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[DRAFT1] Jakarta Newsletter - October 2002
Jakarta Newsletter
==================
Issue: 4
Date: October 2002
Url: http://jakarta.apache.org/site/news/200210.html
After a break for a month the newsletter is back. Over the last two
months there has been lots of organisational discussion. After
announcing the Japanese translation project last time round, a similar
project in Korean has come to light - a section below has been devoted
to bringing you up to speed on progress. The lucene guys have been
making the usual steady progress mixing on both bugs and features while
the Struts team been introducing future plans and new members
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
general@jakarta.apache.org.
Rob Oxspring
Contents
--------
General
Commons
Korean Jakarta
Lucene
Struts
General
=======
"Ideas, suggestions, and comments on the overall Jakarta project"
Editor: Rob Oxspring
Jean-Frederic Clere was looking for a way to identify the version of the
current JVM. After questioning the reliability of various options the
conclusion turned out to be "It really depends on what you're trying to
discover" [1].
Vincent Massol was wondering just who his fellow apache committers were
and the results of his survey sparked a light hearted debate about what
we'd learned [2].
Does apache want another web application framework? Howard Ship has put
Tapestry [3] on the table and sparked off a long discussion. Can we have
too many? Is it different enough? Is code more important than community?
all angles are covered [4].
Is jakarta too big? Should project such as tomcat, ant and others be top
level projects? All these things are under discussion along with setting
up a dedicated incubator project at apache. This is just the tip of the
iceberg the apache community has been discussing a big reorganisation
[5, 6].
Dominic Gagne asked a slightly off topic question about the difference
between Struts and Turbine and sparked off a long and light hearted
discussion about various templating problems and solutions [7].
[1] -
http://archives.apache.org/eyebrowse/BrowseList?listName=general@jakarta
.apache.org&by=thread&from=247331
[2] -
http://archives.apache.org/eyebrowse/SearchList?listId=&listName=general
@jakarta.apache.org&searchText=%22Committers%2C+who+are+we%3F%22&default
Field=subject&Search=Search
[3] - http://tapestry.sf.net
[4] -
http://archives.apache.org/eyebrowse/BrowseList?listName=general@jakarta
.apache.org&from=260431&to=260431&count=73&by=thread&paged=false
[5] -
http://archives.apache.org/eyebrowse/BrowseList?listName=general@jakarta
.apache.org&by=thread&from=262621
[6] -
http://archives.apache.org/eyebrowse/BrowseList?listName=general@jakarta
.apache.org&by=thread&from=261440
[7] -
http://archives.apache.org/eyebrowse/BrowseList?listId=19&by=thread&from
=253037
Commons
=======
Due to the diverse nature of the commons group, this section has been
split up to make it easier to pick out the topics of interest. This
months stories come from the following:
...
Korean Jakarta
==============
"Jakarta Site in Korean"
Editor: Jaechun Noh
Java developers in Korea have more interests in jakarta project than all
the time. But many of them have trouble directly reading original
English site. Most problems we are encounterd during development using
jakarta projects can be solved only if we search for site manuals. We
want many people directly searching informations by their convenient
languages.
Currently about 35 people participate in the project, and Hangul
translation of 13 subprojects is in progress. Tomcat, Struts, Ant Among
those have many volunteers more than three since interests in those
subprojects are higher than any others in Korea. At the end of this
year, we plan to finish all documents in Tomcat 4.X, Struts 1.0.2, POI,
JMeter, Ant etc. We are all working with pure purpose without any
support from commercial corporation and without any reward.
[1] - http://www.apache-korea.org/
Lucene
======
"a high-performance, full-featured text search engine"
Editor: Otis Gospodnetic
The biggest change to Lucene since Auguest was the addition of a
mechanism that allows Document and Field boosting [1]. This change
allows one to give additional boost to certain documents and/or fields,
which results in those documents getting a higher ranking when they
match a query.
A new method, setPositionIncrement() in Token class was added. This
permits, for the purpose of phrase searching, placing multiple terms in
a single position. This is useful with stemmers that produce multiple
possible stems for a word. This also permits the introduction of gaps
between terms, so that terms which are adjacent in a token stream will
not be matched by and exact phrase query. This makes it possible, e.g.,
to build an analyzer where phrases are not matched over stop words which
have been removed. Finally, repeating a token with an increment of zero
can also be used to boost scores of matches on that token.
Boris Okner [2] made a big contribution with his Russian Analyzer.
There was some smaller bug fixes, new classes (QueryFilter), IndexWriter
class got getAnalyzer() method, etc.
[1] -
http://nagoya.apache.org/eyebrowse/ReadMsg?listName=lucene-dev@jakarta.a
pache.org&msgId=417758
[2] -
http://nagoya.apache.org/eyebrowse/BrowseList?listName=lucene-dev@jakart
a.apache.org&by=author&from=10162&to=10162&first=1&count=5
Struts
======
Editor:Ted Husted
The Struts team is proud to welcome 4 new Committers this month, David
Karr, Eddie Bush, David Graham, and James Mitchell [1].
Everyone is working steadily toward the release of Struts 1.1 beta 3. To
help keep everyone on track, the team added a Development Roadmap [2].
There are a number of "nice to haves" that won't make Struts 1.1 which
are now slated for Struts 1.2. Farther down the road, Struts 2.0 will
rely upon the new standards, like JavaServer Faces and JSTL.
The platform for Struts 1.1 will remain Servlet 2.2 and JSP 1.1.
However, a Struts JSTL taglib is available in the nightly build contrib
directory and will be released with Struts 1.1 as a separate download.
Solid Struts support for the other new standard, Struts JavaServer
Faces, is under development, but cannot be released quite yet [3].
Meanwhile, the Struts User list will continue to enjoy its "casual
Friday" policy. Off-topic messages are tolerated on Fridays so long as
the message is prefixed with the token [FRIDAY]. Posting [FRIDAY]
articles on any other weekday is strongly discouraged.
[1] - http://jakarta.apache.org/struts/volunteers.html
[2] - http://jakarta.apache.org/struts/status.html
[3] - http://jakarta.apache.org/struts/proposals/struts-faces.html
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Re: [DRAFT1] Jakarta Newsletter - October 2002
Posted by jean-frederic clere <jf...@fujitsu-siemens.com>.
Rob Oxspring wrote:
> Jakarta Newsletter
> ==================
> Issue: 4
> Date: October 2002
> Url: http://jakarta.apache.org/site/news/200210.html
>
> After a break for a month the newsletter is back. Over the last two
> months there has been lots of organisational discussion. After
> announcing the Japanese translation project last time round, a similar
> project in Korean has come to light - a section below has been devoted
> to bringing you up to speed on progress. The lucene guys have been
> making the usual steady progress mixing on both bugs and features while
> the Struts team been introducing future plans and new members
>
> 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
> general@jakarta.apache.org.
>
> Rob Oxspring
>
> Contents
> --------
> General
> Commons
> Korean Jakarta
> Lucene
> Struts
>
>
>
> General
> =======
> "Ideas, suggestions, and comments on the overall Jakarta project"
> Editor: Rob Oxspring
>
> Jean-Frederic Clere was looking for a way to identify the version of the
> current JVM. After questioning the reliability of various options the
> conclusion turned out to be "It really depends on what you're trying to
> discover" [1].
That is why I have ended using a shell script: I was checking if a JVM would run
correctly a Tomcat.
>
> Vincent Massol was wondering just who his fellow apache committers were
> and the results of his survey sparked a light hearted debate about what
> we'd learned [2].
>
> Does apache want another web application framework? Howard Ship has put
> Tapestry [3] on the table and sparked off a long discussion. Can we have
> too many? Is it different enough? Is code more important than community?
> all angles are covered [4].
>
> Is jakarta too big? Should project such as tomcat, ant and others be top
> level projects? All these things are under discussion along with setting
> up a dedicated incubator project at apache. This is just the tip of the
> iceberg the apache community has been discussing a big reorganisation
> [5, 6].
>
> Dominic Gagne asked a slightly off topic question about the difference
> between Struts and Turbine and sparked off a long and light hearted
> discussion about various templating problems and solutions [7].
>
> [1] -
> http://archives.apache.org/eyebrowse/BrowseList?listName=general@jakarta
> .apache.org&by=thread&from=247331
> [2] -
> http://archives.apache.org/eyebrowse/SearchList?listId=&listName=general
> @jakarta.apache.org&searchText=%22Committers%2C+who+are+we%3F%22&default
> Field=subject&Search=Search
> [3] - http://tapestry.sf.net
> [4] -
> http://archives.apache.org/eyebrowse/BrowseList?listName=general@jakarta
> .apache.org&from=260431&to=260431&count=73&by=thread&paged=false
> [5] -
> http://archives.apache.org/eyebrowse/BrowseList?listName=general@jakarta
> .apache.org&by=thread&from=262621
> [6] -
> http://archives.apache.org/eyebrowse/BrowseList?listName=general@jakarta
> .apache.org&by=thread&from=261440
> [7] -
> http://archives.apache.org/eyebrowse/BrowseList?listId=19&by=thread&from
> =253037
>
>
>
> Commons
> =======
> Due to the diverse nature of the commons group, this section has been
> split up to make it easier to pick out the topics of interest. This
> months stories come from the following:
>
> ...
>
>
>
> Korean Jakarta
> ==============
> "Jakarta Site in Korean"
> Editor: Jaechun Noh
>
> Java developers in Korea have more interests in jakarta project than all
> the time. But many of them have trouble directly reading original
> English site. Most problems we are encounterd during development using
> jakarta projects can be solved only if we search for site manuals. We
> want many people directly searching informations by their convenient
> languages.
>
> Currently about 35 people participate in the project, and Hangul
> translation of 13 subprojects is in progress. Tomcat, Struts, Ant Among
> those have many volunteers more than three since interests in those
> subprojects are higher than any others in Korea. At the end of this
> year, we plan to finish all documents in Tomcat 4.X, Struts 1.0.2, POI,
> JMeter, Ant etc. We are all working with pure purpose without any
> support from commercial corporation and without any reward.
>
> [1] - http://www.apache-korea.org/
>
>
>
> Lucene
> ======
> "a high-performance, full-featured text search engine"
> Editor: Otis Gospodnetic
>
> The biggest change to Lucene since Auguest was the addition of a
> mechanism that allows Document and Field boosting [1]. This change
> allows one to give additional boost to certain documents and/or fields,
> which results in those documents getting a higher ranking when they
> match a query.
>
> A new method, setPositionIncrement() in Token class was added. This
> permits, for the purpose of phrase searching, placing multiple terms in
> a single position. This is useful with stemmers that produce multiple
> possible stems for a word. This also permits the introduction of gaps
> between terms, so that terms which are adjacent in a token stream will
> not be matched by and exact phrase query. This makes it possible, e.g.,
> to build an analyzer where phrases are not matched over stop words which
> have been removed. Finally, repeating a token with an increment of zero
> can also be used to boost scores of matches on that token.
>
> Boris Okner [2] made a big contribution with his Russian Analyzer.
>
> There was some smaller bug fixes, new classes (QueryFilter), IndexWriter
> class got getAnalyzer() method, etc.
>
> [1] -
> http://nagoya.apache.org/eyebrowse/ReadMsg?listName=lucene-dev@jakarta.a
> pache.org&msgId=417758
> [2] -
> http://nagoya.apache.org/eyebrowse/BrowseList?listName=lucene-dev@jakart
> a.apache.org&by=author&from=10162&to=10162&first=1&count=5
>
>
>
> Struts
> ======
> Editor:Ted Husted
>
> The Struts team is proud to welcome 4 new Committers this month, David
> Karr, Eddie Bush, David Graham, and James Mitchell [1].
>
> Everyone is working steadily toward the release of Struts 1.1 beta 3. To
> help keep everyone on track, the team added a Development Roadmap [2].
>
> There are a number of "nice to haves" that won't make Struts 1.1 which
> are now slated for Struts 1.2. Farther down the road, Struts 2.0 will
> rely upon the new standards, like JavaServer Faces and JSTL.
>
> The platform for Struts 1.1 will remain Servlet 2.2 and JSP 1.1.
> However, a Struts JSTL taglib is available in the nightly build contrib
> directory and will be released with Struts 1.1 as a separate download.
>
> Solid Struts support for the other new standard, Struts JavaServer
> Faces, is under development, but cannot be released quite yet [3].
>
> Meanwhile, the Struts User list will continue to enjoy its "casual
> Friday" policy. Off-topic messages are tolerated on Fridays so long as
> the message is prefixed with the token [FRIDAY]. Posting [FRIDAY]
> articles on any other weekday is strongly discouraged.
>
> [1] - http://jakarta.apache.org/struts/volunteers.html
> [2] - http://jakarta.apache.org/struts/status.html
> [3] - http://jakarta.apache.org/struts/proposals/struts-faces.html
>
>
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Re: [digester] article (Re: [DRAFT1] Jakarta Newsletter - October 2002)
Posted by robert burrell donkin <ro...@blueyonder.co.uk>.
committed. thanks Michael.
(it won't show up on the live web site until it's updated next.)
- robert
On Tuesday, November 5, 2002, at 11:25 PM, Michael Davey wrote:
> Henri,
>
> David Karr pointed out that there is also a Digester article on JavaWorld.
> I notice it didn't make it onto the Digester web site either ;)
>
> Here is the URL:
> http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-10-2002/jw-1025-opensourceprofile.html
>
> -- Michael
>
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[digester] article (Re: [DRAFT1] Jakarta Newsletter - October 2002)
Posted by Michael Davey <Mi...@CodeRage.ORG>.
Henri,
David Karr pointed out that there is also a Digester article on
JavaWorld. I notice it didn't make it onto the Digester web site either ;)
Here is the URL:
http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-10-2002/jw-1025-opensourceprofile.html
--
Michael
Re: [DRAFT1] Jakarta Newsletter - October 2002
Posted by Henri Yandell <ba...@generationjava.com>.
Commons
=======
Releases
--------
October has seen many new releases from the Jakarta Commons project.
* Commons Lang 1.0 was released on October 4th, a set of very generic
components for use in any Java project.
http://jakarta.apache.org/builds/jakarta-commons/release/commons-lang/v1.0/RELEASE-NOTES.txt
* Commons Collections 2.1 was released on the 21st of October. Buffers and
Decorators were added, along with IteratorUtils and ComaparatorUtils.
http://jakarta.apache.org/builds/jakarta-commons/release/commons-collections/v2.1/RELEASE-NOTES-2.1.html
* Commons BeanUtils 1.5 was released two days later. All bugs in Bugzilla
were cleared out and a BeanComparator was added.
http://jakarta.apache.org/builds/jakarta-commons/release/commons-beanutils/v1.5/RELEASE-NOTES.txt
* Commons Validator had its first release, at 1.0, on the first of
November. Technically not October news, but we're so excited we don't
care. Validator comes out of the Struts project and is designed to make
validating fields of data easier.
http://jakarta.apache.org/builds/jakarta-commons/release/commons-validator/v1.0/RELEASE-NOTES.txt
Articles
--------
The Digester project was the subject of an article at OnJava.
http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2002/10/23/digester.html
The Lang project was the subject of an article at Builder.
http://builder.com.com/article.jhtml?id=u00320021017yan01.htm&page=1&vf=tt
Gossip
------
There is much talk over a new Clazz project, hiding away in the
Commons-Sandbox. Stephen Colebourne and Dmitri Plotnikov have been leading
a set of long threads on this. Aspects of this may see the BeanUtils
project transferring some of its low-level code over to Lang to assist in
Java Reflection.
The Lang project will be consuming some aspects of the Patterns [located
in the sandbox] project's classes.
The FileUpload project has moved from the sandbox to the main Commons
repository. So expect a release to sneak onto the horizon in the next few
months here.
October was also home to a lot of talk on a new Apache-level project known
as the Apache-Commons. Inspired by you know who, it seeks to provide
reusable components with a level of language agnosticism. Figuring out how
the old Jakarta Commons works with the new Apache Commons will probably
take up time over the next half a year.
+++++++
How does that look Rob??
Hen
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