How about it guys! Everyone involved in the Avalon project post an entry
for Avalon Framework. The text of the post is here attached.Avalon Framework 4.0
I just did. Here's an HTML version of the release:
<p> The Avalon team is proud to announce the 4.0 final release of the Avalon Framework.</p>
<h2>About Avalon</h2> <p> 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.</p>
<p>For more information about Avalon, please go to
<a href="http://jakarta.apache.org/avalon";>http://jakarta.apache.org/avalon</a></p>
<h2>About Avalon Framework 4.0</h2> <p> 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.</p>
<p>For more information about Avalon Framework 4.0, please go to
<a href="http://jakarta.apache.org/avalon/framework";>http://jakarta.apache.org/avalon/framework</a></p>
<h3>ChangeLog for Avalon Framework 4.0</h3>
<ul> <li> Added new method to Component Manager and Selector for discovering if a Component exists inside or not. Also augmented the default versions with the basic implementation to discover them. [BL]
<li> Added stylesheet to convert Stylebook markup to DocBook markup. [BL]
<li> Changed the documentation build process to use Cocoon to build the site. [BL]
<li> Added new "Developing with Avalon" book in DocBook format. [BL]
<li> Added Executable interface to activity package. [PD]
<li> Updated Resolvable interface to allow a ContextException to be thrown on failure. [PD]
<li> Add a makeReadOnly() method to the default implementations of Configuration, Context and ComponentManager. Calling this method after the respective object has been filled will make the object read-only. This is a safety precaution to stop code performing unwanted operations. [PD]
<li> Updated the javadocs of many of the classes. [PD]
<li> Update documentation so that it is more accurate and descriptive. [BL] </ul>
<p>Downloads for Avalon Framework 4.0 available at
<a href="http://jakarta.apache.org/builds/jakarta-avalon/release/framework/latest";>http://jakarta.apache.org/builds/jakarta-avalon/release/framework/latest</a>
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