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News & Status

01 April 2004 - Petitcat 1.0 Beta Released

The Tomcat team is pleased to announce the release of Petitcat 1.0 Beta which is an implementation of Tomcat for the F0MA, a mobile phone contains the J2ME JVM, of NTT Domoco Inc. It's a great achievement on Tomcat to spread its availability and portability for the Servlet. Take a look at the screenshot here.

30 March 2004 - Lucene 1.4 Release Candidate 2 Released

A new release of is available with many new features and bug fixes. See CHANGES.txt for details. Binary and source distributions are available here.

26 March 2004 - Tomcat mod_jk2 web server connector version 2.0.4 Released

The Tomcat team is pleased to announce the release of version 2.0.4 of the Apache Tomcat mod_jk2 web server connector.

Tomcat is the reference implementation of a web application server which implements the Java Servlet and JavaServer Pages specifications.

mod_jk2 is a connector which allows a web server such as Apache HTTPD or IIS to act as a front end to the Tomcat web application server.

This version fixes a many majors bugs and is the first one to use APR which is now mandatory.

See the file CHANGES.txt in the source distribution for a complete list of changes.

Downloads:
BINARY:http://jakarta.apache.org/site/binindex.cgi
SOURCE:http://jakarta.apache.org/site/sourceindex.cgi

For more information on Jakarta Tomcat Connectors, see the Tomcat web site.


18 March 2004 - Jakarta Struts' graduation with honors into Apache Struts

Jakarta Struts graduats with honors into Apache Struts - Jakarta Struts formed its own PMCs in order to become Apache Struts - Top Level Project in The Apache Software Foundation.

Craig R. McClanahan will be the PMC Chair of Apache Struts. Congratulations,


17 March 2004 - Jakarta Tapestry 3.0 R.C.1 Released

Jakarta Tapestry 3.0 Release Candidate 1 has been released.

Downloads:
BINARY: http://jakarta.apache.org/site/binindex.cgi
SOURCE: http://jakarta.apache.org/site/sourceindex.cgi

Jakarta Tapestry Team


12 March 2004 - Power to the HiveMind people - Graduation From Jakarta Commons Sandbox

The Apache Jakarta Project is very happy to announce it that HiveMind project has graduated from commons sandbox, outgrown to become one of the Jakarta sub-projects.

"[PROPOSAL] HiveMind in the sandbox" came to commons-dev at the end of May, 2003. It took 9 months - enough time has passed for the bless of the outgrowing of Hivemind into Jakarta Proper. HiveMind scratched an itch a lot of people have. Jakartaens and many Java developers/users did want this time to come.

Congratulations, to the HiveMind community.

-- Apache Jakarta Project --


08 March 2004 - Tomcat 3.3.2 Final Available

The Tomcat Team announces the immediate availability of Apache Tomcat 3.3.2 Final.

Please refer to the changelog included in the releases for the list of changes.

Downloads:
BINARY:http://jakarta.apache.org/site/binindex.cgi
SOURCE:http://jakarta.apache.org/site/sourceindex.cgi

For more information on Jakarta Tomcat, see the Tomcat web site.


03 March 2004 - POI 2.5-FINAL Released

ANNOUNCEMENT:

The POI Team is proud to announce the immediate availability of the Jakarta POI 2.5-FINAL release.

WHAT IS POI?

The POI project consists of APIs for manipulating various file formats based upon Microsoft's OLE 2 Compound Document format using pure Java. Support for reading and writing Microsoft Excel files and property information is mature and work continues on reading and writing the MS Word format.

You can find the website at http://jakarta.apache.org/poi/

NEW LICENSE:

This release is has upgraded it's license to version 2.0 of the Apache Software Foundation License. See http://www.apache.org/licenses/ for more details.

CHANGE LOG:

The following major changes have occurred since the 2.0 release:

  • HSSF (for reading and writing spreadsheets):
  • Support for the Escher format in spreadsheets. In other words you can now create shapes inside sheets.
  • BUG: 27005 java.lang.IndexOutOfBoundsException during Workbook.cloneSheet()

DOWNLOADS (source and binaries):

http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/jakarta/poi/

Regards,

The Jakarta POI Team.


01 March 2004 - The Board of the ASF established two new PMCs

The Board of the ASF (The Apache Software Foundation) established two new PMCs

  • The Apache Gump Project will now oversee the development and maintenance of the Apache Jakarta Gump project. Stefan Bodewig is the new Chair of this PMC.
  • The Apache Portals Project will be pulling together a number of different ASF technologies that are used to create portals (Jetspeed, Pluto, etc.). Santiago Gala is the new project Chair.

24 February 2004 - Geir Magnusson Jr Succeeds Sam Ruby As Jakarta Project Chair

Sam Ruby requested to step down from the Apache Jakarta Chair position. The Board appointed Geir Magnusson Jr to the newly-vacant Chair.

Thanks Sam for your time in the Chair. I also look forward to the things that Geir can bring to the Apache Jakarta Project!

Greg Stein, Chairman The Apache Software Foundation

The Jakarta Project of The Apache Software Foundation is controlled by the Jakarta PMC. The Apache Jakarta Chair chairs this commitee and is also an Officer of The Apache Software Foundation.

Sam Ruby has skillfully guided Jakarta through difficult times and all his hard work is very much appreciated. Geir Magnusson Jr is a very well known (and liked) Jakartaen. Good luck Geir!


24 February 2004 - Tomcat 3.3.2 Release Candidate 1 Available

The Tomcat Team announces the immediate availability of Apache Tomcat 3.3.2 Release Candidate 1. Download here.


23 February 2004 - Tomcat 5.0.19 Stable and Tomcat 4.1.30 Stable released

The Tomcat team is pleased to announce that Tomcat 5.0.19 Stable and Tomcat 4.1.30 Stable are now available.

Please refer to the changelog included in the releases for the list of changes.

Downloads:
BINARY:http://jakarta.apache.org/site/binindex.cgi
SOURCE:http://jakarta.apache.org/site/sourceindex.cgi

For more information on Jakarta Tomcat, see the Tomcat web site.


21 February 2004 - Velocity Tools 1.1 RC 1 Released

This release includes numerous improvements since the beta1 release. These include the refinement and completion of TilesTool and ValidatorTool, a NumberTool for formatting numbers, improved docs and examples, and more. See the change log for a more complete listing.

Downloads:

For more information on Jakarta Velocity Tools, see the Jakarta Velocity Tools web site.


16 February 2004 - Slide 2.0 Beta 1 Released

Slide is the Jakarta sub-project devoted to all matters WebDAV. The venerable Slide 1.x code has been refactored leading towards a new, improved 2.x series of releases. Slide 2.0 Beta 1 is an important milestone in this process.

Binary and source releases are available for download here. The following distributions are provided:

  • Slide bundled with Tomcat either 4.1.29 or 5.0.16
  • Binary distribution mainly containing all jars and a Web Archive (.war) for easy deployment in Web Containers
  • Binary distribution of the WebDAV client library and command line client
  • Full Slide WebDAV server sources
  • Full Slide WebDAV client sources

15 February 2004 - Commons HttpClient 2.0 Final Released

The HttpClient team is pleased to announce the release of HttpClient 2.0 final. This release represents a great deal of work by quite a number of people, and we would like to thank all of those who contributed to this release.

Only a few small bug fixes are included in this release. For more details please see the release notes.

Downloads:
Binary: http://jakarta.apache.org/site/binindex.cgi
Source: http://jakarta.apache.org/site/sourceindex.cgi

Please see the HttpClient web site for more information.


5 February 2005 - Tapestry 3.0-beta-4

Tapestry release 3.0-beta-4 is now available. This release incorporates a number of significant bug fixes and improves the documentation. If you are building from source, Tapestry will now automatically download external dependencies (such as Forrest, DocBook and McKoi DB).

Tapestry is available as standard source and binary distributions.


30 January 2004 - Jakarta POI 2.0 FINAL released

The POI Team is proud to announce the immediate availability of the Jakarta POI 2.0-FINAL release.

WHAT IS POI?

The POI project consists of APIs for manipulating various file formats based upon Microsoft's OLE 2 Compound Document format using pure Java. Support for reading and writing Microsoft Excel files and property information is mature and work continues on reading and writing the MS Word format.

You can find the website at http://jakarta.apache.org/poi/

CHANGE LOG:

The following major changes have occurred since the 1.5 release:

HSSF (for reading and writing spreadsheets):

  • Numerous bug fixes
  • Improved support for non-english spreadsheets.
  • Formula support
  • Named cells and ranges
  • Sheet reordering
  • Zoom support
  • Freeze and split panes supported
  • Row and column headers
  • Custom data formats
  • Support for cloning objects
  • Headers and footers
  • Preservation of VBA macros when rewriting workbooks
  • Support for hyperlinks by using cell formulas:
    cell.setCellFormula("HYPERLINK(\"http://google.com\",\"Google\")");
  • Custom palettes

HPSF (for reading document properties):

  • Bug fixes
  • Codepage support
  • Read and write support
  • Custom properties

DOWNLOADS (source and binaries):

http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/jakarta/poi/

Regards,

The Jakarta POI Team.


25 January 2004 - Commons Collections 3.0 released

The Commons Collections team is pleased to announce that Commons Collections 3.0 release is now available.

This is a major release. If you are upgrading, please read the release notes for more information.

Downloads:
Binary: http://jakarta.apache.org/site/binindex.cgi
Source: http://jakarta.apache.org/site/sourceindex.cgi

For more information on Jakarta Commons Collections, see the Collections web site.


22 January 2004 - Tomcat 5.0.18 Stable released

The Tomcat team is pleased to announce that Tomcat 5.0.18 Stable is now available.

Please refer to the changelog included in the releases for the list of changes.

Downloads:
BINARY:http://jakarta.apache.org/site/binindex.cgi
SOURCE:http://jakarta.apache.org/site/sourceindex.cgi

For more information on Jakarta Tomcat, see the Tomcat web site.


16 January 2004 - Commons HttpClient 2.0 RC 3 Released

The HttpClient team is pleased to announce the third 2.0 release candidate. This release primarily contains bug fixes. For more details please see the release notes.

Downloads:
Binary: http://jakarta.apache.org/site/binindex.cgi
Source: http://jakarta.apache.org/site/sourceindex.cgi

Please see the HttpClient web site for more information.


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