Ravenous 0.1.24 Released   12 Jul 2005 14:09 GMT
The Java webserver project Ravenous, full-featured Web server written in Java, has announced the release of version 0.1.24 with major enhancements. Ravenous allows you to write dynamic pages in Java without the need to read stacks of books before you get started. "This release ...
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Public Draft Review: JSR 244 - J2EE 5.0   12 Jul 2005 14:05 GMT
Sun Microsystems has published a public draft review of JSR 244 - Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition 5.0 (J2EE 5.0). "This JSR is to develop J2EE 5.0, the next release of the JavaTM 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition, targeted to ship in the second half of 2005. The major theme for ...
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XOM 1.1 Beta 2   11 Jul 2005 04:00 GMT
The second beta release of XOM 1.1, a dual streaming/tree-based API for processing XML with Java, has been posted. "Version 1.1 maintains backwards compatibility with XOM 1.0 while adding a number of important new features including XPath queries, document subset canonicalization, exclusive XML canonicalization, external XSLT parameters, and xml:id support. The API is now considered to be reasonably stable, and probably won't change before 1.1 final. Beta 2 is primarily a bug fix release. Numerous bugs have been fixed in XPath. In addition a couple of other random issues have been fixed including namespace handling in SAX conversion and attribute parentage in copied elements.Beta 2 also make some optimizations that should slightly decrease the memory footprint."
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Marc Fleury Interview: "The Myth of Open-Source"   11 Jul 2005 04:00 GMT
Marc Fleury of JBoss has been interviewed by BusinessWeek on what he coins "The Myth of Open Source" in the new age of the open source start-up company. "... No one is going to work for free. That's the myth of open-source. [New open-source startups are] trying to buy distribution. And maybe they'll succeed, because if you give something away for free, people will come. That's the only part of the model they're replicating: Give it for free and charge for the service. The point is, do you have enough volume? If that's your model, you monetize 1% to 2% of the user base, ergo you need a pretty large user base to have scalability."
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Commons HttpClient 3.0rc3   11 Jul 2005 04:00 GMT
The Jakarta Commons development team have announced the release of version 3.0rc3 of their Commons HttpClient. "RC3 has undergone quite a lot of user testing and it fixes a number of bugs from RC2. We strongly recommend that all users upgrade to HttpClient 3.0 RC3." The team has also released a changelog.
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Early Draft Review: JSR 269 - Pluggable Annotation Processing API   11 Jul 2005 04:00 GMT
Sun Microsystems has published an early draft review of JSR 269 - Pluggable Annotation Processing API to the JCP. "The specification will include at least two sections, a section of API modeling the Java programming language and a distinct section for declaring annotation processors and controlling how they are run. Since annotations are placed on program elements, an annotation processing framework needs to reflect program structure. Annotation processors will be able to specify what annotations they process and multiple processors will be able to run cooperatively."
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Borland CEO Steps Down   11 Jul 2005 04:00 GMT
Borland has announced that its CEO has left amid a weaker than expected quarter. "Borland announced that Dale Fuller has stepped down as president and CEO of the company, effective immediately. Fuller will continue to serve as a member of the company's board of directors, which named Scott Arnold, Borland's executive vice president and chief operating officer, as interim chief executive officer."
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Enhydra Shark 1.1-2   11 Jul 2005 04:00 GMT
The ObjectWeb Consortium has announced the release of Enhyrdra Shark. It is mainly a big-fix release in addition to one new features, "CORBA server for Shark that is based on POA. You can choose which server you want to start, an old one - using old scripts (run or runAll to also start admin), or POA, using runPOA or runAllPOA scripts."
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Final Release: JSR 105 - XML Digital Signature APIs   08 Jul 2005 04:00 GMT
Sun Microsystems and IBM have published the final release of JSR 105 - XML Digital Signature APIs to the JCP. "This JSR is to define a standard set of APIs for XML digital signatures services. The XML Digital Signature specification is defined by the W3C. This proposal is to define and incorporate the high level implementation independent Java APIs."
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Apache Xerces-J 2.7.0   08 Jul 2005 04:00 GMT
The Apache Xerces-J development team has announced the release of version 2.7.0 of the XML parser. "This release provides a complete implementation of the parser related portions of JAXP 1.3 and also brings Xerces into compliance with SAX 2.0.2, the DOM Level 3 Core and Load/Save W3C Recommendations, the XML Inclusions (XInclude) Version 1.0 W3C Recommendation and the XML Schema 1.0 Structures and Datatypes Second Edition W3C Recommendations." A full list of changes is available.
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