The Apache Software Foundation

The Apache Tuscany team are pleased to announce the third milestone release of the Tuscany SCA 2.0 project.

Apache Tuscany provides a runtime environment based on the Service Component Architecture (SCA) which are a set of specifications aimed at simplifying SOA application development. The first SCA specifications where published by the Open SOA Collaboration group (www.osoa.org) and are  implemented in the Tuscany 1.x runtime, the specification are now being standardized at OASIS as part of the Open Composite Services Architecture (Open CSA) and these are the basis of this new Tuscany 2.x runtime.

The main features of this third milestone release are new support for the BPEL and Spring specifications, support for ZIP format contributions, and a new easy to install SCA runtime for Apache
Tomcat. See the RELEASE_NOTES and CHANGES file for more details about the M3 release, and to download the distributions please go to:

http://tuscany.apache.org/sca-java-releases.html

To find out more about OASIS Open CSA go to:

http://www.oasis-opencsa.org

Apache Tuscany welcomes your help. Any contribution, including code, testing, contributions to the documentation, or bug reporting is always appreciated. For more information on how to get involved in
Apache Tuscany visit the website at:

http://tuscany.apache.org

Thank you for your interest in Apache Tuscany!

Two announcements regarding the upcoming ApacheCon US 2009:

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Hello,

Apache CouchDB 0.9.1 has been released and is available for download:

 http://couchdb.apache.org/downloads.html

Apache CouchDB is a distributed, fault-tolerant and schema-free document-oriented database accessible via a RESTful HTTP/JSON API. Among other features, it provides robust, incremental replication with bi-directional conflict detection and resolution, and is queryable and indexable using a table-oriented view engine with JavaScript acting as the default view definition language.

CouchDB is written in Erlang, but can be easily accessed from any environment that provides means to make HTTP requests. There are a multitude of third-party client libraries that make this even easier for a variety of programming languages and environments.

Version 0.9.1
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• Various bug fixes for the build system, configuration, statistics reporting, database core, external handlers, Futon interface, HTTP interface, JavaScript View Server and replicator.

Apache CouchDB is alpha software and still under heavy development. Please be aware that important areas such as the public API or internal database format may see backwards incompatible changes between versions.

Relax and prosper,

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Noah Slater, http://tumbolia.org/nslater