Spring Web Flow RC1 has been released. Spring Web Flow allows you to capture page flows within a web application and can be used to build applications that guide users through a series of steps in a buisness process.
The new and noteworthy features in RC1 include:
  • Improved support for managing stateful business components
  • Enhanced support for flow variables, created automatically when a flow starts
  • A new flow execution redirect response type, for redirecting to a unique "flow execution URL"
  • Refinements in state exception handling, with convenient support for transition-executing state exception handlers
  • Improvements in flow attribute mapping support.
  • Support for dynamic view name and target state expressions
  • Enhanced JSF integration
Are you using Spring Web Flow within your applications? If so, what sort of applications are you developing?
 
After nearly 2 years of development, the Apache Software Foundation has released version 1.0 of Apache Axiom. "Apache AXIOM is a StAX-based, XML Infoset compliant object model which supports on-demand building of the object tree."
 
Apple have today announced via the Apple Developer Mailing Lists that Java SE 6.0 Release 1 Developer Preview 1 is available for download for Intel based Macs.
This is a welcome addition for Apple Java developers as it hopefully signifies the end of lengthy timescales between new releases of Java being available for other platforms long before being available on the Mac.