The Apache Commons project is pleased to announce the release of Commons BeanUtils 1.8.0. Commons BeanUtils provides easy-to-use wrappers around the Reflection and Introspection APIs provided by the Java language. BeanUtils 1.8.0 is binary compatible with version 1.7.0 and contains a number of bug fixes and enhancements. Full details of changes are available in the Release Notes: http://commons.apache.org/beanutils/v1.8.0/RELEASE-NOTES.txt Commons BeanUtils is available in either binary or source form from the following download page: http://commons.apache.org/beanutils/download_beanutils.cgi For more information on Commons BeanUtils, visit the project home page: http://commons.apache.org/beanutils/ - Niall Pemberton - on behalf of the Apache Commons community

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The Apache Harmony team are pleased to announce the immediate availability of Apache Harmony 5.0M7. Apache Harmony is the Java platform project of the Apache Software Foundation. Apache Harmony 5.0M7 is the latest stable build with numerous enhancements and bug fixes including: * new performance improvements, especially in object serialization and pack200 decoding, * a new 'javap' the class file disassembler tool, and alpha version of 'policytool' the security policy management tool. * bug fixes and functional enhancements throughout the class libraries, especially in the Swing widget toolkit, * ...and many more We would particularly like to thank our Google Summer of Code students András Belicza (policytool) and Tharindu Mathew (Swing enhancements), and welcome them to the project! Source code and binary builds are available from the project download site: http://harmony.apache.org/download.cgi Apache Harmony welcomes your help. For more information on how to report problems, successes, and to get involved in Apache Harmony visit the project website at http://harmony.apache.org The Apache Harmony Team

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The Apache MyFaces Orchestra team is pleased to announce the release of Apache MyFaces Orchestra Core 1.2. Get a full overview at Orchestra's homepage [1]. The distribution is available at * http://myfaces.apache.org/orchestra/download.html Apache MyFaces Orchestra is available in the central Maven repository under Group ID "org.apache.myfaces.orchestra". Have fun! Regards, Simon [1] http://myfaces.apache.org/orchestra

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The Apache JAMES Project http://james.apache.org is pround to announce that Apache JSieve 0.2 is now available. Apache JSieve is a Java implementation of RFC 3028 Sieve: A Mail Filtering Language. A prime (though not the only) use case for Sieve is rule-based filtering into mailboxes after delivery to a server. JAMES server uses JSieve for this purpose. For more information see http://james.apache.org/jsieve. This is the first release of JSieve though the code base is reasonably mature. It can be downloaded from ������http://james.apache.org/download.cgi. Please remember to check the signature or sum. Robert Burrell Donkin

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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Axis2 team is proud to announce the release of Apache Axis2 version 1.4.1. Apache Axis2 1.4.1 fixes a security vulnerability present in Apache Axis2 1.4 policy processing. Downloads are available at: http://ws.apache.org/axis2/download.cgi The Maven2 main repository has the latest jars as well. Apache Axis2 is a complete re-design and re-write of the widely used Apache Axis engine and is a more efficient, more scalable, more modular and more XML-oriented Web services framework. It is carefully designed to support the easy addition of plug-in "modules" that extend its functionality for features such as security and reliability. Known Issues and Limitations in 1.4.1 Release: - - Please see JIRA for the current status of bugs We welcome any and all feedback at: - - axis-user@ws.apache.org (please include "[axis2]" in the subject, please subscribe first) - - axis-dev@ws.apache.org (please include "[axis2]" in the subject, please subscribe first) - - http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AXIS2 Thank you for your interest in Apache Axis2! The Axis2 Development Team http://ws.apache.org/axis2/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFIsxTbmA4ts7hLdV8RAl/uAKCQh9Q8J2lTJpWs3UMGjQ1QlXffcwCeLBVn Tj7lveVJ+g8pHFqlLo1WhAQ= =hnw4 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Mime4J is a flexible MIME parsing library written in Java. SAX, DOM and pull parsing styles are supported. The 0.4 release brings a number of significant improvements in terms of supported capabilities, flexibility and performance: * Revised and improved public API with support for pull parsing * Support for parsing of 'headless' messages transmitted using non SMTP transports such as HTTP * Reduced external dependencies. Mime4j is no longer directly dependent on log4j and commons-io * Improved parsing performance (up to 10x for large messages) * More comprehensive header parsing including support for RFC1864, RFC2045, RFC2183, RFC2557 and RFC3066 * Revised packaging and exception hierarchy. MimeException now extends IOException. Detailed change log can be found here: http://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?projectId=12310521&styleName=Html&version=12312483 Notes ----- * 0.4 contains numerous API improvements and is not binary compatible with 0.3 * Mime4j API is still considered unstable and is likely to change in future releases * DOM support has known limitations and some roundtrip issues remain to be resolved * Some low level functions are available only in the pull parser (recommended for advanced users)

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The Apache Directory Team is pleased to announce the release of Apache Directory Studio 1.2.0, a major update of its Eclipse based LDAP Browser and Directory client. You can download Apache Directory Studio 1.2.0 as a standalone RCP application for Mac OS X, Linux and Windows here: http://directory.apache.org/studio/downloads.html You can also install it directly in Eclipse using this update site: http://directory.apache.org/studio/update/1.x/ Here are a few highlights of this new version: * The new Apache DS feature makes its introduction in Apache Directory Studio. This new feature allows you to run the latest version of Apache DS (1.5.3) from within Apache Directory Studio or Eclipse and makes it super easy (and fast) to create and run an LDAP Server. * The Apache DS Configuration plugin now supports the 4 latest versions of Apache DS. It's now capable to read/write the server.xml file of an Apache DS 1.5.0, 1.5.1, 1.5.2 and 1.5.3. * The Search Logs view has been added to the LDAP Browser. * We've also added the support to use the proxy features of Eclipse inside Studio as well as improved the platform (useful actions have been added to the platform, the Mac OS X application now respects the standards of Apple for the "About" and "Preferences" actions, etc.). * We've also fixed some bugs dealing with schema files and schema parsing in the Schema Editor and LDAP Browser plugins. Developed as a sub-project of the Directory Top Level Project, Apache Directory Studio is an Eclipse RCP application that takes full advantage of the benefits inherent in the Eclipse platform. Composed of several Eclipse (OSGi) plugins, Apache Directory Studio can be easily upgraded with additional plugins. Apache Directory Studio plugins can even run within a full installation of Eclipse itself. Apache Directory Studio contains 6 major features: * an LDAP Browser feature * an LDIF Editor feature * an ACI Editor feature for Apache Directory Server * a Schema Editor feature * an Apache DS feature * an Apache DS Configuration feature For more information about Apache Directory Studio, see our website: http://directory.apache.org/studio Below are the JIRA issues that were resolved since the release of Apache Directory Studio 1.2.0: Bug * [DIRSTUDIO-89] - Entry painted even though not created in server * [DIRSTUDIO-121] - Some property pages make the dialog very tall * [DIRSTUDIO-157] - Studio looses STRG-V over some time of use * [DIRSTUDIO-209] - Cannot expand attribute list * [DIRSTUDIO-266] - OpenLDAP schema files parser fails when DESC contains an empty string '' * [DIRSTUDIO-273] - Unable to get Base DNs on OID (Oracle Internet Directory) * [DIRSTUDIO-298] - NullPointerException raised when drag'n'dropping a connection to a folder (on Mac OS X only) * [DIRSTUDIO-315] - Choosing new value, in entry editor shows new entry when server error occures * [DIRSTUDIO-318] - Rename of multi-values RDN does not work when changing the second RDN * [DIRSTUDIO-319] - LDAP Browser creating new entry becomes empty and unusable in Windows Vista after certain actions * [DIRSTUDIO-323] - Studio fails to read ApacheDS server.xml * [DIRSTUDIO-325] - Keybinding conflicts occurred. They may interfere with normal accelerator operation. * [DIRSTUDIO-326] - Non-Operational attributes are marked as operational when bind to Siemens DirX 7.0 * [DIRSTUDIO-330] - CoreException raised in editor when opening a *.txt file * [DIRSTUDIO-336] - Errors when parsing schema of some LDAP servers * [DIRSTUDIO-341] - Paste error * [DIRSTUDIO-342] - Relax the parser for the *.schema files * [DIRSTUDIO-343] - Referrals not handled. * [DIRSTUDIO-347] - Keybinding conflict for CTRL+Q * [DIRSTUDIO-349] - Unable to enter large values for uid * [DIRSTUDIO-350] - DS is not properly displaying case of group DN * [DIRSTUDIO-360] - cannot read attribute from items with a / in the dn * [DIRSTUDIO-364] - Installing in Eclipse fails * [DIRSTUDIO-365] - Can't delete entry with studio 1.1.0. works with 1.0.1 Improvement * [DIRSTUDIO-46] - Add connections import/export * [DIRSTUDIO-126] - Triple click to edit attribute * [DIRSTUDIO-295] - Add a console for errors * [DIRSTUDIO-329] - Replace internal URL class by shared-ldap LdapURL class * [DIRSTUDIO-337] - Add Save and Print actions in the toolbar of the RCP application * [DIRSTUDIO-361] - Auto-activate 'show operational attributes' when adding an operational attribute New Feature * [DIRSTUDIO-321] - Need to be able to set SOCKS proxy in the RCP version * [DIRSTUDIO-328] - Search Logs View * [DIRSTUDIO-357] - Add plugin to run Apache DS from within Apache Directory Studio Task * [DIRSTUDIO-128] - Replace internal schema parser with the schema parser in shared-ldap. * [DIRSTUDIO-317] - Update legal files after moving to Apache Directory Shared LDAP version 0.9.9 * [DIRSTUDIO-332] - Add support for 1.5.3, 1.5.2 and 1.5.0 server.xml configuration files * [DIRSTUDIO-338] - Update Eclipse dependencies to the latest Eclipse version (3.3.2) * [DIRSTUDIO-339] - Add the 'org.eclipse.ui.carbon' Eclipse plugin to the Mac OS X distribution The Apache Directory Team

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Hello, Apache CouchDB 0.8.1-incubating has been released. This is the second release under the patronage of the ASF Incubator. This release is available for immediate download: http://incubator.apache.org/couchdb/downloads.html Apache CouchDB is a distributed, fault-tolerant and schema-free document-oriented database accessible via a RESTful HTTP/JSON API. Among other features, it provides robust, incremental replication with bi-directional conflict detection and resolution, and is queryable and indexable using a table-oriented view engine with JavaScript acting as the default view definition language. CouchDB is written in Erlang, but can be easily accessed from any environment that provides means to make HTTP requests. There are a multitude of third-party client libraries that make this even easier for a variety of programming languages and environments. Version 0.8.1-incubating ------------------------ * Various bug fixes for replication, compaction, the HTTP interface and the Javascript View Server. Apache CouchDB is alpha software and still under heavy development. Please be aware that important areas such as the public API or internal database format may see backwards incompatible changes between versions. Apache CouchDB is an effort undergoing incubation at the Apache Software Foundation (ASF), sponsored by the Apache Incubator PMC. Incubation is required of all newly accepted projects until a further review indicates that the infrastructure, communications, and decision making process have stabilized in a manner consistent with other successful ASF projects. While incubation status is not necessarily a reflection of the completeness or stability of the code, it does indicate that the project has yet to be fully endorsed by the ASF. Relax and prosper, -- Noah Slater, http://people.apache.org/~nslater/

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The Apache MyFaces team is pleased to announce the release of MyFaces Core 1.1.6. MyFaces Core is a JavaServer(tm) Faces 1.1 implementation as specified by JSR-127. MyFaces Core has passed Sun's JSR-127 TCK and is 100% compliant with the JSR-127 specification. MyFaces Core 1.1.6 is available in both binary and source distributions. * http://myfaces.apache.org/download.html MyFaces Core is also available in the central Maven repository under Group ID "org.apache.myfaces.core". Release Notes - MyFaces Core - Version 1.1.6 Bug * [MYFACES-1287] - Provider for javax.xml.parsers.SAXParserFactory cannot be found * [MYFACES-1310] - IllegalStateException:Strict Servlet api:cannot call getOutputSteam() after getWriter() on Weblogic 8.1 sp 5 * [MYFACES-1311] - MyFaces Portlet at Weblogic 8.1 SP5: Request Parameter weren't submitted * [MYFACES-1379] - CLONE -commandLink actions ignored inside tree2 * [MYFACES-1467] - Validation doesn't run for required fields if submitted value is null * [MYFACES-1504] - oamSetHiddenInput function missing if ... * [MYFACES-1513] - myfaces-api has unnecessary commons-digester dependency * [MYFACES-1543] - mbean_source.jsp not working * [MYFACES-1549] - MyFaces-API issue: getValue of UIInput * [MYFACES-1555] - h:messages and h:message don't use style attribute when rendering * [MYFACES-1581] - UISelectOne encounters exception in call to equals() * [MYFACES-1590] - MyFaces build doesn't work offline - validation of TLDs fails * [MYFACES-1641] - ContentType cannot be set when only text/* media range is accepted * [MYFACES-1707] - log catched exceptions * [MYFACES-1740] - NullPointer exception in ErrorPageWriter * [MYFACES-1744] - Validation messages is shown for SelectOneMenu in case first child is not SelectItems or SelectItem * [MYFACES-1750] - Evaluation of EL-Expression fails with custom PropertyResolver * [MYFACES-1762] - h:messages - error while rendering id and styleClass attributes * [MYFACES-1797] - Config Parameter for refresh Period is never retrieved * [MYFACES-1802] - FacesException and nested exceptions * [MYFACES-1809] - Linkrenderer with TrinidadForm does not render parameters * [MYFACES-1818] - JavascriptUtils.encodeString does not properly translate '\' characters into "\\" (2) characters * [MYFACES-1832] - bad charset encoding on <f:param> tag * [MYFACES-1871] - UIInput throws IllegalArgumentException for unknown event types in broadcast() * [MYFACES-1876] - 1.1.6-SNAPSHOT version is not JDK 1.4 compatible * [MYFACES-1883] - /WEB-INF/faces-config.xml Loaded twice if logging disabled. * [MYFACES-1891] - ClassCastException in converter when Hiding / Showing unselected selectOneRadio Improvement * [MYFACES-1535] - findComponent slow for a high amount of calls * [MYFACES-1552] - Rendering less JavaScript for each button * [MYFACES-1569] - Error message when input text is disabled or readOnly * [MYFACES-1591] - Improved error handling in config management * [MYFACES-1688] - Highlighting of component on error page * [MYFACES-1689] - Reload of faces-config-files if changes are detected * [MYFACES-1853] - ErrorPageWriter causes Facelets/MyFaces confusion * [MYFACES-1874] - Component generation using myfaces builder plugin for 1.1 * [MYFACES-1887] - Print Multiple exceptions information thrown on update model * [MYFACES-1888] - catch Throwable errors when using ErrorPageWriter (myfaces error handling) New Feature * [MYFACES-1784] - Arabizing MyFaces Core Components Enjoy! regards Leonardo Uribe

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The Apache Archiva team is pleased to announce the release of Archiva 1.1.1. Apache Archiva is an extensible repository management software that helps taking care of your own personal or enterprise-wide build artifact repository. It is the perfect companion for build tools such as Maven, Continuum, and ANT. Archiva offers several capabilities, amongst which remote repository proxying, security access management, build artifact storage, delivery, browsing, indexing and usage reporting, extensible scanning functionality... and many more! The latest release is now available here: http://archiva.apache.org/download.html If you have any questions, please consult: - the web site: http://archiva.apache.org - the archiva-user mailing list: http://archiva.apache.org/mail-lists.html Change Log for Archiva 1.1.1 ============================ Bug • [MRM-584] - Newly created user cannot login • [MRM-631] - network proxy is always used when defined • [MRM-814] - Invalid cron expressions are accepted in Database Scanning • [MRM-873] - repository groups - move up/down should not show when it's not possible • [MRM-883] - RSS syndication java.lang.ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException • [MRM-884] - network proxy fails after upgrading to archiva 1.1 • [MRM-888] - add notes on reindexing to the upgrade docs • [MRM-891] - Unable to use archiva as http source with maven-stage- plugin • [MRM-892] - Search for java classes and package names is broken • [MRM-895] - Archiva version doesn't appear on the footer when it is installed on Tomcat • [MRM-896] - classifier is appended to pom filename after artifact upload Improvement • [MRM-817] - Artifact information screen should indicate the name of repository in which the artifact resides Thanks, The Apache Archiva team -- Brett Porter brett@apache.org http://blogs.exist.com/bporter/

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ApacheCon New Orleans: Open. To Just About Everything! November 3-7, 2008 http://us.apachecon.com/ ========================================= This is a reminder that the EARLY BIRD DISCOUNT ends August 15. Register NOW and save! Be sure to checkout the "Special" registration code if you're reserving a room at the show hotel, the Sheraton. Get the most you can out of your ApacheCon experience. Our CrowdVine Social Networking Site has been setup specifically for the conference. Check out the who's who of who will be there. Join the network and get as involved as you want! Community | http://apacheconus2008.crowdvine.com/ ========================================= ApacheCon US 2008: A week of Open Source at it's best! Hackathon | BarCampApache | OFBiz Symposium | Hadoop Camp In-Depth Trainings | Multi-Track Sessions | BOFs | Business Panel Lightning Talks | Receptions | Fast Feather Track | Expo... and more! - Shane Curcuru & The ApacheCon US 2008 Team http://us.apachecon.com/ 3-7 November -- New Orleans, Louisiana http://apacheconus2008.crowdvine.com/

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The Apache MyFaces Trinidad team is pleased to announce the release of Apache MyFaces Trinidad Core 1.0.9. Apache MyFaces Trinidad is a JavaServer(tm) Faces 1.2 component library. Trinidad Core 1.0.9 is available in both binary and source distributions: * http://myfaces.apache.org/trinidad/download.html Apache MyFaces Trinidad is available in the central Maven repository under Group ID "org.apache.myfaces.trinidad". Release Notes: https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?projectId=12310661&styleName=Html&version=12313158 Enjoy! -- Matthias Wessendorf further stuff: blog: http://matthiaswessendorf.wordpress.com/ sessions: http://www.slideshare.net/mwessendorf mail: matzew-at-apache-dot-org

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The Apache MyFaces Trinidad team is pleased to announce the release of Apache MyFaces Trinidad Core 1.2.7. Apache MyFaces Trinidad is a JavaServer(tm) Faces 1.2 component library. Trinidad Core 1.2.9 is available in both binary and source distributions: * http://myfaces.apache.org/trinidad/download.html Apache MyFaces Trinidad is available in the central Maven repository under Group ID "org.apache.myfaces.trinidad". Release Notes: https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?projectId=12310661&styleName=Html&version=12313157 Enjoy! -- Matthias Wessendorf further stuff: blog: http://matthiaswessendorf.wordpress.com/ sessions: http://www.slideshare.net/mwessendorf mail: matzew-at-apache-dot-org

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Apache FOP (Formatting Objects Processor) is a print formatter driven by XSL Formatting Objects [1] and an output independent formatter. It is a Java application that reads a formatting object tree and renders the resulting pages to a specified output. Output formats currently supported include PDF, PS, PCL, AFP, Print and TIFF/PNG. Apache FOP is Open Source software and published under the Apache License v2.0. It took longer than expected but we're happy to present the final Apache FOP 0.95 stable release. This is basically a bugfix release to 0.95beta. The most important changes since the previous stable release (0.94) are: - many bug fixes and improvements in tables, better support for keeps and breaks, new features: conditional borders and background on columns and header/footer/body; - better image handling thanks to the new image loading framework provided by the Apache XML Graphics Commons dependency; - improvements and bugfixes for font handling and font auto-detection/-registration; - performance improvements and memory optimizations for the property handling in the FO tree. - elimination of a potential multi-threading problem. - some feature enhancements for RTF output (partial fo:leader support, fo:page-number-citation) Please note that support for Java 1.3 has been dropped. Only one type of binaries is provided now, that will run on 1.4+ JREs. Other important release notes are available at http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/0.95/releaseNotes_0.95.html For a more complete list of changes, please visit http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/0.95/changes_0.95.html For download information, see the following page: http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/download.html [1] http://www.w3.org/TR/xsl11/ On behalf of the Apache XML Graphics team, Jeremias Maerki

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The Apache Tuscany team are pleased to announce the 1.3 release of the Java SCA project. Apache Tuscany provides a runtime environment based on the Service Component Architecture (SCA). SCA is a set of specifications aimed at simplifying SOA application development. These specifications are being standardized by OASIS as part of the Open Composite Services Architecture (Open CSA). This 1.3 release is the first release of Tuscany as an Apache top level project, and includes various improvements to the SCA runtime and extensions, along with performance improvements, and numerous bug fixes. See the RELEASE_NOTES and CHANGES file for details, and to download the distributions please go to: http://tuscany.apache.org/sca-java-releases.html To find out more about OASIS Open CSA go to: http://www.oasis-opencsa.org Apache Tuscany welcomes your help. Any contribution, including code, testing, contributions to the documentation, or bug reporting is always appreciated. For more information on how to get involved in Apache Tuscany visit the website at: http://tuscany.apache.org Thank you for your interest in Apache Tuscany! The Apache Tuscany Team.

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Remember: early bird rates go up in mid-August, so register soon! ApacheCon US and OFBiz Symposium bring together the Apache Community in New Orleans, November 3-7 ApacheCon US to hold new BarCamp at 2008 conference and host Voluntourism Day New Orleans, LA – July 30, 2008 - ApacheCon US, the official user conference of The Apache Software Foundation (ASF), will host new features at this year's US conference to bring the Apache community closer together, including a new BarCamp, a Voluntourism Day, and the social networking site CrowdVine. The conference schedule has been published and registration is open. Register by August 15 to receive Early Bird discount prices. The Apache Open For Business (OFBiz) Symposium is co-locating with ApacheCon US, bringing a new community of users to the event. Attendees will be able to mix-and-match the tracks from both conferences and have the opportunity to network with submitters, experts, and users. New at ApacheCon is BarCampApache, (November 4). The BarCamp will be the first Apache-focused, participant-driven unconference, gathering people interested in The ASF and its various projects to share and learn in an open environment. BarCampApache will be intense with discussions, demos and interaction from participants packed into an ad-hoc event. The BarCamp is free, but due to limited space, pre-registration is required. A special added feature of ApacheCon is Camp Hadoop, (November 6-7). Camp sessions will focus on Apache Hadoop, the platform being utilized by organizations to deliver petabyte scale computing and storage on commodity hardware, and by academic and industrial research groups to teach data parallel computing. Hadoop developers and users will review new projects and case studies of Hadoop applications while participating in interactive discussions on the platform's future. For the first time ApacheCon will host a Voluntourism Day on November 8, a day focused on lending a hand to the New Orleans area. The ASF has always emphasized "community over code" and now it will put that motto into action by assisting and supporting another community in need. Full details on the Voluntourism Day will be announced in September. "New Orleans is still in many ways suffering from the aftereffects of Hurricane Katrina. Our goal is to utilize The ASF's ideals of openness and collaboration to embrace the city's people and culture and work together to bring change. We have a truly dedicated community writing Open Source code and we hope our participants will stay to support the Voluntourism Day," said Lars Eilebrecht, Vice President of Conference Planning, ASF. Prior to this year's conference, ApacheCon US will create a social networking platform to help attendees, speakers, and sponsors to exchange information and ideas leading up to the event in order to foster a stronger sense of community. Users of the ApacheCon CrowdVine site can create a personal profile outlining their interests, network with other users, and write blog posts. Also joining the ApacheCon community in New Orleans are dedicated sponsors and exhibitors including CrowdVine, Day Software, Google, Hewlett-Packard, Hippo, HotWax Media, IONA, Linux Journal, Media Temple, SpringSource, WSO2, and Yahoo! These sponsors play an integral role in supporting Open Source technology and contributing to emerging trends in the industry. Sponsorship opportunities are still available. For details contact Delia Frees at delia@apachecon.com. About ApacheCon US 2008 ApacheCon is the official user conference of The Apache Software Foundation (ASF), drawing ASF Members, innovators, developers, vendors, and users to experience the future of Open Source development. The 2008 US event will take place in New Orleans from November 3-7. The most influential platform dialogue amongst the Apache community at large, ApacheCon is the must-attend user and developer forum showcasing key Apache and Open Source technologies. Attendees meet, mingle, and exchange ideas with like-minded participants on groundbreaking technologies and emerging industry trends, through informal networking, peer discussions, Birds-of-a-Feather sessions, and entertaining social events. Drawing internationally-renowned thought-leaders, contributors, influencers, and organizations in the Open Source community, ApacheCon offers insight into the culture and community that develops and shepherds industry-leading Open Source projects, including Apache HTTP Server—the world's most popular Web server software for ten years running. To find more information about ApacheCon US 2008 please visit http://www.us.apachecon.com ### Media Contacts: Prompt Communications LLC on behalf of ApacheCon James Gerber / Lisa Facinelli Tel: 617 576 5763 jgerber@prompt-communications.com / lfacinelli@prompt-communications.com - Shane Curcuru & The ApacheCon US 2008 Team http://us.apachecon.com/ 3-7 November -- New Orleans, Louisiana http://apacheconus2008.crowdvine.com/

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The Apache UIMA team is pleased to announce the first release of the UIMA-AS add-on for UIMA. (The release number is 2.2.2-incubating to correspond with the base UIMA level). UIMA-AS adds a highly flexible, robust, and easy to use scaleout capability to the core UIMA framework; it can be considered to be a next-generation replacement for the original CPM (Collection Processing Management) scaleout that is part of the core UIMA framework. Now you can selectively scale up (to take advantage of multiple cores) or scale out (over local and/or wide area networks) just those analytics that need the scaling, thus allowing optimization of computing resources. UIMA-AS has been successfully used on multiple projects, and scaled out to 100's of cores, with no limit in sight. It makes use of JMS (Java Messaging Services) and uses Apache ActiveMQ to support messaging between components. Already written UIMA Components can take advantage of UIMA-AS scaleout with no code or component descriptor changes. There is a short writeup that describes more details about the new capabilities and how to get started using it, on the UIMA website: http://incubator.apache.org/uima/doc-uimaas-what.html UIMA is a component framework supporting integration and deployment of components for the analysis of unstructured content such as text, audio, and video; the main web-site is here: http://incubator.apache.org/uima/index.html Thank you for your interest in Apache UIMA-AS! We look forward to hearing about your experience in using this new capability. --The Apache UIMA Team INCUBATION DISCLAIMER Apache UIMA is an effort undergoing incubation at The Apache Software Foundation (ASF). Incubation is required of all newly accepted projects until a further review indicates that the infrastructure, communications, and decision making process have stabilized in a manner consistent with other successful ASF projects. While incubation status is not necessarily a reflection of the completeness or stability of the code, it does indicate that the project has yet to be fully endorsed by the ASF.

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The Apache Tomcat team announces the immediate availability of Apache Tomcat 6.0.18 stable. This release includes many bugfixes over Apache Tomcat 6.0.16. Apache Tomcat 6.0 includes new features over Apache Tomcat 5.5, including support for the new Servlet 2.5 and JSP 2.1 specifications, a refactored clustering implementation, advanced IO features, and improvements in memory usage. Please refer to the change log for the list of changes: http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-6.0-doc/changelog.html Downloads: http://tomcat.apache.org/download-60.cgi Migration guide from Apache Tomcat 5.5.x: http://tomcat.apache.org/migration.html Thank you, -- The Apache Tomcat Team

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Hi, The Apache MyFaces community is pleased to announce its 1.2.7 release of the Apache MyFaces Trinidad Maven2 plugins. These Maven2 plugins have been deployed to the Apache Maven2 and they are mirrored by ibiblio as well. release notes: MyFaces Trinidad - Version 1.2.7-plugins * [TRINIDAD-919] - maven-jdev-plugin does not evaluate <!DOCTYPE> tag correctly for taglib (.tld) files Improvement * [TRINIDAD-987] - add 'scoped-id-holder' and 'multi-scoped-id-holder' to transform.xsl and transform12.xsl * [TRINIDAD-1011] - Add new properties to the maven-faces-plugin * [TRINIDAD-1065] - Support mfp:hidden to hide properties and facets from the tag documentation * [TRINIDAD-1163] - Improvements to property deprecation and a new no-op feature New Feature * [TRINIDAD-953] - Support for Code Examples in Trinidad Components, Validators, and Converters tagdocs * [TRINIDAD-1056] - Chang maven-faces-plugin to stop filtering out metadata Have fun, Matthias -- Matthias Wessendorf further stuff: blog: http://matthiaswessendorf.wordpress.com/ sessions: http://www.slideshare.net/mwessendorf mail: matzew-at-apache-dot-org

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The Apache Directory Team is pleased to announce the release of Apache Directory Studio 1.2.0 RC1, a major update of its Eclipse based LDAP Browser and Directory client. You can download Apache Directory Studio 1.2.0 RC1 as a standalone RCP application for Mac OS X, Linux and Windows here: http://directory.apache.org/studio/downloads.html You can also install it directly in Eclipse using this update site: http://directory.apache.org/studio/update/1.x/ Here are a few highlights of this new version: * The new Apache DS feature makes its introduction in Apache Directory Studio. This new feature allows you to run the latest version of Apache DS (1.5.3) from within Apache Directory Studio or Eclipse and makes it super easy (and fast) to create and run an LDAP Server. * The Apache DS Configuration plugin now supports the 4 latest versions of Apache DS. It's now capable to read/write the server.xml file of an Apache DS 1.5.0, 1.5.1, 1.5.2 and 1.5.3. * The Search Logs view has been added to the LDAP Browser. * We've also added the support to use the proxy features of Eclipse inside Studio as well as improved the platform (useful actions have been added to the platform, the Mac OS X application now respects the standards of Apple for the "About" and "Preferences" actions, etc.). * We've also fixed some bugs dealing with schema files and schema parsing in the Schema Editor and LDAP Browser plugins. Developed as a sub-project of the Directory Top Level Project, Apache Directory Studio is an Eclipse RCP application that takes full advantage of the benefits inherent in the Eclipse platform. Composed of several Eclipse (OSGi) plugins, Apache Directory Studio can be easily upgraded with additional plugins. Apache Directory Studio plugins can even run within a full installation of Eclipse itself. Apache Directory Studio contains 6 major features: * an LDAP Browser feature * an LDIF Editor feature * an ACI Editor feature for Apache Directory Server * a Schema Editor feature * an Apache DS feature * an Apache DS Configuration feature For more information about Apache Directory Studio, see our website: http://directory.apache.org/studio Below are the JIRA issues that were resolved since the release of Apache Directory Studio 1.2.0 RC1: Bug * [DIRSTUDIO-89] - Entry painted even though not created in server * [DIRSTUDIO-121] - Some property pages make the dialog very tall * [DIRSTUDIO-157] - Studio looses STRG-V over some time of use * [DIRSTUDIO-209] - Cannot expand attribute list * [DIRSTUDIO-266] - OpenLDAP schema files parser fails when DESC contains an empty string '' * [DIRSTUDIO-273] - Unable to get Base DNs on OID (Oracle Internet Directory) * [DIRSTUDIO-298] - NullPointerException raised when drag'n'dropping a connection to a folder (on Mac OS X only) * [DIRSTUDIO-315] - Choosing new value, in entry editor shows new entry when server error occures * [DIRSTUDIO-318] - Rename of multi-values RDN does not work when changing the second RDN * [DIRSTUDIO-319] - LDAP Browser creating new entry becomes empty and unusable in Windows Vista after certain actions * [DIRSTUDIO-323] - Studio fails to read ApacheDS server.xml * [DIRSTUDIO-325] - Keybinding conflicts occurred. They may interfere with normal accelerator operation. * [DIRSTUDIO-326] - Non-Operational attributes are marked as operational when bind to Siemens DirX 7.0 * [DIRSTUDIO-330] - CoreException raised in editor when opening a *.txt file * [DIRSTUDIO-336] - Errors when parsing schema of some LDAP servers * [DIRSTUDIO-341] - Paste error * [DIRSTUDIO-342] - Relax the parser for the *.schema files * [DIRSTUDIO-343] - Referrals not handled. * [DIRSTUDIO-347] - Keybinding conflict for CTRL+Q * [DIRSTUDIO-349] - Unable to enter large values for uid * [DIRSTUDIO-350] - DS is not properly displaying case of group DN Improvement * [DIRSTUDIO-46] - Add connections import/export * [DIRSTUDIO-126] - Triple click to edit attribute * [DIRSTUDIO-295] - Add a console for errors * [DIRSTUDIO-329] - Replace internal URL class by shared-ldap LdapURL class * [DIRSTUDIO-337] - Add Save and Print actions in the toolbar of the RCP application New Feature * [DIRSTUDIO-321] - Need to be able to set SOCKS proxy in the RCP version * [DIRSTUDIO-328] - Search Logs View Task * [DIRSTUDIO-128] - Replace internal schema parser with the schema parser in shared-ldap. * [DIRSTUDIO-317] - Update legal files after moving to Apache Directory Shared LDAP version 0.9.9 * [DIRSTUDIO-332] - Add support for 1.5.3, 1.5.2 and 1.5.0 server.xml configuration files * [DIRSTUDIO-338] - Update Eclipse dependencies to the latest Eclipse version (3.3.2) * [DIRSTUDIO-339] - Add the 'org.eclipse.ui.carbon' Eclipse plugin to the Mac OS X distribution The Apache Directory Team

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The Apache Tuscany team are pleased to announce the 1.1.1 release of the Java SDO project. Service Data Objects(SDO) provide a programming model that simplifies data handling in an SOA environment. Advantages of SDO are: * Uniform access to data from heterogeneous sources which could be XML, RDB, POJO, SOAP, etc. * SDO provides both a static (or strongly typed) programming model and a dynamic (or loosely typed) programming model. This provides a simple programming model without sacrificing the dynamic model needed by tools and frameworks. * Provides Meta-data for easy introspection of data types * Supports a disconnected model, whereby data can be retrieved from a data source via Data Access Service. The data can be modified by a client with change tracking, and applied back to the data source. * SDO programming model is language neutral This 1.1.1 release is a maintenance release over the 1.1 release, see the RELEASE_NOTES [1], and to download the distributions please go to: http://tuscany.apache.org/sdo-java-111.html Apache Tuscany welcomes your help. Any contribution, including code, testing, contributions to the documentation, or bug reporting is always appreciated. For more information on how to get involved in Apache Tuscany visit the website at: http://tuscany.apache.org Thank you for your interest in Apache Tuscany! The Apache Tuscany Team. [1] http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/tuscany/tags/java/sdo/1.1.1-RC2a/RELEASE_NOTES

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The Apache Directory team is pleased to announce the release of ApacheDS 1.5.3. ApacheDS is an embeddable directory server entirely written in Java, which has been certified LDAPv3 compatible by the Open Group. Besides LDAP it supports Kerberos 5 and the Change Password Protocol. It has been designed to introduce triggers, stored procedures, queues and views to the world of LDAP which has lacked these rich constructs. This version is mainly a bug fix version, which also bring some new installers (for Solaris and tar.gz installers), more performance, and NTLM authentication (some external package must be downloaded). 40 issues has also been fixed since the last relase, 1.5.2. ADS 1.5.3 is not a definitive version, as we are working in an unstable branch, and there may be some modification in the configuration or features in the next 1.5.x versions. However, this is the most stable version of the Apache Directory Server. The latest release is now available here: http://directory.apache.org/apacheds/1.5/downloads.html If you have any questions, please consult: - the web site: http://directory.apache.org - the mailing lists: http://directory.apache.org/community%26resources/mailing-lists-and-irc.html Changelog for ApacheDS 1.5.3 ============================ Bugs : ------ DIRSERVER-768 : provide debug output in org.apache.directory.server.core.authn.AuthenticationService.checkAuthenticated() DIRSERVER-1031 : no credentials required to shut down server from in-vm DIRSERVER-1085 : Modify.RENAME operation may not work well with multiple attributes RDN DIRSERVER-1087 : Installer init script does not start default instance on startup. DIRSERVER-1089 : ConcurrentModificationException problem in org.apache.directory.shared.ldap.message.AttributesImpl DIRSERVER-1109 : Failure to create entry with Rdn starting with hash (#) DIRSERVER-1112 : ApacheDS installer creates redundant server.xml file DIRSERVER-1118 : Cannot have two partitions dc=example,dc=com and dc=carrefour,dc=com at the same time. DIRSERVER-1151 : Cannot have multiple instance in-process listening on different sockets / ports DIRSERVER-1157 : Deleting Alias entry failure DIRSERVER-1162 : Moddn with mulit-valued RDN mangles the entry DIRSERVER-1166 : a lot of Persistent searches may exhaust the available threads DIRSERVER-1168 : StartTLS API activation not Working with addExtendedOperationHandler() DIRSERVER-1171 : Improper use of SASL mechanisms and simple binds DIRSERVER-1175 : Binary installer removes '/root' partition under certains circumstances DIRSERVER-1180 : NPE and hanging search request when using a filter with empty substring sequence DIRSERVER-1182 : SchemaServiceIT tests are broken DIRSERVER-1188 : Windows Installer corrupts Windows when uninstalling. DIRSERVER-1196 : Filter with special characters crashes JVM Improvements : -------------- DIRSERVER-478 : Standarzied serialization and deserialization of Name, Attribute, and Attributes. DIRSERVER-610 : Need to simplify process for changing admin password DIRSERVER-986 : Implement a new LDAP Filter parser DIRSERVER-1084 : Effective userid needs to be more flexible (per instance) DIRSERVER-1124 : Reduce log ERROR to WARN to avoid startup and shutdown noise as replicas connect/disconnect DIRSERVER-1125 : Use the rat maven plugin with the -Prelease profile option to generate releases DIRSERVER-1147 : Improve Search request with selected atttributes DIRSERVER-1163 : Sys-V-Init script lacks LSB header New Features : -------------- DIRSERVER-674 : Support for directory.service.type as a JNDI parameter DIRSERVER-676 : Provide a method for gathering a handle on root DSE on behalf of any principal DIRSERVER-1189 : Configuration option for confidentiality: requiring TLS secured connections for performing requests DIRSERVER-1190 : Add a PKG installer for Solaris Tasks : ------- DIRSERVER-1053 : Review server-tools project DIRSERVER-1197 : Add Apache License headers to installer files with their specific syntax for comments Wish : ------ DIRSERVER-931 : Provide a zip/tar.gz download for DS The Apache Directory team is also pleased to announce the release of Apache Directory Shared 0.9.11, its directory-related library used by Apache DS and Apache Directory Studio. Changelog for Apache Directory Shared 0.9.11 ============================================ Bugs : ------ DIRSHARED-2 : Second ATAV of a multi-valued RDN is not handled correctly in Rdn.compareTo() method DIRSHARED-3 : Rdn.compareTo() method is not invertable DIRSHARED-9 : Rdn.equals() and Rdn.comparTo() don't work correctly for multivalued RDNs Improvements : -------------- DIRSHARED-7 : Add setters to LdapURL class DIRSHARED-8 : Merge schema grammars and relax schema parser DIRSHARED-10 : Add support for OpenLDAP object identifier macros The Apache Directory Team -- -- cordialement, regards, Emmanuel Lécharny www.iktek.com directory.apache.org

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The Apache Archiva team is pleased to announce the release of Archiva 1.1 Archiva is a build artifact repository manager for use with build tools such as Maven, Continuum and Ant. It has features like repository search and browse, securing repositories, identifying unknown artifacts and reporting of repository problems. Aside from these, it can also act as a nearby (proxy) cache of popular global repositories. The latest release is now available here: http://archiva.apache.org/download.html If you have any questions, please consult: - the web site: http://archiva.apache.org - the archiva-user mailing list: http://archiva.apache.org/mail-lists.html New in Archiva 1.1 ================ * Artifact Uploads To simplify adding artifacts to a repository, an upload form has been put in place that allows you to put an artifact and POM into the repository without the need for the Maven deploy-file command. * RSS RSS is now available for getting a feed of new artifacts being added to a given repository. Two types of feeds are generated by Archiva: new artifacts in a repository and new versions of a specific artifact. * Virtual Repositories Virtual repositories or repository groups allows downloading from a group of repositories via one url (group url). * Timeouts Connections to remote repositories can now have a configurable timeout value * New Runtime Bundle The application is now distributed using Jetty 6.1 and it's documented configuration, rather than the previous Plexus application server bundle. It continues to use the Java Service Wrapper (v3.2.3) for application monitoring, though the configuration has been improved, particularly with regard to separating the application configuration from the installation. * Using Spring Archiva now uses the Spring Framework as it's underlying container instead of Plexus. This results in a boost in performance and stability for the web application in particular. * Using Apache Jackrabbit WebDAV Servlet Archiva now uses Apache Jackrabbit's WebDAV servlet for serving repository content instead of plexus-webdav. The change results in reduced codebase complexity, increased standards compliance, better webdav client support and a small peformance boost. Change Log for Archiva 1.1 ======================= * [MRM-801] - Create documentation for virtual repositories * [MRM-861] - Paginate Search Results page * [MRM-234] - Moving files between repos through webdav doesn't work * [MRM-312] - ConcurrentModificationException * [MRM-523] - Appearance Actions do not work when ${user.home} is invalid. * [MRM-538] - Browse > Info not synchronised with updated POM contents * [MRM-550] - proxy connectors - move up/down should not show when it's not possible * [MRM-597] - Cannot run Archiva as another user because su is run with option "-" (--login) * [MRM-602] - add "maintainance" to the feature tour * [MRM-605] - unit tests fail on archiva 1.0 source distribution * [MRM-610] - a number of unit tests fail on windows * [MRM-614] - User validation message has incorrect URL * [MRM-624] - Failed to install Archiva as windows service * [MRM-629] - NullPointer when setting corporate POM on a fresh archvia install * [MRM-638] - some developer reports are appearing in the archiva-docs module and need to be disabled * [MRM-650] - Deleted metadata files still appear in search results * [MRM-652] - Invalid html links in "webdav" directory browsing * [MRM-653] - WebDAV deploy fails with error * [MRM-658] - org.apache.maven.archiva.repository.content.FilenameParser is unable to determine unique snapshot versions with specific version names * [MRM-682] - Archiva runs out of heap memory * [MRM-692] - Repository problem is kept in database even though its related artifact has been already removed * [MRM-702] - in the standalone bundle, the pid file is written into the installation directory alongside the wrapper, but should be in a temporary location * [MRM-711] - Security using ldap throws NullPointerException * [MRM-733] - Error ending component lifecycle * [MRM-753] - Error while deploying an artifact to archiva * [MRM-767] - generated LICENSE and NOTICE files need improvement * [MRM-768] - Cannot proxy maven2 plugin (jaxb) from a maven1 repository (http://download.java.net/maven/1) * [MRM-769] - CLONE - 507 Insufficient Storage when deploying artifact with webdav * [MRM-777] - assignments.jsp: missing <tr></tr> group under "Resource Roles": * [MRM-778] - DefaultDavServerManager.createServer doesn't create server * [MRM-780] - Access to indexes files with a browser is not possible * [MRM-784] - mailing-info on the website points to 'old' maven.apache.org addresses * [MRM-785] - No message is displayed after a successful artifact upload * [MRM-789] - Archiva may delete you app server installation * [MRM-790] - [regression] proxying metadata causes an IO exception in new checksum code * [MRM-792] - remove references to maven in code * [MRM-796] - releases always activated in repositories * [MRM-797] - Delete Released Snapshots doesn't work * [MRM-800] - Admin user account user lockout via Webdav only? * [MRM-810] - Uploads done through the Web UI are not reported in the audit log * [MRM-818] - [Repository Group] Page will be broken if entered identifier is too long * [MRM-819] - ERROR 404 page when clicking the URL of Repository Group with identifier i.e. "test/test" * [MRM-820] - 404 when the dav url of an Archiva default repository (internal or snapshots) is accessed * [MRM-823] - Deleted repository still shows up in the repo group * [MRM-824] - dependency cleanup * [MRM-835] - Checksum search appears broken * [MRM-840] - Wagon HTTP deadlocks under high load * [MRM-845] - Continuous Loop when you click a repository group link * [MRM-846] - "Repository Purge By Retention Count" option not working * [MRM-847] - DependencyTreeGeneratorConsumerTest fails under windows due to line ending * [MRM-851] - wrong taglib short-name causes deployment error on Geronimo * [MRM-853] - HTTP Error 500 when uploading artifact with Windows OS * [MRM-855] - java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/apache/xml/serialize/OutputFormat * [MRM-856] - Artifact Upload replaces all instances of the name "jar" with "pom" when trying to change the file extension * [MRM-858] - last-modified header is missing * [MRM-865] - Upload snapshot should work like a deploy * [MRM-867] - 500 on HEAD method * [MRM-869] - many empty folders created in managed repos with proxy connectors when used in a group * [MRM-870] - addRepositoryToGroup.action => AbstractMethodError on DeferredDocumentImpl.getXmlStandalone() * [MRM-871] - jetty.host and jetty.port properties are set by default in jetty.xml preventing user from using other hostname if user is not aware of these properties * [MRM-872] - empty metadatas frmo a repository group * [MRM-591] - Reports should show from which repository the defective artifact was found. * [MRM-651] - Updated consumer plugin to build against the 1.1 apis * [MRM-654] - Archetype for generation of Consumer plugins * [MRM-667] - Timeout implementation for Archiva * [MRM-678] - 404 errors on proxies should be cached * [MRM-737] - Don't list metadata files in the search results * [MRM-752] - Trim URL in Remote Repositories * [MRM-760] - set JSW to auto-restart if it crashes or hangs * [MRM-773] - Improve RSS feed generation * [MRM-781] - Removal of Archiva-Webdav implementation in favor of Jackrabbit-webdav * [MRM-802] - Display the url for the repository group * [MRM-804] - When uploading artifacts to the repo, they should be added to the index instantly * [MRM-822] - add org/jvnet/**, com/sun/** to the whitelist for the default java.net repository * [MRM-829] - Replace Company POM feature with simple Appearence customisation * [MRM-831] - When deploying artifacts to the repo, they should be added to the index instantly * [MRM-857] - set a user agent for proxy HTTP requests * [MRM-859] - Use File.createTempFile() when downloading files from a remote repository * [MRM-123] - add RSS view to repository manager * [MRM-216] - Upload (deploy) artifacts to a repository - via a web form (not using wagon) * [MRM-694] - Virtual repositories or repository grouping * [MRM-730] - Index/Search by class, method or package name * [MRM-751] - Support database connection pooling * [MRM-774] - Support inclusion of pom file when deploying an artifact via the web upload form * [MRM-864] - Searching within search results * [MRM-677] - Upgrade archiva to the latest redback (1.0.1) * [MRM-688] - Replace plexus-runtime with standalone jetty bundle * [MRM-708] - Migrate from Plexus Logging to Slf4J * [MRM-754] - Update the screenshots in the docs Thanks, The Apache Archiva team

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The POI team is pleased to announce the availability of Apache POI 3.5.1 beta 1, our first release including OOXML (Office Open XML) support. Apache POI is well-known in the Java field as a library for reading and writing OLE2 office file formats, such as Excel, PowerPoint, Visio and Word. With POI 3.5, it also support the new OOXML formats introduced in Office 2007. See http://poi.apache.org/ for more details Release Highlights: POI-SS - Java API To Access Microsoft Excel Format Files * This common interface allows access to HSSF (binary file format, .xls) and XSSF (ooxml file format, .xlsx) in the same way * Very similar to HSSF usermodel, allowing easy translation of old code support to the new format * All of HSSF should support this interface * Partial implementation of XSSF for this interface POI-XSSF - Java API To Access Microsoft Excel 2007 OOXML Format Files * partial implementation of high level interface * text extraction supported * low level, low memory parsing supported POI-XSLF - Java API To Access Microsoft PowerPoint 2007 OOXML Format Files * text extraction supported POI-XWPF - Java API To Access Microsoft Word 2007 OOXML File Formats * text extraction supported In addition, all fixes from POI 3.1 FINAL, and from just after, are included. For full changelog details, and documentation, please see /docs/ in the distribution. The documentation on the website reflects the state of work on POI 3.1.1. The source and binaries can be downloaded from your local mirror: http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/poi/dev/ The release is also available from the central Maven repository under Group ID "org.apache.poi" and Version "3.5.1-beta1". Note that the ooxml support is not available via Maven, as the dependencies are not packaged. For the Apache POI Team Nick Burch

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Help the Apache Wicket team to determine the future of your Wicket based web application development. We have released our third and hopefully final milestone release of our Java 5 based web framework and are anxious to receive feedback on our use of generics. A significant change from the earlier Wicket 1.4 milestone versions is that Component is no longer generified. This means that Component and most of its subclasses in Wicket do not take a class-level type parameter. Some Component subclasses remain generified, such as Link, Form, FormComponent, ListView, etc. You can read more details regarding these changes here: * http://wicket.apache.org/wicket-14-m3-news.html * http://www.nabble.com/generics-to18083910.html#a18083910 We feel that this might provide a good middle ground between being unable to add typing to IModel on one hand and a proliferation of unneeded typing information on modelless components on the other hand. Your feedback is appreciated! Download Wicket 1.4-m3 now and help us decide whether to tone down, remove or increase the application of Java 5 generics to our API. We have started the discussion on the user mailing list: * http://www.nabble.com/users%2C-please-give-us-your-opinion%3A-what-is-your-take-on-generics-with-Wicket-td17589984.html Eager people click here to download the distribution, others can read further: * http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/wicket/1.4-m3 We thank you for your patience and support. -- The Wicket Team === Apache Wicket === Apache Wicket is a component oriented Java web application framework. With proper mark-up/logic separation, a POJO data model, and a refreshing lack of XML, Apache Wicket makes developing web-apps simple and enjoyable again. Swap the boilerplate, complex debugging and brittle code for powerful, reusable components written with plain Java and HTML. You can find out more about Apache Wicket on our website: * http://wicket.apache.org === This release === The Apache Wicket team is proud to announce the availability of the third milestone release of our first java 1.5 Wicket version: Apache Wicket 1.4-m3. This is the first release with java 1.5 as a minimum. Almost everything has been converted to java 1.5. If you find something missing, please help us and send a message to the dev@ or user@ list. === Migrating from 1.3 === If you are coming from Wicket 1.3, you really want to read our migration guide, found on the wiki: * http://cwiki.apache.org/WICKET/migrate-14.html === Downloading the release === You can download the release from the official Apache mirror system, and you can find it through the following link: * http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/wicket/1.4-m3/ For the Maven and Ivy fans out there: update your pom's to the following, and everything will be downloaded automatically: <dependency> <groupId>org.apache.wicket</groupId> <artifactId>wicket</artifactId> <version>1.4-m3</version> </dependency> Substitute the artifact ID with the projects of your liking to get the other projects. Please note that we don't prescribe a Logging implementation for SLF4J. You need to specify yourself which one you prefer. Read more about SLF4J here: http://slf4j.org === Validating the release === The release has been signed by Martijn Dashorst, your release manager for today. The public key can be found in the KEYS file in the download area. Download the KEYS file only from the Apache website. * http://www.apache.org/dist/wicket/1.4-m3/KEYS Instructions on how to validate the release can be found here: * http://www.apache.org/dev/release-signing.html#check-integrity === Reporting bugs === In case you do encounter a bug, we would appreciate a report in our JIRA: * http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/WICKET === The distribution === In the distribution you will find a README. The README contains instructions on how to build from source yourself. You also find a CHANEGELOG-1.4 which contains a list of all things that have been fixed, added and/or removed since the first release in the 1.4 branch.

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The Apache ODE community is proud to announce its latest 1.2 release that includes many new features, improvements and bug fixes. Apache ODE is a WS-BPEL compliant web services orchestration engine. It organizes web services calls following a process description written in the BPEL XML grammar. Another way to describe it would be a web-service capable workflow engine. Highlights of this release: * External variables: variables used in a process are not opaque to the outside world anymore. You can map them to a simple database table and manipulate them directly. * Support for the WSDL HTTP binding. We've also added a few extensions, allowing the invocation of REST-style web services. * Advanced endpoint configuration which, thanks to the integration with Apache Axis2, enables WS-Security and WS-RM support. * A long list of small fixes and improvements for best-of-breed stability, performance and usability. In addition to these new features, Apache ODE provides the following functionalities: * Side-by-side support for both the WS-BPEL 2.0 OASIS standard and the legacy BPEL4WS 1.1 vendor specification. * Supports 2 communication layers: one based on Axis2 (Web Services http transport) and another one based on the JBI standard (using ServiceMix). * High level API to the engine that allows you to integrate the core with virtually any communication layer. * Hot-deployment of your processes. * Compiled approach to BPEL that provides detailed analysis and validation at the command line or at deployment. * Management interface for processes, instances and messages. For more information, check the Apache ODE website: http://ode.apache.org/. Apache ODE is an open source project released under a business-friendly license (Apache License v2.0), as such we welcome all your help and contributions. To participate and get involved, our mailing lists are the best resources to start from: http://ode.apache.org/mailing-lists.html

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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Apache Ant Team is proud to announce that version 1.7.1 has been released and is available as source[1] and binary[2] archives now. Ant 1.7.1 is mostly a bug fix release which addresses numerous issues found in Ant 1.7.0 released in December 2006. Several smaller optimizations should lead to an improved performance when compared to Ant 1.7.0. In addition Java6 support has been extended and JavaFX is now supported by the <script> task. The Apache Ant Development Team PS: please note that it may take a few hours until the new release is available from your preferred mirrors site. [1] http://ant.apache.org/srcdownload.cgi [2] http://ant.apache.org/bindownload.cgi -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFIdK2hohFa4V9ri3IRArztAJ9EBizBbP/JtanV4aKFgW7h1UJyQACfY3jW +rjSwFUEoctB4pInT8PTROY= =wHjd -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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The Apache MINA project is pleased to announce the release of MINA 2.0.0-M2. Apache MINA is a network application framework which helps users develop high performance and high scalability network applications easily. It provides an abstract, event-driven, asynchronous API over various transports such as TCP/IP and UDP/IP via Java NIO. The latest release is now available here: http://mina.apache.org/downloads.html A list of all the resolved issues for this this release is available here : https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/IssueNavigator.jspa?reset=true&pid=10670&fixfor=12312861 This is a milestone release and is not yet considered suitable for production use. This release improve the code structure, documentation and provide a large number of bug fix since 2.0.0-M1. We want to thanks all the developers who started using the 2.0 MINA branch and provided a lot of useful feedback for building this release. Thanks, Apache MINA PMC

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���The Apache HttpComponents project is pleased to announce the release of HttpComponents HttpCore 4.0-beta2. This release adds a number of improvements to the NIO components, most notable being improved asynchronous client side and server side protocol handlers. There has been a number of important bug fixes in HttpCore NIO module, whereas HttpCore base module has had very few changes. All upstream projects dependent on HttpCore NIO are strongly advised to upgrade. The focus of the development efforts is now gradually shifting towards providing better test coverage, documentation and performance optimizations. Download - http://hc.apache.org/downloads.cgi Release notes - http://www.apache.org/dist/httpcomponents/httpcore/RELEASE_NOTES.txt HttpComponents site - http://hc.apache.org/ About HttpComponents Core - The HttpCore components implement the most fundamental aspects of the HTTP protocol. They are nonetheless sufficient to develop basic client side and server side HTTP services with a minimal footprint and no external dependencies. HttpCore NIO extensions can be used to build asynchronous HTTP services based on non-blocking I/O model capable of handling a great number of simultaneous connections with just a few I/O threads.

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The POI team is pleased to announce the availability of Apache POI 3.1-FINAL. Apache POI is well-known in the Java field as a library for reading and writing OLE2 office file formats, such as Excel, PowerPoint, Visio and Word. See http://poi.apache.org Release Highlights: POI-HSSF - Java API To Access Microsoft Excel Format Files * Major improvements in formula evaluation * Support for conditional formatting * Support for Excel hyperlinks * Handling of embedded OLE2 documents * Support for getting excel cell comments when extracting text * Support for specifying a policy to HSSF on missing / blank cells when fetching POI-HSLF - Java API To Access Microsoft PowerPoint Format Files * Support for getting embedded sounds * Support for getting embedded OLE objects * Support for Tables * Improved text extraction * Export PowerPoint slides into image * Java2D Graphics driver POI-HWPF - J