[ANNOUNCE] Apache OpenWebBeans 1.6.0

[Mark Struberg]

Good evening ladies and gentlemen!

It’s a great pleasure to announce the release of Apache OpenWebBeans-1.6.0.

Apache OpenWebBeans is a CDI container (Contexts and Dependency Injection for
Java) and targets the CDI-1.2 specification (JavaEE 7). We pass the standalone 
CDI TCK and the JavaEE7 WebProfile part of the CDI-TCK (in Apache TomEE-7.0).

OpenWebBeans is modularly built and can be used either in pure Java SE, in a
Servlet Container like e.g. Tomcat or in fully fledged JavaEE containers.
Our core is only 500k and thus brings full JavaEE compatibility at a smaller 
size of most so called ‚micro solutions‘.

Distribution packages can be downloaded from 
http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/openwebbeans/1.6.0/
The release is also available via maven 
http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/org/apache/openwebbeans/


We’ve now also included single command installer scripts in our binary 
distribution which can be used as easy as:

$ unzip openwebbeans-distribution-1.6.0-binary.zip
$ cd openwebbeans-distribution-1.6.0
$ ./install_owb_tomcat7.bat /opt/your/apache-tomcat-8.x.x

(works with Apache Tomcat7 and 8)


Please also visit our homepage http://openwebbeans.apache.org

have fun, 
The Apache OpenWebBeans Team

[ANNOUNCEMENT] HttpComponents Client 4.5 GA Released

[Oleg Kalnichevski]

The Apache HttpComponents project is pleased to announce 4.5 GA release
of HttpComponents HttpClient.

HttpClient 4.5 (GA) is a minor feature release that includes several
incremental enhancements to the existing functionality such as support
for private domains in the Mozilla Public Suffix List.

Users of HttpClient 4.x are advised to upgrade.

Download -
http://hc.apache.org/downloads.cgi
Release notes -
https://www.apache.org/dist/httpcomponents/httpclient/RELEASE_NOTES-4.4.x.txt
HttpComponents site -
http://hc.apache.org/

About HttpComponents HttpClient

The Hyper-Text Transfer Protocol (HTTP) is perhaps the most significant
protocol used on the Internet today. Web services, network-enabled
appliances and the growth of network computing continue to expand the
role of the HTTP protocol beyond user-driven web browsers, while
increasing the number of applications that require HTTP support.

Although the java.net package provides basic functionality for accessing
resources via HTTP, it doesn't provide the full flexibility or
functionality needed by many applications. HttpClient seeks to fill this
void by providing an efficient, up-to-date, and feature-rich package
implementing the client side of the most recent HTTP standards and
recommendations.

Designed for extension while providing robust support for the base HTTP
protocol, HttpClient may be of interest to anyone building HTTP-aware
client applications such as web browsers, web service clients, or
systems that leverage or extend the HTTP protocol for distributed
communication.

The Apache News Round-up: week ending 5 June 2015

[Sally Khudairi]

 this announcement is available online at http://s.apache.org/BTH

We've kicked the week off with the release of our first official annual report 
http://s.apache.org/ZVp, and have been busily tracking numerous activities 
across the Apache community: 

ApacheCon™ –the official conference series of The Apache Software Foundation. 
- CFP open for Apache events Europe --Apache: Big Data and ApacheCon: Core-- 28 
September - 2 October 2015 in Budapest http://apachecon.com/ 

ASF Infrastructure –our distributed team on four continents keeps the ASF's 
infrastructure running around the clock. 
- Uptime over the past week is a kicking 99.51% http://status.apache.org/ 

ASF Fundraising  Sponsorship –the ASF relies on individual donors and 
corporate sponsors to help bolster existing projects, incubate new initiatives, 
and promote meritocratic, community-driven development The Apache Way. 
- Welcome new ASF Sponsor PhoenixNAP, joining Bloomberg, Comcast, Hortonworks, 
HP, and IBM at the Gold Level. http://apache.org/foundation/thanks 

Apache Calcite (incubating) – a dynamic data management framework. Its 
cost-based optimizer converts queries, represented in relational algebra, into 
executable plans. 
- Apache Calcite 1.3.0 (incubating) released 
http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/incubator/calcite/apache-calcite-1.3.0-incubating/
 

Apache Commons™ Pool –Open Source software library provides an object-pooling 
API and a number of object pool implementations. 
- Apache Commons Pool 2.4.1 released 
http://commons.apache.org/proper/commons-pool/download_pool.cgi 

Apache cTAKES™ –an Open Source natural language processing system for 
information extraction from electronic medical record clinical free-text. 
- Apache cTAKES 3.2.2 released http://ctakes.apache.org/downloads.cgi 

Apache Flume™ –a distributed, reliable, and available service for efficiently 
collecting, aggregating, and moving large amounts of log data. 
- Apache Flume 1.6.0 released http://flume.apache.org/download.html 

Apache HttpComponents™ Client – a library for client-side HTTP communication 
built on HttpCore. It provides connection management, cookie management, and 
authentication. This is the successor to the widely used Jakarta Commons 
HttpClient 3.1. 
- Apache HttpComponents Client 4.5 GA released 
http://hc.apache.org/downloads.cgi 

Apache Jackrabbit™ –a fully compliant implementation of the Content Repository 
for Java(TM) Technology API, version 2.0 (JCR 2.0) as specified in the Java 
Specification Request 283 (JSR 283). 
- Apache Jackrabbit 2.8.1 released http://jackrabbit.apache.org/downloads.html 

Apache Mahout™ –an environment for quickly creating machine learning 
applications that scale and run on the highest performance parallel computation 
engines available. 
- Apache Mahout 0.10.1 released http://www.apache.org/dist/mahout/0.10.1/ 

Apache Olingo™ –a Java library which enables developers to implement OData 
producers and OData consumers. 
- Apache Olingo 2.0.4 released 
http://olingo.apache.org/doc/odata2/download.html 

Apache OpenWebBeans™ –a CDI container (Contexts and Dependency Injection for 
Java) and targets the CDI-1.2 specification (JavaEE 7). We pass the standalone 
CDI TCK and the JavaEE7 WebProfile part of the CDI-TCK (in Apache TomEE-7.0). 
- Apache OpenWebBeans 1.6.0 released  
http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/openwebbeans/1.6.0/ 

Apache Tomcat™ –an Open Source software implementation of the Java Servlet, 
JavaServer Pages, Java Unified Expression Language and Java WebSocket 
technologies. 
- End of life for Apache Tomcat 6.0.x 
http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/www-announce/201506.mbox/%3C556ECB68.2080804%40apache.org%3E
 


Did You Know? 

- Did you know that Apache Airavata is a software framework for executing and 
managing computational jobs and workflows on distributed computing resources in 
Astronomy, Astrophysics, Bioinformatics, Biophysics, Computational Chemistry, 
Nuclear Physics, and other scientific fields? 

- Did you know that the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory uses Apache 
Phoenix to load and query hundreds of billions of records? 

- Did you know that eHealth Africa uses Apache CouchDB in their efforts to help 
implement, manage, and evaluate health projects? 


Apache Community Notices: 

- Show your support for Apache with ASF-approved swag from 
http://www.zazzle.com/featherwear and http://s.apache.org/landsend --all 
proceeds benefit the ASF! 

- Reminder: How to Safely Download Apache OpenOffice http://s.apache.org/a1R 

- Audio recordings from select tracks from ApacheCon Austin are available at 
http://feathercast.apache.org/ includes Cloud, Community, httpd, and Apache 
HTTP Server Founder's panel! 

- Presentations from ApacheCon Austin are available online 
http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/apachecon-north-america/program/slides 

- Apache CouchDB is seeking design and editorial assistance in English 
http://markmail.org/thread/dgvjpwnxie6pji5j 

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