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ObjectWeb Newsletter - Issue # 9
Online version: http://wiki.objectweb.org/Wiki.jsp?page=NewsLetter9
Season's Greetings
On behalf of ObjectWeb officers, we wish you a happy and successful
year 2005. Last year has been very busy and productive for the
ObjectWeb community. The launch of JOnAS certification process, the
begining of a new ESB initiative, the success of Eclipse Web Tools
Platform proposal, the consortium expansion in the US and Asia, have
been major milestones amongst many other achievements -- just too
numerous to be listed.
Although the begining of the year is time of happiness and hope, we
are all aware of the tragedy that happened in South-Asia. Many in the
community may know people who were directly or indirectly affected by
this terrible natural disaster. We here express our support and
sympathy to them all.
Our toughts especially go to Denis Caromel, member of ObjectWeb
College of Architect, professor with INRIA, who was for work in Sri
Lanka with his family. He now is at the hospital and his closest
relatives are missing. Please circulate the following information to
any person or organization that may help locate them:
http://www.labri.fr/~chaumett/attalicaromel/
ObjectWebCon '05
* Only 2 weeks to the 4th Annual Conference on Open-Source
Middleware organized by ObjectWeb - scheduled for January 17-19,
2005 in Lyon, France.
* 1 day of tutorials, 2 days conference + expo. Keynote speakers: B.
Behlendorf (Apache Board), O. Klyut (Sr. Director, JCP), JP
Lacotte (Vice-Chairman, ITEA), M. Milinkovich (Executive Director,
Eclipse), H. Peyret (Senior Analyst, Forrester), H. Xu (Chief
Architect, Guangzhou Research Center).
* Register NOW!
* See: http://wiki.objectweb.org/ObjectWebCon05/
Best Use Cases Awards
* The OWCon05 Best Use Cases Contest is a challenge that allows any
professional to file one or several submissions about real world
use cases of ObjectWeb components and platforms.The announcement
of Award winners will be done during the closing ceremony of
ObjectWebCon '05, on January 19, 2004 in Lyon, France.
* You can propose one or several use cases about your own
deployments of ObjectWeb components, or about that of third
parties. Don't be shy and let us know about real world, production
use of ObjectWeb components and platforms!
* See:
http://wiki.objectweb.org/ObjectWebCon05/Wiki.jsp?page=Contest
ObjectWeb Members Assembly & Election of the Board
* ObjectWeb registered members are invited to attend the annual
Assembly of Members on January 19 2005 at 8:15AM (CET). Venue:
Grand Amphitheater Charles Mérieux - Ecole Normale Supérieure de
Lyon - 46, Allée d'Italie - 69364 Lyon CEDEX 07 - France.
* It is time again to renew the ObjectWeb board of directors.
Candidates to the board will introduce themselves to ObjectWeb
members at the General Assembly of Members. Declarations of
candidature are to be submitted by email to the list members at
objectweb.org before January 18 2005 midnight CET. The online vote
will be open from January 26th to Monday 7th 2005 midnight CET.
* See:
http://www.objectweb.org/phorum/read.php?f=29&i=10164&t=10164
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Headlines
Open-source enterprise portal foreunner eXo Platform SARL joins ObjectWeb
Consortium
* ObjectWeb and eXo Platform SARL, a privately held company
providing support and services for the open-source project eXo
Platform, announced that eXo Platform SARL joined the consortium
and that the project eXo Platform is now hosted by ObjectWeb.
* With the addition of the eXo Platform to the ObjectWeb project,
the consortium adds a web application suite layer to its extensive
roster of open-source middleware components, which includes the
J2EE(TM) 1.4 application server JOnAS.
* See: http://www.objectweb.org/phorum/read.php?f=25&i=78&t=78
ObjectWeb federates commercial grade open-source projects for business
integration
* ObjectWeb announced the extension of its roster of open-source
projects with 3 Java middleware components for business
integration: Byline content management system; eXo Platform
enterprise portal; MOBE business process execution engine.
* Extension of ObjectWeb's code base with 3 components for portal,
content and business process management makes the consortium's set
of commercial grade middleware projects an unrivalled roster in
the open-source world.
* See: http://www.objectweb.org/phorum/read.php?f=25&i=79&t=79
Ecensity Corp. Joins ObjectWeb
* Ecensity, a privately-held software company specializing in the
development of new generation presentation technologies for web
applications and service-oriented architectures, announced its
membership in ObjectWeb.
* Ecensity will work closely with the other members of the
consortium to ensure the seamless integration of its commercial
solutions with ObjectWeb open-source middleware, which includes
the J2EE 1.4 application server JOnAS.
* See: http://www.objectweb.org/phorum/read.php?f=25&i=80&t=80
Guangzhou Middleware Research Center Joins ObjectWeb
* ObjectWeb and Guangzhou Middleware Research Center (GMRC), a
leading Chinese middleware research institute on middleware,
announced that GMRC joined ObjectWeb to reinforce the consortium
presence in China.
* As interest for open-source software in China is growing fast,
this new membership is expected to foster the adoption of
open-source middleware by mainstream companies and organizations
in Asia and to tighten open-source based collaboration between
industrial and academia players at an intercontinental level.
* See: http://www.objectweb.org/phorum/read.php?f=25&i=81&t=81
Erlang-projects Joins ObjectWeb
* Erlang-projects is today joining the Objectweb consortium to
develop and extend its portfolio of middleware components.
* This agreement is expected to increase Erlang-projects' user base
while allowing ObjectWeb to diversify and extend its middleware
offer with robust, scalable and proven solutions.
* See: http://www.objectweb.org/phorum/read.php?f=25&i=84&t=84
ObjectWebCon Announces Keynotes, Program, Awards
* ObjectWeb announced featured keynotes speakers, program and best
use cases awards at its upcoming annual conference and expo, to be
held in Lyon, France, on January 17-19, 2005.
* Jean-Pierre Laisné, ObjectWeb Chairman and Linux & Open-Source
Strategy Manager for Bull: "the recent achievements of our
consortium, whose size more than doubled in one year, grabs the
attention of decision makers in mainstream ISVs, software
integrators and user companies. For the first time this year, our
annual conference targets a broad audience outside the community
of open-source enthusiasts. Enterprise decision makers will find
at ObjectWebCon05 tutorials and lectures presenting technical
options and use cases."
* See: http://www.objectweb.org/phorum/read.php?f=25&i=82&t=82
* For press coverage see:
http://www.objectweb.org/phorum/list.php?f=24
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Hot Stuff
Coming Up - Events Where ObjectWeb Will Have a Booth or a Talk
* Jan 12: Journees d'Autrans, January 12-14, 2005
* Jan 17: ObjectWebCon05, January 17-19, 2005
* Feb 01: Solutions Linux, Paris, February 1-3, 2005
* Feb 08: 2nd Convention e-Business, February 8-10, 2005
* Feb 12: SCALE, February 12-13, 2005
* Feb 15: Linux World Conference & Expo, February 15-17, 2005
* Feb 28: EclipseCon, February 28-March 3, 2005
* More: http://www.objectweb.org/phorum/list.php?f=28
New Corporate Members - Companies Who Recently Joined ObjectWeb
* Ecensity Corp. (USA)
* Erlang-projects (France)
* Guangzhou Middleware Research Center (China)
* List of all members:
http://consortium.objectweb.org/members.php
New Projects - Accepted by the College
* EclipseJDO - This Eclipse plugin makes easy and fast to
develop transaction applications in Java using standard JDO
drivers. This tool integrates the JDO enhance command in JDT
building process and provides GUI tools for metadata edition and
relation mapping.
* MidOffice BPEL Engine - MidOffice BPEL Engine
* Pajé visualization tool - The Pajé visualization tool provides
interactive and scalable behavioral visualizations of the dynamics
of the executions of parallel and distributed applications.
* WSUnit - XML over HTTP Reflector - WSUnit is a tool that can
help you test Web Services. It provides a predictable and
repeatable simulation of a Web Service that is ideal for unit
testing.
* RFID middleware - RFID project is a collection of RFID related
components and middleware available from ObjectWeb's software
stack.
* Open Integration Suite (OIS) - The Open Integration Suite (OIS) is
modular XML middleware for SOA business integration. It includes
an XML Server for performant pipeline-based XSLT processing, a
Presentation Server for composite web apps using XForms, and an
Eclipse-based Studio.
* List of all projects:
http://forge.objectweb.org/softwaremap/full_list.php
Latest Releases
* Sep 10: Bonita-v1.4 is available
* Sep 14: JORAM 4.1 is available
* Sep 20: XAPool 1.4 release
* Sep 20: Enhydra Kelp 5.1-16 is released!
* Sep 22: Enhydra Enterprise 6.0 is released!
* Sep 23: ASM 1.5.1 released
* Sep 24: JOPE 1.1.5 is released !
* Sep 27: RmiJdbc 3.3 released
* Oct 04: JOnAS 4.1.4 released
* Oct 12: C-JDBC 1.0.4 Released !
* Oct 13: JORAM 4.1.1 released
* Oct 27: JOPE 1.1.6 is released !
* Oct 28: New releases of RUBiS and RUBBoS
* Oct 29: JavaService downloads
* Nov 06: ProActive 2.1 is out.
* Nov 09: ASM 1.5.2 released
* Nov 09: ASM 2.0 alpha released
* Nov 14: Sync4j 2.2 beta 1 released!
* Nov 24: JOPE 1.1.7 is released !
* Nov 25: JOPE 1.1.7 update with feature functionnality
* Dec 06: Massiv moved to ObjectWeb Forge
* Dec 07: Sync4j 2.2 beta 2 released!
* Dec 14: JOnAS 4.2.2 Milestone released
* Dec 17: JOnAS 4.2.3 RC available
* Dec 20: EJOSA Revolutions 2.2 Released + Article Series!
* Dec 24: eXo Platform 1.0 OW RC3
* More: http://www.objectweb.org/phorum/list.php?f=29
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Community
C-JDBC wins the ApacheCon Derby Code Contest
* C-JDBC has won the Derby Code Contest at ApacheCon US 2004!
Major contributions are clustering and remote JDBC access to
Derby.
Past Events - Where Members of the Community Held a Booth or Gave a Talk
* Nov 03: Networld + Interop, November 3-5, 2004
* Nov 14: ApacheCon 2004 US, November 14-17, 2004
* Nov 14: Usenix/LISA, November 14-19, 2004
* Nov 15: Gartner AIWS Summit, November 15-17, 2004
* Nov 16: SDForum, November 16, 2004
* Nov 18: "Journée du logiciel libre", Montpellier, France,
November 18, 2004
* Nov 26: Seminar - Professional Open Source J2EE solutions -
Paris Nov. 26th, 2004
* Dec 15: javaHispano Conference, December 15, 2004
* Dec 15: Forum Administration Electronique, December 15-16,
2004
* Dec 16: ETSI's workshop on Open Source & Standards, 16
December 2004, France
* More: http://www.objectweb.org/phorum/list.php?f=38
People (as of December 04)
* 39 legal entity members
* 1335 individual members or applicants
* 7485 mailing lists users (registered to 196 mailing lists)
* 3694 accounts in the Forge / 314 SCM commiters
* 151 persons in the Chinese mailing lists and 25+ working on
translation
Web Stats
* November 04:
* 3632497 hits on ObjectWeb's main Web server / 98423 visitors
* 3716383 hits on ObjectWeb Forge server / 47370 visitors
December 04:
* 3152025 hits on ObjectWeb's main Web server / 87080 visitors
* 3403727 hits on ObjectWeb Forge server / 45019 visitors
88 projects in the Forge as of December 04
Top downloads (November/December2004):
* Lomboz
* Sync4j
* JOnAS
* Enhydra Shark
* Enhydra JaWE
* More stats (registered members only):
http://myobjectweb.objectweb.org/communityData.php
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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>@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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