by Steve Anglin (Wednesday April 18, 2001 2:35PM)
In this announcement, you’ll find the latest Web layer and XML release news on Tomcat, JAX-RPC, Jakarta-Taglibs, JSPTL, and JAXP 1.1 from Sun’s Java Platform Group.
Tomcat
Tomcat 4.0 beta 3 (implementing Servlet 2.3 and JSP 1.2) was released on
Monday, April 2, 2001. It includes all of the feature enhancements and bug
fixes of Tomcat 4.0 beta 2 (released the previous Friday), plus a fix for a
security vulnerability that was reported on Monday. Anyone who downloaded
Tomcat 4.0 beta 2 should replace it with the beta 3 release, which can be
acquired from:
JAX-RPC
JAX-RPC is a new JSR (101) targeted to provide Java APIs for XML-based
RPC and focused on inter-operability with existing (SOAP) and emerging
(XMLP) standards. The JSR got approved recently, and we just completed
forming the expert group, which has very wide industry support. We will
keep you posted as the work of the expert group progresses.
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Jakarta-Taglibs
The taglibs project at Jakarta has received a number of new tag
libraries recently. Some examples include:
- Tools - a new directory for tool support. New content is an UltraDev
extension to writing JSP pages that use tag libraries
- JDBC - updated - to read from and write to an SQL database
- Scrape - new - scrape or extract content from web documents
- i18n - localization tags
- mailer - JavaMail tags
There are several other very interesting tag libraries being discussed
and readied for integration. Stay tuned!
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JSPTL
JSPTL is the JSP Standard Tag Library that is being developed through
JSR-052. Pierre Delisle is now co-lead for this expert group and
several new members have joined. The newly invigorated group is making
very good progress. There will be a session at JavaOne to report on the
status.
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JAXP 1.1
Java APIs for XML Processing 1.1 (JAXP 1.1) is now a final specification
done under the JCP2.0 (JSR 63). The FCS of the Reference Implementation
(RI) and the specification can be obtained from http://java.sun.com/xml.
The RI for JAXP 1.1 is based on code from the Apache Software Foundation’s
crimson parser and xalan 2. All J2EE 1.3 and J2SE 1.4 compliant products
require to support JAXP 1.1.
Additional info for JAXP 1.1 can be obtained from:
Source: Sun Microsystems, Inc. This news was re-printed with permission of Sun Microsystems, Inc.
