The Men (and women) from JBoss are at it again. Not only have they issued a new 3.2 Release Candidate, and a nice IDE plugin for Eclipse, but now they've posted their plan for to JBoss 4 to use AOP to allow plain old java objects (POJO)'s to use J2EE services.

Archaeopteryx Software has a Python IDE called Wing IDE. They allow developers working on open source Python projects, such as pyblosxom to use Wing IDE for free. For Python web apps like pyblosxom, this is a total blessing because there isn't a good way to trackdown problems other than the cgi traceback functions, which is basically print debugging. Wing IDE allows you to attach the debugger to a CGI script and debugging as it goes along. I just got this working last night, and its going to save an enormous amount of time. You can bet I'll be buying a copy for any commercial Python work that I do.