The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) announces version 0.7 of the Cassandra open-source distributed database. –
The Apache Software
Foundation (ASF) has announced Apache Cassandra version 0.7, a
second-generation, open-source distributed database.
ASF officials said new features in Cassandra 0.7 include
secondary indexes, which represent an expressive way to query data through
node-local storage on the…
The open-source software is implemented on the server side java servlets and Apache Tomcat technologies Tomcat Apache Software Foundation’s name. Sun Microsystems out of the Tomcat Servlet and Java Server Pages (JSP), Java, and provided a web-server environment to run Java code and applications
The Apache Software Foundations Object-Oriented Data Technology project graduates incubator status and becomes an ASF top-level project. – The Apache Software Foundation announced that Apache Object-Oriented Data Technology
has graduated from the Apache Incubator to become a Top-Level Project,
signifying that the project’s community and products have been
well-governed under the ASF’s process and principles.
In a Jan. 5 press relea…
After a week off to enjoy time with my family, I thought I would kick off the last week of 2010 with a look back at the year as it relates to the Apache Lucene ecosystem.
Massive scalability capabilities via distributed search, indexing and shard management Up until now, Solr scales pretty well on the search side
Apaches new Google-hosted “Apache Extras” site provides a "home away from home" for code associated with Apache projects. – The Apache Software Foundation has announced a
new Google-hosted site to spur innovation on open-source efforts that
feature code associated with Apache projects.
The new site is known as Apache Extras and can
be found at apache-extras.org. ASF officials said the site is for code
associated wit…
The Apache Software Foundation made good on its threat to quit the Java Community Process over restrictions that would not allow the group a Java technology compatibility kit. – Rather
than lighting a peace pipe, the Apache
Software Foundation (ASF) has shot an arrow at the Java Community Process
(JCP) and quit the JCP executive committee (EC) as the group said it would if
certain restrictions were not lifted.
As
a result of the recent JCP executive
committee vote ap…
Apache Tika is a toolkit for extracting metadata and textual content from various document formats. Tika itself provides implementation for parsing some document formats while it relies on external libraries(such as Apache PDFBox and Apache POI) for parsing many more.
Oracle asks the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) to reconsider its position on leaving the Java Community Process (JCP) and supporting Java 7. – Despite the Apache Software Foundations threat to leave the Java
Community Process (JCP) if it does not receive a test kit from Oracle,
Oracle has issued a statement indicating its intent to move Java
forward apparently with or without Apache.
In a statement issued Nov. 15 statement, Don Deutsch…
The Apache Software Foundations threat to quit the Java Community Process over a long-term spat over a test kit shows the process is broken. Lets hope not irreparably. – You
might look at the Apache Software Foundations threat to quit the Java
Community Process as like a spoiled child threatening to take his
toys away because the other kids wont play nice. But its more than that; this
battle has been going on for more than four years and it is no playground
mat…
Apache’s Solr is a powerful software package that allows you to develop your own search engine in no time. It’s purely written in Java using Lucene at its core and can run inside any servlet container such as Tomcat (or Jetty).
The Apache Software Foundations has threatened to quit the Java governing body if Oracle continues to refuse a restriction-free source code test kit license for the Harmony Project. – The Apache Software Foundation has threatened to quit Javas
governing body altogether if Oracle continues to refuse a test kit license for
the Harmony project.
In a statement posted on Nov. 9 to the foundations blog,
Apache said it will leave the Java Community Process (JCP) if their quot;right…
The Apache Software Foundation has launched Cayenne 3.0, the latest version of the group’s open-source Java framework for object relational mapping (ORM), persistence and caching. A new paper details technical features of the 3.0 release and looks ahead to future versions. – The Apache Software Foundation has delivered new details
on its recently launched Cayenne 3.0,
the latest version of the group’s open-source Java framework for object
relational mapping (ORM), persistence and caching.
ASF announced the
availability of Cayenne
3.0 in May 2010, and released a ne…
The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) has announced Version 7.0 release of Apache Tomcat, the popular open-source Java web server. Tomcat 7.0 is the first major release of the software since 2006. – The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) has announced Version 7.0
release of Apache Tomcat, the popular open-source Java web server.
Apache Tomcat 7 is the project’s first major release since 2006,
fully implementing the Java Servlet 3.0, JavaServer Pages (JSP) 2.2,
and Expression Language (EL) 2.2…
Google is open-sourcing the code for its recently acquired ReMail application, citing strong interest in the mobile search product. Google, which released the code under the Apache 2.0 license, faced some complaints after removing ReMail’s iPhone application from Apple’s App Store with plans to discontinue it. The open-sourcing of ReMail signals a trend for Google acquisitions when it plans to kill off a product.
– Google March 5 decided to open-source the code for its recently acquired
ReMail application, citing strong interest in the product.
Google purchased ReMail on Feb. 18. ReMail’s founder, Gabor
Cselle, built a popular application that lets Apple iPhone users download their
e-mail and conduct full-…
The Apache Software Foundation has announced that its Apache HTTP Web Server has turned 15.
– The Apache Software Foundations Apache HTTP Web server has turned 15.
The famed Apache Web server was launched on Feb. 23,
1994, Apache officials said. It was the ASF’s first project and it
became the world’s most popular Web server software within the first six months of its inception. The Apach…
The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) has announced that the Apache Pivot Java-based rich Internet application [RIA] project has reached Top-Level Project (TLP) status.
– The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) has announced that the Apache
Pivot Java-based rich Internet application [RIA] project has reached
Top-Level Project (TLP) status.
When an Apache project graduates to TLP status that means the effort
has reached a level of maturity and stability under the ASF…
The Apache Software Foundation announces that Facebook has become the latest Gold Sponsor of the open-source champion.
– The Apache Software Foundation announced Jan. 12 that Facebook has become
the latest Gold Sponsor of the organization.
Jim
Jagielski, chairman of the open-source champion, said in a
statement, quot;Sponsoring the ASF helps us
[the ASF] grow existing projects, incubate
new initiatives, promote…
The Apache Software Foundation has arguably been the leading force for open-source software (OSS) over the last 10 years and promises to continue being a force in the new decade.
– The Apache Software Foundation has
arguably been the leading force for open-source software over the last 10 years
and promises to continue being a force in the new decade.
During a visit to the organization’s corporate headquarters in Forest
Hill, Md., Jim Jagielski,
chairman of the ASF board …
Microsoft may have helped its status with the open-source community by reiterating its pledge to deliver $100,000 to the Apache Software Foundation over the next few years.
– Microsoft has again committed to its pledge to deliver $100,000 to the Apache Software Foundation over the next
couple of years.
Microsoft
initially announced its plans to commit $100,000 a year to ASF in 2008 at
OSCON (the O’Reilly Open Source Convention). This time, the software giant
announc…
