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[ANNOUNCE] Apache Lucene Java 3.0.0 released

2009-11-26T01:53:40Z

Hello Lucene users,

On behalf of the Lucene dev community (a growing community far larger than
just the committers) I would like to announce the release of Lucene Java
3.0.0:

The new version is mostly a cleanup release without any new features. All
deprecations targeted to be removed in version 3.0 were removed. If you are
upgrading from version 2.9.1 of Lucene, you have to fix all deprecation
warnings in your code base to be able to recompile against this version.

This is the first Lucene release with Java 5 as a minimum requirement. The
API was cleaned up to make use of Java 5's generics, varargs, enums, and
autoboxing. New users of Lucene are advised to use this version for new
developments, because it has a clean, type safe new API. Upgrading users can
now remove unnecessary casts and add generics to their code, too. If you
have not upgraded your installation to Java 5, please read the file
JRE_VERSION_MIGRATION.txt (please note that this is not related only to this
version of Lucene, it will also happen with any previous release when you
upgrade your Java environment).

Lucene 3.0.0 has some changes regarding compressed fields: 2.9.0 already
deprecated compressed fields; support for them was removed now. Lucene 3.0.0
is still able to read indexes with compressed fields, but as soon as merges
occur or the index is optimized, all compressed fields are decompressed and
converted to Field.Store.YES. Because of this, indexes with compressed
fields can suddenly get larger.

While we generally try and maintain full backwards compatibility between
major versions, Lucene 3.0.0 has some minor breaks, mostly related to
deprecation removal, pointed out in the 'Changes in backwards compatibility
policy' section of CHANGES.txt. Notable are:

- IndexReader.open(Directory) now opens in read-only mode per default (this
method was deprecated because of that in 2.9.X). The same occurs to
IndexSearcher.

- Already started in 2.9, core TokenStreams are now made final to enforce
the decorator pattern.

- If you interrupt an IndexWriter merge thread, IndexWriter now throws an
unchecked ThreadInterruptedException that extends RuntimeException and
clears the interrupt status.

See core changes at
http://lucene.apache.org/java/3_0_0/changes/Changes.html
and contrib changes at
http://lucene.apache.org/java/3_0_0/changes/Contrib-Changes.html

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/

-----
Uwe Schindler
uschindler@...
Apache Lucene Java Committer
Bremen, Germany
http://lucene.apache.org/java/docs/

[ANNOUNCE] Apache Jackrabbit 2.0 beta3 released

2009-11-25T09:24:22Z

The Apache Jackrabbit community is pleased to announce the release of
Apache Jackrabbit 2.0 beta3. The release is available for download at:

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

See the full release notes below for details about this release.

Release Notes -- Apache Jackrabbit -- Version 2.0-beta3

Introduction
------------

This is a beta release of Apache Jackrabbit 2.0. This release is a fully
compliant implementation of the JCR 2.0 API that was specified by the
Java Specification Request 283 (JSR 283, http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=283).
However, the beta status of this release means that some parts of the
implementation are not yet ready for normal production use.

Changes in this release
-----------------------

Jackrabbit 2.0 is a major upgrade from the earlier 1.x releases. The most
notable changes in this release are:

* Upgrade to JCR 2.0. This Jackrabbit release implements and is based
on the official JCR 2.0 API. All of the features required by the
JSR 283 specification have been implemented.

* Upgrade to Java 5. All of Jackrabbit (except the jcr-tests component)
now requires Java 5 as the base platform. Java 1.4 environments are no
longer supported.

* Removal of deprecated classes and features. Jackrabbit 2.0 is not
backwards compatible with client code that used any classes or features
that had been deprecated during the 1.x release cycle.

* Separate JCR Commons components. Many of the general-purpose JCR
components like JCR-RMI and OCM are now developed and released
separately from the Jackrabbit content repository. See the individual
components for their most recent releases.

* Data store feature enabled in the default repository configuration.

* Full text indexing with Apache Tika. Jackrabbit can now extract and
index the full text content of many new types of documents, including
the Office Open XML files produced by Microsoft Office 2007 and higher.

For more detailed information about all the changes in this and other
Jackrabbit releases, please see the Jackrabbit issue tracker at

https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/JCR

Release Contents
----------------

This release consists of a single source archive packaged as a zip file.
The archive can be unpacked with the jar tool from your JDK installation.
See the README.txt file for instructions on how to build this release.

The source archive is accompanied by SHA1 and MD5 checksums and a PGP
signature that you can use to verify the authenticity of your download.
The public key used for the PGP signature can be found at
https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/jackrabbit/dist/KEYS.

About Apache Jackrabbit
-----------------------

Apache Jackrabbit is a fully conforming implementation of the Content
Repository for Java Technology API (JCR). A content repository is a
hierarchical content store with support for structured and unstructured
content, full text search, versioning, transactions, observation, and
more.

For more information, visit http://jackrabbit.apache.org/

About The Apache Software Foundation
------------------------------------

Established in 1999, The Apache Software Foundation provides organizational,
legal, and financial support for more than 100 freely-available,
collaboratively-developed Open Source projects. The pragmatic Apache License
enables individual and commercial users to easily deploy Apache software;
the Foundation's intellectual property framework limits the legal exposure
of its 2,500+ contributors.

For more information, visit http://www.apache.org/

[ANNOUNCE] MyFaces Core v1.2.8 Release

2009-11-24T18:13:16Z

The Apache MyFaces team is pleased to announce the release of MyFaces
Core 1.2.8.

MyFaces Core is a JavaServer(tm) Faces 1.2 implementation as specified
by JSR-252. MyFaces Core has passed Sun's JSR-252 TCK and is 100%
compliant with the JSR-252 specification.

MyFaces Core 1.2.8 is available in both binary and source distributions.

* http://myfaces.apache.org/download.html

MyFaces Core is also available in the central Maven repository under
Group ID "org.apache.myfaces.core".

Release Notes - MyFaces Core - Version 1.2.8

Bug

* [MYFACES-1896] - FacesConfigurator version check incorrect
* [MYFACES-1955] - MyFaces 1.2.4 and WebLogic 10.3- strict servlet
API: cannot call getWriter() after getOutputStream()
* [MYFACES-2216] - MyFaces suppresses runtime exceptions thrown in
ActionListeners
* [MYFACES-2256] - oamSetHiddenInput should not ignore
nodeName=='input' (lower case characters)
* [MYFACES-2289] - Build failure due to missing symbol
FacesContext.setCurrentPhaseId()
* [MYFACES-2338] - MyFaces 1.2 has dependency to JDK 1.6
* [MYFACES-2339] - RenderKitUtils should give better error if
someone uses an incorrect default-render-kit-id
* [MYFACES-2343] - ConverterImplTag always wrap with DelegateConverter
* [MYFACES-2370] - 'invokeOnComponent' method in UIData does not
properly process <h:column> header/footer facets
* [MYFACES-2371] - NullPointerException on
UIComponentClassicTagBase.getViewComponentIds() fixed on branch 2.0.x
but not on branch 1.2.x
* [MYFACES-2380] - DefaultRestoreViewSupport.calculateViewId does
not calculate viewId properly on portlet case
* [MYFACES-2382] - Duplicate id exception when weblogic portal and
jsf native portlet (faces-adapter.jar) is used
* [MYFACES-2383] - If jsf 1.2 methods of ExternalContext are called
with a jsf 1.1 impl, by default it should call default ones
* [MYFACES-2388] - Link to download FILE on a Dialog fails of FF

Improvement

* [MYFACES-2154] - mobile internet explorer version 6.12 issue
* [MYFACES-2335] - Improve the plugin mechanism
* [MYFACES-2373] - Add a way to document event capabilities for
components using myfaces builder plugin
* [MYFACES-2377] - Include global config parameters javadoc on
myfaces-metadata using some myfaces builder plugin annotation
* [MYFACES-2400] - Allow choose directories when building
myfaces-metadata.xml with myfaces-builder-plugin

regards

Leonardo Uribe

[ANNOUNCE] Apache Tika 0.5 Released

2009-11-22T07:53:10Z

(...apologies for the cross posting...)

The Apache Lucene project is pleased to announce the release of Apache Tika
0.5. The release contents have been pushed out to the main Apache release
site and the m2 ibiblio sync, so the releases should be available as soon as
the mirrors get the syncs.

Apache Tika, a subproject of Apache Lucene, is a toolkit for detecting and
extracting metadata and structured text content from various documents using
existing parser libraries.

Apache Tika 0.5 contains a number of improvements and bug fixes. Details can
be found in the changes file:

http://www.apache.org/dist/lucene/tika/CHANGES-0.5.txt

Apache Tika is available in source form from the following download page:
http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/lucene/tika/apache-tika-0.5-src.zip

Apache Tika is also available in binary form or for use using Maven 2 from
the Central Maven Repositories:
http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/org/apache/tika/0.5/
http://mirrors.ibiblio.org/pub/mirrors/maven2/org/apache/tika/0.5/

In the initial 48 hours, the release may not be available on all mirrors.
When downloading from a mirror site, please remember to verify the downloads
using signatures found on the Apache site:
http://www.apache.org/dist/lucene/tika/KEYS-0.5.txt

For more information on Apache Tika, visit the project home page:
http://lucene.apache.org/tika

-- Chris Mattmann (on behalf of the Apache Lucene community)

++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Chris Mattmann, Ph.D.
Senior Computer Scientist
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Pasadena, CA 91109 USA
Office: 171-266B, Mailstop: 171-246
Email: Chris.Mattmann@...
WWW: http://sunset.usc.edu/~mattmann/
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Computer Science Department
University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089 USA
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

[ANN] Apache Mahout 0.2 Released

2009-11-18T05:34:48Z

Apache Mahout 0.2 has been released and is now available for public
download at http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/lucene/mahout

Apache Mahout is a subproject of Apache Lucene with the goal
of delivering scalable machine learning algorithm implementations
under the Apache license. http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
Scale in terms of computation to the

size of data you manage today. Scale in terms of community to support anyone

interested in using machine learning. Scale

in terms of business by providing the library under a commercially
friendly, free software license.

Built on top of the powerful map/reduce paradigm of the Apache Hadoop
project, Mahout's goal is to solve popular machine learning problems
like clustering, collaborative filtering and classification
over extremely large data sets over thousands of computers.

Up to date maven artifacts can be found in the Apache repository at
https://repository.apache.org/content/repositories/releases/org/apache/mahout/

The complete changelist can be found here:
http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MAHOUT/fixforversion/12313278

New Mahout 0.2 features include

- Major performance enhancements in Collaborative Filtering,
Classification and Clustering
- New: Latent Dirichlet Allocation(LDA) implementation for topic
modelling
- New: Frequent Itemset Mining for mining top-k patterns from a list
of transactions
- New: Decision Forests implementation for Decision Tree classification
(In Memory & Partial Data)
- New: HBase storage support for Naive Bayes model building and
classification
- New: Generation of vectors from Text documents for use with Mahout
Algorithms
- Performance improvements in various Vector implementations
- Tons of bug fixes and code cleanup

Getting started: New to Mahout?

1) Download Mahout at http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/lucene/mahout
2) Check out the Quick start:
http://cwiki.apache.org/MAHOUT/quickstart.html

3) Read the Mahout Wiki: http://cwiki.apache.org/MAHOUT
4) Join the community by subscribing to mahout-user@...
5) Give back: http://www.apache.org/foundation/getinvolved.html (optional, but much appreciated!)
6) Consider adding yourself to the power by Wiki page:
http://cwiki.apache.org/MAHOUT/poweredby.html

For more information on Apache Mahout, see
http://lucene.apache.org/mahout

[ANN] Apache Source-Release Assembly Descriptor 1.0.2 Released

2009-11-12T14:48:00Z

The Maven team is pleased to announce the release of Apache
Source-Release Assembly Descriptor, version 1.0.2.

This is a standardized assembly descriptor for use in the
maven-assembly-plugin. Source-release artifacts are archives which
contain the full project structure (sources only, no build output) that
are the subject of an ASF release vote.

The new version of the descriptor fixes the erroneous exclusion of some
file types like IDE files from the source archive even if those files
are located in the src/ directory tree of a project, i.e. denote actual
project sources (e.g. required for unit testing).

http://maven.apache.org/apache-resource-bundles/apache-source-release-assembly-descriptor/

This new descriptor will eventually be incorporated into the Apache
Parent POM. If you want to try out the source-release descriptor in the
meantime, you can include a configuration like the following:

<build>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<artifactId>maven-assembly-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.2-beta-4</version>

<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.apache.apache.resources</groupId>

<artifactId>apache-source-release-assembly-descriptor</artifactId>
<version>1.0.2</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>

<groupId>org.codehaus.plexus</groupId>
<artifactId>plexus-utils</artifactId>
<version>2.0.1</version>
</dependency>
</dependencies>

<executions>
<execution>
<id>source-release</id>
<phase>package</phase>
<goals>
<goal>single</goal>
</goals>
<configuration>
<descriptorRefs>
<descriptorRef>source-release</descriptorRef>
</descriptorRefs>
<tarLongFileMode>gnu</tarLongFileMode>
<runOnlyAtExecutionRoot>true</runOnlyAtExecutionRoot>
</configuration>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</build>

Enjoy,

The Maven Team

[ANNOUNCE] Apache Tuscany/SCA 2.0 M4 released

2009-11-11T05:51:01Z

The Apache Tuscany team are pleased to announce the forth milestone
release of the Tuscany SCA 2.0 project.

Apache Tuscany/SCA provides a runtime environment based on Service
Component Architecture (SCA), which are a set of OASIS specifications
aimed at simplifying SOA application development. The main features of
this forth 2.0 milestone release are new support for the JMS and EJB
specifications, new and improved support for Web clients, improvements
in OSGi support and distributed SCA domains, and lots of updates for
OASIS specification conformance.

See the RELEASE_NOTES and CHANGES file for more details about the
release, and to download the distributions please go to:

http://tuscany.apache.org/sca-java-2x-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://tuscany.apache.org

Thank you for your interest in Apache Tuscany!

[ANNOUNCE] Apache PyLucene 2.9.1

2009-11-10T08:21:55Z

I am pleased to announce the availability of Apache PyLucene 2.9.1.

Apache PyLucene, a subproject of Apache Lucene, is a Python extension for
accessing Java Lucene. Its goal is to allow you to use Lucene's text
indexing and searching capabilities from Python. It is API compatible with
the latest version of Java Lucene, 2.9.1.

This release contains a number of bug fixes and improvements. Details can be
found in the changes files:

http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/lucene/pylucene/tags/pylucene_2_9_1/CHANGES
http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/lucene/pylucene/tags/pylucene_2_9_1/jcc/CHANGES

Apache PyLucene 2.9.1 is available from the following download page:
http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/lucene/pylucene/pylucene-2.9.1-1-src.tar.gz

When downloading from a mirror site, please remember to verify the downloads
using signatures found on the Apache site:
http://www.apache.org/dist/lucene/pylucene/KEYS

For more information on Apache PyLucene, visit the project home page:
http://lucene.apache.org/pylucene

Andi..

[ANN] Solr 1.4.0 Released

2009-11-10T08:01:27Z

Apache Solr 1.4 has been released and is now available for public download!
http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/lucene/solr/

Solr is the popular, blazing fast open source enterprise search
platform from the Apache Lucene project. Its major features include
powerful full-text search, hit highlighting, faceted search, dynamic
clustering, database integration, and rich document (e.g., Word, PDF)
handling. Solr is highly scalable, providing distributed search and
index replication, and it powers the search and navigation features of
many of the world's largest internet sites.

Solr is written in Java and runs as a standalone full-text search server
within a servlet container such as Tomcat. Solr uses the Lucene Java
search library at its core for full-text indexing and search, and has
REST-like HTTP/XML and JSON APIs that make it easy to use from virtually
any programming language. Solr's powerful external configuration allows it to
be tailored to almost any type of application without Java coding, and
it has an extensive plugin architecture when more advanced
customization is required.

New Solr 1.4 features include
- Major performance enhancements in indexing, searching, and faceting
- Revamped all-Java index replication that's simple to configure and
can replicate config files
- Greatly improved database integration via the DataImportHandler
- Rich document processing (Word, PDF, HTML) via Apache Tika
- Dynamic search results clustering via Carrot2
- Multi-select faceting (support for multiple items in a single
category to be selected)
- Many powerful query enhancements, including ranges over arbitrary
functions, and nested queries of different syntaxes
- Many other plugins including Terms for auto-suggest, Statistics,
TermVectors, Deduplication

Getting Started

--------------------

New to Solr? Follow the steps below to get up and running ASAP.

1. Download Solr at http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/lucene/solr/

2. Check out the tutorial at http://lucene.apache.org/solr/tutorial.html

3. Read the Solr wiki (http://wiki.apache.org/solr) to learn more

4. Join the community by subscribing to solr-user@...

5. Give Back (Optional, but encouraged!) See http://wiki.apache.org/solr/HowToContribute

For more information on Apache Solr, see http://lucene.apache.org/solr

[ANNOUNCE] Apache Lucene java 2.9.1 released

2009-11-07T07:19:38Z

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Release 2.9.1 of Apache Lucene java is now available.

This release fixes bugs from 2.9.0, including one serious bug whereby
BooleanQuery could silently fail to retrieve certain matching
documents.

There are also some minor API changes, including a Version parameter
added to QueryParser and contrib Analyzers, so that version dependent
defaults are consistent across classes, as well as un-deprecating of
certain methods (we were too zealous in a few cases!).

Otherwise the changes are all bug fixes and documentation
improvements.

This release is fully compatible with 2.9.0. We strongly recommend
upgrading to 2.9.1 if you are using 2.9.0. Furthermore, because some
additional APIs were deprecated in 2.9.1, to ensure a clean ("JAR drop
in") upgrade to 3.0 you'll need to verify your code compiles against
2.9.1 without deprecation warnings.

See core changes at
http://lucene.apache.org/java/2_9_1/changes/Changes.html and contrib
changes at
http://lucene.apache.org/java/2_9_1/changes/Contrib-Changes.html.

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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[ANNOUNCE] Apache Directory Studio 1.5 released

2009-11-06T13:50:27Z

The Apache Directory Team is pleased to announce the release of Apache

Directory Studio 1.5, a new major update of its Eclipse based LDAP

Browser and Directory client.

You can download Apache Directory Studio 1.5 as a standalone RCP

application for Mac OS X, Linux and Windows here:

http://directory.apache.org/studio/downloads.html

You can install it directly in Eclipse using this update site:

http://directory.apache.org/studio/update/1.x/

Here are a few highlights of this new version:

* LDAP Browser

- GSSAPI Authentication

- Entry Editors (ability to open single/multiple editors using tabular

or LDIF editing mode)

- Speed improvements when deleting and importing entries

- Added UUID value Editor

- Added MS GUID and SID Value Editors

- Added Certificate Value Editor

- Better value modification strategy

- Added Certificate verification for LDAPS and a Certificate Manager

- Improved referral handling

* LDIF Editor

- Opened LDIF editors are now restored between launches

* Apache DS

- Latest version of Apache DS (1.5.5) now bundled

* Apache DS Configuration

- Support for editing server.xml from the latest version of Apache DS

(1.5.5)

* Schema Editor

- Added the ability to get a schema directly from a server

- Added the ability to merge schemas between projects

- Various bug fixes

* RCP

- Eclipse 3.5 Galileo dependencies

* General

- Reordered preference pages (all under a common 'Apache Directory

Studio' root)

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 6 major features:

* an LDAP Browser feature

* an LDIF Editor feature

* an ACI Editor feature for Apache Directory Server

* a Schema Editor feature

* an Apache DS feature

* an Apache DS Configuration feature

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 1.4.0:

* Sub-task

- [DIRSTUDIO-516] - Create a new Entry Editor extension point

- [DIRSTUDIO-517] - Create a new single-window Entry Editor

- [DIRSTUDIO-518] - Create a new multi-window Entry Editor

- [DIRSTUDIO-519] - Create a new LDIF Entry Editor

* Bug

- [DIRSTUDIO-282] - Save failed: null, when adding an attribute to a class, if attribute is also open in gui

- [DIRSTUDIO-331] - Instant error when importing schema in a new schema-project

- [DIRSTUDIO-334] - Built-in help doesn't show icons for "Icons" and "Toolbars" tables in "LDAP Browser View"

- [DIRSTUDIO-370] - Welcome screen subpages mouse-over images displays red crosses

- [DIRSTUDIO-402] - The ManageDsaIT control should be activable for a single request, not at the connection level

- [DIRSTUDIO-403] - Cannot add refs when the ExtensibleObject OC has been added to a referral

- [DIRSTUDIO-409] - No error message in some special case

- [DIRSTUDIO-410] - Referral handling is problematic

- [DIRSTUDIO-418] - Slow LDIF/CSV export

- [DIRSTUDIO-429] - Meaningless error message on importing schema

- [DIRSTUDIO-437] - Alias are not exposed as such in the browser

- [DIRSTUDIO-441] - New ObjectClass and AttributeType wizards always show a warning indicating that the item does not have any name

- [DIRSTUDIO-443] - The warning and error overlay for OCs and ATs sometimes (often) lacks forgets some items

- [DIRSTUDIO-473] - Import OpenLDAP core schema

- [DIRSTUDIO-481] - Improve refreshing of attributes and children

- [DIRSTUDIO-483] - DN Editor escapes all non-ascii characters

- [DIRSTUDIO-484] - Rename dialog does not work with escaped RDNs

- [DIRSTUDIO-486] - Include Version Specifier in LDIF export

- [DIRSTUDIO-488] - New context entry creation is not shown just after connection

- [DIRSTUDIO-489] - LDIF Import very slow

- [DIRSTUDIO-490] - Copy/Paste a search from one connection to another doesn't work

- [DIRSTUDIO-493] - Aliased attributes show only one attribute name in the RDN selection list instead of the full aliases list

- [DIRSTUDIO-495] - Cannot edit password field

- [DIRSTUDIO-497] - LdapSchema plugin 'Save' is erratic

- [DIRSTUDIO-499] - SOCKS proxy settings not used on startup

- [DIRSTUDIO-502] - Copy/Paste the context entry from one connection to another doesn't work

- [DIRSTUDIO-503] - New Entry -> Available object classes list remains stale after new objectclasses added

- [DIRSTUDIO-504] - Timestamp attribute with an invalid time in it is read only - editor ignores entry

- [DIRSTUDIO-506] - Export Schemas for ApacheDS: object classes must be sorted by hierarchy

- [DIRSTUDIO-507] - Attempt to rename the rdn results in message contain {0} and {1}

- [DIRSTUDIO-512] - Deletion of entries very slow

- [DIRSTUDIO-514] - Unable to restore last opened ldif-editors on restart

- [DIRSTUDIO-520] - NPE when saving a 1.5.0 server configuration

- [DIRSTUDIO-524] - Operational attributes are not show, although enabled under preferences

- [DIRSTUDIO-527] - Unable to display Active Directory GUIDs

- [DIRSTUDIO-529] - Unpretty 2-3 pixels height margin at the top of the Browser view

- [DIRSTUDIO-530] - Unpretty 2-3 pixels height margin at the top of the Entry editor

- [DIRSTUDIO-531] - Unpretty 2-3 pixels height margin at the top of the Search Results editor

- [DIRSTUDIO-532] - Refreshing parent of referral may give ConcurrentModificationException

- [DIRSTUDIO-537] - Error in the title of the Properties window of a server in the Apache DS plugin

- [DIRSTUDIO-545] - Widget disposed too early

- [DIRSTUDIO-547] - Editor for Classes userClass saves or reloads incorrect value

- [DIRSTUDIO-549] - subtree userClass editor does not keep full DN for base component upon its selection

- [DIRSTUDIO-550] - Root DSE properties: Directory types IBM Tivoli Directory Server 6.1 and 6.2 not detected correctly

- [DIRSTUDIO-552] - NullPointerException if Root DSE of IBM Tivoli Directory Server displayed in Entry Editor

- [DIRSTUDIO-553] - Add descriptions for server specific OIDs of IBM Tivoli Directory Server 6.1 and 6.2

- [DIRSTUDIO-557] - Edit value and edit entry are not working if DN is invalid

- [DIRSTUDIO-565] - Inconsistent handling of the 'modified schemas' flag

- [DIRSTUDIO-568] - When editing an AT or OC, using the scroll wheel may trigger a combo change

- [DIRSTUDIO-569] - Exceptions showing up in the log when starting a server in the Apache DS plugin

- [DIRSTUDIO-570] - Integer Value Editor does not accept negative numbers

- [DIRSTUDIO-571] - Modification is logged even if referred to another directory server

- [DIRSTUDIO-575] - Bookmarks not working

* Improvement

- [DIRSTUDIO-145] - Multiple tabs for entry editor

- [DIRSTUDIO-263] - Add certificate validation for ldaps and StartTLS

- [DIRSTUDIO-371] - Entries with a ref attribute should be shown N times in the browser (N = number of ref values)

- [DIRSTUDIO-444] - Allow the user to enter the names of an item inline (using ',' as separator) in the OC and AT Editors

- [DIRSTUDIO-485] - Provide default IAuthHandler and IReferralHandler to be used in connections core without connections ui

- [DIRSTUDIO-487] - Empty namingcontexts causes javax.naming.InvalidNameException: Bad DN

- [DIRSTUDIO-496] - Password editor improvements

- [DIRSTUDIO-509] - Load schema from the directory server

- [DIRSTUDIO-513] - Do delete before add when modifying attribute values

- [DIRSTUDIO-521] - Replace the XSLT transformation by the use of the Dom4J OutputFormat class for XML pretty print

- [DIRSTUDIO-533] - Only show referral handling dialog when opening or expanding referral entry

- [DIRSTUDIO-534] - Re-order the preference pages for better understanding

- [DIRSTUDIO-535] - Use SWT.SEARCH and SWT.CANCEL style bits on search text field for a native search field on Mac OS X

- [DIRSTUDIO-541] - Add support for version 1.5.5 of the Apache DS

- [DIRSTUDIO-548] - SubtreeSpecification Editor does not accept empty filter if it's selected

- [DIRSTUDIO-554] - Add option to save tabular entry editor automatically or manually

- [DIRSTUDIO-555] - Human readable descriptions of OIDs in binary attributes preference page

- [DIRSTUDIO-558] - Load special entries (aliases, referrals, subentries) per request, add menu items to browser's context menu

- [DIRSTUDIO-574] - Add 'Cancel' button to "Select copy strategy" (was Abort of copy/paste not possible)

* New Feature

- [DIRSTUDIO-62] - Add GSSAPI authentication - Cannot connect to Active Directory if not using Simple authentication

- [DIRSTUDIO-434] - Add value editor for Active Directory objectGUID and objectSid attributes

- [DIRSTUDIO-462] - Add Export to Open Document Format

- [DIRSTUDIO-494] - Add value editor for certificates (syntax 1.3.6.1.4.1.1466.115.121.1.8)

- [DIRSTUDIO-510] - Add functionality to copy/merge schema elements between schema projects

- [DIRSTUDIO-515] - Add extensibility to Entry Editor

- [DIRSTUDIO-536] - Add support for version 1.5.5 of the Apache DS server.xml configuration file

- [DIRSTUDIO-556] - Add value editor for UUID

- [DIRSTUDIO-562] - Add 'Copy Display Value' action, default copy action should copy displayed value

* Task

- [DIRSTUDIO-479] - Object classes of an entry should always be present

- [DIRSTUDIO-523] - Update Eclipse dependencies to version 3.5 Galileo

- [DIRSTUDIO-525] - Remove support for the Linux PPC distribution

- [DIRSTUDIO-573] - Update bundled Apache DS Schema files to version 1.5.5

* Wish

- [DIRSTUDIO-167] - Show custom icons for various kinds of schema elements while browsing schema data

The Apache Directory Team

[ANNOUNCE] Apache Felix SCR version 1.2.0 Released

2009-11-06T10:47:00Z

The Felix team is pleased to announce the release of Apache Felix
SCR version 1.2.0.

The Apache Felix SCR is an implementation of the OSGi Declarative
Services Specification 1.1 (part of OSGi Compendium Specification R4.2).

http://felix.apache.org/site/apache-felix-service-component-runtime.html

This release is available from
http://felix.apache.org/site/downloads.cgi and Maven:

<dependency>
<groupId>org.apache.felix</groupId>
<artifactId>org.apache.felix.scr</artifactId>
<version>1.2.0</version>
</dependency>

Release Notes:

** Bug
* [FELIX-1162] - Component.getReferences returns null if a component
that has references is not enabled.
* [FELIX-1166] - SCR does not rebind ConfigurationAdmin service in
Sling jcrinstall tests
* [FELIX-1173] - Concurrency Issues while containing bundle is
stopping
* [FELIX-1177] - Components must correctly be disposed off
* [FELIX-1178] - Component may remain deactivated after a reference
has been unregistered and registered again
* [FELIX-1185] - If a static/mandatory reference to a service is
unregistered, the component should be deactivated
synchronously instead of asynchronously
* [FELIX-1195] - NullPointerException in ComponentActivatorTask if
component is destroyed
* [FELIX-1238] - NPE when invoking "scr list" with no components
registered
* [FELIX-1252] - NullPointerException in "scr list" command
* [FELIX-1413] - Newly registered services must not immediately
bound for static references
* [FELIX-1414] - Service ranking is only obeyed on first component
activation
* [FELIX-1416] - Wrong factory configuration behaviour
* [FELIX-1436] - Descriptors with duplicate implementation and/or
service elements are invalid
* [FELIX-1437] - DS 1.1 signatures for activators and bind methods
only available for declaration with new namespace
* [FELIX-1440] - Abort method (binder, activator) method search on
non-accessible suitable methods
* [FELIX-1445] - When a component is deactivated due to the
deactivation of a service to which it staticly 1..1
references, this component is not reactivated when
that service is reregistered.
* [FELIX-1503] - Component Factory instances are not let gone after
dispose
* [FELIX-1504] - ComponentInstance implementation is reused accross
reactivations
* [FELIX-1658] - Deadlocks caused by component activation and
deactivation
* [FELIX-1666] - Missing support for DS 1.1 specified lazy
activation behavior
* [FELIX-1674] - typo in scr and webconsole - "unsatisifed"
* [FELIX-1714] - typo in scr command
* [FELIX-1733] - Disposed components are not removed from the
component registry
* [FELIX-1825] - Configurations of delayed components are not
deactivated if not used any more
* [FELIX-1826] - ComponentException must be thrown if
ComponentFactory.newInstance cannot create a
component instance
* [FELIX-1827] - Check permission before getting or registering
services
* [FELIX-1830] - Support for DS 1.1 character property type name
* [FELIX-1832] - ServiceFactory must not be deactivated if the
instances fails to be created
* [FELIX-1833] - Stopping the Felix SCR bundle may leave traces
behind thus preventing the class loader from being
GC-ed

** Improvement
* [FELIX-1186] - Defer the construction of a log message
* [FELIX-1223] - Replace ManagedService[Factory] by
ConfigurationListener based component configuration
* [FELIX-1239] - AbstractComponentManager.getServiceReference need
not be synchronized
* [FELIX-1313] - Declarative Services bundle should not export
Configuration Admin package
* [FELIX-1314] - Restructure SCR implementation package
* [FELIX-1443] - Unify Method lookup
* [FELIX-1447] - Remove ComponentMetadata parameter from
AbstractComponentManager.log method signature
* [FELIX-1530] - Extend the SCR introspection API to reflect the new
DS 1.1 features
* [FELIX-1686] - Missing activate or deativate methods show up as
Error in LogService
* [FELIX-1735] - Use system property to provide bundle jar file to
integration tests
* [FELIX-1823] - Drop support for Framework API 1.3 (R4.0)

** New Feature
* [FELIX-924] - No component instance if no Configuration
* [FELIX-925] - Extend SCR to allow alternate activate and
deactivate method signatures
* [FELIX-927] - Allow bind and unbind methods to receive the service
properties
* [FELIX-928] - Allow use of wildcards in Service-Component header
* [FELIX-929] - Making name attributes optional
* [FELIX-930] - XML schema namespace change
* [FELIX-1232] - Do not use private configuration properties as
service properties
* [FELIX-1284] - Support for the 'modified' operation (DS in OSGi
4.2 compendium)

** Task
* [FELIX-1711] - Remove OSGi library source from SVN and depend on
official R4.2 libraries

Enjoy!

-The Felix team

Free Live Video Streaming of ApacheCon US 2009 Keynotes, and Hadoop, HTTPD and Lucene Sessions

2009-11-03T16:58:39Z

Join us at ApacheCon US 2009 in Oakland, California. You can still
register today, or attend the MeetUps free of charge.

http://www.us.apachecon.com/

If you can't make it to Oakland, don't miss the FREE live video
streams. On Wednesday, the Apache Hadoop track will be streamed live.
On Thursday, it's httpd.conf, the track for Apache HTTPD administrators
and users. And on Friday, check out the Apache Lucene track. You'll
also be able to watch the Apache Pioneer's Panel, and keynote
presentations by Kirrily Robert and Brian Behlendorf.

Session Schedule (all times are in UTC)

Wednesday, 04 November 2009: Hadoop Track

17:00 Opening Plenary & State of the Feather
William A. Rowe, Jr. & Jim Jagielski

17:30 Apache Pioneer's Panel
Moderated by Brian Behlendorf

19:00 Introduction to Apache Hadoop
Owen O'Malley

19:30 2009 State of the Elephant
Christophe Bisciglia

21:30 Becoming a Pig Developer
Alan Gates

22:30 Apache Hadoop in the Cloud
Tom White

00:00 Practical HBase
Michael Stack

01:00 Apache Hive: SQL and Data warehousing on Apache Hadoop
Ashish Thusoo

Thursday, 05 November 2009: HTTP Track

17:00 Munging URLs with mod_rewrite
Rich Bowen

18:00 Hardening Enterprise Apache Installations Against Attacks
Sander Temme

19:30 Keynote: Standing Out in the Crowd
Kirrily Robert

22:00 Scalable Internet Architectures
Theo Schlossnagle

00:30 Recent Developments in SSL and Browsers
Rick Andrews

01:30 Lightning Talks!

Friday, 06 November 2009: Lucene Track

17:00 Implementing an Information Retrieval Framework for an
Organizational Repository, Sithu D Sudarsan

18:00 Apache Mahout - Going from raw data to information
Isabel Drost

19:15 MIME Magic with Apache Tika
Jukka Zitting

20:15 Keynote: How Open Source Developers Can (Still!) Save The World
Brian Behlendorf

22:00 Building Intelligent Search Applications with the Lucene
Ecosystem, Ted Dunning

23:00 Realtime Search
Jason Rutherglen

Use http://www.timeanddate.com/ to convert UTC to your local time zone.

Best regards
--
Lars Eilebrecht - ApacheCon US 2009 Team
lars@... - http://www.apachecon.com/

Apache Asia Roadshow 2009 (Colombo) - Call For Presentations

2009-10-30T10:33:22Z

The Apache Software Foundation together with Sri Lankan FOSS
community invites you to submit a proposal for a presentation at
APACHE ASIA ROADSHOW 2009. If you are a community member of any Apache
projects or If you have worked with Apache projects or have a
revolutionary idea on the use of an Apache project, then we would like
to hear from you!

Please use the following link for submissions
http://www.foss.lk/events/apacheasia09/cfp and the due date for
submission is November 8th. APACHE ASIA ROADSHOW 2009 (Colombo) will
be held in Colombo, Sri Lanka from December 3rd to 5th, 2009.

Apache Asia Roadshow 2009 Team
http://www.foss.lk/events/apacheasia09

[ANNOUNCE] Apache Jackrabbit 2.0 beta1 released

2009-10-30T09:04:50Z

The Apache Jackrabbit community is pleased to announce the release of
Apache Jackrabbit 2.0 beta1. The release is available for download at:

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

See the full release notes below for details about this release.

Release Notes -- Apache Jackrabbit -- Version 2.0-beta1

Introduction
------------

This is a beta release of Apache Jackrabbit 2.0. This release is a fully
compliant implementation of the JCR 2.0 API that was specified by the
Java Specification Request 283 (JSR 283, http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=283).
However, the beta status of this release means that some parts of the
implementation are not yet ready for normal production use.

Changes in this release
-----------------------

Jackrabbit 2.0 is a major upgrade from the earlier 1.x releases. The most
notable changes in this release are:

* Upgrade to JCR 2.0. This Jackrabbit release implements and is based
on the official JCR 2.0 API. All of the features required by the JSR 283
specification have been implemented.

* Upgrade to Java 5. All of Jackrabbit (except the jcr-tests component)
now requires Java 5 as the base platform. Java 1.4 environments are no
longer supported.

* Removal of deprecated classes and features. Jackrabbit 2.0 is not
backwards compatible with client code that used any classes or features
that had been deprecated during the 1.x release cycle.

* Separate JCR Commons components. Many of the general-purpose JCR
components like JCR-RMI and OCM are now developed and released
separately from the Jackrabbit content repository. See the individual
components for their most recent releases.

* Data store feature enabled in the default repository configuration.

* Full text indexing with Apache Tika. Jackrabbit can now extract and
index the full text content of many new types of documents, including
the Office Open XML files produced by Microsoft Office 2007 and higher.

For more detailed information about all the changes in this and other
Jackrabbit releases, please see the Jackrabbit issue tracker at

https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/JCR

Release Contents
----------------

This release consists of a single source archive packaged as a zip file.
The archive can be unpacked with the jar tool from your JDK installation.
See the README.txt file for instructions on how to build this release.

The source archive is accompanied by SHA1 and MD5 checksums and a PGP
signature that you can use to verify the authenticity of your download.
The public key used for the PGP signature can be found at
https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/jackrabbit/dist/KEYS.

About Apache Jackrabbit
-----------------------

Apache Jackrabbit is a fully conforming implementation of the Content
Repository for Java Technology API (JCR). A content repository is a
hierarchical content store with support for structured and unstructured
content, full text search, versioning, transactions, observation, and
more.

For more information, visit http://jackrabbit.apache.org/

About The Apache Software Foundation
------------------------------------

Established in 1999, The Apache Software Foundation provides organizational,
legal, and financial support for more than 100 freely-available,
collaboratively-developed Open Source projects. The pragmatic Apache License
enables individual and commercial users to easily deploy Apache software;
the Foundation's intellectual property framework limits the legal exposure
of its 2,500+ contributors.

For more information, visit http://www.apache.org/

[ANN] Apache Source-Release Assembly Descriptor 1.0.1 Released

2009-10-29T05:50:28Z

The Maven team is pleased to announce the release of Apache
Source-Release Assembly Descriptor, version 1.0.1.

This is a standardized assembly descriptor for use in the
maven-assembly-plugin. Source-release artifacts are archives which
contain the full project structure (sources only, no build output) that
are the subject of an ASF release vote.

The new version of the descriptor fixes the erroneous inclusion of some
build output in the source archive. Please see
http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MASSEMBLY-446 for more details on the issue.

http://maven.apache.org/apache-resource-bundles/apache-source-release-assembly-descriptor/

This assembly descriptor should be coming to a parent POM near you, and
should eventually be an automatic part of every ASF release. For now, it
has been configured into the release process for Maven projects that
inherit from maven-parent version 14 (also recently released). If you
want to try out the source-release descriptor in the meantime, you can
include a configuration like the following:

<build>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<artifactId>maven-assembly-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.2-beta-4</version>

<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.apache.apache.resources</groupId>

<artifactId>apache-source-release-assembly-descriptor</artifactId>
<version>1.0.1</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>

<groupId>org.codehaus.plexus</groupId>
<artifactId>plexus-utils</artifactId>
<version>2.0.1</version>
</dependency>
</dependencies>

<executions>
<execution>
<id>source-release</id>
<phase>package</phase>
<goals>
<goal>single</goal>
</goals>
<configuration>
<descriptorRefs>
<descriptorRef>source-release</descriptorRef>
</descriptorRefs>
<tarLongFileMode>gnu</tarLongFileMode>
<runOnlyAtExecutionRoot>true</runOnlyAtExecutionRoot>
</configuration>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</build>

Enjoy,

The Maven Team

[ANNOUNCE] Commons BeanUtils 1.8.1 released

2009-10-21T02:09:55Z

The Commons team is pleased to announce the release of Commons BeanUtils
1.8.1.

This release contains a number of bug fixes for the 1.8.0 release - full
details of which can be found in the release notes:

http://commons.apache.org/beanutils/v1.8.1/RELEASE-NOTES.txt

For information on Commons BeanUtils please visit the BeanUtils website:

http://commons.apache.org/beanutils/

BeanUtils can be downloaded from the following page:

http://commons.apache.org/beanutils/download_beanutils.cgi

Niall
on behalf of the Commons community

Apache MINA 2.0.0-RC1 released

2009-10-20T05:56:21Z

The Apache MINA project is pleased to announce the first Release
Candidate (RC1) of MINA 2.0.0

The main remaining bugs was fixed. The aim is to produce a final 2.0.0
release base on RC feed back.

The ChangeLog can be found here :
https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/IssueNavigator.jspa?reset=true&pid=10670&fixfor=12313865

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

The Apache MINA PMC

[ANNOUNCE] Apache CouchDB 0.10. has been released

2009-10-13T05:46:33Z

Hello,

Apache CouchDB 0.10.0 has been released and is available for download:

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

This is the first beta release of CouchDB, so well done everyone to
who made that possible!

Changes in this release:

• Added modular configuration file directories.
• Miscellaneous improvements to build, system integration, and
portability.

This release contains backwards incompatible changes:

http://wiki.apache.org/couchdb/Breaking_changes

CouchDB is a document-oriented database that can be queried and
indexed in a MapReduce fashion using JavaScript. CouchDB also offers
incremental replication with bi-directional conflict detection and
resolution.

CouchDB provides a RESTful JSON API than can be accessed from any
environment that allows HTTP requests. There are myriad third-party
client libraries that make this even easier from your programming
language of choice. CouchDB’s built in Web administration console
speaks directly to the database using HTTP requests issued from your
browser.

CouchDB is written in Erlang, a robust functional programming language
ideal for building concurrent distributed systems. Erlang allows for a
flexible design that is easily scalable and readily extensible.

Relax and prosper,

Noah

[ANNOUNCE] Taglibs moves to Tomcat

2009-10-10T14:20:18Z

The Jakarta Taglibs project has been retired. The majority of the taglibs
themselves have been, or already were, retired, whilst three of them
have been moved over to the Apache Tomcat project where they will
go by the name of Apache Taglibs. These three taglibs are:

* RDC Taglib - Reusable Dialog Components (used in voice applications)
* Standard Taglib - Apache's implementation of the JSTL specifications
1.0, 1.1 and the unreleased 1.2.
* an in development Extended Taglib that is intended to add tags and
functions 'missing' from JSTL.

The User list has been maintained and moved over to the
tomcat.apache.org domain name, while the main Tomcat development
list will be used for contributor discussions.

For the list of Taglibs that have been retired, please see:

http://jakarta.apache.org/site/retired-taglibs.html

For the continuing development at Tomcat, please see:

http://tomcat.apache.org/taglibs/

Thank you,

Henri Yandell
on behalf of the Jakarta PMC

[ANNOUNCE] Apache Buildr 1.3.5 Released

2009-10-10T07:23:23Z

Apache Buildr is a build system for Java-based applications, including support
for Scala, Groovy and a growing number of JVM languages and tools. We wanted
something that's simple and intuitive to use, so we only need to tell it what
to do, and it takes care of the rest. But also something we can easily extend
for those one-off tasks, with a language that's a joy to use.

New in Buildr 1.3.5:
* Added: Interactive shell (REPL) support
* Added: BeanShell as default shell for java projects, bsh is small and it's
syntax provides the closest to an interpreted java. The BeanShell
console includes a graphical class browser. Shell is named :bsh
* Added: Mandriva (urpmi) installation support (with help from Franck Villaume).
* Added: BUILDR-56 Download Scala artifacts if not available locally
* Added: BUILDR-163 cobertura:check (Marko Sibakov, Daniel Spiewak).
* Added: BUILDR-295 Eclipse task: make 'M2_REPO' repository variable configurable
* Added: BUILDR-300 Make Eclipse task more configurable (Antoine Toulme, Alex Boisvert)
* Change: Upgraded to rubyforge-1.0.5 and net-ssh 2.0.15
* Change: Monkey-Patched FileUtils::sh on JRuby to use POSIX `system`
* Change: Updated to Rake 0.8.7, RSpec 1.2.8 and JRuby-openssl 0.5.2.
* Change: Updated to easyb 0.9 (Joel Muzzerall)
* Change: Updated to TestNG 5.10
* Change: Updated to JRuby 1.3.1
* Fixed: BUILDR-23 Support for setting file mode when packaging (Ittay Dror).
* Fixed: BUILDR-278 tasks/*.rake files are loaded after the buildfile (Rhett Sutphin)
* Fixed: BUILDR-282 release goal should not strip leading '0' digits from version numbers.
* Fixed: BUILDR-289 Improved error message when JAVA_HOME points to an invalid JRE/JDK installation
* Fixed: BUILDR-290 Dependencies cannot be downloaded over SSL.
* Fixed: BUILDR-291 Local tasks do not support arguments (Ittay Dror).
* Fixed: BUILDR-292 Workaround for JRUBY-3381 on FileUtils.mv
* Fixed: BUILDR-301 TestNG doesn't report failure if more than one test fails
* Fixed: BUILDR-307 Failures are not reported correctly for ScalaTest (Jeremie Lenfant-Engelmann)
* Fixed: BUILDR-313 Prevent release with uncommitted_files on Git 1.4.3+ (Alexis Midon)
* Fixed: BUILDR-315 Fix Eclipse .classpath for local libraries (Mat Schaffer)
* Fixed: BUILDR-304 Referencing an existing package task using the package
method fails if the package has a custom filename (Rhett Sutphin)
* Fixed: BUILDR-322 When specifying files (instead of directories) as sources for compile task,
Buildr uses target directory timestamp only (not compiled output timestamp)
* Fixed: BUILDR-324: Regression - baseDir system property is not set when executing tests [Alexis Midon]
* Fixed: BUILDR-325: Overriding package spec with classifer doesn't work (Antoine Toulme)

[ANNOUNCE] Jakarta BSF 3.0 released

2009-10-09T04:12:48Z

The Apache Jakarta BSF team announces the release of BSF 3.0.

Apache Jakarta BSF 3 is an open-source implementation of JSR-223,
"Scripting for the Java Platform".

[BSF3 was developed according to the JSR-223 specs, but has not yet
been tested using the JSR-223 TCK.]

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

This is a bug-fix release to correct a problem that was
discovered with 3.0-beta3:
* BSF-35 Wrong parameter type for [Simple]Bindings.put - key must be a
String, not an Object
The release also includes an updated test application.

This version of BSF requires Java 1.4 or later.

The release can be downloaded from:

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

When downloading, please verify signatures using the KEYS file.

All users running earlier versions of 3.0 are recommended to upgrade.

Note that BSF 3.0 is not compatible with BSF 2.4, which uses a different API.

Enjoy!
The BSF team

[ANNOUNCE] Apache Tuscany SCA Java 1.5.1 released

2009-10-08T00:44:55Z

The Apache Tuscany team are pleased to announce the 1.5.1 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 1.5.1 release is a maintenance release over the previous releases
and includes numerous bug fixes and enhancements, see the
RELEASE_NOTES and CHANGES file for details, and to download the
distributions please go to:

http://tuscany.apache.org/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://tuscany.apache.org

Thank you for your interest in Apache Tuscany!

[ANN] Maven Repository Plugin 2.3 Released

2009-10-06T11:48:06Z

The Maven team is pleased to announce the release of the Maven
Repository Plugin, version 2.3

This plugin assists the user in creating archived bundles that are
designed to meet all requirements for upload to the central Maven
repository.

http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-repository-plugin/

You should specify the version in your project's plugin configuration:

<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-repository-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.3</version>
</plugin>

Release Notes - Maven 2.x Repository Plugin - Version 2.3

** Improvement
* [MREPOSITORY-19] - Require SCM information to help tooling for
project materialization from the repository

Enjoy,

-The Maven team

[ANN] Maven Resources Plugin 2.4.1 Released

2009-10-06T11:48:01Z

The Maven team is pleased to announce the release of the Maven Resources
Plugin, version 2.4.1

This plugin filters non-Java resource files, replacing expressions with
values from the POM or any of the filtering properties files you choose
to configure.

http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-resources-plugin/

You should specify the version in your project's plugin configuration:

<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-resources-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.4.1</version>
</plugin>

Release Notes - Maven 2.x Resources Plugin - Version 2.4.1

** Bug
* [MRESOURCES-105] - Custom Delimiters does not work as expected -
NPE with ${*} and comments in property file does break replacement
* [MRESOURCES-106] - Plugin does not respect escapeWindowsPaths
default-value

Enjoy,

-The Maven team

Apache HTTP Server 2.2.14 Released

2009-10-05T15:05:15Z

Apache HTTP Server 2.2.14 Released

The Apache Software Foundation and the Apache HTTP Server Project are
pleased to announce the release of version 2.2.14 of the Apache HTTP
Server ("Apache"). This version of Apache is principally a security
and bug fix release. Notably, this version bundles the APR Library
version 1.3.9, which addresses a security concern with the Prefork
and Event MPMs on Solaris 10.

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

Apache HTTP Server 2.2.14 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_2.2.14 provides the
complete list of changes since 2.2.14. A summary of security
vulnerabilities which were addressed in the previous 2.2.13 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 1.3.9
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 security and
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.

[ANN] Apache Felix Web Console version 2.0.0 Released

2009-10-01T05:54:01Z

The Felix team is pleased to announce the release of Apache Felix
Web Console version 2.0.0.

The Apache Felix Web Console is a Web Based Management Console for OSGi
Frameworks. See http://felix.apache.org/apache-felix-web-console.html
for more information on the Apache Felix Web Console.

The major theme of this release is support for branding (FELIX-1015).
Another important aspect is that plugins do not need to extend from
AbstractWebConsolePlugin anymore to have the common header and footer
rendered (FELIX-1013).

This release is available from
http://felix.apache.org/site/downloads.cgi and Maven:

<dependency>
<groupId>org.apache.felix</groupId>
<artifactId>org.apache.felix.webconsole</artifactId>
<version>2.0.0</version>
</dependency>

Release Notes:

** Bug
* [FELIX-1160] - WebConsole Manifest.MF should specify required
version for Servlet API (2.4)
* [FELIX-1164] - Updating a configuration containing a property
configured with unbound array size
* [FELIX-1224] - Component display depends on
ManagedService[Factory] instances to be registered
for components
* [FELIX-1230] - Configuration Page depends on
ManagedService[Factory] instances to be registered
for components
* [FELIX-1270] - Displaying the bundle detail view resolves a bundle
* [FELIX-1275] - On the Bundles page, when bundle details are
displayed inline, the links to imported and
importing bundles are invalid.
* [FELIX-1389] - Main div is not closed
* [FELIX-1415] - "Reload" button in webconsole bundles list doesn't
work
* [FELIX-1460] - Can't view installed but unresolved bundle details
page
* [FELIX-1622] - NullPointerException
* [FELIX-1623] - Configuration status tabs not correctly rendered in
FireFox 3.5
* [FELIX-1630] - Make WebConsole more independent
* [FELIX-1632] - Remove reference to KXml from NOTICE and LICENSE
and update OSGi copyright years
* [FELIX-1636] - Html footer and header are always added to the
response for a servlet plugin

** Improvement
* [FELIX-1171] - Enhance Configuration Status Page
* [FELIX-1191] - Add logging to OBR support plugin
* [FELIX-1215] - Provide hyperlinks when referring to bundles
* [FELIX-1217] - Move install/update to separate page
* [FELIX-1221] - Display the alias ID created by Karaf Features when
showing service details
* [FELIX-1282] - Cleanup bundle: do not export SCR API, only embedd
header parser
* [FELIX-1283] - Order page titles in top navigation ignoring case
* [FELIX-1569] - Remove deprecated Render interface
* [FELIX-1637] - Support additional CSS references provided by
plugins

** New Feature
* [FELIX-1644] - Reintroduce button to update a single bundle
* [FELIX-1013] - Improve console extensibility
* [FELIX-1607] - Enhance the Web Console Event Plugin
* [FELIX-1014] - Hardcoded list of webconsole plugins in OSGiManager
* [FELIX-1015] - Hardcoded HTML Header/Footer in
AbstractWebConsolePlugin
* [FELIX-1043] - Support WebConsole plugins without requiring
extending the AbstractWebConsolePlugin
* [FELIX-1211] - How to provide resources like CSS or JavaScript
files for plugins
* [FELIX-1281] - Provide official constants of web console request
attributes
* [FELIX-1599] - Validate TabWorld license

Enjoy!

-The Felix team

[ANNOUNCE] Apache Felix Karaf 1.0.0

2009-09-29T04:25:44Z

The Felix team is pleased to announce the release of Felix Karaf version 1.0.0

This release along with the associated release notes and change log
are available from
http://felix.apache.org/site/karaf-100.html

Apache Felix Karaf is a small OSGi based runtime which provides a
lightweight container onto which various components and applications
can be deployed.
Karaf features:
* Hot deployment: Karaf supports hot deployment of OSGi bundles
by monitoring jar files inside the [home]/deploy directory. Each time
a jar is copied in this folder, it will be installed inside the
runtime. You can then update or delete it and changes will be handled
automatically. In addition, the Karaf also supports exploded bundles
and custom deployers (blueprint and spring ones are included by
default).
* Dynamic configuration: Services are usually configured through
the ConfigurationAdmin OSGi service. Such configuration can be defined
in Karaf using property files inside the [home]/etc directory. These
configurations are monitored and changes on the properties files will
be propagated to the services.
* Logging System: using a centralized logging back end supported
by Log4J, Karaf supports a number of different APIs (JDK 1.4, JCL,
SLF4J, Avalon, Tomcat, OSGi)
* Provisioning: Provisioning of libraries or applications can be
done through a number of different ways, by which they will be
downloaded locally, installed and started.
* Native OS integration: Karaf can be integrated into your own
Operating System as a service so that the lifecycle will be bound to
your Operating System.
* Extensible Shell console: Karaf features a nice text console
where you can manage the services, install new applications or
libraries and manage their state. This shell is easily extensible by
deploying new commands dynamically along with new features or
applications.
* Remote access: use any SSH client to connect to Karaf and issue
commands in the console
* Security framework based on JAAS
* Managing instances: Karaf provides simple commands for managing
multiple instances. You can easily create, delete, start and stop
instances of Karaf through the console.
* Supports the latest OSGi 4.2 containers: Apache Felix Framework
2.0.0 and Eclipse Equinox 3.5

Enjoy!

-The Felix team

[ANNOUNCE] Apache POI 3.5 Released

2009-09-28T22:33:24Z

The Apache POI team is pleased to announce the availability of POI 3.5.

Apache POI is well-known in the Java field as a library for reading and
writing Microsoft Office file formats, such as Excel, PowerPoint, Visio and
Word. With POI 3.5, it supports the new OOXML (Office Open XML) formats
introduced in Office 2007. See http://poi.apache.org/ for more details

Release Highlights:

POI-SS - Java API To Access Microsoft Excel Format Files
* This common interface allows access to HSSF (binary file format,
.xls) and XSSF (ooxml file format, .xlsx) in the same way

POI-XSSF - Java API To Access Microsoft Excel 2007 OOXML Format Files
* full implementation of high level POI-SS interface
* text and embedded data extraction supported
* low level, low memory parsing supported
* full support for formula evaluation

POI-XWPF - Java API To Access Microsoft Word 2007 OOXML File Formats
* text and embedded data extraction supported
* partial implementation of high level usermodel API
* partial support for custom XML mappings

POI-XSLF - Java API To Access Microsoft PowerPoint 2007 OOXML Format Files
* text and embedded data extraction supported

In addition, POI 3.5 includes many new features, bug fixes and optimizations over POI 3.2.
You can find the full list of changes here: 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 "3.5-FINAL".

For the Apache POI Team
Yegor Kozlov

[ANN] Apache Empire-db 2.0.5 released

2009-09-28T00:21:58Z

The Empire-db team is pleased to announce the release of Apache Empire-db
version 2.0.5.

Apache Empire-db is a lightweight data access and persistence component for
relational databases based on JDBC.
http://incubator.apache.org/empire-db/

The most important improvement over our previous 2.0.4 release is the shift
to Maven project management.
Hence Empire-db is now available from the Maven repository using the
following group and artifact ids:
groupId: org.apache.empire-db
artifacts: empire-db, empire-db-struts2
version: 2.0.5-incubating

Further improvements include:
- New database handlers for Apache Derby, H2, PostgreSQL
- New Examples showing WebService integration using Apache CXF
- Struts2 extensions upgraded to work with Struts 2.1.6.

To download Apache Empire-db 2.0.5. please visit our download page on:
http://incubator.apache.org/empire-db/downloads/latest.htm

The following list provides a complete list of issues resolved in this
release:

The issues are categorized as follows:
[{C=Core}|{S=Struts Extensions}|{E=Examples}|{O=Other}
/{N=New Feature}|{B=Bug fix}|{I=Improvement}]

Issues resolved:
EMPIREDB-49 - [C/B]: The generation of table, view and query aliases now
uses thread-safe counters
EMPIREDB-46 - [C/B]: datetime-phrase issue in DBDatabaseDriverDerby
EMPIREDB-45 - [S/I]: Update struts extentions to accomodate latest struts
release
EMPIREDB-44 - [C/B]: error using apache derby and CLOB datatype
EMPIREDB-42 - [C/I]: Extend DBReader to provide query results in a hash set

EMPIREDB-41 - [C/I]: Deal with databases differences regarding SQL reverse
function
EMPIREDB-40 - [C/B]: Postgresql cast problem
EMPIREDB-37 - [C/N]: PostgreSQL "BLOB" type not exist but is possible to
create a "bytea" column
EMPIREDB-36 - [E/N]: New WebServices integration example using Apache CXF
EMPIREDB-34 - [C/I]: Add support for stmt.executeUpdate with
Statement.RETURN_GENERATED_KEYS instead of getPostInsertAutoIncValue()
EMPIREDB-33 - [S/B]: BeanRecordProxy isFieldReadOnly wrong for new records
EMPIREDB-32 - [C/N]: Unit tests
EMPIREDB-31 - [E/B]: Advanced sample throws SQLException (wrong db user)
EMPIREDB-30 - [C/N]: Support for PostgeSQL
EMPIREDB-29 - [O/N]: Switch to Maven project management
EMPIREDB-28 - [E/B]: SampleConfig in the demo application has invalid user
EMPIREDB-27 - [C/B]: HSQLDB driver doesn't support conversion of value to
DOUBLE
EMPIREDB-26 - [S/I]: Extend HTMLTagDictionary to allow default cssClass for
all input types
EMPIREDB-25 - [C/I]: Implement getAttribute and setAttribute on BeanProperty
class
EMPIREDB-24 - [S/I]: Allow textarea to handle keypress and keyup events in
order to check the maximum length of input
EMPIREDB-23 - [C/B]: Maximum size is not passed to error message handler for
DBErrors.FieldValueTooLong in DBTableColumn::checkValue
EMPIREDB-22 - [C/B]: deleteReferenceRecords() does not sort the depending
records by id
EMPIREDB-21 - [S/I]: Allow empty record item parameter: The function
getRecordKeyFromString should return null if the item string consists of the
new item flag only.
EMPIREDB-20 - [C/B]: Convert to char doesn't work for hsqldb
EMPIREDB-19 - [S/B]: The form tag's "target" attribute is not rendered in
HTML code
EMPIREDB-18 - [C/B]: DBRecord.setModified(column, isModified) doesn't set
the record state back from modified to valid
EMPIREDB-17 - [S/B]: Checked attribute does not work on radio button tag.
EMPIREDB-16 - [S/I]: Tag library definition does not allow java expressions
for the cssClass attribute
EMPIREDB-15 - [C/B]: Record fields are not cleared properly by createRecord.

EMPIREDB-14 - [S/I]: Allow javascript code on anchors

For further information about issues see
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/EMPIREDB

[ANN] Apache Empire-db 2.0.5 released

2009-09-28T00:15:02Z

[ANNOUNCE] Apache PhotArk M1-incubating released

2009-09-27T15:19:03Z

The Apache PhotArk team is pleased to announce the release of Apache
PhotArk M1-incubating.

Apache PhotArk will be a complete open source photo gallery
application including a content repository for the images, a display
piece, an access control layer, and upload capabilities. The idea is
to have a rigid design for the content repository with a very flexible
display piece. The images in the content repository will be protected
with granular access control.

PhotArk gallery currently allows you define a set of albums hosted
locally, and also allows you to aggregate external albums exposed as
feeds (e.g from Flickr or Picassa web) and provides a default web UI
for album navigation.

For full details about the release and to download the distributions
please go to:

http://incubator.apache.org/photark/downloads.html

Apache PhotArk 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 PhotArk visit the website at:

http://incubator.apache.org/photark/

Thank you for your interest in Apache PhotArk!

The Apache PhotArk Team.

--
Luciano Resende
http://people.apache.org/~lresende
http://lresende.blogspot.com/

Raise a Glass to Apache: Join us in celebrating the ASF's 10th Anniversary

2009-09-25T20:53:23Z

As you know, the ASF turned 10 this year — our celebrations kicked off with cake at ApacheCon Europe this past March. We were thrilled to receive birthday wishes from so many members from the Apache community from across the world.

Our festivities will continue at ApacheCon US (Oakland, California), where we will be holding the Big Feather Birthday Bash and related community events during the conference. We anticipate seeing many of you there!

Some of you are unable to join us in person, but we don't want you to miss out on the fun. As such, we're inviting our global community to "Raise a Glass to Apache" and celebrate this landmark event at your own local gathering. Recognizing Apache developers and users as part of the ASF's 10th Anniversary is very important to us. We want you to join the fun, meet other Apache enthusiasts, make new friends, put faces to the names behind those emails, and, of course, engage in all things Apache.

We understand that communities have their own local culture and preferences: you are welcome to host the type of event best suited to your needs. Preferably, this will take place during the week of ApacheCon (2-6 November, 2009; the Big Feather Birthday Bash is on Wednesday, 4 November) — your event can be held on any day of that week, at any time of the day or night that is most convenient for you. Events include but are not limited to:

- Social Gatherings – getting together over coffee, lunch, drinks, or dinner
- Tech Talks – individual or industry presentations given about ASF projects and actvities
- Product Demos – showcasing how Apache technologies are powering creative and robust solutions
- Hackathon – collaborating on Apache code bases with ASF Committers
- MeetUps or GetTogethers – featuring talks or presentations on a specific Apache Project or activity
- Networking and Job Match – connecting developers with users, employers with potential hires, clients with contractors/consultants, etc.

Can't wait until ApacheCon? That's OK: we're always up for a celebration, so feel free to get started as soon as you'd like — you can Raise a Glass to Apache at an upcoming conference such as the OpenWorld Forum (Paris), SpringOne 2GX (New Orleans), CPOSC 2009 (Harrisburg, PA), FOSS4G 2009 (Sydney), NLUUG Open Web (Amsterdam), UTOSC 2009 (Sandy, UT), and OSMC 2009 (Nürnberg), among others.

So let's get started! There are three steps to make your event happen:

Step 1: Organize. Decide who will be the host(s)/main point(s) of contact, where the event will be held, the day and time, the format, and any costs.

Step 2: Publicize. Spread the word to your coworkers, the press, and your friends. Post details on your event on blogs, mailing lists, event listings, etc. Drive enthusiasm by discussing the event details to the media and on podcasts. Ask people who will be there to invite other groups who may be interested.

Step 3: Apprise. Share your goodwill with the Apache community. Wish the ASF a happy anniversary on the Foundation blog; post photos of your event online; and submit a "MyApache" video tribute (can be one or more of the following -- 1-2 minutes describing why you love Apache; 1-2 minutes of your group Raising a Glass to Apache/singing Happy Birthday; 2-5 minutes describing the cool ways you use ASF technologies ... be sure to mention which Apache projects you use as well as your results.)

The important thing is to have fun! Get inspired by checking out the ASF's YouTube channel at http://www.youtube.com/user/TheApacheFoundation. "MyApache" submissions received by 2 October (midnight US Pacific time/GMT-8) will receive priority consideration to be featured in the ASF's ApacheWay channel and at the Big Feather Birthday Bash!

A schedule of all confirmed events will be posted on the ApacheCon site. To be included in the list, please send a copy of your invitation (including the date, time, and location) to sk@.... I will send you information on how to add your event in the ApacheCon network, how to submit your "MyApache" tributes, as well as suggestions on how to organize and publicize your event.

Feel free to contact me if you have any questions. We look forward to hearing from you!

- Sally

The Release of Lucene 2.9

2009-09-25T09:15:57Z

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Hello Lucene users,

On behalf of the Lucene dev community (a growing community far larger
than just the committers) I would like to announce the release of
Lucene 2.9.

While we generally try and maintain full backwards compatibility
between major versions, Lucene 2.9 has a variety of breaks that are
spelled out in the 'Changes in backwards compatibility policy' section
of CHANGES.txt.

We recommend that you recompile your application with Lucene 2.9
rather than attempting to “drop” it in. This will alert you to any
issues you may have to fix if you are affected by one of the backward
compatibility breaks. As always, its a really good idea to thoroughly
read CHANGES.txt before upgrading.

Lucene 2.9 comes with a bevy of new features, including:

* Per segment searching and caching (can lead to much faster reopen
among other things)

* Near real-time search capabilities added to IndexWriter

* New Query types

* Smarter, more scalable multi-term queries (wildcard, range, etc)

* A freshly optimized Collector/Scorer API

* Improved Unicode support and the addition of Collation contrib

* A new Attribute based TokenStream API

* A new QueryParser framework in contrib with a core QueryParser
replacement impl included.

* Scoring is now optional when sorting by Field, or using a custom
Collector, gaining sizable performance when scores are not
required.

* New analyzers (PersianAnalyzer, ArabicAnalyzer,
SmartChineseAnalyzer)

* New fast-vector-highlighter for large documents

* Lucene now includes high-performance handling of numeric fields.
Such fields are indexed with a trie structure, enabling simple to
use and much faster numeric range searching without having to
externally pre-process numeric values into textual values.

---

And many, many more features, bug fixes, optimizations, and various
improvements. You can find the full list of changes here:

http://lucene.apache.org/java/2_9_0/changes/Changes.html

Many changes have also occurred in Lucene's Contrib area:

http://lucene.apache.org/java/2_9_0/changes/Contrib-Changes.html

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/

The Next Release:

The next release will be Lucene 3.0. This should come along shortly,
and will
remove all of the deprecated code in Lucene 2.9. Lucene 3.0 will also
be the
first release to move from Java 1.4 to Java 1.5 as a requirement.

Thanks,

Mark Miller
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Apache Portable Runtime 1.3.9 Released

2009-09-24T17:36:14Z

Apache Portable Runtime 1.3.9 Released

The Apache Software Foundation and the Apache Portable Runtime
Project are proud to announce the General Availability of
version 1.3.9 of the APR Apache Portable Runtime library, and
version 1.3.9 of the companion APR-util Apache Portable Utility
library.

The corresponding version 1.2.1 of the companion APR-iconv library,
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 primarily a bug fix release, including
fixes for specific platforms' configuration, feature detection,
and run time behavior. Most developers and users are encouraged
to adopt the latest APR 1.x version to ensure the most comprehensive
support and access to the latest features and enhancements.

Note that the APR library release 1.3.8 introduced security fixes,
users of prior versions are strongly cautioned to upgrade to a later
release.

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!