Daily Dose - Oracle to Sell "Premium" JVM

Tweets coming out of the weekend's QCon conference revealed Oracle's plan for a premium JVM that comes with a price tag.  Adam Messinger, the Oracle VP of development made the announcement saying that Oracle still plans to develop a free and open source version of the JDK.  "There will always be a high-performance gratis JVM," he said.  The premium version will be a product of both Sun's HotSpot JVM and Oracle's JRockit JVM, but we don't know if the free version will see the benefits of that merger.  

Hibernate Metamodel Generator 1.1 Finalized
JBoss released the final version of its Hibernate Metamodel Generator 1.1.  This version removes the need for a build-helper plugin.  It also has modified the processor so that it is defined as a plugin dependency of the maven-processor-plugin instead of a direct project dependency.

Spring Python and Spring Social Get New Releases
SpringSource recently delivered two new releases.  The first is the release candidate of Spring Python 1.2, a framework that delivers functionality for Python that is similar to the functionality that the Spring Framework provides for Java.  This release supports Pyro 4, Secure XML-RPC connections, bugfixes, and migration to Python 2.6.  The other news is the first milestone release of Spring Social 1.0, a framework for building social-ready applications.  

Apache Hive Grows to 0.6
The Apache Hive project, a data warehouse infrastructure for Apache Hadoop, has reached version 0.6 recently.  Hive 0.6 features support for views and can now handle a Skew Join operation.  Users upgrading from older versions should replace the old hive-default.xml config file with the new version, which has new configuration properties.

NetBeans 7.0 M2 and Maven 3 - Better than M2Eclipse?
A new front in the battle between Eclipse and NetBeans.  Gunther Popp posted this link.