It might be useful to say something about the existing projects that use jini / river. Among them is www.blazegraph.com. But there are many others.
Thanks, Bryan ---- Bryan Thompson Chief Scientist & Founder SYSTAP, LLC 4501 Tower Road Greensboro, NC 27410 br...@systap.com http://blazegraph.com http://blog.bigdata.com http://mapgraph.io Blazegraph™ is our ultra high-performance graph database that supports both RDF/SPARQL and Tinkerpop/Blueprints APIs. MapGraph™ is our disruptive new technology to use GPUs to accelerate data-parallel graph analytics. CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This email and its contents and attachments are for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and are confidential or proprietary to SYSTAP. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure, dissemination or copying of this email or its contents or attachments is prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify the sender by reply email and permanently delete all copies of the email and its contents and attachments. On Sun, May 3, 2015 at 12:17 PM, Patricia Shanahan <p...@acm.org> wrote: > Here is the first draft of the May 2015 board report for River. Comments and > improvements welcome: > > ====================================================================== > > Apache River is a Java-based Service Oriented Architecture, > implementing the Jini Specification and Jini Technology > Starter Kit. > > ISSUES FOR THE BOARD > > There are no board-level issues at this time > > RELEASES > > Apache River 2.2.2 was released on November 18, 2013 > Apache River 2.2.1 was released on May 2, 2013. > > COMMUNITY > > The last change in the PMC was in June 2014, when Patricia Shanahan returned > from emeritus to active status as a > committer and PMC member. > > There is a concern about slow progress because many of the committers and > PMC members have limited time. Recruiting new committers is hindered by the > need for a better initial experience. > > ACTIVITY > > There is on-going development in the following areas: > > * Improved examples - important for community building by providing a good > initial experience for new users and developers. > > * Update code for Java 8. > > * Usability > > * Security issues associated with Java Serialization. > > Our major push at this time is to get these developments out to our users by > preparing an Apache 3.0 release. We have agreed to replace sun.com.jini and > com.artima package names with org.apache.river names in this release. We > have also agreed on the base branch for the new release.
