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16 September 2002 - Avalon-Phoenix 4.0 Released

The Avalon Team is pleased to announce the release of Avalon-Phoenix 4.0. Binary and source distributions are available here. The project's homepage is here. This stabilises Phoenix. MX4J is enabled by default, but can be turned off. The standard Kernel can be replaced by one that additionally offers a Beanshell Console.
Binary and source distributions are available here.

12 September 2002 - Commons Discovery 0.1 Pre-release

The Commons team is proud to announce a pre-release of Commons Discovery 0.1. Discovery should not be considered to have a stable API. Regardless, it has proven to be useful to a few projects, so the team felt it was important to establish an early baseline for use within other (some soon to be released) projects willing to work with the evolving APIs.
Binary and source distributions are available here.

06 September 2002 - Tomcat 4.1.10 Stable Released

The Tomcat Team is proud to announce the release of Tomcat 4.1.10 Stable, which is the first stable release of the Tomcat 4.1.x branch. Over Tomcat 4.0.4, Tomcat 4.1 includes web-based administration, new connectors (HTTP/1.1 and AJP 1.3), new Jasper 2 JSP page compiler, enhanced management tools, major performance and scalability improvement.
Binary and source distributions are available here.

01 September 2002 - Avalon-Logkit 1.1 Released

The Avalon team is pleased to announce the release Logkit 1.1. This release introduces more rotation strategies and output targets. Logkit is usable directly or via the abstractions of Avalon-Framework and Commons-Logging.
Binary and source distributions are available here.

31 August 2002 - Cactus 1.4.1 Released

The Cactus project is pleased to announce the 1.4.1 release. Cactus is a unit testing framework for testing server side java code.

Binary and source distributions are available at http://jakarta.apache.org/cactus/downloads.html.

This release is purely a bug fix release for Cactus 1.4. Please check the Changes page (http://jakarta.apache.org/cactus/changes.html) for a full list of the changes from version 1.4. Existing Cactus 1.3 users can also check the Migration page which explains how to migrate to this new version.

For more information about Cactus, please visit http://jakarta.apache.org/cactus/.

28 August 2002 - Commons BeanUtils 1.4.1 released.

The Commons Team is pleased to announce the release of Commons BeanUtils 1.4.1. Binary and source distributions are available here. The project's homepage is here. This release is includes a performance improvement in MethodUtils from release 1.4.

25 August 2002 - Cactus 1.4 final Released

The Cactus project is pleased to announce the final 1.4 release. Cactus is a unit testing framework for testing server side java code.

Binary and source distributions are available at http://jakarta.apache.org/cactus/downloads.html.

Please check the Changes page (http://jakarta.apache.org/cactus/changes.html) for a full list of the changes from version 1.3. Existing Cactus 1.3 users can also check the Migration page which explains how to migrate to this new version.

For more information about Cactus, please visit http://jakarta.apache.org/cactus/.

15 August 2002 - Tomcat 4.1.9 Beta Released

The Tomcat Team is proud to announce the release of Tomcat 4.1.9 Beta. Binary and source distributions are available here.

13 August 2002 - Commons Digester 1.3 released.

The Commons Team is pleased to announce the release of Commons Digester 1.3. Binary and source distributions are available here. The project's homepage is here. This release is a packaging of bug fixes and minor enhancements since release 1.2.

13 August 2002 - Commons BeanUtils 1.4 released.

The Commons Team is pleased to announce the release of Commons BeanUtils 1.4. Binary and source distributions are available here. The project's homepage is here. This release is a packaging of bug fixes and minor enhancements since release 1.3.

13 August 2002 - Commons Logging 1.0.1 released.

The Commons Team is pleased to announce the release of Commons Logging 1.0.1. Binary and source distributions are available here. The project's homepage is here. This release is a packaging of bug fixes and minor enhancements since release 1.0.

12 August 2002 - Struts 1.1 Beta 2 Released

The Struts team is proud to announce the release of Struts 1.1 Beta 2. This release includes significant new functionality, while retaining full backwards compatibility with earlier versions of Struts. It also incorporates fixes for a number of bugs which were reported against earlier versions.

The binary distribution for this release is available here and the source distribution is available here. In addition, a library distribution, which consists of a minimal binary distribution, without sample web applications or additional code, is available here.

12 August 2002 - Avalon-Phoenix 4.0 Beta Released

The Avalon Team is pleased to announce the release of Avalon-Phoenix 4.0 Beta. Binary and source distributions are available here. The project's homepage is here. This release adds JMX capability via an HTTP adapter from the MX4J project on Sourceforge.

04 August 2002 - Tomcat 4.1.8 Beta Released

The Tomcat Team is proud to announce the release of Tomcat 4.1.8 Beta. Binary and source distributions are available here.

01 August 2002 - log4j 1.2.6 released

Log4j developers are proud to announce the release of log4j 1.2.6. This release fixes several relatively minor bugs. See the HISTORY file for precise details.

29 July 2002 - Cactus 1.4 Beta 1 Released

The Cactus project is pleased to announce the release of 1.4 beta 1. Cactus is a unit testing framework for testing server side java code.

Binary and source distributions are available at http://jakarta.apache.org/cactus/downloads.html.

Please check the Changes page (http://jakarta.apache.org/cactus/changes.html) for a full list of the changes from version 1.3. Existing Cactus 1.3 users can also check the Migration page which explains how to migrate to this new version.

For more information about Cactus, please visit http://jakarta.apache.org/cactus/.

17 July 2002 - Jetspeed 1.4 Beta 1 Released

The Jetspeed Team is proud to announce the release of 1.4 Beta 1. Binary and source distributions are available at http://jakarta.apache.org/builds/jakarta-jetspeed/release/v1.4b1/.

10 July 2002 - Apache Ant 1.5

This is to announce the final release of Ant 1.5, a Java-based build tool.

The full list of changes as well as binary and source release files can be found at http://jakarta.apache.org/builds/jakarta-ant/release/v1.5/.

08 July 2002 - Tomcat 4.1.7 Beta Released

The Tomcat Team is proud to announce the release of Tomcat 4.1.7 Beta. Binary and source distributions are available here.

07 July 2002 - Jakarta Velocity 1.3 Released

The Jakarta Velocity project is proud to announce the release of version 1.3 of the Jakarta Velocity Template Engine.

Major enhancements include :

  • Automatic detection of log4j or Avalon's logkit as the default logger. It's your choice - just put either into the classpath and Velocity will find it.
  • Application Attributes allow your applications to interact with custom components such as loggers and resource loaders.
  • The Resource Manager and Resource Cache are now pluggable.

Furthermore, this release includes the User's Guide in Finnish, French, Spanish and English.

If you are looking for a safe, powerful alternative to JSP for web-application development, or a versatile template engine to augment your Java application, try Velocity.

06 July 2002 - Jakarta POI documentation translations

The POI project is pleased to announce and highlight two new important translation efforts. A Spanish and Japanese translation of the project documentation/website have begun!

It is our sincere desire that people from all nations and the speakers of every language have access to POI and other OpenSource software projects.

We would like to encourage everyone to participate in this translation effort in a free and open manner. We will do our best to accommodate all efforts to that effect.

An extra special thanks goes out to Tetsuya Kitahata (tetsuya dot kitahata at nifty dot ne dot jp) for spearheading the Japanese initiative.

24 June 2002 - Apache Ant 1.5 beta 3

This is the third beta release of Ant 1.5, a Java-based build tool. This release provides greater stability when compared with 1.5 beta 2, as a few more bug fixes have been made since the last beta.

The full list of changes as well as binary and source release files can be found at http://jakarta.apache.org/builds/jakarta-ant/release/v1.5Beta3/.

18 June 2002 - Tomcat 4.0.4 Final Released

The Tomcat Team is proud to announce the release of Tomcat 4.0.4 Final. Binary and source distributions are available here.

19 June 2002 - POI 1.5.1 released

POI developers are proud to announce the release of Poi 1.5.1. This release fixes handling of reading spreadsheets containing rich text fields and removes the requirement to include commons-logging in the classpath.

13 June 2002 - log4j 1.2.4 released

Log4j developers are proud to announce the release of log4j 1.2.4. This release fixes several relatively minor bugs. The integration of LogFactor5 and log4j continues unabated.

12 June 2002 - Lucene 1.2 Final Released

The Lucene Team is proud to announce the release of Lucene 1.2. This is the first production release of Lucene since it moved to the Apache project. This release contains many features and bug fixes over the previous 1.0.2 release - see CHANGES.txt for details. Jakarta Lucene is a high-performance, full-featured text search engine written entirely in Java. Binary and source distributions are available here.

5 June 2002 - Tomcat 4.1.3 Beta Released

The Tomcat Team is proud to announce the release of Tomcat 4.1.3 Beta. Binary and source distributions are available here.

1 June 2002 - Apache Ant 1.5 beta 2

This is the second beta release of Ant 1.5, a Java-based build tool. This release provides greater stability when compared with 1.5 beta 1, as numerous bug fixes have been made since the last beta.

The full list of changes as well as binary and source release files can be found at http://jakarta.apache.org/builds/jakarta-ant/release/v1.5Beta2/.

30 May 2002 - James v2.0a3 Released

The James team are pleased to announce the release of version 2.0a3 of the James Server.
James is a highly configurable, 100% Java, Email and News server currently offering SMTP, POP3 and NNTP using file or RDBMS data storage.
This version demonstrates improved stability, and contains a number of significant bugfixes over the previous release.
James is also an email application server supporting the Apache Mailet API.
The Mailet API provides a simple framework for developing email processing applications and is maintained by the James project.
James is based upon the Apache Avalon application framework.

27 May 2002 - POI Logo Contest

Let your voice be heard! Vote for the new POI Logo. Your vote matters! So remember to vote for a tikiman ;-)! (j/k....mostly). One month from today (06.27.2002) the polls will close, so hurry up and get your vote in. Oh, and while you're at it, don't forget to join us for some delicious POI!

12 May 2002 - Lucene Release Candidate 5

The Lucene Team would like to announce Lucene Release Candidate 5. Binary and source distributions are available here.

11 May 2002 - Tomcat 4.0.4 Beta 3 Released

The Tomcat Team is proud to announce the release of Tomcat 4.0.4 Beta 3. Binary and source distributions are available here.

9 May 2002 - log4j 1.2 final

After a wait of just under a year, log4j 1.2 is now finally released. This release incorporates many performance improvements, bug fixes, and other enhancements, log4j 1.2 adds JMX support, Mapped Diagnostic Contexts, JDBC logging, graphical log viewer (chainsaw), and buffered IO capability. One important change is the replacement of the Category class with Logger class and the Priority class with the Level class in order to facilitate migration from the JDK 1.4 logging API to log4j.

All changes except the removal of deprecated methods are backward compatible such that log4j 1.2 can be considered a drop in replacement for log4j 1.1.3.

07 May 2002 - Torque 3.0 beta 2

The Torque team is proud to announce the release of Torque 3.0 beta 2. Changes in 3.0 beta 2 consist mostly of cross database compatible SQL generation, query API enhancements, and miscellaneous bug fixes. There was also a larger change which increases the Collections API friendliness of Torque, and results in minor API incompatibilities for those who were using implementation instead of interface to manipulate the collections returned by Torque. Reported speed improvements from use of the non-sync'd ArrayList implementation have been impressive, and general API interoperability has been increased significantly.

The binary and source release files can be found at http://jakarta.apache.org/builds/jakarta-turbine/torque/release/3.0-b2/.

06 May 2002 - POI 1.5-FINAL (production release)

The first production release for Jakarta POI is out. And its soooo good that its just "POI-fect". Get this POI while its hot if you need to generate some Excel spreadsheets in production.... And if you're still hungry for more check out a nightly build for some more new (experimental) features. Oh and you can find the release here.

2 May 2002 - Apache Ant 1.5 beta 1

This is the first beta release of Ant 1.5 which features improved support for JDK 1.4 as well as a whole bunch of new tasks. Netware is now a supported OS, Ant can create bzip2 archives and MD5 checksums via built-in tasks, prompt for input or replace text based on regular expressions - just to name a few.

The full list of changes as well as binary and source release files can be found at http://jakarta.apache.org/builds/jakarta-ant/release/v1.5Beta1/.

28 April 2002 - POI 1.5-dev-rc2 (release candidate)

The second real "release candidate" for POI is out. 1.5 is SOOOO close we can TASTE that POI right on our tounges. This release candidate fixes a few annoying and relatively minor (but serious enough) bugs. And in preparation for a production-level release the experimental formula support is disabled. So get it while its HOT and help test it so we can feed the world fresh and delicious POI! (unless of course they like it fermented -- we aim to please)

In other news, formula support has started in the 2.0 branch and is well under way. So if you like putting =1+2 in your spreadsheets then you'll be all set. Hopefully cell references will appear soon for those of you with slightly more sophisticated tastes. So what's the best way to speed things along? Why its simple, join the mail lists and contribute, submit bug reports, send in patches, if you see a nail sticking up pick up a hammer. We're always looking for voluteers. A special thanks goes out to Avik Sengupta who is the primary author of the current formula support and to Libin Roman who submitted Named Ranges support. You guys rock!

21 April 2002 - Cactus 1.3 Released

The Cactus team is proud to announce the release of Cactus 1.3. This release corrects a lot of bugs and brings some new features. The full list of changes is available here.

There has been 2 main changes in how to configure Cactus. Please make sure you read the Migration Guide, which explains what you have to do to migrate from Cactus 1.2 to 1.3.

In addition you'll notice the change in name from Jakarta-cactus-22|23-1.2.zip to Jakarta-cactus-12|13-1.3.zip. This is because Cactus is growing and is expected to target J2EE and not only the Servlet API (thus 1.2 and 1.3 represent the J2EE API - which encompass Servlet API 2.2 and 2.3). The downloads page explains it all.

21 April 2002 - POI 1.5-dev-20020416 (release candidate)

The first real "release candidate" for POI is out. Among other things it fixes the annoying log4j version dependancies. Get it while its hot, test it, report the bugs and lets get 1.5-final out there ASAP!

16 April 2002 - Log4j 1.2 (release candidate)

In addition to many performance improvements, bug fixes, and other small enhancements, log4j 1.2 adds JMX support, Mapped Diagnostic Contexts, JDBC logging, graphical log viewer (chainsaw), and buffered IO capability. One important change is the replacement of the Category class with Logger class and the Priority class with the Level class in order to facilitate migration from the JDK 1.4 logging API to log4j.

Version 1.2 is the 22nd major public release of log4j. All changes except the removal of deprecated methods are backward compatible such that log4j 1.2 can be considered a drop in replacement for log4j 1.1.3.

14 April 2002 - Jakarta Taglibs Version 1.0 Releases

The Jakarta-Taglibs project has released version 1.0 of the following JSP 1.1 Tag Libraries:

  • Application
  • DateTime
  • Mailer
  • Page
  • Random
  • Regexp
  • Request
  • Response
  • Session
  • XSL
Binary distributions for these releases are available here.

11 April 2002 - Jakarta Turbine Maven Beta 3 Released

The Maven team is pleased to announce the Beta 3 release!

http://jakarta.apache.org/turbine/maven/

Maven is a Java project management and project comprehension tool. Maven is based on the concept of a project object model (POM) in that all the artifacts produced by Maven are a result of consulting a well defined model for your project. Builds, documentation, source metrics, and source cross-references are all controlled by your POM.

05 April 2002 - Jakarta Commons Collections 2.0 Released

Come and get the Commons Collections 2.0 release!

http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/components.html

Collections 2.0 includes 11 new collections and 3 new comparators, as well as several enhancements and bug fixes.

30 March 2002 - Jakarta Turbine Maven Beta 2 Released

The Maven team is pleased to announce the Beta 2 release!

http://jakarta.apache.org/turbine/maven/

Maven is a Java project management and project comprehension tool. Maven is based on the concept of a project object model (POM) in that all the artifacts produced by Maven are a result of consulting a well defined model for your project. Builds, documentation, source metrics, and source cross-references are all controlled by your POM.

27 March 2002 - Jakarta Tomcat 3.3.1 Final Released

The Tomcat 3.3.1 Final release is now available. This release contains a number of bug fixes and small feature additions over the Tomcat 3.3(a) Release. You can find everything, including a list of the changes, here.

The online Tomcat 3.3 Documentation includes information on this release. New features are noted as specific to Tomcat 3.3.1. For the most up to date Tomcat 3.3 documentation, please refer to this site.

26 March 2002 - Apache Software Foundation Reaches Agreement with Sun Microsystems to Allow Open Source Java Implementations

The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) today announced that it has reached an agreement with Sun Microsystems and members of the Java Community Process (JCP) to secure the basic right to implement Java specifications in open source. This is the result of extended dialog over the past year. Sun has pledged to use licenses that enable open source independent implementations for all its Java specifications and Test Compatibility Kits. Sun has pledged this for all future Sun-led Java specifications as well as key specifications already released.

"It gives us great pleasure to have served the interests of the wider open source community, largely made up of individuals and small groups who may not have the resources and visibility to establish this level of dialog," said Jason Hunter, ASF Vice-President, Java Community Process. "To satisfy this trust, the ASF will be closely monitoring the implementation details of the contents of this agreement to ensure the gains represented by this agreement are not lost."

"We believe, properly implemented, these changes will fertilize the growing open source Java community, resulting in wider adoption of Java technologies. We also strongly believe the wider availability of Test Compatibility Kits and the existence of solid open source Java specification implementations will serve to improve and enhance Java's compatibility," explained Hunter.

Read the full press release.

26 March 2002 - Apache Ant wins award

The Ant team is proud to announce that Ant has won the JavaWorld Editors' Choice Award for "Most Useful Java Community-Developed Technology". Our sister project Xerces wins the Award as "Best Java XML Tool".

26 March 2002 - Tomcat 4.0.4 Beta 2 Released

The Tomcat Team is proud to announce the release of Tomcat 4.0.4 Beta 2. Binary and source distributions are available here.

22 March 2002 - JakartaOne: The Gathering

Jakarta volunteers are invited to take a break from JavaOne and meet at the 21st Amendment (563 Second Street) at 7:30pm on Monday. Laptops welcome, but no light sabres please. Holy ground protocols apply.

22 March 2002 - We have spirit! Go Apache Go!

Over the past few weeks, discussions between the Apache Software Foundation and Sun Microsystems have reached a fever pitch over several concerns raised by Apache. As a result of these discussions, Sun has agreed to make changes to the upcoming JSPA revision that address Apache's concerns.

19 March 2002 - Struts 1.1 Beta 1 Released

The Struts team is proud to announce the release of Struts 1.1 Beta 1. This release includes significant new functionality, while retaining full backwards compatibility with earlier versions of Struts. It also incorporates fixes for a number of bugs which were reported against earlier versions.

The binary distribution for this release is available here and the source distribution is available here. In addition, a library distribution, which consists of a minimal binary distribution, without sample web applications or additional code, is available here.

19 March 2002 - Jakarta Overview Compiled

A draft document summarizing the status of each Jakarta subproject is now available.

This was compiled and contributed by a Jakarta user, Philipp K. Janert. Committers for the various subprojects are invited to review the document, and make any changes deemed appropriate. At some point, this could linked from the home page, and perhaps updated as part of the release process.

14 March 2002 - Jakarta One Downsized

Due to time constraints, arrangements for a full-scale Jakarta One have been tabled. However, a get-together at some local establishment is still in the works.

Micro Jakarta One

Jakarta One to be Cancelled

13 March 2002 - JSPA Passes; But Even YES Votes Want Open Source Issues Addressed.

The results from the JSR-99 vote are in. If one only looks at the results, it would appear as though we 'lost' our battle and that Sun and others have locked Open Source out of Java. However, if one digs a bit deeper and reads the comments from the various vendors, which they submitted with their votes, it becomes clear that Apache's stance on an open and fair licensing scheme for developing Java standards is shared by many major corporations, including IBM (WHO VOTED NO on the draft JSPA)... 

IBM has consistently worked within the Java Community
Process since its very inception to create a truly open
environment with a level playing field where no single
vendor has the ability to exert unnecessary control over
Java technologies for their own proprietary advantage.
While the current draft of the JSPA is an improvement over
prior agreements, we believe we should do more to guarantee
specifications, implementations and test suites developed
under this agreement will be developed with a broader view
of Java communities in mind, and to guarantee they are
licensed under terms and conditions that allow the
widespread adoption of compliant Java technologies. The JSPA
amendments proposed under JSR 99 do not provide these
guarantees.

IBM has always believed it is absolutely critical the Java
community include Apache as well as the rest of the open
source community in order to ensure the long term health and
competitive vitality of the Java environment. As a result,
IBM is fully supportive of the open source community's need
for Sun resolve all the issues raised by Apache at *
directly and unambiguously in the JSPA agreement itself.

* http://jakarta.apache.org/site/jspa-position.html

9 March 2002 - POI 1.4583 Released

The POI Project has released its first Jakarta pre-release 1.4583 (pre-1.5). Kudos to whoever figures out what the equation was to reach this peculiar number. Binary and source distributions are available here. If all goes well with this release the a 1.5 interim production release is imminent.

5 March 2002 - Tomcat 4.0.4 Beta 1 Released

The Tomcat Team is proud to announce the release of Tomcat 4.0.4 Beta 1. Binary and source distributions are available here.

5 March 2002 - Jakarta Tomcat 3.3.1 Release Candidate 1 Released

Tomcat 3.3.1 Release Candidate 1 is the first release candidate of Tomcat 3.3.1. This release contains a number of bug fixes over the Tomcat 3.3.1 Beta 1 release. You can find everything, including a list of the changes, here.

The online Tomcat 3.3 Documentation includes information on this release. New features are noted as specific to Tomcat 3.3.1. For the most up to date Tomcat 3.3 documentation, please refer to this site.

6 March 2002 - Jakarta Volunteer Guides

An initiative to revise the Jakarta documentation is underway. At this point, an outline is being drafted, with links to existing pages where available.

http://jakarta.apache.org/site/guides.html

A number of Jakartians have already contributed to this outline, including:

Alex Fernandez
Paul Hammant
Jon Stevens
Marc Saegesser
Ted Husted
Andrew C. Oliver

Comments regarding the outline may be posted to the General List.

Initial thread

Volunteer Guides thread

3 March 2002 - Jakarta One Planning

A number of Jakartians would like to get together during JavaOne. Planning is still in flux. For more see:

http://www.mail-archive.com/general%40jakarta.apache.org/msg04010.html

http://www.mail-archive.com/general%40jakarta.apache.org/msg03976.html

http://www.mail-archive.com/general%40jakarta.apache.org/msg03967.html

http://www.mail-archive.com/general%40jakarta.apache.org/msg03965.html

http://www.mail-archive.com/general%40jakarta.apache.org/msg03951.html

3 March 2002 - Jakarta POI logo contest

The POI committers have voted to "innovate" and hold a logo contest. The big P at the top of the POI project page is just a placeholder. We're hoping to tap the talent of all of the budding artists around the Jakarta community.

So come check out POI and never go hungry again!

1 March 2002 - Tomcat 4.0.3 Released

This release fixes a security vulnerability affecting the use of the request dispatcher, which could allow in some rare cases a remote attacker to read files anywhere on the server filesystem. It also provides a way for malicious servlets or JSP to bypass the Security Manager sandbox.

Binary and source distributions are available here.

The fix for this security vulnerability is also available as a hotfix which can be applied to an existing Tomcat 4.0.x installation. Installing the hotfix on top of 4.0.2 is equivalent to upgrading to Tomcat 4.0.3. The hotfix can be found here.

25 February 2002 - New PMC Elected

Jakarta welcomes the Project Management Committee for 2002-03.

Stefan Bodewig
Craig McClanahan
Diane Holt
Conor MacNeill
Geir Magnusson Jr.
Costin Monolache
Sam Ruby

The first order of business for the PMC will be to elect its new chair.

PMC - its official :-)

Jakarta PMC 2002: Results of the Ballot.

PMC Home Page

19 February 2002 - POI joins Jakarta

"Done." said Scott Sanders (thanks) and the site was up. The POI project has joined Jakarta and writing OLE 2 Compound Document based file formats will never be the same (because now you'll dump those nasty NT servers and switch to UNIX using Java). Currently, straight OLE 2 CDF, XLS (Excel) format, and Document Summary Information are supported. Efforts are already getting underway to port DOC (MS Word) formats.

So come check out POI and never go hungry again!

18 February 2002 - Jakarta Log4j 1.2 Beta 3 Released

In addition to many performance improvements, bug fixes, and other small enhancements, log4j 1.2 beta3 adds JMX support, Mapped Diagnostic Contexts, and buffered IO capability. One important change is the replacement of the Category class with Logger class and the Priority with the Level in order to facilitate migration from the JDK 1.4 logging API to log4j.

All changes except the removal of deprecated methods are backward compatible such that log4j 1.2beta3 can be considered a drop in replacement for log4j 1.1.3. Binary and source distributions are available on the log4j download page.

14 February 2002 - Jakarta Tomcat 3.3.1 Beta 1 Released

Tomcat 3.3.1 Beta 1 is the first beta release of Tomcat 3.3.1. This release contains numerous bug fixes and small feature additions to Tomcat 3.3(a). You can find everything, including a list of the changes, here.

The online Tomcat 3.3 Documentation includes information on this release. New features are noted as specific to Tomcat 3.3.1. For the most up to date Tomcat 3.3 documentation, please refer to this site.

11 February 2002 - Struts 1.0.2 Released

The Struts team is proud to announce the release of Struts 1.0.2. This release is a bug fix only release, which fixes a compatibility problem inadvertently introduced with the previous 1.0.1 release.

The binary distribution for this release is available here and the source distribution is available here. In addition, a library distribution, which consists of a minimal binary distribution, without sample web applications or additional code, is available here.

11 February 2002 - Tomcat 4.0.2 Released

The Tomcat Team is proud to announce the final release of Tomcat 4.0.2. Binary and source distributions are available here.

5 February 2002 Apache's Position on the JSPA

The Jakarta Apache Project has published a statement on the Apache position with regard to the latest JSPA revision and the items currently under discussion. This statement was sent to Sun on 1-28-2002 and the ASF has not yet received a response. The statement is being posted on the Jakarta Website so that the Java community can openly see the Apache position on these important license issues.

4 February 2002 James v2.0a2 Released

The James team is proud to announce the long awaited release of v2.0a2

About James: James is a platform independant Java(tm) email and news server built using the Avalon application framenwork and supporting SMTP, POP3 and NNTP. It is also a mail application platform supporting the Apache Mailet API and offers support for filesystem and database email repositories.

More information about James can be found here http://jakarta.apache.org/james
The Mailet API is maintained by the James project and can be found here http://jakarta.apache.org/james/mailet/
Information about Avalon can be found here http://jakarta.apache.org/avalon/

31 January 2002 - Avalon Framework 4.1.2 Released

The Avalon team is proud to announce the 4.1.2 final release of the Avalon Framework.

About Avalon: The Avalon project is Apache's Java Server Framework. It is separated into five sub projects: Framework, Excalibur, LogKit, Cornerstone, and Phoenix. Its purpose is to simplify server side programming for Java based projects. It formalizes serveral best of breed practices and patterns for server side programming.

For more information about Avalon, please go to http://jakarta.apache.org/avalon.

About Avalon Framework 4.1.2: The Avalon Framework formalizes the contracts and patterns used in the other Avalon projects. It is derived from modern software engineering techniques and aims to provide a solid basis on which to build server products.

What that means is that we define the central interface Component. We also define the relationship (contract) a component has with peers, ancestors and children. This documentation introduces you to those patterns, interfaces, and relationships.

The Avalon Framework raises the abstraction level from Object-Oriented Programming concept one notch to the Component-Oriented Programming model. This enables programmers to concern themselves with assemblies of classes, rather than the classes themselves--thus reducing the number of things the programmer must keep in mind, and speeding up application development.

The Avalon Framework is already used in Cocoon, an XML publishing framework. The Avalon Framework is also used in Apache JAMES, a Java(tm) Mail Server. Another project that is built on Avalon Framework is Jestkop, a cross-platform replacement for your ordinary desktop. If you are evaluating Avalon and want the proof that it's claims are valid check them out.

For more information about Avalon Framework 4.1.2, please go to http://jakarta.apache.org/avalon/framework.

31 January 2002 - LogKit 1.0.1 Released

The Avalon team is proud to announce the 1.0.1 final release of LogKit.

About Avalon: The Avalon project is Apache's Java Server Framework. It is separated into five sub projects: Framework, Excalibur, LogKit, Cornerstone, and Phoenix. Its purpose is to simplify server side programming for Java based projects. It formalizes serveral best of breed practices and patterns for server side programming.

For more information about Avalon, please go to http://jakarta.apache.org/avalon.

About LogKit 1.0.1: LogKit is an easy to use logging toolkit designed for secure performance oriented logging. It's design encourages integration into existing products with minimal impact.

For more information about LogKit 1.0.1, please go to http://jakarta.apache.org/avalon/logkit.

30 January 2002 - That flaming fireball in the sky...

In a recent article, Karen Tegan, Director of J2EE Compatibility and Platform Services for Sun Microsystems, had the following to say:

"The J2EE Compatible brand has achieved significant momentum over the past two years, and we want to make sure that any open source efforts don't impact the viability of that effort."

In other words, Sun doesn't give a hoot about whether J2EE licensing restricts open source J2EE products (in case you missed it, it does). Thus, the Apache Software Foundation's involvement in the Java Community Process (JCP) is simply an advertising statement for Sun to claim that they have a 'vision which uses open standards and non-proprietary interfaces'. If you would like to express your opinions of Sun's licensing terms, feel free to contact jcp@apache.org and let us know what you think. Thanks.

Followup thread on Jakarta-General: J2EE considered harmful.

30 January 2002 - Avalon Excalibur 4.1 Released

The Avalon team is proud to announce the 4.1 final release of the Avalon Excalibur.

About Avalon: The Avalon project is Apache's Java Server Framework. It is separated into five sub projects: Framework, Excalibur, LogKit, Cornerstone, and Phoenix. Its purpose is to simplify server side programming for Java based projects. It formalizes serveral best of breed practices and patterns for server side programming.

For more information about Avalon, please go to http://jakarta.apache.org/avalon.

About Avalon Excalibur 4.1: Avalon Excalibur contains several premade Avalon Components and utilities to make your server side programming easier. There are several pool implementations, Component management implementations, and database management implementations.

For more information about Avalon Excalibur 4.1, please go to http://jakarta.apache.org/avalon/excalibur.

21 January 2002 - Tomcat 4.0.2 Beta 2 Released

The Tomcat Team is proud to announce the second beta release of Tomcat 4.0.2. Binary and source distributions are available here.

14 January 2002 - Apache Tomcat 3.3 Updated to 3.3a

Important Notice: The Tomcat 3.3 release has been updated to 3.3a to deal with a DOS vulnerability on Windows systems. The vulnerability allows a special HTTP request to hang and never complete. This prevents the thread handling the request from handling any further requests until Tomcat is restarted. Other systems are not affected, and both Tomcat 3.2.x and Tomcat 4.x do not have this vunerability.

It is recommended that everyone using Tomcat 3.3 on a Windows system upgrade to 3.3a. This is possible using the full Tomcat 3.3a binary distribution, or by updating jar(s) in an existing Tomcat 3.3 installation. These may be found here along with additional information.

12 January 2002 - Struts 1.0.1 Released

The Struts team is proud to announce the release of Struts 1.0.1. This release is primarily a bug fix release, which fixes a number of known problems with the previous 1.0 release.

The binary distribution for this release is available here and the source distribution is available here. In addition, a library distribution, which consists of a minimal binary distribution, without sample web applications or additional code, is available here.

21 December 2001 - Avalon Framework 4.1.1 Released

The Avalon team is proud to announce the 4.1.1 final release of the Avalon Framework.

This release is a minor bugfix release. The prior release was compiled with JDK 1.4's compiler, making it incompatible with previous JDKs

About Avalon: The Avalon project is Apache's Java Server Framework. It is separated into five sub projects: Framework, Excalibur, LogKit, Cornerstone, and Phoenix. Its purpose is to simplify server side programming for Java based projects. It formalizes serveral best of breed practices and patterns for server side programming.

For more information about Avalon, please go to http://jakarta.apache.org/avalon.

About Avalon Framework 4.1.1: The Avalon Framework formalizes the contracts and patterns used in the other Avalon projects. It is derived from modern software engineering techniques and aims to provide a solid basis on which to build server products.

What that means is that we define the central interface Component. We also define the relationship (contract) a component has with peers, ancestors and children. This documentation introduces you to those patterns, interfaces, and relationships.

The Avalon Framework raises the abstraction level from Object-Oriented Programming concept one notch to the Component-Oriented Programming model. This enables programmers to concern themselves with assemblies of classes, rather than the classes themselves--thus reducing the number of things the programmer must keep in mind, and speeding up application development.

The Avalon Framework is already used in Cocoon2, an XML publishing framework. The Avalon Framework is also used in Apache JAMES, a Java(tm) Mail Server. Another project that is built on Avalon Framework is Jestkop, a cross-platform replacement for your ordinary desktop. If you are evaluating Avalon and want the proof that it's claims are valid check them out.

For more information about Avalon Framework 4.1.1, please go to http://jakarta.apache.org/avalon/framework.

21 December 2001 - Tomcat 4.0.2 Beta 1 Released

The Tomcat Team is proud to announce the first beta release of Tomcat 4.0.2. Binary and source distributions are available here.

12 December 2001 - BCEL 5.0 Released

The 5.0 release of the Byte Code Engineering Library is now available. Binary and source distributions can be found here.

11 December 2001 - Jetspeed v1.3a2 Released

powered-by-logo.gif Version 1.3a2 of the Jetspeed Portal Server is now released. Congratulations and thanks to all participants in the Jetspeed community.

The major improvements in this release include:

  • Fully integrated Portal Customizer, supporting 2-column, 3-column, single row/column, menu and tab panes layouts, and configurable 'skins' tailored per user. Support for customization of HTML and WML.
  • Enhanced security, role-based access to portlets, security portlets for maintenance of users, roles and groups.
  • New Portlets: WebPagePortlet, StockPortlet, LinkPortlet, administrative portlets. Portlet states now support minimized, maximized, and hidden.
  • Capability to store portlet markup (PSML) in a database. Integration with Apache Torque object-relational database tool.

Please visit the Velocity site for more information and the distribution.

11 December 2001 - Avalon Framework 4.1 Released

The Avalon team is proud to announce the 4.1 final release of the Avalon Framework.

About Avalon: The Avalon project is Apache's Java Server Framework. It is separated into five sub projects: Framework, Excalibur, LogKit, Cornerstone, and Phoenix. Its purpose is to simplify server side programming for Java based projects. It formalizes serveral best of breed practices and patterns for server side programming.

For more information about Avalon, please go to http://jakarta.apache.org/avalon.

About Avalon Framework 4.1: The Avalon Framework formalizes the contracts and patterns used in the other Avalon projects. It is derived from modern software engineering techniques and aims to provide a solid basis on which to build server products.

What that means is that we define the central interface Component. We also define the relationship (contract) a component has with peers, ancestors and children. This documentation introduces you to those patterns, interfaces, and relationships.

The Avalon Framework raises the abstraction level from Object-Oriented Programming concept one notch to the Component-Oriented Programming model. This enables programmers to concern themselves with assemblies of classes, rather than the classes themselves--thus reducing the number of things the programmer must keep in mind, and speeding up application development.

The Avalon Framework is already used in Cocoon2, an XML publishing framework. The Avalon Framework is also used in Apache JAMES, a Java(tm) Mail Server. Another project that is built on Avalon Framework is Jestkop, a cross-platform replacement for your ordinary desktop. If you are evaluating Avalon and want the proof that it's claims are valid check them out.

For more information about Avalon Framework 4.1, please go to http://jakarta.apache.org/avalon/framework.

9 December 2001 - Velocity v1.2 Released

powered-by-logo.gif Version 1.2 of the Velocity Template Engine is now released. Congratulations and thanks to all participants in the Velocity community.

The major improvements in this release include

  • Application programmers now can instantiate separate, independent instances of the Velocity Template Engine or continue to use the traditional singleton model.
  • Major improvements to Anakia and Texen.
  • The Velocimacro system can be configured to reload changed VM libraries automatically when the macro definitions change.

Please visit the Velocity site for more information and the distribution.

27 November 2001 - Struts 1.0.1-rc1 Released

The first Release Candidate for Struts 1.0.1 is now available. This release fixes a number of known problems with the Struts 1.0 release.

The binary distribution for this release candidate is available here and the source distribution is available here.

15 November 2001 - BCEL RC1 Released

The first release candidate of the Byte Code Engineering Library is now available. Binary and source distributions can be found here.

11 November 2001 - Avalon Phoenix 4.0a3 Released

The Avalon team is proud to announce the 4.0a3 alpha release of Avalon Phoenix.

About Avalon: The Avalon project is Apache's Java Server Framework. It is separated into five sub projects: Framework, Excalibur, LogKit, Cornerstone, and Phoenix. Its purpose is to simplify server side programming for Java based projects. It formalizes serveral best of breed practices and patterns for server side programming.

For more information about Avalon, please go to http://jakarta.apache.org/avalon.

About Avalon Phoenix 4.0a3: Avalon Phoenix is a micro-kernel designed and implemented on top of the Avalon Framework. It is both an API to program to and a reference implementation. The reference implementation provides a number of facilities to manage the environment of Server Applications. Such facilities include log management, classloading, thread management and security. In the future it will conditionally offer support extra facilities such as central server management, server pools, and other facilities aimed at reducing the time to market. The API defines a standard method of piecing togther server components and creating a server.

In order to see Avalon Phoenix at work, you should grab the example applications or servers that are included in Avalon Cornerstone. Apache James uses Phoenix for it's mail server.

For more information about Avalon Phoenix 4.0a3, please go to http://jakarta.apache.org/avalon/phoenix.

The release can be downloaded from here.

26 October 2001 - LogKit 1.0 Released

The Avalon team is proud to announce the 1.0 final release of LogKit.

About Avalon: The Avalon project is Apache's Java Server Framework. It is separated into five sub projects: Framework, Excalibur, LogKit, Cornerstone, and Phoenix. Its purpose is to simplify server side programming for Java based projects. It formalizes serveral best of breed practices and patterns for server side programming.

For more information about Avalon, please go to http://jakarta.apache.org/avalon.

About LogKit 1.0: LogKit is an easy to use logging toolkit designed for secure performance orientated logging. It's design encourages integration into existing products with minimal impact.

For more information about LogKit 1.0, please go to http://jakarta.apache.org/avalon/logkit.

22 October 2001 - Apache Tomcat 3.3 Final Released

At long last, Tomcat 3.3 has reached "Final Release"! With its refactored set of core classes and modules, it offers a number of new features, better performance, and more flexible configuration over its predecessors. Also, it can be updated with add-on modules. The PasswordPrompter add-on module is a simple example and is available with this release. You can find everything here.

Note: Additional documentation updates are planned (as well as maintenance bug fixes). You can get the latest documentation at the Tomcat 3.3 Documentation site.

14 October 2001 - Tomcat 4.0.1 Released

This is the final release of Tomcat 4.0.1, which is a maintenance release of Tomcat 4.0. Download it here.

12 October 2001 - Ant 1.4.1 Released

This is a bugfix release for Ant 1.4 which corrects a number of small issues. Download it here.

2 October 2001 - Lucene joins Jakarta

Lucene, a full-text search library, has joined Jakarta.

For more information about Lucene, please visit: http://jakarta.apache.org/lucene/.

1 October 2001 - Ant 1.4.1beta1 Released

This is the first release candidate for Ant 1.4.1, which fixes a couple of known bugs in Ant 1.4, you can down find everything here.

25 September 2001 - Avalon Phoenix 4.0a1 Released

The Avalon team is proud to announce the 4.0a1 alpha release of Avalon Phoenix.

About Avalon: The Avalon project is Apache's Java Server Framework. It is separated into five sub projects: Framework, Excalibur, LogKit, Cornerstone, and Phoenix. Its purpose is to simplify server side programming for Java based projects. It formalizes serveral best of breed practices and patterns for server side programming.

For more information about Avalon, please go to http://jakarta.apache.org/avalon.

About Avalon Phoenix 4.0a1: Avalon Phoenix is a micro-kernel designed and implemented on top of the Avalon Framework. It is both an API to program to and a reference implementation. The reference implementation provides a number of facilities to manage the environment of Server Applications. Such facilities include log management, classloading, thread management and security. In the future it will conditionally offer support extra facilities such as central server management, server pools, and other facilities aimed at reducing the time to market. The API defines a standard method of piecing togther server components and creating a server.

In order to see Avalon Phoenix at work, you should grab the example applications or servers that are included in Avalon Cornerstone. Apache James uses Phoenix for it's mail server.

For more information about Avalon Phoenix 4.0a1, please go to http://jakarta.apache.org/avalon/phoenix.

25 September 2001 - Jakarta Cactus 1.2 Released

The Cactus project is proud to announce the release of Version 1.2. Cactus is a unit testing framework for testing server side java code. Version 1.2 supports unit testing of :

  • Servlets,
  • JSP Tag libraries,
  • Servlet Filters,
  • EJBs,
  • JSPs

Please check the Features list and the Changelog for details on what's new.

24 September 2001 - Jakarta Tomcat 3.3-rc1 Released

Tomcat 3.3 Release Candiate 1 is the latest update to Tomcat 3.3. With this release, the core code for Tomcat 3.3 is considered finished and only minor bug fixes, simple usability enhancements, and documentation updates will occur up until the second Release Candidate. You can find everything here.

As Tomcat 3.3 documentation is updated, an effort will be made to keep the Tomcat 3.3 Documentation site current with these updates. For the most up to date documentation for Tomcat 3.3, please check this site.

17 September 2001 - Apache Tomcat 4.0 Final Released

It's official! The Servlet 2.3 and JSP 1.2 specifications are now final, and so is Apache Tomcat 4.0, which implements the new features of these specifications plus a host of other functionality improvements over the current production release (Tomcat 3.2.3). Please read the RELEASE-NOTES-4.0.txt file in the top level directory of the distribution for the latest information on recent changes and known issues. You can also browse the Tomcat 4.0 documentation bundle online at http://jakarta.apache.org.

Binary distributions of Apache Tomcat 4.0 are available at http://www.apache.org/dist/jakarta/jakarta-tomcat-4.0/release/v4.0/.

Source distributions of Apache Tomcat 4.0 are available at http://www.apache.org/dist/jakarta/jakarta-tomcat-4.0/release/v4.0/src/.

Binary and source distributions of the mod_webapp connector will be posted on Wednesday, September 19, 2001. If you wish to build this connector in the mean time, you can check out the jakarta-tomcat-connectors CVS repository, and follow the directions in the README.txt file in the webapp subdirectory.

17 September 2001 - LogKit 1.0b5 Released

The Avalon team is proud to announce the 1.0b5 beta release of LogKit.

About Avalon: The Avalon project is Apache's Java Server Framework. It is separated into six sub projects: Framework, Excalibur, LogKit, Cornerstone, Phoenix, and Testlet. Its purpose is to simplify server side programming for Java based projects. It formalizes serveral best of breed practices and patterns for server side programming.

For more information about Avalon, please go to http://jakarta.apache.org/avalon.

About LogKit 1.0b5: LogKit is an easy to use logging toolkit designed for secure performance orientated logging. It's design encourages integration into existing products with minimal impact.

For more information about LogKit 1.0b5, please go to http://jakarta.apache.org/avalon/logkit.

15 September 2001 - Cactus is now a Jakarta top level project

The Cactus project, a unit testing framework for server side java code, has now been promoted as a Jakarta top level project. The new web site is http://jakarta.apache.org/cactus.

Click here for the full announcement

13 September 2001 - Tomcat 4.0-rc2 Released

The second Release Candidate for Tomcat 4.0 is now available. Only serious problems will be fixed between now and final release of Tomcat 4.0, which is currently scheduled for September 17, 2001. All "must deal with" bugs (other than those related to the mod_webapp connector) have been fixed, although a few remaining bug reports are currently being reviewed.

Please download this version and run your existing web applications against it, to help us ensure a final release that is as trouble free as possible. This release is available here.

11 September 2001 - Avalon Excalibur 4.0 Final Released

The Avalon team is proud to announce the 4.0 final release of the Avalon Excalibur.

About Avalon: The Avalon project is Apache's Java Server Framework. It is separated into five sub projects: Framework, Excalibur, LogKit, Cornerstone, and Phoenix. Its purpose is to simplify server side programming for Java based projects. It formalizes serveral best of breed practices and patterns for server side programming.

For more information about Avalon, please go to http://jakarta.apache.org/avalon.

About Avalon Excalibur 4.0: Avalon Excalibur contains several premade Avalon Components and utilities to make your server side programming easier. There are several pool implementations, Component management implementations, and database management implementations.

For more information about Avalon Excalibur 4.0, please go to http://jakarta.apache.org/avalon/excalibur.

9 September 2001 - Tomcat 4.0-rc1 Released

The first Release Candidate for Tomcat 4.0 is now available. Only serious problems will be fixed between now and final release of Tomcat 4.0, which is currently scheduled for September 17, 2001. A second release candidate, if necessary, will be distributed on Thursday, September 13, 2001.

Please download this version and run your existing web applications against it, to help us ensure a final release that is as trouble free as possible. This release is available here.

4 September 2001 - Jakarta Tomcat 3.3-b2 Released

Tomcat 3.3 Beta 2 is the latest update to Tomcat 3.3. The beta versions implement the final feature set intended for Tomcat 3.3. Work for the remaining releases will focus on bug fixes and updating the documentation. You can find everything here.

As Tomcat 3.3 documentation is updated, an effort will be made to keep the Tomcat 3.3 Documentation site current with these updates. For the most up to date documentation for Tomcat 3.3, please check this site.

21 August 2001 - Ant 1.4beta2 Released

This second release candidate for Ant 1.4 fixes some known bugs of the first beta release.

11 August 2001 - Ant 1.4beta1 Released

This first release candidate for Ant 1.4 is available for download. If you have any feedback on the beta feel free to join the discussion on the ant-dev and ant-user mailing lists.

10 August 2001 - Avalon Excalibur 4.0b4 Released

The Avalon team is proud to announce the 4.0b4 beta release of the Avalon Excalibur.

About Avalon: The Avalon project is Apache's Java Server Framework. It is separated into six sub projects: Framework, Excalibur, LogKit, Cornerstone, Phoenix, and Testlet. Its purpose is to simplify server side programming for Java based projects. It formalizes serveral best of breed practices and patterns for server side programming.

For more information about Avalon, please go to http://jakarta.apache.org/avalon.

About Avalon Excalibur 4.0b4: Avalon Excalibur contains several premade Avalon Components and utilities to make your server side programming easier. There are several pool implementations, Component management implementations, and database management implementations.

For more information about Avalon Excalibur 4.0b4, please go to http://jakarta.apache.org/avalon/excalibur.

9 August 2001 - Tomcat 4.0-beta-7 Released

A release candidate version of Tomcat 4.0, version Tomcat 4.0-beta-7 has been released. This version conforms to the Proposed Final Draft 3 version of the Servlet 2.3 and JSP 1.2 specifications, which will go final soon, and incorporates all of the latest bugfixes.

In addition, for users who run Tomcat 4.0 on Windows 9x, this release fixes a security vulnerability that allows unauthenticated users to browse the directory tree above the web application's context root by using request URIs including three or more dots ("/..."). Users running on Win2K and Unix systems are not susceptible to this vulnerability.

6 August 2001 - Apache LogKit 1.0b4 Released

The Avalon team is proud to announce the 1.0b4 beta release of LogKit. LogKit is an easy to use logging toolkit designed for secure performance-orientated logging. The distribution is available here.

30 July 2001 - Avalon Framework 4.0 Released

The Avalon team is proud to announce the 4.0 final release of the Avalon Framework.

About Avalon: The Avalon project is Apache's Java Server Framework. It is separated into five sub projects: Framework, Excalibur, LogKit, Cornerstone, and Phoenix. Its purpose is to simplify server side programming for Java based projects. It formalizes serveral best of breed practices and patterns for server side programming.

For more information about Avalon, please go to http://jakarta.apache.org/avalon.

About Avalon Framework 4.0: The Avalon Framework formalizes the contracts and patterns used in the other Avalon projects. It is derived from modern software engineering techniques and aims to provide a solid basis on which to build server products.

The Avalon Framework is already used in Cocoon2, an XML publishing framework. The Avalon Framework is also used in Apache JAMES, a Java(tm) Mail Server. Another project that is built on Avalon Framework is Jestkop, a cross-platform replacement for your ordinary desktop. If you are evaluating Avalon and want the proof that it's claims are valid check them out.

For more information about Avalon Framework 4.0, please go to http://jakarta.apache.org/avalon/framework.

22 July 2001 - Jakarta Tomcat 3.3-b1 Released

Tomcat 3.3 Beta 1 is the latest update to Tomcat 3.3. This version implements the final feature set intended for Tomcat 3.3. Work for the remaining releases will focus on bug fixes and updating the documentation. You can find everything here.

As Tomcat 3.3 documentation is updated, an effort will be made to keep the Tomcat 3.3 Documentation site current with these updates. For the most up to date documentation for Tomcat 3.3, please check this site.

22 July 2001 - Apache LogKit 1.0b3 Released

The Avalon team is proud to announce the 1.0b3 beta release of LogKit. LogKit is an easy to use logging toolkit designed for secure performance-orientated logging. The distribution is available here.

20 July 2001 - Tomcat 4.0-beta-6 Released

The Tomcat team is proud to announce the availability of the latest beta release of Tomcat 4.0. This next-generation servlet and JSP container includes support for the Proposed Final Draft 3 versions of the Servlet 2.3 and JSP 1.2 specifications, many bug fixes, performance improvements, an updated version of the Apache web connector, and a new experimental installer for Windows platforms. Get your copy here:

See the enclosed RELEASE-NOTES-4.0-B6.txt for more information about the contents of this release.

16 June 2001 - Velocity v1.1 Released

powered-by-logo.gif Version 1.1 of the Velocity Template Engine is now released. Congratulations and thanks to all participants in the Velocity community.

The distribution is available here, and includes a complete jar, source code, examples and documentation.

Major enhancements include :

  • The new event-handling facility, allowing finer control and interaction with the rendering process.
  • Internationalization support through full support of template character encoding.
  • Optimizations for improved performance.

Minor enhancements are too numerous to mention. Please see the change log for details.

15 June 2001 - Struts 1.0 Released

As promised at JavaOne, the Struts project team is proud to announce the availability of Version 1.0 of the Struts Framework. The binary distribution for Struts 1.0 is available here and the source distribution is available here.

6 June 2001 - Avalon beta 3

The Avalon team announces the beta 3 release of Avalon Framework and Excalibur 4.0. This release includes a serious bug fix in Excalibur's Component Management infrastructure. If you have downloaded Avalon 4.0 beta 2, then you are encouraged to upgrade. The bug only affects users of the ExcaliburComponentSelector.

The Avalon project is Apache's Java Server Framework. It is separated into six sub projects: Framework, Excalibur, LogKit, Cornerstone, Phoenix, and Testlet. It's purpose is to simplify server side programming for Java based projects. It formalizes serveral best of breed practices and patterns for server side programming.

Avalon Framework 4.0 beta 3

Avalon Framework is the core of all of the Avalon projects, and formalizes all the contracts and patterns used within all Avalon compliant projects.

Avalon Excalibur 4.0 beta 3

Avalon Excalibur contains several premade Avalon Components and utilities to make your server side programming easier. There are several pool implementations, Component management implamentations, and database management implementations.

4 June 2001 - Jakarta Turbine 2.1 Released

The Turbine Team is proud to announce the 2.1 release of Turbine. This release includes a new version of the Turbine Developer's Kit and a new stand-alone version of Torque. You can find everything here.

4 June 2001 - Avalon beta 2

The Avalon team are proud to annound the beta 2 release of Avalon Framework and Excalibur 4.0 and Avalon LogKit 1.0. This release includes bugfixes and more current documentation.

The Avalon project is Apache's Java Server Framework. It is separated into six sub projects: Framework, Excalibur, LogKit, Cornerstone, Phoenix, and Testlet. It's purpose is to simplify server side programming for Java based projects. It formalizes serveral best of breed practices and patterns for server side programming.

Avalon Framework 4.0 beta 2

Avalon Framework is the core of all of the Avalon projects, and formalizes all the contracts and patterns used within all Avalon compliant projects.

Avalon Excalibur 4.0 beta 2

Avalon Excalibur contains several premade Avalon Components and utilities to make your server side programming easier. There are several pool implementations, Component management implamentations, and database management implementations.

Avalon LogKit 1.0 beta 2

Avalon LogKit is a logging toolkit designed for secure performance orientated logging in applications. It is the logging toolkit used in all of Avalon's projects.

2 June 2001 - Velocity v1.1 Release Candidate 2

The 2nd release candidate of version 1.1 of the Velocity Template Engine has been released.

This release contains updates to release candidate 1, specifically in the areas of event handling and template encodings. All Velocity users are encouraged to help test.

The complete release distribution can be found here, and the source can be found in CVS under the VEL_1_1_RC2 tag.

02 June 2001 - Struts 1.0-beta-3 Released

Struts 1.0-beta-3 is a release candidate version of the Struts Framework, likely to be the final beta prior to the Struts 1.0 Final Release, which is currently scheduled for June 15, 2001. Please help identify any remaining bugs that need to be fixed prior to final release, and report them to our bug tracking system at http://nagoya.apache.org/bugzilla/.

The binary distribution of Struts 1.0-beta-3 is available here, and the source distribution of Struts 1.0-beta-3 is available here.

28 May 2001 - Jakarta Tomcat 3.2.2 Released

Tomcat 3.2.2 is a maintenance release that fixes several bugs since the 3.2.1 release and corrects all known specification compliance issues. The release is available for download here.

28 May 2001 - Jakarta Turbine 2.1b3 Released

Turbine 2.1b3 is the third of three betas scheduled for release before the 2.1 final release at JavaOne on June 4th. This release includes a new version of the Turbine Developer's Kit and a new stand-alone version of Torque. You can find everything here.

20 May 2001 - Velocity v1.1 release candidate 1

The 1st release candidate of version 1.1 of the Velocity Template Engine is now released.

Major enhancements include :

  • The new event-handling facility, allowing finer control and interaction with the rendering process.
  • Internationalization support through full support of template character encoding.
  • Optimizations for improved performance.

There are many minor enhancements as well - all are listed in the change log.

20 May 2001 - Jakarta Turbine 2.1b2 Released

Turbine 2.1b2 is the second of three betas scheduled for release before the 2.1 final release at JavaOne on June 4th. This release includes a new version of the Turbine Developer's Kit and a new stand-alone version of Torque. You can find everything here.

19 May 2001 - Jakarta Struts 1.0-b2 Released

Struts 1.0-b2 is an update release in preparation for a final release of Struts 1.0 prior to JavaOne 2001. The changes included are documented in the Release Notes. Get your copy of this latest release here.

19 May 2001 - Jakarta log4j 1.1 Released

We are pleased to announce log4j version 1.1 final release. It is backward compatible with log4j version 1.0. Thus, it should be considered as a drop-in replacement for previous log4j versions from the Jakarta project.

log4j 1.1 is primarily a maintenance release that corrects many wrinkles in 1.0. There were important internal changes, in particular, we now use JavaBeans style configuration of log4j components. This has caused some APIs to be deprecated although they are still accessible.

18 May 2001 - Jakarta Tomcat 3.3-m3 Released

Tomcat 3.3 Milestone 3 is the latest update to Tomcat 3.3. Beyond bug fixes, it contains a new tag pooling feature implemented by Casey Lucas. You can find everything here.

14 May 2001 - Jakarta Tomcat 4.0-beta-5 Released

Tomcat 4.0-beta-5 is the latest update to the next generation version of Tomcat 4.0. It fixes two security vulnerabilities that were discovered in Tomcat 4.0-b4 (and prior versions). Anyone who downloaded Tomcat 4.0-b4 is urged to update immediately. Get your copy here.

14 May 2001 - Jakarta Turbine 2.1b1 Released

Turbine 2.1b1 is the first of three betas scheduled for release before the 2.1 final release at JavaOne on June 4th. This release includes a new version of the Turbine Developer's Kit and a new stand-alone version of Torque. You can find everything here.

10 May 2001 - Jakarta Tomcat 4.0-beta-4 Released

Tomcat 4.0-beta-4 is the latest update to the next generation version of Tomcat 4.0. It supports the most recent specification updates (Servlet 2.3 Proposed Final Draft 2, JavaServer Pages 1.2 Proposed Final Draft 2), support for looking up users and roles in a JNDI-accessed directory server, and many bug fixes. Get your copy here.

9 May 2001 - Jakarta ORO 2.0.2 Released!

We are proud to announce the release of Jakarta ORO 2.0.2! This is a full featured regular expression package for Java. This new version fixes several bugs that people have reported since 2.0.1 was released.

4 May 2001 - JavaWorld Selects Log4J and Tomcat as Finalists

JavaWorld has selected the Jakarta Project's Log4J and Tomcat 3.2 subprojects as finalists in the 2001 JavaWorld Editors' Choice Awards.

Log4J was named as a finalist in the "Most Useful New or Revised Java API/Technology" category, and Tomcat 3.2 was named as a finalist in the "Most Innovative Java Product" category.

Chosen by a group of JavaWorld editors and forum moderators, the selection of Tomcat 3.2 and Log4J demonstrates the Java community's recognition of the innovation and commitment behind the efforts of these two Jakarta communities.

2 May 2001 - Jakarta Commons Cactus 1.0 Released

The Jakarta Commons project is proud to announce the release of Cactus v1.0.

23 April 2001 - Jakarta Velocity 1.0.1 Released

The final v1.0.1 release of the Velocity Template engine is now available. This is a minor bugfix update of the v1.0 release.

20 April 2001 - Jakarta Commons Cactus 1.0 beta-2 Released

The Jakarta Commons project is proud to announce the release of Cactus v1.0 beta-2 . This is the second of two planned beta releases, on track for our projected 1.0 release on May 1, 2001.

20 April 2001 - log4j 1.1 beta 4 Released

After a three month wait, we are pleased to announce log4j version 1.1 beta4, a final-release candidate. It is 100% backward compatible with log4j version 1.0. Thus, it should be considered as a drop-in replacement for previous log4j versions from the Jakarta project.

log4j 1.1 is primarily a maintenance release that corrects many wrinkles in 1.0. There were important internal changes, in particular, we now use JavaBeans style configuration of log4j components. This has caused some APIs to be deprecated although they are still accessible.

9 April 2001 - Jakarta Commons Cactus 1.0 beta-1 Released

The newly-formed Jakarta Commons project is proud to announce that Cactus v1.0 beta-1 has been released and is available for download.

Formerly known as J2EEUnit, Cactus is a simple test framework for unit testing server-side Java code. Based on JUnit, its primary goal is to be able to unit test server side java methods which use Servlet objects. Previously hosted by SourceForge, Cactus was generously donated to the Jakarta Commons project by Vincent Massol. He will continue his work on Cactus here, and we thank him for his contributions and hard work.

2 April 2001 - Tomcat 4.0-beta-3 Released

Tomcat 4.0-beta-3 is an update to the Tomcat 4.0-beta-2 distribution that was released on 30 March 2001. It fixes a further security vulnerability that was not completely repaired in the beta 2 release. Anyone who has downloaded Tomcat 4.0-beta-2 should immediately update to this version. Download the latest distribution from here

2 April 2001 - Velocity 1.0 Released

The Velocity project is proud to announce that the the Velocity Template Engine version 1.0 is now released and available at the Velocity project web site. A great tool for web development using the MVC design pattern, it's useful beyond the web - use it to generate source code, SQL and DB schemas, XML documents and more. It's a great addition to your Java toolbox.

Also, as a reminder, take a look at the "Best Practices" profile of Velocity on Sun's Dot-Com Builder developer information site.

30 March 2001 - Tomcat 4.0-beta-2 Released

Tomcat 4.0-beta-2 is the most recent release of the next generation version of the Tomcat servlet and JSP container. It includes fixes to two security vulnerabilities, numerous new features, and a large number of bug fixes. Get your copy here.

30 March 2001 - Sun Profiles Velocity on Dot-Com Builder Website

Sun Dot-Com Builder has written an excellent profile article about the Velocity template engine. Velocity 1.0 will be released on Monday April 2, 2001.

29 March 2001 - IBM WebSphere Portal Server

IBM recently announced their IBM WebSphere Portal Server. This announcement is interesting because their software is built on top of several Jakarta/XML Apache.org technologies including:

26 March 2001 - Velocity 1.0 Beta 2 Release

The Velocity project is proud to announce the release of Velocity 1.0 beta 2, the second release candidate of the Velocity template engine. This is the second of two planned beta releases, on track for our projected 1.0 release on April 2, 2001.

20 March 2001 - Velocity 1.0 Beta 1 Release

The Velocity project is proud to announce the release of Velocity 1.0 beta 1, the first release candidate of the Velocity template engine. This is the first of two planned beta releases. Our projected 1.0 release date is April 2, 2001.

19 March 2001 - March PMC Meeting Minutes

Minutes of the March PMC meeting are available.

17 March 2001 - Tomcat 3.3 Release

The second milestone release of Tomcat 3.3 is available for download and testing. As a Tomcat 3.x release, it remains an implementation of the Servlet 2.2 and JSP 1.1 specifications.

16 March 2001 - JDBC custom tag 1.0 Release

The JDBC tag library is designed for reading from and writing to databases. Features include:

  • Seamless support for multiple databases,
  • Obtaining connections from Drivers, DataSources, and JNDI DataSources,
  • Support for Statements and PreparedStatements,
  • Automatic looping of ResultSets,
  • And so much more!

03 March 2001 - Ant 1.3 Release

The latest release of Ant, version 1.3, is now available for download at the Jakarta web site. This release contains many new tasks and a number of bug fixes.

28 February 2001 - Scrape custom tag 1.0 Release

The scrape tag library can scrape or extract content from web documents and display the content in your JSP. For example, you could scrape stock quotes from other web sites and display them in your pages.

23 February 2001 - Struts 1.0 Beta 1 Released

Version 1.0-beta-1 of the Struts Framework is now available for download.

Struts is an open source project, under the sponsorship of the Apache Software Foundation, to produce framework useful in building web applications with Java Servlet and JavaServer Pages (JSP) technology. Struts encourages application architectures based on the Model-View-Controller (MVC) design paradigm.

11 February 2001 - James Project Migrated

The Java Apache Mail Enterprise Server has been migrated from the Java Apache Project over to the Jakarta project. There are still some rough areas of the website to be worked out, so please be patient.

05 January 2001 - Tomcat 4.0 Beta 1 Release

The newest release of Tomcat 4.0 beta 1 is now available at the Jakarta web site. This release is the first in a series of betas that will lead to a production quality release of Tomcat 4.0 later this year. At the same time, active development work on Tomcat 4.1 will begin.

NOTE - While the code for Tomcat 4.0 running in stand alone mode is considered to be near production quality, the web connector to run behind Apache is still alpha quality code, with limited functionality. It is likely that there will be interim updates of the web connector software in between beta releases of the entire Tomcat 4.0 package.

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