DZone has an interview with Ian Roughley about his new book, “Practical Apache Struts 2“. For those of you burned by Struts 1’s unruly struts-config.xml file and ActionForms, Struts 2 is a pleasant surprise and definitely worth checking out.

Ajaxian had a nice writeup today about Adobe AIR and it’s gaining popularity. Though Adobe is claiming cross-platform support, it is important to note that Linux is not supported. (though they are promising a Linux version shortly after the 1.0 release).

Arc is a new dialect of Lisp that has been in development by Paul Graham (of Y Combinator) since 2001. Paul has written several articles mentioning Arc over the years. Congratulations on the first release! From the  announcement, it sounds a bit unstable (it is described as “usable”), but should be good for poking around in and getting a flavor for the language.

Groovy 1.5.2 was released today. This is being called a bug-fix release, but there are a few new features as well. Check out the announcement here and the release notes here.