The Apache Software Foundation

Dear Friends of The Apache Software Foundation:

Exactly ten years ago, the highly dedicated members of the Apache Group decided to secure the future of the Apache HTTP Server by forming The Apache Software Foundation.

Since then, our globally distributed, all-volunteer membership has grown to exceed 300 individuals who represent some of the world's greatest talent in Open Source. In collaboration with more than 2,000 Committers from across six continents, the ASF oversees the development of 65 leading Open Source projects, including Apache HTTP Server — still the world’s most popular Web server software since its inception fifteen years ago.

We are very proud of our many achievements over the past years, and recognize that our success is testament to our community's deep commitment to meeting a critical need for high quality, freely available software. We are thankful to everyone who has contributed their time, energy and resources to help the ASF achieve so many successes, both internally and externally, by supporting the Open Source community through hundreds of mailing lists, as well as numerous mentoring and outreach activities.

We look back on the success of The Apache Way with confidence: participation is at an all-time high, with 33 projects in the Apache Incubator, and more than two dozen codebases being explored in the Apache Labs.

We also recognize that the ASF has become more than a trusted resource for developers; it is also a worthy organization for tax-deductible donations from the business community and individuals alike. Through the financial contributions of our sponsors, the ASF continues to power hundreds of millions of sites, projects, and software solutions across the planet (Apache software even powers satellites in outer space!).

This anniversary also gives us an occasion to formally acknowledge the loyalty and support of the millions of users responsible for our incredible success over the past decade. Through your commitment, the ASF continues to be the standard-bearer for Open Source excellence. We appreciate your ongoing support by sharing our story with your friends, and co-workers, and considering making a personal donation or becoming a sponsor of the ASF.

Join us in celebrating this important milestone throughout the year, as we highlight numerous ASF projects, people, and events in honor of the occasion. The festivities culminate in Oakland, California, 2-6 November 2009, at ApacheCon US, the official conference, trainings, and expo of the ASF (I am writing this letter from Amsterdam, where ApacheCon Europe is currently taking place).

So many of us can't imagine the world before the ASF, yet it seems that the years have quickly flown by. With so much to look forward to in the coming decade, we appreciate your help in keeping the ASF a relevant, vibrant, and active community, heartily invite you to share your thoughts with us by dropping us a line on the ASF blog.

Sincerely,
Jim Jagielski, Chairman
The Apache Software Foundation
25 March 2009

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 http://www.eu.apachecon.com/c/aceu2009/about/videoStreaming

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The Maven team is pleased to announce the release of Maven 2.1.0.

Maven is a software project management and comprehension tool. Based on the concept of a project object model (POM), Maven can manage a project's build, reporting and documentation from a central piece of information.

You can download the new version at:

http://maven.apache.org/download.html

You can find release notes for this version below, or at:

http://jira.codehaus.org/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?projectId=10500&styleName=Html&version=14587

Enjoy,

-The Maven team

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Release Notes - Maven 2.1.0

** Sub-task
   * [MNG-4025] - Prominently document opt-out setting for parallel artifact resolution for users
   * [MNG-4042] - Use plexus-sec-dispatcher 1.0 in Maven core when it is released

** Bug
   * [MNG-1349] - openssl checksums are not accepted by maven
   * [MNG-1585] - debug logging from wagon not shown in debug mode
   * [MNG-1992] - CLI -D should override properties in settings.xml
   * [MNG-1999] - Reporting inheritance does not work properly
   * [MNG-2432] - Apache and Mojo plugins take precendence over plugins in the pom.
   * [MNG-2433] - Maven looks for snapshots in offline mode
   * [MNG-2605] - Profiles in profiles.xml are active by default
   * [MNG-2668] - Plugin dependencies should be considered when the reactor creates the build order list
   * [MNG-2690] - DefaultPluginManager.getConfiguredMojo() doesn't handle NoClassDefFoundError correctly
   * [MNG-2695] - -o makes build fail for snapshot plugins
   * [MNG-2720] - Multiproject dependencies not accurate for project.compileClasspathElements when run from root project
   * [MNG-3023] - Reactor projects should be included in dependency resolution
   * [MNG-3057] - properties not expanded in generated POMs when building A/B/C nested projects
   * [MNG-3139] - The skin does not exist: Unable to determine the release version
   * [MNG-3217] - a plugin's dependencies can influence other plugins in a build
   * [MNG-3228] - Maven profile activation does not work when profile is defined in inherited 'parent' pom
   * [MNG-3271] - <excludeDefaults> does not seem to work
   * [MNG-3284] - Cached plugins are used, even when the specifically declared
   * [MNG-3314] - offline build not running, when having SNAPSHOT dependencies
   * [MNG-3621] - site url inheritance broken for UNC paths
   * [MNG-3628] - When running offline, snapshot artifcats cannot be resolved even if they have previously be dowloaded from a repository
   * [MNG-3641] - Lack of error checks on profiles
   * [MNG-3645] - Maven doesn't do strict model validation for POMs in the current reactor
   * [MNG-3719] - [regression] plugin execution ordering no longer POM ordered in 2.0.9
   * [MNG-3757] - Setting M2_HOME to nothing and running ant delets contents of the current folder
   * [MNG-3769] - [regression] Excluding relocated transitive dependencies does not work
   * [MNG-3776] - Namespace misspelled in settings.xml
   * [MNG-3808] - Execution order of report plugins is arbitrary if inheritance is involved
   * [MNG-3810] - [regression] Null Pointer Exception when Activation Profile Property is Empty
   * [MNG-3811] - Report plugins don't inherit configuration
   * [MNG-3899] - Inheritance does not merge extensions with same gid and aid
   * [MNG-3906] - Project-level plugin dependencies are in random order after merging
   * [MNG-3920] - Problem using velocity component
   * [MNG-3930] - mvn.bat doesn't handle ampersand in Windows user name properly
   * [MNG-3933] - Profiles.xml does not pickup OS family
   * [MNG-3940] - Interpolation of environment variables is not case-insensitive on Windows
   * [MNG-3948] - Remote repos defined by profiles outside of settings.xml are not used to resolve parent POMs
   * [MNG-3974] - New mirror syntax is not stopping on first match
   * [MNG-4016] - Properties with the prefix project/pom are not interpolated from the properties section
   * [MNG-4023] - Profiles from parent POM are injected multiple times if parent is part of reactor build
   * [MNG-4026] - [regression] Order of project class path does not match POM order during reactor build
   * [MNG-4032] - Test jar dependency not available for for main classes in multi module builds
   * [MNG-4043] - Resolve or rollback WebDAV wagon deployment issue where hostname is improperly extracted from URL
   * [MNG-4074] - cyclic reference with 2.1.0-RC1 that doesn't occur with 2.0.10
   * [MNG-4079] - Duplicate error messages
   * [MNG-4084] - Unnecessary Warning for an activate profile in child project
   * [MNG-4086] - [regression] Explicitly using plugin metaversions crashes plugin manager
   * [MNG-4087] - Percent encoded characters in file URLs are not decoded upon deployment

** Improvement
   * [MNG-1830] - add  a 'compiled on <timestamp>' label when maven 2 is invoked with --version option
   * [MNG-1957] - <jdk></jdk> clause in the activation section has to provide more complex expressions.
   * [MNG-3424] - Respect ordering of elements as given in POM
   * [MNG-3451] - Add german translation
   * [MNG-3503] - Shade MX* classes from plexus-utils
   * [MNG-3544] - Beautify debug output for mojo parameters of type array
   * [MNG-3600] - remove default settings of 664 / 775 for permissions
   * [MNG-3787] - Add plugin version to default reports
   * [MNG-3794] - Improve error logging when downloading depedencies
   * [MNG-3795] - Add example <pluginGroups> snippet to conf/settings.xml in distribution
   * [MNG-3867] - Support MAVEN_OPTS in mvnDebug script
   * [MNG-3951] - Hide drive-relative paths from plugins
   * [MNG-3971] - Provide parity in features between native ant-mojo support and antrun plugin
   * [MNG-3975] - getArtifact(Artifact artifact, List remoteRepositories) should include Exception in debug log messages.
   * [MNG-4024] - Open up CLIManager
   * [MNG-4037] - Include Java home in version information
   * [MNG-4057] - Propose checking of plugin artifact when plugin descriptor cannot be found
   * [MNG-4075] - Tone down warnings about reactor dependencies that don't have an associated file
   * [MNG-4091] - Validate the plugin descriptors and improve error reporting when mismatched with artifact
   * [MNG-4092] - remove plugin listeners for minor memory improvement and to avoid scanning descriptors from dependencies of plugins

** New Feature
   * [MNG-553] - Secure Storage of Server Passwords
   * [MNG-2097] - adding a phase called prepare-package
   * [MNG-3379] - Parallel resolution of artifacts
   * [MNG-3760] - Support property ${baseurl} to get RFC-compliant URL of project base directory
   * [MNG-3914] - Add CLI option to control location of global settings from command line

** Task
   * [MNG-2387] - <active> on <proxy> in settings is misleading
   * [MNG-2883] - Make sure that the network isn't used for snapshots in offline mode when legacy repositories are used
   * [MNG-3602] - Schedule and release Doxia-1.1
   * [MNG-3842] - Revert temporary changes to scp wagon handling
   * [MNG-3936] - Remove m2.bat from distribution
   * [MNG-4030] - Release maven-plugin-tools 2.4.4/2.5 to enable enhanced ant-mojo support
   * [MNG-4031] -  Release plexus-ant-factory 1.0-alpha-2.1 to enable enhanced ant-mojo support
   * [MNG-4046] - Update to Doxia 1.0
   * [MNG-4077] - Review log level for VersionExpressionTransformation.transformVersions()

** Wish
   * [MNG-4056] - Relax resolution of active project artifacts from the reactor with regard to artifact type

I'd like to announce that Commons CLI 1.2 has been released. Commons CLI provides an API for processing command line interfaces.

This is a minor release, containing the last 2 years of bugfixes and minor improvements to the CLI codebase. Full details of this can be found in the release notes:

   http://commons.apache.org/cli/release_1_2.html

The major item of note is an accidental change of behaviour between CLI 1.0 and CLI 1.1 (as noted in CLI-137) that has now been reverted.

For more information on Commons CLI, please visit the CLI website:

   http://commons.apache.org/cli/

The CLI jars have have been uploaded to the Maven repository, and CLI is also available in either binary or source form from:

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

The Apache CXF team is proud to announce the availability of the 2.2 release.

Apache CXF is an open source services framework. CXF helps you build and
develop services using frontend programming APIs, like JAX-WS. These services
can speak a variety of protocols such as SOAP, XML/HTTP, RESTful HTTP, or
CORBA and work over a variety of transports such as HTTP, JMS or JBI.

CXF includes a broad feature set, but it is primarily focused on the following
areas:

* Web Services Standards Support: CXF supports a variety of web service
standards including SOAP, the WSI Basic Profile, WSDL, WS-Addressing, WS-
Policy, WS-ReliableMessaging, and WS-Security.

* REST based service creation based on JAX-RS standard API's.

* Frontends: CXF supports a variety of "frontend" programming models. CXF
provides a JAX-WS 2.1 Compliant frontend. It also includes a "simple frontend"
which allows creation of clients and endpoints without annotations. CXF
supports both contract first development with WSDL and code first development
starting from Java.

* Ease of use: CXF is designed to be intuitive and easy to use. There  are
simple APIs to quickly build code-first services, Maven plug-ins to make
tooling integration easy, JAX-WS API support, Spring 2.0 XML support to make
configuration a snap, and much more.

What's new in CXF 2.2:
 * WS-SecurityPolicy support
 * WS-SecureConversation
 * Some WS-Trust support (client side)
 * JAX-RS 1.0 (not TCK compliant yet)
 * MANY MANY bugfixes, performance enhancements, etc...  Too numerous to list
individually.

As always, we welcome feedback on our mailing lists:
http://cxf.apache.org/mailing-lists.html

Downloads are available from:
http://cxf.apache.org/download.html

Thanks!
The Apache CXF Team
http://cxf.apache.org/