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ObjectWeb Newsletter #3 - http://www.objectweb.org/newsletter3.html In this issue: -------------- * Season's Greetings * Headlines - ObjectWeb and Apache to Team Up on Open Source J2EE - Enhydra Server Becomes Free Software - Librados Joins ObjectWeb Consortium and Announces Support for JOnAS * Hot Stuff - Coming Up - ObjectWeb / Apache collaboration - New Redundant Hardware for ObjectWeb Site - Last Releases * Community - Third ObjectWeb Annual Conference - Election of the New Board - Past Events - People (as of Dec 31 '03) - Web Stats (Nov & Dec '03) * How-to... - ...Become a Member - ...Get Involved - ...Give Feedback - ...Subscribe/Unsubscribe to the Newsletter Season's Greetings ------------------ From the begining, the ObjectWeb Consortium is committed to delivering commons for everybody's benefit. Year 2003 has been a great year for ObjectWeb: drastic increase of audience, lots of new members, new projects of major interest and a worldwide trend of adoption of our components. The alliances we established these last months will definitively get the attention of the industry. This definitely is a good start, but we're sure this is nothing compared to the path that lies before us. On behalf of the Board of Directors, the Executive Committee and the College of Architects, we wish you the best for year 2004! Headlines --------- ObjectWeb and Apache to Team Up on Open Source J2EE * ObjectWeb and the Apache Software Foundation have agreed to collaborate to speed up the availability and certification of their Open Source J2EE application servers (JOnAS and Geronimo). ObjectWeb departed from its usual licensing policy so to enable Geronimo developers to use JOTM (transaction manager) and ASM (byte-code manipulation framework). Both are from now on distributed under the BSD license. * Brian Behlendorf, ASF Board: "This is a great example of how two Open Source communities can work together on a common objective while still retaining their individuality. We don't have to constantly reinvent the wheel just to be different, a trap that software projects frequently fall into." * See: http://www.objectweb.org/phorum/read.php?f=25&i=49&t=49 Enhydra Server Becomes Free Software * Together Teamlösungen acquired Enhydra copyrights to release the popular server under LGPL. This is a major milestone of the on-going merge of Enhydra and ObjectWeb communities. * The future version 6.0 of Enhydra Server will be based on JOnAS. It will ensure upward compatibility with previous releases of the platform, with the additional benefits of a full J2EE environment. Enhydra Server will support Web Services through the integration of Axis in JOnAS. * See: http://www.objectweb.org/phorum/read.php?f=25&i=47&t=47 Librados Joins ObjectWeb Consortium and Announces Support for JOnAS * Librados Inc., a leading provider of J2EE-standards based application integration software, recently joined ObjectWeb. Librados has already ported all of its technology to work out-of-the box with JOnAS. The first customer deployments are expected anytime now. * David Richards, CEO of Librados: "Our customers are making it clear that they want fully supported Open Source application servers. With open source leaders Red Hat and SUSE, both now providing support for JOnAS, we feel this is a solution that will gain wide-spread adoption in the enterprise". * See: http://www.objectweb.org/phorum/read.php?f=25&i=46&t=46 * For press coverage see: http://www.objectweb.org/phorum/list.php?f=24 Hot Stuff --------- Coming Up - Events Where ObjectWeb Will Have a Booth or a Talk * Jan 13-15: ObjectWeb Architecture & Board meetings - Seville, Spain * Jan 21-23: LinuxWorld - New York NY, USA * Jan 27: Rencontre INRIA-Industrie - Paris, France * Feb 2-5: EclipseCon - Anaheim CA, USA * Feb 3-5: Solutions Linux - Paris, France * Feb 21-22: FOSDEM - Brussels, Belgium * May 24-28: Global EAI Summit - Banff, Alberta, Canada * More: http://www.objectweb.org/phorum/list.php?f=28 ObjectWeb / Apache collaboration * ASM and JOTM have been released under BSD, a license compliant with the policy of the Apache Software Foundation. * A mailing list devoted to ObjectWeb/Apache collaboration has been set up: geronimo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx * The ASF set up a section on their Wiki: http://wiki.apache.org/geronimo/ObjectWebCollaboration. New Redundant Hardware for ObjectWeb Site * A major upgrade of the ObjectWeb infrastructure has been performed on December 22th. The old servers were replaced by two dual-proc RAID5 servers. Detailed report here: http://www.objectweb.org/phorum/read.php?f=29&i=153&t=153. * The ObjectWeb Forge (http://forge.objectweb.org/) is now powered by GForge. All ObjectWeb projects have now their home page at: <project>.objectweb.org. Project Web sites can now be modified using WebDAV. The ObjectWeb mailing lists manager (Sympa) has been upgraded, equipped with a new antivirus and integrated into Gforge (in place of Mailman). Downloads statistics (restricted to members) have been improved. See Developper Q&A: http://www.objectweb.org/phorum/list.php?f=49 * The next steps are the merge of Enhydra.org and ObjectWeb.org and the enhancement of the home page. Last Releases * Jan 01: Enhydra 5.1-6, DODS 5.1-6, Octopus 2.3 and a new Debian package of Director 5.1 * Dec 19: C-JDBC 1.0b16 - Stability improved, stored procedures, security rules, new cache * Dec 18: Monolog 1.7 - A fractal component (MonologFactory), improvement of the log4j wrapper * Dec 16: Bright Side Framework hosted on ObjectWeb Forge * Dec 15: Approval of HOWL project - High Speed logging * Dec 15: ASM 1.4.1 - Maintenance release + new package * Dec 08: ASM and JOTM released under the BSD license * Nov 25: XAPool 1.3.3 released under the GNU LGPL license * Nov 25: Fractal 2.0 - Julia, Fractal RMI, Fractal ADL, Fractal GUI updated * Nov 19: XQuark Fusion 1.0 - XQuery-based information integration engine * Nov 13: Enhydra Server, XMLC, DODS, Kelp & Director released under the GNU LGPL license * Nov 13: ASM 1.4 - Support for non standard class attributes * Nov 07: JORAM 3.7 - New administration GUI * Nov 06: BS remoting 2.0.1 - Maintenance release * Nov 04: CJDBC 1.0b15 - Maintenance release * More: http://www.objectweb.org/phorum/list.php?f=29 Community --------- Third ObjectWeb Annual Conference * The third ObjectWeb Conference was held on November 20-21, 2003 in Rocquencourt, France (30 min from Paris. It featured 36 sessions, including keynotes from E.Mahe (Sun), D.Li (individual member China), F.Bancilhon (MandrakeSoft), P.Cormier (Red Hat) and D.Richards (Librados). The General Assembly of ObjectWeb Members was on Nov. 21st from 9:15AM to 11:00AM CET. * See: http://www.objectweb.org/conference2003/ for agenda * See: http://www.objectweb.org/phorum/read.php?f=36&i=51&t=51 for proceedings * See:http://www.objectweb.org/wws/arc/individual-members/2003-11/msg00013.html for a complete report on the Assembly of Members (access restricted to members).
Election of the New Board * The new Board has been elected online between Dec 1st and Dec 15th. The Chairman of the Board will be elected during the Board meeting in Seville, Spain. * Here is the composition of the new Board: - Roland BALTER - ScalAgent - Elected representative of Corporate Members - Emmanuel CECCHET - INRIA - Newly Elected President of the College of Architects - Paul CORMIER - Red Hat - Elected representative of Corporate Members - Pierre-Yves GIBELLO - Experlog - Elected representative of Corporate Members - Jean-Pierre LAISNE - Bull - Representative of Founders - David LI - Elected representative of Individual Members - Alfred MADL - Together Teamlösungen - Elected representative of Corporate Members - Christophe NEY - President of the Executive Committee - Dominique POTIER - Thalès - Elected representative of Corporate Members - David RICHARDS - Librados - Elected representative of Corporate Members - Valère ROBIN - France Telecom R&D - Representative of Founders - Jean-Bernard STEFANI - INRIA - Representative of Founders Past Events - Where Members of the Community Held a Booth or Gave a Talk * NetWorld+Interop - Paris, November 19-21, 2003 * OSSKON - Vienna, Austria, November 18-19, 2003 * DAIS FMOODS - Paris, France, November 18-21, 2003 * ObjectWeb Conference - Paris, France, November 20-21, 2003 * ApacheCon US - Las Vegas NV, USA, November 16-19, 2003 * SuperComputing - Phoenix AZ, USA, November 15-21 2003 * LinuxDays - Luxembourg, November 7, 2003 * DOA - November 3-7, 2003 People (as of Dec 31 '03) * 26 legal entity members * 543 individual members or applicants * 2763 mailing lists users * 874 accounts in the Forge / 165 commiters * 118 people in the Chinese mailing lists and 25+ working on translation Web Stats (Nov & Dec '03) * 71 projects in the Forge as of Dec 31st. * December: - 1,500,000 hits on ObjectWeb's main Web server / 50,000 visitors - 876,000 hits on ObjectWeb Forge / 19,000 visitors * November: - 1,550,000 hits on ObjectWeb's main Web server / 46,500 visitors - 1,000,000 hits on ObjectWeb Forge / 23,700 visitors* More stats (registered members only): http://myobjectweb.objectweb.org/communityData.php
How-to... --------- ...Become a Member * You can become a member of the ObjectWeb consortium, either as an individual or as a legal entity. Use the online registration wizzard on the web site. Fill the forms in, print the agreement and send two signed copies to ObjectWeb along with the payment (free for individuals). Ask support from the Executive Committee should you need any assistance. * Go to: http://consortium.objectweb.org/registration.html ...Get Involved * Anybody can subscribe to the community@xxxxxxxxxxxxx mailing-list to discuss on general matters. If you want to get involved in a project, you can send a mail to the corresponding mailing-list (<project name>@objectweb.org). You also can create yourself an account in the Forge and ask the project owners to grant you write permissions. * Go to: http://forge.objectweb.org/account/register.php ...Give Feedback * Gathering information in an open-source community is a hard task. You can help us in many ways: giving feedback, use cases, information on OW integrators, appearances in the media, hot news and more. * Go to: http://consortium.objectweb.org/gather.html ...Subscribe/Unsubscribe to the Newsletter * To subscribe to the newsletter, mailto:newsletter-subscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx You also can subscribe online on ObjectWeb's home page. To unsubscribe, mailto:newsletter-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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