Avalon Phoenix 4.0a1 Released ----------------------------- The Avalon team is proud to announce the 4.0a1 alpha release of Avalon Phoenix. About Avalon ------------ The Avalon project is Apache's Java Server Framework. It is separated into five sub projects: Framework, Excalibur, LogKit, Cornerstone, and Phoenix. Its purpose is to simplify server side programming for Java based projects. It formalizes serveral best of breed practices and patterns for server side programming. For more information about Avalon, please go to http://jakarta.apache.org/avalon About Avalon Phoenix 4.0a1 -------------------------- Avalon Phoenix is a micro-kernel designed and implemented on top of the Avalon Framework. It is both an API to program to and a reference implementation. The reference implementation provides a number of facilities to manage the environment of Server Applications. Such facilities include log management, classloading, thread management and security. In the future it will conditionally offer support extra facilities such as central server management, server pools, and other facilities aimed at reducing the time to market. The API defines a standard method of piecing togther server components and creating a server. In order to see Avalon Phoenix at work, you should grab the example applications or servers that are included in Avalon Cornerstone. Apache James (http://jakarta.apache.org/james/) uses Phoenix for it's mail server. For more information about Avalon Phoenix 4.0a1, please go to http://jakarta.apache.org/avalon/phoenix ChangeLog for Avalon Phoenix 4.0a1 *) Too many things to enumerate here. This is the first public release, and the code is still considered alpha. In future releases, we will be much more careful to record the changes to Phoenix. [BL] Downloads for Avalon Phoenix 4.0a1 available at http://jakarta.apache.org/builds/jakarta-avalon/release/phoenix/latest --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]