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ObjectWeb Newsletter - Issue # 6 Organizers are now accepting proposals for the next annual conference (ObjectWebCon05): make sure to submit by September 15th, 2004. ================================================= In this issue : * ObjectWebCon05 Now Accepting Proposals * Eclipse Web Tools Platform approved * Headlines o ObjectWeb to Federate Open Source ESB o Dassault Aviation joins ObjectWeb * Hot Stuff o ObjectWeb Summer Tour o Software Patents in Europe o Coming Up o New Corporate Members o New Projects o Last Releases * Community o New Home Page for ObjectWeb's Site o Report of the First JORAM Users' Day o Past Events o People (as of Jul '04) o Web Stats (May & Jul '04) * How-to... o ...Become a Member o ...Get Involved o ...Submit a Project o ...Give Feedback o ...Subscribe/Unsubscribe to the Newsletter HTML version: http://wiki.objectweb.org/Wiki.jsp?page=NewsLetter6 ================================================= ObjectWebCon05 Now Accepting Proposals ================================================= * As the ObjectWeb consortium becomes an important player in open source infrastructure software for the industry, its annual conference grows and strengthen as unique opportunity for professionals to discover, learn and exchange on middleware and open source software. The program committee is seeking to receive proposals for technical sessions. * Deadline for submissions: September 15th, 2004 - http://wiki.objectweb.org/ObjectWebCon05/CallForProposals.jsp * This conference is sponsored by INRIA, Bull, France Telecom and Together Teamlösungen. For sponsorship opportunities, contact mailto:ObjectCon05-contact@xxxxxxxxxxxxx * Venue: Lyon, France, January 17-19, 2005. Web site: http://www.objectweb.org/ObjectWebCon05 ================================================= Eclipse Web Tools Platform approved ================================================= * ObjectWeb leveraged its know-how in professional open-source project management and in middleware to lead a new proposal for the Eclipse Web Tools Platform. This project addresses the Web/J2EE application-tooling domain. * On June 25th, the Eclipse board has approved the creation of a the Eclipse Web Tools Platform project. * With 25 participants, the Eclipse Web Tools Platform workshop in Grenoble (France), June 16-19, was a great success! This meeting has enabled all attendees to build a shared vision of the project and to work on the project organization and roadmap. * Representatives of the following companies attended the meeting: Bull, Eteration, Exadel, FrameworX, France Telecom R&D, IBM, Innoopract, INRIA, OpenWide, THALES IS and XQuark Group (Genuitec, Librados and Together Teamlösungen were represented by other meeting attendees). And two individual contributors, Jens Lukowski and Xinjie Zhang, were also present! Bjorn Freeman-Benson, from the Eclipse board, has provided the attendees with his continued guidance through the new Eclipse project creation process. Bjorn is the candidate for the project lead. ================================================= Headlines ================================================= ObjectWeb to Federate Open Source ESB * ObjectWeb already delivers enterprise-grade open-source solutions for business integration. * ObjectWeb announces that 8 of its corporate members (eMAXX, INRIA, Librados, Open Wide, ScalAgent, Thales, Together Teamlösungen, Xquark Group) are supporting an intitiative targeting the delivery of ESB solutions built on open-source components. * Michel Veenhuis, CEO of eMAXX: "eMAXX developed a service bus based on BPEL for Web Services that is now in production at government agencies. We consider making this technology available to the open-source community in the framework of the ObjectWeb ESB initiative." * See: http://www.objectweb.org/phorum/read.php?f=25&i=68&t=68 ================================================= Dassault Aviation joins ObjectWeb * Dassault Aviation, world's leader in top-of-the-line business jets, joins ObjectWeb. * Jacques Pellas, Dassault Aviation Senior Vice-President of the Information System Division: "an airplane has a typical lifecycle of several decades and for this reason, we need to build our information system on perennial software components. As an alternative to fast-evolving proprietary solutions, Open-Source software puts us in control of our level of dependency on the vendors' software and hardware products. By joining ObjectWeb, we will contribute to make Open-Source solutions, which often come from university origins, better comply to industrial requirements." * See: http://www.objectweb.org/phorum/read.php?f=25&i=67&t=67 * For press coverage see: http://www.objectweb.org/phorum/list.php?f=24 ================================================= Hot Stuff ================================================= ObjectWeb Summer Tour * ObjectWeb will be at three major events in the US this summer: JavaOne (San Francisco, Jun 29-Jul 01), O'Reilly OSCon (Portland, Jul 26-30) and LinuxWorld (San Francisco, Aug 2-5). Come visit our booths, attend talks and BOFs and meet the team! Your feedback is always appreciated. The ObjectWeb JavaOne booth is sponsored by Librados. * More: http://www.objectweb.org/phorum/list.php?f=28 ================================================= Software Patents in Europe The case about software patents in Europe is not closed yet. In spite of a vote from the European Parliament to limit software patentability, Irish EU presidency has secured political approval for a new draft of a controversial software patents directive in a meeting of the Council of Ministers on May 18. ObjectWeb members put together a community whitepaper advocating for a well thought-out approach to software patents. ================================================= Coming Up - Events Where ObjectWeb Will Have a Booth or a Talk * Jul 6-10: RMLL - Bordeaux, France * Jul 7-9: ObjectWeb Architecture Meeting- Prague, Czech Republic * Jul 26-30: O'Reilly Open Source Convention - Portland, USA * Aug 2-5: LinuxWorld - San Francisco, USA * Aug 25-28: JavaTwo - Taipei, Taiwan * Sep 9-10: Linux Expo Conference - Shanghai, China * Oct 4-6: ObjectWeb Architecture Meeting - Paris, France * Oct 18-20: 1st GRID PLUGTESTS - Sophia Antipolis, France * Oct 26-28: LinuxWorld - Frankfurt, Germany * Jan 17-19: ObjectWebCon05 (ObjectWeb annual conference) - Lyon, France * More: http://www.objectweb.org/phorum/list.php?f=28 ================================================= New Corporate Members - Companies Who Recently Joined ObjectWeb * iProfs (The Netherlands) * List of all members: http://consortium.objectweb.org/members.php ================================================= New Projects - Accepted by the College * DREAM - Component-based software framework dedicated to the construction of communication middleware. * OSCAR - Open source implementation of the Open Services Gateway Initiative (OSGi) framework. * CARDAMOM - CORBA-based middleware to configure, deploy and run near real-time, fault-tolerant, component-based and distributed Command Control & Information Systems. * List of all projects: http://forge.objectweb.org/softwaremap/full_list.php ================================================= Last Releases * July 02: Enhydra JaWE 1.3 * July 02: Oscar 1.0.1 * June 30: Lomboz 3.0 RC2 * June 29: Enhydra Octopus 2.8 * June 25: Bonita-v1.3 * June 23: C-JDBC 1.0rcf * June 22: JOPE 1.1.4 * June 22: SyncAdmin 1.0.3 for Linux/Unix * June 18: JOPE 1.1.3 * June 15: XQuark Fusion 1.1 beta 2 * June 15: RUBBoS servlets v1.2 * June 13: Oscar 1.0 * June 11: SyncClient Outlook 1.1 * June 9: Sync4j maintenance release * June 8: OpenUSS 1.4 * June 7: JOnAS 4.1 * May 30: JOPE 1.1.1 * May 24: JAC 0.12 * May 18: Speedo 1.0 * May 12: Fractal 2.2 * May 12: ASM 1.4.3 * May 10: RUBBoS Servlets v1.1 * May 3: RmiJdbc 3.2 * May 3: Bonita-v1.2 * More: http://www.objectweb.org/phorum/list.php?f=29 ================================================= Community ================================================= New Home Page for ObjectWeb's Site ObjectWeb's site has been completely reorganized one year ago, to adapt to a growing community of various categories of visitors. Navigating in a huge site is always tricky. We gathered the suggestions from visitors and came up with a new design for the home page that -- we hope -- is clearer and more attractive. There are now 4 main areas: * in the center, a graphical "switchboard" to direct the new comers to the subsection they may be looking for * on the left, shortcuts that open-source old timers and regular visitors may want to use to go directly to key pages (including the "project list") * on the right, the news, coming ups and top downloads that are displayed on all pages * in the middle-bottom, a choice of short highlights about "hot topics" in the life of the community Regular users may feel lost for a moment. Sorry about that! ================================================= Report of the First JORAM Users' Day The first JORAM Users' Day has been held last June 17 th in Paris. This event was the first successful attempt within the ObjectWeb community to have direct exchanges between users and designers/developers of an ObjectWeb component. The report as well as some of the presentations, are accessible online from the JORAM main page. The discussion about JORAM is open especially for those who have not been able to join the Users' Day. Any contribution is welcome on the main JORAM mailing list. ================================================= Past Events - Where Members of the Community Held a Booth or Gave a Talk * Usenix - Boston, USA, June 27-July 2 * Javaone - San Fransisco, USA, June 28-July 1 * JORAM Users Day - Paris, France, June 17 * ECOOP - Oslo, Sweden, June 14-18 * CUIC - Metz, France, June 8-9 * Gartner's Application Integration & Web Services Summit - Amsterdam, Netherlands, June 7-8 * JAX - Frankfurt, Germany, May 10-14 * JAOO Conference - Cannes, France, May 24-26, * LinuxWorld - Tokyo, Japan, June 2-4 * Global EAI Summit - Banff, Alberta, Canada, May 24-28, * WinClub Seminary - Issy-Les-Moulineaux, France, May 13 * Autour du Libre - Brest, France, May 12-14 * More: http://www.objectweb.org/phorum/list.php?f=38 ================================================= People (as of June '04) * 33 legal entity members * 817 individual members or pre-registered * 5580 mailing lists users * 2259 accounts in the Forge / 231 commiters ================================================= Web Stats (May & June '04) * 80 projects in the Forge as of June 30. * May: o 2,794,000 hits on ObjectWeb's main Web server / 85,400 visitors o 2,808,730 hits on ObjectWeb Forge server / 37,900 visitors * June: o 2,985,000 hits on ObjectWeb's main Web server / 77,300 visitors o 3,455,300 hits on ObjectWeb Forge server / 40,900 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 ...Submit a Project * All members can submit a (software development) project to ObjectWeb. The project is reviewed by the College of Architects before approval. The main criteria for approval are: relevance with regards to ObjectWeb's scope, technical sustainability and quality of the code base. * Go to: http://forge.objectweb.org/register/ (members only) ...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, web sites related to middleware to insert in the web rings 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 ================================================= Trademarks: Sun, Sun Microsystems, Java, J2EE and other Java-based marks are trademarks or registered trademarks of Sun Microsystems, Inc. in the United States and other countries. ObjectWeb was founded by Bull, France Telecom and INRIA, is hosted by INRIA and sponsored by Together Teamlösungen.
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