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As you would expect of the holiday season, not a lot was ha= ppening at Jakarta other than some discussion, and the usual steady progres= s in a number of projects. This issue has been delayed somewhat due to com= mitments to my real work, but the next issue will hopefully be a little mor= e feature rich and prompt as plenty seems to be happening already!

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As you would expect of the holiday season, not a lot was happening at J= akarta other than some discussion, and the usual steady progress in a numbe= r of projects. This issue has been delayed somewhat due to commitments to = my real work, but the next issue will hopefully be a little more feature ri= ch and prompt as plenty seems to be happening already!

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As always, I want to thank those who contributed and hope t= hat you enjoy the read. If you would like to comment further on any of the= highlighted discussions then please do so on the appropriate list, if you want to comment on= the newsletter itself then please point your comments to general@jakarta.apache.= org.

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As always, I want to thank those who contributed and hope that you enjo= y the read. If you would like to comment further on any of the highlighted= discussions then please do so on the appropriate list, if you want to comment on the newslet= ter itself then please point your comments to general@jakarta.apache.org.

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General

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Commons

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James

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Lucene

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POI

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" Ideas, suggestions, and comments on the overall Jakarta project "

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Editor: Rob Oxspring

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" If continuous integration is a good thing on a small proj= ect, why not apply it recursively and include all dependencies for which ac= cess to source is provided " This has been the reasoning behind Gump [1] and since so many Jakarta folk agreed [2] it was decided to promote Gump from within Alexandria to b= e a first class Jakarta subproject. The tool has been used to build all the= latest versions of the Jakarta code for a long time now, and does a great = job of keeping the developers on their toes and helps maintain a high level= of interoperability between sub projects.

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" If continuous integration is a good thing on a small project, why not= apply it recursively and include all dependencies for which access to sour= ce is provided " This has been the reasoning behind Gump [1] and since so many Jakarta folk agreed [2<= /a>] it was decided to promote Gump from within Alexandria to be a first cl= ass Jakarta subproject. The tool has been used to build all the latest vers= ions of the Jakarta code for a long time now, and does a great job of keepi= ng the developers on their toes and helps maintain a high level of interope= rability between sub projects.

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For those that like Wikis, the turbine team talked us into = starting up our very own. As usual there was plenty of discussion about th= e pros and cons, and plenty about the implementation [3,4] but Andy Oliver decided to get the ball= rolling with a simple system with minimal administration needs [5].

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For those that like Wikis, the turbine team talked us into starting up = our very own. As usual there was plenty of discussion about the pros and c= ons, and plenty about the implementation [3,4] but Andy Oliver decided to get the ball rolling wit= h a simple system with minimal administration needs [= 5].

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Should Apache move into the world of C#? Does the JCP do Ja= va any favours? These are the general themes of this months big thread and = since both topics repeatedly come up at Jakarta, it will come as no surpris= e to learn that opinions are mixed and conclusions are some time off. Still= , its always fun guessing which way to jump! [6,<= a href=3D"#General7">7]

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Should Apache move into the world of C#? Does the JCP do Java any favou= rs? These are the general themes of this months big thread and since both t= opics repeatedly come up at Jakarta, it will come as no surprise to learn t= hat opinions are mixed and conclusions are some time off. Still, its always= fun guessing which way to jump! [6,7]

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" Creating and maintaining reusable Java components "

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Work focussed on bug fixes in preparations for the long= overdue 1.6 release. This may have happened (at last :) before this newsle= tter hits the stands.

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Work focussed on bug fixes in preparations for the long overdue 1.6 rel= ease. This may have happened (at last :) before this newsletter hits the st= ands.

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Editor: Martin van den Bemt

We are preparing for a first alpha release of betwixt. = Currently projects depend on the CVS HEAD version, which needs to change, s= o we can refactor and add the things on our todo list (see http://jakarta.apache.org/c= ommons/betwixt/todo.html for the list). Currently updating the last iss= ues that need to be addressed and investigation of a possible recursion bug= that was reported (see http://marc.theaimsgroup.c= om/?l=3Djakarta-commons-dev&m=3D104262475828802&w=3D2).

The branch BETWIXT_1_0_ALPHA_1_RELEASE_BRANCH has been = created for the release, to allow new development in HEAD.

Robert Burrell Donkin will be the release manager.

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We are preparing for a first alpha release of betwixt. Currently projec= ts depend on the CVS HEAD version, which needs to change, so we can refacto= r and add the things on our todo list (see http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/betwixt/t= odo.html for the list). Currently updating the last issues that need to= be addressed and investigation of a possible recursion bug that was report= ed (see http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=3Djakarta-commons= -dev&m=3D104262475828802&w=3D2).

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The branch BETWIXT_1_0_ALPHA_1_RELEASE_BRANCH has been created for the = release, to allow new development in HEAD.

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Robert Burrell Donkin will be the release manager.

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Editor: Robert Burrell Donkin

This is probably the most active and exciting commons p= roject at the moment. Jelly is bit hard to describe - it's a tool for turni= ng XML into executable code. Read more on the website http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/s= andbox/jelly/.

Don't be fooled by the fact that the website says that = jelly is still in the sandbox - jelly was promoted to the commons proper in= December: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=3Djakar= ta-commons-dev&m=3D103918404407914&w=3D2 + =20 +

This is probably the most active and exciting commons project at the mo= ment. Jelly is bit hard to describe - it's a tool for turning XML into exec= utable code. Read more on the website http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/sandbox/jelly/=2E

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Don't be fooled by the fact that the website says that jelly is still i= n the sandbox - jelly was promoted to the commons proper in December: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=3Djakarta-commons-dev&m=3D1= 03918404407914&w=3D2

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Editor: Henri Yandell

Jakarta Commons Validator 1.0.1 was released. A bugfix = release, the release notes are available at: http://jakarta.apache.org/builds/jakarta-commons/release/commons-v= alidator/v1.0.1/RELEASE_NOTES.txt + =20 +

Jakarta Commons Validator 1.0.1 was released. A bugfix release, the rel= ease notes are available at: http://ja= karta.apache.org/builds/jakarta-commons/release/commons-validator/v1.0.1/RE= LEASE_NOTES.txt

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- -James - +James

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" James, a 100% pure Java Mail and News server, and Mailet mail applica= tion plat form "

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Editor: Danny Angus

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Over the Holidays the James team quietly released v2.1 of J= ames, see details at http://james.apach= e=2Eorg. Since then we've been busy planning the next release of James,= most of our plans are on the WIKI http://wiki.apache.org/old?JamesDevelopmentPages.<= /p> + =20 +

Over the Holidays the James team quietly released v2.1 of James, see de= tails at http://james.apache.org. S= ince then we've been busy planning the next release of James, most of our p= lans are on the WIKI http://wiki.apache.org/old?JamesDevelopmentPages.

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There's also going to be a revision and new version of the = Mailet API aimed at de-coupling more complex Mailet functionality from the = server.

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There's also going to be a revision and new version of the Mailet API a= imed at de-coupling more complex Mailet functionality from the server.

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The other big news is that a vote was passed to propose Jam= es become a top-level Apache project. Why? see: http://mail-archives.apache.org/eyebrowse/ReadMsg?listNa= me=3Djames-dev@jakarta.apache.org&msgId=3D523569 + =20 +

The other big news is that a vote was passed to propose James become a = top-level Apache project. Why? see: http://mail-archives.apache.org/eyebrowse/ReadMsg?listName=3Djames-dev@j= akarta.apache.org&msgId=3D523569

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" A high-performance, full-featured text search engine "

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Editor: Otis Gospodnetic

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Doug Cutting added Snowball Stemmers[1= ] to Lucene Sandbox Repository[2]. Snowball[3] is a small string processing language designed fo= r creating stemming algorithms for use in Information Retrieval. Snowball = Stemmers for Lucene project provides pre-compiled version of the Snowball s= temmers together with classes integrating them with the Lucene search engin= e=2E

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Doug Cutting added Snowball Stemmers[1] to Luc= ene Sandbox Repository[2]. Snowball[3] is a small string processing language designed for creating s= temming algorithms for use in Information Retrieval. Snowball Stemmers for= Lucene project provides pre-compiled version of the Snowball stemmers toge= ther with classes integrating them with the Lucene search engine.

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Previously Lucene supported only English, German, and Russi= an. Lucene users can now make use of the code provided by this new project = and gain support for the following languages:

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Previously Lucene supported only English, German, and Russian. Lucene u= sers can now make use of the code provided by this new project and gain sup= port for the following languages:

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Dutch

English

Finnish

French

German

Italian

Norwegian

Portuguese

Russian

Spanish

Swedish

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" APIs for manipulating various file formats based upon Microsoft's OLE= 2 Compound Document format "

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Editor: Glen Stampoultzis

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Patch for custom palettes received. [1]

Andy created a patch for a proposed refactoring of the= EventRecordFactory. [2].

Ken was rather busy converting Poi to the latest and g= reatest Centipede.

release and making it all run under Gump. [3]

Some idea's on refactoring the formula parser were dis= cussed. [4]

Ken let us in on the correct way to do releases. [5]

Patch for recalc record committed [6= ]

Support for horizontal centering during print [7]

Add support for setting the active cell in a worksheet= through user model [8]

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Patch for custom palettes received. [1]

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Andy created a patch for a proposed refactoring of the EventRecordFact= ory. [2].

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Ken was rather busy converting Poi to the latest and greatest Centiped= e=2E

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release and making it all run under Gump. [3] + =20 +

Some idea's on refactoring the formula parser were discussed. [4]

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Ken let us in on the correct way to do releases. [5<= /a>]

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Patch for recalc record committed [6]

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Support for horizontal centering during print [7= ]

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Add support for setting the active cell in a worksheet through user mo= del [8]

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The month has been quite busy for apache folks, with new ap= ache projects, new jakarta + =20 +

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The month has been quite busy for apache folks, with new apache project= s, new jakarta subprojects and talk of even more. In case you're getting concern= ed that its all talk here, at least Lucene, Ant and HttpClient are expecting releases in the = near future.

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As always, I want to thank those who contributed and hope t= hat + =20 +

As always, I want to thank those who contributed and hope that you enjoy the read. If you would like to comment further on a= ny of the highlighted discussions then please do so on the appropriate @@ -182,65 +187,76 @@ want to comment on the newsletter itself then please point your comments to general@jakarta.apache.org.

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Rob Oxspring

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Rob Oxspring

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General

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Commons

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db.apache.org

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Log4j

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Lucene

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POI

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" Ideas, suggestions, and comments on the overall Jakarta project "

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Editor: Rob Oxspring

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Robert Simmons kicked of a debate over the use of forum softwar= e to + =20 +

Robert Simmons kicked of a debate over the use of forum software to make it easier for users to get involved with jakarta subprojects [1,2]. The Jakarta developers seemed united in preferring mailing lists and pointed o= ut archives [3] and services such as gmane [4] for more casual use of the lists.

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The Pluto subproject was proposed as a reference implementation of the Portlet API and was heavily discussed [5]. Relating to the portals theme, Charon was propsed ro implement the Web Services for Remote specification, although this recieved only a little discussion [6,7].

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Dani Estermann asked for some advice on choosing a logging stratergy for future code. Some advocated using the JDK logging if Java 1.4 was guarent= eed, others recommended using Log4j whatever the situation. It was also sugges= ted @@ -248,34 +264,58 @@ situations where chioce is needed. Browse the archive for further detail [8].

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Is it time for a new look Jakarta? Maybe a unified Apache site look and= feel? Christoph Wilhelms suggested the use of his FakeForrest skin to give Jakar= ta a facelift [9]. This offers a Forrest[10] look a like and could act as a stepping stone towards the eventual use of forrest for the websites.

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Finally, several people have been elected as new members of the Jakarta= PMC [11], they are:

Nicola Ken Barozzi

Robert Burrell Donkin

Stephen Colebourne

Martin Cooper

Henri Gomez

John Keyes

Larry Isaacs

Otis Gospodnetic

Thomas Mahler

Remy Maucherat

Glenn Nielsen

Andrew C Oliver

Rob Oxspring

Martin Poeschl

Scott Sanders

David Sean Taylor

Glen Stampoultzis

Mladen Turk

James Turner

Henri Yandell

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-[3] - http://archives.apache.org/eyebrowse/ - +[3] - http://archives.apache.org/eyebrowse/

-[4] - http://www.gm= ane.org/ - +[4] - http://www.gm= ane.org/

-[5] - http://archives.apache.org/eyebrowse/BrowseList?listName=3Dgener= al@jakarta.apache.org&by=3Dthread&from=3D308677 - +[5] - http://archives.apache.org/eyebrowse/BrowseList?listName=3Dgeneral@jakart= a=2Eapache.org&by=3Dthread&from=3D308677

-[6] - http://archives.apache.org/eyebrowse/BrowseList?listName=3Dgener= al@jakarta.apache.org&by=3Dthread&from=3D308715 - +[6] - http://archives.apache.org/eyebrowse/BrowseList?listName=3Dgeneral@jakart= a=2Eapache.org&by=3Dthread&from=3D308715

-[7] - http://archives.apache.org/eyebrowse/BrowseList?listName=3Dgener= al@jakarta.apache.org&by=3Dthread&from=3D308716 - +[7] - http://archives.apache.org/eyebrowse/BrowseList?listName=3Dgeneral@jakart= a=2Eapache.org&by=3Dthread&from=3D308716

-[8] - http://archives.apache.org/eyebrowse/BrowseList?listName=3Dgener= al@jakarta.apache.org&by=3Dthread&from=3D314971 - +[8] - http://archives.apache.org/eyebrowse/BrowseList?listName=3Dgeneral@jakart= a=2Eapache.org&by=3Dthread&from=3D314971

-[9] - http://archives.apache.org/eyebrowse/BrowseList?listName=3Dgener= al@jakarta.apache.org&by=3Dthread&from=3D315699 - +[9] - http://archives.apache.org/eyebrowse/BrowseList?listName=3Dgeneral@jakart= a=2Eapache.org&by=3Dthread&from=3D315699

-[10] - ht= tp://xml.apache.org/forrest/ - +[10] - ht= tp://xml.apache.org/forrest/

-[11] - http://= archives.apache.org/eyebrowse/ReadMsg?listName=3Dgeneral@jakarta.apache.org= &msgNo=3D14080 - +[11] - http://arch= ives.apache.org/eyebrowse/ReadMsg?listName=3Dgeneral@jakarta.apache.org&= ;msgNo=3D14080

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- -Commons - +Commons

Due to the diverse nature of the commons group, this section has be= en split up to make it easier to pick out the topics of interest. This mont= hs stories come from the following:

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Due to the diverse nature of the commons group, this section has been s= plit up to make it easier to pick out the topics of interest. This months s= tories come from the following:

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Codec

+ =20 +

HttpClient

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- -Codec - +Codec

+ =20 +

"definitive implementations of common encodings"

+ =20 +

Editor: Tim O'brien

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The codec project is alive again, and moving towards a release. + =20 +

The codec project is alive again, and moving towards a release. Codec's short-term goals include: moving towards definitive implem= entations of common encodings such as Base64 and Hex, and developing a cohes= ive framework for expansion.

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- -HttpClient - +HttpClient

+ =20 +

"HttpClient provides client side HTTP 1.0/1.1 connectivity to any Java = component"

+ =20 +

Editor: Jeffrey Dever

Release 2.0 Alpha 2!

After many months and a great resurgence of developers, the new build o= f HttpClient is finally here. The new group of developers has done e= xtensive refactoring to move the project along the new vision. The code bas= e has reached a significant level of maturity and we expect that another re= leased build (possibly a beta) will be ready near the end of February

Also check out the new HttpClient logo on the website created by= Jeff Dever with the Gimp!

http://jakarta.a= pache.org/commons/httpclient/

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- -db.apache.org - +db.apache.org

" Database Software

Editior: Martin Poeschl

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The DB project was created to allow the collection of similar technolog= ies into one larger subcommunity.

The following jakarta projects moved to the db project

ojb

turbine-torque

commons-sql

http://db.apache.org

- -Log4j - +Log4j

+ =20 +

" a fast and flexible framework for logging application debugging messa= ges "

+ =20 +

Editor: Mark Womack

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This month's edition contains items from December and January.

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Initial implementations of Plugin, PluginRegistry, and Receivers were checked in for review [1]. Plugins will be part o= f the log4j v1.3 release. They allow developers to add functionality to log4j on a per @@ -446,6 +513,7 @@ files. Receivers are an implementation of Plugin that will "post" remote logging events to the LoggerRepository the receiver is configured for.

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There was a brief discussion started by Scott Klein about a new gui too= l for viewing log4j logging events that cascaded into a discussion of possibly creating a viewer that combines the best aspects of the current log4j gui @@ -453,15 +521,18 @@ Chainsaw and LF5 in their own executable jars, separately from the core log4j jar, for v1.3. [2]

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Jay Funnell contributed the NetSendAppender[3].= This appender uses the Windows "NET SEND" command to transport log messages.

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A new servlet package was added to contain log4j related classes that c= an be used within web applications. It contains a useful set of classes, and is expected to grow with future contributions. Initial contributions are: InitServlet, InitContextListener (both from Jacob Kjome) [4], ConfigurationServlet (Luther Birdzell) [5], and Co= okieMDCFilter [6].

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A new selector package was added to contain implementations of the log4j RepositorySelector interface [7]. The RepositoryS= elector is a powerful device that allows for LoggerRepositories to be separated from each other, @@ -470,10 +541,12 @@ from Jacob Kjome, ContextClassLoaderSelector [8], = chooses the repository based on the context class loader and is compatible for use in Tomcat 4.1.= X=2E

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Like other Apache projects, wiki pages for the log4j project have been started, and are coming along nicely [9].

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It was decided to created a log4j-sandbox cvs repository [10]. This cvs will contain new, experimental, and contributed log4j related code. Once prove= n, @@ -481,13 +554,16 @@ Initial candidates for filling the sandbox are the filter, selector, and servlet packages.

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log4jMini, a compact version of log4j, was added to the log4j cvs [11]. The current version is out of sync with the changes in v1.2 and now that it is in cvs, developers can submit changes to make it v1.2 compatible [12].

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Changes are planned for v1.3 release related to better memory efficiency within several log4j classes [13].

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Creating a top level Apache project, logging.apache.org, is being explo= red [14]. The goal of this top level project would b= e to bring all of the log4X related logging frameworks under the ASF umbrella. Another major goal wou= ld @@ -495,110 +571,119 @@ frameworks. There was also some interesting discussion about the current state of log4j and how the logging.apache.org project would affect it [15].

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-[1] - http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=3D10395049= 5700003&r=3D1&w=3D2 - +[1] - http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=3D103950495700003&= amp;r=3D1&w=3D2

-[2] - http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=3D10396343= 1900001&r=3D1&w=3D2 - +[2] - http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=3D103963431900001&= amp;r=3D1&w=3D2

-[3] - http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=3D10394576= 2400007&r=3D1&w=3D2 - +[3] - http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=3D103945762400007&= amp;r=3D1&w=3D2

-[4] - http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=3D= log4j-dev&m=3D104335006426248&w=3D2 - +[4] - http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=3Dlog4j-de= v&m=3D104335006426248&w=3D2

-[5] - http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=3D10402240= 9200004&r=3D1&w=3D2 - +[5] - http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=3D104022409200004&= amp;r=3D1&w=3D2

-[6] - http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=3D= log4j-dev&m=3D104011113830842&w=3D2 - +[6] - http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=3Dlog4j-de= v&m=3D104011113830842&w=3D2

-[7] - http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=3D10397329= 0800001&r=3D1&w=3D2 - +[7] - http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=3D103973290800001&= amp;r=3D1&w=3D2

-[8] - http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=3D10397660= 2200003&r=3D1&w=3D2 - +[8] - http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=3D103976602200003&= amp;r=3D1&w=3D2

-[9] - http://wiki.apache.org/old?Log4JProjectPages - +[9] - http://wiki.apache.org/old?Log4JProjectPages

-[10] - http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=3D104161= 963300006&r=3D1&w=3D2 - +[10] - http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=3D10416196330000= 6&r=3D1&w=3D2

-[11] - http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=3D104201= 771300001&r=3D1&w=3D2 - +[11] - http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=3D10420177130000= 1&r=3D1&w=3D2

-[12] - http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=3D104307= 344600004&r=3D1&w=3D2 - +[12] - http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=3D10430734460000= 4&r=3D1&w=3D2

-[13] - http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=3D103366= 200900007&r=3D1&w=3D2 - +[13] - http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=3D10336620090000= 7&r=3D1&w=3D2

-[14] - http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=3D104366= 626700004&r=3D1&w=3D2 - +[14] - http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=3D10436662670000= 4&r=3D1&w=3D2

-[15] - http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=3D104361= 737900003&r=3D1&w=3D2 - +[15] - http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=3D10436173790000= 3&r=3D1&w=3D2

- -Lucene - +Lucene

+ =20 +

" A high-performance, full-featured text search engine "

+ =20 +

Editor: Otis Gospodnetic

=20 =20 +

This month's notes come straight from Lucene's CHANGES.txt file. In addition to that I'll only mention that the Lucene team is preparing for packaging the first release candidate for the 1.3 release.

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a. Queries are no longer modified during a search. This makes + =20 +

a. Queries are no longer modified during a search. This makes it possible, e.g., to reuse the same query instance with multiple indexes from multiple threads.

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b. Term-expanding queries (e.g. PrefixQuery, WildcardQuery, + =20 +

b. Term-expanding queries (e.g. PrefixQuery, WildcardQuery, etc.) now work correctly with MultiSearcher, fixing bugs 12619 and 12667.

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c. Boosting BooleanQuery's now works, and is supported by the + =20 +

c. Boosting BooleanQuery's now works, and is supported by the query parser (problem reported by Lee Mallabone). Thus a query like "(+foo +bar)^2 +baz" is now supported and equivalent to "(+foo^2 +bar^2) +baz".

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d. New method: Query.rewrite(IndexReader). This permits a + =20 +

d. New method: Query.rewrite(IndexReader). This permits a query to re-write itself as an alternate, more primitive query. Most of the term-expanding query classes (PrefixQuery, WildcardQuery, etc.) are now implemented using this method.

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e. New method: Searchable.explain(Query q, int doc). This + =20 +

e. New method: Searchable.explain(Query q, int doc). This returns an Explanation instance that describes how a particular document is scored against a query. An explanation can be displayed as either plain text, with the toString() method, or @@ -608,64 +693,77 @@ Similarity implementations, and, for good performance, should not be displayed with every hit.

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f. Scorer and Weight are public, not package protected. It now + =20 +

f. Scorer and Weight are public, not package protected. It now possible for someone to write a Scorer implementation that is not in the org.apache.lucene.search package. This is still fairly advanced programming, and I don't expect anyone to do this anytime soon, but at least now it is possible.

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g. Added public accessors to the primitive query classes + =20 +

g. Added public accessors to the primitive query classes (TermQuery, PhraseQuery and BooleanQuery), permitting access to their terms and clauses.

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+ =20 +

- -POI - +POI

+ =20 +

"APIs for manipulating various file formats based upon Microsoft's OLE 2 Compound Document format"

+ =20 +

Editor: Glen Stampoultzis

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Rainer completed the HPSF documentation. It now includes general + =20 +

Rainer completed the HPSF documentation. It now includes general property set streams.

Carey Sublette let us know about an issue surrounding incompatibili= ties + =20 +

Carey Sublette let us know about an issue surrounding incompatibilities between how Excel processes unicode. Even though unicode is the standa= rd according to the Excel97 Developers kit it seems that Excel sometimes = allows invalid characters from the Cp1252 codepage. He plans on submitting a = patch.

Jason Height has been trying to implement the DBCell and Index reco= rds.

Andy wrote up some details on how to refactor and complete the form= ula + =20 +

Jason Height has been trying to implement the DBCell and Index records.=

+ =20 +

Andy wrote up some details on how to refactor and complete the formula parsing [1].

Patch for custom formula palette's added by Brian Sanders

Gump build has made a positive build of Jakarta POI using the lates= t release + =20 +

Patch for custom formula palette's added by Brian Sanders

+ =20 +

Gump build has made a positive build of Jakarta POI using the latest re= lease of Centipede

Performance branch made and committed by Andy. This reduces + =20 +

Performance branch made and committed by Andy. This reduces memory dramatically and increases execution speed but still has a few = things to be ironed out before a merge occurs back to the trunk.

-[1] - http://wiki.apache.org/old?RefactorAndCompleteFormula= Parsing - + =20 +

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+[1] - http://wiki.apache.org/old?RefactorAndCompleteFormula= Parsing

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About Jakarta

Java@Apache=

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Reference

Acknowledgements<= /a>

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