The major change for Jakarta this quarter is the promotion of Jakarta Tomcat to Apache Tomcat, the next quarter should see this being reflected on the website, mailing lists etc.

Last quarter saw a kickstart of the dormant BCEL subproject, which has seen some minor improvements. Oversight is improved, bugs are being fixed and some planning of the BCEL future has occurred.

The dormant BSF subproject has recently kickstarted itself, as may be seen from the new committers listed below. Discussion is increased, though PMC oversight will need to be confirmed/improved in the next quarter.

Subversion migrations continue to move onwards, the ratio for subprojects is 10 in SVN to 7 in CVS.

There is a proposal to create a new subproject to contain 'webapp components'; small plugin features for servlet containers (such as Tomcat). Various proposals for Commons components and the Taglibs subproject are the impetus.

Goals for Q3 2005

• JCS and HttpClient still need to reflect their move to subproject level.
• Taglibs, JCS, Cactus SVN migrations.
• Tomcat to reflect their move to TLP.

June

• 16 June 2005 - Commons-Jelly 1.0 Released
• 13 June 2005 - Commons-Lang 2.1 Released
• 12 June 2005 - Commons-Digester 1.7 Released
• 03 June 2005 - Commons-Transaction 1.1 Released

May

• 25 May 2005 - Commons-VFS graduated from Sandbox to Commons-Proper
• 19 May 2005 - Commons-Daemon 1.0.1 Released
• 17 May 2005 - Tapestry 4.0-alpha-3 Released
• 07 May 2005 - Commons-Net 1.4.0 Released
• 06 May 2005 - Tapestry 4.0-alpha-2 Released

April

• 29 April 2005 - HiveMind 1.1-beta-1 Released
• 11 April 2005 - Tomcat 5.5.9 stable Released
• 10 April 2005 - Commons HttpClient 3.0rc2 Released
• 2 April 2005 - Commons Configuration 1.1 Released

March

• 29 March 2005 - Tapestry 3.0.3 Released
• 27 March 2005 - Tomcat 5.5.9-alpha Released
• 25 March 2005 - HiveMind 1.1-alpha-3 Released

New ASF Members

• 26 May 2005 - Robert Burrell Donkin
• 26 May 2005 - Vincent Massol
• 26 May 2005 - Henri Yandell

New Committers

• 23 April 2005 - Magnus Grimsell - Cactus
• 4 May 2005 - Rony G. Flatscher - BSF
• 27 May 2005 - Nandika Jayawardana - BSF
• 27 May 2005 - Sanka Samaranayake - BSF
• 9 June 2005 - Nick Burch - POI
• 17 June 2005 - Amol Deshmukh - POI

SVN Migrations:

• ECS complete.
• BSF complete.
• Hivemind complete.
• Slide in process.
• Velocity repo re-organized into a hierarchical fashion.

(based on projects that have had a notable event, ie) release, change of location within Jakarta)

Commons-Configuration

The 1.1 release of Configuration contains a couple of bug fixes and introduces some new features like web configurations, optional configurations, or basic reloading support. In the future we plan to further enhance these features and to perform some refactoring.

Commons-Daemon

Daemon had release 1.0.1, after more than a year after 1.0.0. Stop and wait (until started) features have been added; Known bugs have been fixed.

Commons-Digester

Digester had release 1.7, about 9 months after 1.6. The changes are pretty small; Digester is now a very stable library.

Commons-HttpClient

3.0 RC2 fixed a number of bugs and we will be having one more RC release shortly as a few more have popped up. Jakarta HttpClient is starting to come together in SVN. This work has been lead by Oleg Kalinchevski and it's looking really good. HttpClient 4.0 should prove to be a really flexible, reusable, and powerful release.

Commons-Jelly

The previous release of Jelly had proven to be stable for several months, and after the memory leak was corrected and underwent sufficient testing, it was decided to release version 1.0 as a stable base on June 16. This is the first stable release of Jelly.

Commons-Lang

Lang 2.1 was released. It contains several bug fixes, a package name change for compatiblity with JDK 1.5, a new mutables package, and several new utility classes and methods.

Commons-Logging

No release yet, but work continues on commons-logging. Hopefully a new release will be out within the next few months to address the long-term user complaints about classloader issues when using commons-logging in containers.

Commons-Net

Commons-Net 1.4.0 was released which contains a brand new date handling mechanism. It also now contains an FTP parser for MVS, and the variety of date formats which the FTP client can handle has been extended.

Commons-Transaction

Transaction had a final 1.1 which includes new features like deadlock detection, more locking types and fixing of some oddities from 1.0.

Commons-VFS

This is the first Board Report with VFS out of sandbox. The decision to cut a release now has been delayed as a bug report uncovered a problem with filename encoding which needs to be solved.

HiveMind

HiveMind 1.1 has reached its first beta release; in addition, we've switched over to Subversion for source code control. We're in the process of voting in a new commiter, Achim Hugen.

Tapestry

The upcoming release has been renumbered from 3.1 to 4.0. We have released additional alpha releases of 4.0 and are very close to a first beta release, which will include portlet support and JDK 1.5 annotation support. Meanwhile, the 3.0.3 bug fix release closed an annoying security gap.

Tomcat

This has been an active quarter for Tomcat. Work has been focused on the 5.5 branch, which had several releases targeted at increased reliability, performance, documentation, and bug fixing. The 5.5.9 release was voted stable in mid-April, and has been gathering good reviews from users since then: in fact, no significant issues have been found with it.

In May, the Apache Software Foundation's Board of Directors also approved the Tomcat team' request to be moved out of Jakarta into its own top-level project. Accordingly, this is the last Jakarta board report which will include Tomcat: watch for the Tomcat PMC to address its own reports to the board as required by foundation bylaws. The Tomcat team would like to thank the Jakarta community for its outstanding support over the years: we plan to continue working together tightly on issues and projects of mutual interest.

Velocity

Migration from Bugzilla to Jira approved. OSGi packaging contributed for Velocity core.