The Apache Excalibur community is pleased to announce the immediate availability of its latest release, codename "r508111-20070215".
The release can be downloaded at:
http://excalibur.apache.org/download.cgi
The Apache Software Foundation Board passed the following resolution closing Avalon during the 2004 ApacheCon:
WHEREAS, the Board of Directors deems it no longer in the best
interest of the Foundation to continue the Apache Avalon project
due to the separation of the community into new projects
WHEREAS, the Avalon PMC is unable to further fulfill the
responsibilities of creation, maintenance, and support of the
Avalon software
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that the Apache Avalon Project is
hereby terminated; and be it further
RESOLVED, that the Excalibur PMC be and hereby is tasked with
maintenance of the Avalon framework software; and be it further
RESOLVED, that the Apache Avalon PMC be and hereby is no longer
responsible for the creation and maintenance of software related to
component and service management, based on software licensed to the
Foundation; and be it further
RESOLVED, that the office of "Vice President, Apache Avalon" is
hereby terminated; and be it further
RESOLVED, that the Apache Avalon PMC is hereby terminated.
What does this mean?
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Avalon is now officially closed. We will be working with the Apache Infrastructure team to close all Avalon resources over the next few days. The mailing lists archives will remain available; the SVN and CVS repositories will become read only; the currently distributed software will remain available via distribution mirrors; the site will be reconstructed to present a "closure" message and appropriate redirects.
Example closure message:
http://avalon.apache.org/closed.html
Where will I get support/code/updates for Avalon?
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As previously announced, Avalon Framework, LogKit, and Cornerstone have been moved to Apache Excalibur (http://excalibur.apache.org) along with the original ECM and Fortress code. The Excalibur team includes many experienced Avalon developers and support questions should be directed there.
Forks of Phoenix and Merlin have started at Codehaus Loom and DPML Metro respectively. Users of those software packages are encouraged to investigate these projects.
I strongly urge all subscribers of these Avalon mailing lists to subscribe to the mailing lists of one or more of the projects mentioned above:
Excalibur Mailing Lists:
http://excalibur.apache.org/mail-lists.html
DPML Mailing Lists:
http://www.dpml.net/central/about/resources/lists.html
Codehaus Loom Mailing Lists:
http://loom.codehaus.org/Mailing+lists
For more information about the Avalon closure, please review the October 24 announcement:
http://www.mail-archive.com/users%40avalon.apache.org/msg05033.html
On a personal note, I want to thank all the developers and users who have made this experiment and community happen. I look forward to working with many of you in the new projects forming from Avalon. Thank you.
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J Aaron Farr
Apache Avalon PMC Chair
Hello all.
Apache Avalon is taking a new direction.
The project has grown quite a bit since its inception in 1999 as the Apache Java Server Framework and since the transfer from Jakarta to its own top level project in 2002. In light of the events over those years, Avalon is taking a new step and dissolving from a single project into several new projects which will carry on the software and spirit of Avalon.
The ASF Board has been notified of the current affairs, in particular the Metro fork and movement of code to Excalibur. The plan is to dismantle Avalon over the next several weeks. Following which, the Board will make the shutdown official at ApacheCon in November. This was done to give us time to handle the closure and transfers here before an official dissolution resolution is submitted and passed.
Avalon's closure means that the site, subversion repositories, and mailing lists will be closed down and made read only. Everything will still be made available in the distribution mirrors and archives. The current site will most likely be removed and a closure notice placed, though we have no detailed plan on the site yet.
Avalon will not turn into abandon-ware, however. The various components of the Avalon platform have been moved or transferred to other locations:
Excalibur --> Apache Excalibur (http://excalibur.apache.org)
Fortress --> Apache Excalibur (http://excalibur.apache.org)
Framework --> Apache Excalibur (http://excalibur.apache.org)
Cornerstone --> Apache Excalibur (http://excalibur.apache.org)
LogKit --> Apache Excalibur (http://excalibur.apache.org)
Phoenix --> Codehaus Loom (http://loom.codehaus.org)
Merlin --> DPML Metro (http://dpml.net)
Magic --> DPML Metro (http://dpml.net)
We have a lot of work to do over the next couple of weeks to ensure a smooth transition. Much of that work will not occur here in Avalon but in the various projects and communities which will be hosting the code. Those interested in assisting should contact the respective new project.
I want to thank everyone who has contributed to Avalon over the years and for all the support which has been provided. If anyone has any questions or concerns about the situation, feel free to post them on the mailing list or even contact me directly.
Thank you,
J Aaron Farr
Avalon Project Management Committee Chair
Following various discussions with the Apache Avalon PMC, select ASF members and others, the active developers of the Merlin source code together with a number of dedicated users have formulated a plan to escalate and expand the development of the Metro platform outside of ASF.
We have compiled a complete roadmap of what this means in practical terms to various user groups, available at;
http://www.dpml.net/dpml/admin/pdfs/metro-roadmap-20041007.pdf
We hope that this document covers most aspects of the involved fork, even though it is not yet complete. For instance, the document doesn't yet explain exactly how this will take form.
We are not fully up to speed (yet), but have the following resources available, which should be sufficient for most users at this point in time;
(paris.dpml.net will become operational *soon*, as we are awaiting ibiblio.org admin's to add the host to the DNS and a new IP to be installed. Sorry for the inconvenience, and announcement of availability will be made on the admin-dpml@ mailing list.)
We would like to thank the entire ASF, members, committers and users for the time at the Apache Avalon project, for their valuable support and the experience we have gained. Perhaps Metro's and ASF's paths meet again in the future.
Cheers,
Niclas Hedhman
Stephen McConnell
Timothy Bennett
Andreas Oberhack
Cameron Fieber
Peter Neubauer
David Leangen
Mårten Österberg
Alexis Agahi
Raffael Herzog
Note: ASF in the above context stands for The Apache Software Foundation.
P.S. If you have any problems with any of these resources, please contact niclas@hedhman.org and/or mcconnell@dpml.net
The board of the apache software foundation approved the resolution to create the Apache Excalibur Project. This new project will pick up responsibility for the Excalibur and Fortress codebases from the Avalon PMC. Leo Simons is the new Chair of Apache Excalibur.
New Infrastructure
URL: http://excalibur.apache.org/
Mailing lists:
For Users: user@excalibur.apache.org
For Developers: dev@excalibur.apache.org