So here is the blog post I promised 6 months ago... It took a bit of a time, due to a family expansion that sucked up pretty much all our free time :-) Let's start stating the obvious ! What is a transaction ? It's simply 'a unit of work'. That means it's either fully completed, or it never happened. This is critical to... [Read more...]
Posted at 12:45PM Sep 18, 2017 by Emmanuel Lécharny in Technology
Apache OFBiz News August 2017 Welcome to our regular monthly round-up of OFBiz news. This month we have news about a new documentation effort to produce a Business Process Reference Guide, our new look OFBiz project website goes live, we discuss improving the look and feel of our blog, and we welcome two new committers. New OFBiz Website In... [Read more...]
Posted at 10:09AM Sep 18, 2017 by sharan in General
JSPWiki's Haddock template supports custom fonts for adding visual enhancement to wiki content. TrueType , OpenType , and Web Open Font formats are supported. Two methods are available for using custom fonts. First, you can upload the desired font as a page attachment, then insert some custom CSS referencing the font with associated text... [Read more...]
Posted at 12:23AM Sep 17, 2017 by Dave Koelmeyer in General
by Tom Diederich This is our third community update – there’s a lot going on, so let's get started. Apache Ignite experts have already spoken at two meetups this month, both in Silicon Valley, but there are several more scheduled this month around the world. On Sept. 9 Apache Ignite PMC chair Denis Magda was the featured presenter at... [Read more...]
Posted at 10:16PM Sep 15, 2017 by Denis Magda in General
It's finally Friday. We've had quite a busy week, so let's get down to reviewing our work: ASF Board –management and oversight of the business affairs of the corporation in accordance with the Foundation's bylaws. - Next Board Meeting: 20 September. Board calendar and minutes http://apache.org/foundation/board/calendar.html ... [Read more...]
Posted at 02:17PM Sep 15, 2017 by Sally in General
Who: Apache® Struts™ is a popular Open Source framework for creating enterprise-grade Java Web applications. Apache Struts powers front- and back-end applications and Internet of Things (IoT) devices for many of the world's most visible financial institutions, government organizations, technology service providers, telecommunications agencies, and... [Read more...]
Posted at 11:00AM Sep 14, 2017 by Sally in General
The Apache OpenWebBeans team is proud to announce the release of Apache Meecrowave 1.1.0 Apache Meecrowave is a small server (only 9MB) fully based on JavaEE 8 technologies Apache Tomcat (Servlets-4.0) Apache OpenWebBeans (CDI-2.0) Apache Johnzon (JSON-P-1.1 and JSON-B-1.0), and ... [Read more...]
Posted at 07:23AM Sep 11, 2017 by struberg in General
The Apache OpenWebBeans Team is proud to announce the release of Apache OpenWebBeans-2.0.1 Apache OpenWebBeans is an Apache License v2 licensed implementation of the JSR-365 CDI-2.0 specification. OpenWebBeans has a modular structure and provides Dependency Injection scaling from Java SE environments up to Java EE7 server clusters with complicated... [Read more...]
Posted at 07:16AM Sep 11, 2017 by struberg in General
UPDATE: MEDIA ALERT: The Apache Software Foundation Confirms Equifax Data Breach Due to Failure to Install Patches Provided for Apache® Struts™ Exploit The Apache Struts Project Management Committee (PMC) would like to comment on the Equifax security breach, its relation to the Apache Struts Web Framework and associated media coverage. ... [Read more...]
Posted at 03:30PM Sep 09, 2017 by Sally in General
Happy Friday! Let's review what the Apache community has been working on over the past week: Success at Apache –the monthly blog series that focuses on the processes behind why the ASF "just works". - Lowering Barriers to Open Innovation by Luke Han https://s.apache.org/dAlg ASF Board –management and... [Read more...]
Posted at 09:17AM Sep 08, 2017 by Sally in General
By Luke Han Over the past decade, I was a Java developer using many Apache projects such as Tomcat, Jakarta, Struts, and Velocity. In 2010 I stepped into the Big Data field and started to actively participate in Apache projects, and became an ASF Member 3 years ago. In addition to being the VP of Apache Kylin, I helped projects such as Apache Eagle... [Read more...]
Posted at 12:45PM Sep 05, 2017 by Sally in SuccessAtApache
Well hello, September ... here's what the Apache community has been working on over the past week: Support Apache –a great way to help the ASF meet its financial goals is through a corporate matching program. Companies that offer matching gifts receive tax benefits, and their employees' contributions to the ASF can be generously... [Read more...]
Posted at 01:41PM Sep 01, 2017 by Sally in General
The Apache Log4j 2 team is pleased to announce the Log4j 2.9 release! Apache Log4j is a well known framework for logging application behavior. Log4j 2 is an upgrade to Log4j that provides significant improvements over its predecessor, Log4j 1.x, and provides many other modern features such as support for Markers, lambda expressions for lazy... [Read more...]
Posted at 01:26AM Aug 31, 2017 by Remko Popma in General
by Tom Diederich Igniters, here are some community highlights from the last couple week. If I missed anything, please share it here. Meetups! Did you know that Apache Ignite experts are available to speak at your meetup? And we also have spots open for YOU to speak at the following meetups that some of us co-organize: Apache Ignite London ... [Read more...]
Posted at 11:52PM Aug 30, 2017 by Denis Magda in General
FOUNDATION OPERATIONS SUMMARY First Quarter, Fiscal Year 2018 (May - July 2017) " We love The Apache Way and what Apache has done for us..." -- ASF Platinum Sponsor > President's Statement: Financially, we are on track to meet this year's budget, even... [Read more...]
Posted at 07:17PM Aug 29, 2017 by Sally in General
We are very excited to announce the release of Apache Samza 0.13.1 Samza has been powering real-time applications in production across several large companies (including LinkedIn, Netflix, Uber) for years now. Samza provides leading support for large-scale stateful stream processing with: First class support for local state (with RocksDB store).... [Read more...]
Posted at 10:54PM Aug 25, 2017 by navina in General
August has simply zipped by —it's hard to believe that it's the last Friday of the month! Per usual, there seems to be little or no rest with Apache community at-large: Support Apache –help ensure that Apache software projects continue to be freely available to users around the world. Every dollar counts. http://apache.org/foundat... [Read more...]
Posted at 03:27PM Aug 25, 2017 by Sally in General
Big Data machine-learning library used for scalable in-database analytics Forest Hill, MD –22 August 2017– The Apache Software Foundation (ASF), the all-volunteer developers, stewards, and incubators of more than 350 Open Source projects and initiatives, announced today that Apache® MADlib™ has graduated from the Apache Incubator to become a... [Read more...]
Posted at 10:00AM Aug 22, 2017 by Sally in General
Presenting the content of Microsoft Excel spreadsheets in JSPWiki is possible by using the Worksheet plugin—developed by Christian Fröhler. Installation is straightforward, consisting of adding a few extra Java libraries to your application server and the plugin itself. After a restart, add some simple JSPWiki markup to display the content of an... [Read more...]
Posted at 07:49PM Aug 20, 2017 by Dave Koelmeyer in General