Apache FOP (Formatting Objects Processor) is a print formatter driven by XSL Formatting Objects and an output independent formatter. It is a Java application that reads a formatting object tree and renders the resulting pages to a specified output. Output formats currently supported include PDF, PS, PCL, AFP, Print and TIFF/PNG. Apache FOP is Open [...]

BitNami LAPPStack 1.0 is licensed under the terms of the Apache License 2.0, and is free for download and use from http://www.bitnami.org/lampstack . It allows users to take advantage of the stability, low cost and high performance of the APP web development platform (Linux/Windows/OS X, Apache, PostgreSQL, and PHP) without the hassle of integrating, configuring, [...]

The Apache Tomcat team announces the immediate availability of Apache Tomcat 6.0.18 stable. This release includes many bugfixes over Apache Tomcat 6.0.16.
Apache Tomcat 6.0 includes new features over Apache Tomcat 5.5, including support for the new Servlet 2.5 and JSP 2.1 specifications, a refactored clustering implementation, advanced IO features, and improvements in memory usage.
Please refer [...]

Today at the OSCON open source software convention, the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) got an unexpected new sponsor: Microsoft. The Redmond software giant, which will contribute $100,000 annually to the ASF, joins Google and Yahoo as a platinum sponsor of Apache development.
The ASF is a nonprofit group that exerts loose organizational guidance role over a [...]

The Apache Software Foundation and the Apache HTTP Server Project are pleased to announce the release of version 2.2.9 of the Apache HTTP Server (”Apache”). This version of Apache is principally a bug and security fix release. The following potential security flaws are addressed:
* CVE-2008-2364 (cve.mitre.org) — mod_proxy_http: Better handling [...]

There’s been discussion in the open source world about a decline in the popularity of the dominant Apache web server. These concerned are fueled largely by the Netcraft survey of the internet, which shows a 20% decline in Apache’s market share over the last three years, from a high near 70% to the 50% or [...]

The Apache Software Foundation will host a conference in Amsterdam, from April 7-11. The open source conference will start with two days of “intense” training classes, says the Foundation, followed by three days of over 50 sessions on open source software.
Conference topics range from Apache development trends to open source licensing issues. The keynote is [...]

AMD and Microsoft should take note that open source strategies bring painful problems. Sun Microsystems knows this all too well.
Just as Microsoft said it’s opening its APIs and AMD made its latest contribution to open source, controversy again bubbled up for Sun’s much-vaunted OpenSolaris project.
Apache Server co-founder Ray Fielding has resigned from Sun’s OpenSolaris Community [...]

The Apache Tomcat team is proud to announce the immediate availability of Tomcat 4.1.37 stable. This build contains numerous library updates, a small number of bug fixes and two important, one moderate and six low severity security fixes.
Apache Tomcat is an implementation of the Java Server Pages 1.2 and Java Servlet 2.3 specifications.
Please refer to [...]

According to a press release issued earlier this month by Finjan, a security research firm, compromised Web servers are infecting thousands of visitors daily with malware that turns their Windows machines into unwitting bots to do the bidding of an as yet unidentified criminal organization. Security firms ScanSafe and SecureWorks have since added their own [...]

A mass attack ongoing for the past month against Linux Apache Web servers has become increasingly successful because its break-in method makes use of an automated password and installation process, according to a security researcher monitoring its progress.
Don Jackson, senior security sesearcher at SecureWorks, says the attack, which was first thought to have compromised several [...]

The Apache Software Foundation and the Apache HTTP Server Project are pleased to announce the release of version 2.2.8, 2.0.63 and 1.3.41 of the Apache HTTP Server (”Apache”). These versions of Apache are principally a bug and security fix releases. From official Announcements:

In the October 2007 survey we received responses from 142,805,398 sites, an increase of 7.6 million sites since last month. This continues the strong gains seen last month, a rate of over 5% monthly growth, with MySpace, Microsoft Live.com, and Google’s Blogger each gained over 1 million sites this month. Benefitting from the gains at [...]

The Apache Tuscany team are delighted to announce the 1.0 release of the Java SCA project. Apache Tuscany provides a runtime environment based on the Service Component Architecture (SCA). SCA is a set of specifications aimed at simplifying SOA application development. These specifications are being standardized by OASIS as part of the Open Composite Services [...]

The Apache Tomcat team announces the immediate availability of Apache Tomcat 6.0.14 stable. This release includes bugfixes over Apache Tomcat 6.0.13.
Apache Tomcat 6.0 includes new features over Apache Tomcat 5.5, including support for the new Servlet 2.5 and JSP 2.1 specifications, a refactored clustering implementation, advanced IO features, and improvements in memory usage.
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The Apache Tomcat team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of version 1.2.24 of the Apache Tomcat Connectors.
It contains connectors, which allow a web server such as Apache HTTPD, Microsoft IIS and Sun Web Server to act as a front end to the Tomcat web application server.
This version contains several enhancements and fixes a [...]

Most people in the free software world know two things about Apache. The first is that its name derives from the fact that it was a “a patchy server”, built out of patches to the earlier NCSA HTTPd Web server. The other is that in terms of market share, Apache knocks Microsoft’s IIS [...]

“One of the unsung features of GPLv3 is its grant of compatibility to the Apache and Eclipse open source licenses. Apache or Eclipse licensed code can now be combined with GPL code without creating a violation of the GPL. That wasn’t possible in the past, or at least, not sanctioned by the Free Software Foundation.
“Both [...]

Apache Maven 1.1 was released yesterday as the final release with new features to the 1.x branch of Maven. Maven is an open source project management tool for Java developers.
Additional bugfix and security updates are possible, but this is the last release that will include new features. The upgrade is recommended for all users of [...]

The Apache Jakarta Commons team is pleased to announce the release of Commons Modeler 2.0.1. This is a minor bug fix release that corrects a number of build issues found in the Modeler 2.0 release. Commons Modeler is design to make the process of setting up JMX (Java Management Extensions) MBeans easier by configuring the [...]