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<b>Issue:</b> 5
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<b>Date:</b> November 2002
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<b>Url:</b> <a
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<p>It has been a quiet month.
Commons has killed on old component and welcomed a new one, while other components
have kept up fixes, features and releases. Elsewhere there has been more discussion
about the infrastructure and community at Apache, and an attempt to be helpful to
those developers using IDEs</p>
<p>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 <a
href="http://jakarta.apache.org/site/mail.html";>appropriate list</a>, if you want to
comment on the newsletter itself then please point your comments to <a
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<p><b>Editor:</b> Rob Oxspring</p>
<p>Andrew Oliver decided to do
something about the Java developers who "cut their teeth" on IDEs and don't understand
the intricacies of the command line tools that are used under the hood. The page [<a
href="#General1">1</a>] was welcomed by many and was rapidly expanded [<a
href="#General2">2</a>] and should hopefully be a resource useful to a wide range of
developers.</p>
<p>
Duplicated or pointless import statements appear over time in most Java
code. This is an issue that Tom Copeland wanted to tackle, and sparked a few
iterations [<a href="#General3">3</a>] of the "bad imports" report [<a
href="#General4">4</a>].
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<li><a name="General1">[1] - <a
href="http://archives.apache.org/eyebrowse/BrowseList?[EMAIL PROTECTED]&from=281536&to=281536&count=39&by=thread&paged=false";>http://archives.apache.org/eyebrowse/BrowseList?[EMAIL PROTECTED]&from=281536&to=281536&count=39&by=thread&paged=false</a></a></li>
<li><a name="General2">[2] - <a
href="http://jakarta.apache.org/site/idedevelopers.html
">http://jakarta.apache.org/site/idedevelopers.html </a></a></li>
<li><a name="General3">[3] - <a
href="http://archives.apache.org/eyebrowse/BrowseList?[EMAIL PROTECTED]&by=thread&from=271386";>http://archives.apache.org/eyebrowse/BrowseList?[EMAIL PROTECTED]&by=thread&from=271386</a></a></li>
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href="http://cvs.apache.org/~tcopeland/jakarta_bad_imports.htm";>http://cvs.apache.org/~tcopeland/jakarta_bad_imports.htm</a></a></li>
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<p><i>"Apache Ant is a Java-based build
tool"</i></p>
<p><b>Editor:</b> Stefan Bodewig</p>
<p>The biggest news in Ant land is
that Ant has been promoted to a top-level project at the board meeting in November.
Much of the discussion on ant-dev has been centered around the proposed board
resolution, the formation of the initial PMC and similar issues during the last
months. [<a href="#Ant1">1</a>,<a href="#Ant2">2</a>,<a href="#Ant3">3</a>]</p>
<p>While Ant is leaving the
oversight of the Jakarta PMC with this move, Ant's committers are not necessarily
leaving the Jakarta community, many of us will still be around and contribute where we
see fit. </p>
<p>After the release of Ant 1.5.1 at
the beginning of October, we've kept on fixing smaller bugs in the 1.5 branch, so a
1.5.2 release is getting more likely. At the same time, development in the HEAD
branch is picking up momentum again as we start adding new features and experiment
with some stuff. [<a href="#Ant4">4</a>,<a href="#Ant5">5</a>]</p>
<p>
<li><a name="Ant1">[1] - <a
href="http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=103658833500006&r=1&w=2";>http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=103658833500006&r=1&w=2</a></a></li>
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href="http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=103702213600002&r=1&w=2";>http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=103702213600002&r=1&w=2</a></a></li>
<li><a name="Ant3">[3] - <a
href="http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=103778589600002&r=1&w=2";>http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=103778589600002&r=1&w=2</a></a></li>
<li><a name="Ant4">[4] - <a
href="http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=103834929300004&r=1&w=2";>http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=103834929300004&r=1&w=2</a></a></li>
<li><a name="Ant5">[5] - <a
href="http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=103834425100001&r=1&w=2";>http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=103834425100001&r=1&w=2</a></a></li>
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<p><i>"creating and maintaining reusable Java
components"</i></p>
<p><b>Editor:</b> Henri Yandell</p>
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<p>November saw the release of two new projects
from Jakarta Commons, and the release of a bugfix for another project.</p>
<p>Commons Validator 1.0 was
mentioned in the previous newsletter. It was released on November 1st and is a
validation framework from the Struts people.</p>
<p>Commons CLI 1.0 was released on
the 6th of November and is an API for parsing command line arguments. It is the direct
descendant of 3 older argument parsing APIs and other APIs have affected it over mail
list discussions. This gives it a very high pedigree and makes it a great choice for
handling the command line.</p>
<p>Commons Lang 1.0.1 is the first
bugfix release for the Lang project. There are no new APIs or deprecated
functionality, so all Commons Lang users are advised to upgrade, although the bugfixes
are not earth-shattering.</p>
<p>
<li><a name="CommonsRelease1">[1] - <a
href="http://jakarta.apache.org/builds/jakarta-commons/release/commons-validator/v1.0/RELEASE-NOTES.txt";>http://jakarta.apache.org/builds/jakarta-commons/release/commons-validator/v1.0/RELEASE-NOTES.txt</a></a></li>
<li><a name="CommonsRelease2">[2] - <a
href="http://jakarta.apache.org/builds/jakarta-commons/release/commons-cli/v1.0/RELEASE-NOTES.txt";>http://jakarta.apache.org/builds/jakarta-commons/release/commons-cli/v1.0/RELEASE-NOTES.txt</a></a></li>
<li><a name="CommonsRelease3">[3] - <a
href="http://jakarta.apache.org/builds/jakarta-commons/release/commons-lang/v1.0.1/RELEASE-NOTES.txt";>http://jakarta.apache.org/builds/jakarta-commons/release/commons-lang/v1.0.1/RELEASE-NOTES.txt</a></a></li>
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<p>November was quiet for Commons, as it was for
all of Apache. Indeed, the Commons mail list dropped by 35%.</p>
<p>The Patterns project in the
Sandbox has been mothballed as its code is to go into Commons Lang and Commons Util.
Work has begun on moving the BeanUtils reflection code over to Commons Lang and
various BeanUtils bugs were dealt with.</p>
<p>A new database utility project
has been proposed with generic JDBC(tm) utilities and lives under the name of
'DbUtils' in the sandbox and a project named 'attributes' has been proposed to handle
runtime metadata attributes.</p>
<p>
<li><a name="CommonsRelease1">[1] - <a
href="http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/sandbox/attributes/";>http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/sandbox/attributes/</a></a></li>
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<p><b>Editor:</b> James Strachan</p>
<p>Here are the main changes that
have happened recently on the Jelly project...</p>
<p>
<li>XPath sorting now added to the XML library</li>
<li><j:useBean> can now construct beans with constructor
parameters</li>
<li>better reporting of JellyUnit failures, line numbers,
expressions etc.</li>
<li>XMLUnit library added for unit testing of XML inside
JellyUnit</li>
</p>
<p>So now JellyUnit can support the
following XML unit testing constructs</p>
<p>
<li>XPath based assertions via <test:assert xpath="..."/></li>
<li>schema validation via the jelly:validate library, testing XML
against DTDs, XML Schema, RelaxNG etc</li>
<li>comparing 2 documents for equality using the new XMLUnit
library</li>
<li>performing XSLT on some XML and then then performing any of the
above</li>
<li>parsing HTML via the Neko parser and treating it as XML in any
of the above</li>
</p>
<p>As well as Jexl based assertions,
assertEquals and a new <assertThrown> tag to test for exceptions being thrown in
Jelly scripts.</p>
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+<section name="Ant">
+ <p><i>"Apache Ant is a Java-based build tool"</i></p>
+ <p><b>Editor:</b> Stefan Bodewig</p>
+
+
+<p>The biggest news in Ant land is that Ant has been promoted to a top-level
project at the board meeting in November. Much of the discussion on ant-dev has been
centered around the proposed board resolution, the formation of the initial PMC and
similar issues during the last months. [<a href="#Ant1">1</a>,<a href="#Ant2">2</a>,<a
href="#Ant3">3</a>]</p>
+
+<p>While Ant is leaving the oversight of the Jakarta PMC with this move, Ant's
committers are not necessarily leaving the Jakarta community, many of us will still be
around and contribute where we see fit. </p>
+<p>After the release of Ant 1.5.1 at the beginning of October, we've kept on fixing
smaller bugs in the 1.5 branch, so a 1.5.2 release is getting more likely. At the
same time, development in the HEAD branch is picking up momentum again as we start
adding new features and experiment with some stuff. [<a href="#Ant4">4</a>,<a
href="#Ant5">5</a>]</p>
+
+<p>
+ <li><a name="Ant1">[1] - <a
href="http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=103658833500006&r=1&w=2";>http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=103658833500006&r=1&w=2</a></a></li>
+ <li><a name="Ant2">[2] - <a
href="http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=103702213600002&r=1&w=2";>http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=103702213600002&r=1&w=2</a></a></li>
+ <li><a name="Ant3">[3] - <a
href="http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=103778589600002&r=1&w=2";>http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=103778589600002&r=1&w=2</a></a></li>
+ <li><a name="Ant4">[4] - <a
href="http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=103834929300004&r=1&w=2";>http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=103834929300004&r=1&w=2</a></a></li>
+ <li><a name="Ant5">[5] - <a
href="http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=103834425100001&r=1&w=2";>http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=103834425100001&r=1&w=2</a></a></li>
+</p>
+
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