Changing IT landscape

Here's the latest top five list of countries with most monthly visits to the jackrabbit.apache.org web site:

1. United States


2. Germany


3. China


4. France


5. India

India just replaced United Kingdom on the fifth place, and while China is still far from the United States and Germany, it's rapidly closing the gap.

It was very interesting to hear tidbits from the recent Apache Meet Up and BarCamp Beijing events. I heard rumours about a potential followup event next year. I hope I'll find a good excuse to attend...

Apache Jackrabbit 1.5.0 released

Apache Jackrabbit 1.5.0, the latest and greatest release of the best content repository I know, is now available! Get it from the Jackrabbit web site or through the central Maven repository while it's hot!



The most notable changes since version 1.4 are:

• The standalone Jackrabbit server component. The runnable
  jackrabbit-standalone jar makes it very easy to start and run
  Jackrabbit as a standalone server with WebDAV and RMI access.
  


• Search performance improvements. The performance of certain kinds
  of hierarchical XPath queries has improved notably.
  


• Simple Google-style query language. The new GQL query syntax
  makes it very easy to express simple full text queries.
  


• Transaction-safe versioning. Mixing transactions and versioning
  operations has traditionally been troublesome in Jackrabbit.
  This release contains a number of improvements in this area and
  has specifically been reviewed against potential deadlock issues.
  


• Clustered workspace creation. A new workspace created in one
  cluster node will now automatically appear also in the other
  nodes of the cluster.
  


• SPI improvements. The SPI layer introduced in Jackrabbit 1.4
  has seen a lot of improvements and bug fixes, and is shaping
  up as a solid framework for implementing JCR connectors.
  


• Development preview: JSR 283 features. We have implemented
  a number of new features defined in the public review draft of
  JCR 2.0, created in JSR 283. These new features are accessible
  through special "jsr283" interfaces in the Jackrabbit API. Note
  however that none of these features are ready for production use,
  and will be replaced with final JCR 2.0 versions in Jackrabbit 2.0.
  

See the release notes for all the details.