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18 April 2007 - Apache Forrest 0.8 Released

The Apache Forrest Project is pleased to release the new version: apache-forrest-0.8 http://forrest.apache.org/mirrors.cgi

Apache Forrest is a publishing framework that transforms input from various sources into a unified presentation in one or more output formats. The modular and extensible plugin architecture is based on Apache Cocoon and relevant standards, which separates presentation from content. Apache Forrest can generate static documents, or be used as a dynamic server, or be deployed by its automated facility.

New features in this version include:

• Locationmaps define the mapping from requests to locations, which enables content and resources to be located at various different sources. The advantage of this is that the URL seen by the user need bear no relation to the location of the source document, thus Forrest can separate the client URL space from the source document URL space. Thus, using the locationmap it is possible to pull together documents from many different locations into a single uniform site. In addition, since the user URL space is now unconnected to the source URL space it is possible to move source documents without breaking any existing user links.
• Existing core plugins and sitemaps have been refactored to take advantage of locationmaps. Some core functionality has moved to plugins.
• Prototype of new xml-based properties system. Projects and plugins can use a forrest.properties.xml file. At this stage, it supplements the existing forrest.properties file.
• Some new documents to explain certain core aspects. Documentation menu navigation changed to provide clearer structure for Forrest project versioned product documentation grouped into howto and background sections. Better layout of the Developers tab into Getting Involved, Resources (mail lists, SVN, Issue Tracker) and Best Practices sections. See also the "linkmap" for an automated Table of Contents ability.

Full list of changes: http://forrest.apache.org/docs/changes.html

See also lists of changes in each plugin's documentation.

Upgrade guide: http://forrest.apache.org/docs/upgrading_08.html

See the issue tracker for known issues: http://forrest.apache.org/issues.html

Download: http://forrest.apache.org/mirrors.cgi

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Project Info -- Apache Forrest

Apache Forrest is a publishing framework that transforms input from various sources into a unified presentation in one or more output formats. The modular and extensible plugin architecture is based on Apache Cocoon and relevant standards, which separates presentation from content. Forrest can generate static documents, or be used as a dynamic server, or be deployed by its automated facility.

Releases can be downloaded from http://forrest.apache.org/mirrors.cgi

Project Website	http://forrest.apache.org
Programming Languages	Java
Categories	build-management, database, graphics, http, network-client, network-server, web-framework, xml
Mailing Lists	http://forrest.apache.org/mail-lists.html
Bug/Issue Tracker	http://forrest.apache.org/issues.html
Project Management Committee	Apache Forrest

Access to the source code:

Browse	http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/forrest/
SVN Direct	http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/forrest/trunk/