GNU and free java everywhere
Chris Burdess worked like a dog and made some very fine releases of GNU JAF (javax.activation), GNU JavaMail (javax.mail, plus extra NNTP, mbox, and Maildir providers) and GNU inetlib (finger, gopher and ftp URL stream handlers, plus utility classes for nntp, imap, pop3 and smtp client support). These packages can use GNU Crypto and Jessie for SASL and TLS support. And Casey Marshall released Jessie 1.0.0 this weekend. Also interesting to see that more and more traditional GNU packages like the GNU IDN Library now come with wrappers for the java language.