Demand for best-in-class Open Source solutions drives landmark achievements Forest Hill, MD -–16 May 2012-– The Apache Software Foundation (ASF), developers, stewards, and incubators of nearly 150 Open Source projects and initiatives, today announced key milestones achieved in the first quarter of 2012. Recognized as one of the most... [Read more...]
Posted at 12:00PM May 16, 2012 by Sally in General
We (the Apache MRUnit team) have just released Apache MRUnit 0.9.0-incubating ( tarball , nexus , javadoc ). Apache MRUnit is an Apache Incubator project. MRUnit is a Java library that helps developers unit test Apache Hadoop MapReduce jobs. Unit testing is a technique for improving project quality and reducing overall costs by writing a small amount of... [Read more...]
Posted at 02:02PM May 01, 2012 by brock in General
Easy to use, affordable, and over 300% faster, Open Source Java Enterprise Edition of popular Apache Tomcat application server ideally suited for Cloud environments The Apache Software Foundation (ASF), the all-volunteer developers, stewards, and incubators of nearly 150 Open Source projects and initiatives, today announced Apache TomEE v1.0.... [Read more...]
Posted at 01:00PM Apr 30, 2012 by Sally in General
The Apache TomEE community is excited to announce the long awaited final release of Apache TomEE 1.0 . A primary focus of the final release is performance tuning and production. Tuning was focused on large Applications such as Confluence, Ralio, and Lift. Large applications can expect major improvements over anywhere from a 100% to a 300% improvement... [Read more...]
Posted at 12:53PM Apr 30, 2012 by dblevins in Java
High-performance, fault-tolerant Open Source "Big Data" powerhouse scales petabytes of data at Adobe, Cisco, IBM, Morningstar, Netflix, PBS, Rackspace, Twitter, US Government, and more. Forest Hill, MD –24 April 2012– The Apache Software Foundation (ASF), the all-volunteer developers, stewards, and incubators... [Read more...]
Posted at 01:00PM Apr 24, 2012 by Sally in General
It's amazing to see the Apache Flex community alive and kicking at 360 Flex 2012 . Thanks to Mr. Wilker himself, we have our own room in Lone Tree: The Apache Flex Discovery Room. Come by the room and find out about Apache Flex, figure out how you can be a part of our growing community, or just stop by to get some help. By the way, if you're just... [Read more...]
Posted at 09:16PM Apr 16, 2012 by Doug Arthur in General
The Apache log4j team would like to welcome Gary Gregory as a new committer! Welcome Gary! [Read more...]
Posted at 08:00PM Apr 15, 2012 by grobmeier in General
Cloudera hosted the Apache Sqoop Meetup last week at Cloudera HQ in Palo Alto. About 20 of the Meetup attendees had not used Sqoop before, but were interested enough to participate in the Meetup on April 4th. We believe this healthy interest in Sqoop will contribute to its wide adoption. Not only was this Sqoop's second Meetup but also a... [Read more...]
Posted at 03:11AM Apr 10, 2012 by kathleen in General
Apache CouchDB 1.2.0 has been released and is available for download. Grab your copy here: http://couchdb.apache.org/ Windows packages are now available. Grab them at the same download link. This release also coincides with a revamped project homepage! This is a big release with lots of updates. Please also note that this... [Read more...]
Posted at 09:04PM Apr 06, 2012 by nslater in General
The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) welcomes Citrix to the roster of sponsors at the Platinum level. "We are pleased to welcome Citrix to our individual and corporate sponsors whose generosity helps advance the day-to-day operations of The Apache Software Foundation ," said ASF Chairman Doug Cutting. "This support helps us... [Read more...]
Posted at 12:09PM Apr 03, 2012 by Sally in General
Apache Sqoop is a tool designed for efficiently transferring bulk data between Apache Hadoop and structured datastores such as relational databases. You can use Sqoop to import data from external structured datastores into Hadoop Distributed File System or related systems like Hive and HBase. Conversely, Sqoop can be used to extract data from Hadoop and... [Read more...]
Posted at 05:44PM Apr 02, 2012 by arvind in General
Just a couple months ago Apache Hadoop fans, committers and alike were cheered up by the news that Hadoop community has released a long awaited version 1.0 of the famous Hadoop data crunching platform. It is a pleasure to be writing this blog because while I am doing it, Apache mirrors are synchronizing the first ever release of Haodop 1.0 based data... [Read more...]
Posted at 05:06PM Apr 02, 2012 by cos in General
Open Source big data tool used for efficient bulk transfer between Apache Hadoop and structured datastores. Forest Hill, MD -- The Apache Software Foundation (ASF), the all-volunteer developers, stewards, and incubators of nearly 150 Open Source projects and initiatives, today announced that Apache Sqoop has graduated from the Apache... [Read more...]
Posted at 01:00PM Apr 02, 2012 by Sally in General
The bulk of the HBase Project Management Committed (PMC) met at the StumbleUpon offices in San Francisco, March 27th, 2012, ahead of the HBase Meetup that happened later in the evening. Below we post the agenda and minutes to let you all know what was discussed but also to solicit input and comment. Agenda A suggested agenda had been put on... [Read more...]
Posted at 06:01PM Mar 29, 2012 by stack in General
Open Source mashup platform provides easy-to-use infrastructure for building and integrating with social media standards including Activity Streams, OpenSocial, W3C Widgets, and more. Forest Hill, MD -- The Apache Software Foundation (ASF), the all-volunteer developers, stewards, and incubators of nearly 150 Open Source projects and... [Read more...]
Posted at 02:00PM Mar 27, 2012 by Sally in General
In addition to the recently shown Confluence plugin there will be also a plugin to integrate OpenMeetings conference rooms into Atlassian Jira. There is also a Jira Test-Instance available: http://85.214.108.167:8080/ You can see a demo here: Well done Eugen! The demo video is available at: https://vimeo.com/37419990 [Read more...]
Posted at 01:05PM Mar 26, 2012 by sebawagner in General
The first Apache BarCamp Washington, D.C. will be held on May 19 2012. If you will be in or around the Washington, D.C. area at that time, do sign up and join us! As with all Apache BarCamps, there will be a mix of Apache and non-Apache talks given based on who comes and the topics that interest them - with an emphasis on sharing... [Read more...]
Posted at 05:38PM Mar 22, 2012 by Sally in General
The Apache Software Foundation will be participating in the Google Summer of Code again this year as a mentoring organization. Google Summer of Code is a program where students work on open source projects backed by a stipend granted by Google. The Apache Software Foundation has been participating in the program since its inception in... [Read more...]
Posted at 08:30PM Mar 21, 2012 by uli in General
Eugen from the Apache OpenMeetings team shows his first version of the Confluence Plugin. It enables integration of Apache OpenMeetings Web-Conferencing rooms into any Confluence wiki and managing the conference rooms from inside Confluence. The demo video is available at: https://vimeo.com/38767730 [Read more...]
Posted at 11:05AM Mar 19, 2012 by sebawagner in General
