Posted by Tetsuya Kitahata on August 16, 2003 at 17:03:49:
北畠です。
だいぶん疲れてしまいましたが、「The Apache Newsletter 第一号（創刊号）」を
リリースしました。2003年7月分ですが、発行は2003年8月15日（日本人なら誰でも
覚えている日？？）です。
"Apache Newsletter-J は？"という話が（何故か？）ありましたが、そういうものを発行する
予定はありません。というよりも、最近は本家（笑）活動の方に精力を注いでいて、日本語化
等々のエナジーがないのが現状です。
=========== The Apache Newsletter ===============
http://www.apache.org/newsletter/index.html
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Issue: 1 (inaugural number)
Issuer: The Apache Software Foundation
Editor: Tetsuya Kitahata
Date: July 2003 (15th August, 2003)
Url: http://www.apache.org/newsletter/200307.html
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I am glad that this "Apache Newsletter" [1] could be published as
a result of the outgrowth of "Jakarta Newsletter" [2] and the newsletter
can cover all the projects including infrastructure, incubator et cetera.
Who is writing this? .. well I am a Japanese fellow who has been
engaged in the community build process for a long time in Japan.
I have been translating some of the Apache Jakarta projects' websites
into Japanese now [3] and last month I published the Jakarta newsletter
issue 9 as a successor of the Rob Oxspring and Robert Burrell Donkin's
great works. The newsletter was highly evaluated and now it has been
outgrown to the first "The Apache Newsletter". My main job is marketing,
business development and IT consulting [4].
Today, 15th August 2003, is the 58th anniversary of the end of the
Pacific War (and World War II) and I am very glad to publish this
newsletter in this moment. The internet and the wave of
internationalization gradually reduced the boundaries of each countries,
as well, this newsletter will be one of the *glue* of the communities in
the ASF umbrella, beyond the artificial boundaries of technical
languages etc. Hope this can gradually lead the good course of the ASF,
avoiding the balkanization of each projects and keep the hand tightly
with various projects.
I want to thank those who contributed and hope that you enjoy the read.
If you would like to comment further on any of the highlighted
discussions then please do so on the appropriate mailing lists [5].
if you want to comment on the newsletter itself then please point your
comments to ApacheWiki [6].
[1] - http://www.apache.org/newsletter/
[2] - http://jakarta.apache.org/site/news/
[3] - http://jakarta.terra-intl.com/
[4] - http://www.terra-intl.com/
[5] - http://www.apache.org/foundation/mailinglists.html
[6] - http://nagoya.apache.org/wiki/apachewiki.cgi?ApacheNewsletterDrafts/Issue2
Issuer: The Apache Software Foundation
http://www.apache.org/
-- 15th August, 2003 --
Editor: Tetsuya Kitahata
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Table Of Contents
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o Apache Ant Project
o Apache APR Project
o Apache Avalon Project
o Apache Cocoon Project
x Apache Cocoon
x Apache Lenya
o Apache Commons Project
o Apache DB Project
x DB Commons
x DB OJB
x DB Torque
o Apache HTTP Server Project
o Apache Incubator Project
x Incubator General
x Incubator AltRMI
x Incubator FTPServer
x Incubator XMLBeans
x Incubator Geronimo
o Apache James Project
o Apache Jakarta Project
x Jakarta General
x Jakarta Alexandria
x Jakarta BCEL
x Jakarta Cactus
x Jakarta Commons
o Jakarta Commons BeanUtils
o Jakarta Commons Betwixt
o Jakarta Commons Modeler
x Jakarta ECS
x Jakarta Gump
x Jakarta Jetspeed
x Jakarta JMeter
x Jakarta Log4j
x Jakarta Lucene
x Jakarta ORO
x Jakarta POI
x Jakarta Regexp
x Jakarta Slide
x Jakarta Struts
x Jakarta Taglibs
x Jakarta Tapestry
x Jakarta Turbine
x Jakarta Tomcat
x Jakarta Velocity
x Jakarta Watchdog
o Apache Perl Project
o Apache Maven Project
o Apache Tcl Project
o Apache WS Project
x WS General
x WS Axis
x WS SOAP
x WS WSIF
x WS WSIL
x WS XML-RPC
o Apache XML Project
x XML General
x XML Axkit
x XML Batik
x XML Commons
x XML FOP
x XML Forrest
x XML Secutiry
x XML Xalan Java 2
x XML Xalan C++
x ZML Xerces Java 2
x XML Xerces C++
x XML Xerces Perl
x XML Xindice
o PHP Project
o The Apache Infrastructure Team Report
o New Committers
o Readers' Voice (Jakarta Newsletter Issue 9)
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Apache Ant Project
==================
Recent Apache Ant Project [1] news are shown below:
"Ant 1.5.3-1"
This was a supplementary release made on April 16th. There was no
functional change. from Ant 1.5.3 - it just removed a copy of junit.jar
which had inadvertently been included in the Ant 1.5.3 build.
"Ant 1.5.4"
This is scheduled for release in the next week. It addresses just two
particular problems - the change to the javah entry point in the latest
JDK release and the Visual Age tasks. The latter, being only compatible
with JDK 1.1, were included to give users of this task a working release
prior to the Ant 1.6 release which depends on JDK 1.2+
"Ant 1.6"
Ant 1.6 is the current development codebase (CVS head). There is no
timeframe yet on this release.
"New committers"
A new committer Peter Reilly has been added to the project and is
making valuable contributions to the operation of the Ant core.
"Trivia"
As of August 8, Ant can build and run Mono code on Linux, using the
task
testCSC-Mono:
[csc] compiling 2 files
[csc] WROTE SYMFILE: 2 sources, 2 methods, 3 types, 4 line numbers,
0 locals, 2 namespaces, 223 bytes of string data
[csc] OffsetTable [615 - 52:491 - 2:567:48 - 2:543:24 - 3]
[csc] Compilation succeeded
[exec] hello, I look like Java, but I'm really .NET
[1] - http://ant.apache.org/
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Apache APR Project
==================
We could not hear the July news from Apache APR Project [1] Team. I hope
to hear the wonderful news in the next newsletter -- by Tetsuya Kitahata
[1] - http://apr.apache.org/
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Apache Avalon Project
=====================
The recently flurry of activity on the Avalon mailing lists has
centered on defining the next generation of Avalon containers and
preparing a subsequent roadmap. With the dust beginning to settle,
the Merlin project is poised to be released and become the flagship
Avalon container, supporting the Avalon 4 Framework and previous
containers (Fortress and Phoenix).
Avalon Meta
===========
In an effort to standardize the various meta-info schemes used in
Avalon containers, the avalon-meta project was created in the sandbox
repository. Originally developed under the Merlin container, the meta
project will combine the AMTAGS (Avalon Meta Tags) proposal and the
original Merlin meta model. Consideration has also been given to
directly adopting the attrib4j project [1].
Avalon + .NET
=============
Work on a C# implementation of the Avalon framework accelerated this
last month. There has been more interest, a couple of additional
potential developers, and work starting on .NET container. The goal is
widest compatibility (i.e. will work with Mono and Microsoft .NET).
For more information about 'The Apache Avalon', please visit our
website [2] and participate in our developments. Any
inputs/comments/suggestions will be appreciated.
[1] - http://attrib4j.sourceforge.net/
[2] - http://avalon.apache.org/
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Apache Cocoon Project
=====================
Apache Cocoon
=============
Editor: Steven Noels
On July 30th, the Cocoon development team announced the release of the
Cocoon 2.1 [1] release candidate, which is a major advancement of the
successful 2.0 version. This 2.1 release affirms Cocoon's strengths for
XML-pipelined multiple media publishing, but now also offers a set of
truly compelling web application development strategies, including
several maturing form and application flow handling frameworks, which
are in the process of being unified for upcoming new versions of Cocoon.
Also, Cocoon is gradually becoming a componentized server environment,
offering the capability to only employ a restricted set of features
depending on your needs. Cocoon 2.1 also includes a redesign of the very
popular portal framework. It is to be expected that Cocoon 2.1 final
will be released in middle of August. The Cocoon project also welcomed a
set of new committers, all of them long-standing community members.
Furthermore, the incubation of Cocoon's subproject Lenya [2]. a
Cocoon-based CMS application, is actively underway.
The yearly Cocoon GetTogether, a developer and user community event to
be held on October 7th in Ghent, Belgium, has been announced on the
Cocoon community lists, and will now be organized by Orixo [3]. the XML
business alliance set up by several Cocoon-involved companies. The
event's website is located at 'event announcement page' [4].
[1] - http://cocoon.apache.org/2.1/
[2] - http://cocoon.apache.org/lenya/
[3] - http://www.orixo.com/
[4] - http://www.orixo.com/events/gt2003/
Apache Lenya
============
Editor: Michael Wechner
The former Wyona Content Management System has been donated to the
Apache Software Foundation and is currently being incubated as a Cocoon
subproject [1]. The Lenya developers are currently refactoring,
consolidating and enhancing the existing code base. The Lenya core is
architectured as a framework, whereas the Lenya publications can be used
as out of the box solutions. Release candidate 2 is expected to be ready
by the end of September.
[1] - http://cocoon.apache.org/lenya/
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Apache Commons Project
======================
We could not hear the July news from Apache Commons Project [1] Team.
I hope to hear the wonderful news in the next newsletter -- by Tetsuya
Kitahata
[1] - http://commons.apache.org/
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Apache DB Project
=================
DB OJB
======
July saw the final release candidate of OJB 1.0 (OJB 1.0 R.C.4) which
is heading toward the first FINAL Release of OJB 1.0.
NEW FEATURES:
o With this release we are feature complete for the 1.0 release!
For 1.0 you should not expect more features to be added.
o added a XDoclet OJB Module that allows to generate repository.xml
and DDL from tagged Java sources to the "contrib" distribution.
o added an OJB Taglib that allows to use OJB directly from JSP pages
to the "contrib" distribution.
NOTES:
o update used xdoclet version in 'ejb-examples' (see section
deployment/'Build the OJB sample session beans') to version 1.2xx
CHANGES:
o Enhance MetadataManager, add new methods, simplify handling of
different persistent object metadata profiles (means different
org.apache.ojb.broker.metadata.DescriptorRepository instances) at
runtime
o Provide a PUBLIC doctype declaration for the repository.xml
o add a convenience Constructor to QueryByCriteria that builds a query
selecting all instances of a class
o add isClosed() method to PersistenceBroker interface to check if
a broker instance was already closed.
o make OJB more strict in handling closed PersistenceBroker instances.
Now it's not any longer possible to use closed PersistenceBroker
instances.
o Package ...metadata.fieldaccess refactored/changed. Now all
PersistentField implementations support 'nested fields'.
See new entries in OJB.properties file. added new sections to documentation
BUG FIXES:
o fix several bugs in documentation
o fixed writing to memo columns in MS Access
o fixed optimistic locking problem
o fixed jdo tutorial setup
For more information, see the Apache OJB (Object Relational Bridge)
website [1]. Hope to hear your feedbacks/inputs/comments/ to our
developers' mailing list [2].
[1] - http://db.apache.org/ojb/
[2] - http://db.apache.org/mail.html
DB Torque
=========
Editor: Daniel Rall, Tetsuya Kitahata
Recent news includes release of Torque 3.0.2 and 3.1 alpha 2. See the
change log [1] for more details. Also, please visit our website [2] to
see the significant change on our project. Hope to hear your
feedbacks/inputs/comments/ to our developers' mailing list [3].
[1] - http://cvs.apache.org/viewcvs.cgi/db-torque/xdocs/changes.xml?rev=1&content-type=text/vnd.viewcvs-markup
[2] - http://db.apache.org/torque/
[3] - http://db.apache.org/mail.html
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Apache HTTP Server Project
==========================
July saw the two significant HTTP Server Release: Apache HTTP Server
2.0.47 at 9th July, 2003 and Apache HTTP Server 1.3.28 at 18th July,
2003.
HTTP Server 1.3.28 version of Apache is principally a bug and security
fix release. A partial summary of the bug fixes is given at the end of
the release note document. A full listing of changes can be found in the
CHANGES file. Of particular note is that 1.3.28 addresses and fixes 3
potential security issues:
HTTP Server 2.0.47 version of Apache is principally a security and bug
fix release. A summary of the bug fixes is given at the end of the
release note. Of particular note is that 2.0.47 addresses four security
vulnerabilities.
The website Apacheweek [1] is host to an active newsletter documenting
the Apache HTTP Server Project, with some coverage of other Apache
projects.
See The Apache HTTP Server Home Page [2] for more details.
[1] - http://www.apacheweek.com/
[2] - http://httpd.apache.org/
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Apache Incubator Project
========================
Incubator General
=================
Editor: Tetsuya Kitahata
In July, we saw the proposal of XMLBeans project [1] by Cliff Schmidt.
XMLBeans is a Java-XML binding tool that also allows low-level access to
the full XML instance Infoset. The technology was developed by BEA and
proposed to the Jakarta and XML communities. There had been
"[vote] XMLBeans to enter XML incubation" for the accepting this project
into Apache XML Project [2]. the XML PMC and XML committers welcomed
this project into it unanimously.
The other issues on Incubator Project are as follows:
The Apache Incubator Project is having the dubious honor of "incubating"
itself as well as other products. Regarding the Incubator Project itself,
there are still basic, fundamental issues that ideally should have been
resolved before it started accepting products/projects. As such, things
do not progress as smoothly as anticipated. Nevertheless, the following
projects are being incubated as we speak:
o AltRMI [3] : A transparent Remote Procedure Call bean.
o FtpServer [4] : A complete FTP Server based on Avalon principles.
o Tapestry [5] : A complete framework offering an alternative to JSP
& Velocity scripting environments.
o Lenya [6] : An Open-Source Content Management and publishing system.
It is based on open standards such as XML and XSLT.
Tapestry has left the incubator and Lenya is now in the status of
incubation via Apache Cocoon Project [7].
For more information about Incubator Project, see the website [8].
[1] - http://xml.apache.org/xmlbeans/
[2] - http://xml.apache.org/
[3] - http://incubator.apache.org/projects/altrmi/
[4] - http://incubator.apache.org/projects/ftpserver/
[5] - http://jakarta.apache.org/tapestry/
[6] - http://cocoon.apache.org/lenya/
[7] - http://cocoon.apache.org/
[8] - http://incubator.apache.org/
XMLBeans
=========
Editor: Cliff Schmidt, Tetsuya Kitahata
XMLBeans is an XML-Java binding tool that uses XML Schema as a basis
for generating Java classes to easily access XML instance data. This
access to strongly typed data is integrated with a synchronized,
cursor-based XML store for complete access to the underlying XML,
combining low-level, full access APIs like SAX and DOM with the
convenience of Java binding.
XMLBeans has recently been accepted into the incubator. Developers
(both new and old) are welcome to join xmlbeans-dev at xml.apache.org
and find out more. Also, BEA's quick start page [1] will give you more
insight into the XMLBeans.
Over the last six months, we have developed a thriving developer
community to provide feedback directly to the development team through
a discussion forum. We have invited three of the members of the
community to join us as committers, based on their contributions to the
development of the product. We are also looking forward to finding
additional non-BEA committers from the Apache community during the
incubation process. We've also had thousands of users experiment with
the technology. Part of the reason for this success has been the
availability of sample code and thorough documentation [2].
For more information, see the XMLBeans provisional website [3].
[1] - http://workshop.bea.com/xmlbeans/quickStart.jsp
[2] - http://workshop.bea.com/xmlbeans/docindex.html
[3] - http://xml.apache.org/xmlbeans/
Geronimo
========
Editor: Ken Kress, Emmanuel Bernard
Apache Geronimo is a new effort coordinated by the Apache Software
Foundation to make a J2EE compatible container. There are two main
aspects to this project:
o create a complete J2EE certified server which is fully ASF/BSD
licensed and backed by a healthy open source community.
o create a fully modular J2EE stack so that the Apache community can
use whichever parts of the J2EE stack they require separate from
the J2EE server project.
For more information, please read:
o the proposal that started the project in the incubator [1]
o the Geronimo Web site [2]
[1] - http://incubator.apache.org/projects/geronimo-proposal.html
[2] - http://incubator.apache.org/projects/geronimo.html
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Apache James Project
====================
Editor: Serge Knystautas
We are actively working towards a 2.2 release that will incorporate
many of the long-awaited features that have been worked on in the 3.0
branch. We currently have released v2.2.0a9, which is still alpha and
incorporating other features, but we expect will have release candidates
in the next month or two.
The most notable changes in the 2.2 release will be:
o Mailet and matcher classloading! No longer will you need to rebuild
James or bundle your classes and libs into the james.sar. There is a
separate classes and lib directories that will make mailet and matcher
development much easier.
o Mail attributes! You can now add and manage adhoc attributes to mail
objects during the processing phase. These will not get stored on the
mime message, but will allow developers and administrators to transfer
information between processing stages.
o DBCP support. We have deprecated the home-brewed database connection
pooler in favor of the Jakarta commons package. Some James developers
are working with the DBCP team to improve this shared implementation.
For further information about the Apache James, please visit our
website [1].
[1] - http://james.apache.org/
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Apache Jakarta Project
======================
Apache Jakarta Project - General
================================
In July, we saw many release of Jakarta subprojects.
o 30 July 2003 - Jakarta POI 2.0-pre3 Released
o 25 July 2003 - Jakarta Tomcat 5.0.5 Alpha released
o 16 July 2003 - Jakarta Velocity Tools 1.0 Released
o 15 July 2003 - Jakarta Tapestry 3.0-beta-2 Released
o 15 July 2003 - Jakarta Tomcat 5.0.4 Alpha released
o 14 July 2003 - Jakarta Cactus 1.5-beta1 Released
o 11 July 2003 - Jakarta ECS (Element Construction Set) 1.4.2 Released
o 11 July 2003 - Jakarta POI 2.0-pre2 Released
o 02 July 2003 - Jakarta Commons HttpClient 2.0 Beta 2 Released
You can see the whole Jakarta news from the Jakarta News Page [1].
If you want the news from other jakarta-related projects, see the
'elsewhere' page [2].
In the general mailing list, there were some hot topics.
Proposal of the internationalization project. At first, i18n project
proposed by Robert Simpson was targeted mainly the Java Package of the
internationalization [3]. however, some Jakarta Committers picked up
this as more widely, and now thinking about the TLP (Top Level Project)
of the ASF.
1. ASF-wide document translation (projects)
2. ASF-wide resource translation projects
3. Non-language-specific i18n module development projects
4. general discussion place about i18n/l10n/m17n issues
For those who have concerns and interests in the
internationalization/localization projects in the ASF, we are sure to
provide the discussion room of this issue, so please let us know [4] if
you are interested in.
"Apache != HTTPD"?? The "Apache branding issue", deliverable issue from
the XMLBeans proposal occurred in the general list.
Is Jakarta user-friendly? .. Tetsuya Kitahata raised this issue,
related to the Mailing List Announcement Page [5] [6]. There are still
a room for the improvements of the user-friendliness, it seems.
For participation to the jakarta general mailing list, please go to the
mailing list information page [7].
[1] - http://jakarta.apache.org/site/news.html
[2] - http://jakarta.apache.org/site/elsewhere.html
[3] - http://www.itoolset.com/i18n/PROPOSAL.html
[4] - mailto:tetsuya@apache.org
[5] - http://jakarta.apache.org/site/mail.html
[6] - http://jakarta.apache.org/site/mail2.html
[7] - http://jakarta.apache.org/site/mail2.html#general
Jakarta Alexandria
==================
We could not hear the July news from Alexandria Team. I hope to hear
the wonderful news in the next newsletter -- by Tetsuya Kitahata
[1] - http://jakarta.apache.org/alexandria/
Jakarta BCEL
============
We could not hear the July news from BSEL Team. I hope to hear the
wonderful news in the next newsletter -- by Tetsuya Kitahata
[1] - http://jakarta.apache.org/bcel/
Jakarta BSF
============
We could not hear the July news from BSF Team. I hope to hear the
wonderful news in the next newsletter -- by Tetsuya Kitahata
[1] - http://jakarta.apache.org/bsf/
Jakarta Cactus
==============
Cactus Team announced the beta 1 release of Cactus 1.5, in the middle
of July. For further information, see the cactus website [1] or the
announcement page [2].
[1] - http://jakarta.apache.org/cactus/
[2] - http://jakarta.apache.org/site/news.html#20030714.1
Jakarta Commons
===============
Jakarta Commons BeanUtils
=========================
Editor: Robert Burrell Donkin
BeanUtils [1] is a library providing enhanced reflection and
introspection.
It has been clear for some time that the original design decision to
use Booch utilities (aka static utility classes) for the key BeanUtils
functionality limits the ways that BeanUtils can be customized in a web
application environment. This is a major draw back. So, the push over
the last few months has been to move BeanUtils over to objects whilst
retaining backwards compatibility.
The approach is now starting to pay dividends. Eric Pabst (and others)
have provided interesting patches which allow BeanUtils to be pushed
forward in new directions. Hopefully, the team will be able to catch up
with the bug reports whilst at the same time feeding in some more of
these new ideas.
[1] - http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/beanutils.html
Jakarta Commons Betwixt
=======================
Editor: Robert Burrell Donkin
Betwixt [1] is an(other) Object XML mapper. It specializes in
dynamic mappings (as opposed to generative solutions based on creating
objects from schema or static mappings) with flexible strategies
allowing developers to customize mappings programmatically.
It's been a long time since the last release and some users have
already been asking when the next one is going to be. There are a
number of substantial enhancements requiring extensive refactoring still
in progress (thanks to those who submitted those patches - they are
being worked on). Another alpha release may well happen once the current
crop have been processed.
Support for reading mixed content (that's the text between elements),
writing DynaBeans and more powerful control over object to string
conversions have been added in the last month so things are now starting
to move in the right direction. Also work has been done to improve the
unit tests.
[1] - http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/betwixt/
Jakarta Commons Modeler
=======================
Editor: Yoav Shapira
The Modeler component of the Jakarta Commons subproject offers
convenient support for configuring and instantiating Model MBeans
(management beans), as described in the JMX Specification.
In July, a release plan was formed and agreed upon for the 1.1 final
release of the modeler component. This release is expected to be
available by mid August (10th August).
For more information, see the Commons Modeler website [1].
[1] - http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/modeler/
Jakarta ECS
===========
Editor: Robert Burrell Donkin
Jakarta ECS [1] is a mature (venerable, even) framework for creating
markup programmatically. A 1.4.2 release maintenance release was made in
July. See the Jakarta News Section [2].
[1] - http://jakarta.apache.org/ecs/
[2] - http://jakarta.apache.org/site/news.html#20030711.1
Jakarta Gump
============
Editor: Adam Jack, Nick Chalko
Gump has accumulated 168 modules, providing 380 projects, and
continuous integration builds are running nightly on at least five
public servers. Of these modules, 20 have delegated their descriptors
to project CVS repositories, which allows local management of this.
Gump extracts source code from over 24 CVS repositories, with most CVS
repositories hosting multiple modules. Recent additions were new modules
for jUDDI [1] and Jakarta POI version 3 [2].
In order to improve the process around Gump, it has been added to
Bugzilla. Users can submit bug reports and/or requests for change in an
organized process.
Gump has suffered some outages, primarily due to: hardware failures
(lightening damage), CVS locks on remote CVS servers (hanging CVS
updates), and CVS outages in remote servers. Also, with the length of a
gump run now exceeds 7 hours, which can leads to build starting
generation on one day and ending on another (exposing a @@DATE@@ problem).
Although "SUCCESS" builds are the norm, there are numerous "PREREQ
FAILURE" when builds are marked as "FAILED". This represents healthy
project sharing/re-use/cooperation, which is exactly what Gump to
promotes and facilitates. The nightly gump output (see the latest build
result of gump [3]. reads like a dashboard on the state of "Open Source
Sharing".
Gump is starting to see more use as "personal" Gumps, where the
modules/projects that are not all available for public CVS access can
benefit from continuous integration, Additionally, some installations
are for a "trimmed stack" for build speed/focus.
As a corollary, gump is seeing more use with "packages" (pre-installed Further, a *nix gump.sh script is evolving to allow a standard build Are you interested? See Jakarta Gump Project Website [4] for more Editor: Santiago Gala There has been a lot of things going on in the Jetspeed project [1]. The rest of the traffic is the preparation of the final release of the The new CVS Repository can be found from here [2]. We could not hear the July news from JMeter [1]. however, JMeter Team We could not hear the July news from Log4J [1] Team. I hope to hear We could not hear the July news from Lucene [1] Team. I hope to hear We could not hear the July news from ORO [1] Team. I hope to hear the Editor: Tetsuya Kitahata, Andrew C. Oliver We saw a series of POI 2.0 rel release (POI 2.0-pre2 and POI 2.0-pre3) WHAT IS POI? The POI project consists of APIs for manipulating various file formats For more information, see the Jakarta POI website [1] and POI News [2]. We could not hear the July news from Regexp [1] Team. I hope to hear We could not hear the July news from Slide [1] Team. I hope to hear We could not hear the July news from Struts [1] Team. I hope to hear We could not hear the July news from Taglibs [1] Team. I hope to hear Editor: Remy Maucherat Tomcat 4.1.27 has been released, fixing number of security issues which Tomcat 5.0 release plan was voted, and is now quickly making its way For more information, see the Tomcat Website [1] and join to the We could not hear the July news from Turbine [1] Team. I hope to hear Editor: Nathan Bubna Velocity Tools [1] [2].version 1.0 has been released. This project Since the release work has rapidly progressed on development of support We could not hear the July news from Watchdog [1] Team. I hope to hear July saw the beta-10 release of Apache Maven 1.0, which can be See The Apache Maven Home Page [2] for more details. We could not hear the July news from Apache Perl Project [1] Team. --------------------------------------------------------------------- We could not hear the July news from Apache TCL Project [1] Team. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Apache WS Project - General Editor: Tom Jordahl The Apache Web Service project is off to a good start. We have 5 There is a PROPOSAL to create a WS-Commons project [3] and along with a If you are interested in helping out in any of these areas, For more information, see the Apache Web Service website [6]. Editor: Tom Jordahl Axis [1] released version 1.1 on June 16, 2003. The team is considering One recent change to the codebase is in XML encoding -Axis1.1 and We are also pleased to see Doug Davis committing again, backporting There have been now obvious "why didn't we see that" defects reported Editor: Susantha Kumara Now the Axis C++ enables a web services developer to deploy web Axis C++ team is happy to announce the C++ implementation of SOAP Listed below are the current set of features of Axis C++ server side Partial support for both SOAP 1.1 & 1.2 Supports all xml basic types The Handler architecture with the WSDD based deployment concept makes In contrast to Axis java, the C++ implementation adopts a pull Axis C++ provides an API for adding transport modules which allows Axis The initial release of Axis C++ 1.0 is expected to be out in mid Full SOAP 1.2 support WSDL2C++ and WSDL2C prototyping tools. A fully WS WSIF We could not hear the July news from SOAP [1]. WSIF [2]. WSIL [3] nor --------------------------------------------------------------------- Apache XML Project - General We've had a quarter with a fair bit of general activity. The XMLBeans Issues needing attention: The xml-security sub-project is starting work on C++ and Java After discussions with various parties within Apache, the xml-security Only source code is released (i.e. no compiled versions of the Editor: Jorg Walter On the 29th of July, AxKit 1.6.2 was released. It is a collection of Meanwhile, our plans for AxKit 2.0 are getting more publicity, so here AxKit 2.0 will be designed for mod_perl 2.0 exclusively. We will keep We do not yet have a definite timeline, and it is quite likely that we For more information, see the Axkit website [2]. The Batik project had a release in July just prior to the SVG Open For more information, see the Apache Batik website [1]. Editor: Shane Curcuru The xml-commons project has made slow and quiet progress. The Xalan-J For more information, see the XML-Commons website [1]. Almost a year after the last release the FOP team released version For more information, see the Apache FOP website [2]. Editor: Jeff Turner "Forrest" [1]. for those who don't know, is an XML-based documentation Forrest is currently in a stable phase, waiting on some Cocoon o Ability to generate a single PDF/HTML of the entire site Forrest gained two new committers, Juan Jose Pablos, and Leo Simons Tentative plans for the next release include: o adopting XHTML 2 as a standard intermediate format Join us on forrest-dev@xml.apache.org [6] if you have questions or Xalan-C 1.6 was released on 11 August. Highlights include: For more information, see the Xalan-C++ Project website [1]. Xalan-J 2.5.1 was released in early June. The release included: o documentation updates and bug fixes (see README file [1] ) A great deal of effort in the quarter was spent improving performance For more information, see the Xalan-J website [3]. Good progress being made. 2.4.0 planned for release in the autumn with For more information about Xerces-C++. please visit our website [1] Xerces-J 2.5.0 was released in late July. As well as the usual plethora For more information, see the Xerces-J Project website [1]. Xerces-P made an experimental 2.3 release. This included support for For more information, see the Xerces-P Project website [1]. Xindice is still trying to put together the 1.1 release, so far with For more information, visit the Xindice website [1]. The XML-Security sub-project has just release version 1.0.0 of the C++ Work continues in the Java library to further develop encryption There has also been a fair amount of discussion around the potential For more information, see the XML-Security website [1]. --------------------------------------------------------------------- We could not hear the July news from PHP Project Team, however, php --------------------------------------------------------------------- Editor: Noel J. Bergman The major changes were the addition of Minotaur as the new CVS server, New Committers o Juan Jose Pablos : cheche at apache.org (Forrest) ......... Congratulations!! Readers' Voice o Just a quick "thank you" for the newsletter. Always helpful and ---------------------------------------------------------------------
base software) -- reducing build time, and focusing the builds on
specific software. Nick Chalko contributed the ability for gump to
convert module definitions to "nobuild" equivalents, on the fly. These
descriptors contain the
of the original metadata, removing manual editing.
process (combining the various gump build steps) to make it easier for
users to install/run their own gumps.
details.
[1] - http://cvs.apache.org/builds/gump/latest/juddi.html
[2] - http://cvs.apache.org/builds/gump/latest/jakarta-poi-3.html
[3] - http://cvs.apache.org/builds/gump/latest
[4] - http://jakarta.apache.org/gump/
Jakarta Jetspeeed
=================
The JSR-168 Portlet API was published, unveiling a proposal, originally
rooted in the Jetspeed project two years ago, to have a standard way to
specify the interaction between a Portal and its components, called
portlets. A lot of the traffic on the lists has been about discussion of
the API and of the forthcoming jetspeed-2 code base, which is under
development and will be JSR-168 compliant.
Jetspeed 1 line, which will be in maintenance mode after it is released.
[1] - http://jakarta.apache.org/jetspeed/
[2] - http://cvs.apache.org/viewcvs/jakarta-jetspeed-2/
Jakarta JMeter
==============
announced the JMeter 1.9 Final Release early in August [2]. I hope to
hear the wonderful news in the next newsletter -- by Tetsuya Kitahata
[1] - http://jakarta.apache.org/jmeter/
[2] - http://jakarta.apache.org/site/news.html#20030807.1
Jakarta Log4J
=============
the wonderful news in the next newsletter -- by Tetsuya Kitahata
[1] - http://jakarta.apache.org/log4j/
Jakarta Lucene
===============
the wonderful news in the next newsletter -- by Tetsuya Kitahata
[1] - http://jakarta.apache.org/lucene/
Jakarta ORO
============
wonderful news in the next newsletter -- by Tetsuya Kitahata
[1] - http://jakarta.apache.org/oro/
Jakarta POI
============
in July. HDF has been abandoned for a new codebase called HWPF (port of
Microsoft Word file format). The 3.0 release is shaping up to be
primarily geared towards performance and memory consumption improvements.
Besides the work on the HEAD (which doesn't yet pass all unit tests)
that will eventually branch to the 3.0 release, Chris Nokelburg has
donated a new implementation of POIFS which supports memory mapping and
other techniques. These changes will be incorporated in 3.0.
based upon Microsoft's OLE 2 Compound Document format using pure Java.
In short, you can read and write MS Excel files using Java. Reading
property information is also supported. Work continues on reading and
writing the MS Word format.
Also, we are waiting your participation to our mailing lists! [3]
[1] - http://jakarta.apache.org/poi/
[2] - http://nagoya.apache.org/poi/news/
[3] - http://jakarta.apache.org/site/mail2.html#poi
Jakarta Regexp
===============
the wonderful news in the next newsletter -- by Tetsuya Kitahata
[1] - http://jakarta.apache.org/regexp/
Jakarta Slide
==============
the wonderful news in the next newsletter -- by Tetsuya Kitahata
[1] - http://jakarta.apache.org/slide/
Jakarta Struts
===============
the wonderful news in the next newsletter -- by Tetsuya Kitahata
[1] - http://jakarta.apache.org/struts/
Jakarta Taglibs
================
the wonderful news in the next newsletter -- by Tetsuya Kitahata
[1] - http://jakarta.apache.org/taglibs/
Jakarta Tomcat
===============
were recently discovered, and integrating other bugfixes. When
downloading it, make sure to also download and install the hotfix fixing
a regression in webapp reloading (bugzilla item 22096).
towards beta, with a focus on bugfixing. Many old, long standing, Tomcat
issues which needed non trivial refactoring are addressed during this
period.
mailing lists of ours [2].
[1] - http://jakarta.apache.org/tomcat/
[2] - http://jakarta.apache.org/site/mail2.html#tomcat
Jakarta Turbine
================
the wonderful news in the next newsletter -- by Tetsuya Kitahata
[1] - http://jakarta.apache.org/turbine/
Jakarta Velocity
=================
provides servlets and tools for rapid, flexible, MVC web development
with Velocity, tools for using Velocity with the Struts framework, and a
set of generic tools to help with any Velocity project.
for the new features in Struts 1.1. Support for ActionMessages, Tiles,
and modules has been implemented, and support for Validator should
follow soon.
[1] - http://jakarta.apache.org/velocity/
[2] - http://jakarta.apache.org/velocity/tools/
Jakarta Watchdog
=================
the wonderful news in the next newsletter -- by Tetsuya Kitahata
[1] - http://jakarta.apache.org/watchdog/
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Apache Maven Project
=====================
downloaded from "Download Area" [1].
[1] - http://maven.apache.org/builds/release/1.0-beta-10/
[2] - http://maven.apache.org/
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Apache Perl Project
====================
I hope to hear the wonderful news in the next newsletter -- by Tetsuya
Kitahata
[1] - http://perl.apache.org/
Apache TCL Project
===================
I hope to hear the wonderful news in the next newsletter -- by Tetsuya
Kitahata
[1] - http://tcl.apache.org/
Apache WS Project
==================
============================
project currently under the Web Services umbrella: Axis, SOAP (inactive
- maintenence only), WSIF, WSIL, and XML-RPC. The PMC is currently
finishing up a VOTE on the Web Services charter [1] and is voting on a
proposal to add the Charon [2] project.
few projects that might fit in nicely, a WS-Security API [4] and a
Schema API [5].
particularly the WS-Commons projects, please sign up on the wiki pages.
[1] - http://nagoya.apache.org/wiki/apachewiki.cgi?action=browse&id=WebServicesProjectPages/Charter
[2] - http://nagoya.apache.org/wiki/apachewiki.cgi?CharonProposal
[3] - http://nagoya.apache.org/wiki/apachewiki.cgi?WebServicesProjectPages/CharterForWSCommons
[4] - http://nagoya.apache.org/wiki/apachewiki.cgi?SecurityProposal
[5] - http://nagoya.apache.org/wiki/apachewiki.cgi?SchemaAPIProposal
[6] - http://ws.apache.org/
WS Axis
========
what features and changes to include in the next (1.2) release. We have
recently warmly welcomed new committers Toshiyuki Kimura (Toshi), Eric
Friedman, Andras Avar and Rick Kellogg.
earlier encoding was both inefficient at times, and illegal at others
(it would send \u0000 down the wire). This is now fixed: because SOAP
only supports UTF8 and UTF16 encoding, the encoding process is easier
than for, say Xerces. A big hand to Jens Schumann for his effort!
some changes made to Axis for IBM's ETTK product. Specifically, there is
now a plug in mechanism to respond to ?wsdl and other queries made of a
service endpoint, so you can now define your own handlers for these
requests. Hopefully he will have other interesting additions to make in
the near future...
against Axis1.1 yet, though one late breaking change regarding timeouts
is troublesome. In Axis1.0 there was no timeout waiting for responses at
all, which is wrong. In Axis1.1 the timeout was set to 60 seconds, which
is proving too short for some services. Although end users can set it,
the setting mechanism is Axis-specific, and so not compatible with other
JAX-RPC implementations. We need to come up with a more compatible
mechanism and perhaps increase the default timeout to a few minutes.
services written in C++.
engine. The server side implementation is available and client side on
the way. The C++ based SOAP engine adopts most of Axis Java architecture.
However it features several architecture changes geared for performance.
Notably Axis C++ uses a web service wrapping concept that solves the
need of type mapping and dynamic loading that leads to performance.
Currently wrapper class generation tool is used for deployment of web
service classes which cuts down the effort needed by the web service
developer. Some other variants of this wrapper class generation tool are
planned for deploying C, COM and CORBA components as web services.
Modules, including the currently functional Apache web server module for
Apache 1.3, are being developed that allow Axis C++ to be plugged in to
popular web servers such as Apache and Microsoft IIS.
SOAP engine.
Supports Complex types and arrays Deployment tool that converts C++
classes to dynamically deployable Libraries The Handler architecture
same as Axis Java WSDD based deployment same as Axis Java Supports RPC
style web services Test suite for interoperability tests
Axis C++ a highly configurable and extensible SOAP engine. The WSDD in
combination with the handler architecture allows pluggable handlers that
enables dynamic configuration of the Axis engine.
mechanism for XML parsing that leads to performance.
to work with multiple transport protocols. The current transport module
for Apache HTTP server is written for this API. This API depicts
XML-Pull parsing nature of Axis C++.
September with following features,
functional Wrapper Class generator Suite Portability of code base for
Windows/Linux/FreeBSD/Solaris/AIX Web server plug-ins for Apache, IIS
and Tomcat Comprehensive documentation and Samples XML pull parser
integration, proper error handling, Web interface to Axis documentation
and unit tests.
[1] - http://ws.apache.org/axis/
WS SOAP
========
========
WS WSIL
========
WS XML-RPC
===========
XML-RPC [4] Project Team. I hope to hear the wonderful news in the next
newsletter -- by Tetsuya Kitahata
[1] - http://ws.apache.org/soap/
[2] - http://ws.apache.org/wsif/
[3] - http://cvs.apache.org/viewcvs.cgi/*checkout*/xml-axis-wsil/java/README.htm
[4] - http://ws.apache.org/xmlrpc/
Apache XML Project
===================
=============================
product has been accepted into incubation by the project as a whole. The
proposal generated a great level of discussion amongst the xml project
community, and ended in a positive result, with a clear understanding of
what issues the xml community feel need to be addressed during the
incubation process.
implementations of the W3C XML Encryption standard. Whilst not
implementing encryption algorithms directly, we will be making use of
other libraries that have such functionality.
team understands that working on such an implementation will not cause
any export issues provided :
libraries can be made available). An e-mail is sent to Bureau of
Industry and Security (BIS) informing them of the location of the code
available for download. The format of this email can be found at
http://www.bxa.doc.gov/encryption/PubAvailEncSourceCodeNofify.html .
We seek the endorsement of the board for this approach, and would ask
who such an e-mail should come from.
[1] - http://xml.apache.org/
XML Axkit
==========
many bug fixes, especially regarding charset/encoding issues and
processing order of AxAdd*Processor directives. AxKit now runs fine with
Perl up to 5.8.0. Some features were added, most interestingly attribute
value interpolation in XSP pages. Also, now we have a much improved test
suite which is run every night to ensure nothing breaks. You can read
the full announcement [1].
is a preliminary overview of what that release will bring us:
the 1.x tree and fix bugs in there for mod_perl 1.x users, but major
development will happen in the AxKit 2.0 branch once it exists. One of
the most important features of the AxKit 2.0 release is a completely new
processing pipeline system, which allows you to configure processing,
caching and tracing in any combination you like. This is good news for
all XSP-after-XSLT users, now you can finally get partial caching. It is
very likely that we will overhaul the configuration system as well,
since pipeline configuration is getting hairy for many cases.
will release AxKit 2.0 after mod_perl 2.0 is released, so don't hold
your breath. AxKit 1.x is not yet abandoned, and we expect another
release or two until then. You may want to take a look at the Petal
templating language, people say they've seen Matt sneaking around that
module for some time... :-)
[1] - http://axkit.org/cgi-bin/ezmlm-cgi?3:mss:7028:200307:dhbfgcdobebkecpillig
[2] - http://axkit.org/
XML Batik
==========
conference in Vancouver. The release came with a fairly large number of
bug fixes, improvements and a lot of work on the test infrastructure. We
will likely do a patch release in September as there have been a couple
important improvements done by Thomas DeWeese after the release and
there are a few regressions to patch.
[1] - http://xml.apache.org/batik/
XML Commons
============
and Xerces-J committers are collaborating on the xml-apis code to
maintain a branch that can be used to pass the JAXP 1.2 TCK for their
projects. We hope to make new maintenance releases soon of both the
resolver and which utilities, which just need some docs/release manager
volunteer time.
[1] - http://xml.apache.org/commons/
XML FOP
=========
0.20.5 of XML-Apache's Formatting Objects Processor on July 18th [1].
This is the last planned release from the maintenance branch. In
addition to supporting this new version on our FOP mailing lists, the
team is also working on the redesign and coding for our future 1.0
release. The distribution directory has been migrated to the new
location to make the downloads mirrorable [3] - which seems to work well
according to the Apache Stats made by Vadim Gritsenko where he recently
added FOP [4]. Although the new FOP logo [5] has been voted some time
ago there's still some tweaking needed [6].
[1] - http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=xml-apache-announce&m=105855086130731&w=2
[2] - http://xml.apache.org/fop/
[3] - http://www.apache.org/dev/mirrors.html
[4] - http://www.apache.org/~vgritsenko/stats/projects/fop.html
[5] - http://www.tkachenko.com/fop/logocontest/fop_logo-revised-Tobias-Muller.jpg
[6] - http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=fop-dev&m=105975342320162&w=2
XML Forrest
============
system built on Cocoon, used to build sites like 'The Apache XML
Website': http://xml.apache.org/ [2]
improvements before a 0.5 release is made. Significant progress has
been made since 0.4. Most notably, the monolithic sitemap has been
divided into functional categories and logical layers, with the aim of
making Forrest sites easier to maintain, and new features easier to add
[3]. There are numerous new features, including:
o New flexible tab/menu system [4]
o Numerous skin improvements, including Javascript-controlled menus
o A new pure CSS variant of standard skin.
o DTD improvements (v11 replaced with v12, and v20 in the works)
o Wiki support :demo [5]
o Improved PDF output
o About 70% faster, thanks to the new command-line interface in Cocoon
(who wrote a Maven plugin, waiting to be checked in). In addition, all
Cocoon committers were granted karma to Forrest CVS, in recognition of
the close ties between these projects.
o adopting RELAX NG as a schema format
o developing a simple XSLT-based plugin system for defining new tags
o make site development much faster by avoiding the creation of a
temporary webapp directory
o exploiting the numerous features in the upcoming Cocoon 2.1 release
would like to participate.
[1] - http://xml.apache.org/forrest/
[2] - http://xml.apache.org/
[3] - http://xml.apache.org/forrest/sitemap-ref.html
[4] - http://xml.apache.org/forrest/linking.html
[5] - http://cvs.apache.org/~jefft/forrest/samples/wikirenderer-site/
[6] - mailto:forrest-dev-subscribe@xml.apache.org
XML Xalan-C++
==============
o "Sane includes" changes.
o Bug fixes.
o FreeBSD and NetBSD ports
o Faster UTF-8 and UTF-16 serializers.
[1] - http://xml.apache.org/xalan-c/
Xalan-J/XSLTC
==============
o performance patches to the serializer and to XSLTC
o An alternate binary distribution which contains XSLTC and
Xalan-Interpretive in separate jar files. See the download page [2]
for more information on the packaging in the two distributions.
for the 2.5.1 release and beyond in the current version in CVS. The
improvement has been noted by some of our users, which means that it is
often more than a few percent. Finally, one new committer, Igor Hersht,
was accepted into the subproject.
[1] - http://xml.apache.org/xalan-j/readme.html
[2] - http://xml.apache.org/xalan-j/downloads.html
[3] - http://xml.apache.org/xalan-j/
XML Xerces-C++
===============
new features including persistent grammars. No new committers.
[1] - http://xml.apache.org/xerces-c/
XML Xerces-J
=============
of bugfixes, this release marked the completion of Xerces-J's PSVI/XML
Schema Component Model support via implementation of annotation
components. The product was also upgraded to conform to the latest DOM
level 3 Core and Load/Save Working Drafts, and an experimental XInclude
partial implementation was added. Finally, one new committer--K
Venugopal--was accepted into the subproject.
[1] - http://xml.apache.org/xerces2-j/
XML Xerces-P
=============
handling the config.status file of Xerces-C to improve cross platform
support. Two announcements were made from users who successfully
compiled the 2.3 release under Windows, however no binary release for
windows is available yet.
[1] - http://xml.apache.org/xerces-p/
XML Xindice
============
mixed results and a couple of failed attempts. The good news is that the
community has got two new committers: Vadim Gritsenko and Kevin O'Neill
joined Xindice in late July, and results are encouraging, with
discussions and CVS commits flowing at a very good rate.
[1] - http://xml.apache.org/xindice/
XML XML-Security
=================
library, supporting the W3C XML Digital Signature standard. Work will
now move to creating a C++ implementation of the XML Encryption standard.
support.
legal ramifications for Apache of releasing a library that makes use of
encryption algorithms. (See legal issues above.)
[1] - http://xml.apache.org/security/
PHP Project
============
project has a nice news release system. See the PHP Website for more
information [1]. -- by Tetsuya Kitahata
[1] - http://www.php.net/
The Apache Infrastructure Team Report
======================================
the removal of icarus (the previous CVS server), and the fact that the
ASF is now located in a new co-location facility with its own rack and
cage. Minotaur is a powerful system, and may allow new uses, e.g.,
moving the Cocoon wiki to Apache hardware, allowing Jakarta to run parts
of its site on Tomcat, etc. Those possibilities are still being
investigated. With the new co-location facility, the ASF is open for
donations of rack mountable components, e.g., new servers.
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o Reinhard Potz : reinhard at apache.org (Cocoon)
o Geoff Howard : ghoward at apache.org (Cocoon)
o J Aaron Farr : farra at apache.org (Avalon)
o Toshiyuki Kimura : toshi at apache.org (WS Axis)
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a pleasure to read! -- Axel.
o Wow - you guys rocks ! Keep up the good work. And I really do hope
that this will keep its 'all things java and xml' scope -- Dirk
o It has been already said, but the last newsletter was *awesome*! :-)
I saw many non-jakarta projects on it, and that was very nice indeed.
It makes different projects understand what's happening to each other.
-- Nicola
o Agreed, Nicola! :-) -- Noel
o Superb work, I'm really curious what the new Apache Newsletter brings.
-- Erik
o "Best newsletter ever!" -- Glen
o Just another "job well done" email on the newsletter. -- Daniel