Putting JDOM under the oversight of the JCP will facilitate JDOM's corporate adoption and open the door for JDOM to be incorporated into the core Java Platform. JDOM will still be released as open source software, and technical discussion will continue to take place on public mailing lists. For more information, see the JSR-102 Proposal . JDOM Beta 6 is here, and it's a dramatic improvement over Beta 5. Sun specifically requested JDOM's participation .
Slides are available .
Most noticeably, the JDOM FAQ nearly doubled in size and the Quotes page has some wonderful new entries. Slides are available . Read more at XMLHack . Today the much-anticipated JDOM Beta5 was released with huge leaps in functionality above Beta4. Read the article here .