2011/12/21 - Jakarta has been retired.

The Struts team is proud to announce the release of Struts 1.1 Beta 3. This release includes significant new functionality, while retaining full backwards compatibility with earlier versions of Struts. It also incorporates fixes for a number of bugs which were reported against earlier versions.

The binary distribution for this release is available here and the source distribution is available here. In addition, a library distribution, which consists of a minimal binary distribution, without sample web applications or additional code, is available here.

This release has many enhancements and bug fixes over the previous release. See the announcement for more information, and the Change Log for a detailed list of changes. Some of the earlier defects could turn a James mail server into an Open Relay. All users of James 2.0a3 and earlier are urged to upgrade to James v2.1 as soon as possible.

The Tomcat Team announces the immediate availability of Apache Tomcat 4.1.18 Stable. Tomcat 4.1.18 includes a fix for an object recylcing bug which could be exploited by a denial of service attack. The bug was introduced in Tomcat 4.1.16 Beta. The release also includes a fix for SSL handling in the JK connector.

The Tomcat Team announces the immediate availability of Apache Tomcat 4.1.17 Stable. Tomcat 4.1.16 includes many bugfixes and performance tweaks over Tomcat 4.1.12. Please see the release notes for a complete list of the changes.
Binary and source distributions are available here.

The Jetspeed Team announces the immediate availability of Apache Jetspeed 1.4 Beta 3. This release includes security and installation bug fixes. No new features in this release.
The changelog is available here.
Binary and source distributions are available here.

The Commons Validator team is proud to announce Commons Validator 1.0.1. This release includes only bug fixes - there are no new features in this release. Binary and source distributions are available here. More information about Commons Validator can be found on the project home page.

The Jetspeed Team announces the immediate availability of Apache Jetspeed 1.4 Beta 2.
The changelog is available here.
Binary and source distributions are available here.

The Turbine Team announces the immediate availability of Apache Turbine 2.2.
The changelog is available here.
Binary and source distributions are available here.

The Torque Team announces the immediate availability of Apache Torque 3.0.
The changelog is available here.
Binary and source distributions are available here.

MEETUP with other local Java developers to network with each other and talk about jobs, code, architecture and innovation in San Francisco on Monday, December 16th @ 7:00PM. This is a FREE event and the last one was a blast!

Up until 3 days before the event, you can still vote on the location in San Francisco that the JAVA MEETUP will occur at. Many people are voting for StudioZ.tv (314 11th Street @ Folsom) because Jon Scott Stevens, Java developer and Co-Founder of the Apache Jakarta project, now owns the space and has graciously offered drink specials all night long! StudioZ.tv has openly available 802.11b wireless, full liquor bar, sound system and is 21+ only.

So, please sign up for free at http://java.meetup.com and pick StudioZ.tv as your venue. Then, the night of the event, show up and let's have some Java geek socializing fun!

The Tomcat Team announces the immediate availability of Apache Tomcat 4.1.16 Beta. Tomcat 4.1.16 includes many bugfixes and performance tweaks over Tomcat 4.1.12. Please see the release notes for a complete list of the changes.
Binary and source distributions are available here.

The Commons Lang team have released a 1.0.1 bug fix. Binary and source distributions are available here. The bug fixes are detailed in the release notes and more information about Commons Lang can be found on the project home page.

The Commons CLI team is proud to announce Commons CLI 1.0, a simple and easy to use API for working with command line arguments. This is the first official release of this Commons component. Binary and source distributions are available here. More information about Commons CLI can be found on the project home page.

The Commons Validator team is proud to announce Commons Validator 1.0, the first official release of this Commons component. Binary and source distributions are available here. More information about Commons Validator can be found on the project home page.

MEETUP with other local Java developers to network with each other and talk about jobs, code, architecture and innovation in San Francisco on Monday, November 18 @ 7:00PM. This is a FREE event.

Up until 3 days before the event, you can still vote on the location in San Francisco that the JAVA MEETUP will occur at. Many people are voting for StudioZ.tv (314 11th Street @ Folsom) because Jon Scott Stevens, Java developer and Co-Founder of the Apache Jakarta project, now owns the space and has graciously offered drink specials all night long! StudioZ.tv has openly available 802.11b wireless, full liquor bar, sound system and is 21+ only.

So, please sign up for free at http://java.meetup.com and pick StudioZ.tv as your venue. Then, the night of the event, show up and let's have some Java geek socializing fun!

Announcing the release of Commons BeanUtils 1.5, the latest and greatest introspection utilities out there. This is a bug clearing release, to aid in the next Struts release. Binary and source distributions are available here. The project's homepage is here.

OnJava has an article on Digester entitled Learning and using Jakarta Digester.

Details of Apache's TCK license, negotiated with Sun over this past summer, have been released. It is hoped that this license will become the prototype for open source TCK licensees working within the Java Community Process. Read about it here.

Announcing the release of Commons Collections 2.1, the latest version of improvements to Jakarta's Collections API enhancements. Binary and source distributions are available here. The project's homepage is here.

The Avalon Team is pleased to announce the release of Avalon-Phoenix 4.0.1. Phoenix is a container for coarse-grained server components. MX4J has been upgraded in this release. Some bugs concerning logging have been addressed too.
Binary and source distributions are available here. The project's homepage is here.

Log4j developers are proud to announce the release of log4j 1.2.7. This release add a new small feature and fixes several minor documentation bugs. See the HISTORY file for precise details.

A security vulnerability has been confirmed to exist in Apache Tomcat 4.0.x releases (including Tomcat 4.0.5), which allows to use a specially crafted URL to return the unprocessed source of a JSP page, or, under special circumstances, a static resource which would otherwise have been protected by security constraint, without the need for being properly authenticated. This is based on a variant of the exploit that was disclosed on 09/24/2002.

Who is vulnerable

• All Tomcat 4.0.x releases, except those in which the invoker servlet is disabled (this is not the default setting).
• All Tomcat 4.1.x releases before 4.1.12, except those in which the invoker servlet is disabled (this is not the default setting), as well as 4.1.12 if and only if the invoker servlet has been enabled. The default Tomcat 4.1.12 installation is not vulnerable.

Fixes and workarounds(doing either of the following can be use as a workaround for the security problem)

• Disabling the invoker servlet: In the $CATALINA_HOME/conf/web.xml file (on Windows, %CATALINA_HOME%\conf\web.xml), comment out or remove the following XML fragment:
  <servlet-mapping>
<servlet-name>invoker</servlet-name>
<url-pattern>/servlet/*</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>
• If running any Tomcat 4.0.x releases, download and install the following binary patch. Simply unzip the archive in the $CATALINA_HOME folder (on Windows %CATALINA_HOME%). Make sure paths are preserved when unzipping. The patch will overwrite the default webapp configuration file ($CATALINA_HOME/conf/web.xml) to add a workaround to protect against the security vulnerability.
• If running Tomcat 4.1.12 and the invoker servlet was enabled, it must be disabled at this time. A new Tomcat 4.1.x release incorporating the fix to the invoker servlet will be made available shortly.
• If running any Tomcat 4.0.x release, download and install Tomcat 4.0.6. Binary and source distributions for Apache Tomcat 4.0.5 are available here.

The Commons Team is pleased to announce the release of Commons Lang 1.0. Binary and source distributions are available here. The project's homepage is here. This represents the first full release of the Commons Lang components, which has been in stealth use in Jakarta projects for a fair while now.

This is to announce the final release of Ant 1.5.1, a Java-based build tool.

The full list of changes as well as binary and source release files can be found here.

The Commons Team is pleased to announce the release of Commons Logging 1.0.2. Binary and source distributions are available here. The project's homepage is here. This release is a packaging of bug fixes since release 1.0.1.

The Jakarta POI project has happily released another dev release in preparation for the 2.0 release sometime "soon". This release contains numerous formula enhancements, lots of new translations of documentation, support for custom formats and improved support for Japanese and Russian. This was actually released a few days ago but since the DDoS attacks have been making *.apache.com bounce up an down like a yo-yo we didn't get around to announcing it. Go get Jakarta POI here.

POI is the Apache API for reading and writing popular formats like XLS in pure Java. And you can even run it from your mainframe!

A security vulnerability has been confirmed to exist in all Apache Tomcat 4.x versions (including Tomcat 4.0.4 and Tomcat 4.1.10), which allows to use a specially crafted URL to return the unprocessed source of a JSP page, or under special circumstances a static resource which would otherwise have been protected by security constraint, without the need of being properly authenticated.

Using the invoker servlet in conjunction with the default servlet (responsible for handling static content in Tomcat) triggers this vulnerability. This particular configuration is available in the default Tomcat configuration. An easy workaround exists for existing Tomcat installation, by disabling the invoker servlet in the default webapp configuration.

In the $CATALINA_HOME/conf/web.xml file (on Windows, %CATALINA_HOME%\conf\web.xml), comment out or remove the following XML fragment:
<servlet-mapping> <servlet-name>invoker</servlet-name> <url-pattern>/servlet/*</url-pattern> </servlet-mapping>

The Apache Tomcat Team announces the immediate availability of new releases which include a fix to the invoker servlet.
Binary and source distributions for Apache Tomcat 4.1.12 Stable are available here.
Binary and source distributions for Apache Tomcat 4.0.5 are available here.

The Avalon Team is pleased to announce the release of Avalon-Phoenix 4.0. Binary and source distributions are available here. The project's homepage is here. This stabilises Phoenix. MX4J is enabled by default, but can be turned off. The standard Kernel can be replaced by one that additionally offers a Beanshell Console.
Binary and source distributions are available here.

The Commons team is proud to announce a pre-release of Commons Discovery 0.1. Discovery should not be considered to have a stable API. Regardless, it has proven to be useful to a few projects, so the team felt it was important to establish an early baseline for use within other (some soon to be released) projects willing to work with the evolving APIs.
Binary and source distributions are available here.

The Tomcat Team is proud to announce the release of Tomcat 4.1.10 Stable, which is the first stable release of the Tomcat 4.1.x branch. Over Tomcat 4.0.4, Tomcat 4.1 includes web-based administration, new connectors (HTTP/1.1 and AJP 1.3), new Jasper 2 JSP page compiler, enhanced management tools, major performance and scalability improvement.
Binary and source distributions are available here.

The Avalon team is pleased to announce the release Logkit 1.1. This release introduces more rotation strategies and output targets. Logkit is usable directly or via the abstractions of Avalon-Framework and Commons-Logging.
Binary and source distributions are available here.

The Cactus project is pleased to announce the 1.4.1 release. Cactus is a unit testing framework for testing server side java code.

Binary and source distributions are available at http://jakarta.apache.org/cactus/downloads.html.

This release is purely a bug fix release for Cactus 1.4. Please check the Changes page (http://jakarta.apache.org/cactus/changes.html) for a full list of the changes from version 1.4. Existing Cactus 1.3 users can also check the Migration page which explains how to migrate to this new version.

For more information about Cactus, please visit http://jakarta.apache.org/cactus/.

The Commons Team is pleased to announce the release of Commons BeanUtils 1.4.1. Binary and source distributions are available here. The project's homepage is here. This release is includes a performance improvement in MethodUtils from release 1.4.

The Cactus project is pleased to announce the final 1.4 release. Cactus is a unit testing framework for testing server side java code.

Binary and source distributions are available at http://jakarta.apache.org/cactus/downloads.html.

Please check the Changes page (http://jakarta.apache.org/cactus/changes.html) for a full list of the changes from version 1.3. Existing Cactus 1.3 users can also check the Migration page which explains how to migrate to this new version.

For more information about Cactus, please visit http://jakarta.apache.org/cactus/.

The Tomcat Team is proud to announce the release of Tomcat 4.1.9 Beta. Binary and source distributions are available here.

The Commons Team is pleased to announce the release of Commons Digester 1.3. Binary and source distributions are available here. The project's homepage is here. This release is a packaging of bug fixes and minor enhancements since release 1.2.

The Commons Team is pleased to announce the release of Commons BeanUtils 1.4. Binary and source distributions are available here. The project's homepage is here. This release is a packaging of bug fixes and minor enhancements since release 1.3.

The Commons Team is pleased to announce the release of Commons Logging 1.0.1. Binary and source distributions are available here. The project's homepage is here. This release is a packaging of bug fixes and minor enhancements since release 1.0.

The Struts team is proud to announce the release of Struts 1.1 Beta 2. This release includes significant new functionality, while retaining full backwards compatibility with earlier versions of Struts. It also incorporates fixes for a number of bugs which were reported against earlier versions.

The binary distribution for this release is available here and the source distribution is available here. In addition, a library distribution, which consists of a minimal binary distribution, without sample web applications or additional code, is available here.

The Avalon Team is pleased to announce the release of Avalon-Phoenix 4.0 Beta. Binary and source distributions are available here. The project's homepage is here. This release adds JMX capability via an HTTP adapter from the MX4J project on Sourceforge.

The Tomcat Team is proud to announce the release of Tomcat 4.1.8 Beta. Binary and source distributions are available here.

Log4j developers are proud to announce the release of log4j 1.2.6. This release fixes several relatively minor bugs. See the HISTORY file for precise details.

The Cactus project is pleased to announce the release of 1.4 beta 1. Cactus is a unit testing framework for testing server side java code.

Binary and source distributions are available at http://jakarta.apache.org/cactus/downloads.html.

Please check the Changes page (http://jakarta.apache.org/cactus/changes.html) for a full list of the changes from version 1.3. Existing Cactus 1.3 users can also check the Migration page which explains how to migrate to this new version.

For more information about Cactus, please visit http://jakarta.apache.org/cactus/.

The Jetspeed Team is proud to announce the release of 1.4 Beta 1. Binary and source distributions are available at http://jakarta.apache.org/builds/jakarta-jetspeed/release/v1.4b1/.

This is to announce the final release of Ant 1.5, a Java-based build tool.

The full list of changes as well as binary and source release files can be found at http://jakarta.apache.org/builds/jakarta-ant/release/v1.5/.

The Tomcat Team is proud to announce the release of Tomcat 4.1.7 Beta. Binary and source distributions are available here.

The Jakarta Velocity project is proud to announce the release of version 1.3 of the Jakarta Velocity Template Engine.

Major enhancements include :

• Automatic detection of log4j or Avalon's logkit as the default logger. It's your choice - just put either into the classpath and Velocity will find it.
• Application Attributes allow your applications to interact with custom components such as loggers and resource loaders.
• The Resource Manager and Resource Cache are now pluggable.

Furthermore, this release includes the User's Guide in Finnish, French, Spanish and English.

If you are looking for a safe, powerful alternative to JSP for web-application development, or a versatile template engine to augment your Java application, try Velocity.

The POI project is pleased to announce and highlight two new important translation efforts. A Spanish and Japanese translation of the project documentation/website have begun!

It is our sincere desire that people from all nations and the speakers of every language have access to POI and other OpenSource software projects.

We would like to encourage everyone to participate in this translation effort in a free and open manner. We will do our best to accommodate all efforts to that effect.

An extra special thanks goes out to Tetsuya Kitahata (tetsuya dot kitahata at nifty dot ne dot jp) for spearheading the Japanese initiative.

This is the third beta release of Ant 1.5, a Java-based build tool. This release provides greater stability when compared with 1.5 beta 2, as a few more bug fixes have been made since the last beta.

The full list of changes as well as binary and source release files can be found at http://jakarta.apache.org/builds/jakarta-ant/release/v1.5Beta3/.

The Tomcat Team is proud to announce the release of Tomcat 4.0.4 Final. Binary and source distributions are available here.

POI developers are proud to announce the release of Poi 1.5.1. This release fixes handling of reading spreadsheets containing rich text fields and removes the requirement to include commons-logging in the classpath.

Log4j developers are proud to announce the release of log4j 1.2.4. This release fixes several relatively minor bugs. The integration of LogFactor5 and log4j continues unabated.

The Lucene Team is proud to announce the release of Lucene 1.2. This is the first production release of Lucene since it moved to the Apache project. This release contains many features and bug fixes over the previous 1.0.2 release - see CHANGES.txt for details. Jakarta Lucene is a high-performance, full-featured text search engine written entirely in Java. Binary and source distributions are available here.

The Tomcat Team is proud to announce the release of Tomcat 4.1.3 Beta. Binary and source distributions are available here.

This is the second beta release of Ant 1.5, a Java-based build tool. This release provides greater stability when compared with 1.5 beta 1, as numerous bug fixes have been made since the last beta.

The full list of changes as well as binary and source release files can be found at http://jakarta.apache.org/builds/jakarta-ant/release/v1.5Beta2/.

The James team are pleased to announce the release of version 2.0a3 of the James Server.
James is a highly configurable, 100% Java, Email and News server currently offering SMTP, POP3 and NNTP using file or RDBMS data storage.
This version demonstrates improved stability, and contains a number of significant bugfixes over the previous release.
James is also an email application server supporting the Apache Mailet API.
The Mailet API provides a simple framework for developing email processing applications and is maintained by the James project.
James is based upon the Apache Avalon application framework.

Let your voice be heard! Vote for the new POI Logo. Your vote matters! So remember to vote for a tikiman ;-)! (j/k....mostly). One month from today (06.27.2002) the polls will close, so hurry up and get your vote in. Oh, and while you're at it, don't forget to join us for some delicious POI!

The Lucene Team would like to announce Lucene Release Candidate 5. Binary and source distributions are available here.

The Tomcat Team is proud to announce the release of Tomcat 4.0.4 Beta 3. Binary and source distributions are available here.

After a wait of just under a year, log4j 1.2 is now finally released. This release incorporates many performance improvements, bug fixes, and other enhancements, log4j 1.2 adds JMX support, Mapped Diagnostic Contexts, JDBC logging, graphical log viewer (chainsaw), and buffered IO capability. One important change is the replacement of the Category class with Logger class and the Priority class with the Level class in order to facilitate migration from the JDK 1.4 logging API to log4j.

All changes except the removal of deprecated methods are backward compatible such that log4j 1.2 can be considered a drop in replacement for log4j 1.1.3.

The binary and source release files can be found at http://jakarta.apache.org/builds/jakarta-turbine/torque/release/3.0-b2/.

The first production release for Jakarta POI is out. And its soooo good that its just "POI-fect". Get this POI while its hot if you need to generate some Excel spreadsheets in production.... And if you're still hungry for more check out a nightly build for some more new (experimental) features. Oh and you can find the release here.

3 May 2002 - 03 May 2002 - "Its POI-fect", Javaworld

This is the first beta release of Ant 1.5 which features improved support for JDK 1.4 as well as a whole bunch of new tasks. Netware is now a supported OS, Ant can create bzip2 archives and MD5 checksums via built-in tasks, prompt for input or replace text based on regular expressions - just to name a few.

The full list of changes as well as binary and source release files can be found at http://jakarta.apache.org/builds/jakarta-ant/release/v1.5Beta1/.

The second real "release candidate" for POI is out. 1.5 is SOOOO close we can TASTE that POI right on our tounges. This release candidate fixes a few annoying and relatively minor (but serious enough) bugs. And in preparation for a production-level release the experimental formula support is disabled. So get it while its HOT and help test it so we can feed the world fresh and delicious POI! (unless of course they like it fermented -- we aim to please)

In other news, formula support has started in the 2.0 branch and is well under way. So if you like putting =1+2 in your spreadsheets then you'll be all set. Hopefully cell references will appear soon for those of you with slightly more sophisticated tastes. So what's the best way to speed things along? Why its simple, join the mail lists and contribute, submit bug reports, send in patches, if you see a nail sticking up pick up a hammer. We're always looking for voluteers. A special thanks goes out to Avik Sengupta who is the primary author of the current formula support and to Libin Roman who submitted Named Ranges support. You guys rock!

The Cactus team is proud to announce the release of Cactus 1.3. This release corrects a lot of bugs and brings some new features. The full list of changes is available here.

There has been 2 main changes in how to configure Cactus. Please make sure you read the Migration Guide, which explains what you have to do to migrate from Cactus 1.2 to 1.3.

In addition you'll notice the change in name from Jakarta-cactus-22|23-1.2.zip to Jakarta-cactus-12|13-1.3.zip. This is because Cactus is growing and is expected to target J2EE and not only the Servlet API (thus 1.2 and 1.3 represent the J2EE API - which encompass Servlet API 2.2 and 2.3). The downloads page explains it all.

The first real "release candidate" for POI is out. Among other things it fixes the annoying log4j version dependancies. Get it while its hot, test it, report the bugs and lets get 1.5-final out there ASAP!

In addition to many performance improvements, bug fixes, and other small enhancements, log4j 1.2 adds JMX support, Mapped Diagnostic Contexts, JDBC logging, graphical log viewer (chainsaw), and buffered IO capability. One important change is the replacement of the Category class with Logger class and the Priority class with the Level class in order to facilitate migration from the JDK 1.4 logging API to log4j.

Version 1.2 is the 22nd major public release of log4j. All changes except the removal of deprecated methods are backward compatible such that log4j 1.2 can be considered a drop in replacement for log4j 1.1.3.

http://maven.apache.org/

Maven is a Java project management and project comprehension tool. Maven is based on the concept of a project object model (POM) in that all the artifacts produced by Maven are a result of consulting a well defined model for your project. Builds, documentation, source metrics, and source cross-references are all controlled by your POM.

http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/components.html

Collections 2.0 includes 11 new collections and 3 new comparators, as well as several enhancements and bug fixes.

http://maven.apache.org/

Maven is a Java project management and project comprehension tool. Maven is based on the concept of a project object model (POM) in that all the artifacts produced by Maven are a result of consulting a well defined model for your project. Builds, documentation, source metrics, and source cross-references are all controlled by your POM.

The Tomcat 3.3.1 Final release is now available. This release contains a number of bug fixes and small feature additions over the Tomcat 3.3(a) Release. You can find everything, including a list of the changes, here.

The online Tomcat 3.3 Documentation includes information on this release. New features are noted as specific to Tomcat 3.3.1. For the most up to date Tomcat 3.3 documentation, please refer to this site.

The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) today announced that it has reached an agreement with Sun Microsystems and members of the Java Community Process (JCP) to secure the basic right to implement Java specifications in open source. This is the result of extended dialog over the past year. Sun has pledged to use licenses that enable open source independent implementations for all its Java specifications and Test Compatibility Kits. Sun has pledged this for all future Sun-led Java specifications as well as key specifications already released.

"It gives us great pleasure to have served the interests of the wider open source community, largely made up of individuals and small groups who may not have the resources and visibility to establish this level of dialog," said Jason Hunter, ASF Vice-President, Java Community Process. "To satisfy this trust, the ASF will be closely monitoring the implementation details of the contents of this agreement to ensure the gains represented by this agreement are not lost."

"We believe, properly implemented, these changes will fertilize the growing open source Java community, resulting in wider adoption of Java technologies. We also strongly believe the wider availability of Test Compatibility Kits and the existence of solid open source Java specification implementations will serve to improve and enhance Java's compatibility," explained Hunter.

Read the full press release.

The Ant team is proud to announce that Ant has won the JavaWorld Editors' Choice Award for "Most Useful Java Community-Developed Technology". Our sister project Xerces wins the Award as "Best Java XML Tool".

The Tomcat Team is proud to announce the release of Tomcat 4.0.4 Beta 2. Binary and source distributions are available here.

Over the past few weeks, discussions between the Apache Software Foundation and Sun Microsystems have reached a fever pitch over several concerns raised by Apache. As a result of these discussions, Sun has agreed to make changes to the upcoming JSPA revision that address Apache's concerns.

The Struts team is proud to announce the release of Struts 1.1 Beta 1. This release includes significant new functionality, while retaining full backwards compatibility with earlier versions of Struts. It also incorporates fixes for a number of bugs which were reported against earlier versions.

The binary distribution for this release is available here and the source distribution is available here. In addition, a library distribution, which consists of a minimal binary distribution, without sample web applications or additional code, is available here.

This was compiled and contributed by a Jakarta user, Philipp K. Janert. Committers for the various subprojects are invited to review the document, and make any changes deemed appropriate. At some point, this could linked from the home page, and perhaps updated as part of the release process.

• Jakarta Overview draft
• Jakarta Overview thread

Micro Jakarta One

Jakarta One to be Cancelled

The results from the JSR-99 vote are in. If one only looks at the results, it would appear as though we 'lost' our battle and that Sun and others have locked Open Source out of Java. However, if one digs a bit deeper and reads the comments from the various vendors, which they submitted with their votes, it becomes clear that Apache's stance on an open and fair licensing scheme for developing Java standards is shared by many major corporations, including IBM (WHO VOTED NO on the draft JSPA)...

* http://jakarta.apache.org/site/jspa-position.html

The POI Project has released its first Jakarta pre-release 1.4583 (pre-1.5). Kudos to whoever figures out what the equation was to reach this peculiar number. Binary and source distributions are available here. If all goes well with this release the a 1.5 interim production release is imminent.

The Tomcat Team is proud to announce the release of Tomcat 4.0.4 Beta 1. Binary and source distributions are available here.

Tomcat 3.3.1 Release Candidate 1 is the first release candidate of Tomcat 3.3.1. This release contains a number of bug fixes over the Tomcat 3.3.1 Beta 1 release. You can find everything, including a list of the changes, here.

The online Tomcat 3.3 Documentation includes information on this release. New features are noted as specific to Tomcat 3.3.1. For the most up to date Tomcat 3.3 documentation, please refer to this site.

Initial thread

Volunteer Guides thread

http://www.mail-archive.com/general%40jakarta.apache.org/msg04010.html

http://www.mail-archive.com/general%40jakarta.apache.org/msg03976.html

http://www.mail-archive.com/general%40jakarta.apache.org/msg03967.html

http://www.mail-archive.com/general%40jakarta.apache.org/msg03965.html

http://www.mail-archive.com/general%40jakarta.apache.org/msg03951.html

The POI committers have voted to "innovate" and hold a logo contest. The big P at the top of the POI project page is just a placeholder. We're hoping to tap the talent of all of the budding artists around the Jakarta community.

So come check out POI and never go hungry again!

This release fixes a security vulnerability affecting the use of the request dispatcher, which could allow in some rare cases a remote attacker to read files anywhere on the server filesystem. It also provides a way for malicious servlets or JSP to bypass the Security Manager sandbox.

Binary and source distributions are available here.

The fix for this security vulnerability is also available as a hotfix which can be applied to an existing Tomcat 4.0.x installation. Installing the hotfix on top of 4.0.2 is equivalent to upgrading to Tomcat 4.0.3. The hotfix can be found here.

PMC - its official :-)

Jakarta PMC 2002: Results of the Ballot.

PMC Home Page

"Done." said Scott Sanders (thanks) and the site was up. The POI project has joined Jakarta and writing OLE 2 Compound Document based file formats will never be the same (because now you'll dump those nasty NT servers and switch to UNIX using Java). Currently, straight OLE 2 CDF, XLS (Excel) format, and Document Summary Information are supported. Efforts are already getting underway to port DOC (MS Word) formats.

So come check out POI and never go hungry again!

In addition to many performance improvements, bug fixes, and other small enhancements, log4j 1.2 beta3 adds JMX support, Mapped Diagnostic Contexts, and buffered IO capability. One important change is the replacement of the Category class with Logger class and the Priority with the Level in order to facilitate migration from the JDK 1.4 logging API to log4j.

All changes except the removal of deprecated methods are backward compatible such that log4j 1.2beta3 can be considered a drop in replacement for log4j 1.1.3. Binary and source distributions are available on the log4j download page.

Tomcat 3.3.1 Beta 1 is the first beta release of Tomcat 3.3.1. This release contains numerous bug fixes and small feature additions to Tomcat 3.3(a). You can find everything, including a list of the changes, here.

The online Tomcat 3.3 Documentation includes information on this release. New features are noted as specific to Tomcat 3.3.1. For the most up to date Tomcat 3.3 documentation, please refer to this site.

The Struts team is proud to announce the release of Struts 1.0.2. This release is a bug fix only release, which fixes a compatibility problem inadvertently introduced with the previous 1.0.1 release.

The binary distribution for this release is available here and the source distribution is available here. In addition, a library distribution, which consists of a minimal binary distribution, without sample web applications or additional code, is available here.

The Tomcat Team is proud to announce the final release of Tomcat 4.0.2. Binary and source distributions are available here.

The Jakarta Apache Project has published a statement on the Apache position with regard to the latest JSPA revision and the items currently under discussion. This statement was sent to Sun on 1-28-2002 and the ASF has not yet received a response. The statement is being posted on the Jakarta Website so that the Java community can openly see the Apache position on these important license issues.

The James team is proud to announce the long awaited release of v2.0a2

About James: James is a platform independant Java(tm) email and news server built using the Avalon application framenwork and supporting SMTP, POP3 and NNTP. It is also a mail application platform supporting the Apache Mailet API and offers support for filesystem and database email repositories.

More information about James can be found here http://james.apache.org
The Mailet API is maintained by the James project and can be found here http://james.apache.org/mailet/
Information about Avalon can be found here http://avalon.apache.org/

The Avalon team is proud to announce the 4.1.2 final release of the Avalon Framework.

About Avalon: The Avalon project is Apache's Java Server Framework. It is separated into five sub projects: Framework, Excalibur, LogKit, Cornerstone, and Phoenix. Its purpose is to simplify server side programming for Java based projects. It formalizes serveral best of breed practices and patterns for server side programming.

For more information about Avalon, please go to http://avalon.apache.org.

About Avalon Framework 4.1.2: The Avalon Framework formalizes the contracts and patterns used in the other Avalon projects. It is derived from modern software engineering techniques and aims to provide a solid basis on which to build server products.

What that means is that we define the central interface Component. We also define the relationship (contract) a component has with peers, ancestors and children. This documentation introduces you to those patterns, interfaces, and relationships.

The Avalon Framework raises the abstraction level from Object-Oriented Programming concept one notch to the Component-Oriented Programming model. This enables programmers to concern themselves with assemblies of classes, rather than the classes themselves--thus reducing the number of things the programmer must keep in mind, and speeding up application development.

The Avalon Framework is already used in Cocoon, an XML publishing framework. The Avalon Framework is also used in Apache JAMES, a Java(tm) Mail Server. Another project that is built on Avalon Framework is Jestkop, a cross-platform replacement for your ordinary desktop. If you are evaluating Avalon and want the proof that it's claims are valid check them out.

For more information about Avalon Framework 4.1.2, please go to http://avalon.apache.org/framework.

The Avalon team is proud to announce the 1.0.1 final release of LogKit.

About Avalon: The Avalon project is Apache's Java Server Framework. It is separated into five sub projects: Framework, Excalibur, LogKit, Cornerstone, and Phoenix. Its purpose is to simplify server side programming for Java based projects. It formalizes serveral best of breed practices and patterns for server side programming.

For more information about Avalon, please go to http://avalon.apache.org.

About LogKit 1.0.1: LogKit is an easy to use logging toolkit designed for secure performance oriented logging. It's design encourages integration into existing products with minimal impact.

For more information about LogKit 1.0.1, please go to http://avalon.apache.org/logkit.

In a recent article, Karen Tegan, Director of J2EE Compatibility and Platform Services for Sun Microsystems, had the following to say:

"The J2EE Compatible brand has achieved significant momentum over the past two years, and we want to make sure that any open source efforts don't impact the viability of that effort."

In other words, Sun doesn't give a hoot about whether J2EE licensing restricts open source J2EE products (in case you missed it, it does). Thus, the Apache Software Foundation's involvement in the Java Community Process (JCP) is simply an advertising statement for Sun to claim that they have a 'vision which uses open standards and non-proprietary interfaces'. If you would like to express your opinions of Sun's licensing terms, feel free to contact jcp.AT.apache.DOT.org and let us know what you think. Thanks.

Followup thread on Jakarta-General: J2EE considered harmful .

The Avalon team is proud to announce the 4.1 final release of the Avalon Excalibur.

About Avalon: The Avalon project is Apache's Java Server Framework. It is separated into five sub projects: Framework, Excalibur, LogKit, Cornerstone, and Phoenix. Its purpose is to simplify server side programming for Java based projects. It formalizes serveral best of breed practices and patterns for server side programming.

For more information about Avalon, please go to http://avalon.apache.org.

About Avalon Excalibur 4.1: Avalon Excalibur contains several premade Avalon Components and utilities to make your server side programming easier. There are several pool implementations, Component management implementations, and database management implementations.

For more information about Avalon Excalibur 4.1, please go to http://avalon.apache.org/excalibur.

The Tomcat Team is proud to announce the second beta release of Tomcat 4.0.2. Binary and source distributions are available here.

14 January 2002 - Apache Tomcat 3.3 Updated to 3.3a

Important Notice: The Tomcat 3.3 release has been updated to 3.3a to deal with a DOS vulnerability on Windows systems. The vulnerability allows a special HTTP request to hang and never complete. This prevents the thread handling the request from handling any further requests until Tomcat is restarted. Other systems are not affected, and both Tomcat 3.2.x and Tomcat 4.x do not have this vunerability.

It is recommended that everyone using Tomcat 3.3 on a Windows system upgrade to 3.3a. This is possible using the full Tomcat 3.3a binary distribution, or by updating jar(s) in an existing Tomcat 3.3 installation. These may be found here along with additional information.

12 January 2002 - Struts 1.0.1 Released

The Struts team is proud to announce the release of Struts 1.0.1. This release is primarily a bug fix release, which fixes a number of known problems with the previous 1.0 release.

The binary distribution for this release is available here and the source distribution is available here. In addition, a library distribution, which consists of a minimal binary distribution, without sample web applications or additional code, is available here.

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