The Apache Portals Jetspeed Team announced the final release of the Jetspeed
2.0 Open Source Enterprise Portal. This final release is fully-compliant with
the Portlet Specification 1.0 (JSR-168). Jetspeed-2 has passed the TCK (Test
Compatibility Kit) suite and is fully certified to the Java Portlet
Standard. The Jetspeed team will be presenting the new 2.0 release at
ApacheCon US 2005 on December 10th in San Diego. Jetspeed is a full
implementation of the Java Portlet API.
Notable features include security components backed by LDAP and database
implementations and some robust administration interfaces. Custom portals can
be built and deployed using the Jetspeed plugin for Maven.
Developers can use the Jetspeed PSML language to assemble portlets and the
Apache Portals Br... (more)
Apache Object/Relational Bridge (OJB) is an Object/Relational mapping tool
that allows transparent persistence for Java objects against relational
databases.
The OJB team recently announced the 1.0.4 release, with copious notes as
follows:
New Features:
* Support for embedded & network Derby (only distinct count queries don't
work yet)
* Added ability to prepare the database for OJB's uni... (more)
(October 15, 2002) - Sonic Software has contributed standards-based
enterprise-class SOAP messaging capabilities to Apache Axis, the next
generation of Apache SOAP 2.0. With the acceptance of source code for
inclusion in Apache Axis 1.0, Sonic delivers its asynchronous Web services
expertise to the largest open-source Web application community.
Sonic's submission, which provides a fundamen... (more)
BEA Seeks "Ubiquity" Through Open Source Community, Say Its Top Execs Oh
Beehive!
The Apache Software Foundation, the leading open source community partner for
commercial companies, has announced that BEA's "Project Beehive" is
now officially an open-source project in the Apache community.
Based on the runtime application framework in BEA WebLogic Workshop, what
will now be known as Apache... (more)
At JavaOne this week, the Eclipse Foundation, along with Instantiations,
Inc., and BEA Systems announced the creation of "Pollinate", a new
open-source incubator project focused on creating an Eclipse-based
development environment and toolset to be named Eclipse Pollinate. Eclipse
Pollinate, which will be designed to integrate with Apache Beehive, the
industry’s first easy-to-use, cross-... (more)