Thanks - will be in the final version. Rob ----- Original Message ----- From: "Andrew C. Oliver" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Jakarta General List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, November 06, 2002 2:16 PM Subject: Re: [DRAFT2] Jakarta Newsletter - October 2002
> U/f I don't have time to make a better entry (with links to an archive) and no one >responded for my call for help > > * POI put out a new development release that includes Macro support > * Shawn Laubach was voted a committer > * There was renewed interest in HDF our word port and several new folks expressed an >interest in volunteering > * Andy discovered the default encoding on Redhat 8 is now UTF-8 and not 8859-1, >hence finally we have a machine to test POI with a different default encoding and can fix that bug. > > -Andy > > > > Rob Oxspring wrote: > > >I'll give this another 3 hours or so, then assuming there are no problems / >additions I'll post it on announcements@jakarta > > > >Rob > > > >----- Original Message ----- > >From: "Rob Oxspring" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Sent: Wednesday, November 06, 2002 12:13 PM > >Subject: [DRAFT2] Jakarta Newsletter - October 2002 > > > > > > > > > >>Jakarta Newsletter > >>================== > >>Issue: 4 > >>Date: October 2002 > >>Url: http://jakarta.apache.org/site/news/200210.html > >> > >>After a break for a month the newsletter is back. Over the last two months there >has been lots of organisational discussion. After > >>announcing the Japanese translation project last time round, a similar project in >Korean has come to light - a section below has > >>been devoted to bringing you up to speed on progress. The lucene guys have been >making the usual steady progress mixing on both > >> > >> > >bugs > > > > > >>and features while the Struts team been introducing future plans and new members > >> > >>As always, I want to thank those who contributed and hope that you enjoy the read. >If you would like to comment further on any of > >>the highlighted discussions then please do so on the appropriate list, if you want >to comment on the newsletter itself then please > >>point your comments to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> > >>Rob Oxspring > >> > >> > >>Contents > >>-------- > >>General > >>Avalon > >>Commons > >>Korean Jakarta > >>Lucene > >>Struts > >> > >> > >> > >>General > >>======= > >>"Ideas, suggestions, and comments on the overall Jakarta project" > >>Editor: Rob Oxspring > >> > >>Jean-Frederic Clere was looking for a way to identify the version of the current >JVM. After questioning the reliability of various > >>options the conclusion turned out to be "It really depends on what you're trying >to discover" [1]. > >> > >>Vincent Massol was wondering just who his fellow apache committers were and the >results of his survey sparked a light hearted > >> > >> > >debate > > > > > >>about what we'd learned [2]. > >> > >>Does apache want another web application framework? Howard Ship has put Tapestry >[3] on the table and sparked off a long > >> > >> > >discussion. > > > > > >>Can we have too many? Is it different enough? Is code more important than >community? all angles are covered [4]. > >> > >>Is jakarta too big? Should project such as tomcat, ant and others be top level >projects? All these things are under discussion > >> > >> > >along > > > > > >>with setting up a dedicated incubator project at apache. This is just the tip of >the iceberg the apache community has been > >>discussing a big reorganisation [5, 6]. > >> > >>Dominic Gagne asked a slightly off topic question about the difference between >Struts and Turbine and sparked off a long and light > >>hearted discussion about various templating problems and solutions [7]. > >> > >>[1] - >http://archives.apache.org/eyebrowse/BrowseList?listName=general@;jakarta.apache.org&by=thread&from=247331 > >>[2] - > >> > >> > >> > >http://archives.apache.org/eyebrowse/SearchList?listId=&listName=general@;jakarta.apache.org&searchText=%22Committers%2C+who+are+we% 3 > > > > > >>F%22&defaultField=subject&Search=Search > >>[3] - http://tapestry.sf.net > >>[4] - > >> > >> > >> > >http://archives.apache.org/eyebrowse/BrowseList?listName=general@;jakarta.apache.org&from=260431&to=260431&count=73&by=thread&paged= f > > > > > >>alse > >>[5] - >http://archives.apache.org/eyebrowse/BrowseList?listName=general@;jakarta.apache.org&by=thread&from=262621 > >>[6] - >http://archives.apache.org/eyebrowse/BrowseList?listName=general@;jakarta.apache.org&by=thread&from=261440 > >>[7] - >http://archives.apache.org/eyebrowse/BrowseList?listId=19&by=thread&from=253037 > >> > >> > >> > >>Avalon > >>====== > >>"The Avalon project is an effort to create, design, develop and maintain a common >framework and set of components for applications > >>written using the Java language" > >>Editor: Leo Simons > >> > >>Things have been so active, I can only provide a small sampling of what's been >going on :) > >> > >>Like many projects at apache, avalon has been busy discussing how to fit into the >new structure that is currently in the works. > >>Being one of the projects that has suffered most from 'scope creep', there is a >lot to think about [1,2,3]. With avalon committers > >>on the Incubator and Commons PMCs, there's definately a promising perspective. > >> > >>There have also been quite a few bug fixes and enhancements in various places >(like Avalon Phoenix now providing good support for > >>using log4j [4] and allowing customizable classloader trees [5]). There's been >work integrating catalina and jo! [6] with phoenix. > >> > >>Following extended discussion [7,8,9], avalon also gained an implementation of the >delegate design pattern. > >> > >>[1] - http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=103578734000006&r=1&w=2 > >>[2] - http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=103597891500005&r=1&w=2 > >>[3] - http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=103545268100001&r=1&w=2 > >>[4] - http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=103546933700004&r=1&w=2 > >>[5] - >http://archives.apache.org/eyebrowse/BrowseList?listName=avalon-phoenix-dev@;jakarta.apache.org&by=thread&from=268738 > >>[6] - http://jakarta.apache.org/avalon/apps/apps/sevak/ > >>[7] - http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=103364295500007&r=1&w=2 > >>[8] - http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=103362114600002&r=1&w=2 > >>[9] - http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=103370102300001&r=1&w=2 > >> > >> > >> > >>Commons > >>======= > >>"creating and maintaining reusable Java components" > >>Editor: Henri Yandell > >> > >> > >>Releases > >>-------- > >>October has seen many new releases from the Jakarta Commons project: > >> > >>Commons Lang 1.0 was released on October 4th, a set of very generic components for >use in any Java project [1]. > >> > >>Commons Collections 2.1 was released on the 21st of October. Buffers and >Decorators were added, along with IteratorUtils and > >>ComparatorUtils [2]. > >> > >>Commons BeanUtils 1.5 was released two days later. All bugs in Bugzilla were >cleared out and a BeanComparator was added [3]. > >> > >>Commons Validator had its first release, at 1.0, on the first of November. >Technically not October news, but we're so excited we > >>don't care. Validator comes out of the Struts project and is designed to make >validating fields of data easier [4]. > >> > >>[1] - >http://jakarta.apache.org/builds/jakarta-commons/release/commons-lang/v1.0/RELEASE-NOTES.txt > >>[2] - >http://jakarta.apache.org/builds/jakarta-commons/release/commons-collections/v2.1/RELEASE-NOTES-2.1.html > >>[3] - >http://jakarta.apache.org/builds/jakarta-commons/release/commons-beanutils/v1.5/RELEASE-NOTES.txt > >>[4] - >http://jakarta.apache.org/builds/jakarta-commons/release/commons-validator/v1.0/RELEASE-NOTES.txt > >> > >> > >>Articles > >>-------- > >>The Digester project was the subject of articles at both OnJava [1] and JavaWorld >[2]. > >> > >>The Lang project was the subject of an article at Builder [3]. > >> > >>[1] - http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2002/10/23/digester.html > >>[2] - http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-10-2002/jw-1025-opensourceprofile.html > >>[3] - http://builder.com.com/article.jhtml?id=u00320021017yan01.htm&page=1&vf=tt > >> > >> > >>Gossip > >>------ > >>There is much talk over a new Clazz project, hiding away in the Commons-Sandbox. >Stephen Colebourne and Dmitri Plotnikov have been > >>leading a set of long threads on this. Aspects of this may see the BeanUtils >project transferring some of its low-level code over > >> > >> > >to > > > > > >>Lang to assist in Java Reflection. > >> > >>The Lang project will be consuming some aspects of the Patterns [located in the >sandbox] project's classes. > >> > >>The FileUpload project has moved from the sandbox to the main Commons repository. >So expect a release to sneak onto the horizon in > >>the next few months here. > >> > >>October was also home to a lot of talk on a new Apache-level project known as the >Apache-Commons. Inspired by you know who, it > >> > >> > >seeks > > > > > >>to provide reusable components with a level of language agnosticism. Figuring out >how the old Jakarta Commons works with the new > >>Apache Commons will probably take up time over the next half a year. > >> > >> > >> > >>Korean Jakarta > >>============== > >>"Jakarta Site in Korean" > >>Editor: Jaechun Noh > >> > >>Java developers in Korea have more interests in jakarta project than all the time. >But many of them have trouble directly reading > >>original English site. Most problems we are encounterd during development using >jakarta projects can be solved only if we search > >> > >> > >for > > > > > >>site manuals. We want many people directly searching informations by their >convenient languages. > >> > >>Currently about 35 people participate in the project, and Hangul translation of 13 >subprojects is in progress. Tomcat, Struts, Ant > >>Among those have many volunteers more than three since interests in those >subprojects are higher than any others in Korea. At the > >>end of this year, we plan to finish all documents in Tomcat 4.X, Struts 1.0.2, >POI, JMeter, Ant etc. We are all working with pure > >>purpose without any support from commercial corporation and without any reward. > >> > >>[1] - http://www.apache-korea.org/ > >> > >> > >> > >>Lucene > >>====== > >>"a high-performance, full-featured text search engine" > >>Editor: Otis Gospodnetic > >> > >>The biggest change to Lucene since Auguest was the addition of a mechanism that >allows Document and Field boosting [1]. This > >> > >> > >change > > > > > >>allows one to give additional boost to certain documents and/or fields, which >results in those documents getting a higher ranking > >>when they match a query. > >> > >>A new method, setPositionIncrement() in Token class was added. This permits, for >the purpose of phrase searching, placing multiple > >>terms in a single position. This is useful with stemmers that produce multiple >possible stems for a word. This also permits the > >>introduction of gaps between terms, so that terms which are adjacent in a token >stream will not be matched by and exact phrase > >>query. This makes it possible, e.g., to build an analyzer where phrases are not >matched over stop words which have been removed. > >>Finally, repeating a token with an increment of zero can also be used to boost >scores of matches on that token. > >> > >>Boris Okner [2] made a big contribution with his Russian Analyzer. > >> > >>There was some smaller bug fixes, new classes (QueryFilter), IndexWriter class got >getAnalyzer() method, etc. > >> > >>[1] - >http://nagoya.apache.org/eyebrowse/ReadMsg?listName=lucene-dev@;jakarta.apache.org&msgId=417758 > >>[2] - > >>http://nagoya.apache.org/eyebrowse/BrowseList?listName=lucene-dev@;jakarta.apache.org&by=author&from=10162&to=10162&first=1&count=5 > >> > >> > >> > >>Struts > >>====== > >>Editor:Ted Husted > >> > >>The Struts team is proud to welcome 4 new Committers this month, David Karr, Eddie >Bush, David Graham, and James Mitchell [1]. > >> > >>Everyone is working steadily toward the release of Struts 1.1 beta 3. To help keep >everyone on track, the team added a Development > >>Roadmap [2]. > >> > >>There are a number of "nice to haves" that won't make Struts 1.1 which are now >slated for Struts 1.2. Farther down the road, > >> > >> > >Struts > > > > > >>2.0 will rely upon the new standards, like JavaServer Faces and JSTL. > >> > >>The platform for Struts 1.1 will remain Servlet 2.2 and JSP 1.1. However, a Struts >JSTL taglib is available in the nightly build > >>contrib directory and will be released with Struts 1.1 as a separate download. > >> > >>Solid Struts support for the other new standard, Struts JavaServer Faces, is under >development, but cannot be released quite yet > >>[3]. > >> > >>Meanwhile, the Struts User list will continue to enjoy its "casual Friday" policy. >Off-topic messages are tolerated on Fridays so > >>long as the message is prefixed with the token [FRIDAY]. 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