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

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

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

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

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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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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

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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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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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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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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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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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You can download Apache Directory Studio 1.1.0 RC2 as a standalone RCP application for Mac OS X, Linux and Windows here: http://directory.apache.org/studio/downloads.html

You can also install it directly in Eclipse using this update site: http://directory.apache.org/studio/update/1.x/

Developed as a sub-project of the Directory Top Level Project, Apache Directory Studio is an Eclipse RCP application that takes full advantage of the benefits inherent in the Eclipse platform. Composed of several Eclipse (OSGi) plugins, Apache Directory Studio can be easily upgraded with additional plugins. Apache Directory Studio plugins can even run within a full installation of Eclipse itself.

Apache Directory Studio contains 5 major features:

• an LDAP Browser Plugin
• an LDIF Editor Plugin
• an ACI Editor Plugin for Apache Directory Server
• a Schema Editor Plugin
• an Apache DS Configuration Plugin

For more information about Apache Directory Studio, see our website: http://directory.apache.org/studio

Below are the JIRA issues that were resolved since the release of Apache Directory Studio 1.1.0 RC:

Bug

• [DIRSTUDIO-286] - Update Site is not working, missing dependencies in ldifeditor, ldapbrower and schemaeditor feature
• [DIRSTUDIO-285] - Export into LDIF format could be corrupted
• [DIRSTUDIO-284] - Changing "Supported Authentication Mechanism" doesn't set the dirty flag.
• [DIRSTUDIO-281] - LDIF and Apache DS configuration files can't be saved in RCP mode
• [DIRSTUDIO-279] - Filter Editor doesn't remove spaces and line breaks after OK
• [DIRSTUDIO-270] - Copy and paste does not work when value being edited

Task

• [DIRSTUDIO-280] - Remove remaining unwanted contributions from Eclipse

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Ivy is a tool for managing (recording, tracking, resolving and reporting) project dependencies, characterized by flexibility, configurability, and tight integration with Apache Ant.

This is a beta release, for wide testing with users. Problems found at this phase can be fixed in the final release, so now is a good time to download and use it. Although there may be some changes at the API level, it is already being in production builds in many large Java projects.

Key features of the 2.0.0-beta2 release are

• enhanced Maven2 compatibility, with a fully rewritten pom parser
• improved cache management, including dynamic revision caching with fine grain TTL
• namespace aware validation, allowing to use validation with extra attributes
• easier settings loading, which do not require an id anymore
• numerous bug fixes as documented in Jira and in the release notes

Issues should be reported to: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/IVY

Download the 2.0.0-beta2 release files at: http://ant.apache.org/ivy/download.cgi

More information can be found on the Ivy website: http://ant.apache.org/ivy/

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-- The Apache Ivy (at Apache Ant Project) Team

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Apache Harmony is the Java platform project of the Apache Software Foundation, working towards a full compliant implementation of the Java SE specification.

Apache Harmony 5.0 Milestone 5 is the latest stable build with numerous enhancements and bug fixes, including a new applet viewer tool and the initial implementation of unpack200. We recommend that everyone update their current version to Apache Harmony 5.0M5.

Source code and binary builds are available from the Harmony download site:

http://harmony.apache.org/download.cgi

Apache Harmony welcomes your help. For more information on how to report problems, successes, and to get involved in Apache Harmony visit the project website at http://harmony.apache.org

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Apache MINA is a network application framework which helps users develop high performance and high scalability network applications easily. It provides an abstract, event-driven, asynchronous API over various transports such as TCP/IP and UDP/IP via Java NIO.

The latest release is now available here:

http://mina.apache.org/downloads.html

This release has too many changes and fixed to enumerate in their entirety. Some of the key improvements include:

• Simplified and more consistent API
• Ability to share I/O processor threads between multiple servers and/or clients
• Improved support for streaming files
• Improved String and JMX integration
• Improved logging support
• Framework for simplifying state machine creation and maintenance
• Support for synchronous clients
• OSGi integration

This is a milestone release and is not yet considered suitable forproduction use. The intent of this release is to showcase the new modified API and other improvements in MINA. We hope that developers will start to use this release and provide feedback.

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This release also introduces new default cookie policy that selects a cookie specification depending on the format of cookies sent by the target host. It is no longer necessary to know beforehand what kind of HTTP cookie support the target host provides. HttpClient is now able to pick up either a lenient or a strict cookie policy depending on the compliance level of the target host.

Another notable improvement is a completely reworked support for multipart entities based on Apache mime4j library.

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Download - http://hc.apache.org/downloads.cgi

Release notes - http://www.apache.org/dist/httpcomponents/httpclient/RELEASE_NOTES.txt

HttpComponents site - http://hc.apache.org/

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Version 1.2 combines bug fixes and new features. Most notable among the new features are the estimation, optimization, geometry and ode packages added from the Mantissa library. Implementations of fast Fourier transform, QR decomposition and several numerical integration algorithms have also been added, along with enhancements and extensions to packages included in Commons Math 1.1. This release is source and binary compatible with earlier versions of Commons Math. The release notes included with the distributions provide details on bug fixes, changes and enhancements.

Source and binary distributions are available for download from the Apache Commons download site: http://commons.apache.org/downloads/download_math.cgi

Release notes: http://www.apache.org/dist/commons/math/RELEASE-NOTES.txt

Please verify signatures using the KEYS file available at the above location when downloading the release.

For more information on Apache Commons Math, visit the Commons Math home page: http://commons.apache.org/math/

Feedback, suggestions for improvement and contributions are welcome via the Apache Commons mailing lists: http://commons.apache.org/math/mail-lists.html

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Apache Tomcat is an implementation of the Java Server Pages 1.2 and Java Servlet 2.3 specifications.

Please refer to the release notes for a complete list of changes.

Downloads: http://tomcat.apache.org/download-41.cgi

Security information: http://tomcat.apache.org/security-4.html

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-- The Apache Tomcat Team

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Please refer to the release note for the changelog: http://tinyurl.com/3c6dqf

The Apache MINA project website includes resources such as introductory presentation slides, tutorials, and examples to help you learn MINA as soon as possible.

The Apache MINA project team is always open for your feedback. Please let us know what you think about MINA via our mailing list and support forum: http://mina.apache.org/contact.html

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Please refer to the change log for the list of changes: http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-6.0-doc/changelog.html

Downloads: http://tomcat.apache.org/download-60.cgi

Migration guide from Apache Tomcat 5.5.x: http://tomcat.apache.org/migration.html

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There have been many important bug fixes since the 3.0.1 release and a lot of new features.

A full list of changes is available in the change log: http://poi.apache.org/changes.html

The source and binaries can be downloaded from your local mirror: http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/poi/release/

The release is also available from the central Maven repository under Group ID "org.apache.poi" and Version "3.0.2-FINAL".

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The Tuscany SCA Java 1.1 release adds a number of features including a JMS binding, improved policy support and an implementation extension for representing client side Javascript applications as SCA components.

For full details about the release and to download the distributions please go to: http://incubator.apache.org/tuscany/sca-java-releases.html

To find out more about OASIS Open CSA go to: http://www.oasis-opencsa.org

Apache Tuscany welcomes your help. Any contribution, including code, testing, contributions to the documentation, or bug reporting is always appreciated. For more information on how to get involved in Apache Tuscany visit the website at: http://incubator.apache.org/tuscany

Thank you for your interest in Apache Tuscany

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NOTE: Tuscany is an effort undergoing incubation at the Apache Software Foundation (ASF), sponsored by the Apache Web services PMC. Incubation is required of all newly accepted projects until a further review indicates that the infrastructure, communications, and decision making process have stabilized in a manner consistent with other successful ASF projects. While incubation status is not necessarily a reflection of the completeness or stability of the code, it does indicate that the project has yet to be fully endorsed by the ASF.

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Archiva is a build artifact repository manager for use with build tools such as Maven, Continuum and Ant.

It has features like repository search and browse, securing repositories, identifying unknown artifacts and reporting of repository problems.

Aside from these, it can also act as a nearby (proxy) cache of popular global repositories.

The latest release is now available here:

http://maven.apache.org/archiva/download.html

The site has also been updated, you can visit it at:

http://maven.apache.org/archiva

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-- The Apache Maven Archiva Team

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This release requires Java 5 as a minimum. The decision to change the required JDK was made after a poll of users revealed no substantial need for Java 1.4 and plenty of benefits in moving forward. Generics are only partially completed in the public API at this time and we continue to try and balance the opportunities and headaches of a clean generics interface.

More details can be found here:

http://cayenne.apache.org/2008/02/04/cayenne-30m3-released.html

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Downloads: http://tomcat.apache.org/download-55.cgi

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Many new features, optimizations, and bug fixes have been added since 2.2, including:

• significantly improved indexing performance
• segment merging in background threads
• refreshable IndexReaders
• faster StandardAnalyzer and improved Token API
• TermVectorMapper to customize how term vectors are loaded
• live backups (without pausing indexing) with SnapshotDeletionPolicy
• CheckIndex tool to test & recover a corrupt index
• pluggable MergePolicy & MergeScheduler
• "partial" optimize(int maxNumSegments) method
• New contrib module for working with Wikipedia content

The detailed change log is at: http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/lucene/java/tags/lucene_2_3_0/CHANGES.txt

Lucene 2.3 includes index format changes that are not readable by older versions of Lucene. Lucene 2.3 can both read and update older Lucene indexes. Adding to an index with an older format will cause it to be converted to the newer format.

Binary and source distributions are available at http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/lucene/java/

Lucene artifacts are also available in the Maven2 repository at http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/org/apache/lucene/

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The focus of the development efforts will be gradually shifting towards providing better test coverage, documentation and performance optimizations.

Download - http://hc.apache.org/downloads.cgi

Release notes - http://www.apache.org/dist/httpcomponents/httpcore/RELEASE_NOTES.txt

HttpComponents site - http://hc.apache.org/

About HttpComponents Core - The HttpCore components implement the most fundamental aspects of the HTTP protocol. They are nonetheless sufficient to develop basic client side and server side HTTP services with a minimal footprint and no external dependencies. HttpCore NIO extensions can be used to build asynchronous HTTP services based on non-blocking I/O model capable of handling a great number of simultaneous connections with just a few I/O threads.

HttpCore will form the foundation of the future releases of Apache HttpClient.

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