Castor -- Announcements

Mon, 14 Feb 2005 23:35:32 GMT

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1.3.3 RC1 release available

Werner Guttmann — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 23:59:04 +0100

Castor 1.3.3 release candidate 1 has been made available at http://dist.codehaus.org/castor/1.3.3rc1/

This is a first release candidate for the upcoming 1.3.3 release. For details about the features added and the bugs fixed, please have a look at the release notes at http://castor.codehaus.org/release-notes.html.

1.3.2 GA available

Werner Guttmann — Tue, 29 Mar 2011 22:23:22 +0100

Castor 1.3.2 has been made available at http://dist.codehaus.org/castor/1.3.1/

For details about the features added and the bugs fixed, please have a look at the release notes at http://castor.codehaus.org/release-notes.html

castor-maven-plugin 2.1 available

Werner Guttmann — Mon, 28 Mar 2011 20:23:22 +0100

MOJO's castor-maven-plugin, version 2.1 has been made available.

1.3.1 GA available

Werner Guttmann — Sun, 03 Jan 200 21:23:22 +0100

Castor 1.3.1 has been made available at http://dist.codehaus.org/castor/1.3.1/

For details about the features added and the bugs fixed, please have a look at the release notes at http://castor.codehaus.org/release-notes.html

(Re)Added project Wiki

Werner Guttmann — Thu, 24 Jul 2009 22:21:23 +0100

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.

JDO extensions for the Castor XML code generator - Preview

Werner Guttmann — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 22:21:23 +0100

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 (http://snapshots.repository.codehaus.org/org/codehaus/castor).

Castor and Google Summer of Code 2009

Werner Guttmann — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 20:21:22 +0100

Castor is - again - putting up numerous project proposals with Google's Summer of Code 2009 program (http://code.google.com/soc/).

Please find the current project proposal ideas available at http://gsoc.codehaus.org/Castor+Ideas.

1.3 GA available

Werner Guttmann — Mon, 10 Feb 2009 14:12:13 +0100

Castor 1.3 has been made available at http://dist.codehaus.org/castor/1.3/

For details about the features added and the bugs fixed, please have a look at the release notes at http://castor.codehaus.org/release-notes.html

1.3 RC1 release available

Werner Guttmann — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 23:59:04 +0100

Castor 1.3 release candidate 1 has been made available at http://dist.codehaus.org/castor/1.3rc1/

This is a first release candidate for the upcoming 1.3 release. For details about the features added and the bugs fixed, please have a look at the release notes at http://castor.codehaus.org/release-notes.html.

Welcome Lukas Lang to the team

Werner Guttmann — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 20:21:22 +0100

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.

Castor mailing lists available for browsing and searching at http://castor.markmail.org

Werner Guttmann — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 12:11:10 +0100

Castor's mailing lists are now available for browsing and searching at http://castor.markmail.org.

More info about the site, its features and its inner workings is in the FAQ at http://markmail.org/docs/faq.xqy.

1.2 GA available

Werner Guttmann — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 20:21:22 +0100

Castor 1.2 has been made available at http://dist.codehaus.org/castor/1.2/

For details about the features added and the bugs fixed, please have a look at the release notes at http://castor.codehaus.org/release-notes.html

Article series on Castor available at IBM developerWorks

Werner Guttmann — Sun, 02 Feb 2008 20:21:22 +0100

Brett McLaughlin has written an article series on (XML) data binding with Castor on IBM developerWorks. The first article is available http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/library/x-xjavacastor1/.

Welcome Joachim Grueneis to the team

Werner Guttmann — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 20:21:22 +0100

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.

1.1.2.1 final release available

Werner Guttmann — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 20:21:22 +0100

Castor 1.1.2.1 has been made available at http://dist.codehaus.org/castor/1.1.2.1/

For details about the features added and the bugs fixed, please have a look at the release notes at http://castor.codehaus.org/release-notes.html

1.1.2 final release available

Werner Guttmann — Sun, 17 Jun 2007 22:33:44 +0100

Castor 1.1.2 has been made available at http://dist.codehaus.org/castor/1.1.2/

For details about the features added and the bugs fixed, please have a look at the release notes at http://castor.codehaus.org/release-notes.html

1.1.1 final release available

Werner Guttmann — Sun, 22 Apr 2007 10:11:12 +0100

Castor 1.1.1 has been made available at http://dist.codehaus.org/castor/1.1.1/

For details about the features added and the bugs fixed, please have a look at the release notes at http://castor.codehaus.org/release-notes.html

1.1 final release available

Werner Guttmann — Sat, 10 Feb 2007 23:22:21 +0100

Castor 1.1 GA has been made available at http://dist.codehaus.org/castor/1.1/

For details about the features added and the bugs fixed, please have a look at the release notes at http://castor.codehaus.org/release-notes.html

1.1 M3 release available

Werner Guttmann — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 22:23:24 +0100

The Castor 1.1 M3 release has been made available at http://dist.codehaus.org/castor/1.1/

This is a second 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 at http://castor.codehaus.org/release-notes.html

1.1 M2 release available

Werner Guttmann — Fri, 29 Dec 2006 22:23:24 +0100

The Castor 1.1 M2 release has been made available at http://dist.codehaus.org/castor/1.1/

This is a second milestone build for the upcoming 1.1 release. As part of this release, there are 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 at http://castor.codehaus.org/release-notes.html

1.1 M1 release available

Werner Guttmann — Sat, 23 Dec 2006 22:23:24 +0100

The Castor 1.1 M1 release has been made available at http://dist.codehaus.org/castor/1.1/

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 at http://castor.codehaus.org/release-notes.html.

Castor 1.0.5 available

Werner Guttmann — Sat, 11 Nov 2006 20:22:21 GMT

Castor 1.0.5 has been made available at http://dist.codehaus.org/castor/1.0.5/

For details about the features added and the bugs fixed, please have a look at the release notes at http://castor.codehaus.org/release-notes.html.

Castor 1.0.4 available

Werner Guttmann — Sun, 22 Oct 2006 20:22:21 GMT

Castor 1.0.4 has been made available at http://dist.codehaus.org/castor/1.0.4/

For details about the features added and the bugs fixed, please have a look at the release notes at http://castor.codehaus.org/release-notes.html.

Snapshot release of Spring factory beans for Castor XML available

Werner Guttmann — Sun, 10 Sep 2006 07:18:19 GMT

I've made a first snapshot release of the new Spring factory beans for Castor XML available. This new module provides seamless integration of several Castor XML artifacts (e.g. its Unmarshaller and Marshaller components) into the application framework (http://www.springframework.org).

Download instructions (http://castor.org/download.html#Castor-XML-Spring-factory-beans)
Introduction, including several small HOW-TOs (http://castor.org/spring-xml-intro.html)

Castor 1.0.3 available

Werner Guttmann — Thu, 7 Sep 2006 20:22:21 GMT

Castor 1.0.3 has been made available at http://dist.codehaus.org/castor/1.0.3/

For details about the features added and the bugs fixed, please have a look at the release notes at http://castor.codehaus.org/release-notes.html.

Castor 1.0.2 available

Werner Guttmann — Thu, 3 Aug 2006 20:22:21 GMT

Castor 1.0.2 has been made available at http://dist.codehaus.org/castor/1.0.2/

For details about the features added and the bugs fixed, please have a look at the release notes at http://castor.codehaus.org/release-notes.html.

Spring ORM for Castor JDO RC1 released

Werner Guttmann — Thu, 06 Jul 2006 20:21:22 GMT

I've placed the first release candidate of the Spring ORM implementation for Castor JDO at the Codehaus at http://dist.codehaus.org/castor/.

For details about the functionality provided, please have a look at the documentation available at http://castor.codehaus.org/castor-spring-site/.

Work on JPA 3.0 support started

Werner Guttmann — Sun, 25 Jun 2006 10:01:12 GMT

Work has been started on adding support for the Java Persistence Architecture (JPA) 3.0 to Castor JDO

The SVN repository is available at http://svn.codehaus.org/castor/castor-jpa/trunk

Castor 1.0.1 available

Werner Guttmann — Thu, 8 Jun 2006 20:22:21 GMT

Castor 1.0.1 has been made available at http://dist.codehaus.org/castor/1.0/

For details about the features added and the bugs fixed, please have a look at the release notes at http://castor.codehaus.org/release-notes.html.

Jira and notifications

Werner Guttmann — Tue, 30 May 2006 13:07:43 GMT

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.)...

Castor up again ...

Werner Guttmann — Tue, 23 May 2006 13:07:43 GMT

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.

Google Summer of Code and Castor

Werner Guttmann — Fri, 05 May 2006 13:07:43 GMT

we are proud to participate in the Summer of Code initiative (http://code.google.com/soc/) sponsored by Google, and you are invited to join in the fun.

At http://docs.codehaus.org/display/CASTOR/CastorSocProjects, 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 offered before you sign up to the program and apply as a student to be mentored by us.

New source repository

Ralf Joachim — Sun, 16 Apr 2006 13:07:43 GMT

On April 14, 2006 we migrated the Castor source repository from CVS to SVN. At the moment we still have read-only access to CVS, but CVS 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: http://castor.codehaus.org/cvs.html.

Final 1.0 release available

Werner Guttmann — Thu, 6 Apr 2006 23:22:21 GMT

The final Castor 1.0 release has been made available at http://dist.codehaus.org/castor/1.0/

For details about the features added and the bugs fixed, please have a look at the release notes at http://castor.codehaus.org/release-notes.html.

1.0M4 release available

Werner Guttmann — Thu, 23 Mar 2006 23:22:21 GMT

The Castor 1.0M4 release has been made available at http://dist.codehaus.org/castor/1.0/

This is the 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 at http://castor.codehaus.org/release-notes.html.

1.0M3 release available

Werner Guttmann — Tue, 07 Mar 2006 11:12:13 GMT

The Castor 1.0M3 release has been made available at http://dist.codehaus.org/castor/1.0/

This is a 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 http://castor.codehaus.org/release-notes.html.

1.0M2 release available

Werner Guttmann — Fri, 03 Feb 2006 11:12:13 GMT

The Castor 1.0M2 release has been made available at http://dist.codehaus.org/castor/1.0/

1.0M1 release available

Werner Guttmann — Thu, 22 Dec 2005 10:11:12 GMT

The Castor 1.0M1 release has been made available at http://dist.codehaus.org/castor/1.0/

This is a milestone build for the upcoming 1.0 release, and 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 at http://castor.codehaus.org/release-notes.html.

0.9.9.1 release available

Werner Guttmann — Sat, 15 Oct 2005 10:11:12 GMT

The Castor 0.9.9.1 release has been made available at http://dist.codehaus.org/castor/0.9.9.1/

This is a maintenance release. For details about the features added and the bugs fixed, please have a look at the release notes at http://castor.codehaus.org/release-notes.html.

0.9.9 release - Final release available

Werner Guttmann — Thu, 22 Sep 2005 10:11:12 GMT

The final release of Castor 0.9.9 has been made available at http://dist.codehaus.org/castor/0.9.9/

This is a major feature release. For details about the features added and the bugs fixed, please have a look at the release notes at http://castor.codehaus.org/release-notes.html.

0.9.9 release - 2nd milestone build available

Werner Guttmann — Tue, 13 Sep 2005 23:23:32 GMT

The second milestone build of Castor 0.9.9 has been made available at http://dist.codehaus.org/castor/0.9.9/

0.9.9 release - 1st milestone build available

Werner Guttmann — Wed, 24 Aug 2005 23:23:32 GMT

The first milestone build of Castor 0.9.9 has been made available at http://dist.codehaus.org/castor/0.9.9/

Castor 0.9.7 released

Werner Guttmann — Thu, 9 Jun 2005 13:12:11 GMT

I've placed a copy of Castor 0.9.7 (final) at http://dist.codehaus.org/castor/0.9.7. This is mainly a maintenance release. For details about the bugs fixed and features provided, please have a look at the release notes at http://castor.codehaus.org/release-notes.html . Please report any issues through the project's issue tracking system at http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/CASTOR and/or the mailing lists.

0.9.7 release - 1st milestone build available

Werner Guttmann — Thu, 19 May 2005 23:25:00 GMT

The first milestone build of Castor 0.9.7 has been made available at http://dist.codehaus.org/castor/0.9.7/

Werner Guttmann Promoted to Castor JDO Lead

Bruce Snyder — Thu, 19 May 2005 14:08:00 GMT

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!

New Castor roadmap

Werner Guttmann — Wed, 11 May 2005 20:22:21 GMT

For information about upcoming Castor releases and future development areas in general, please have a look at the Castor roadmap at http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/CASTOR?report=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.project:roadmap-panel 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.

Castor forums currently unavailable

Werner Guttmann — Wed, 20 Apr 2005 22:22:21 GMT

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.

New issue tracking tool

Werner Guttmann — Wed, 20 Apr 2005 21:22:21 GMT

This is to announce that we finally moved our issue tracking tool from http://bugzilla.exolab.org to the Codehaus (http://www.codehaus.org), migrating to Jira at the same time. We'd like to offer our apologies for any inconvenience you experienced as a result of this migration and hope that you like our new home for tracking (and resolving) issues at http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/CASTOR as much as we do.

How to submit a patch - New guidelines

Werner Guttmann — Fri, 08 Apr 2005 21:22:21 GMT

This is to announce that we now provide unified instructions on how to submit a patch at http://castor.codehaus.org/how-to-submit-a-bug.html. In addition, we have added a template for Castor JDO related patches to the CVS sources.

Support for polymorphism - A test drive

Werner Guttmann — Thu, 31 Mar 2005 21:22:26 GMT

One of the major short-comings of Castor JDO always has been missing support for polymorphism. As of last week, most of the work has been finished, and we are now in a position where we'd like to ask you, our users, for feedback. I've made available binaries at http://dist.codehaus.org/castor/previews/0.9.6_with_polymorphism/. Please use the source distribution if possible, as it contains the tests mentioned above as well.

Mailing list changes

Werner Guttmann — Wed, 30 Mar 2005 22:23:24 GMT

This is to announce that we finally moved our mailing lists to the Codehaus (http://www.codehaus.org). For a period of 14 days we'll monitor 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. For details, please see http://castor.codehaus.org/news.html.

RSS feed available

Werner Guttmann — Thu, 10 Mar 2005 13:35:00 GMT

We are happy to provide an RSS feed for announcements related to Castor at http://castor.codehaus.org/rss/castor-announcement.xml. This service basically mirrors the information provided at our news page at http://castor.codehaus.org/news.html.

A new home

Werner Guttmann — Mon, 14 Feb 2005 22:21:20 GMT

After over five years of Exolab (http://www.exolab.org) sponsoring Castor, the Castor team recently decided to move the entire project to a new home over at the Codehaus (http://www.codehaus.org). The team would like to thank Exolab and its parent company Intalio, Inc. for its long-standing support of the project.

Please use the below links for access to ...

Main documentation (http://castor.codehaus.org)
CVS repository (http://cvs.castor.codehaus.org)
Download (http://dist.codehaus.org/castor)

Castor JDO - new committers

Werner Guttmann — Mon, 14 Feb 2005 21:21:21 GMT

Please join me to welcome Gregory, Martin, Ralf 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 me and Bruce ...).

Final 0.9.6 release available

Werner Guttmann — Wed, 09 Feb 2005 22:22:22 GMT

The final release of Castor 0.9.6 has been made available at http://dist.codehaus.org/castor/0.9.6.

0.9.6 release candidate 3 available

Werner Guttmann — Tue, 11 Jan 2005 23:25:00 GMT

The third release candidate of Castor 0.9.6 has been made available at http://dist.codehaus.org/castor/0.9.6/

0.9.6 release candidate 2 available

Werner Guttmann — Fri, 14 Jan 2005 23:35:32 GMT

The second release candidate of Castor 0.9.6 has been made available at http://dist.codehaus.org/castor/0.9.6/

0.9.6 release candidate 1 available

Werner Guttmann — Thu, 28 Oct 2004 23:35:32 GMT

The first release candidate of Castor 0.9.6 has been made available at http://dist.codehaus.org/castor/0.9.6/