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02 April 2008 - Apache CXF 2.0.5 (incubating) Now Available

The Apache Incubator CXF team is proud to announce the availability of the 2.0.5 release

Apache CXF is an open source services framework. CXF helps you build and develop services using frontend programming APIs, like JAX-WS. These services can speak a variety of protocols such as SOAP, XML/HTTP, RESTful HTTP, or CORBA and work over a variety of transports such as HTTP, JMS or JBI.

CXF includes a broad feature set, but it is primarily focused on the following areas:

• Web Services Standards Support: CXF supports a variety of web service standards including SOAP, the Basic Profile, WSDL, WS-Addressing, WS-Policy, WS-ReliableMessaging, and WS-Security.
• Frontends: CXF supports a variety of "frontend" programming models. CXF provides a JAX-WS Compliant frontend. It also includes a "simple frontend" which allows creation of clients and endpoints without annotations. CXF supports both contract first development with WSDL and code first development starting from Java.
• Ease of use: CXF is designed to be intuitive and easy to use. There are simple APIs to quickly build code-first services, Maven plug-ins to make tooling integration easy, JAX-WS API support, Spring 2.0 XML support to make configuration a snap, and much more.

This release is mostly a patch release to fix problems and issues (over 30 JIRA items resolved) that users have encountered in the 2.0.4-incubator release.

For more information see:

• Download: http://incubator.apache.org/cxf/download.html
• Website: http://incubator.apache.org/cxf/
• Release Notes: http://incubator.apache.org/cxf/apache-cxf-205-incubating-release-notes.html
• Mailing lists: http://incubator.apache.org/cxf/mailing-lists.html

If you have feedback, questions or would like to get involved in the CXF project please join the mailing lists and let us know your thoughts.

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-- The Apache Incubator CXF Team

01 April 2008 - Some TLPs in the ASF

Apache Continuum - http://continuum.apache.org/

Apache STDCXX - http://stdcxx.apache.org/

Apache Synapse - http://synapse.apache.org/

Apache Labs - http://labs.apache.org/

26 March 2008 - Apache FOP 0.95 Beta Now Available

The Apache XML Graphics team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Apache FOP version 0.95beta.

FOP (Formatting Objects Processor) is a print formatter driven by XSL Formatting Objects [1] and an output independent formatter. It is a Java application that reads a formatting object tree and renders the resulting pages to a specified output. Output formats currently supported include PDF, PS, PCL, AFP, Print and PNG.

This beta release will be available for testing for some time, before a stable release is made. Feedback is welcome, and we would like to encourage as many people as possible to try it out and report bugs and issues on the fop-users mailing list [2]. The most important changes introduced by this release are:

• many bug fixes and improvements in tables, better support for keeps and breaks, new features: conditional borders and background on columns and header/footer/body;
• better image handling thanks to the new image loading framework provided by the Apache XML Graphics Commons dependency;
• improvements and bugfixes for font handling and font auto-detection/-registration;
• performance improvements and memory optimizations for the property handling in the FO tree.

Please note that support for Java 1.3 has been dropped. Only one type of binaries is provided now, that will run on 1.4+ JREs.

Other important release notes are available at http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/0.95/releaseNotes_0.95beta.html

For a more complete list of changes, please visit http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/0.95/changes_0.95beta.html

For download information, see the following page: http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/download.html

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-- The Apache XML Graphics team

25 March 2008 - Microsoft and Sourcesense Partner to Contribute to Open Source, Apache POI

Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq "MSFT") and Sourcesense, a leading European open source systems integration consultancy, announced that the two companies will collaborate on the strategy, development and deployment of open source solutions for the Microsoft Office product suite. See the Press-Release for more details.

Related: Apache POI - http://poi.apache.org/

24 March 2008 - Apache Commons Lang 2.4 Released

The Apache Commons team is pleased to announce the release of version 2.4 of Commons Lang.

Lang provides a host of helper utilities for the java.lang API, notably String manipulation methods, basic numerical methods, object reflection, creation and serialization, System properties and a series of utilities dedicated to help with building methods, such as hashCode, toString and equals.

There are a few new classes, and a lot of new methods in Lang 2.4. Of course there are also a bunch of bugfixes too. We've written a short article to cover all of these:

http://commons.apache.org/lang/article2_4.html

Source and binary distributions are available for download from the Apache Commons download site:

http://commons.apache.org/lang/download_lang.cgi

When downloading, please verify signatures using the KEYS file available at the above location when downloading the release.

Release notes are available at:

http://commons.apache.org/lang/upgradeto2_4.html

For more information on Apache Commons Lang, visit the Commons Lang home page:

http://commons.apache.org/lang/

Feedback, suggestions for improvement and contributions are always welcome via the Apache Commons mailing lists and issue tracker:

http://commons.apache.org/lang/mail-lists.html

http://commons.apache.org/lang/issue-tracking.html

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-- The Apache Commons community

24 March 2008 - Apache NMaven 0.15-incubating Now Available

The Apache NMaven team is pleased to announce the release of NMaven 0.15-incubating.

NMaven provides Apache Maven 2.x plugins to support building of .NET applications.

http://incubator.apache.org/nmaven/0.15/

Features for this release include:

1. Compiling C# projects (2.0 framework)
2. Strong Naming
3. Generation of assembly info based on pom metadata
4. Support for Microsoft and Novell/Mono platforms

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-- The Apache NMaven Team

19 March 2008 - Apache James Google Summer of Code 2008

The Apache James team (http://james.apache.org) are pleased to announce that once more we are proposing ideas for Google Summer of Code student projects. This years ideas are:

1) To develop a VERP Mailet to allow James to write VERP modified return addresses on outbound messages, and an inbound mailet/matcher to identify VERP bounces and invoke configurable "do something" code.

2) James' provided mailing list manager is fine for small closed groups, but lacks the functionality of a more robust MLM, the project is to add some all or more of the following features: subscriber and message moderation, double opt-in and bounce handling.

We all look forward to welcoming Student proposals for these or any other ideas, and would welcome discussion of the ideas on the James Server Developers mailing list.

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-- The Apache James Project

16 March 2008 - Apache MyFaces Trinidad 1.0.7 Released

The Apache MyFaces Trinidad team is pleased to announce the release of Apache MyFaces Trinidad Core 1.0.7.

Apache MyFaces Trinidad is a JavaServer(tm) Faces 1.1 component library.

Trinidad Core 1.0.7 is available in both binary and source distributions:

* http://myfaces.apache.org/trinidad/download.html

Apache MyFaces Trinidad is available in the central Maven repository under Group ID "org.apache.myfaces.trinidad".

Release Notes

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-- The Apache MyFaces Trinidad Team

16 March 2008 - Apache MyFaces Trinidad 1.2.7 Released

The Apache MyFaces Trinidad team is pleased to announce the release of Apache MyFaces Trinidad Core 1.2.7.

Apache MyFaces Trinidad is a JavaServer(tm) Faces 1.2 component library.

Trinidad Core 1.2.7 is available in both binary and source distributions:

* http://myfaces.apache.org/trinidad/download.html

Apache MyFaces Trinidad is available in the central Maven repository under Group ID "org.apache.myfaces.trinidad".

Release Notes

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-- The Apache MyFaces Trinidad Team

14 March 2008 - Apache Wicket 1.3.2 Released

The Apache Wicket team is proud to announce the availability of the second maintenance release: Apache Wicket 1.3.2. A lot of bugs have been squashed and several improvements implemented.

Eager people click here to download the distribution, others can read further:

http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/wicket/1.3.2

We thank you for your patience and support.

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-- The Apache Wicket Team

10 March 2008 - Apache XML Graphics Commons 1.3 Released

The Apache XML Graphics team is pleased to announce a new release of Apache XML Graphics Commons.

Apache XML Graphics Commons is a library that consists of several reusable components used by Apache Batik and Apache FOP. Many of these components can easily be used separately outside the domains of SVG and XSL-FO.

The most important addition in this release is an image loading framework which supports all sorts of different image formats (bitmap and vector) and is highly extensible.

Besides that, there were a larger number of smaller additions and bugfixes.

Support for Java 1.3 has been dropped. Java 1.4 or later is required now.

For a detailed list of changes, see http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/commons/changes.html

Source and binary distributions can be downloaded from the corresponding directories in an Apache Software Foundation mirror at: http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/xmlgraphics/commons. See also the download page: http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/commons/download.html

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-- The Apache XML Graphics Team