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Peter Wayner writes: "In a world where Ali had to meet Frazier and Luke had to meet his father, it was only a matter of time before buzzwords like Java and eXtreme Programming found themselves together on the same marquee. A pair of new books examines some open source Java development tools and outlines how they can be put to use by those trying to master their workload by adopting the techniques of eXtreme programming." Read on for his latest review, which is really two reviews in one. (see each) author (see each) pages (see each) publisher (see each) rating (see each) reviewer Peter Wayner ISBN (see each) summary Two books which explore the use of Ant in Java software development

The two books are excellent examples of how the book industry organizes and disciplines the often crazy explosion of new tools, approaches, structures and metaphors developed by the software industry. Ant: The Definitive Guide by Jesse Tilly and Eric Burke comes from O'Reilly, the masters of producing missing manuals for open source projects. The other, Java Tools for eXtreme Programming: Mastering Open Source Tools including Ant, JUnit, and Cactus by Richard Hightower and Nicholas Lesiecki was published by John Wiley and Sons. Both provide a clear, example-driven exploration of the tools at hand.

The books are probably driven by the success of Kent Beck's Extreme Programming Explained: Embrace Change , a manifesto that outlined Beck's belief that the best way to develop code was with small teams of programmers and users who constantly reworked the software. His most controversial and attention grabbing notion demanded that the programmers work in pairs sharing one computer, one mouse and one keyboard. The constant interaction forced everyone to actually communicate with each other without sending emails and that, more than anything else, may be responsible for the success of his vision. His book spawned a few others on how programmers can plan to apply his vision.

Meanwhile, on the other side of the buzzword galaxy, the Apache group was quietly creating some of the coolest Java development and deployment tools around. Ant was and still is one of the most revolutionary, even though it was just a simple reworking of the classic UNIX make command. Its creator, James Davidson, grew so frustrated with the shell interface of the make command that he wrote a Java-centric version that moved all of the compilation, compression, and distribution inside one Java process. Now, no one has to wait for another Java Virtual Machine to start up to compile each class file independently.

While Davidson's Ant isn't much different than make at first glance, it's hard to overestimate the power of giving programmers a clever tool with plenty of hooks into the development process. Anyone can write new tasks for Ant, and some clever folks have built great new widgets that do things like enforce style guidelines or grab new code from a CVS tree. The structure of Ant lets the programmer dig deeply into the build process. The organic growth and dynamic flexibility shows how close Java can be to Lisp.

Tilly and Burke do a good job capturing the spirit of the tool. Their book follows O'Reilly's time-tested and market-proven simple-examples technique to illustrate how to use Ant for your projects. The chapters in the first half of the book outline how to use and extend Ant for your project. The strength of the book may be the way the authors casually include practical advice about the bugs and idiosyncracies of the tool. While Ant is quite capable, there are a number of little limitations to the XML parser that can drive new users a bit nuts. The second half of the book is a detailed description of the API, the data types and the other practical documentation.

In one sense, it's not really fair to lump this book in with all of this gloss about Extreme Programming. because it's just another methodical O'Reilly book with Dover artwork on the cover. It's important to realize that these tools aren't directly tied to the extreme programming movement. Ant was just created by a Java programmer who hated to wait. Everything else came afterwards when he opened the API.

Ant: The Definitive Guide author Jesse Tilly & Eric M. Burke pages 260 publisher O'Reilly rating 7 ISBN 0-597-00184-3 summary A methodical, in-depth look at the Java tool.

The other book, however, explicitly illustrates how some popular open source tools can help the process of extreme programming. Hightower and Lesiecki's book is much broader than Tilly and Burke's because they want to tackle so much more. They don't want to just provide a missing manual for the tool-- they want to give the world a road map on how they use Ant and its cousins JUnit, HTTPUnit, and Cactus to build better applications. It should be noted that Hightower and Lesiecki work for a consulting group called eBlox and a number of other eBlox programmers are listed as contributors to the book. I think it's fair to say that anyone who hires eBlox will get eXtreme Programming results built with this methodology.

The best part about this book is the wide scope. Ant remains the central taskmaster responsible for building the software, but the book explains how to incorporate other tools for testing the software. The authors embrace one of the extreme programming central beliefs that programmers should define how to test their code before it is actually written. The book explains how to use JUnit, Cactus, and HTTPUnit to set up rules to test every class file. After ANT fires up the compiler, it turns around and runs the tests on the code.

Java Tools for eXtreme Programming author Richard Hightower and Nicholas Lesiecki pages 513 publisher John Wiley and Sons rating 7 ISBN 0-471-20708-X summary How to use some Java tools to transform extreme programming theory into reality.

I don't think that eXtreme Programming or any of these tools is the last word on the subject. The biggest problem is that testing a piece of code is guaranteed to be fairly rudimentary. No programmer can come up with test cases to push all of buttons in all possible combinations. The structure and discipline provided by this approach can help, but the book makes it clear that no amount of pairs programming or extremism will remove the need for the guidance of good programmers.

If anything these tools and the books about them should serve as inspiration for the next round of tools even more focused on extreme programming. The tools are impressive, but there is plenty of room for more innovation. None of them is aimed at explicitly coordinating the work of multiple developers and none of them is designed to provide much structure to the refactoring process. These areas are still very much arts, but there's no reason why tool suites like Ant can't evolve some rational approach to solving them. Perhaps the Slashdot audience can provide some informative postings with pointers to the next generation of cool tools.

Hightower and Lesiecki's book feels a bit more rudimentary and basic than Tilly and Burke's, in part because they cover so much more ground. Although their book is broader, it doesn't go into as much depth about Ant as Tilly and Burke's. The examples are simpler, too, and Hightower and Liesiecki seem mainly interested in getting you excited about building and testing software with the tools. There just isn't as much room for details. If you're interested in learning as much as you can about Ant, choose the book devoted to it. If you want to learn how to use a diverse set of tools to build and test your program in an extreme way, go for that book.

Peter Wayner blends the buzzwords of security, privacy, and data warehousing together in his latest book, Translucent Databases. It shows how to ensure that only the right people see the right information and the wrong people get nothing. His other new book, Disappearing Cryptography, mixes the buzzwords of being, nothingness, steganography, and cryptography. You can purchase both Ant: The Definitive Guide and Java Tools for eXtreme Programming from bn.com. Slashdot welcomes readers' book reviews -- to submit yours, read the book review guidelines, then hit the submission page.

ClickNMix writes: "The latest version of PHP has been released here. With improved DomXML and Apache 2 support in with the usual bug fixes and improvements." There is still no production support for PHP or for that matter mod_perl in Apache 2.0 yet though.

groundhog00 writes "Posted recently from was an Apache + Basic authentication and self-signed digital certificates article. I thought people might find interest in doing a more scalable solution using parts of the PKI structure with mod_auth_ldap and Apache to communicate with an OpenLDAP server to get basic scalable authentication AND digital certificates using OpenCA as the your homegrown certificate authority. Here are some documents for setting up the certificate authority and getting certificates installed using Internet Explorer 5.x and Netscape 4.x browsers. There will be LDAP configurations for Apache soon, but this is a pretty decent set of documents to start with."

Aaron writes "This is the second production quality 2.0 release from the Apache HTTPD Project sporting many bug fixes and improvements. In case you missed it the first time, Apache now supports many new features, including native support for Win32, BeOS, and Netware, in addition to traditional Unix platforms (Hint: we support Darwin). Download it directly or from a mirror."

Aaron writes "This is the second production quality 2.0 release from the Apache HTTPD Project sporting many bug fixes and improvements. In case you missed it the first time, Apache now supports many new features, including native support for Win32, BeOS, and Netware, in addition to traditional Unix platforms (Hint: we support Darwin). Download it directly or from a mirror."

Aaron writes "This is the second production quality 2.0 release from the Apache HTTPD Project sporting many bug fixes and improvements. In case you missed it the first time, Apache now supports many new features, including native support for Win32, BeOS, and Netware, in addition to traditional Unix platforms (Hint: we support Darwin). Download it directly or from a mirror."

Aaron writes "This is the second production quality 2.0 release from the Apache HTTPD Project sporting many bug fixes and improvements. In case you missed it the first time, Apache now supports many new features, including native support for Win32, BeOS, and Netware, in addition to traditional Unix platforms (Hint: we support Darwin). Download it directly or from a mirror."

Aaron writes "This is the second production quality 2.0 release from the Apache HTTPD Project sporting many bug fixes and improvements. In case you missed it the first time, Apache now supports many new features, including native support for Win32, BeOS, and Netware, in addition to traditional Unix platforms (Hint: we support Darwin). Download it directly or from a mirror."

David Kennedy writes: "Java Tools For Exteme Programming: Mastering Open Source Tools including Ant, JUnit and Cactus by Hightower & Lesiecki is a welcome addition to my bookshelf at work. It tackles a gap in the Java book market in dealing with the thorny issues of testing, integration and deployment." The rest of his review is below. Java Tools For Exteme Programming: Mastering Open Source Tools including Ant, JUnit and Cactus author Richard Hightower & Nicholas Lesiecki pages 516 publisher Wiley Computer Publishing rating 8 reviewer David Kennedy ISBN 047120708X summary Practical introduction to Java tools for Extreme Programming, with an emphasis on immediate results rather than deep theory.

In recent years there has been a increased emphasis on Agile Software Development. The most prominent of these methodologies is probably Extreme Programming.

What sets Extreme Programming apart from most other Agile Technologies, in my opinion at least, is that it has provided practical, easy-to-use tools to support its way of working. Most of these tools (Ant, JUnit etc) are Open Source and freely available. However popular these tools have been with the Open Source and Extreme Programming communities, it has arguably been difficult to introduce them to traditional IT development environments. This has been primarily due to the problems of justifying spending time on 'playing' with something and the difficulties of retro-fitting new tools to an existing development environment (think projects of 150+ people which have been releasing for 5-10 years for some idea of the potential problems).

It's worth noting that when embarking on a new, large-scale project it's very difficult to find a book discussing the issues of controlled builds, integration and deployment in practical terms. The most valuable aspect of Java Tools for eXteme Programming is that it's alone in its market niche.

The book is mainly useful as (a) an introduction to the various building and continuous testing tools out there and (b) a tutorial to getting them setup and working on your computer. As the authors note, there's a critical period where the user must get some result after playing with the tool for a short period of time or just give it up as 'too difficult.'

From a technical standpoint the book is very readable, but it doesn't tackle any one subject in great depth. It certainly provides enough information to get you up and running, and also, perhaps more valuably, illustrates how to integrate the tools together. It's an excellent primer for those who want to use the tools but are unsure of how exactly to start.

What's covered? Here are the chapter headings:

1. Introduction and Key Concepts
   1. Introduction to Extreme Programming
   2. J2EE Deployment Concepts
   3. Example applications
2. Mastering the Tools
   1. Continuous integration with Ant
   2. Building Java Applications with Ant
   3. Building J2EE applications with Ant
   4. Unit testing with JUnit
   5. Testing Container Services with Cactus
   6. Functional Testing with HttpUnit
   7. Measuring Application Performance with JMeter
   8. Load Testing with JUnitPerf
3. API and Tag Reference
   1. Ant Tag Reference
   2. Ant API Reference
   3. JUnit API Reference
   4. Cactus API Reference
   5. HttpUnit API Reference

If you use some of these tools already will you learn anything? Probably -- I personally have been using JUnit to test EJBs for almost nine months now but didn't know about JUnitPerf or Cactus.

Should you buy it? If you're new to the tools, then Yes. If you work in a professional but traditional IT shop, I'd buy one for the group (I have). It'd be particularly useful when dealing with management and proposing changes to working processes, or when trying to bring co-workers up to speed and sell them the benefits of agile ways of working.

You can visit the book's website at Wiley. You can purchase the Jave Tools For Extreme Programming from bn.com. Want to see your own review here? Just read the book review guidelines, then use Slashdot's handy submission form.

emmetropia writes: "PHP 4.2.0 has been released, with experimental Apache 2 support, and lots of other improvements and fixes. Check it out!"

AK47 writes "eWeek has a very positive review of Apache 2.0, entitled "Apache 2.0 Beats IIS at Its Own Game." They recommend the native Apache version on Windows over IIS for production use, citing superior security with no loss in performance."

The Apache Software Foundation's Apache HTTP Server, version 2.0.35, has now been released for General Availability. You can find the official announcement, and download the server, from their website. Be sure to try a mirror first. Congratulations to the HTTP Server Project for getting the final release out. If you are wondering about it being usable in a production environment, you should poke around Slashdot's servers and see if you are surprised (now if only mod_perl was finished we could move more of our servers over to using the new release).

The HTTP Server Project is now recommending this release for use on production websites. 2.0.35 is now considered their best release and should be used in preference to all older versions (including the 1.3 series). A few of the new features are:

• higher performance over 1.3
• multiple operational models: threaded, hybrid multi-processes and multi-threaded
• specific request processing for Windows, Netware, BeOS, and OS/2
• integrated SSL and WebDAV support
• improved HTTP proxy support
• I/O layering and filtering

The Apache Software Foundation's Apache HTTP Server, version 2.0.35, has now been released for General Availability. You can find the official announcement, and download the server, from their website. Be sure to try a mirror first. Congratulations to the HTTP Server Project for getting the final release out. If you are wondering about it being usable in a production environment, you should poke around Slashdot's servers and see if you are surprised (now if only mod_perl was finished we could move more of our servers over to using the new release).

The HTTP Server Project is now recommending this release for use on production websites. 2.0.35 is now considered their best release and should be used in preference to all older versions (including the 1.3 series). A few of the new features are:

• higher performance over 1.3
• multiple operational models: threaded, hybrid multi-processes and multi-threaded
• specific request processing for Windows, Netware, BeOS, and OS/2
• integrated SSL and WebDAV support
• improved HTTP proxy support
• I/O layering and filtering

The Apache Software Foundation's Apache HTTP Server, version 2.0.35, has now been released for General Availability. You can find the official announcement, and download the server, from their website. Be sure to try a mirror first. Congratulations to the HTTP Server Project for getting the final release out. If you are wondering about it being usable in a production environment, you should poke around Slashdot's servers and see if you are surprised (now if only mod_perl was finished we could move more of our servers over to using the new release).

The HTTP Server Project is now recommending this release for use on production websites. 2.0.35 is now considered their best release and should be used in preference to all older versions (including the 1.3 series). A few of the new features are:

• higher performance over 1.3
• multiple operational models: threaded, hybrid multi-processes and multi-threaded
• specific request processing for Windows, Netware, BeOS, and OS/2
• integrated SSL and WebDAV support
• improved HTTP proxy support
• I/O layering and filtering

The Apache Software Foundation's Apache HTTP Server, version 2.0.35, has now been released for General Availability. You can find the official announcement, and download the server, from their website. Be sure to try a mirror first. Congratulations to the HTTP Server Project for getting the final release out. If you are wondering about it being usable in a production environment, you should poke around Slashdot's servers and see if you are surprised (now if only mod_perl was finished we could move more of our servers over to using the new release).

The HTTP Server Project is now recommending this release for use on production websites. 2.0.35 is now considered their best release and should be used in preference to all older versions (including the 1.3 series). A few of the new features are:

• higher performance over 1.3
• multiple operational models: threaded, hybrid multi-processes and multi-threaded
• specific request processing for Windows, Netware, BeOS, and OS/2
• integrated SSL and WebDAV support
• improved HTTP proxy support
• I/O layering and filtering

The Apache Software Foundation's Apache HTTP Server, version 2.0.35, has now been released for General Availability. You can find the official announcement, and download the server, from their website. Be sure to try a mirror first. Congratulations to the HTTP Server Project for getting the final release out. If you are wondering about it being usable in a production environment, you should poke around Slashdot's servers and see if you are surprised (now if only mod_perl was finished we could move more of our servers over to using the new release).

The HTTP Server Project is now recommending this release for use on production websites. 2.0.35 is now considered their best release and should be used in preference to all older versions (including the 1.3 series). A few of the new features are:

• higher performance over 1.3
• multiple operational models: threaded, hybrid multi-processes and multi-threaded
• specific request processing for Windows, Netware, BeOS, and OS/2
• integrated SSL and WebDAV support
• improved HTTP proxy support
• I/O layering and filtering

The Apache Software Foundation's Apache HTTP Server, version 2.0.35, has now been released for General Availability. You can find the official announcement, and download the server, from their website. Be sure to try a mirror first. Congratulations to the HTTP Server Project for getting the final release out. If you are wondering about it being usable in a production environment, you should poke around Slashdot's servers and see if you are surprised (now if only mod_perl was finished we could move more of our servers over to using the new release).

The HTTP Server Project is now recommending this release for use on production websites. 2.0.35 is now considered their best release and should be used in preference to all older versions (including the 1.3 series). A few of the new features are:

• higher performance over 1.3
• multiple operational models: threaded, hybrid multi-processes and multi-threaded
• specific request processing for Windows, Netware, BeOS, and OS/2
• integrated SSL and WebDAV support
• improved HTTP proxy support
• I/O layering and filtering

The Apache Software Foundation's Apache HTTP Server, version 2.0.35, has now been released for General Availability. You can find the official announcement, and download the server, from their website. Be sure to try a mirror first. Congratulations to the HTTP Server Project for getting the final release out. If you are wondering about it being usable in a production environment, you should poke around Slashdot's servers and see if you are surprised (now if only mod_perl was finished we could move more of our servers over to using the new release).

The HTTP Server Project is now recommending this release for use on production websites. 2.0.35 is now considered their best release and should be used in preference to all older versions (including the 1.3 series). A few of the new features are:

• higher performance over 1.3
• multiple operational models: threaded, hybrid multi-processes and multi-threaded
• specific request processing for Windows, Netware, BeOS, and OS/2
• integrated SSL and WebDAV support
• improved HTTP proxy support
• I/O layering and filtering

Slashback tonight with more on Lord of the Rings (The Two Towers, specifically), various ongoing court battles, the true color of the universe, and more. Read on for the details.

All I'm certain of is my true love's hair. CompaniaHill writes: "As previously reported on /., first they though it was turquoise. Then they found an error in their early calculations, and announced it was really beige. But doubts lingered, and color experts pointed out that an objective color as viewed from the theoretical blackness of space would appear different when viewed on Earth in typical daylight. So adjustments were made, and calculations were revised and rechecked by color scientists Michael Brill of McClendon Automation Inc. and Mark Fairchild of the Munsell Color Science Laboratories. And now, at last, Ivan Baldry and Karl Glazebrook, astronomers at Johns Hopkins University, using spectral data from the 2dF Galaxy Redshift Survey, have announced the final result: The universe is decidedly salmon. Really."

The milestones are getting closer together. Dare Obasanjo writes: "Xindice (http://xml.apache.org/xindice), the Apache native XML database has finally reached version 1.0. Xindice used to be called dbXML and was mentioned in my article on XML and databases."

Three From the Courts TheFrood writes: "It looks as though the battle between Blizzard and bnetd (as reported in previous stories here(1), here(2), and here(3))is heating up. Vivendi has sent another letter to the EFF, which has wasted no time responding."

ElitusPrime writes with an update in the strange case of Ken Hamidi, the Intel employee whose mass-mail to Intel employees brought charges of trespassing. Now the California Supreme Court may take another look at the case. Says ElitusPrime: "If this guy is put in jail, I can think of more then a few other spammers that need to go up the creek with him..."

In a very different case, pagan26 writes: "It seem that DMCA will have its day in court. With ElmcoSoft."

Well, at least you can trust their word, right? Masem writes: "According to MSNBC, the developers of the spyware program WinWhatWhere will no longer have their install program trample the bits of anti-spyware programs, after word broke that this behavior was occurring. However, no word has been made by a similar spyware program developed by SpectreSoft that does similar damage."

I will fork out to see this, happily. Pingsmoth writes "It looks like the faithful fans of Peter Jackson and Tolkien will be able to catch a glimpse of The Two Towers this Saturday. Lordoftherings.net is reporting, through a video of Peter Jackson, that a preview (read: not a trailer) of The Two Towers will be shown in theatres this Saturday, presumably attached to The Fellowship of the Ring. Maybe at the end? At any rate, it looks like I'll be seeing the film at least seven times now, and it's a good thing I got a morning shift tomorrow." For a more colorful description of this 4-minute tease, check out Ain't it Cool News' version.

rbeattie writes: "This morning at JavaOne it was announced during the keynote that Sun and Apache have come to an agreement securing the basic right to implement Java specifications in open source. Apache actually went as far as issuing a Press Release about it with information about the agreement. One of the cool things is that Sun actually agreed not only to change various licenses and contracts, release the testing code, but also to let qualifying non-profit open source groups use their 1800 support number while testing." (This is a followup to this earlier story indicating that such an agreement had been reached.)

rbeattie writes: "This morning at JavaOne it was announced during the keynote that Sun and Apache have come to an agreement securing the basic right to implement Java specifications in open source. Apache actually went as far as issuing a Press Release about it with information about the agreement. One of the cool things is that Sun actually agreed not only to change various licenses and contracts, release the testing code, but also to let qualifying non-profit open source groups use their 1800 support number while testing." (This is a followup to this earlier story indicating that such an agreement had been reached.)

fishnuts writes "Apache 1.3.24 was released with the usual new security fixes, bug fixes, and features. Here's the announcement."

The Jakarta group had raised some concerns over the proposed Java Specification Participation Agreement. After some hemming and hawing, it appears that the Java Community Process chair (Sun) has agreed with the ASF's concerns - but IANAL ^? . If you have more info, paste it below.

The Jakarta group had raised some concerns over the proposed Java Specification Participation Agreement. After some hemming and hawing, it appears that the Java Community Process chair (Sun) has agreed with the ASF's concerns - but IANAL ^? . If you have more info, paste it below.

The Jakarta group had raised some concerns over the proposed Java Specification Participation Agreement. After some hemming and hawing, it appears that the Java Community Process chair (Sun) has agreed with the ASF's concerns - but IANAL ^? . If you have more info, paste it below.

sbsea1 writes "Here is another instance where Microsoft is going one way and everybody else going to other. eWEEK Labs found that Microsoft is using a different implentation of digest authentication which differs from the W3C's digest authentication standards. Internet Explorer Version 5.0 and higher--as well as Microsoft's IIS Web server--has a significant security incompatibility with other major Web browsers and with the Apache Software Foundation's Apache HTTP Web server."

Yogidabear writes: "According to the Apache group, Open Source has been officially locked out of the Java process with JSR 99 (Java Specification Participation Agreement). The article on the Jakarta site notes that IBM in particular voted against this JSR and many others noted that they were not happy with the stance Sun was taking against Open Source. What does this mean for the Open Source community as it relates to Java? And, better yet, what does this mean for Java?"

moominpapa writes "We are about to set up a project web site that will involve static and dynamically-generated XML pages serialized into HTML, PDF etc. and user interaction with a database (either native XML or MySQL). Previously we've dealt with SGML content and used DynaText/DynaWeb along with PHP and MySQL. Now we want to move to XML content and all-open-source tools. The two main choices seem to be a Java-based Apache/Tomcat/Cocoon 2 framework or a Python-based Zope (+ some XML tools) framework. Cocoon 2 looks powerful but installation on Solaris and Mac OS X has been rather buggy and the performance slow. However, our programmers know Java well and the XML tools are all there. Zope looks promising, although it would mean picking up Python and Zope doesn't seem to have the XML stuff well-integrated yet. Has anyone extensively used both? What would you say were the strong and weak points of each? Is there another possible framework you think we should consider?"

d6y writes "Over on the O'Reilly weblogs there's an entry on the relationship between Sun's Java Community Process and Apache. Sun have been rubbing people up with wrong way (the problems of licensing open source J2EE containers; stuts v. JavaFaces; log4j v. JDK 1.4 logging....) and I hope this gets sorted out real soon. See also the original VNUNet article and Apache's position paper."

An Anonymous Coward writes: "The Apache httpd project has released a new beta of their apache 2.0 server (v32)". For those who have not been following the 2.0 development, this is the third beta that has been produced. The new version of Apache sports the new APR API and a new method for filtered I/O, and has been rewritten to make use of a hybrid thread/process model. With Covalent already selling a commercial version of 2.0, hopefully we will see a full release of the open source version in the near future.

An Anonymous Coward writes: "The Apache httpd project has released a new beta of their apache 2.0 server (v32)". For those who have not been following the 2.0 development, this is the third beta that has been produced. The new version of Apache sports the new APR API and a new method for filtered I/O, and has been rewritten to make use of a hybrid thread/process model. With Covalent already selling a commercial version of 2.0, hopefully we will see a full release of the open source version in the near future.

An Anonymous Coward writes: "The Apache httpd project has released a new beta of their apache 2.0 server (v32)". For those who have not been following the 2.0 development, this is the third beta that has been produced. The new version of Apache sports the new APR API and a new method for filtered I/O, and has been rewritten to make use of a hybrid thread/process model. With Covalent already selling a commercial version of 2.0, hopefully we will see a full release of the open source version in the near future.

GeneOff writes: "Xerces 2.0 is out! You can get it here. This XML parser features full XML Schema conformance and partial support for DOM Level 3. The XNI (Xerces Native Interface,) is very cool. Xerces is arguably the most widely deployed Java based XML parser. Open source projects like those from Apache do a very good job of tracking upcoming standards like XML Schema (no more weird DTDs.) Kind of like Linux 2.5 and the USB 2.0 spec."

meheler writes "Looks like the Apache Group have released version 1.3.23 of their popular web server. Here's a link to the Official Announcement as well as where you can download it, and even view the ChangeLog."

meheler writes "Looks like the Apache Group have released version 1.3.23 of their popular web server. Here's a link to the Official Announcement as well as where you can download it, and even view the ChangeLog."

meheler writes "Looks like the Apache Group have released version 1.3.23 of their popular web server. Here's a link to the Official Announcement as well as where you can download it, and even view the ChangeLog."

meheler writes "Looks like the Apache Group have released version 1.3.23 of their popular web server. Here's a link to the Official Announcement as well as where you can download it, and even view the ChangeLog."

meheler writes "Looks like the Apache Group have released version 1.3.23 of their popular web server. Here's a link to the Official Announcement as well as where you can download it, and even view the ChangeLog."

jvanzyl writes "The Apache XMLRPC team is pleased to announce the 1.0 release! Apache XML-RPC is a Java implementation of XML-RPC, a popular protocol that uses XML over HTTP to implement remote procedure calls. Apache XML-RPC was previously known as Helma XML-RPC. If you have code using the Helma library, all you should have to do is change the import statements in your code from helma.xmlrpc.* to org.apache.xmlrpc.*."

This is a major 2.0 beta release for the Apache HTTPD Project. The last publicly available beta was released in April (and the ChangLog is nearly 500k!). See what the new features are going into the 2.0 release. Please remember to use a mirror.

This is a major 2.0 beta release for the Apache HTTPD Project. The last publicly available beta was released in April (and the ChangLog is nearly 500k!). See what the new features are going into the 2.0 release. Please remember to use a mirror.

This is a major 2.0 beta release for the Apache HTTPD Project. The last publicly available beta was released in April (and the ChangLog is nearly 500k!). See what the new features are going into the 2.0 release. Please remember to use a mirror.

This is a major 2.0 beta release for the Apache HTTPD Project. The last publicly available beta was released in April (and the ChangLog is nearly 500k!). See what the new features are going into the 2.0 release. Please remember to use a mirror.

This is a major 2.0 beta release for the Apache HTTPD Project. The last publicly available beta was released in April (and the ChangLog is nearly 500k!). See what the new features are going into the 2.0 release. Please remember to use a mirror.

kilaasi points out this CNET story about the planned release on Monday of Apache 2.0, "or at least the version that has proprietary extensions. Covalent sells the core of Apache and its own extensions which make it easier to adapt for specific areas and simpler to administer. Covalent is confident that the next generation Apache is mature and is ready for prime time. Covalent employs some of the core members of the Apache-development-team." XRayX adds a link to Covalent's press release, writing: "It's not clear when the Open Source Edition (or whatever) will come out and I didn't find anything at the official Apache Site." Update: 11/10 16:37 GMT by T : Note that the product name is Covalent Enterprise Ready Server; though it's based on Apache software, this is not Apache 2.0 per se. Thanks to Sascha Schumann of the ASF for the pointer.

kilaasi points out this CNET story about the planned release on Monday of Apache 2.0, "or at least the version that has proprietary extensions. Covalent sells the core of Apache and its own extensions which make it easier to adapt for specific areas and simpler to administer. Covalent is confident that the next generation Apache is mature and is ready for prime time. Covalent employs some of the core members of the Apache-development-team." XRayX adds a link to Covalent's press release, writing: "It's not clear when the Open Source Edition (or whatever) will come out and I didn't find anything at the official Apache Site." Update: 11/10 16:37 GMT by T : Note that the product name is Covalent Enterprise Ready Server; though it's based on Apache software, this is not Apache 2.0 per se. Thanks to Sascha Schumann of the ASF for the pointer.

lmd writes: "Apache 1.3.22 is now available here. A list of mirrors is here. The changelog is here." Apache now supports AtheOS as well. Note: according to the Apache website, "everyone running 1.2.X servers or earlier are strongly urged to upgrade to 1.3, as there will not be any further 1.2.X releases."

lmd writes: "Apache 1.3.22 is now available here. A list of mirrors is here. The changelog is here." Apache now supports AtheOS as well. Note: according to the Apache website, "everyone running 1.2.X servers or earlier are strongly urged to upgrade to 1.3, as there will not be any further 1.2.X releases."

lmd writes: "Apache 1.3.22 is now available here. A list of mirrors is here. The changelog is here." Apache now supports AtheOS as well. Note: according to the Apache website, "everyone running 1.2.X servers or earlier are strongly urged to upgrade to 1.3, as there will not be any further 1.2.X releases."

lmd writes: "Apache 1.3.22 is now available here. A list of mirrors is here. The changelog is here." Apache now supports AtheOS as well. Note: according to the Apache website, "everyone running 1.2.X servers or earlier are strongly urged to upgrade to 1.3, as there will not be any further 1.2.X releases."