2011/12/21 - Jakarta has been retired.

26 October 2002 - Enterprise Object Broker 0.75: EJB for mere mortals

See above for description and links.

21 May 2002 - OpenORB Community Edition 1.3 Beta 1 Released

After nearly 6 months of steady product improvement, rationalisation and platform enhancement, the OpenORB community is proud to release the first beta of the "Community OpenORB" product suite version 1.3. Version 1.3 introduced significant enhancements based on the Jakarta Avalon component framework - including configuration and context management, ORB initialization and service logging. All modules have been updated and brought into line with strict coding standards, major enhancements to the logging framework (including support for alternative logging mechanisms including Log4J, JDK1.4 Logging, and Avalon Logkit), a complete revision of the build systems with unification of the build structure across all packages, and the introduction of docbook based documentation. A complete list of changes per package is available in the WHATSNEW file included with each module.

24 May 2002 - OpenEJB 0.8 Beta 2 Released

OpenEJB is an open source, modular, configurable, and extendable EJB Container System and EJB Server.

An EJB Container System:
OpenEJB is a pre-built, self-contained, portable EJB container system and that can be plugged into any server environment including application servers, CORBA ORBs, Web servers, databases, etc. For example, OpenEJB is used in Apple computer's WebObjects.

An EJB Server:
OpenEJB comes with fast, lightweight EJB Servers for both Local and Remote access. That's right, deploy your EJBs into the container system, then just start the Remote EJB Server from the command line! Or, put OpenEJB in your class path and use it as an embedded library through the Local EJB Server.

23 May 2002 - JBoss Project posts the third release candidate for JBoss 3.0.0

9 May 2002 - Krysalis Centipede 1.0 beta2 Released - maven included

Krysalis Centipede is a project build system based on Apache Ant.
It's made to be easy, extensible and powerful.

30 April 2002 - Krysalis Centipede 1.0 beta1 Released

Krysalis Centipede is a project build system based on Apache Ant.
It's made to be easy, extensible and powerful.

Centipede has been through major changes, like autodownloading and autoinstalling build plugins, and now is stable and ready for user testing.

22 March 2002 - Krysalis Centipede = Ant + Cocoon

Krysalis Centipede is a basic build starter kit that uses Apache Ant and Cocoon. It's in version 0.2 and growing fast. The docs will start to come out as soon as the structure stabilizes.

Next week's version will include:

• multiple skin support (jakarta and xml.apache look-and-feel)
• build target aliasing and description
• basic docs on how to start, and the dir layout
• gump descriptor integration with project-info
• examples jar build, along with proper, scratchpad and contrib
• new build script
• endorsed jar dir, used by both build and tools
• corrected "dist" target, with test run before jar generation
• new "testmodule" target that tests all the build
• new "gump" target
• ready for automatic site update from Gump runs

For more, visit Krysalis on SourceForge:

07 March 2002 - Enterprise Object Broker: EJB for mere mortals

Enterprise Object Broker (EOB) is an application server that tries to a be a simpler EJB container. It is not complete yet, but we have many demos showing local, remote, and webapp usage.

5 March 2002 - Poolman developer retires

The developer of the popular Poolman connection pool has retired from active work on the product. The current beta release was to include pooling of PreparedStatments. While Poolman has a tremendous user base, it has never attracted a developer community.

1 March 2002 - Simper 0.2: JDBC Persistence

Simper is a simple JDBC persistence mechanism for Java web apps. It features many of the interesting features of EJB, such as automatic transaction demarcation (by way of Servlet Filters), and automatic change detection of database rows (by way of DynaBeans). Lastly, the notation by which you reference rows, as well as relations between tables, is extremely JSP friendly.

8 February 2002 - JasperReports: Writing Complex Reports and PDF

Java based, XML enabled reporting tool that organizes data retrieved through JDBC into a ready to print document, according to the template defined in a XML file. The output can be delivered to the screen, printer, or stored in XML or PDF file.

15 January 2002 - dbForms releases version 1.0

DbForms enables developers to build sophisticated web-based database driven applications in very short time and with very little effort. DbForms - applications are built in a conceptually very similar manner to RAD - database building tools like Sybase PowerSite (for web-based applications) or even Microsoft Access (for Windows-based applications)

The philosophy behind DbForms could be described shortly as follows

user places database components and action elements on templates, which get executed at runtime user is not required program anything (he/she just designs the app)