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Pi Estimator The value of PI can be calculated in a number of ways. Consider the following method of estimating PI Inscribe a circle in a square Randomly generate points in the square Determine the number of points in the square that are ... [More] also in the circle Let r be the number of points in the circle divided by the number of points in the square PI ~ 4 r Serial pseudo code for this procedure as below: iterations = 10000 circle_count = 0 do j = 1,iterations generate 2 random numbers between 0 and 1 xcoordinate = random1 ycoordinate = random2 if (xcoordinate, ycoordinate) inside circle then circle_count = circle_count + 1 end do PI = 4.0*circle_count/iterations The BSP implementation for Pi A distributed strategy in HAMA with BSP programming model, is break the loop into portions that can be executed by the tasks. Each task executes locally its portion of the loop a number of times. One task acts as master and collects the results through the BSP communication interface. public class PiEstimator { private static String MASTER_TASK = "master.task."; public static class MyEstimator extends BSP { public static final Log LOG = LogFactory.getLog(MyEstimator.class); private Configuration conf; private String masterTask; private static final int iterations = 10000; @Override public void bsp(BSPPeer bspPeer) throws IOException, KeeperException, InterruptedException { int in = 0, out = 0; for (int i = 0; i < iterations; i++) { double x = 2.0 * Math.random() - 1.0, y = 2.0 * Math.random() - 1.0; if ((Math.sqrt(x * x + y * y) < 1.0)) { in++; } else { out++; } } byte[] tagName = Bytes.toBytes(getName().toString()); byte[] myData = Bytes.toBytes(4.0 * (double) in / (double) iterations); BSPMessage estimate = new BSPMessage(tagName, myData); bspPeer.send(bspPeer.getAddress(masterTask), estimate); bspPeer.sync(); double pi = 0.0; BSPMessage received; while ((received = bspPeer.getCurrentMessage()) != null) { LOG.info("Receives messages:" + Bytes.toDouble(received.getData())); if(pi == 0.0) { pi = Bytes.toDouble(received.getData()); } else { pi = (pi + Bytes.toDouble(received.getData())) / 2; } } if (pi != 0.0) { LOG.info("\nEstimated value of PI is " + pi); } } @Override public Configuration getConf() { return conf; } @Override public void setConf(Configuration conf) { this.conf = conf; this.masterTask = conf.get(MASTER_TASK); } } public static void main(String[] args) throws InterruptedException, IOException { // BSP job configuration HamaConfiguration conf = new HamaConfiguration(); // Execute locally // conf.set("bsp.master.address", "local"); BSPJob bsp = new BSPJob(conf, PiEstimator.class); // Set the job name bsp.setJobName("pi estimation example"); bsp.setBspClass(MyEstimator.class); BSPJobClient jobClient = new BSPJobClient(conf); ClusterStatus cluster = jobClient.getClusterStatus(true); // Choose one as a master for (String name : cluster.getActiveGroomNames()) { conf.set(MASTER_TASK, name); break; } BSPJobClient.runJob(bsp); } } [Less]

Google-hosted site provides a “home-away-from-home” for code associated with Apache projects Forest Hill, MD – 14 December 2010 – The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) today announced apache-extras.org, the Google-hosted site for code ... [More] associated with Apache projects that are not part of the Foundation's more than eighty Top-level Projects and dozens of initiatives in the Apache Incubator and Labs. "The Apache Software Foundation has a long history of software innovation through collaboration; the larger the pool of potential contributors the more innovation we see," said Ross Gardler, ASF Vice President of Community Development. "Apache Extras provides a home for Apache related software which is not formally a part of the ASF itself. Having these projects on a single hosting platform will help to further accelerate innovation involving Apache software." Among the ASF's strengths are its well-established requirements relating to intellectual property management, license use, and community management. Apache-extras.org provides a home for projects that are unable to, or do not wish to, conform to those rules yet still want to signal their relationship to official Apache projects. As projects on the new Google-hosted service will not be managed by The Apache Software Foundation, participants are allowed to use whatever license and project management process they desire. Apache-extras.org will provide a level of visibility for these projects that is unavailable on other code-hosting forges. Existing Google Code projects related to Apache products can be easily migrated to the new apache-extras.org site, whilst those involved with new Apache-related projects can start quickly by filling out a simple form. The ASF Community Development team will work directly with Apache Extras to ensure innovation around Apache projects is accelerated. Technical queries regarding the ASF's relationship with apache-extras.org can be directed to the ASF Community Development team at dev@community.apache.org. For information on migrating or setting up new projects, visit http://www.apache-extras.org About The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) Established in 1999, the all-volunteer Foundation oversees nearly one hundred fifty leading Open Source projects, including Apache HTTP Server — the world's most popular Web server software. Through the ASF's meritocratic process known as "The Apache Way," more than 300 individual Members and 2,500 Committers successfully collaborate to develop freely available enterprise-grade software, benefiting millions of users worldwide: thousands of software solutions are distributed under the Apache License; and the community actively participates in ASF mailing lists, mentoring initiatives, and ApacheCon, the Foundation's official user conference, trainings, and expo. The ASF is funded by individual donations and corporate sponsors including AMD, Basis Technology, Facebook, Google, IBM, HP, Matt Mullenweg, Microsoft, SpringSource/VMware, and Yahoo!. For more information, visit http://www.apache.org/. # # # Contact: Sally KhudairiThe Apache Software Foundationpress@apache.org+1 617 921 8656  [Less]

The Apache Software Foundation has resigned its seat on the Java SE/EE Executive Committee.  Apache has served on the EC for the past 10 years, winning the JCP "Member of the Year" award 4 times, and recently was ratified for another term ... [More] with support from 95% of the voting community.  Further, the project communities of the ASF, home to Apache Tomcat, Ant, Xerces, Geronimo, Velocity and nearly a 100 mainstay java components have implemented countless JSRs and serve on and contribute to many of the JCPs technical expert groups.  We'd like to provide some explanation to the community as to why we're taking this significant step.The recent Java SE 7 vote was the last chance for the JCP EC to demonstrate that the EC has any intent to defend the JCP as an open specification process, and demonstrate that the letter and spirit of the law matter.   To sum up the issues at stake in the vote, we believe that while continuing to fail to uphold their responsibilities under the JSPA, Oracle provided the EC with a Java SE 7 specification request and license that are self-contradictory, severely restrict distribution of independent implementations of the spec, and most importantly, prohibit the distribution of independent open source implementations of the spec.  Oracle has refused to answer any reasonable and responsible questions from the EC regarding these problems.In the phrase "fail to uphold their responsibilities under the JSPA", we are referring to Oracle's refusal to provide the ASF's Harmony project with a TCK license for Java SE that complies with Oracle's obligations under the JSPA as well as public promises made to the Java community by officers of Sun Microsystems (recently acquired by Oracle.)  This breach of the JSPA was begun by Sun Microsystems in August of 2006 and is a policy that Oracle explicitly continues today.  For more information on this dispute, see our open letter to Sun Microsystems.This vote was the only real power the Executive Committee has as the governing body of the Java specification ecosystem, and as we indicated previously we were looking for the EC to protect the rights of implementers to the degree they are able, as well as preserve the integrity of the JCP licensing structure by ensuring that JCP specifications are able to be freely implemented and distributed.  We don't believe this is an unreasonable position - it should be noted that the majority of the EC members, including Oracle, have publicly stated that restrictions on distribution such as those found in the Java SE 7 license have no place in the JCP - and two distinguished individual members of the EC, Doug Lea and Tim Peierls, both have resigned in protest over the same issue.By approving Java SE 7, the EC has failed on both counts : the members of the EC refused to stand up for the rights of implementers, and by accepting Oracle's TCK license terms for Java SE 7, they let the integrity of the JCP's licensing structure be broken.The Apache Software Foundation concludes that that JCP is not an open specification process - that Java specifications are proprietary technology that must be licensed directly from the spec lead under whatever terms the spec lead chooses; that the commercial concerns of a single entity, Oracle, will continue to seriously interfere with and bias the transparent governance of the ecosystem;  that it is impossible to distribute independent implementations of JSRs under open source licenses such that users are protected from IP litigation by expert group members or the spec lead; and finally, the EC is unwilling or unable to assert the basic power of their role in the JCP governance process.In short, the EC and the Java Community Process are neither.To that end, our representative has informed the JCP's Program Management Office of our resignation, effective immediately.  As such, the ASF is removing all official representatives from any and all JSRs. In addition, we will refuse any renewal of our JCP membership and, of course, our EC position. # # # [Less]

First Apache Unconference in Australia to be held on 11th December 2010Forest Hill, MD - 6 December 2010 – The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) and the University of Sydney today announced BarCampApache Sydney, the ASF's first event in the ... [More] Southern Hemisphere.Taking place at the University of Sydney's Darlington Centre on 11th December, BarCampApache is an attendee-driven event, focusing on "The Apache Way" of developing Open Source software. The event is open to the public free of charge."We are pleased to partner with the University of Sydney, whose commitment to sharing knowledge, high value collaboration, and next-generation innovation closely aligns with The Apache Software Foundation," said ASF President Jim Jagielski. "Events such as BarCampApache helps promote awareness of the tremendous impact of Open Source solutions, and an opportunity for members of the technology community to meet, network, and learn in an open environment."The free to attend, one-day event will be facilitated by ASF Members Nick Burch, Aristedes Maniatis, Gavin McDonald, Noirin Plunkett, and Brett Porter. The BarCampApache program will be proposed and decided by the participants themselves. Dozens of Open Source professionals, academics, and enthusiasts will address an array of topics focusing on Apache products, including open development techniques and best practices, Web 2.0-style data mashups, as well as engaging with and incubating new initiatives within the ASF. The ad-hoc nature of BarCamp sessions allows discussions to flow freely and deepen with smaller groups throughout the day.BarCampApache Sydney is hosted by the Information and Communications Technology centre at the University of Sydney, with additional support provided by sponsors Alfresco, Atlassian, IBM, and MaestroDev.For more information and to register, visit http://barcamp.org/BarCampApacheSydneyAbout The Apache Software Foundation (ASF)Established in 1999, the all-volunteer Foundation oversees nearly one hundred fifty leading Open Source projects, including Apache HTTP Server — the world's most popular Web server software. Through the ASF's meritocratic process known as "The Apache Way," more than 300 individual Members and 2,500 Committers successfully collaborate to develop freely available enterprise-grade software, benefiting millions of users worldwide: thousands of software solutions are distributed under the Apache License; and the community actively participates in ASF mailing lists, mentoring initiatives, and ApacheCon, the Foundation's official user conference, trainings, and expo. The ASF is funded by individual donations and corporate sponsors including AMD, Basis Technology, Facebook, Google, IBM, HP, Matt Mullenweg, Microsoft, SpringSource/VMware, and Yahoo!. For more information, visit http://www.apache.org/. Contact: Sally Khudairi The Apache Software Foundation press@apache.org +1 617 921 8656 # # # [Less]

Over the past 3 months, the Infrastructure Team has developed and deployed a custom CMS for Apache projects to use to manage their websites. There is a document available which explains the rationale, role, and future plans for the CMS. We have ... [More] opened up the ACLs for the www.apache.org site for all committers to now be able to edit content on the site using the cms (while still restricting live publication to the Apache membership and the Infrastructure Team). The basic workflow for committers is easy to describe: first install the javascript bookmarklet on your browser toolbar. Next visit a webpage on the www.apache.org website. When you've located a page you'd like to edit, click on the installed bookmarklet: you'll be taken to a working copy of the markdown source for the page in question. To edit the content click on the [Edit] link. A markdown editor will show you a preview of your changes while you work. When you have finished, submit your changes and [Commit] them. Your commit will trigger buildbot to build a staging version of your changes. You can follow the build while it is ongoing, and once it has completed you can click on the [Staged] link to see the results. Members and Infrastructure Team members can continue on and publish those changes once they are satisfied with them. Other committers may need to send a note to the site-dev@ mailing list to request publication of their changes. The publication links in the CMS are essentially merge + commit operations in subversion which are tied into the live site via svnpubsub. That means publishing in the CMS is virtually instantaneous. The CMS is now open to all top-level and incubating projects. Interested projects should contact the infrastructure@ mailing list or simply file an INFRA ticket against the CMS component. Early adopters are encouraged to collaborate on the wiki page for working out usage and adoption issues. [Less]

Click 2.3.0 Milestone 1  is available for download. This milestone contains important new features including Ajax support, Page Actions and light-weight stateful controls. In addition there are new documentation, examples and other minor ... [More] enhancements. Click Home Roadmap and Changes - full list of new features, improvements and bug fixes Upgrade Path - please see the upgrade path when upgrading from 2.2.0 or earlier. Download Click 2.3.0-M1 Maven bundles Live examples New features and improvement Ajax support. Page Action support. Stateful Controls. Improve fields to only be processed if they have an incoming request parameter. This improvement streamlines dynamic forms since fields added at runtime during s POST request won't bind their values and won't be validated for that request. In subsequent requests the Field will have an incoming parameter and so will have it's value bound and validated. Another advantage is that dynamically added Fields won't have their default value overridden in the POST request they were added in. This issue has been raised by Nirmal Solanki [CLK-722]. Added automapping support for GAE with a caveat that page templates must be placed under the folders page or pages. This issue was raised by Ke Sun [CLK-639]. Added MessagesMapService interface to support pluggable messages map implementations [CLK-655]. Improved MessagesMap to be extendable and customizable [CLK-728]. Added support for loading DateField translations for month and day names from the JDK. [CLK-650]. Added support for Menus that do not have roles defined. If no roles are defined, IsUserInRoles passes a null argument to hasAccess to determine whether access is permitted to menus without roles [CLK-724].  Added support for absolute page classnames when configuring pages in click.xml. Absolute classnames aids with IDE hot-linking and is less confusing to use. [CLK-704].  Fixed escaping of control values and attributes to be XML friendly in order to support Ajax requests. Previously all HTML characters was escaped, now only the following characters are escaped: <, >, ", ', & [CLK-674].  New documentation: Added a section covering the new Behavior support. Added a chapter on Ajax, covering AjaxBehaviors, Ajax execution flow and a full example. Added a section covering the new Page Action support. New examples: Added examples showcasing the new Ajax support. See the Ajax Menu for the full list of examples. Added an example showing how to integrate a TabbedPanel, Form and Table. Added an example showing a Stateful TabbedPanel. Added an example FieldSeparator Control and example usage page [CLK-544].  Removed: Removed the ability to automatically bypass validation for Forms through JavaScript. This ability was added in 2.2.0 but raised concerns over security and was dropped for 2.3.0. If you used this feature in existing applications, please see the Upgrade path for a safe alternative to bypass validation. We apologize for the inconvenience. Deprecated: Deprecated stateful page support: Page.setStateful(). Stateful pages had the following issues: Stateful pages was introduced to make it easier to store page state across multiple HTTP requests. However developing a stateful page is very different from developing a stateless one and this lead to Click applications that are inconsistent and harder to maintain. In addition stateful page support has never been implemented consistently across the framework and some components did not work correctly. Stateful pages are very coarse grained, making it difficult to control which objects are stored in the session. Stateful pages have also introduced unnecessary complexity in the framework itself, which can now be phased out. Unfortunately there is no direct upgrade path from a stateful page. However the majority of use cases are catered for by the new stateful support in the controls: Table, Form, TabbedPanel, Field and AbstractLink. The Apache Click team [Less]

Thanks to all who attended ApacheCon NA this last week in Atlanta, GA. We had a nice little session Friday of the conference. For those that weren't able to attend or for those who made it and wanted to share the slides, we're putting them up ... [More] online for all to see. OpenEJB In-Depth It was a real pleasure being able to present. People attending presentations are often skeptical when things first get rolling. There's a tendency for people to feel like they're getting a sales pitch despite the fact that all that we do, time and software, is given away for free. When we got into the demos, what started as reserved and scrutinizing facial expressions turned into very excited faces with big bright smiles. It was quite the transformation. That excitement was triggered by the demos, which really drives home the importance of having more video content for people. In that vein we plan to introduce a series of Lightening Demos. Quick 2 minute screencasts so people can see individual examples run, download to debug! [Less]

The Apache Software Foundation is happy to announce BarCampApache Sydney, Australia, the first ASF-backed event in the Southern Hemisphere! Taking place 11th December 2010 at the University of Sydney's Darlington Centre, the BarCampApache ... [More] "unconference" will be attendee-driven, facilitated by members of the Apache community and will focus on the “Apache Way” of developing software. The event is open to the public free of charge. Those interested in using Apache products, how projects are developed within the ASF, open development techniques and best practices, Web 2.0-style data mashups, engaging with The Apache Software Foundation, and the general BarCamp experience are welcome to participate. As the Apache community comprises thousands of committed individuals from around the world, there are always opportunities for attendees to help. And with all BarCamps, BarCampApache Sydney seeks active participation at all levels, including assisting with the physical set up to pre-event promotion to proposing discussion topics and blogging/tweeting during the event. BarCampApache Sydney sponsors include the University of Sydney, Alfresco, IBM, and MaestroDev. Sponsorship opportunities are available. For more information, contact Brett Porter at brett AT apache DOT org, or Nick Burch at nick AT apache DOT org. For more details about BarCampApache Sydney, its related activities, and to sign up, please visit the event wiki at http://barcamp.org/BarCampApacheSydney and follow the #barcampsydney tag. We look forward to seeing you there! # # # [Less]

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The Java Apache Mail Enterprise Sever (a.k.a. Apache James) Project is happy to announce the release of version 3.0-M2 (Milestone 2) of the Apache James server. This is the second milestone of the upcoming 3.0 release, which includes bug-fixes and ... [More] improvements. All users of 3.0-M1 should upgrade ASAP. We are still actively looking for eager, capable developers to contribute to James. If you're interesting in contributing to the James project, please subscribe to the James mailing lists. Information about James can be found at the James web site at http://james.apache.org/. You can grab the release here: http://james.apache.org/download.cgi#Apache_James_Server An overview over the changes can be found here: http://s.apache.org/1Iw ! Be aware this is a milestone so changes in the API are still possible. ! Have fun, Apache James Team [Less]