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Avalon Framework 4.0 Released

Posted by Hemos on from the better-then-a-hot-cup-of-joe dept.

osi writes "The Avalon team is proud to A HREF="http://jakarta.apache.org/avalon/">announce the 4.0 final release of the Avalon Framework. The Avalon project is Apache's Java Server Framework. It is separated into six sub projects: Framework, Excalibur, LogKit, Cornerstone, Phoenix, and Testlet. Its purpose is to simplify server side programming for Java based projects. It formalizes serveral best of breed practices and patterns for server side programming."

ChangeLog for Avalon Framework 4.0

  • Added new method to Component Manager and Selector for discovering if a Component exists inside or not. Also augmented the default versions with the basic implementation to discover them. [BL]
  • Added stylesheet to convert Stylebook markup to DocBook markup. [BL]
  • Changed the documentation build process to use Cocoon to build the site. [BL]
  • Added new "Developing with Avalon" book in DocBook format. [BL]
  • Added Executable interface to activity package. [PD]
  • Updated Resolvable interface to allow a ContextException to be thrown on failure. [PD]
  • Add a makeReadOnly() method to the default implementations of Configuration, Context and ComponentManager. Calling this method after the respective object has been filled will make the object read-only. This is a safety precaution to stop code performing unwanted operations. [PD]
  • Updated the javadocs of many of the classes. [PD]
  • Update documentation so that it is more accurate and descriptive. [BL]

Downloads for Avalon Framework 4.0 available at http://jakarta.apache.org/builds/jakarta-avalon/re lease/framework/latest

1 of 6 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Buzzwords... by elfkicker · · Score: 4

    Java people get to use all the best buzzwords. That's what happens when APIs are edited by the marketing department.

    And to answer your question, no I can't.