JBoss Developer Studio 2.0 – Portfolio Edition is now available. The development environment not only enhances the Eclipse-based toolset, but also adds JBoss Enterprise Application, Portal, SOA and Data Services Platforms. It builds on Eclipse – Java developer toolset and includes a set of tools developers need to quickly develop highly interactive applications and services using technologies like Seam, Java EE, AJAX and Portlets as part of standards-based Service Oriented Architectures.

JavaOne every year seems to have one prominent topic that overshadows everything else. 2008 seems to belong to JavaFX and Java on mobile and consumer devices. There’s been no talk of SOA and minimal talk on enterprises. Rich Internet Applications (RIA) is definitely Sun’s focus this year. The other talk from Sun dealt with Java for movies, Java for DVDs and on other consumer electronics. So like one speaker said, Java has gone full circle, it began with consumer devices and is now returning to the same.

Python is an extremely high-level language, with Python Enterprise Application Kit (PEAK) you can achieve even higher-level abstractions. If you ae interested in developing any application with Python, PEAK may help you do it faster, easier, on a larger scale, and with fewer defects than ever before. The key is component-based development, on a reliable infrastructure.