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Introducing Apache Tomcat 7

Topics
SpringOne,
Application Servers,
Spring,
Conferences,
Java,
Dependency Injection,
SpringSource,
Languages,
Design Pattern,
VMWare,
Programming,
Patterns,
Object Oriented Design,
SpringOne 2010,
Companies,
Apache,
Design,
Tomcat

Mark Thomas reviews some of the new features available in Apache Tomcat 7, including: Servlet 3.0, JSP 2.2, EL 2.2, asynchronous request processing, memory leak protection, and security improvements.

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Apache TomEE 1.0 Released

Topics
Apache TomEE,
Apache Tomcat,
Java EE,
Application Servers,
Java,
Languages,
Programming,
Apache

The Apache Software Foundation has released Apache TomEE 1.0. Apache TomEE, pronounced "Tommy", is a Java EE 6 Web Profile certified all-Apache stack available under the Apache 2.0 license. TomEE is composed of Tomcat (Servlet, JSP, JSTL), OpenWebBeans (CDI), OpenEJB (EJB), OpenJPA (JPA), MyFaces (JSF), Geronimo Transaction (JTA), Geronimo JavaMail (Javamail) and Apache Bean Validation.

Adobe Is Distributing Cordova under the PhoneGap Brand

Topics
Adobe,
Mobile Development,
Open Source,
Programming,
Frameworks,
PhoneGap,
Mobile,
Companies,
Apache

Adobe will continue offering PhoneGap as a Cordova distribution along with PhoneGap Build and Adobe Shadow.

Ruby Enterprise Edition End-of-Life, Phusion Focuses on Passenger

Topics
Runtimes,
Ruby,
Java,
Dynamic Languages,
Languages,
Programming,
Ruby1.9,
Ruby on Rails,
Web Server,
Apache

Phusion announced that their Ruby 1.8.7 based Enterprise Edition (REE) is nearing its end-of-life. A Ruby 1.9 based version is not planned, instead the team focuses on Phusion Passenger, their solution for running Ruby on Apache and Nginx.

Apache Celebrates 17th Anniversary with HTTP Server 2.4

Topics
HTTP,
Open Source,
W3C,
Programming,
Performance & Scalability,
Web Server,
Apache,
Specifications

Apache has released the HTTP Server version 2.4 with performance improvements, enhanced concurrency, asynchronous I/O support, lower resource footprint and others.

HP Has Open Sourced webOS’ browser, Isis

Topics
Open Source,
webOS,
Programming,
Mobile,
WebKit,
HP,
Apache

HP has open sourced Isis, a QtWebKit-based browser, and has outlined the guiding principles for Open webOS’ governance model.

PhoneGap Status: Moving to Apache and Adobe, Plugin Modularization, PhoneGap/Build Service

Topics
HTML 5,
HTML5,
Javascript,
Rich Internet Apps,
HTML,
Web Development,
Dynamic Languages,
Markup Languages,
Languages,
Adobe,
Programming,
Rich Client / Desktop,
Mobile,
Native Apps,
Companies,
Apache

Working with PhoneGap is getting easier: Plugins make PhoneGap more modular and extensible for developers. PhoneGap/Build is an online service for automatically building PhoneGap applications for different platforms. InfoQ talked to Nitobi's Brian LeRoux about the technical future of PhoneGap at Adobe and Apache.

Apache Wicket 1.5 Released

Topics
Wicket,
Java Web Frameworks,
Java,
Languages,
Open Source,
Programming,
Frameworks,
Apache

The Apache Wicket project has released version 1.5 of its open source, component oriented Java web application framework, with new HTML 5 components, and Improvements to the message/event model.

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Using Apache Avro

Topics
Dynamic Languages,
Languages,
SOA,
Architecture,
Performance & Scalability,
Programming,
Apache,
Avro,
Enterprise Architecture,
Hadoop

Boris Lublinsky presents an introduction to AVRO and evaluate its usage for Schema componentization, inheritance and polymorphism. He also discusses backward compatibility issues and AVRO solutions for this problem.

Scout - Extensible Server and Application Monitoring

Topics
Ruby on Rails,
Ruby,
MySQL,
Dynamic Languages,
Monitoring Tools,
Operations,
Monitoring,
Languages,
Relational Databases,
Infrastructure,
Cloud Computing,
Programming,
Performance & Scalability,
Database,
Apache

Scout is an extensible server and application monitoring service which focuses upon ease of installation and configuration. Scout offers default alerts to help administrators understand how the application is behaving under various loads as well as allowing developers to create plugins to extend Scout.

Application Integration Through Mail Servers

Topics
ESB,
SOA,
Enterprise Architecture,
Architecture,
Mail,
Apache,
Mule

When performance and speed are not an issue, SMTP and POP3 can be used to integrate applications communicating to each other through a Mail Server. This article shows such an example using the Apache James Mail server plus Mule and ServiceMix.