This is simply my list of top 5 2007 Java technology winners in open source, which I’m sure will upset some and surprise others; so, enjoy…

Eclipse Europa is apparently coming on June 29th, but I do not sense any kind of level of excitement around this release for the Java community. Do you?

As reported on a number of sites, Adobe announced plans to release source code for Adobe Flex SDK and framework under the open source Mozilla Public License (MPL)...

Apress and NetBeans power developer/user Adam Myatt proudly announce that Pro NetBeans IDE 5.5 Enterprise Edition has published, and is/will soon be available on Amazon.com as well as other booksellers. As editor of this book, I’ve been asked the question: Why NetBeans?

News breaking on tutorial day from EclipseCon: Red Hat JBoss announces a partnership with Exadel…

InfoQ.com reports: The Spring IDE is nearing release of version 2.0. Spring IDE is a set of plugins for Eclipse and soon NetBeans providing a GUI for Spring’s config files.

Here’s some Eclipse news this week around new communities participation and Groovy…

Java Plugin Framework (JPF) 1.0 released: This open source framework implements the runtime engine that dynamically discovers and runs plug-ins.

Here are my top ten predictions in Java for 2007…

With the Google Web Toolkit (GWT) 1.3 Release Candidate, the GWT development team announces that all of GWT is now open source under the Apache 2.0 license. The GWT is now also a part of Eclipse.

TheServerSide.com has posted this opinion piece on Eclipse Framework. What do you think?

BTW, this is a good resource… my colleague and Apress open source editorial director, Jason Gilmore, is pointing to it from the Apress Inside Open Source site.

Otherwise, you can also find it directly at Eclipse Plugin Central.