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ObjectWeb Newsletter #4
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In this issue :
* JOnAS On the Way to J2EE Certification
* Headlines
- ObjectWeb Licenses J2EE(tm) Technology
- New Board Announces Strategy to Carry on Worldwide Adoption
- Red Hat Executive Joins ObjectWeb Board
- ObjectWeb welcomes MandrakeSoft
- ObjectWeb Targets Enterprise Users
* Hot Stuff
- Coming Up
- New Corporate Members
- New Projects
- Last Releases
* Community
- Enhydra Sites Migration
- Community Survey
- Past Events
- People (as of Feb 29 '04)
- Web Stats (Jan & Feb '04)
* How-to...
- ...Become a Member
- ...Get Involved
- ...Give Feedback
- ...Subscribe/Unsubscribe to the Newsletter
JOnAS On the Way to J2EE Certification
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ObjectWeb is a J2EE(tm) Licensee since late January.
This simple piece of news announces an all new era for
J2EE applications servers. Simply put, JOnAS is the first
and only application server distributed under LGPL by a
non-profit organization to run for J2EE certification. So far,
there is no equivalent and no competition. This requires a
bit of explanation.
ObjectWeb is dedicated to developing Software Commons
in an open and non-profit fashion. The consortium itself is
vendor-neutral and does not lead any kind of commercial
activity. Unlike other providers of Java application servers,
ObjectWeb has actually been recognized a non-profit
organization by the JCP (Java Community Process). For
this reason, Sun awarded ObjectWeb the first scholarship
ever granted to help an organization undertake the
certification process.
JOnAS, as a whole, is licensed under LGPL. This license
guarantees that all code improvements will remain Open
Source, thus avoiding proprietary forks of the code base.
JOnAS, like other platforms from ObjectWeb, comes with
documentation and can be used by everyone at no charge.
This unrivaled level of transparency guaranties fair
competition between all commercial users. It also ensures
that vendors can freely contribute to the common good
without fearing that competitors turn their input into a
one-way gift.
In ObjectWeb's vision, the Java enterprise market is ready
for Open Source. The consortium members joined forces to
propose industrial-grade solutions that meet these
requirements. JOnAS is one of these, and the certification of
its compatibility to J2EE promises to be a major milestone in
its life.
Headlines
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ObjectWeb Licenses J2EE Technology
* The ObjectWeb Consortium is taking advantage of open
source license terms for the J2EE 1.4 platform specification
that Sun is making available for non-profit and open source
projects.
* Christophe Ney, ObjectWeb Executive Director: "The grant
of Sun's support extended to us at no charge will be of great
help to certify the full compatibility of the JOnAS application
server with the J2EE Specifications. This is very important to
our community of enterprise developers and users. It will
consolidate the position of JOnAS as a keystone of our
open-source ecosystem."
* See: http://www.objectweb.org/phorum/read.php?f=25&i=54&t=54
New Board Announces Strategy to Carry on Worldwide Adoption
* Jean-Pierre Laisné, new elected Chairman: "The consortium
gained tremendous momentum last year, with dramatic increase
of audience, lots of new members, new projects of major
interest and a worldwide trend of adoption of our components. We
will keep pushing forward in 2004, in 3 directions: strategic
cooperation, industrial adoption and international development".
* See: http://www.objectweb.org/phorum/read.php?f=25&i=52&t=52
Red Hat Executive Joins ObjectWeb Board
* Red Hat Executive Vice President of Engineering, has been
elected to the ObjectWeb Consortium Board of Directors.
* Red Hat has been working with ObjectWeb to develop an
application server solution to be made available to Red Hat
Enterprise Linux customers in 2004. An early beta of the application
server was on display on LinuxWorld NYC.
* See: http://www.objectweb.org/phorum/read.php?f=25&i=53&t=53
ObjectWeb Welcomes MandrakeSoft
* As part of its strategy of fulfilling industry demand for distributed
applications and solutions, MandrakeSoft became a member of
ObjectWeb in January 2004.
* François Bancilhon, CEO of MandrakeSoft: "MandrakeSoft believes
that middleware is a crucial technology that many of our key
customers and users can benefit greatly from. We view the work of
the ObjectWeb consortium as essential in this area"
* See: http://www.objectweb.org/phorum/read.php?f=25&i=51&t=51
ObjectWeb Targets Enterprise Users
* On Solutions Linux '04, ObjectWeb targeted enterprise users of
Open-Source middleware for mission-critical applications. The
consortium announced new versions of 4 major platforms (JOnAS
4.0, JORAM 4.0, Enhydra 6.0 & C-JDBC 1.0 final) and presented a
full day of tutorials including use cases from industrial users.
* See: http://www.objectweb.org/phorum/read.php?f=25&i=50&t=50
* For press coverage see: http://www.objectweb.org/phorum/list.php?f=24
Hot Stuff
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Coming Up - Events Where ObjectWeb Will Have a Booth or a Talk
* Mar 15-17: Langages & Modèles à Objets - Lille, France
* Mar 20-23: LogOn Briefings - CeBIT, Hanover, Germany
* Mar 25-26: ObjectWeb quarterly Architecture meeting - Paris, France
* Apr 1: E-business Convention on Open Source - Paris, France
* Apr 20-21: LinuxUser & Developer Expo - London, UK
* May 24-28: Global EAI Summit - Banff, Alberta, Canada
* Jun 28-Jul 1: JavaOne - San Francisco, CA, USA
* More: http://www.objectweb.org/phorum/list.php?f=28
New Corporate Members - Companies Who Recently Joined ObjectWeb
* Code Lutin (France)
* Dassault Aviation (France)
* eMaxx (Netherlands)
* Eteration (Germany / Turkey)
* MandrakeSoft (France)
* YangFang Soft (China)
* List of all members: http://consortium.objectweb.org/members.php
New Projects - Accepted by the College
* Bright Side framework - Framework for J2EE development with
rich Java/Swing clients on HTTP
* Eclipse DB Modeler - Eclipse plugin for Java Data Objects
* Enhydra Oyster - Java library for SMIME signing and encryption
* Lomboz - Eclipse plug-in for J2EE developpement
* OSCAR - OSGi framework
* Sync4j - SyncML server and framework
Last Releases
* Mar 2: Kelp 5.1-7
* Mar 1: ASM 1.4.2
* Feb 29: Enhydra Server 5.1-7
* Feb 27: C-JDBC 1.0 release candidate 3
* Feb 25: Enhydra Demos 5.1-7
* Feb 24: Enhydra Director 5.1-7
* Feb 21: Octopus 2.6
* Feb 20: Enhydra DODS 5.1-7
* Feb 19: Speedo 1.0 beta 2
* Feb 16: Remote Iterator 2.0
* Feb 13: JORAM 4.0 final
* Feb 6: Barracuda 1.2.6
* Feb 5: JOPE 1.0 final
* Jan 31: Enhydra for the X-BOX
* Jan 31: XQuark Fusion 1.0.1
* Jan 28: XMLC 2.4.4
* Jan 26: ModFact 1.0.0
* Jan 15: JOnAS 3.3.5
* More: http://www.objectweb.org/phorum/list.php?f=29
Community
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Enhydra Sites Migration
The Enhydra.org website and communities have finally merged with
Objectweb.org. After a long search the otter has found a home!
Objectweb now hosts all of the Enhydra.org projects on
forge.objectweb.org including CVS and the enhydra.org mailing
lists in its Sympa installation. The layout of all Enhydra.org
project websites was adopted to the new Objectweb design and Enhydra
news are now merged with Objectweb news. The portal page www.enhydra.org
represents the Enhydra project group within Objectweb.org.
After this important step in the merge, individual Enhydra projects are
now working on technical synergies with other Objectweb projects.
Community Survey
The three students from ENST (Ecole Nationale Superieure des
Telecomunications, Brest, France) who lead a study on ObjectWeb have now
completed their project. Here is an abstract of their main conclusions:
* Motivation: Objectweb is young and its members are motivated in their
work, interrested in the consortium. Their implication is really strong.
* Interest: Personnal interest in the middleware is one of the most
important reason for people to become and individual member in objectweb.
* Diversity: The number of different project in Objectweb is growing and is
really important. JOnAS seems to be the main known project, but a lot of
others project are here and are growing.
* Centralized: Members often have the feeling that the consortium and its
decision system are centralized.
* Isolation: A lot of members are really dedicated to their project, and
don?t know much about other projects.
* Global satisfaction: Most of the members are satisfied of the results that
objectweb shows. A significant number of firms are ready to become a member.
Thanks to all the members who spared some time to make this study possible.
It will greatly help us improve the consortium organization, communication
and activity.
Past Events - Where Members of the Community Held a Booth or Gave a Talk
* ObjectWeb quarterly Architecture Meeting - Sevilla, Spain, Jan 13-15
* LinuxWorld - New York, NY, USA - Jan 21-23
* Rencontres INRIA-Industrie - Paris, France - Jan 27
* EclipseCon - Anaheim, CA, USA - Feb 2-5
* Solutions Linux - Paris, France - Feb 3-5
* J2EE/Web Services Code Camp - Paris, France - Feb 10
* FOSDEM - Brussels, Belgium - Feb 21-22
* More: http://www.objectweb.org/phorum/list.php?f=38
People (as of Feb 29 '04)
* 30 legal entity members
* 647 individual members or applicants
* 4873 mailing lists users
* 1329 accounts in the Forge / 184 commiters
Web Stats (Jan & Feb '04)
* 75 projects in the Forge as of Feb 29.
* February:
- 2,970,000 hits on ObjectWeb's main Web server / 92,850 visitors
- 2,795,000 hits on ObjectWeb Forge / 34,850 visitors
* January:
- 1,960,000 hits on ObjectWeb's main Web server / 63,400 visitors
- 2,232,500 hits on ObjectWeb Forge / 30,970 visitors
* More stats (registered members only):
http://myobjectweb.objectweb.org/communityData.php
How-to...
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...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
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