The Velocity developers are pleased to make the second beta release of
VelocityTools 2.0 available for download.
Downloads are available here:
http://velocity.apache.org/download.cgi

Major development in VelocityTools 2.0 has been essentially complete
for some time, and the focus is on fixing the remaining bugs,
completing the documentation, and providing clear migration paths for
users of VelocityTools 1.x. Significant new features in 2.0 include
very flexible, composable toolbox configuration (via either java, xml,
and/or properties), lazy-loading/initialization of tools, the
VelocityViewTag for embedding Velocity within JSP, simplified
embedding of VelocityTools in other frameworks, an assortment of new
and improved tools, and much more.

This should be useable as a drop in replacement for Tools 1.4, with a
few minor exceptions where things already deprecated earlier in 1.x
have been removed. The 2.x series of VelocityTools also requires both
Velocity 1.5+ and JDK 1.5+.

At this point, the new tool management and configuration facilities
are extremely stable and useable. Documentation has continued to
improve dramatically and is nearing completion. There are no open or
known bugs in this release nor significant changes anticipated before
2.0 final is released.

We are very interested in all feedback regarding Tools 2.0, especially
regarding backwards compatibility with apps designed for Tools 1.4 or
earlier. We aim to enable a smooth, incremental transition for
developers and their applications.

[ Category : Apache Velocity ]

Help the Apache Wicket team to determine the future of your Wicket
based web application development. We have released our third and
hopefully final milestone release of our Java 5 based web framework
and are anxious to receive feedback on our use of generics.

A significant change from the earlier Wicket 1.4 milestone versions is
that Component is no longer generified. This means that Component and
most of its subclasses in Wicket do not take a class-level type
parameter. Some Component subclasses remain generified, such as Link,
Form, FormComponent, ListView, etc. You can read more details
regarding these changes here:

* http://wicket.apache.org/wicket-14-m3-news.html
* http://www.nabble.com/generics-to18083910.html#a18083910

We feel that this might provide a good middle ground between being
unable to add typing to IModel on one hand and a proliferation of
unneeded typing information on modelless components on the other hand.
Your feedback is appreciated!

Download Wicket 1.4-m3 now and help us decide whether to tone down,
remove or increase the application of Java 5 generics to our API. We
have started the discussion on the user mailing list:

* http://www.nabble.com/users%2C-please-give-us-your-opinion%3A-what-is-your-take-on-generics-with-Wicket-td17589984.html

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

* http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/wicket/1.4-m3

We thank you for your patience and support.

-- The Wicket Team

=== Apache Wicket ===

Apache Wicket is a component oriented Java web application framework.
With proper mark-up/logic separation, a POJO data model, and a
refreshing lack of XML, Apache Wicket makes developing web-apps simple
and enjoyable again. Swap the boilerplate, complex debugging and
brittle code for powerful, reusable components written with plain Java
and HTML.

You can find out more about Apache Wicket on our website:

* http://wicket.apache.org

=== This release ===

The Apache Wicket team is proud to announce the availability of the
third milestone release of our first java 1.5 Wicket version: Apache
Wicket 1.4-m3. This is the first release with java 1.5 as a minimum.
Almost everything has been converted to java 1.5. If you find
something missing, please help us and send a message to the dev@ or
user@ list.

=== Migrating from 1.3 ===

If you are coming from Wicket 1.3, you really want to read our
migration guide, found on the wiki:

* http://cwiki.apache.org/WICKET/migrate-14.html

=== Downloading the release ===

You can download the release from the official Apache mirror system,
and you can find it through the following link:

* http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/wicket/1.4-m3/

For the Maven and Ivy fans out there: update your pom's to the
following, and everything will be downloaded automatically:

org.apache.wicket
wicket
1.4-m3

Substitute the artifact ID with the projects of your liking to get the
other projects.

Please note that we don't prescribe a Logging implementation for
SLF4J. You need to specify yourself which one you prefer. Read more
about SLF4J here: http://slf4j.org

=== Validating the release ===

The release has been signed by Martijn Dashorst, your release manager
for today. The public key can be found in the KEYS file in the
download area. Download the KEYS file only from the Apache website.

* http://www.apache.org/dist/wicket/1.4-m3/KEYS

Instructions on how to validate the release can be found here:

* http://www.apache.org/dev/release-signing.html#check-integrity

=== Reporting bugs ===

In case you do encounter a bug, we would appreciate a report in our JIRA:

* http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/WICKET

=== The distribution ===

In the distribution you will find a README. The README contains
instructions on how to build from source yourself. You also find a
CHANEGELOG-1.4 which contains a list of all things that have been
fixed, added and/or removed since the first release in the 1.4 branch.

[ Category : Apache Wicket ]

The Apache ODE community is proud to announce its latest 1.2 release that
includes many new features, improvements and bug fixes. Apache ODE is a
WS-BPEL compliant web services orchestration engine. It organizes web
services calls following a process description written in the BPEL XML
grammar. Another way to describe it would be a web-service capable workflow
engine.

Highlights of this release:

* External variables: variables used in a process are not opaque to the
outside world anymore. You can map them to a simple database table and
manipulate them directly.
* Support for the WSDL HTTP binding. We've also added a few extensions,
allowing the invocation of REST-style web services.
* Advanced endpoint configuration which, thanks to the integration with
Apache Axis2, enables WS-Security and WS-RM support.
* A long list of small fixes and improvements for best-of-breed stability,
performance and usability.

In addition to these new features, Apache ODE provides the following
functionalities:

* Side-by-side support for both the WS-BPEL 2.0 OASIS standard and the
legacy BPEL4WS 1.1 vendor specification.
* Supports 2 communication layers: one based on Axis2 (Web Services http
transport) and another one based on the JBI standard (using ServiceMix).
* High level API to the engine that allows you to integrate the core with
virtually any communication layer.
* Hot-deployment of your processes.
* Compiled approach to BPEL that provides detailed analysis and validation
at the command line or at deployment.
* Management interface for processes, instances and messages.

For more information, check the Apache ODE website: http://ode.apache.org/.

Apache ODE is an open source project released under a business-friendly
license (Apache License v2.0), as such we welcome all your help and
contributions. To participate and get involved, our mailing lists are the
best resources to start from: http://ode.apache.org/mailing-lists.html

[ Category : Apache ODE ]

The Apache Ant Team is proud to announce that version 1.7.1 has been
released and is available as source[1] and binary[2] archives now.

Ant 1.7.1 is mostly a bug fix release which addresses numerous issues
found in Ant 1.7.0 released in December 2006.

Several smaller optimizations should lead to an improved performance
when compared to Ant 1.7.0.

In addition Java6 support has been extended and JavaFX is now
supported by the "script" task.

The Apache Ant Development Team

PS: please note that it may take a few hours until the new release is
available from your preferred mirrors site.

[1] http://ant.apache.org/srcdownload.cgi

[2] http://ant.apache.org/bindownload.cgi

[ Category : Apache Ant ]

The Apache MINA project is pleased to announce the release of MINA 2.0.0-M2.

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

A list of all the resolved issues for this this release is available here :
https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/IssueNavigator.jspa?reset=true&pid=10670&fixfor=12312861

This is a milestone release and is not yet considered suitable for
production use. This release improve the code structure, documentation
and provide a large number of bug fix since 2.0.0-M1. We want to
thanks all the developers who started using the 2.0 MINA branch and
provided a lot of useful feedback for building this release.

Thanks,

Apache MINA PMC

[ Category : Apache MINA ]

The Apache HttpComponents project is pleased to announce the release of
HttpComponents HttpCore 4.0-beta2. This release adds a number of
improvements to the NIO components, most notable being improved
asynchronous client side and server side protocol handlers.

There has been a number of important bug fixes in HttpCore NIO module,
whereas HttpCore base module has had very few changes.

All upstream projects dependent on HttpCore NIO are strongly advised to
upgrade.

The focus of the development efforts is now 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/

[ Category : Apache HttpComponents ]

The Apache POI team is pleased to announce the availability of Apache POI 3.1-FINAL.

Apache POI is well-known in the Java field as a library for reading and
writing OLE2 office file formats, such as Excel, PowerPoint, Visio and
Word. See http://poi.apache.org

Release Highlights:

POI-HSSF - Java API To Access Microsoft Excel Format Files
* Major improvements in formula evaluation
* Support for conditional formatting
* Support for Excel hyperlinks
* Handling of embedded OLE2 documents
* Support for getting excel cell comments when extracting text
* Support for specifying a policy to HSSF on missing / blank cells when fetching

POI-HSLF - Java API To Access Microsoft PowerPoint Format Files
* Support for getting embedded sounds
* Support for getting embedded OLE objects
* Support for Tables
* Improved text extraction
* Export PowerPoint slides into image
* Java2D Graphics driver

POI-HWPF - Java API To Access Microsoft Word Format Files
* Handling of embedded OLE2 documents
* Support for extracting Escher images from HWPF files
* Improved Range.replaceText()

About 100 other fixes and improvements. 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 "3.1-FINAL".

Apache POI Team

[ Category : Apache POI ]

maintenance release: Apache Wicket 1.3.4. A lot of bugs have been squashed and
several improvements implemented. Two noteworthy bugs have been squashed:

- cross session leakage due to a dangling thread local in exceptional
circumstances
- memory leak in localizer (WICKET-1667)

It is therefore recommended you update to Wicket 1.3.4 at your earliest
convenience.

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

http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/wicket/1.3.4

We thank you for your patience and support.

- The Wicket Team

Apache Wicket

Apache Wicket is a component oriented Java web application framework. With
proper mark-up/logic separation, a POJO data model, and a refreshing lack of
XML, Apache Wicket makes developing web-apps simple and enjoyable again. Swap
the boilerplate, complex debugging and brittle code for powerful, reusable
components written with plain Java and HTML.

You can find out more about Apache Wicket on our website:

http://wicket.apache.org

This release

This release is the fourth maintenance release for the Wicket 1.3 product.
This release fixes several bugs and adds some minor improvements. You can find
out about the changes at the bottom of this announcement.

Migrating from 1.2

If you are coming from Wicket 1.2, you really want to read our migration
guide, found on the wiki:

http://cwiki.apache.org/WICKET/migrate-13.html

Downloading the release

You can download the release from the official Apache mirror system, and you
can find it through the following link:

http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/wicket/1.3.4/

For the Maven and Ivy fans out there: update your pom's to the following, and
everything will be downloaded automatically:

org.apache.wicket
wicket
1.3.4

Substitute the artifact ID with the projects of your liking to get the other
projects.

Please note that we don't prescribe a Logging implementation for SLF4J. You
need to specify yourself which one you prefer. Read more about SLF4J here:
http://slf4j.org

Validating the release

The release has been signed by Martijn Dashorst, your release manager for
today. The public key can be found in the KEYS file in the download area.
Download the KEYS file only from the Apache website.

http://www.apache.org/dist/wicket/1.3.4/KEYS

Instructions on how to validate the release can be found here:

http://www.apache.org/dev/release-signing.html#check-integrity

Reporting bugs

In case you do encounter a bug, we would appreciate a report in our JIRA:

http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/WICKET

The distribution

In the distribution you will find a README. The README contains instructions
on how to build from source yourself. You also find a CHANEGELOG-1.3 which
contains a list of all things that have been fixed, added and/or removed since
Wicket 1.3.0.

Release Notes - Wicket - Version 1.3.4

** Bug
* [WICKET-613] - Prototype scoped Spring beans
* [WICKET-1152] - MetaDataRoleAuthorizationStrategy.unauthorize()
doesn't work
* [WICKET-1292] - WicketTester continueToOriginalDestination()
uses application home page instead of original redictor
* [WICKET-1366] - "ava.lang.IllegalStateException: No Page found
for component" when collapsing nodes in a LinkTree
* [WICKET-1418] - org.apache.wicket.MarkupContainer swallows AbortException
* [WICKET-1453] - WicketServlet does not set content type on fallback()
* [WICKET-1473] - BaseWicketTester.isComponentOnAjaxResponse()
test is too strong
* [WICKET-1476] - Referencing Page may cause StackOverflowError
* [WICKET-1499] - AjaxEditableMultiLineLabel + race condition /
* [WICKET-1501] - MarkupCache.putIntoCache doesn't behave correctly!!
* [WICKET-1504] - AutoCompleteTextField - javascript error "type
mismatch" in line 227 in IE
* [WICKET-1507] - MarkupCache style/variation/locale support broken
* [WICKET-1510] - FormDispatcherRequest creates invalid parameter map
* [WICKET-1521] - ClassCastException in MixedUrlCodingStrategy
* [WICKET-1527] - WicketTester can not deal with null values in
page parameters
* [WICKET-1536] - Enclosure permanently hides direct children
after it has been itself hidden once
* [WICKET-1537] - SelectOption generates non xhtml compliant markup
* [WICKET-1541] - PopupSettings' windowName fixes for IE
* [WICKET-1544] - Update Javadoc for AbstractValidator
* [WICKET-1547] - Add getterfor IPageable to PagingNavigation
* [WICKET-1548] - PagingNavigator calls factory methods from constructor
* [WICKET-1549] - Memory leak with PropertyResolver (in running test suites)
* [WICKET-1551] - javascript status variable hides the
window.status variable because it is not declared as a far in
wicket-ajax.js
* [WICKET-1556] - Non-existant package resources lazily added to pool
* [WICKET-1558] - WicketTester.startPage(page) throws "No
requestCycle is currently set"
* [WICKET-1560] - MarkupFragmentFinder fails on transparent
resolvers within Repeaters
* [WICKET-1569] - AjaxButton break form data when
IRequestSettings.#getResponseRequestEncoding is not UTF-8.
* [WICKET-1570] - We should mark session dirty when at least one
page is touched
* [WICKET-1575] - AjaxEventBehavior does not check for
component.isEnableAllowed before adding the ajax event to the tag
* [WICKET-1598] - Typos in JavaDoc of IMarkupResourceStreamProvider.java
* [WICKET-1607] - addDomReadyEvent unreliable for Safari
* [WICKET-1626] - Typo in
src/main/java/org/apache/wicket/protocol/http/WebApplication.java
* [WICKET-1632] - IE bug causes wicket problems when id auto
generation is active
* [WICKET-1635] - Stripping javascript comments and whitespace
breaks application when using prototype library

* [WICKET-1645] - Syntactic errors in the manifest OSGi headers
* [WICKET-1646] - AjaxFormComponentUpdatingBehavior not working
correctly when using IE 7
* [WICKET-1649] - Manifests use incorrect Dynamic-ImportPackage header
* [WICKET-1658] - WicketTester#clickLink doesn't update lastRenderedPage
* [WICKET-1659] - Prolem with 'mouseactive' in
wicket-autocomplete.js when AutoCompleteBehaviour is added (twice)
during Ajax roundtrip
* [WICKET-1667] - Memory leak in Localizer
* [WICKET-1669] - TimeFrame.equals(Object) does not work as expected
* [WICKET-1670] - Time.valueOf() does not clear miliseconds
* [WICKET-1682] - HtmlHandler can't handle tags not requiring
closed tags if the tag names are uppercase
* [WICKET-1697] - Bad caching in tag for the same
key in same markup structure
* [WICKET-1701] -
org.apache.wicket.markup.html.CompressedPackageResource$CompressingResourceStream.cache
needs to avoid being serialized
* [WICKET-1704] - ResourceStreamRequestTarget.configure set wrong
ContentLength for non-ascii characters
* [WICKET-1705] - GuiceComponentInjector mishandles static fields
* [WICKET-1706] - org.apache.wicket.util.lang.Objects.convertValue
returns null if it cannot convert the value

** Improvement
* [WICKET-1492] - Allow form to specify prefix for formcomponent names
* [WICKET-1524] - Disable javadoc plugin in regular build to make it faster
* [WICKET-1590] - AjaxEditableChoiceLabel ignores ChoiceRenderer
in newLabel(...)
* [WICKET-1592] - html.form.Form object should have method to
obtain all FormValidator objects associated with
* [WICKET-1595] - AutoCompleteTextField: Scrolling down the Choice
Menu Only When the Bottom of the Menu Is Reached
* [WICKET-1608] - make AutoCompleteBehavior's configuration more flexible
* [WICKET-1618] - Localizer API should be enhanced so that the
cache implementation can be overwritten
* [WICKET-1668] - Application_es.properties (added translations)
* [WICKET-1708] - Allow the module init parameter to contain
multiple class names
* [WICKET-1709] - Allow configuration of the guice Stage for
GuiceWebApplicationFactory
* [WICKET-1711] - Improve Locale fallback in BundleStringResourceLoader

** New Feature
* [WICKET-1322] - NormalUrlCodingStrategy: It does not append / to
the end of the url before the parameters
* [WICKET-1428] - AutoLinkResolver and Parent-Relative (../) Links
* [WICKET-1609] - add RedirectToExternalException
* [WICKET-1641] - provide OSGi metadata

** Wish
* [WICKET-1562] - Autocomplete should display the selection list
even if the input field is empty

[ Category : Apache Wicket ]

The Apache Software Foundation and the Apache HTTP Server Project are pleased to announce the release of version 2.2.9 of the Apache HTTP Server ("Apache"). This version of Apache is principally a bug and security fix release. The following potential security flaws are addressed:

• CVE-2008-2364 (cve.mitre.org) -- mod_proxy_http: Better handling of excessive interim responses from origin server to prevent potential denial of service and high memory usage. Reported by Ryujiro Shibuya.
• CVE-2007-6420 (cve.mitre.org) -- mod_proxy_balancer: Prevent CSRF attacks against the balancer-manager interface.

We consider this release to be the best version of Apache available, and encourage users of all prior versions to upgrade.

Apache HTTP Server 2.2.9 is available for download from:

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

Apache 2.2 offers numerous enhancements, improvements, and performance boosts over the 2.0 codebase. For an overview of new features introduced since 2.0 please see:

http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/new_features_2_2.html

Please see the CHANGES_2.2 file, linked from the download page, for a full list of changes. A condensed list, CHANGES_2.2.9 provides the complete list of changes since 2.2.8. A summary of security vulnerabilities which were addressed in the previous 2.2.8 and earlier releases is available:

http://httpd.apache.org/security/vulnerabilities_22.html

Apache HTTP Server 1.3.41 and 2.0.63 legacy releases are also currently available. See the appropriate CHANGES from the url above. See the corresponding CHANGES files linked from the download page. The Apache HTTP Project developers strongly encourage all users to migrate to Apache 2.2, as only limited maintenance is performed on these legacy versions.

This release includes the Apache Portable Runtime (APR) version 1.3.0 bundled with the tar and zip distributions. The APR libraries libapr and libaprutil (and on Win32, libapriconv) must all be updated to ensure binary compatibility and address many known platform bugs.

This release builds on and extends the Apache 2.0 API. Modules written for Apache 2.0 will need to be recompiled in order to run with Apache 2.2, and require minimal or no source code changes.

http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/httpd/httpd/branches/2.2.x/VERSIONING

When upgrading or installing this version of Apache, please bear in mind that if you intend to use Apache with one of the threaded MPMs (other than the Prefork MPM), you must ensure that any modules you will be using (and the libraries they depend on) are thread-safe.

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-- The Apache HTTP Server Project

[ Category : Apache HTTP ]

The Apache JMeter team is pleased to announce the release of Apache JMeter 2.3.2 final.

Apache JMeter is a Java application designed to test server applications. It can be used to:

• generate test loads
• test functional behaviour
• measure performance.

It includes support for protocols such as HTTP(S), JDBC, JMS, FTP, and others. It can also be extended with user-written code.

See http://jakarta.apache.org/jmeter/

The release can be downloaded from:

http://jakarta.apache.org/site/downloads/downloads_jmeter.cgi

Only the binary archive is needed to run JMeter - there is no need to download the source archive.

However there are some optional libraries which are not included. See the "Getting Started" page for details: http://jakarta.apache.org/jmeter/usermanual/get-started.html

The list of changes can be found at: http://jakarta.apache.org/jmeter/changes.html

All users are recommended to upgrade to this release.

----

-- The Apache JMeter team

[ Category : Apache Jakarta ]

The Apache Rampart Team has released the version 1.4 of Apache Rampart

Apache Rampart 1.4 is a toolkit that provides implementations of the WS-Sec specifications for Apache Axis2 1.4, based on Apache WSS4J 1.5.4 and the Apache AXIOM-DOOM 1.2.7 implementations.

You can download the releases from: http://ws.apache.org/rampart/download/1.4/download.cgi

There are two main Apache Axis2 modules provided with this release.

• rampart-1.4.mar -- This provides support for WS-Security and WS-SecureConversation features.
• rahas-1.4.mar -- This module provides the necessary components to enable SecurityTokenService functionality on a service.

Apache Rampart 1.4 uses a configuration model based on WS-Policy and WS-Security Policy. It is important to note that the Apache Rampart 1.0 style configuration is also available even though being marked as deprecated.

Apache Rampart 1.4 can be successfully used with the next Apache Sandesha2 release targeted towards Apache Axis2 1.4 to configure WS-SecureConversation + WS-ReliableMessaging scenarios.

The rampart module was successfully tested for interoperability with other WS-Security implementations.

WS - Sec specifications supported by Apache Rampart are as follows:

• WS - Security 1.0 / 1.1
• WS - Secure Conversation - February 2005
• WS - Security Policy - 1.1 - July 2005
• WS - Security Policy - 1.2 - EXPERIMENTAL
• WS - Trust - February 2005
• WS - Trust - WS-SX spec - EXPERIMENTAL

New features in Apache Rampart 1.4

• WS Security 1.1
  • Encrypted headers
  • Encrypted SHA1 references
• WS Security Policy 1.2 support
  • WS Trust
  • Renew binding
  • Validation binding
• New configuration options
  • Ability to plug in Custom policy validators
  • Ability to define certificate alias different from username for signature
  • Ability turn off mili second precision
• Ability to secure SOAP faults
• Increased interoparability with WCF 3.5

Thank you for using Apache Rampart.

----

-- The Apache Rampart team

[ Category : Apache WebServices ]

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.

This release is mostly a bugfix release for the image loading framework that has been introduced in version 1.3.

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 Project Team

[ Category : Apache XML Graphics ]

The Apache Tuscany team is pleased to announce the 1.2.1 release of the Java SCA project.

Apache Tuscany provides a runtime environment based on the Service Component Architecture (SCA). SCA is a set of specifications aimed at simplifying SOA application development. These specifications are being standardized by OASIS as part of the Open Composite Services Architecture (Open CSA).

This 1.2.1 release is a maintenance release over the 1.2 release, see the RELEASE_NOTES and CHANGES file for details, 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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-- The Apache Tuscany Team

[ Category : Apache Incubator ]

The Apache Software Foundation and the Apache Portable Runtime Project are proud to announce the General Availability of version 1.3.0 of the APR Apache Portable Runtime library.

The Project further announces the General Availability of APR-util version 1.3.0, the companion Apache Portable Utility library. The original APR-iconv version 1.2.1 release, an alternative portable implementation of the 'iconv' library, remains current.

APR is available for download from:

• http://apr.apache.org/download.cgi

This version of APR is principally a bug fix release, including fixes for specific platforms' configuration, feature detection, and run time behavior. Most developers are encouraged to adopt the latest APR 1.x version to ensure the most comprehensive support and access to the latest features and enhancements.

The mission of the Apache Portable Runtime Project is to create and maintain software libraries that provide a predictable and consistent interface to underlying platform-specific implementations. The primary goal is to provide an API to which software developers may code and be assured of predictable if not identical behavior regardless of the platform on which their software is built, relieving them of the need to code special-case conditions to work around or take advantage of platform-specific deficiencies or features.

APR and its companion libraries are implemented entirely in C and provide a common programming interface across a wide variety of operating system platforms without sacrificing performance.

Currently supported platforms include:

• UNIX variants
• Windows
• Netware
• Mac OS X
• OS/2

To give a brief overview, the primary core subsystems of APR 1.3 include the following:

• Atomic operations
• Dynamic Shared Object loading
• File I/O
• Locks (mutexes, condition variables, etc)
• Memory management (high performance allocators)
• Memory-mapped files
• Multicast Sockets
• Network I/O
• Shared memory
• Thread and Process management
• Various data structures (tables, hashes, priority queues, etc)

For a more complete list, please refer to the following URLs:

• http://apr.apache.org/docs/apr/modules.html
• http://apr.apache.org/docs/apr-util/modules.html

Users of APR 0.9 should be aware that migrating to the APR 1.x programming interfaces may require some adjustments; APR 1.x is neither source nor binary compatible with earlier APR 0.9 releases Users of APR 1.x can expect consistent interfaces and binary backwards compatibility throughout the entire APR 1.x release cycle, as defined in our versioning rules:

• http://apr.apache.org/versioning.html

APR is already used extensively by the Apache HTTP Server version 2 and the Subversion revision control system, to name but a few. We list all known projects using APR at http://apr.apache.org/projects.html -- so please let us know if you find our libraries useful in your own projects.

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-- The Apache Portable Runtime (APR) Project Team

[ Category : Apache APR ]

Help the Apache Wicket team to determine the future of your Wicket based web application development. We have released our second milestone release of our Java 5 based web framework and are anxious to receive feedback on our use of generics. Download Wicket 1.4-m2 now and help us decide whether to tone down, remove or increase the application of Java 5 generics to our API. We have started the discussion on the user mailing list:

http://www.nabble.com/users%2C-please-give-us-your-opinion%3A-what-is-your-take-on-generics-with-Wicket-td17589984.html

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

http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/wicket/1.4-m2

We thank you for your patience and support.

The Wicket Team

=== Apache Wicket ===

Apache Wicket is a component oriented Java web application framework. With proper mark-up/logic separation, a POJO data model, and a refreshing lack of XML, Apache Wicket makes developing web-apps simple and enjoyable again. Swap the boilerplate, complex debugging and brittle code for powerful, reusable components written with plain Java and HTML.

You can find out more about Apache Wicket on our website:

http://wicket.apache.org

=== This release ===

The Apache Wicket team is proud to announce the availability of the first milestone release of our first java 1.5 Wicket version: Apache Wicket 1.4-m2. This is the first release with java 1.5 as a minimum. Not everything has been converted to java 1.5 yet but we are getting there.

=== Migrating from 1.3 ===

If you are coming from Wicket 1.3, you really want to read our migration guide, found on the wiki:

http://cwiki.apache.org/WICKET/migrate-14.html

=== Downloading the release ===

You can download the release from the official Apache mirror system, and you can find it through the following link:

http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/wicket/1.4-m2/

For the Maven and Ivy fans out there: update your pom's to the following, and everything will be downloaded automatically:

org.apache.wicket
wicket
1.4-m2

Substitute the artifact ID with the projects of your liking to get the other projects.

Please note that we don't prescribe a Logging implementation for SLF4J. You need to specify yourself which one you prefer. Read more about SLF4J here:

http://slf4j.org

=== Validating the release ===

The release has been signed by Frank Bille, your release manager for today. The public key can be found in the KEYS file in the download area. Download the KEYS file only from the Apache website.

http://www.apache.org/dist/wicket/1.4-m2/KEYS

Instructions on how to validate the release can be found here:

http://www.apache.org/dev/release-signing.html#check-integrity

=== Reporting bugs ===

In case you do encounter a bug, we would appreciate a report in our JIRA:

http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/WICKET

=== The distribution ===

In the distribution you will find a README. The README contains instructions on how to build from source yourself. You also find a CHANEGELOG-1.4 which contains a list of all things that have been fixed, added and/or removed since the first release in the 1.4 branch.

[ Category : Apache Wicket ]