To sign up for these seminars, visit the SpringSource announcement page.

SpringSource describe tcServer as an enterprise version of Apache Tomcat which provides "operational, advanced diagnostics, and mission critical support".  Full details of tc Server can be found on the product's web site.

On his blog, Hazem Ahmed Saleh has announced the release of GMaps4JSF version 1.1.2

"GMaps4JSF aims at integrating Google maps with JSF. JSF users will be also able to construct complex Streetview Panoramas and Maps with just few lines of code (JSF tags).

GMaps4JSF is one of the JSF Mashups libraries that enables JSF users to build web 2.0 mashup applications in JSF easily. "

This new version contains bug fixes and new features, most notably:

• Complete integration with JSF 2.0 Ajax.
• Map autoReshape feature.
• Having a Maven2 repository for the library artifacts.
• Supporting server side events for the library components not just client side events.
• adding (showLocationNotFoundMessage) attribute to the map and marker components. To determine whether to show an error message when the location is not found.
• Fixing markers' issues with IE8.
• Fixing XHTML compliance issues.
• Fixing the polygon issue inside the facelets <ui:repeat> tag.
• Fixing the markers statelessness issue.
• Fixing icon coordAnchor issue.
• Fixing supporting client side events for HTMLInformationWindow.

This new version of the software can be downloaded from the project's web site.

The OpenESB team has announced that OpenESB can now be downloaded with NetBeans 6.7 instead of NetBeans 6.5.1

By popular request GlassFish ESB v2.1 GA was ported to NetBeans 6.7. Other OpenESB components were also ported. This is based on a snapshot of the code as it was at the time of the GlassFish ESB v2.1 GA release.

The 6.7 port has undergone limited testing, and no commercial support for this port is available.

For the time being, the nightly build will still be based on NetBeans 6.5.1 only.

The software can be downloaded from the OpenESB website for Linux, Solaris, Windows, Mac and AIX.

OpenESB is an open source Enterprise Service Bus onto which SOA applications can be developed.

OpenESB follows the Java Business Integration, JBI, specifications for interoperability providing standard service engines (e.g. Java EE, BPEL etc.) and binding components (e.g. Email, Web Services etc.) out of the box. At present there are over 40 different components available for OpenESB.