News this week: 1. Version 1.5.3 in testing 2. Atlassian Orion Knowledge Base launched 3. Partner news 4. Miscellaneous news
Version 1.5.3 in testing ======================================= Orion 1.5.3 is now in testing with select partners. After such a long time without an upgrade we expect that many people will want to upgrade at the same time, so we're trying to make sure that it's working reasonably well before putting anything out there. Atlassian Orion Knowledge Base launched ======================================= Atlassian launches a new Knowledge Base system (at http://kb.atlassian.com) with access to much information about Orion in a very useful way with support for user contributed annotations, related pages, etc. Partner news ======================================= These are our new partners for this week: The Middleware Company (http://www.middleware-company.com/), the company behind theserverside.com, now provides Orion training. More information will be available on our site shortly. Smart Soft - The Java Training Company (http://www.smart-soft.com), use the Orion Server in their J2EE workshops: Java Servlets and JSP and Enterprise Java Beans. The Elephantwalker (http://www.elephantwalker.com/) is providing subscription based support services for Orion. This is not actually a new service, but it hadn't been announced as an official partner before. Miscellaneous news ======================================= CocoBase tells us that their new version is Orion compatible DevX Appserver Zone published an interesting Orion review: http://www.appserver-zone.com/articles/sf0901/sf0901-1.asp RMI configuration (http://www.orionserver.com/docs/rmi-configuration/rmi-configuration.xml) document added and the tag library tutorial finanlized Regards The Orion Team
