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I'm pleased to announce the release of jSilhouette 0.1, a collection of Java2D shapes. Any of you that have followed this blog on the past knows that GraphicsBuilder bundles additional shapes to the set found in the java.awt.geom package, like Arrow and Cross, well jSilhouette provides those additional shapes sans Groovy, i.e, in a standalone distribution (GraphicsBuilder will be retrofitted to use the new package). This means the following shapes are now at your disposal: Arrow, Balloon, Cross, MultiRoundRectangle, Rays, RegularPolygon, RoundPin, Star and Triangle (some examples here, here and here). But wait, there is more! jSilhouette also includes SceneGraph and JavaFx Script friendly distributions.

jSilhouette is available under GPLv2 with classpath extension, the same license used by Java and JavaFx Script.

Feedback is always appreciated.

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I haven't given a full review to this release yet (hot from the oven a couple of hours ago!) but skimming through the release notes I noticed this gem

I have to try that! Abeille Forms Designer is a GUI builder for Java applications, that leverages the power of JGoodie's FormLayout.

Congratulations to Eitan for his continued efforts in pushing the limits with JMatter, also to all contributors (there are two user submitted patches in this release!) and other JMatter users that have provided feedback. Keep those messages coming!

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JMatter 20080627 has been released [

Dear JRoller Community,
I'm pleased to announce that Json-lib version 2.2.2 has been released.

Download | Documentation | Faq | Changes

JSON-lib is a java library for transforming beans, maps and XML to JSON and back again to beans and DynaBeans. It is based on the work by Douglas Crockford in http://www.json.org/java.

Changelog:

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As previously mentioned here (nearly 5 months ago), GraphicsBuilder had reached a level of maturity that enabled anyone to create catchy images with Groovy. At the last paragraph I wrote
Well the wait is over, version 0.1 of the J2D Plugin has been released. It is quite small in terms of code yet powerful, as it adds a new method to all Controller classes: renderImage, capable of rendering an offscreen image.

The following features are already in the roadmap for the next versions Feedback is always appreciated

Keep on Groovying!

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changelog,download]. This release includes many new features and enhancements, particularly to the calendaring/scheduling behavior of the framework. But there is also another exciting feature, standalone services.

JMatter follows the NakedObjects design pattern, meaning that every domain object should be responsible for its behavior and be behavior complete. But what happens if some requirement can't be tied to a particular domain object? you will require then the well-known service layer, which is exactly what this feature provides. Now you are able to extend your application with "domainless" commands, as shown in the next picture, where the "Say Hi" button is a command exposed by a ServiceObject class (it may have any name you want)



I'm hoping that the UI can be tweaked further into toolbars. Design pattern purists may consider this a step backwards, but actually it is a very useful feature, so useful that the Relevance guys decided to add something similar to Rails (SimpleServices plugin), inspired by Grail's service facilities.

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JMatter 20080409 was released yesterday [

The wingS development team just announced that version 3.2 of the WingS Framework has been released.

There are many improvements related to performance, dialog management and JavaScript, but the feature that I find to be most compelling (at least for me) to try out in this release is PropertyChange support, which means I can add bind() to WingSBuilder. Hope the wingS team add the jars to maven's central repo soon.

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It's been a while (a bit more than a year) since the latest release, but a new version DbUnit release has finally arrived, you can download it from the project's site (changelog), for those of you that are fond on maven2, here is a link to dbunit's repo, expect those artifacts to be available in maven's central repo in the following days. Many thanks to Roberto Logiacco for making this release a reality, he alone spent the last days hunting and closing bugs back and forth. I strongly encourage all DbUnit users to upgrade, test and submit any bugs, features you find. For those not familiar with database testing please give it a try, you can even use it with Grails

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I was so excited about the latest features in GraphicsBuilder 0.5 that I left a small but annoying bug in the new filter processing code, that is why I decided to make a fix release, 0.5.1 is available now from GraphicsBuilder's site.

As an added bonus the filter list has grown a bit, it now includes the following filters from Swingx: colorTint, fastBlur, stackBlur, sgaussianBlur (to distinguish it from gaussianBlur already provided by jhlabs), dropShadow and reflection (the last two used a lot in Aerith and Romain's demos). You can also enable/disable filters and transformations at will, even the whole set, just assign a boolean value to their enabled property. One last thing, font() is now nestable in textStroke(). Feedback is always appreciated.

Keep on Groovying!

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I'm pleased to announce that GraphicsBuilder 0.5 has been released. It includes plenty of updates, as outlined in the following links Feedback is always appreciated.

Keep on Groovying!

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Dear JRoller Community,
I'm pleased to announce that Json-lib version 2.2.1 has been released.

Download | Documentation | Faq | Changes

JSON-lib is a java library for transforming beans, maps and XML to JSON and back again to beans and DynaBeans. It is based on the work by Douglas Crockford in http://www.json.org/java.

Changelog: This release upgrades to Groovy 1.5.4 and removes autoregistering custom metaClasses for String, List and Map.

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Eitan made the announcement a couple of hours ago, the latest version of the JMatter framework is available, ready to be downloaded! Here is the link to the changelog.

There are many interesting features, the most notable ones (IMHO) are
Thanks to everybody that contributed pacthes/ideas!

If you haven't seen JMatter in action please take a look at the webstart demo or this screencast.

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I'm pleased to announce that GraphicsBuilder 0.4.5 has been released (as promised). It includes some bugfixes and new features as filters (outlined here and here). The current filter count is 60 (a lot of work to create bindable/animatable wrappers) Here is the current list

["average", "blur", "boxBlur", "brushedMetal", "caustics", "cellular", "check", "chromaKey", "chrome", "circleDistort", "contour", "contrast", "convolve", "crystallize", "curl", "despeckle", "detectEdges", "diffuse", "diffusion", "dilate", "displace", "dissolve", "dither", "dropShadow", "emboss", "embossEdges", "equalize", "erode", "erodeAlpha", "exposure", "fade", "fbm", "feedback", "fieldWarp", "fill", "flare", "flip", "flush3D", "fourColorFill", "fractalBrownianMotion", "gain", "gamma", "gaussianBlur", "glint", "glow", "grayOut", "invert", "kaleidoscope", "lights", "marble", "material", "mirror", "mosaic", "pointillize", "ripple", "shapeBurst", "smear", "water", "weave", "wood"]

The svg2Groovy script is also included (the layout needs some work), bear in mind that it only transforms a subset of SVG for the time being.

Feedback is always appreciated.

Keep on Groovying!

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Groovy 1.5.2 made it so fast into the hand of end users that they were able to provide quick feedback on some regressions that sneaked under the radar, that is why the Groovy team and G2One, honoring the commitment to high quality software, have released Groovy 1.5.3 (JIRA report).

Please take a moment to upgrade if you haven't done so, the installers should be up in a couple of days too.

Keep on Groovying!

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The Groovy team and G2One deliver another great milestone: Groovy 1.5.2 a bug fix release (release notes). While it brings a lot of goodies I'm mostly excited about Enum and junit/testng fixes and enhancements, great work team!

The Groovy Eclipse team made a recent announcement too, they also released the latest version of the plugin (though I think it is still based on 1.5.1).

Keep on Groovying!

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It's been a long while since I posted about JsonView (more than a year and a half ago), recently I received a couple of messages from users that would like to have it updated, because things at SPR-2010 look a little bleak I decided to release it as an extension of Json-lib (something I should have done since the beginning I think). The package is available here.

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