REMINDER: organizers are now accepting proposals for the next annual
conference
(ObjectWebCon05): make sure to submit by September 15th, 2004.
In this issue :
* Open-Source ESB
* JOnAS is Red Hat Application Server
* ObjectWebCon05 - 4th ObjectWeb Annual
Conference
* Headlines
o ObjectWeb-driven
Web Tools Platform Proposal Endorsed by Eclipse
Foundation
o SourceBeat
Publishing Announces Membership in ObjectWeb, Future
Publishing of JOnAS Title
o MySQL Joins
ObjectWeb
* Hot Stuff
o Coming Up
o New Corporate
Members
o New
Projects
o Last
Releases
* Community
o SVN Support Now
Available on the ObjectWeb Forge
o Past
Events
o People (as of
Sep '04)
o Web Stats (Jul
& Aug '04)
* How-to...
o ...Become a
Member
o ...Get
Involved
o ...Submit a
Project
o ...Give
Feedback
o
...Subscribe/Unsubscribe to the Newsletter
Open-Source Enterprise Service Bus
==================================
* 8 ObjectWeb members proposed in June to start up an
ESB initiative. A
formal kick-off meeting will be held in Paris on
October 4, 2004.
* The ESB initiative is designed as a user-driven
process that brings
together technology providers, end users and
integrators. Altogether, they
work on defining business requirements for ESB
platforms and on creating a
toolbox of open-source components targeting such
solutions. The final goal
of this process is to provide vendors with the
high-quality open-source
bricks they need to build their commercial ESB
offering.
* ObjectWeb is actually not new in the business of
integration. Our
community has a proven track record of success in
delivering components and
tools for integration and Service Oriented
Architectures / Event Driven
Architectures, including: JOnAS (Java(tm) application
server currently
undergoing certification of compliance with J2EE(tm)
1.4); Bonita, Enhydra
Shark, JaWE (WfMC workflow engines and tools); JORAM
(message-oriented
middleware with JMS and SOAP connectors); JOTM
(distributed transaction
manager); XQuark (XML/XQuery data integration and
transformation engine);
Enhydra Octopus (ETL tool). In addition, a BPEL engine
has recently been
accepted as an ObjectWeb project.
* Christophe Ney, executive director, ObjectWeb:
"ObjectWeb leads
open-source projects targeting infrastructure software
and drives major
community achievements, such as the delivery of JOnAS,
one of the leading
non-commercial J2EE application servers, the start up
of the Web Tools
Platform under the Eclipse umbrella and the
development of open-source ESB
solutions."
JOnAS is Red Hat Application Server
===================================
* Red Hat announced at LinuxWorld San Francisco the
availability of Red Hat
Application Server, actually a specific packaging of
JOnAS. * JOnAS is
currently undergoing certification for compatibility with J2EE
1.4. This compatibility test suite has been made
available to ObjectWeb by
Sun in the framework of a specific scholarship for
non-profit projects. *
Jean-Pierre Laisné, ObjectWeb chairman: "customers can now benefit
from
the open source components ObjectWeb delivers such as
JOnAS, JORAM, and JOTM
to build enterprise-class offerings. Together, Red Hat
and ObjectWeb show
the unique strength that pure-play open source
solutions can provide to the
enterprise."
ObjectWebCon05 - 4th ObjectWeb Annual Conference
================================================
* Born as a grassroot, community gathering 4 years
ago, the annual ObjectWeb
conference now targets enterprise users of
infrastructure software and
middleware. The recent achievements of the ObjectWeb
consortium generates
interest from decision makers in mainstream ISVs,
integrators and user
companies. * New
formula, with tutorial tracks, five keynote sessions and an
exhibition
floor, for hype-free, focused training and information
about cutting-edge
open-source technologies for software infrastructure,
both from technical
and business perspectives. * Call for
proposals - deadline September 15th, 2004 - http://wiki.objectweb.org/ObjectWebCon05/CallForProposals.jsp * For
sponsoring opportunities, contact
ObjectCon05-contact@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx * Venue:
Lyon, France, January 17-19, 2005. Web site: http://www.objectweb.org/ObjectWebCon05.
Headlines
=========
ObjectWeb-driven Web Tools Platform Proposal Endorsed by Eclipse
Foundation
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* Success of the initiative that led to the launch of
the Web Tools Platform
project conforming to a proposal driven by ObjectWeb
and under the umbrella
of Eclipse, a community committed to the
implementation of a universal
platform for tools integration. * Bjorn
Freeman-Benson of the University of Washington, selected by the
Eclipse Foundation to lead the WTP project: ?ObjectWeb
is an amazing and
powerful group. With such support, I am confident that
WTP will be
successful and will quickly become the open-source
platform of choice
underlying vendor-specific J2EEtooling.? * See
also: Eclipse Launches Web Tools Platform Project
SourceBeat Publishing Announces Membership in ObjectWeb, Future
Publishing of JOnAS Title
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* SourceBeat Publishing is the new model in publishing
on open-source
projects: subscription-based digital content assuring
current and relevant
content about open-source projects. * Matt
Filios, CEO of SourceBeat: "With our publishing of JOnAS and
other
ObjectWeb projects in the future, SourceBeat hopes to
further increase the
traction and acceptance of the excellent work that
makes up ObjectWeb"
MySQL Joins ObjectWeb
---------------------
* MySQL is joining ObjectWeb as a corporate member to
promote open source in
business, ensure technology and corporate ties to the
middleware industry,
and participate in communicating a unified perspective
on software
intellectual property. * David
Axmark, MySQL AB co-founder: ? We welcome the opportunity to join
ObjectWeb, along with leading open source companies
such as Red Hat, SuSE
Linux and MandrakeSoft, to further the development of
open source
alternatives in mainstream business.?
Hot Stuff
=========
Coming Up - Events Where ObjectWeb Will Have a Booth or a Talk
--------------------------------------------------------------
* Sep 9-10: Linux Expo - Shanghai, PR China
* Sep 22-24: LinuxWorld - Milan, Italy
* Oct 4-6: ObjectWeb Architecture Meeting - Paris,
France
* Oct 18-20: Grid Plugtest - Sophia Antipolis,
France
* Oct 26-28: LinuxWorld - Frankfurt, Germany
* Nov 3-5: Networld+Interop - Paris, France
* Nov 14-17: ApacheCon - Las Vegas, NV, USA
* Jan 17-19, 2004: ObjectWeb Annual Conference
(OWCon05) - Lyon, France
New Corporate Members - Companies Who Recently Joined ObjectWeb
---------------------------------------------------------------
* Argia (France)
* MySQL (Sweden)
* SourceBeat (USA)
New Projects - Accepted by the College
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* Byline - suite of enterprise applications that
include include content
management, portal, and collaboration capabilities (ex
Red Hat CCM) * Tribe -
group communication library based on reliable point-to-point FIFO
communication channels targeting high performance
cluster environments
Last Releases
-------------
* September 10: Bonita-v1.4
* September 9: C-JDBC 1.0.3
* September 9: Enhydra 5.1-16
* September 9: Enhydra DODS 6.0
* September 9: Enhydra Director 5.1-16
* September 9: Enhydra Shark 1.0
* September 3: Enhydra Director 5.1-15
* September 2: C-JDBC 1.0.2
* August 31: Enhydra Kelp 5.1-15
* August 31: Enhydra JaWE 1.4
* August 30: Enhydra 5.1-15
* August 26: XQuark Bridge 1.1.0
* August 26: XQuark Fusion 1.1.0
* August 24: Enhydra Octopus 3.0
* August 11: Sync4j 2.1 beta 2
* August 4: C-JDBC 1.0
* July 30: Speedo 1.1
* July 27: XMLC 2.2.5
* July 27: SyncClient Outlook 1.1
* July 23: Eclipse WTP & Lomboz 3.0.1
* July 21: Enhydra DODS 5.1-13
* July 21: Enhydra Enterprise 6.0 beta 1
* July 14: SyncServer 4.0.3 beta
* July 07: JOnAS 4.1.2
* July 02: Enhydra JaWE 1.3
* July 02: OSCAR 1.0.1
Community
=========
SVN Support Now Available on the ObjectWeb Forge
------------------------------------------------
Subversion (1.0.6) is now available on the ObjectWeb Forge in addition to
CVS.
Subversion is a version control system that is a compelling replacement
for CVS
in the open-source community. Anonymous and developer accesses are
provided
(through svn and svn+ssh protocols) just like CVS. The repository can
also be
browsed online thanks to ViewCVS. For more information about Subversion,
please
see the Subversion Web site.
Past Events - Where Members of the Community Held a Booth or Gave a
Talk
------------------------------------------------------------------------
* JavaOne - San Francisco, CA, USA, June 30-July
1
* Linagora Seminary - Paris, France, July 22
* O'Reilly Open Source Convention - Portland, OR, USA,
July 26-30
* LinuxWorld - San Francisco, CA, USA, August
2-5
* JavaTwo - Tapei, Taiwan, August 3-4
* LinuxWorld - Beijing, PR China, August 24-26
* EuroPar - Pisa, Italy, August 31-September
3
People (as of August 31 '04)
----------------------------
* 36 legal entity members
* 941 individual members or pre-registered
* 6253 mailing lists users
* 2855 accounts in the Forge / 267 commiters
Web Stats (July & August '04)
-----------------------------
* 83 projects in the Forge as of August 30.
* July:
o 3,288,000 hits
on ObjectWeb's main Web server / 80,700 visitors
o 4,682,900 hits
on ObjectWeb Forge server / 42,200 visitors
* August:
o 3,214,900 hits
on ObjectWeb's main Web server / 79,800 visitors
o 3,696,700 hits
on ObjectWeb Forge server / 51,300 visitors
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.
...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.
...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.
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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