[ANNOUNCE] Apache Flex SDK Installer 1.0-incubating released

[OmPrakash Muppirala]

Hi,

The Apache Flex (Incubating) team is pleased to announce the availability
of the Apache Flex SDK Installer 1.0-incubating release.  The source
distributions and installer binaries can be downloaded here:
http://incubator.apache.org/flex/installer.html

*About the Apache Flex SDK Installer*
The Apache Flex SDK Installer AIR application provides an easy,
single-click installation of the Apache Flex SDK and all its dependencies.
 This will make it suitable for working with IDEs such as Adobe Flash
Builder, FDT, IntelliJ IDEA, FlashDevelop, etc.  This tool is intended to
allow end users to start building their Apache Flex application within
minutes.  This also lets you seamlessly transition from older SDKs to the
latest Apache Flex SDK release.

The application downloads the following:

   - Apache Flex SDK
   - The AIR SDK (Windows vs. Mac) based on the current platform
   - Adobe Flash Player playerglobal.swc
   - SwfObject
   - Open Source Media Framework (OSMF)
   - Adobe Text Layout Format (TLF)

 Optionally, the application will download these files if the user wants:

   - Adobe BlazeDS
   - Adobe Embedded Font Support

The application ships with an auto-update functionality that will prompt
the users to upgrade to the latest version when a new release is made
available.

*Help spread the word:*

We have made available an installer badge
athttp://incubator.apache.org/flex/utilities.html#installerBadge
If you have a blog or a website, you can copy-paste the html code snippet
which will help more and more end users to very easily get access to the
Apache Flex SDK.  They will be able to get setup and start coding within
minutes.

Please post directly on the flex-...@incubator.apache.org mailing list for
any feedback or feature requests you may have.

Thanks,
The Apache Flex (Incubating) team

[ANNOUNCE] Apache UIMA-AS 2.4.0 released

[Jaroslaw Cwiklik]

The Apache UIMA team is pleased to announce the release of version 2.4.0 of
the Apache UIMA AS, which includes asynchronous scaleout capabilities
for the UIMA annotators.

The UIMA AS 2.4.0 binaries and source are available for download from:
http://uima.apache.org/downloads.cgi

UIMA AS includes the base UIMA SDK and augments it with scaleout
capability; it is a next-generation replacement for the original CPM
(Collection Processing Management)
scaleout that is part of the core UIMA framework. For more information,
please visit:
http://uima.apache.org/doc-uimaas-what.html

This release contains a number of improvements and bug fixes. Notable
updates in this release include:

  - Added support for programmatic generation of deployment descriptors

  - Fixed UIMA-AS client to work with user supplied CR

  - Fixed UIMA-AS Aggregate to block listener thread until a CAS is
processed

  - Supports securing ActiveMQ connection with application provided
credentials

  - Modified UIMA-AS client to handle InterruptedException while blocking
in sendAndReceive()

  - Added support to collect AE performance breakdown and return it along
with a reply

  - Fixed a bug to prevent a parent CAS from accessing its Flow object
until all child CASes
obtain their Flow objects.

  - Expanded UIMA-AS client API to include a callback containing
information where a CAS
is being processed (host IP, PID and thread ID)

  - Improved error handling and stability

For a complete list of bugs and improvements included in this release
please see
http://uima.apache.org/d/uima-as-2.4.0/issuesFixed/jira-report.html.

-- Jerry Cwiklik, for the Apache UIMA Development Team