Blogging Roller

The Apache Abdera (incubating) project has released a new version of its Atom parser/generator, client library and all new AtomPub Server Framework. Here's the new feature list:

• A simplified server side framework and API for implementing services.
• Server side filter API for intercepting requests and impl. concerns such as security.
• A collection of pre-bundled AtomPub adapters for JDBC, JCR, filesystems, and CouchDB.
• An improved JSON serialization mechanism.
• New extensions such as OAuth support.
• New StreamWriter interface for fast Atom document serialization
• Improved Unicode performance for IRI implementation
• URI Template Support
• HTML Parser
• Many API improvements and bug fixes!

In related news, there's a proposal to use Abdera for the reference implementation of the OpenSocial REST APIs, which are under development by the Apache Shindig (incubating) project.

My former co-worker Linda Skrocki and Program Manager for Sun's community sites (blogs, wikis, planets, forums and mediacast at sun.com) got some well deserved recognition from ReadWriteWeb.com the other day. She was named one of <a href= "http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/seven_leading_corporate_social_media_evangelists_today.php"> Seven leading Corporate Social Media Evangelists. Congrats Linda!