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Castor 1.3.1 released
I've placed a copy of Castor 1.3.1 at the
Codehaus.
For details about the features added and the bugs fixed, please have
a look at the release notes.
Submitted by Werner Guttmann,
on Jan 03 2010 @ 20:21:22 |
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Castor Maven plugin 2.0 released
I am very pleased to announce the immediate availability of
the Castor Maven plugin, version 2.0.
Submitted by Werner Guttmann,
on Nov 16 2009 @ 23:21:23 |
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(Re)Added a Wiki page for the Castor project
I am very pleased to announce the immediate availability of a
project Wiki for
the Castor project.
As always, we encourage the users of Castor to contribute
additional examples, tips, errata or how-tos to the project. The contributions
collected at this place will be migrated into the standard HTML
documentation.
Submitted by Werner Guttmann,
on July 24 2009 @ 22:21:23 |
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JDO extensions for the Castor XML code generator - Preview
I am very pleased to announce the immediate availability of the
JDO extensions for the Castor XML code generator
in form of a technology preview as part of the first
snapshot release of Castor 1.3.1, which can be found at
and downloaded from the
Codehaus snapshot repository.
Please find the documentation available as part of the
reference guide
with detailed information about the XML schema artifacts
available to annotate an existing XML schema, small examples to
highlight the their usage and the current product
limitations.
Submitted by Werner Guttmann,
on April 19 2009 @ 22:21:23 |
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Castor 1.3 released
I've placed a copy of Castor 1.3 at the
Codehaus.
For details about the features added and the bugs fixed, please have
a look at the release notes.
Submitted by Werner Guttmann,
on Feb 10 2009 @ 14:12:13 |
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Welcome Lukas Lang to the team
I'm very happy to announce that Lukas Lang has joined the Castor
team as committer. Lukas' initial focus will be on the JDO extensions
for the Castor XML code generator, where he is currently working with me
(and a group of students) on completing this new (and exciting) feature.
Submitted by Werner Guttmann,
on Jul 12 2008 @ 17:16:15 |
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Castor 1.2 released
I've placed a copy of Castor 1.2 at the
Codehaus.
For details about the features added and the bugs fixed, please have
a look at the release notes.
Submitted by Werner Guttmann,
on Feb 04 2008 @ 20:21:22 |
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Welcome Joachim Grueneis to the team
I'm very happy to announce that Joachim Grueneis has joined the Castor
team as committer. Joachim's initial focus will be on the XML side of
things, where he is currently working on JAXB compliance for Castor XML.
Submitted by Werner Guttmann,
on Sep 11 2007 @ 17:16:15 |
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Castor 1.1.2.1 released
I've placed a copy of Castor 1.1.2.1 at the
Codehaus.
For details about the features added and the bugs fixed, please have
a look at the release notes.
Submitted by Werner Guttmann,
on Jun 28 2007 @ 20:21:22 |
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Castor 1.1.2 released
I've placed a copy of Castor 1.1.2 at the
Codehaus.
For details about the features added and the bugs fixed, please have
a look at the release notes.
Submitted by Werner Guttmann,
on Jun 17 2007 @ 22:33:23 |
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Castor 1.1.1 released
I've placed a copy of Castor 1.1.1 at the
Codehaus.
For details about the features added and the bugs fixed, please have
a look at the release notes.
Submitted by Werner Guttmann,
on Apr 22 2007 @ 10:11:12 |
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Castor 1.1 released
I've placed a copy of Castor 1.1 GA at the
Codehaus.
For details about the features added and the bugs fixed, please have
a look at the release notes.
Submitted by Werner Guttmann,
on Feb 10 2007 @ 22:23:24 |
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3rd milestone build for Castor 1.1 released
I've placed a copy of Castor 1.1 M3 at the
Codehaus.
This is a third and final milestone build for the upcoming 1.1 release.
For details about the features added and the bugs fixed, please have
a look at the release notes.
Submitted by Werner Guttmann,
on Jan 29 2007 @ 22:23:24 |
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2nd milestone build for Castor 1.1 released
I've placed a copy of Castor 1.1 M2 at the
Codehaus.
This is a second milestone build for the upcoming 1.1 release. As part
of this release, there's a few noteworthy changes:
- A Castor DDL generator has been added to Castor JDO, allowing
generation of DDL scripts from a Castor JDO mapping file.
- New binaries packaging; both the DDL generator as well as the
XML code generator have been moved to separate (and new JARs).
For details about the features added and the bugs fixed, please have
a look at the release notes.
Submitted by Werner Guttmann,
on Dec 29 2006 @ 22:23:24 |
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Milestone build for Castor 1.1 released
I've placed a copy of Castor 1.1 M1 at the
Codehaus.
This is a milestone build for the upcoming 1.1 release. For details about
the features added and the bugs fixed, please have a look at the
release notes.
Submitted by Werner Guttmann,
on Dec 23 2006 @ 22:23:24 |
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Castor 1.0.5 released
I've placed a copy of Castor 1.0.5 at the
Codehaus.
This is mainly a maintenance release. For details about all features
added and bugs fixed, please have a look at the
release notes.
Submitted by Werner Guttmann,
on Nov 11 2006 @ 20:22:21 |
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Welcome Edward Kuns to the team
I'm very happy to announce that Edward Kuns has joined the Castor
team as committer. Edward's initial focus will be on the XML code generator,
where he has already contributed numerous patches fixing existing issues and
refactoring the current codebase to increase the overall quality of the
product.
Submitted by Werner Guttmann,
on 27 Oct 2006 @ 19:20:19 |
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Castor 1.0.4 released
I've placed a copy of Castor 1.0.4 at the
Codehaus.
This is mainly a maintenance release, with more than 100 bug fixes in all
areas of the product, with a heavy emphasis on the XML code generation
area.
For details about all features added and bugs fixed, please have a look
at the release notes.
Submitted by Werner Guttmann,
on Oct 22 2006 @ 20:22:21 |
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Castor 1.0.3 released
I've placed a copy of Castor 1.0.3 at the
Codehaus.
This is mainly a maintenance release, with some noticeable bug fixes
in the XML code generation area (incl some restructuring of the HTML docs
in this very area as well).
For details about this addition in particular, and all other features
added and bugs fixed, please have a look at the
release notes.
Submitted by Werner Guttmann,
on Sep 07 2006 @ 20:22:21 |
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Castor 1.0.2 released
I've placed a copy of Castor 1.0.2 at the
Codehaus.
Whilst this is mainly a maintenance release, the XML source generator
has been extended to add support for Java 5.0 source code generation.
For details about this addition in particular, and all other features
added and bugs fixed, please have a look at the
release notes.
Submitted by Werner Guttmann,
on Aug 03 2006 @ 20:22:21 |
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Castor 1.0.1 released
I've placed a copy of Castor 1.0.1 at the
Codehaus.
This is mainly a maintenance release. For details about features
added and bugs fixed, please have a look at the
release notes.
Submitted by Werner Guttmann,
on Jun 08 2006 @ 20:22:21 |
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Mailing list subscriptions
Can I please ask everybody to check her (his) mailing list
subscriptions at
http://xircles.codehaus.org.
It looks like, due to the Codehaus problems a few weeks ago, we
might have lost some (though not many) mailing list subscriptions.
We do apologize for any inconvenience caused ....
Submitted by Werner Guttmann,
on Jun 02 2006 @ 20:07:43 |
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Jira and notifications
This is a short message for those who have created Jira issues in the
past two or three months or so, or have commented upon existing issues.
It looks like during some Jira upgrade a few months ago, a couple of
Jira settings got disabled. As a result, the original reporter of a Jira
issue did not get notified about any changes to the issue (incl. e.g.
state changes, comments, questions, etc.).
I have now reconfigured the notification scheme attached to the Castor
Jira instance so that the following entities will receive notification
emails upon a change to an issue:
- The SCM mailing list (somewhat high traffic)
- The reporter of the issue
- The assignee of the issue
- All watchers.
I hope that this will shorten feedback loops substantially in the
future, and I would like to ask people who created issues in the last
two or three months to 'manually' scan the issues they created for
updates et alias.
Submitted by Werner Guttmann,
on May 30 2006 @ 20:07:43 |
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Castor up again ...
As you might (not) have noticed, all the project-related infrastructure
(mailing lists, SVN repository, HTML docs, binaries etc.) has been
off-line due to a hard disk failure on one of the Codehaus
servers. As a result of a lot of dedication from the Codehaus folks,
we are as of now in a position to re-start life as usual.
Please note that there's still a few minor issues related to things
being setup and/or re-instated as we speak. As such, we won't be
updating some HTML docs immediately, as a few things have not come to
reach final stability yet.
Please watch this page and the mailing list(s) for more updates.
Submitted by Werner Guttmann,
on May 23 2006 @ 20:07:43 |
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Castor and Google Summer of Code
We are proud to participate in the
Summer of Code initiative
sponsored by Google, and you
are invited to join in the fun.
At
Codehaus,
you'll find some suggestions we find suitable for the program, and per
definition we would be glad to support a few projects.
Please understand, though, that mentoring capacities will be limited,
though we will try to dedicate as much time as possible to the suggested
projects. That implies that we depend on your dedication during the
preparation of the detailed specification and description of the outcome.
The timeframe for applications is May 1 - May 8. So have a look at the
projects at offer, before you sign up to the program and apply as a
student to be mentored by us.
Submitted by Werner Guttmann,
on May 05 2006 @ 20:07:43 |
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New source repository
On April 14. 2006 we have migrated Castor source repository from CVS
to SVN. At the moment we still have read only access to CVS but this
does not reflect commits to SVN after the migration. The read only
access to CVS is intended for you to create patches of your current
work and move it over to SVN. Be aware that we will switch off CVS soon.
For details about SVN access please have a look at:
SVN/JIRA.
Submitted by Ralf Joachim,
on Apr 16 2006 @ 13:07:43 |
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Castor 1.0 (final) released
I've placed a copy of the final Castor 1.0 release at the
Codehaus.
For details about features added and bugs fixed, please have a look at the
release notes.
Submitted by Werner Guttmann,
on Apr 06 2006 @ 23:22:21 |
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Castor 1.0M4 released
I've placed a copy of the Castor 1.0M4 release at the
Codehaus.
This is the fourth (and last) milestone build for the upcoming 1.0 release. For details about
the features added and the bugs fixed, please have a look at the
release notes.
Please note that we are imposing a feature/code freeze in preparation for the
final 1.0 release, which is currently scheduled for April 6, 2006.
Submitted by Werner Guttmann,
on Mar 23 2006 @ 23:22:21 |
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Castor 1.0M3 released
I've placed a copy of the Castor 1.0M3 release at the
Codehaus.
This is the third milestone build for the upcoming 1.0 release. For details about
the features added and the bugs fixed, please have a look at the
release notes.
At the moment, we are planning for a last milestone release at the end of
March 2006, after which we will impose a code freeze in preparation for the
final 1.0 release.
Submitted by Werner Guttmann,
on Mar 07 2006 @ 11:12:13 |
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Castor 1.0M2 released
I've placed a copy of the Castor 1.0M2 release at the
Codehaus.
This is the second milestone build for the upcoming 1.0 release. For details about
the features added and the bugs fixed, please have a look at the
release notes.
At the moment, we are planning for a third milestone release at the end of
February 2006.
Submitted by Werner Guttmann,
on Jan 03 2006 @ 11:12:13 |
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Castor 1.0M1 released
I've placed a copy of the Castor 1.0M1 release at the
Codehaus.
This is milestone build for the upcoming 1.0 release, as has no correlation
to Christmas at all .. ;-). For details about the features added and the
bugs fixed, please have a look at the
release notes.
We are still planning for a final Castor 1.0 release in January 2006.
Submitted by Werner Guttmann,
on Dec 22 2005 @ 10:11:12 |
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Castor 0.9.9.1 released
I've placed a copy of the Castor 0.9.9.1 release at the
Codehaus.
This is a maintenance release. For details about the features added and the bugs
fixed, please have a look at the
release notes.
We are still planning for a Castor 1.0 release in about 8+ weeks.
Submitted by Werner Guttmann,
on Nov 15 2005 @ 10:11:12 |
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Castor 0.9.9 - Final release
I've placed a copy of the final Castor 0.9.9 release at the
Codehaus.
This is a major feature release. For details about the features added and the bugs
fixed, please have a look at the
release notes.
We are currently planning for a Castor 1.0 release in about 8+ weeks,
which we mainly see as a bug fix release and a one-time opportunity
to get the HTML documentation into a better shape .. ;-). Please have a look
at the project roadmap for
details.
Please report any issues at the
Castor Jira site.
Submitted by Werner Guttmann,
on Sep 22 2005 @ 10:11:12 |
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Castor 0.9.9 - 1st milestone build
I've placed a copy of the 1st Castor 0.9.9 milestone build at the
Codehaus.
This is a major feature release. For details about the features added and the bugs
fixed, please have a look at the
project roadmap and the interim version of the
release notes.
This milestone will be replaced by a second milestone within a week,
so please try this version and report any regression issues (where applicable).
Submitted by Werner Guttmann,
on Aug 24 2005 @ 23:23:32 |
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Castor 0.9.7 - Final release
I've placed a copy of Castor 0.9.7 (final) at
The Codehaus.
This is mainly a maintenance release. For details about the bugs fixed and features
provided, please have a look at the release notes.
Please report any issues through the project's
issue tracking system and/or the
mailing lists.
Submitted by Werner Guttmann,
on Jun 08 2005 @ 14:15:21 |
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Castor 0.9.7 - 1st milestone build
I've placed a copy of the 1st Castor 0.9.7 milestone build at the
Codehaus.
This is a maintenance release for release 0.9.6 only. For details about the bugs
fixed, please have a look at the project roadmap
and the interim version of the release
notes.
This milestone will be replaced by a second milestone within a week,
so please try this version and report any regression issues (where applicable).
Submitted by Werner Guttmann,
on May 19 2005 @ 22:23:21 |
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Werner Guttmann Promoted to Castor JDO Lead
After having lead Castor JDO since 2002, Bruce has decided to
pass the torch to Werner Guttmann. Werner has been a force on
the project since he began contributing and his tireless efforts
are exactly what the project needs to continue. Congratulations,
Werner and keep up the great work!
Submitted by Bruce Snyder,
on 19 May 2005 @ 08:04:00 |
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New Castor roadmap
For information about upcoming Castor releases and future development areas in general,
please have a look at the
Castor
roadmap.
As it stands right now, this will reveal that we have scheduled two releases (0.9.7
and 0.9.9) within the next 5 weeks, the former designated to be a maintenance release
for Castor 0.9.6, the latter planned as a feature release with quite some new
features and improvements to be added.
Submitted by Werner Guttmann,
on 11 May 2005 @ 20:21:20 |
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Castor forums currently unavailable
Many of you will have recognized by now that the exolab.org
domain had been voided as of last Friday. As a result of this,
the Castor user forums are not available.
Please accept our apologies for any inconvenience you are experiencing
and rest assured that we are working to get it back online as soon
as possible.
Submitted by Werner Guttmann,
on 20 Apr 2005 @ 22:21:20 |
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Support for polymorphism - A test drive
One of the major short-comings of Castor JDO always has been missing support for
polymorphism. After the 0.9.6 release back in Februray, which mainly focused on bug
fixing, we decided to tackle this missing feature and start work for adding
support for polymorphism to Castor JDO. For a complete history of the work done so
far and the tests conducted, please have a look at
bug 1881.
As of last week, most of the work (originally initiated by myself) has been
finished, and we are now in a position where we'd like to ask you, our users,
for feedback. In other words, we think that the current implementation is stable enough
to make it available as described below. But as we want to get this new feature
as stable as possible before heading for a new release (most likely 0.9.7, but
maybe 1.0), we now need feedback from our users.
To facilitate this, I've made available binaries
here.
Please use the source distribution if possible, as it contains the tests mentioned above
as well.
Submitted by Werner Guttmann,
on 31 Mar 2005 @ 21:22:26 |
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Mailing list changes
This is to announce that we finally moved our mailing lists to the
Codehaus. As part of this move, we moved
your subscriptions to spare you the work of having to re-subscribe. If you feel
that you are incorrectly subscribed to one of the mailing lists, please use the
below addresses to unsubscribe.
As of now, please use the following email addresses:
* User mailing list
To post a message: user@castor.codehaus.org
To subscribe: user-subscribe@castor.codehaus.org
To unsubscribe: user-unsubscribe@castor.codehaus.org
Archive: http://archive.castor.codehaus.org/user
* Announcement mailing list
To post a message: announce@castor.codehaus.org
To subscribe: announce-subscribe@castor.codehaus.org
To unsubscribe: announce-unsubscribe@castor.codehaus.org
Archive: http://archive.castor.codehaus.org/announce
* Development mailing list
To post a message: dev@castor.codehaus.org
To subscribe: dev-subscribe@castor.codehaus.org
To unsubscribe: dev-unsubscribe@castor.codehaus.org
Archive: http://archive.castor.codehaus.org/dev
For a period of 14 days, we'll be monitoring the old lists at Exolab, mainly
referring you to the lists mentioned above. After this period, we will turn off
these lists at our discretion. As for mailing lists archives, please note that at
the moment, the archives mentioned above don't hold any messages from the old
lists, but we are working on a solution. As such, messages from the lists at
Exolab will be available at the usual sites.
Submitted by Werner Guttmann,
on 30 Mar 2005 @ 22:23:24 |
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RSS feed available
We are happy to provide an RSS feed for announcements related to Castor
here.
This service basically mirrors the information provided at our
news page.
Submitted by Werner Guttmann,
on 11 Mar 2005 @ 21:22:23 |
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Castor - A new home
After over five years of Exolab sponsoring Castor,
the Castor team recently decided to move the entire project to
a new home at
the Codehaus. The team would like to thank
Exolab and it's parent company Intalio, Inc. for it's long-standing support of
the project.
Please use the below links for access to ...
- Main documentation
- CVS Repository
- Download
Submitted by Werner Guttmann,
on 14 Feb 2005 @ 22:21:20 |
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Castor JDO - New committers
Please join me to welcome Gregory Block, Martin Fuchs, Ralf Joachim and Stein
as new committers for Castor JDO. I am more than happy to have them on board, as
all of them have shown their dedication to the project through numerous occasions
(incl. patches and willingness to spend time with myself ...).
Details about the current and past committers (as well as contributors)
can be found at here.
Submitted by Werner Guttmann,
on 14 Feb 2005 @ 21:21:21 |
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Castor 0.9.6 - Final release
I've placed a copy of Castor 0.9.6 (final) on the
FTP Server.
This is mainly a bug fix release, but includes a couple of new features as
well. For details about the bugs fixed and features provided, please have
a look at the
release notes.
Please report any issues through the project's
issue tracking system and/or the
mailing lists.
Submitted by Werner Guttmann,
on 09 Feb 2005 @ 22:22:22 |
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Castor 0.9.6 - 3rd release candidates
I've placed a copy of the 3rd and final Castor 0.9.6 release candidate on the
FTP Server.
This is a bug fix release only. For details about the bugs fixed sinc the last
release candidate, please have a look at (an interim version of) the
release notes.
The release candidate will be replaced by the official version within about a week,
so please try this version and report any regression issues (where applicable).
Submitted by Werner Guttmann,
on 11 Jan 2005 @ 23:25:00 |
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Castor 0.9.5.4 Final Release
I've placed a copy of Castor 0.9.5.4 final on the
FTP Server.
This is a bug fix release, so please do not expect new features
slated for 0.9.6 to appear in this release.
Sorry for the delay in officially announcing the release, it's actually been
available on the FTP Server for a couple weeks now!
Submitted by Keith Visco,
on 18 Nov 2004 @ 17:45:00 |
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Castor 0.9.6 Release Candidates
I've placed a copy of the first Castor 0.9.6 release candidate on the
FTP Server.
This is mainly a bug fix release, but includes a couple of new features as
well. For details about the bugs fixed and features provided, please have
a look at (an interim version of) the
release notes.
The release candidate will be replaced by the official version within the
next three or four weeks, so please try this version and report any
regression issues (where applicable). A regression for this release is something
that was working in 0.9.5.4 but no longer is working in this 0.9.6 release
candidate. Only regression issues will be considered for fixing before the final
0.9.6 release.
All other bugs will be moved out to 0.9.7, or a 0.9.6.x sub-release if necessary.
Submitted by Werner Guttmann,
on 28 Oct 2004 @ 23:55:00 |
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Castor 0.9.5.4 Release Candidates
I've placed a copy of the latest Castor 0.9.5.4 release candidate on the
FTP Server.
This is a bug fix release, so please do not expect new features
slated for 0.9.6 to appear in this release. The release candidate
will be replaced by the official version by end of the week, so
please try this version and report any regression issues. A
regression for this release is something that was working in 0.9.5.3
but no longer working in this 0.9.5.4 release candidate. Only
regression issues will be considered for fixing before the final
release. All other bugs will be moved out to 0.9.6, or a 0.9.5.5
release if necessary.
Submitted by Keith Visco,
on 18 Oct 2004 @ 22:00:00 |
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Castor Message Board
The Castor site now has a new
message board.
Message boards are typically more user-friendly than mailing lists
as they keeps the information in a much more organized fashion and don't
add to our ever increasing inboxes.
The mailing lists will continue to remain open and you can choose which
ever communication method you prefer.
Submitted by Keith Visco,
on 04 Jul 2004 @ 05:00:00 |
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CastorLive Book in the Works
Bruce Snyder is now authoring Castor
Live for SourceBeat
Publishing. The first cut of the book will be out by the end
of the July containing the first few chapters.
The SourceBeat model is very different from traditional publishing because books
are published online and updated every month by the author! Subscribers to
a book receive a one year subscription and receive all updates to the title for that
year. Also check out the Castor Live blog
for additional information.
Submitted by Bruce Snyder,
on 20 Jun 2004 @ 08:15:44 |
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Next Release
Next scheduled release (0.9.6): June, 7 2004 (tentative).
Submitted by Keith Visco,
on 10 Mar 2004 @ 04:19:15 |
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Possible Interim Release
An interim release (0.9.5.4) may be released sooner for any
regression issues still present in 0.9.5.3.
Submitted by Keith Visco,
on 10 Mar 2004 @ 04:19:15 |
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Welcome Stein Hugubakken to the Team
Please welcome Stein Hugubakken as the latest addition to team
Castor! Stein has been active with Castor since early this year
and we're very happy to have him on board.
Submitted by Bruce Snyder,
on 01 May 2004 @ 13:06:24 |
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Welcome Patrick van Kaan to the Team
Please welcome Patrick van Kaan as the latest addition to team
Castor! Patrick has been using Castor JDO for a while now and
is the developer behind the
Castor-Taglib
project.
Submitted by Bruce Snyder,
on 15 Jan 2004 @ 22:58:39 |
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Welcome Werner Guttmann to the Team
Please welcome Werner Guttman as the newest committer to the Castor
team! Werner's contributions moving forward with the Castor JDO
refactoring are key, as is his experience with J2EE and IBM WebSphere.
Submitted by Bruce Snyder,
on 11 Nov 2003 @ 18:38:10 |
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CastorWiki Now Available
Can't find it here? Check out the
CastorWiki.
An effort put together by a number of Castor users to document the
undocumented! Hosted off site by Lance Lavandowska, and championed
by Tek1 (whose real name is a mystery to us all!).
Submitted by Keith Visco,
on 19 Jun 2003 @ 16:39:17 |
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RefactorIt to Include Castor
We're pleased to announce that the folks at
RefactorIt
have included Castor as part of their Open Source Community License.
This means anyone who works on the Castor code base can download a
copy of RefactorIt and use it when working on the Castor code.
Submitted by Keith Visco,
on 12 Mar 2003 @ |
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Congratulations Bruce!
Congratulations to Bruce Snyder and his family on the birth
of their second daughter, the youngest member of the Castor team,
we can't wait until she's old enough to start programming!
Submitted by Keith Visco,
on 14 Nov 2002 @ |
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Welcome Mickaël Guessant to the Team
Please welcome our newest addition to the Castor team of committers,
Mickaël Guessant! Mickaël is a very welcome addition to the Castor
JDO team.
Submitted by Bruce Snyder,
on 24 Oct 2002 @ |
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Bruce Snyder Promoted to Castor JDO Lead
Bruce Snyder has taken over for Thomas Yip as the Castor JDO Project
Lead. Bruce's name should be very familar to most Castor users as he
has been an active contributor and committer to Castor JDO for more
than a year.
A very special Thanks to Thomas Yip for the great job he did and all
the contributions he made to the project.
Submitted by Keith Visco,
on 10 July 2002 @ |
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