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 <from><![CDATA[&quot;Martin Cooper&quot; &lt;mart...@apache.org&gt;]]></from>
 <subject><![CDATA[[ANNOUNCEMENT] Shale to Become Top-Level ASF Project]]></subject>
 <date><![CDATA[Wed, 28 Jun 2006 22:10:32 GMT]]></date>
 <contents><![CDATA[On behalf of the ASF Board and Struts PMC, we are pleased to announce that&#010;Shale has been accepted as a top-level project of the Apache Software&#010;Foundation.&#010;&#010;As a top-level project, Shale will have its own website, mailing lists,&#010;repository space, and Project Management Committee. Shale will be an&#010;automomous ASF project, rather than a subproject of Apache Struts.&#010;&#010;The Shale framework for JavaServer Faces is nearing its first stable&#010;release. As a top-level project, it will be easier for Shale to attract new&#010;developers and expand its growing community.&#010;&#010;The initial set of PMC members and committers for Shale is:&#010;&#010;  * Craig McClanahan&#010;  * James Mitchell&#010;  * Greg Reddin&#010;  * Sean Schofield&#010;  * Wendy Smoak&#010;  * Gary VanMatre&#010;  * Matthias Wessendorf&#010;&#010;Apache Shale has strong ties to both the Struts and MyFaces projects. Most&#010;of the Shale PMC members are already involved in both projects, and plan on&#010;continuing to remain involved in them, along with Shale.&#010;&#010;Apache Shale is a modern web application framework, intended for developers&#010;adopting JavaServer Faces as a core technology.&#010;&#010;Shale began as a proposal for Struts 2.0, but instead became a subproject,&#010;so as to provide a JSF alternative for Struts developers. Recent&#010;developments for Struts Action 2 now make it easier for Struts developers to&#010;access JSF components from within an "action-based" application.&#010;&#010;The initial Shale codebase was donated by Craig McClanahan, who also donated&#010;the original Struts codebase.&#010;&#010;--&#010;Martin Cooper&#010;PMC Chair, Apache Struts&#010;&#010;]]></contents>
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