You are viewing a plain text version of this content. The canonical link for it is here.
Posted to site-cvs@jakarta.apache.org by ro...@apache.org on 2002/12/03 14:22:03 UTC
cvs commit: jakarta-site/xdocs/site/news 200211.xml
roxspring 2002/12/03 05:22:02
Modified: docs/site/news index.html
xdocs/site/news 200211.xml
Added: docs/site/news 200211.html
Log:
Newsletter draft 2 - added Ant section
Revision Changes Path
1.11 +1 -0 jakarta-site/docs/site/news/index.html
Index: index.html
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/cvs/jakarta-site/docs/site/news/index.html,v
retrieving revision 1.10
retrieving revision 1.11
diff -u -r1.10 -r1.11
--- index.html 12 Nov 2002 15:30:21 -0000 1.10
+++ index.html 3 Dec 2002 13:22:02 -0000 1.11
@@ -195,6 +195,7 @@
<tr><td>
<blockquote>
<ul>
+ <li><a href="./200211.html">November 2002</a></li>
<li><a href="./200210.html">October 2002</a></li>
<li><a href="./200208.html">August 2002</a></li>
<li><a href="./200207.html">July 2002</a></li>
1.1 jakarta-site/docs/site/news/200211.html
Index: 200211.html
===================================================================
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<!-- Content Stylesheet for Site -->
<!-- start the processing -->
<!-- ====================================================================== -->
<!-- GENERATED FILE, DO NOT EDIT, EDIT THE XML FILE IN xdocs INSTEAD! -->
<!-- Main Page Section -->
<!-- ====================================================================== -->
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"/>
<meta name="author" value="Rob Oxspring">
<meta name="email" value="roxspring@apache.org">
<title>The Jakarta Site - Jakarta Newsletter - November 2002 - #5</title>
</head>
<body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000" link="#525D76">
<table border="0" width="100%" cellspacing="0">
<!-- TOP IMAGE -->
<tr>
<td colspan="2">
<a href="http://jakarta.apache.org"><img src="http://jakarta.apache.org/images/jakarta-logo.gif" align="left" border="0"/></a>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
<table border="0" width="100%" cellspacing="4">
<tr><td colspan="2">
<hr noshade="" size="1"/>
</td></tr>
<tr>
<!-- LEFT SIDE NAVIGATION -->
<td width="20%" valign="top" nowrap="true">
<p><strong>About Jakarta</strong></p>
<ul>
<li> <a href="../../index.html">Welcome</a>
</li>
<li> <a href="http://jakarta.apache.org/site/news/index.html">News & Status</a>
</li>
<li> <a href="http://jakarta.apache.org/site/mission.html">Our Mission</a>
</li>
<li> <a href="http://jakarta.apache.org/site/faqs.html">Our FAQs</a>
</li>
<li> <a href="http://jakarta.apache.org/site/library.html">Reference Library</a>
</li>
<li> <a href="http://www.google.com/advanced_search?q=+site:jakarta.apache.org&hl=en&as_qdr=all">Search Jakarta</a>
</li>
<li> <a href="http://jakarta.apache.org/site/vendors.html">Vendor Support</a>
</li>
<li> <a href="http://jakarta.apache.org/site/contact.html">Contacting Us</a>
</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Download</strong></p>
<ul>
<li> <a href="http://jakarta.apache.org/site/binindex.html">Binaries</a>
</li>
<li> <a href="http://jakarta.apache.org/site/sourceindex.html">Source Code</a>
</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Get Involved</strong></p>
<ul>
<li> <a href="http://jakarta.apache.org/site/getinvolved.html">How to ...</a>
</li>
<li> <a href="http://jakarta.apache.org/site/cvsindex.html">CVS Repositories</a>
</li>
<li> <a href="http://jakarta.apache.org/site/mail.html">Mailing Lists</a>
</li>
<li> <a href="http://jakarta.apache.org/site/bugs.html">Bug Database</a>
</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>SubProjects</strong></p>
<ul>
<li> <a href="../../alexandria/index.html">Alexandria</a>
</li>
<li> <a href="../../ant/index.html">Ant</a>
</li>
<li> <a href="../../avalon/index.html">Avalon</a>
</li>
<li> <a href="../../bcel/index.html">BCEL</a>
</li>
<li> <a href="../../bsf/index.html">BSF</a>
</li>
<li> <a href="../../cactus/index.html">Cactus</a>
</li>
<li> <a href="../../commons/index.html">Commons</a>
</li>
<li> <a href="../../ecs/index.html">ECS</a>
</li>
<li> <a href="../../james/index.html">James</a>
</li>
<li> <a href="../../jetspeed/index.html">Jetspeed</a>
</li>
<li> <a href="../../jmeter/index.html">JMeter</a>
</li>
<li> <a href="../../log4j/index.html">Log4J</a>
</li>
<li> <a href="../../lucene/index.html">Lucene</a>
</li>
<li> <a href="../../ojb/index.html">OJB</a>
</li>
<li> <a href="../../oro/index.html">ORO</a>
</li>
<li> <a href="../../poi/index.html">POI</a>
</li>
<li> <a href="../../regexp/index.html">Regexp</a>
</li>
<li> <a href="../../slide/index.html">Slide</a>
</li>
<li> <a href="../../struts/index.html">Struts</a>
</li>
<li> <a href="../../taglibs/index.html">Taglibs</a>
</li>
<li> <a href="../../tomcat/index.html">Tomcat</a>
</li>
<li> <a href="../../turbine/index.html">Turbine</a>
</li>
<li> <a href="../../velocity/index.html">Velocity</a>
</li>
<li> <a href="../../watchdog/index.html">Watchdog</a>
</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Project Management</strong></p>
<ul>
<li> <a href="http://jakarta.apache.org/site/whoweare.html">Who We Are</a>
</li>
<li> <a href="http://jakarta.apache.org/site/guidelines.html">Project Guidelines</a>
</li>
<li> <a href="http://jakarta.apache.org/site/newproject.html">New Subprojects</a>
</li>
<li> <a href="http://jakarta.apache.org/site/jakarta-site2.html">Website Maintenance</a>
</li>
<li> <a href="http://jakarta.apache.org/site/acknowledgements.html">Acknowledgements</a>
</li>
<li> <a href="http://jakarta.apache.org/site/legal.html">Legal</a>
</li>
<li> <a href="http://jakarta.apache.org/site/jspa-position.html">Apache on the JSPA</a>
</li>
</ul>
</td>
<td width="80%" align="left" valign="top">
<table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" width="100%">
<tr><td bgcolor="#525D76">
<font color="#ffffff" face="arial,helvetica,sanserif">
<a name="Jakarta Newsletter"><strong>Jakarta Newsletter</strong></a>
</font>
</td></tr>
<tr><td>
<blockquote>
<p>
<b>Issue:</b> 5
<br />
<b>Date:</b> November 2002
<br />
<b>Url:</b> <a href="http://jakarta.apache.org/site/news/200211.html">http://jakarta.apache.org/site/news/200211.html</a>
</p>
<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 href="mailto:general@jakarta.apache.org?subject=[Newsletter]">general@jakarta.apache.org</a>.</p>
<p>Rob Oxspring</p>
<table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" width="100%">
<tr><td bgcolor="#828DA6">
<font color="#ffffff" face="arial,helvetica,sanserif">
<a name="Contents"><strong>Contents</strong></a>
</font>
</td></tr>
<tr><td>
<blockquote>
<li><a href="#General">General</a></li>
<li><a href="#Ant">Ant</a></li>
<li><a href="#Commons">Commons</a></li>
</blockquote>
</td></tr>
<tr><td><br/></td></tr>
</table>
</blockquote>
</p>
</td></tr>
<tr><td><br/></td></tr>
</table>
<table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" width="100%">
<tr><td bgcolor="#525D76">
<font color="#ffffff" face="arial,helvetica,sanserif">
<a name="General"><strong>General</strong></a>
</font>
</td></tr>
<tr><td>
<blockquote>
<p><i>"Ideas, suggestions, and comments on the overall Jakarta project"</i></p>
<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>].
</p>
<p>
<li><a name="General1">[1] - <a href="http://archives.apache.org/eyebrowse/BrowseList?listName=general@jakarta.apache.org&from=281536&to=281536&count=39&by=thread&paged=false">http://archives.apache.org/eyebrowse/BrowseList?listName=general@jakarta.apache.org&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?listName=general@jakarta.apache.org&by=thread&from=271386">http://archives.apache.org/eyebrowse/BrowseList?listName=general@jakarta.apache.org&by=thread&from=271386</a></a></li>
<li><a name="General4">[4] - <a href="http://cvs.apache.org/~tcopeland/jakarta_bad_imports.htm">http://cvs.apache.org/~tcopeland/jakarta_bad_imports.htm</a></a></li>
</p>
</blockquote>
</p>
</td></tr>
<tr><td><br/></td></tr>
</table>
<table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" width="100%">
<tr><td bgcolor="#525D76">
<font color="#ffffff" face="arial,helvetica,sanserif">
<a name="Ant"><strong>Ant</strong></a>
</font>
</td></tr>
<tr><td>
<blockquote>
<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>
</blockquote>
</p>
</td></tr>
<tr><td><br/></td></tr>
</table>
<table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" width="100%">
<tr><td bgcolor="#525D76">
<font color="#ffffff" face="arial,helvetica,sanserif">
<a name="Commons"><strong>Commons</strong></a>
</font>
</td></tr>
<tr><td>
<blockquote>
<p><i>"creating and maintaining reusable Java components"</i></p>
<p><b>Editor:</b> Henri Yandell</p>
<table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" width="100%">
<tr><td bgcolor="#828DA6">
<font color="#ffffff" face="arial,helvetica,sanserif">
<a name="Releases"><strong>Releases</strong></a>
</font>
</td></tr>
<tr><td>
<blockquote>
<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>
</p>
</blockquote>
</td></tr>
<tr><td><br/></td></tr>
</table>
<table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" width="100%">
<tr><td bgcolor="#828DA6">
<font color="#ffffff" face="arial,helvetica,sanserif">
<a name="Gossip"><strong>Gossip</strong></a>
</font>
</td></tr>
<tr><td>
<blockquote>
<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>
</p>
</blockquote>
</td></tr>
<tr><td><br/></td></tr>
</table>
<table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" width="100%">
<tr><td bgcolor="#828DA6">
<font color="#ffffff" face="arial,helvetica,sanserif">
<a name="Jelly"><strong>Jelly</strong></a>
</font>
</td></tr>
<tr><td>
<blockquote>
<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>
</blockquote>
</td></tr>
<tr><td><br/></td></tr>
</table>
</blockquote>
</p>
</td></tr>
<tr><td><br/></td></tr>
</table>
</td>
</tr>
<!-- FOOTER -->
<tr><td colspan="2">
<hr noshade="" size="1"/>
</td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2">
<div align="center"><font color="#525D76" size="-1"><em>
Copyright © 1999-2002, Apache Software Foundation
</em></font></div>
</td></tr>
</table>
</body>
</html>
<!-- end the processing -->
1.2 +20 -0 jakarta-site/xdocs/site/news/200211.xml
Index: 200211.xml
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/cvs/jakarta-site/xdocs/site/news/200211.xml,v
retrieving revision 1.1
retrieving revision 1.2
diff -u -r1.1 -r1.2
--- 200211.xml 3 Dec 2002 12:45:56 -0000 1.1
+++ 200211.xml 3 Dec 2002 13:22:02 -0000 1.2
@@ -47,6 +47,7 @@
<subsection name="Contents">
<li><a href="#General">General</a></li>
+ <li><a href="#Ant">Ant</a></li>
<li><a href="#Commons">Commons</a></li>
</subsection>
</section>
@@ -74,6 +75,25 @@
</section>
+<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>
+
+</section>
--
To unsubscribe, e-mail: <ma...@jakarta.apache.org>
For additional commands, e-mail: <ma...@jakarta.apache.org>