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. Avalon ------ http://jakarta.apache.org/avalon 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 --------------------------- http://jakarta.apache.org/avalon/framework 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 --------------------------- http://jakarta.apache.org/avalon/excalibur 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. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]