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Jakarta Newsletter
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Issue: 6
Date: December 2002
Url: http://jakarta.apache.org/site/news/200212.html
As you would expect of the holiday season, not a lot was happening at
Jakarta other than some discussion, and the usual steady progress in a
number of projects. This issue has been delayed somewhat due to
commitments to my real work, but the next issue will hopefully be a
little more feature rich and prompt as plenty seems to be happening
already!
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
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General
Lucene
POI
General
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"Ideas, suggestions, and comments on the overall Jakarta project"
Editor: Rob Oxspring
"if continuous integration is a good thing on a small project, why not
apply it recursively and include all dependencies for which access to
source is provided" This has been the reasoning behind Gump [1] and
since so many Jakarta folk agreed [2] it was decided to promote Gump
from within alexandria to be a first class Jakarta subproject. Gump was
promoted out of alexandria to be a jakarta subproject. Gump had been
used to build all the latest versions of the jakarta code for a long
time now, and does a great job of keeping the developers on their toes
and helps maintain a high level of interoperability between subprojects.
For those that like Wikis, the turbine team talked us into starting up
our very own. As usual there was plenty of discussion about the pros and
cons, and plenty about the implementation [3,4] but Andy Oliver decided
to get the ball rolling with a simple system with minimal administration
needs [5].
Should Apache move into the world of C#? Does the JCP do Java any
favours? These are the general themes of this months big thread and
since both topics repeatedly come up at Jakarta, it will come as no
surprise to learn that opinions are mixed and conclusions are some time
off. Still, its always fun guessing which way to jump! [6,7]
[1] - http://jakarta.apache.org/gump/
[2] -
http://archives.apache.org/eyebrowse/BrowseList?listName=general@jakarta
.apache.org&by=thread&from=296622
[3] -
http://archives.apache.org/eyebrowse/BrowseList?listName=general@jakarta
.apache.org&by=thread&from=294885
[4] -
http://archives.apache.org/eyebrowse/BrowseList?listName=general@jakarta
.apache.org&by=thread&from=295289
[5] - http://nagoya.apache.org/wiki/apachewiki.cgi
[6] -
http://archives.apache.org/eyebrowse/BrowseList?listName=general@jakarta
.apache.org&by=thread&from=287011
[7] -
http://archives.apache.org/eyebrowse/BrowseList?listName=general@jakarta
.apache.org&by=thread&from=286144
Lucene
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"a high-performance, full-featured text search engine"
Editor: Otis Gospodnetic
Doug Cutting added Snowball Stemmers[1] to Lucene Sandbox Repository[2].
Snowball[3] is a small string processing language designed for creating
stemming algorithms for use in Information Retrieval. Snowball Stemmers
for Lucene project provides pre-compiled version of the Snowball
stemmers together with classes integrating them with the Lucene search
engine.
Previously Lucene supported only English, German, and Russian. Lucene
users can now make use of the code provided by this new project and gain
support for the following languages:
Danish
Dutch
English
Finnish
French
German
Italian
Norwegian
Portuguese
Russian
Spanish
Swedish
[1] - http://jakarta.apache.org/lucene/docs/lucene-sandbox/snowball/
[2] - http://jakarta.apache.org/lucene/docs/lucene-sandbox/
[3] - http://snowball.tartarus.org/
POI
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"APIs for manipulating various file formats based upon Microsoft's OLE 2
Compound Document format"
Editor: Glen Stampoultzis
Patch for custom palettes received. [1]
Andy created a patch for a proposed refactoring of the
EventRecordFactory. [2].
Ken was rather busy converting Poi to the latest and greatest Centipede.
release and making it all run under gump. [3]
Some idea's on refactoring the formula parser were discussed. [4]
Ken let us in on the correct way to do releases. [5]
Patch for recalc record comitted [6]
Support for horizontal centering during print [7]
Add support for setting the active cell in a worksheet through usermodel
[8]
[1] - http://nagoya.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=15743
[2] - http://nagoya.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=15660
[3] - http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=poi-dev&m=104065623 922418&w=2
[4] - http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=103973441900001&r=1&w =2
[5] - http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=poi-dev&m=103911596 709970&w=2
[6] - http://nagoya.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=13500
[7] - http://nagoya.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=15677
[8] - http://nagoya.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=15537
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