Avalon Excalibur 4.0b4 Released

The Avalon team is proud to announce the 4.0b4 beta release of the Avalon Excalibur.

About Avalon

The Avalon project is Apache's Java Server Framework. It is separated into six sub projects: Framework, Excalibur, LogKit, Cornerstone, Phoenix, and Testlet. Its purpose is to simplify server side programming for Java based projects. It formalizes serveral best of breed practices and patterns for server side programming.

For more information about Avalon, please go to http://jakarta.apache.org/avalon.

About Avalon Excalibur 4.0b4

Avalon Excalibur contains several premade Avalon Components and utilities to make your server side programming easier. There are several pool implementations, Component management implementations, and database management implementations.

For more information about Avalon Excalibur 4.0b4, please go to http://jakarta.apache.org/avalon/excalibur.

ChangeLog for Avalon Excalibur 4.0b4

Fixed race condition brought to my attention by Tom Klaasen. His excellent analysis of the problem enabled me to not only fix the race condition but also increase the efficiency of the pool in some cases by 200%[BL]
Added new InformixDataSource that uses the Informix JDBC 2.2 driver and Cadastre to provide pooled connections from Informix. Unfortunately the drivers do not yet support transactions. I need to look further into this, as it might be a server configuration issue as opposed to a driver issue.[BL]
Fixed errors in utilities discovered by the tests.[BL]
Converted tests from Testlet to JUnit.[BL]
Fixed the build structure so that everything builds correctly.[BL]
Added extra convenience methods to discover if a component exists.[BL]
Added stylesheet to convert Stylebook markup to DocBook markup.[BL]
Changed the documentation build process to use Cocoon to build the site.[BL]
Add new configuration element "driver" to JdbcDataSource so that the class is loaded in the current context classloader when the component is first set up.[BL]
Optimize all logging functions to make it easier for JVMs to decide whether or not to concatenate strings for log messages.[BL]
Extensive reworking of the excalibur.i18n package (XML Resource bundles).[NP]
Extensive additions to IOUtils so that it accepts numerous different stream/writer types. Also will convert streams to strings using a specific encoder or else by using default platform encoder.[JT]
Added EndianUtil to excalibur.io to help when need to work with little endian data.[PD]
Added "ROLE" attribute to DataSource--to comply with practices outlined in whitepaper.[BL]

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