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The Apache POI developers are pleased to announce the release of Apache POI 3.0.2 BETA2 which is one of the final steps before the 3.0.2 FINAL.

Apache POI is well-known in the Java field as a library for reading and writing OLE2 office file formats, such as Excel, PowerPoint, Visio and Word.

The release contains a mixture of new features and bug fixes, compared to 3.0.1. A full list of changes is available in the change log: http://poi.apache.org/changes.html

The source and binaries can be downloaded from your local mirror: http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/poi/dev/

The release is also available from the central Maven repository under Group ID “org.apache.poi”.

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– The Apache POI Team

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The Apache Lenya development community is very proud to announce the 2.0 release of Apache Lenya.

Apache Lenya is an Open Source Java/XML Content Management System and comes with revision control, site management, scheduling, search, WYSIWYG editors, and workflow.

Apache Lenya is based on Apache Cocoon (http://cocoon.apache.org). You can use Cocoon features such as robust caching, multi-channel output, its many connectivity options to quickly build customized solutions to meet your specific needs that are not already covered by Apache Lenya today.

Check out the Apache Lenya website (http://lenya.apache.org) for more information.

The Apache Lenya Community

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New Features in Apache Lenya 2.0

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Architecture

• Modularization
• Separation of API and implementation

Storage and Content Model

• Documents are referenced using UUIDs
• Improved management of internal links
• Configurable meta data element sets
• New protocols simplify repository access

Website Management

• Publication templating for re-using common functionality in multiple publications
• Create new publication instances via the GUI
• Support for configurable publication properties

Access Control

• Explicitly deny permissions on particular pages

Assets and Images

• Assets and images are treated as documents
• Image upload in source editor
• SVG-based server-side image resizing

Workflow and Versioning

• Quickly manipulate multiple documents
• Personal user inboxes
• Function to override other users’ check-out

Miscellaneous Features

• Various usability improvements
• News / weblog module with RSS generation
• Language selection widget
• Dynamically generated layout images, e.g. round corners
• Better and more flexible editor integration (work in progress)

Development

• Usecase framework to simplify the implementation of user interaction functionality
• Improved repository API
• Cleanup of the code base

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The Apache Batik team is proud to announce the release of Apache Batik version 1.7, a Java-based toolkit for processing SVG.

The 1.7 release fixes a number of bugs brought to light with the 1.7beta1 release, and includes a few new features:

• xml:id support (http://www.w3.org/TR/xml-id/).
• ElementTraversal support (http://www.w3.org/TR/ElementTraversal/).
• Enhanced DOM Viewer window, contributed from Ivan Andjelkovic, a Google Summer of Code student.
• Official maven artifacts (http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/org/apache/xmlgraphics/).
• A separate Mac OS X Squiggle disk image distribution.

Batik can be downloaded from here:

http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/batik/download.cgi

For the full list of improvements and bug fixes since version 1.7beta1, click on the release change log’s link from that page.

If you find any problems, please file bug reports:

http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/

And for more information, see the Batik project website:

http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/batik/

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– The Apache Batik (XML Graphics) Team

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The Apache Cocoon Community is proud to announce the new release of Apache Cocoon.

Apache Cocoon is a web development framework built around the concept of separation of concerns (that is: allowing people to do their job without having to step on each other toes) and component-oriented web RAD.

The latest version is downloadable from http://cocoon.apache.org/mirror.cgi (Please use the mirrors to download the release - it might take a little bit more time until the latest release is available on all mirrors, so give the mirrors some time - approx. 24h to update.)

This release includes many bug fixes and smaller enhancements.

For more information about Apache Cocoon 2.1.10, please go to http://cocoon.apache.org. You’ll find the whole list of changes at http://cocoon.apache.org/2.1/changes.html.

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– The Apache Cocoon Project

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Starting the new year with a bang the Apache Wicket Team has released Apache Wicket 1.3. With this release comes a lot of great successes, but most of all the team wanted to express their wishes to everyone for a happy new year.

You can download Apache Wicket 1.3 here:

http://wicket.apache.org/getting-wicket.html

Apache Wicket is one of the fastest growing Java open source component based web frameworks. With a focus on producing valid html and a logical separation between design and code. Within minutes you can start to enjoy throwing out tag soup, complex components and high maintenance overhead for a simple POJO + html data model.

See the Apache Wicket website for more information:

http://wicket.apache.org

Take a look at some of the following highlights or skip to the bottom and get started now.

• last JDK-1.4 release (next release will be Java 5 based)
• first Apache release: renamed packages to org.apache.wicket
• simplified several core APIs
• now works with zero-config behind a proxy server using relative URLs
• added Google Guice support
• use your Wicket pages directly in a portal without changing a line of code (JSR-168/JSR-286 support)
• switched logging API from commons-logging to slf4j
• integrate velocity templates as panels in your pages
• YUI-calendar and Joda time based date picker (wicket-datetime)
• contribute new javascript dependencies to the page header using an Ajax requeset
• improved, more robust header contributions
• scale to extremely large numbers of users with stateless pages and components
• improved AjaxTree/AjaxTreeTable
• hybrid URL encoding to make search engines and your users happy
• create form panels and use them anywhere without worrying about the nesting of form tags
• minimized session use by storing component hierarchy in file system (DiskPageStore)

Get started today by downloading Wicket using this link:

http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/wicket/1.3.0

The distribution contains all the Wicket libraries, and all the source code including the examples project. In the root of the download you will find a README document with full instructions.

Migrate your Wicket 1.2 application to Wicket 1.3 using our migration guide:

http://cwiki.apache.org/WICKET/migrate-12.html

Best wishes from the Wicket Team and a prosperous 2008

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– The Apache Wicket Team

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The Apache Portals Jetspeed team is pleased to announce the release of the version 2.1.3 of the Jetspeed Enterprise Portal.

Jetspeed is an Open Portal Platform and Enterprise Portal, written in open source to the Java Portlet API standard under the Apache license.

Version 2.1.3 is a minor update to the 2.1.2 release.

New Features and improvements in Version 2.1.3:

• Big Desktop Performance Improvements
• Complete Desktop Customization with same feature set and configuration as Portal
• Dynamically hide Portlets at request time
• Improved LDAP implementation and documentation for Apache DS 1.0.2
• Full PSML and XML Import / Export Admin Portlet
• Maximize on edit-defaults feature
• New ‘Edit Defaults’ custom portlet mode
• New ‘Config’ custom portlet mode
• Parallel rendering on Websphere 6.1
• Preliminary Portlet API 2.0 ResourceURL support allowing full response control
• Provide out-of-the-box Wicket Portlet support
• Support for Pocket PC

Full details of this can be found in the release notes:

http://portals.apache.org/jetspeed-2/release-notes.html

Jetspeed 2.1.3 source and binary distributions, including a standard and a full demo installer, are available from:

http://portals.apache.org/jetspeed-2/download.html

Both Maven-1 and Maven-2 signed jars, wars, POMs and plugins are now available from Maven Central:

http://repo1.maven.org/maven/org.apache.portals.jetspeed-2/

http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/org/apache/portals/jetspeed-2/

We hope you enjoy using Jetspeed! If you have any questions, please consult:

• The web site: http://portals.apache.org/jetspeed-2/
• The jetspeed-user mailing list: http://portals.apache.org/jetspeed-2/mail-lists.html

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– The Apache Portals Team

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The Apache Portals Bridges team is pleased to announce the release of version 1.0.4 of Portals Bridges.

The Portals Bridges Project provides Portal independent integration with Web Frameworks such as JSF, Struts, and Groovy, and JSR-168 compliant Portlet components.

Bridges 1.0.4 is a bug fix release with added features:

• Auto Dispatching to custom portlet modes
• Enhancements to Groovy and Velocity Bridges
• Full support for redirects in JSF Bridge
• Support for Spring Framework 2.0.5

Full details of this can be found in the release notes:

http://portals.apache.org/bridges/release-notes.html

Portals Bridges 1.0.4 distributions are available from:

http://portals.apache.org/bridges/download.html

Both Maven-1 and Maven-2 signed jars, wars, POMs and plugins are now available from Maven Central:

http://repo1.maven.org/maven/org.apache.portals.bridges/

http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/org/apache/portals/bridges/

We hope you enjoy using Portals Bridges! If you have any questions, please consult:

• The web site: http://portals.apache.org/bridges/
• The bridges-user mailing list: http://portals.apache.org/bridges/mail-lists.html

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– The Apache Portals Bridges Team

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Apache Commons SCXML 0.7 is now available.

Commons SCXML provides a Java State Chart XML (W3C Working Draft) engine. Anything that can be represented as a UML state chart — business process flows, view navigation bits, interaction or dialog management, and many more — can leverage the Commons SCXML library.

Commons SCXML 0.7 contains a few new features and a small number of bug fixes. Details can be found in the release notes:

http://www.apache.org/dist/commons/scxml/RELEASE-NOTES.txt

Commons SCXML is available in either binary or source form from the following downloads page:

http://commons.apache.org/downloads/download_scxml.cgi

For more information on Commons SCXML, visit the project home page:

http://commons.apache.org/scxml/

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– The Apache Commons community

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Apache Tomcat JK 1.2.26 Web Server Connector released

The Apache Tomcat team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of version 1.2.26 of the Apache Tomcat Connectors.

It contains connectors, which allow a web server such as Apache HTTPD, Microsoft IIS and Sun Web Server to act as a front end to the Tomcat web application server.

This version contains a few enhancements and fixes a number of minor bugs of the previous versions.

See http://tomcat.apache.org/connectors-doc/miscellaneous/changelog.html for a complete list of changes.

Source distribtions can be downloaded from an Apache Software Foundation mirror at:

http://tomcat.apache.org/download-connectors.cgi

Binary distributions for a number of different operating systems and web servers can be downloaded from an Apache Software Foundation mirror at:

http://tomcat.apache.org/download-connectors.cgi

Syncing the release to the download mirrors might take up to 48 hours.

Documentation for using Apache Tomcat Connectors can be found at:

http://tomcat.apache.org/connectors-doc/

Thank you,

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– Merry Christmas from The Apache Tomcat Team

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The Apache Harmony project are pleased to announce the immediate availability of Harmony 5.0 Milestone 4.

Apache Harmony is the Java SE project of the Apache Software Foundation, working towards a full compliant implementation of the Java SE specification.

Harmony 5.0 Milestone 4 is the latest stable build with numerous enhancements including new JIT optimizations, functional and coverage enhancements throughout the class libraries, improved VM threading design, and support for full hardware addressability on 64 bit platforms.

Source code and binary builds are available from the Harmony download site:

http://harmony.apache.org/download.cgi

Apache Harmony welcomes your help. For more information on how to report problems, successes, and to get involved in Apache Harmony visit the project website at http://harmony.apache.org

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– The Apache Harmony Team

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