Apache Week issue 307

                                APACHE WEEK
                                      
The essential weekly guide for users of the world's most popular Web server.
                       Issue 307: 6th September 2002
                                      
                                 In this issue
                                       
     * Under development
     * In the news
     * Featured articles
       
                               Under development
                                       
     The LDAP authentication module for Apache 2.0 hosted at apache.org
     (as covered in a [1]previous issue) has now been integrated into
     the "experimental" modules directory of the main 2.0 CVS
     repository, to be included in the next release. This module is a
     port of Dave Carrigan's [2]auth_ldap code to the 2.0 API.
     
     A long-standing limitation of the authentication and authorization
     modules in Apache is that a module which stores user information in
     a database, such as mod_auth_dbm, can only be used with the Basic
     authentication protocol, even though an implementation of the
     Digest authentication protocol is present (mod_auth_digest). A
     rewrite of the authentication and authorization modules is now
     under development; a vote took place on whether this work should be
     done under a version "2.1" of Apache, but the consensus was that it
     should be part of 2.0.
     
                                  In the news
                                       
ApacheCon agenda finalised

     ApacheCon USA 2002 will be held in Las Vegas, USA on the 18-21
     November 2002. The last ApacheCon conference was in April 2001 so
     there is bound to be plenty of new things to talk about. The
     location for this ApacheCon couldn't be better, being set just a
     couple of minutes walk from the famous Las Vegas strip.
     
     The agenda for the conference was recently [3]made available. The
     conference has some interesting new talks by a number of Apache
     experts and above all attending ApacheCon gives you the opportunity
     to meet the main players behind the Apache technologies.
     
     Apache Week will be there to cover the festivities, as well as try
     to recover the US$30 we lost on the slot machines during our last
     Vegas conference. Find out more at the [4]conference web site, or
     read our account of [5]ApacheCon 2001 Santa Clara.
     
.NET for Apache

     [6]Slashdot reports on a new module, mod_haydn, designed to allow
     you to embed MSIL bytecodes into Apache. This gives developers the
     ability to access the whole Apache API from any CLR/.NET enabled
     language. Back in July [7]we mentioned how Covalent had launched a
     module to provide integration of ASP.NET applications into the
     Apache server framework.
     
Apache Axis Announced

     The [8]Apache Axis team has announced a release candidate for Axis
     1.0. Axis is an implementation of SOAP, providing a flexible,
     extensible Web Services framework for Java developers with a
     complete implementation of Sun's JAX-RPC and SAAJ specifications.
     
                               Featured articles
                                       
     In this section we highlight some of the articles on the web that
     are of interest to Apache users.
     
     [9]"Connecting middleware to Apache 2.0" talks about the Apache 2.0
     filter API and shows you how to write an output filter that looks
     for a certain string and replaces it with the current time. It also
     describes the steps needed to build Apache 2.0 from source, build
     the full API docs, and implement output filters. Before it ends, it
     touches briefly on the structure of an Apache module and concludes
     that with the new API it is easier to write modules for Apache 2.0
     than it was for Apache 1.3.
     
     In the [10]first installment of a new five-part series on Web
     applications entitled "The Art Of Software Development", the
     Developer Shed focuses on the first stage of the application
     development lifecycle. It covers the fundamental issues of
     analysing the customer's requirements and preparing the necessary
     documents for the customer to sign-off.
     
     Brian Aker, Slashdot Senior Developer reviews two Open Source
     content management engines, [11]Everything2 and [12]LiveJournal in
     this [13]article. His verdict is that while Everything2 is easier
     to setup and LiveJournal is easier to use, Everything2 wins overall
     because of its search engine.
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     This issue brought to you by: Mark J Cox, Joe Orton, Min Min Tsan
     Comments or criticisms? Please email us at
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References

   1. http://www.apacheweek.com/issues/02-08-02#dev
   2. http://www.rudedog.org/auth_ldap/
   3. http://www.apachecon.com/2002/US/html/sessions.html
   4. http://www.apachecon.com/
   5. http://www.apacheweek.com/features/apachecon2001
   6. http://apache.slashdot.org/apache/02/09/05/1956254.shtml?tid=148
   7. http://www.apacheweek.com/issues/02-07-26#news
   8. http://xml.apache.org/axis/
   9. http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-apache/
  10. http://www.devshed.com/Talk/Practices/SoftwareDev/SoftwareDev1/page1.html
  11. http://everything2.com/
  12. http://www.livejournal.com/
  13. http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=02/08/28/0013255&mode=thread&tid=49
  14. mailto:[email protected]
  15. http://www.apacheweek.com/
  16. http://www.redhat.com/

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