06-DEC-2003: New Wiki Site

Thanks to Leo Simons and the other good folks of Apache Infrastructure, Avalon has a new wiki site! The new MoinMoin based site is at http://wiki.apache.org/avalon . Please contribute to our growing documentation!

29-OCT-2003: New Avalon Site

The Avalon Documentation Team is pleased to present the new and improved Avalon web site. There will be regular updates through November as we convert and update our site documentation. If you have any suggestions or want to contribute, please send an email to the developers' mailing list .

26-SEP-2003: Merlin 3.0 beta 1

The Avalon Team is proud to announce the release of Merlin 3.0 Beta 1. Merlin is an advanced component and service management solution that simplifies and enhances component development, assembly and service deployment concerns.

Merlin 3.0 binaries can be downloaded from the following site:

http://www.apache.org/dist/avalon/merlin/binaries/

Key Product Features:

• auto assembly
• muli-layer configuration management
• advanced context management
• composite component management
• packaged deployment scenarios
• local and remote repository integration
• integral jar extension management
• Maven plugin support for meta-info generation and simulated deployment
• product packaging and install services
• based on Avalon component meta model
• support for legacy migration

Product documentation, tutorials and specifications are available on the Merlin Home site or the download link referenced above.

25-SEP-2003: Excalibur i18n and Excalibur Configuration

The Avalon Team is pleased to announce availability of the upgrade releases of the Excalibur i18n internationalization and Excalibur Configuration utilities. These updates include minor enhancements to configuration listing and equality testing, and facilities enabling dynamic updating of a language locale.

25-SEP-2003: Avalon Framework 4.1.5 and Avalon Meta 1.1

The Avalon Team is proud to announce the general availability of Avalon Framework 4.1.5 and Avalon Meta 1.1 packages. The new framework release includes enhancements linked to the new Avalon Meta model. Collectively the two packages represent an important step forward in the evolution of the Avalon component model.

New features introduced under the Avalon Meta package include:

• component type descriptor meta-info model
• container-neutral framework
• declaration of component type dependencies
• declaration of service publication
• specification of logging channel assumptions
• context strategy and context casting assumptions
• context entry dependencies
• context entry generation semantic
• configuration schema details
• XML and serialized object support

Tools released in conjunction with the Avalon Meta package include an Ant task and Maven plugin supporting the automation of meta-info generation from @avalon javadoc tags.