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JOnAS Certified -- Mainstream Open Source Middleware On January 28, 2005, at 7:30PM, the JOnAS team announced that ObjectWeb's open-source Java(tm) application server passed all tests of compliance with J2EE 1.4 Congratulations to all committers that worked hard to achieve this unprecendented success in 9 months only! By doing so, they demonstrated that a collaborative development effort can make open-source middleware compliant with open-standards in an efficient and predictable manner. "Compliance is a critical factor driving enterprise and ISV adoption of J2EE application servers and associated middleware stacks," said James Governor, Principal Analyst at RedMonk. "Certification ensures application portability and prevents lock in; ObjectWeb can now meet these market requirements." The certification of JOnAS has been made possible by the licensing of the J2EE Specification and Compatibility Test Suite (CTS) to INRIA under Sun's license terms friendly to non-profit and open source projects. JOnAS was the first open-source project to be awarded such a scholarship by the Technology Compatibility Kit (TCK) Review Board. "Conducting this certification work was a real challenge, and I would like to congratulate JOnAS developers for their strong commitment in this difficult task. Many thanks also to the Sun TCK support people, and to the open source communities who helped us upgrading their components that are embedded in JOnAS," said François Exertier, Bull, JOnAS Architect. JOnAS is a platform integrating original code with best of breed components from ObjectWeb and other open-source communities: Carol, HOWL, Ishmael, Jeremie, Jonathan, Joram, JORM, JOTM, Medor, Monolog, Perseus and Speedo from ObjectWeb; Axis, EWS, Jakarta Commons, Struts, Tomcat, Velocity, WSDL4J, XMLBeans from Apache; HsqlDB, JacORB, JGroups, Mx4J, P6Spy, XDoclet and XJavaDoc from the open-source community at large. * The current J2EE 1.4 certified version of JOnAS is version 4.3.3, downloadable here: http://jonas.objectweb.org . * See: http://www.objectweb.org/phorum/read.php?f=25&i=88&t=88 Best Use Cases Awards The winners of the first ObjectWeb "Best Use Cases" Awards have been announced during the closing ceremony of ObjectWebCon '05. They are projects that use ObjectWeb components deployed in production for prominent applications. * Enterprise Java: GrECo International is one of the leading insurance brokerage, risk management and employee benefits consultants in Central Eastern Europe. In August 2004 BroSys, an Enhydra Shark- and JaWE-based system developed by Austria-based Together Teamlösungen went into production at GrEco to administer data for about 20.000 clients, 120.000 insurance contracts, 1.5 million documents. * ObjectWeb and Eclipse: TumoroteK is a web application that provides the users with tools to efficiently manage their biological samples banks: storage of materials, clinical and biological data and distribution of materials. TumoroteK is mainly developed under the Eclipse platform, with Lomboz and CVS-SSH2 plug-ins added. It uses JONAS-Tomcat as web Application Server. * ISV & Integration: The Open For Business (OFBiz) Project is an open source enterprise automation software project. OFBiz relies on ObjectWeb JOTM project and is the core of several commercial offers. * Jury's Special Prize: OpenUSS is an e-learning platform operating on the ASP (Application Service Provider) model. The development team decided to take on JOnAS because of its simplicity. The presentation layer uses Enhydra as a servlet container. * See: http://wiki.objectweb.org/ObjectWebCon05/Wiki.jsp?page=AwardWi nners _________________________________________________________________ Headlines JOnAS Becomes the First Non Commercial Open-Source Application Server to Complete J2EE 1.4(tm) Compatibility Certification * Collaborative development of open-source middleware delivers industrial-grade, standards-compliant and production-proven J2EE(tm) platform * Richard Monson-Haefel, Sr. Analyst, Burton Group: "The J2EE 1.4 certification of JOnAS is a significant event in the J2EE industry, because it provides another viable open source alternative to expensive commercial offerings. The entry of JOnAS as a J2EE 1.4 compliant application server contributes significantly to the ongoing commodization of the J2EE industry, because it offers another top-notch implementation competitive, in terms of J2EE compliance and functionality, with existing commercial vendors." * The adoption of JOnAS by a worldwide community of users and its deployment in production for mission critical applications guarantee the durability of the platform and the sustainability of its development. Certification of compliance to the J2EE specifications is now expected to accelerate JOnAS' adoption by mainstream enterprises and governmental agencies. * See: http://www.objectweb.org/phorum/read.php?f=25&i=88&t=88 XML Technology Provider Orbeon Joins ObjectWeb * Membership reinforces consortium international reach, complements open source offering with production proven XML technology * PresentationServer, is now hosted by ObjectWeb. PresentationServer is deployed at Amnesty International, UC Berkeley, Caltech, Leapfrog, Wachovia, River Dynamics, QBE Insurance Group, The City of San Diego, CSC, Teleflex, etc. * See: http://www.objectweb.org/phorum/read.php?f=25&i=91&t=91 ObjectWeb Brings Open Source Infrastructure Software to the Heart of Mainstream Enterprises * Mainstream enterprises use ObjectWeb open-source middleware in production for mission-critical applications * ObjectWeb corporate members provide the professional services required by the enterprise to take on open-source infrastructure software. * Nicolas Buonomo, Middleware Infrastructure Manager with CNAF: "The system has been in production for 1 year now. Accessed daily by hundreds of users from our 123 local offices, it just never crashed: we did not receive a single incident report!" * Robert Zachajewicz, Together Teamlösungen's VP Marketing and Sales: "GrEco decided to extend the system to local offices in the Czech Republic and Hungary this year." * See: http://www.objectweb.org/phorum/read.php?f=25&i=87&t=87 * For press coverage see: http://www.objectweb.org/phorum/list.php?f=24 _________________________________________________________________ Hot Stuff ObjectWebCon '05 * Now in its 4th year, ObjectWebCon 2005 was held in Lyon, France from January 17 to 19, 2005. This international symposium provided clear perspectives of the rapidly evolving middleware architecture and technologies, as presented by key open source leaders including Red Hat, Sun Microsystems, the Apache Software Foundation and ITEA... * ObjectWebCon '05 conveyed new trends in the middleware industry (RFID, Grid Computing, Integration, Mobility...), thus offering the latest open source solutions and predicting the future design of platform architectures. * See: http://wiki.objectweb.org/ObjectWebCon05/Wiki.jsp?page=Feedback Coming Up - Events Where ObjectWeb Will Have a Booth or a Talk * Mar 17: Eclipse Day, Nantes, France - * Apr 04: Architecture meeting, April 4,5,6, 2005, Nice (Sophia Antipolis), France * Nov 28: International Middleware Conference, November 28th - December 2nd, 2005 * More: http://www.objectweb.org/phorum/list.php?f=28 New Projects - Accepted by the College * PresentationServer - PresentationServer is a J2EE-based MVC framework for building Web applications that present and capture XML using XForms, XSLT, and Web Services. * XWiki - XWiki is advanced wiki that supports many popular features like the Wiki syntax, version control, attachments, security, and searching, but also many advanced features like templates, database and dynamic development, skinability and much more. * List of all projects: http://forge.objectweb.org/softwaremap/full_list.php Latest Releases * Jan 06: eXo Platform 1.0 RC OW 4 * Jan 10: eXo 1.0 RC OW 5 * Jan 11: Joram 4.2 release candidate 1 is available * Jan 14: JOnAS 4.2.3 stable release * Jan 19: eXo Platform 1.0 RC OW 6 * Jan 21: ASM 1.5.3 released * Jan 24: Bonita 1.5 version is yet available to download. * Jan 31: Sync4j 2.2 beta 3 - Candidate Release 1 is out! * Feb 01: JOnAS Completes J2EE 1.4 Compliance Tests * Feb 01: XMLC 2.2.6 is out * Feb 01: exoPlatform 1.0 RC 0W 8 is available * Feb 07: ASM 2.0.RC1 released * Feb 08: C-JDBC version 1.1 released * Feb 11: XAPool 1.4.1 release * Feb 13: eXo Platform 1.0 released * Feb 14: JOnAS 4.3.2 RC Released * Feb 17: Enhydra Octopus 3.2-2 released! * Feb 17: JOTM 2.0.3 is released * Feb 17: Enhydra Director 6.2-2 released! * Feb 17: EAF (Enhydra Application Framework) 6.2-2 released! * Feb 18: Enhydra DODS 6.2-2 released! * Feb 19: Enhydra 5.2-2 released! * Mar 03: JOTM 2.0.5 is released * Mar 04: Enhydra Enterprise 6.2-2 is released! * Mar 09: PresentationServer 2.8 and Studio 1.2.2 released * More: http://www.objectweb.org/phorum/list.php?f=29 _________________________________________________________________ Community Downtime Due to a serious infrastructure problem occured on Saturday 19th February 2005, ObjectWeb's website wasn't available the whole week-end. The team worked hard to solve the problems and some features of the website remained not fully available for a couple of days. Sorry for the inconvenience. Past Events - Where Members of the Community Held a Booth or Gave a Talk * Jan 12: Journees d'Autrans, January 12-14, 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 * Mar 03: TheServerSide Java Symposium, March 3-5, 2005 * More: http://www.objectweb.org/phorum/list.php?f=38 People (as of March 10) * 48 legal entity members * 1458 individual members or applicants * 7926 mailing lists users (registered to 205 mailing lists) * 4209 accounts in the Forge / 339 SCM commiters * 157 persons in the Chinese mailing lists and 25+ working on translation Web Stats * January: * 3,500,000 hits on ObjectWeb's main Web server / 95,000 visitors * 3,648,000 hits on ObjectWeb Forge server / 48,000 visitors February: * 3,830,000 hits on ObjectWeb's main Web server / 97,000 visitors * 3,417,000 hits on ObjectWeb Forge server / 47,000 visitors 91 projects in the Forge as of March 10 Top downloads (January/February 2005): * Lomboz * Sync4j * JOnAS * eXo Platform * Enhydra Shark * 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. 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