Apache News Desk

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)

Open Source Apache OJB 1.0.4 Enables Transparent Java Persistence

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)

Sonic Contributes Enterprise-Class SOAP Messaging to Apache Axis 1.0

(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)

"Beehive" Now Officially an Open Source Project: Apache Beehive

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)

Eclipse "Pollinate" Project to Integrate with Apache Beehive

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)