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

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

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

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

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

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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

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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/

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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

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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

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[ Category : Apache Maven ]

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

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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 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

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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

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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

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Apache Axis2/C Team is pleased to announce the release of Apache Axis2/C version 1.3.0. You can download this release from

http://ws.apache.org/axis2/c/download.cgi

Key Features
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1. Support for one-way messaging (In-Only) and request response messaging
(In-Out)

2. Client APIs: Easy to use service client API and more advanced operation
client API

3. Transports supported: HTTP
* Inbuilt HTTP server called simple axis server
* Apache2 httpd module called mod_axis2 for server side
* IIS module for server side
* Client transport with ability to enable SSL support
* Basic HTTP Authentication
* Digest HTTP Authentication
* libcurl based client transport

4. Transports supported: HTTPS
* HTTPS Transport implementation using OpenSSL

5. Transports supported: TCP
* for both client and server side

6. Transport proxy support (HTTP)
* Proxy Authentication (Basic/Digest)

7. Module architecture, mechanism to extend the SOAP processing model.

8. WS-Addressing support, both the submission (2004/08) and final
(2005/08) versions,
implemented as a module.

9. MTOM/XOP support.

10. AXIOM, an XML object model optimized for SOAP 1.1/1.2 messages;
This has complete XML infoset support.

11. XML parser abstraction
* Libxml2 wrapper
* Guththila pull parser support

12. Both directory based and archive based deployment models for deploying
services and modules

13. Description hierarchy providing access to static data of
Axis2/C runtime (configuration, service groups, services, operations
and messages)

14. Context hierarchy providing access to dynamic
Axis2/C runtime information (corresponding contexts to map to each
level of
description hierarchy)

15. Message receiver abstraction
* Inbuilt raw XML message receiver

16. Code generation tool for stub and skeleton generation for a given
WSDL (based on Java tool)
* Axis Data Binding (ADB) support

17. REST support (more POX like) using HTTP POST, GET, HEAD, PUT and
DELETE
* Support for RESTful Services

18. Comprehensive documentation
* Axis2/C Manual

19. WS-Policy implementation called Neethi/C, with WS-SecurityPolicy
extension

Major Changes Since Last Release.
--------------------------------

1. Fixed a bug on version numbering
2. List Axis2/C dependencies licensing in LICENSE file
3. Add relevant copyright notices to NOTICE file
4. Digest Authentication Support
5. Proxy Authentication Support
6. Enhanced REST support
7. Ability to insert xml declaration on outgoing payloads
8. MTOM support with libcurl
9. Improvements to TCPMon Tool
10. Improvements to Test Coverage
11. Improvements to API docs
12. Improvements to CA certificate validation mechanisms on SSL Transport
13. Improvements to Neethi
14. Fixed issue in HTTP GET on mod_axis2
15. Major Improvements to Guththila Parser
16. Improvements to libcurl based sender
17. Creation of a FAQ list
18. Improvements to Axis2/C documentation
19. Added Documentation on Archive Based Deployment
20. Fixes for IIS module
21. Removed dependency in util for the Axis2/C core
22. Ability to access transport headers at the service level (for RESTful
services)
23. uint64_t and int64_t support at util layer and codegen level
24. Removed zlib dependencies when Archive Based Deployment model is
disabled
25. Signal Handling in Windows
26. Removed over 99% of the warnings found on Windows
27. Increased build speed on Windows with nmake.
28. Improvements to Windows build system
29. Extensions to client API to support HTTP/Proxy Authentication
30. Memory leak fixes
31. Many bug fixes

We welcome your early feedback on this implementation. Thanks for your interest in Axis2/C

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-- Apache Axis2/C Team

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The Apache Directory Team is pleased to announce the release of Apache Directory Studio 1.1.0 RC2, the second release candidate for the version 1.1.0 of its Eclipse based LDAP Browser and Directory client.

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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-- The Apache Directory Team

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The Apache Ivy project is pleased to announce its 2.0.0 beta 2 release, a new step on the road toward 2.0 final.

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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The Apache Harmony team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Apache Harmony 5.0 Milestone 5.

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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-- The Apache Harmony Team

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