The first release candidate of the Gemini Web project is available for download. See the bug list for what's changed since milestone 4. Thanks to Violeta Georgieva of SAP for her continued contributions. The project is due for an Eclipse review on 20 October so that it can graduate from incubation and ship a 1.1.0 Read more…

SpringSource dm Server 2.0.3 is available for download. This purpose of this release is to fix a severe problem on Windows when the root logging level is configured to "debug". This bug was reported and fixed in Virgo and then backported for existing customers since Virgo has not yet shipped its baseline release (planned for Read more…

Gemini Web milestone 4 (1.1.0.M04-incubation) is available for download. Notable changes: Upgrade to Tomcat 6.0.29 (plus SpringSource mods) to close some security vulnerabilities Restructure Tomcat bundles to enable clustering to work – see bug 322983 Various test and build improvements

Virgo milestone 2.1.0.M04-incubation is available for download. Changes: Bug 323609 fixed: severe logging performance issue under Windows in certain scenarios OSGi extensions change in preparation for Equinox 3.6 upgrade contributed by Hristo Illiev New testcases and test coverage improvements contributed by Olivier Girardot Support new framework property org.eclipse.virgo.suppress.heap.dumps and document it in User Guide Unused Read more…

Virgo 2.1.0.M02-incubator is available for download. Apart from completing the "getting started guide", this milestone dramatically reduces startup time – by as much as 5x on some systems. This should be a further incentive for users of dm Server to migrate to Virgo: Virgo is the codebase for future development, has more liberal licensing, and Read more…

The first milestone (1.1.0.M01) of Eclipse Gemini Web is now available for download, dual-licensed under the Eclipse Public License and the Apache License 2.0. SpringSource developed the Reference Implementation of the OSGi Web Container and then contributed the code to Eclipse as the Web sub-project of Gemini. The goal of Gemini is to provide modular Read more…

The first milestone (2.1.0.M01) of Eclipse Virgo is now available for download under the Eclipse Public License. This consists of an application server, known as the Virgo Web Server, and a stand-alone kernel. The goal of this milestone is for dm Server 2.0.x users to be able to migrate to it relatively painlessly and have Read more…

SpringSource dm Server 2.0.1 is released today. The release fixes a few minor bugs and one security issue. The Admin Console's version of dojo is upgraded from 1.3.2 to 1.3.3 to prevent an open redirect attack. The release also includes the final Reference Implementation of the OSGi Web Container. The OSGi Web Container specification was Read more…

Cloning is the feature in dm Server 2.0 which copies certain bundles and libraries into a scoped application (that is, a PAR or a scoped plan) as described in the roadmap. The support for cloning in dm Server has progressed steadily over the last few sprints. The fundamental mechanisms were in place in M1: cloning Read more…

The OSGi Alliance has decided to accommodate vendor-specific manifest headers by listing them in a public registry. The aim is to avoid clashes between vendors and between vendors and OSGi's own headers. The registry currently contains OSGi's own headers, those introduced by SpringSource dm Server, and two used by the bnd tool.