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…

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Here is a link to the new Apress Editorial Calendar. It’s a rolling calendar from years past looking into 2008. Enjoy.

The First International Grails eXchange, sponsored by Apress, is being held October 17th-19th at the Barbican Centre, London, UK…

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The Open Source Convention (OSCON) is this week, up in Portland, OR, and underway; and Apress is there…

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The Groovy project (http://groovy.codehaus.org) have released version 1.1 of the dynamic language that, for the first time, allow a dynamic language to access the full capabilities of Sun’s Java EE 5.0 specifications. With support for annotations and generics Groovy can be used to write Java Persistence API (JPA) compliant beans, JSR-181 Web Services and inter-operate with all parts of the EJB 3.0 specification.

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Enough debate over Ruby/Rails vs. Java, etc. Can’t we all just get along? There is a melting pot happening in Java…

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The Grails eXchange is a 3-day conference, packed with presentations on Grails, Groovy, Java EE, Ajax & Web 2.0, The Grails eXchange 2007 is promising to be the Web 2.0 event for Java Developers in 2007. For more, visit here...

You might be asking why java.apress.com is posting an excerpt (and soon other content) on Ruby on Rails. Well, the answer is because…

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From Skills Matter: Free Session: In-the-Brain of Graeme Rocher: Grails: Spring + Hibernate development re-invented, April 19th…

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Check out this IndicThreads.com interview: Grails is a breath of fresh air for Java developers. Grame is author of The Definitive Guide to Grails.

If you’re in the London area and are interested in learning more about Grails, consider attending a one-day workshop put on by Grails founder and Apress author Graeme Rocher.

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From TheServerSide.com: The Groovy Series is an audio lecture on Groovy and is part of the Grails Podcast. The episodes are produced by Dierk König and Sven Haiges. The first episode…

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In this JavaWorld.com article, Joshua Fox shows how JRuby can bring the power of Ruby on Rails to your Java application, in whole or as Web tier solution in broader enterprise Java application.

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Here is an overview of the new Spring Framework 2.0, as it is re-purposed from The Spring Framework – Reference Documentation found in its entirety online at SpringFramework.org.

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This article discusses Java Standard Edition (SE) 6 and its support for dynamic Java scripting.

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

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Here are my top ten predictions in Java for 2007…

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Groovy 1.0 has been released. Groovy is the Java-based open source dynamic scripting language that is the basis of the Grails Web framework that’s also now available.

From InfoQ.com: The momentum behind Groovy continued to increase this week with the announcement of Big Sky Technology’s funding of Jochen Theodorou’s services full time to work on the project and the launch of the aboutGroovy portal.

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Check out this excerpt from the newly published The Definitive Guide to Grails by Grails lead Graeme Rocher.

The Definitive Guide to Grails written by Grails founder and lead Graeme Rocher and reviewed by Groovy lead Guillaume LaForge and Dierk Koenig, has published…

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c/net News.com: “Sun Microsystems released on Monday a Java development kit (Java SE 6) that seeks to meld Java and (Java-based and other) scripting languages.”

An Apress eBook is now available for the forthcoming The Definitive Guide to Grails book by Grails founder and lead Graeme Rocher.

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