I've (finally) finished to develop the 2.1.0 version of JTheque Core. The different services of the core are now separated using OSGi. 

With this separation, I've improved a lot the design of the core and the orthogonality of the different services. Each service is now an OSGi bundle. I've also refactored the implementation of all services. Several services have been completely rewritten. The majority of the bundles are now thread-safe. 

Now, to create modules for a JTheque application, you have to write an OSGi bundle representing the module. Then, you only have to use Spring to launch the module. This is done using Spring Dynamic Modules. The used OSGi container is Felix. 

Fore more informations and to download JTheque Core, you can go on the description page. If you want to try developing a module (or see how it is done), you can consult this starter guide. 

It's my pleasure to announce the release of a new version of JTheque Utils, the 1.1.5. 

There is a lot of changes in this version. First of all, the library is now OSGi Ready, you can use it with no problem in an OSGi application. Here are the main changes of this version : 

• The main classes have been made thread safe and all the classes are now documented to indicate if they are thread safe, not thread safe or immutable. 
• The library has now some annotations to document thread safety, thanks to Brian Goetz for the idea
• SwingUtils support now headless environment
• Version has a better version comparison
• A new simple way to manage system properties with the SystemProperty class
• CollectionUtils has a new set of methods to create collections and concurrent collections
• A simple thread safe weak event listener list, WeakEventListenerList
• HashCodeUtils has been improved to manage arrays
• Some classes have been made Immutable
• The utility class have new methods
• And a lot of other little changes and bug fixes

More informations on the page of JTheque Utils

I've the pleasure to announce the first stable version of JTheque XML Utils, the version 1.0. 

You can download it here : JTheque XML Utils Donwloads

Hope this will be useful to somebody

Baptiste

Before releasing the JTheque Core 2.1.0 version, I wanted to have a real website to promote the Project. This is done !

I created this site using Google Sites. I hope you'll find it useful. 

Baptiste Wicht