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30 December 2003 - ORO 2.0.8 Released

Jakarta-ORO is a text processing library built around several different regular expression engines that share a common API.

Jakarta-ORO 2.0.8 has been released. It should be available for download from most, if not all, of the mirrors listed at:
http://jakarta.apache.org/site/binindex.cgi
http://jakarta.apache.org/site/sourceindex.cgi

The following URL summarizes the changes made between 2.0.7 and 2.0.8

http://cvs.apache.org/viewcvs/jakarta-oro/CHANGES?rev=HEAD&content-type=text/vnd.viewcvs-markup

This is a maintenance release, containing minor incremental improvements and fixes for all outstanding bugs that have been reported or noticed.


26 December 2003 - Lucene 1.3 Final Released

A new release of Lucene is available, with many new features and bug fixes. See CHANGES.txt for details. Binary and source distributions are available here.


23 December 2003 - Commons Configuration Promoted out of Sandbox

The Jakarta Commons Team is pleased to announce that the Configuration component has been promoted out of the sandbox and into the Commons proper.

This code has been around and in use for quite a while, and a 1.0 release is in progress. Configuration is curently used by the Jakarta Turbine project.


3 December 2003 - Tomcat 5.0.16 Stable released

The Tomcat team is pleased to announce that Tomcat 5.0.16 Stable is now available.

Please refer to the changelog included in the releases for the list of changes.

Downloads:
BINARY:http://jakarta.apache.org/site/binindex.cgi
SOURCE:http://jakarta.apache.org/site/sourceindex.cgi

For more information on Jakarta Tomcat, see the Tomcat web site.


25 November 2003 - Lucene 1.3 RC3 Released

A new release candidate of Lucene is available, with many new features and bug fixes. See CHANGES.txt for details. Binary and source distributions are available here.


23 November 2003 - Jakarta Cactus 1.5 Released

The Cactus team is pleased to announce the release of Cactus 1.5. Please check the full release details.

Both source and binary distributions are available through the usual Apache mirror sites. Please remember to verify the signatures of the distribution using the keys found on the main Apache web site when downloading from a mirror.

For more information on Jakarta Cactus, see the Cactus web site.


19 November 2003 - Jakarta Velocity Tools 1.1-beta1 Released

ANNOUNCEMENT:

The Jakarta Velocity Team is happy to announce the availability of VelocityTools 1.1-beta1.

New in VelocityTools is support for working with Struts 1.1 (including Tiles, Validator, and more), an improved DateTool, five new tools, and numerous improvements to existing tools and classes. See the change log for a more complete listing.

DOWNLOADS (source and binaries -- from mirror):

For more information on Jakarta Velocity Tools, see the Jakarta Velocity Tools web site.


11 November 2003 - Jakarta Commons DbUtils 1.0 Released

ANNOUNCEMENT:

The Jakarta Commons Team is proud to announce the first release of Jakarta Commons DbUtils.

Apache Jakarta Commons DbUtils provides a library of classes designed to make JDBC coding easier.

DOWNLOADS (source and binaries -- from mirror):

For more information on Jakarta Commons DbUtils, see the Jakarta Commons DbUtils web site.


05 November 2003 - Jakarta Commons Primitives 1.0 Released

ANNOUNCEMENT:

The Jakarta Commons Team is proud to announce the first release of Jakarta Commons Primitives.

Apache Jakarta Commons Primitives provides a collection of types and utilities optimized for working with Java primitives (boolean, byte, char, double, float, int, long, short). Generally, the Commons-Primitives classes are faster, smaller and easier to work with than their purely Object based alternatives.

DOWNLOADS (source and binaries -- from mirror):

The Jakarta Commons Team

For more information on Jakarta Commons Primitives, see the Jakarta Commons Primitives web site.


02 November 2003 - Jakarta POI 2.0 RC1 Released

ANNOUNCEMENT:

The POI Team is proud to announce the immediate availability of the Jakarta POI 2.0 Release Candidate 1. This is expected to be the final milestone on the way to the 2.0 production release.

WHAT IS POI?:

The POI project consists of APIs for manipulating various file formats based upon Microsoft's OLE 2 Compound Document format using pure Java. In short, you can read and write MS Excel files using Java. Reading property information is also supported. Work continues on reading and writing the MS Word format.

CHANGE LOG:

The change log for this release can be found at http://tinyurl.com/tbtn

DOWNLOADS (source and binaries -- from mirror):

BINARY: http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/jakarta/poi/dev/bin/
SOURCE: http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/jakarta/poi/dev/src/

The Jakarta POI Team

For more information on Jakarta POI, see the Jakarta POI web site.


01 November 2003 - Commons Math graduated from Commons-Sandbox

The Commons Math Project Team is pleased to announce that Commons Math Project has graduated from Commons-Sandbox and joined to Commons-Proper.

For more information on Jakarta Commons Math, see the Commons Math web site.


31 October 2003 - Tomcat 4.1.29 Stable and Tomcat 5.0.14 Beta released

The Tomcat team is pleased to announce Tomcat 4.1.29 Stable and 5.0.14 Beta are now available.

Please refer to the changelog included in the releases for the list of changes.

Downloads:
BINARY:http://jakarta.apache.org/site/binindex.cgi
SOURCE:http://jakarta.apache.org/site/sourceindex.cgi

For more information on Jakarta Tomcat, see the Tomcat web site.


31 October 2003 - Jakarta Jetspeed 1.4 Final Released

The Jakarta Jetspeed development team has released the latest version of the Jetspeed Portal Server, version 1.4 Final Release.

* New Features *

  • Search service refactored with pluggable document handlers
  • Parameter style jsp tag
  • Logging converted from Turbine to Commons + log file viewer portlet.
    Contributed by Harald Ommang
  • Improved portlet skinning capabilities. Contributed by Aurelien Pernoud
  • WebClippingPortlet. Contributed by Marco Mari
  • MyPages functionality
  • Java applet portlet
  • BASICAuthIFrame portlet. Contributed by Jacob Kjome
  • Implemented portlet icon functionality
  • Polish language resource bundle

* Bug Fixes *

Please note that there is no direct link to release files. Instead, choose a link below and then select one of the mirror sites to download from:

Jakarta Jetspeed - Enterprise Portal in Java
http://jakarta.apache.org/jetspeed/


26 October 2003 - Jakarta Cactus 1.5-rc1 Released

The Cactus team is pleased to announce the rc1 release of Cactus 1.5. Please check the full release details.

Both source and binary distributions are available through the usual Apache mirror sites. Please remember to verify the signatures of the distribution using the keys found on the main Apache web site when downloading from a mirror.

For more information on Jakarta Cactus, see the Cactus web site.


22 October 2003 - Commons/Net 1.1.0 Released

The Jakarta Commons team is pleased to announce the release of version 1.1.0 of the Jakarta Commons/Net component.

Commons/Net is an Internet protocol suite Java library which supports Finger, Whois, TFTP, Telnet, POP3, FTP, NNTP, SMTP, and some miscellaneous protocols like Time and Echo as well as BSD R command support.

The latest binary release is always available on the Jakarta Binary Downloads page, its source is available from Jakarta Source Downloads page.


22 October 2003 - Commons DBCP 1.1 Released

The Jakarta Commons team is pleased to announce the release of version 1.1 of the Jakarta Commons DBCP component.

Commons-DBCP provides database connection pooling services. Together with Commons-Pool it is the default JNDI datasource provider for Tomcat.

There were a lot changes since the 1.0 release on 12 Aug 2002.

  • All existing features can now be configured by JNDI Context providers (Tomcat).
  • The double close() of a pooled connection is more effectively blocked.
  • Prepared statement pooling is now implemented in BasicDataSource.
  • Access to the underlying connection is blocked by default.
  • New minIdle parameter for a minimum number of idle connections ready for use.
  • New connection default properties: defaultCatalog & defaultTransactionIsolation.
  • Missing driverClassName will now give the following error "No suitable driver".
  • Bad validationQuery will produce a meaningful SQLException.
  • UML Class & sequence diagrams, configuration documentation.
  • This release contains bug fixes to all known issues.

The latest binary release is always available on the Jakarta Binary Downloads page, its source is available from Jakarta Source Downloads page.


22 October 2003 - Commons Pool 1.1 Released

The Jakarta Commons team is pleased to announce the release of version 1.1 of the Jakarta Commons Pool component.

Commons-Pool provides a generic object pooling interface, a toolkit for creating modular object pools, and several general purpose pool implementations.

There were a lot changes since the 1.0.1 release on 12 Aug 2002.

  • A lot of corner cases were fixed.
  • Performance improvement by optimizing pool synchronization, the critical code paths were optimized by reducing pool synchronization but we also added more synchronization where needed.
  • New minIdle feature: the minimum number of objects allowed in the pool before the evictor thread (if active) spawns new objects. (Note no objects are created when: numActive + numIdle >= maxActive)
  • New maxTotal feature: a cap on the total number of instances controlled by a pool. Only for GenericKeyedObjectPool where maxActive is a cap on the number of active instances from the pool (per key).
  • UML Class & sequence diagrams.
  • This release contains bug fixes to all known issues.

The latest binary release is always available on the Jakarta Binary Downloads page, its source is available from Jakarta Source Downloads page.


22 October 2003 - Lucene 1.3 RC2 Released

A new release candidate of Lucene is available, with many new features and bug fixes. See CHANGES.txt for details. Binary and source distributions are available here.


13 October 2003 - Commons HttpClient 2.0 RC2 Released

The HttpClient team is pleased to announce the latest 2.0 release candidate. This release primarily contains bug fixes. For more details please see the release notes.

Downloads:
Binary: http://jakarta.apache.org/site/binindex.cgi
Source: http://jakarta.apache.org/site/sourceindex.cgi

Please see the HttpClient web site for more information.


11 October 2003 - Tomcat mod_jk web server connector version 1.2.5 Released

The Tomcat team is pleased to announce the release of version 1.2.5 of the Apache Tomcat mod_jk web server connector.

Tomcat is the reference implementation of a web application server which implements the Java Servlet and JavaServer Pages specifications.

mod_jk is a connector which allows a web server such as Apache HTTPD or IIS to act as a front end to the Tomcat web application server.

This version fixes a number of minor bugs.

See the file CHANGES.txt in the source distribution for a complete list of changes.

Soucre distribtions can be downloaded from an Apache Software Foundation mirror at:

http://jakarta.apache.org/site/sourceindex.cgi

Binary distributions for a number of different operating systems and web servers can be downloaded from an Apache Software Foundation mirror at:

http://jakarta.apache.org/site/binindex.cgi

Documentation for using mod_jk with Tomcat 3.3, 4.1, and 5.0 can be found at:

http://jakarta.apache.org/tomcat/

The Apache Tomcat team.


10 October 2003 - Velocity 1.4 RC1 Released

For more information, please glance over
Jakarta Velocity Website


30 September 2003 - Pluto is now available at Apache

Pluto is now available at Apache!!!

http://jakarta.apache.org/pluto/

http://cvs.apache.org/viewcvs.cgi/jakarta-pluto/

The Apache Incubator provides an entry path to the Apache Software Foundation. Pluto has been accepted and is starting to make it's first steps along this path with the Apache Jakarta Project as the eventual destination. The source has now been entered into ASF repositories and the mailing lists are open for debate. More details can be found on the Pluto web site.

For more information, see Jakarta Jetspeed Project website, as well.


30 September 2003 - Jakarta POI featured on Devx

For more information, please glance over
http://www.devx.com/Java/Article/17301?


22 September 2003 - Jakarta Tomcat 5.0.12 Beta released

The Tomcat team is pleased to announce Tomcat 5.0.12 Beta is now available for testing.

Please refer to the changelog included in the release for the list of changes.

Downloads:
BINARY:http://jakarta.apache.org/site/binindex.cgi
SOURCE:http://jakarta.apache.org/site/sourceindex.cgi

For more information on Jakarta Tomcat, see the Tomcat web site.


Registration Opens for ApacheCon 2003, the Global Hub for All Things Apache

ApacheCon, the official conference of the Apache Software Foundation (ASF), is now accepting registrations for ApacheCon 2003, to be held November 16-20, 2003 in Las Vegas, Nevada.

"We're proud to offer the opportunity to inspire, educate, and interact with some of the industry's sharpest minds," said ApacheCon 2003 Chairman Ken Coar. "ApacheCon attendees are part of a collective voice in providing input and feedback to the Apache Software Foundation, thereby making a direct impact on the Apache community."

Read more here.


07 September 2003 - Tapestry 3.0-beta-3

Tapestry release 3.0-beta-3 is now available. This is a bug fix release; notably, the bugs in the Workbench and Vlib demos have been fixed, as well as the problems generating dynamic JavaScript (which most often affected the Palette component).

Work in the near future will address the remaining known bugs, fill some small gaps in the code coverage test suite, and fill some sizable gaps in the documentation set, prior to a release candidate.

In addition, the Tapestry project has recently added three new committers: Harish Krishnaswamy, Tsvetelin Saykov and Erik Hatcher.


04 September 2003 - Jakarta Turbine 2.3 released

The Jakarta Turbine team is pleased to announce the release of the next version of the Turbine Web Application Framework:

                 Jakarta Turbine 2.3
                 ===================

The CVS tag for this version is TURBINE_2_3
The branch tag for maintenance versions is TURBINE_2_3_BRANCH

You can find a list of changes here:
http://jakarta.apache.org/turbine/turbine-2.3/changes.html

Source and binary distributions for JDK 1.3.1 and JDK 1.4.2 are available from the apache mirror system or from
http://www.apache.org/dist/jakarta/turbine/

Some Notes

  • Turbine 2.3 no longer supports WebMacro, Freemarker or Castor
  • Turbine 2.3 is the first release to consequently use commons-logging and commons-configuration to remove the need for its own logging and resource services
  • Turbine 2.3 can load and use Avalon Components with the Avalon Service
  • The Templating engine at the core of Turbine has been completely overhauled and is now much more flexible and stable. However, this comes at the price that using "/" for template separators is no longer possible (This is a major change from our previous versions).
  • Turbine 2.3 uses maven as its primary build tool. Building with Eclipse is possible but not officially supported. Building with ant only is no longer supported.

The Turbine team really would like to thank all the contributors, users and members of the development and user list that helped with comments, patches and critisism to make this the best Turbine release yet. The announcement author would also like to thank the Torque team because I stole the layout of the announcement from you. ;-)

For more information on Jakarta Turbine, see the Turbine web site.


03 September 2003 - Jakarta Regexp 1.3 released

The Jakarta Regexp team announces the availability of Jakarta Regexp 1.3 release.

This is primarily maintenance release containing several bug fixes accumulated since the last Regexp release. Complete list of changes is available at: http://jakarta.apache.org/regexp/changes.html

Regexp comes in one download, containing binary and source code. Download Regexp from http://jakarta.apache.org/site/binindex.cgi

Bug reports and patches are accepted via Bugzilla, http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/

For more information, see the Jakarta-Regexp website.


02 September 2003 - Jakarta Commons Lang 2.0 released

The Jakarta Commons Lang team would like to announce the version 2.0 release of their set of Java libraries for enhancing classes in java.lang and java.util.

Information pertaining to the release is available in the RELEASE-NOTES.txt.

Downloads:
BINARY:http://jakarta.apache.org/site/binindex.cgi
SOURCE:http://jakarta.apache.org/site/sourceindex.cgi

For more information on Jakarta Commons Lang, see the Lang web site.


26 August 2003 - Jakarta Turbine 2.3 R.C.2 released

The Turbine team is pleased to announce the second and the last release candidate for the Turbine 2.3 release.

You can find a list of changes here:

http://jakarta.apache.org/turbine/turbine-2.3/changes.html

Source and binary builds for JDK 1.3.1 and JDK 1.4.2 are available from

http://www.apache.org/dist/jakarta/turbine/turbine-2.3

For more information on Jakarta Turbine, see the Turbine web site.


26 August 2003 - Jakarta Tomcat 5.0.9 Beta released

The Tomcat team is pleased to announce Tomcat 5.0.9 Beta is now available for testing.

Please refer to the changelog included in the release for the list of changes.

Downloads:
BINARY:http://jakarta.apache.org/site/binindex.cgi
SOURCE:http://jakarta.apache.org/site/sourceindex.cgi

For more information on Jakarta Tomcat, see the Tomcat web site.


10 August 2003 - Jakarta Tomcat 5.0.7 Alpha released


10 August 2003 - Jakarta Commons Modeler 1.1 Released

The Jakarta Commons team is pleased to announce Commons Modeler 1.1 final is now available.

Please refer to the release notes for changes, fixes, and new features.

Downloads: http://www.apache.org/dist/jakarta/commons/modeler

For more infomation on Jakarta Commons Modeler, see the Modeler web site.


07 August 2003 - Jakarta JMeter 1.9 Final Version released

The Jakarta JMeter Team is pleased to announce that Jakarta JMeter 1.9 Final Version is now available.

Please refer to the changelog included in the release for the list of changes.

Downloads: http://jakarta.apache.org/builds/jakarta-jmeter/release/v1.9/

For more information on Jakarta JMeter, see the JMeter Web Site.


04 August 2003 - Jakarta Tomcat 5.0.6 Alpha released


01 August 2003 - Commons HttpClient 2.0 Release Candidate 1 Released

The HttpClient development team is pleased to announce that HttpClient 2.0 BETA development has been concluded. The number of bugs discovered in the course of the BETA development was surprisingly low. We are confident that HttpClient 2.0 has reached the required level of maturity, and we hope to have a final 2.0 release by the end of the Summer.

This release primarily contains bug fixes. For more details please see the release notes.

Source and binary distributions are available from the main Jakarta site.

Please see the HttpClient web site for more information.


01 August 2003 - Tomcat 4.1.27 Stable Released

The Tomcat Team announces the immediate availability of Apache Tomcat 4.1.27 Stable. Among other bugfixes and improvements, Tomcat 4.1.27 includes security fixes for:

  • Improper recycling of SSL client certificates with Coyote JK 2
  • Improper handling of invalid content lengths in requests, causing HTTP processors to be left in an invalid state in Coyote HTTP/1.1, causing a DoS condition
  • URI normalization bug in Coyote
  • Improper handling of certain URLs in Coyote JK 2, causing a DoS condition


30 July 2003 - Jakarta POI 2.0-pre3 Released

The POI Team is proud to announce the immediate availability of the Jakarta POI 2.0-pre3 release. This is the third milestone on the way to releasing the 2.0 production release.

WHAT IS POI?
The POI project consists of APIs for manipulating various file formats based upon Microsoft's OLE 2 Compound Document format using pure Java. In short, you can read and write MS Excel files using Java. Reading property information is also supported. Work continues on reading and writing the MS Word format.

DOWNLOADS (source and binaries):
http://jakarta.apache.org/builds/jakarta-poi/dev/

For more information on Jakarta Poi, see the Jakarta Poi web site.


25 July 2003 - Jakarta Tomcat 5.0.5 Alpha released


16 July 2003 - Jakarta Velocity Tools 1.0 Released

The Velocity team is pleased to announce the release of Velocity Tools 1.0 from the Apache Software Foundation. Velocity Tools is a collection of Velocity subprojects offering servlets and tools for rapid, clean web development with Velocity, tools for using Velocity with Struts, and a set of generic tools to help with any Velocity project.

Both source and binary distributions are available through the the usual Apache mirror sites. Please remember to verify the signatures of the distribution using the keys found on the main Apache web site when downloading from a mirror.

Please see the Velocity Tools website for more information.


15 July 2003 - Jakarta Tapestry 3.0-beta-2 Released

Tapestry release 3.0-beta-2 is now available. This release fixes a number of bugs, is compatible with Jakarta FileUpload 1.0, and has some significant improvements related to localization.


15 July 2003 - Jakarta Tomcat 5.0.4 Alpha released


14 July 2003 - Jakarta Cactus 1.5-beta1 Released

The Cactus team is pleased to announce the beta 1 release of Cactus 1.5. Please check the full release details.

Both source and binary distributions are available through the usual Apache mirror sites. Please remember to verify the signatures of the distribution using the keys found on the main Apache web site when downloading from a mirror.

For more information on Jakarta Cactus, see the Cactus web site.


11 July 2003 - Jakarta POI 2.0-pre2 Released

The POI Team is proud to announce the immediate availability of the Jakarta POI 2.0-pre2 release. This is the second milestone on the way to releasing the 2.0 production release.

WHAT IS POI?
The POI project consists of APIs for manipulating various file formats based upon Microsoft's OLE 2 Compound Document format using pure Java. In short, you can read and write MS Excel files using Java. Reading property information is also supported. Work continues on reading and writing the MS Word format.

DOWNLOADS (source and binaries):
http://jakarta.apache.org/builds/jakarta-poi/dev/

For more information on Jakarta Poi, see the Jakarta Poi web site.


11 July 2003 - Jakarta Element Construction Set 1.4.2 Released

The ECS team is pleased to announce the Final release of ECS 1.4.2 from Apache. This is a maintenance and bugfix release.

ECS is a mature Java API for used to generate markup code.

Both source and binary distributions are available through the usual Apache mirror sites. Please remember to verify the signatures of the distribution using the keys found on the main Apache web site when downloading from a mirror.

For more information on Jakarta ECS, see the ECS web site.


08 July 2003 - Jakarta Newsletter Issue 9 Released

Jakarta newsletter Issue 9 has finally arrived! Thanks to all the contributors!!


02 July 2003 - Jakarta Commons Finds Fame At Last ;)

OnJava has an article introducing components in Jakarta Commons.

Jakarta Commons will also be featuring in a session at the O'Reilly Open Source Conversion. It will also be covered in this book.


02 July 2003 - Commons HttpClient 2.0 Beta 2 Released

The Commons team is pleased to announce the second, and hopefully final, beta release of Commons HttpClient 2.0 from the Apache Software Foundation. Commons HttpClient is an Open Source implementation of the Hyper-Text Transfer Protocol(HTTP), one of the most widely used communication protocols underpinning the World Wide Web.

This release contains bug fixes and documentation enhancements. For more details please see the release notes.

Source and binary distributions are available from the main Jakarta site.

Please see the HttpClient web site for more information.


29 June 2003 - Struts 1.1 Final Released

The Struts team is proud, and extremely pleased, to announce the Final release of Struts 1.1. This release includes significant new functionality, as well as numerous fixes for bugs which were reported against the previous release, and supersedes the earlier 1.0.2 version as the latest official release of Struts from the Apache Software Foundation.

Both source and binary distributions, including a minimal binary distribution, are available through the usual Apache mirror sites. Please remember to verify the signatures of the distribution using the keys found on the main Apache web site when downloading from a mirror.

For more information, see the Struts web site.


25 June 2003 - Commons FileUpload 1.0 Released

The Commons FileUpload team is pleased to announce the Final release of FileUpload 1.0. This is the first official release of the FileUpload component from the Apache Software Foundation.

FileUpload makes it easy to add robust, high-performance, file upload capability to servlets and web applications.

Both source and binary distributions are available through the usual Apache mirror sites. Please remember to verify the signatures of the distribution using the keys found on the main Apache web site when downloading from a mirror.

For more information on Commons FileUpload, see the FileUpload web site.


20 June 2003 - Commons EL 1.0 Released

The Jakarta Commons Team is pleased to announce the first official release of Commons EL from the Apache Software Foundation. Commons EL provides an interpreter for the Expression Language that is part of the JavaServer Pages(TM) specification, version 2.0.

For more details see the release notes.

Source and binary distributions are available from the mirrors. Please remember to verify the signatures of the distribution using the keys found on the main apache site when downloading from a mirror.

For more information on Commons EL, see the EL web site.


9 June 2003 - Struts 1.1 Release Candidate 2 Released

The Struts team is proud to announce the release of Struts 1.1 Release Candidate 2. This release includes some new functionality, but mostly just fixes for a number of bugs which were reported against earlier versions. The Struts Team believes that this release is ready for prime time, hence its designation as a release candidate.

Both source and binary distributions, including a minimal binary distribution, are available through the usual Apache mirror sites. Please remember to verify the signatures of the distribution using the keys found on the main Apache web site when downloading from a mirror.

For more information, see the Struts web site.


3 June 2003 - Jakarta Lucene and Commons Digester featured on IBM developerWorks

Otis Gospodnetic (otis at apache dot org) has written an article on Jakarta Lucene and Commons Digester for IBM developerWorks.
[article] Parsing, indexing, and searching XML with Digester and Lucene


3 June 2003 - Commons FileUpload 1.0 Release Candidate 1 Released

The Commons FileUpload team is pleased to announce the release of FileUpload 1.0 Release Candidate 1. The team believes that this release is ready for prime time, hence its designation as a release candidate.

FileUpload makes it easy to add robust, high-performance, file upload capability to servlets and web applications.

Both source and binary distributions are available through the usual Apache mirror sites. Please remember to verify the signatures of the distribution using the keys found on the main Apache web site when downloading from a mirror.

For more information on Commons FileUpload, see the FileUpload web site.


02 Jun 2003 - Tapestry 3.0-beta-1 Released

This release of the Tapestry web application framework adds a host of new bugs fixes and features. An initial, rough pass at building using Maven is included. 3.0-beta-1 is feature complete (with some minor exceptions related to the IMonitor interface, and the shifting dependency on FileUpload). Future work on 3.0 will be to improve the unit test suite (82% code coverage and 423 tests simply isn't enough), updates to all the documentation, and a full build using Maven.

Update 04 Jun 2003: A minor fix release, 3.0-beta-1a, is now available. This release is compiled using the Sun JDK 1.3 compiler and includes a fix for a JDK 1.3 localization bug.

Tapestry is now available directly from the Apache mirrors as standard source and binary distributions.


29 May 2003 - Announcing Jakarta Tapestry

The Apache Jakarta project is pleased to announce its newest subproject, Tapestry which makes its debut as a full blown Jakarta sub-project today.

Tapestry is a web framework which provides a compelling alternative to scripting environments such as JavaServer Pages. It provides a complete framework for creating extremely dynamic applications with minimal coding and is based on a component object model similar to a traditional rich client GUI. For more information see the Jakarta Tapestry home page.


25 May 2003 - Commons HttpClient 2.0 Beta 1 Released

The Commons team is pleased to announce the first feature complete release of Commons HttpClient 2.0 from the Apache Software Foundation. Commons HttpClient is an Open Source implementation of the Hyper-Text Transfer Protocol(HTTP), one of the most widely used communication protocols underpinning the World Wide Web.

This release contains a number of bug fixes and feature enhancements. For more details please see the release notes.

Source and binary distributions are available from the main Jakarta site.

Please see the HttpClient web site for more information.


22 May 2003 - Jakarta Newsletter Issue 8 Released

Jakarta newsletter Issue 8 has finally arrived!


11 May 2003 - Commons Codec 1.1 Released

The Jakarta Commons Team is pleased to announce the first official release of Commons Codec from the Apache Software Foundation. Commons Codec contains a number of phonetic encoders, a Hex implementation, and a Base64 implementation.

For more details see the release notes.

Source and binary distributions are available from the mirrors. Please remember to verify the signatures of the distribution using the keys found on the main apache site when downloading from a mirror.

For more information on Commons Codec, see the Codec web site.


27 April 2003 - Jetspeed 1.4 Beta 4 Released

The Jetspeed Team is pleased to announce the 1.4 Beta 4 release of Jetspeed from the Apache Software Foundation. Jetspeed is an Open Source implementation of an Enterprise Information Portal.

Source and binary distributions are available.

For more information on Jetspeed, see the Jetspeed Home Page web site.


27 April 2003 - Commons Digester 1.5 Released

The Commons Team is pleased to announce the 1.5 release of Commons Digester from the Apache Software Foundation. Commons Digester is an XML-to-object mapper used for (amongst other things) parsing XML configuration files.

This is a maintenance release which addresses a backwards compatibility issue reported with the Digester 1.4.x releases plus some new features added since the last release. For more details see the release notes.

Source and binary distributions are available from the usual mirrors. Please remember to verify that the signatures of the distribution using the keys found on the main apache site when downloading from a mirror.

For more information on Commons Digester, see the Digester web site.


25 April 2003 - BCEL 5.1 Released

The Byte Code Engineering Library version 5.1 has been released after a long period of testing. It mainly contains bug fixes and introduces the possibility to use custom repositories.

For more information on BCEL, see the BCEL web site.


16 April 2003 - Commons Validator 1.0.2 Released

The Commons Validator team is proud to announce the release of Commons Validator 1.0.2.

This release includes only bug fixes - there are no new features in this release. For details of the changes in this release, see the Release Notes

Both binary and source distributions are available from the usual mirrors. Please remember to verify the signatures of the files you download using the keys found on the main Apache web site when downloading from a mirror.

For more information on Commons Validator, see the Validator web site.


15 April 2003 - Commons Discovery 0.2 Pre-Release

The Commons team is proud to announce a pre-release of Commons Discovery 0.2. Discovery 0.2 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 projects willing to work with the evolving APIs.

This is primarily a maintenance and code cleanup release with minimal new features.

Source and binary distributions are available from the usual mirrors. Please remember to verify that the signatures of the distribution using the keys found on the main apache site when downloading from a mirror.

For more information on Commons Discovery, see here.


12 April 2003 - POI News Feed

You can now read your breaking POI news in more detail here or syndicate it through your favorite aggregator in one of your favorite syndication formats (0x0 0x1 0x2). Thanks to the excellent blojsom project for their great software!


7th April 2003 - Commons-Logging 1.0.3 Released

The Commons Team is pleased to announce the release of Commons Logging from the Apache Software Foundation. Commons Logging is a thin wrapper logging bridge between different logging libraries.

This is primarily a maintenance and code cleanup release with minimal new features. For more details see the release notes.

Source and binary distributions are available from the usual mirrors. Please remember to verify that the signatures of the distribution using the keys found on the main apache site when downloading from a mirror.

For more information on Commons Logging, see here.


31 March 2003 - Velocity 1.3.1 Released

The Jakarta Velocity project has released v1.3.1 of the Velocity Template Engine.


24 March 2003 - Tapestry 2.4-alpha-5 Released

Release early! Release often! The latest release of Tapestry is here. Tapestry now uses Jakarta Digester to parse specifications, and Jakarta FileUpload to deal with multipart/form-data. A simple JSP tag library has been created to allow JSPs to include links to Tapestry pages (the page and external services are supported).

Tapestry now features "line precise error reporting", where runtime errors are linked back to specific lines of templates or specification files. Exceptions used by Tapestry were simplified and the exception hierarchy flattened, and a new parameter direction, "auto", was added.


22 March 2003 - Tomcat 4.1.24 Stable Released

The Tomcat Team announces the immediate availability of Apache Tomcat 4.1.24 Stable. Among other bugfixes and improvements, Tomcat 4.1.24 includes a fix for a denial of service problem which can occur when Tomcat is run with SSL.


14 March 2003 - Apache Goes CeBIT 2003

The Apache Software Foundation will be manning a booth on Monday the 17th of March at CeBit 2003 in Hannover, Germany, the latest IT tradeshow in the world.


6 March 2003 - Tapestry 2.4-alpha-4 Released

The latest release of Tapestry is here. Tapestry 2.4-alpha-4 continues the blistering pace of improvements in Tapestry. Illegal (non-ASL) libraries have been removed from CVS and packages have been renamed to org.apache.tapestry. There have been improvements to the input validation subsystem, and the syntax of OGNL expressions in HTML templates has been changed.


5 March 2003 - POI 1.10-dev Released

The POI team is proud to announce the release of POI 1.10 Development Release. This release includes some new functionality, as well as fixes for bugs that were reported against earlier versions. This release is a milestone release on the road to POI version 2.0

The binary distribution is available at:

http://jakarta.apache.org/builds/jakarta-poi/dev/bin/

and the source distribution is available at:

http://jakarta.apache.org/builds/jakarta-poi/dev/src/

Details of the changes in this release are available in the change log, which can be found here:

http://jakarta.apache.org/poi/changes.html


3 March 2003 - Tomcat 4.1.21 Beta Released

The Tomcat Team announces the immediate availability of Apache Tomcat 4.1.21 Beta. Tomcat 4.1.21 includes many bugfixes and performance tweaks over Tomcat 4.1.18. Please see the release notes for a complete list of the changes.
Binary and source distributions are available here.


2 March 2003 - Commons Digester 1.4.1 Released

The Commons Team is pleased to announce the release of Commons Digester from the Apache Software Foundation. Commons Digester is an XML-to-object mapper used for (amongst other things) parsing XML configuration files.

This is a bug fix release.For more details see the release notes.

Source and binary distributions are available from the usual mirrors. Please remember to verify that the signatures of the distribution using the keys found on the main apache site when downloading from a mirror.

For more information on Commons Digester, see the Digester web site.


27 February 2003 - Tapestry 2.3 Released

The first full release of Tapestry hosted at Jakarta is here. Tapestry 2.3 is a modest improvement on 2.2, fixing several bugs and adding a few new capabilities and components. Work is well underway on the much more ambitious 2.4.

Tapestry is a web application framework based based on highly reusable components. Tapestry uses a component object model to off-load the tedious and error prone aspects of web application development onto the framework. Tapestry allows web applications to be constructed without concerns for such trivia as URLs and query parameters; just objects, methods and properties.


25 February 2003 - Commons HttpClient 2.0 Alpha 3 Released

This is an intermediate alpha release. The build process used in the previous Alpha 2 changed from generating 4 build artifacts to a single distribution. This one zip contains everything: all the source, the binary jar, the logging dependancy, generated javadoc and required build files for Ant builds and JUnit tests.

"One zip to rule them all, one zip to find them, one zip to bring them all and in the darkness bind them"


23 February 2003 - Commons Net 1.0.0 Released

The Commons Team is pleased to announce the release of Commons Net from Apache. Commons Net is a suite of internet protocols implemented in Java. Commons Net supports Finger, Whois, TFTP, Telnet, POP3, FTP, NNTP, SMTP, and some miscellaneous protocols like Time and Echo as well as BSD R command support.

This is the first release of Commons Net ( formally NetComponents ). For more details see the release notes.

Source and binary distributions are available from the usual mirrors. Please remember to verify that the signatures of the distribution using the keys found on the main apache site when downloading from a mirror.

For more information on Commons Net, see the Commons Net web site.


23 February 2003 - Struts 1.1 Release Candidate 1 Released

The Struts team is proud to announce the release of Struts 1.1 Release Candidate 1. This release includes some new functionality, as well as fixes for a number of bugs which were reported against earlier versions. The Struts Team believes that this release is ready for prime time, hence its designation as a release candidate.

Both source and binary distributions, including a minimal binary distribution, are available through the usual Apache mirror sites. Please remember to verify the signatures of the distribution using the keys found on the main Apache web site when downloading from a mirror.


19 February 2003 - Log4j 1.2.8 Released

Log4j developers are pleased to announce the immediate availability of log4j version 1.2.8, a purely maintenance release. In particular, it fixes a parsing problem of log4j configuration files written in XML observed with certain versions of Xerces. Refer to the HISTORY file for precise details.


18 February 2003 - Commons BeanUtils 1.6.1 Released

The Commons Team is pleased to announce the release of Commons BeanUtils from Apache. Commons BeanUtils contains utility classes that assist in dynamic access (through reflection and introspection) to classes conforming to the Sun JavaBean(TM) Specification.

This is a bug fix release.For more details see the release notes.

Source and binary distributions are available from the usual mirrors. Please remember to verify that the signatures of the distribution using the keys found on the main apache site when downloading from a mirror.

For more information on Commons BeanUtils, see the BeanUtils web site.


15 February 2003 - Commons FileUpload 1.0 Beta 1 Released

The Commons FileUpload team is pleased to announce the release of FileUpload 1.0 Beta 1. This is the first beta release of the FileUpload component, which makes it easy to add robust, high-performance, file upload capability to servlets and web applications.

Both source and binary distributions are available through the usual Apache mirror sites. Please remember to verify the signatures of the distribution using the keys found on the main Apache web site when downloading from a mirror.

For more information on Commons FileUpload, see the FileUpload web site.


8 February 2003 - Commons Jelly Promoted out of Sandbox

The Jakarta Commons Team is pleased to announce that Jelly has been promoted out of the sandbox into the Commons proper.

In addition to this promotion, the Jelly build has been refactored to make it much more modular and easier to understand the dependencies required for each of the various libraries. This has made both the core Jelly library much smaller as well as making Jelly easier to embed. Currently Jelly is used in Jakarta projects like Latka and Maven .


4 February 2003 - Commons Net Promoted out of Sandbox

The Jakarta Commons Team is pleased to announce that Commons Net (formerly NetComponents) has been promoted out of the sandbox into the Commons proper. The first order of business for this Commons component is to freeze the code and make a formal release that projects such as Ant can use. After this first release, further development will continue, adding new features, performance improvements, a test harness, and a programming guide to supplement the API documentation.


4 February 2003 - JavaWorld article about the JCP mentions Jakarta's involvement

Jason Hunter, the previous Expert Committee representative for the ASF, was recently quoted in depth in a JavaWorld article about the JCP. As you may or may not know, the Apache Software Foundation has been a driving force in changing the JCP business model to accept open source practices. Please read the entire article, but of the many great quotes that Jason provided, this one stands out quite a bit because it reflects strongly on one of Jakarta's most active projects:

Chiefly, as a result of the open source community's increased involvement, those major JCP executive committee players are starting to see a need to mind the broader Java community's interests as well. "The issue now, with open source and community focus," notes Apache's Hunter, "is increasingly on JSR management."

Consider the case of JSR 154, the Java Servlet Specification. "According to the JCP rules, the spec lead makes the decisions, and the expert group members are there to advise," says Hunter. "In JSR 154, there has been a consistent pattern of expert opinion going one way and the spec lead, a newly appointed Sun representative, going exactly the opposite. That's okay once in a while, but how do you build a community where the majority of the expert group, people who have been there for years and are truly the world experts [on servlets], are being second-guessed without explanation?"

When the servlet spec comes up for the executive committee's vote, will Apache's representative vote to approve it? Don't hold your breath, advises Hunter. "Apache won't support a technology that was created without community support."


3 February 2003 - Commons Digester 1.4 Released

The Jakarta Commons Team is pleased to announce the 1.4 release of Digester from the Apache Software Foundation. Digester is an XML-to-object mapper used for (amongst other things) parsing XML configuration files.

This release contains several bug fixes together with enhanced support for XML schema and namespace-aware rules. See the release notes for more details.

Source and binary distributions are available through the usual mirrors. Please remember to verify the signatures of the distribution using the keys found on the main apache site when downloading from a mirror.


25 January 2003 - Security update: Tomcat 3.3.1a Released

Tomcat 3.3.1a is available to address security vulnerabilities present in Tomcat 3.3.1. Refer to the Tomcat 3.3.1a download site for details on the vulnerabilities. You may download new distribution files or replacement jars here.

The following Tomcat 4 versions have been verified to not have these vulnerabilities: 4.0.4, 4.0.6, 4.1.12, 4.1.18, and 4.1.19.


25 January 2003 - Commons HttpClient 2.0 Alpha 2 Released

After many months and a great resurgence of developers, the new build of HttpClient is finally here. The new group of developers has done extensive refactoring to move the project along the new vision. The code base has reached a significant level of maturity and we expect that the beta builds will come quickly and that the final release of 2.0 is not far away!

Also check out the new HttpClient logo on the maven generated website!


21 January 2003 - Commons BeanUtils 1.6 Released

The Commons Team is pleased to announce the release of Commons BeanUtils 1.6. Commons BeanUtils contains utility classes that assist in dynamic access (through reflection and introspection) to classes that conform to the Sun JavaBeans(TM) specification.

This release contains bugs fixes (and some minor enhancements). For more details see the release notes.

Source and binary distributions are available through the usual mirrors. Please remember to verify the the signatures of the distribution using the keys found on the main apache site when downloading from a mirror.


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