Here's the status report for September. I'll work out what to do with it once it gets signed off by a mentor.
Comments? River Apache River is a distributed computing architecture, based on the JSK Starter Kit Source code donated by Sun Microsystems, for the Jini Specification. While generally referred to as a Service Architecture, it might be more easily explained to those familiar with Dependency Injection as a Protocol Independent, Distributed Dependency Injection Architecture, suited to both hardware and software. Instead of depending on Protocols directly for communication, everything is abstracted behind a Java interface, allowing protocols and implementations to be swapped freely, programming languages other than Java can also participate. River has been appointed an additional mentor and has seen much increased activity on the mailing list in recent weeks and months. The next release 2.2.0 is scheduled for December, although some discussion on whether this is a major release or not continues. The Incubator PMC and Apache River PPMC have approved one new committer for the project, the votes passed in August. Current development efforts are still focused on a java.security.Policy Provider with the following features: Dynamic Grants at Runtime, based on CodeSource, Code Signer Certificate chains , ProtectionDomain or ClassLoader. Dynamic Revoke of Grant's at Runtime Reviewing newly donated code updates and patches, including: New CodebaseAccessClassLoader and associated changes New StreamServiceRegistrar Interface and other additions New ConcurrentDyamicPolicyProvider Additionally: Work is being performed on TaskManager by our newest committer Increasing the test coverage, build process and Ant vs Maven work is ongoing Entry-level documentation is starting to appear We are experiencing increasing interest on our developer mailing list. 3 most important issues: Code review and acceptance of newly submitted patches. Streamline the build and test process. Get our new committer svn accounts set up and grow our developer pool. Signed off by mentor:
