The big news this week is the announcement that BEA is joining the Eclipse Foundation.  This means big things for WebLogic Workshop of course - in effect Workshop will be retooled on the Eclipse platform and provided as a set of plugins for Eclipse.  The new version of Workshop, codenamed Daybreak, will contain all the crunchy goodness that you are used to, plus more.  I'm a big Eclipse fan - I love its support for refactoring and hard core coding.  I'm also a big Workshop fan - I love how easy it is to create full applications with Workshop, and its support and integration with the product base.  Now I'm going to have the best of both worlds!

If you're at EclipseCon this week be sure to check out the BEA booth and meet the engineers that will be leading these efforts.

For those of you using any of these tools to build to eBay's Web services (via Controls or otherwise), note that eBay has a new Software Development Kit for Java.  The new SDK supports features like PayPal Buyer Credit, Combined Payments, Managing Items Shipping Costs and more.  This makes it pretty easy to develop rich applications that interact with eBay.  The SDK for Java is free with program membership, and joining the program is free.

And, if you're into taking polls and actively participate in application and information integration, or service-oriented architecture, I've been asked to inform you of ebizQ Buyer's Choice Awards to help satisfy those polling urges.

Finally, our featured content has references to articles on the new JRockit 5.0 JVM (see the dev2dev Live! presentation on this topic too), Tuxedo, the AspectJ and AspectWerkz merger, SOA and CruiseControl!