JRebel 3.0 release

Hi Everyone,

I just got an email from David Booth over at ZeroTurnaround (they make JRebel), letting me know that we can give away 10 licenses of JRebel over the next month. They're really excited about releasing JRebel 3.0 at the end of the week, and want to do something special for JUG members. If you want a free license: send your first name, last name, email address, and company name (where you work) to hashim{at}egjug[dot]org and I'll arrange your free license key. First 10 people only. Maybe you can give them some feedback at support@zeroturnaround.com, tweet something about #JRebel 3.0, or mention it in your blog?

You can start using it before you get the key. Download here: http://www.zeroturnaround.com/download/

If you don't know what JRebel is, there's a quick info sheet below. To find out what people say about JRebel, check out http://search.twitter.com/search?q=jrebel

What is JRebel?
JRebel is an award-winning productivity tool for Java EE development. By using bytecode instrumentation and classloader abstraction, JRebel eliminates wasteful Build and Redeploy phases from your development cycle, saving 3-7 weeks for each developer on your team per year -- so you can focus on adding new features, improving code quality, and finishing projects faster. (For background on classloaders, hotswap, OSGi, a variety of containers, and other technologies that help reduce turnaround time, see: http://www.zeroturnaround.com/blog/reloading_java_classes_401_hotswap_jrebel/)

What's new in JRebel 3.0?

Faster
* We've done a lot of performance tuning, to minimize startup times and nearly eliminate any slowdown
* GUI Editor for rebel.xml (JRebel application configuration file)
* Install & Config wizard will get JRebel 3.0 running in your environment quickly and easily

More Supported Stuff
* Java EE 6
* JSF
* JPA
* EJB 3.0
* EJB 1.0, 2.0
* JBoss Seam
* Hibernate
* Better Spring support
* Adding Static Fields & Changing Enums (Class Re-initialization support)
* JSP Scriptlets

Coming Up
* License Server for managing teams with licenses
* Reporting - find how out much time JRebel saves for you regularly
* Remoting

JRebel is free for open source project committers, and for everyone else, it's priced low enough to pay for itself in less than a week. If you're working on an OS project, check out: http://www.zeroturnaround.com/blog/javarebel-for-open-source-development/

You can start using JRebel 3.0 RC1 before you get a license. Pick it up here: http://www.zeroturnaround.com/download/