JXME 2.1 (Tantà) stable release

Community Members,

We are pleased to announce the availability of JXME 2.1 (Tantà) stable 
release. This release contains :

 - Reliable bidirectional communication profile
    - JxtaSocket family
    - JxtaBiDiPipe
    - Reliability library
 - Significant bugs fixes
   - Sub group instantiation
   - Rendezvous connectivity improvements, and stability
   - Pipe resolution improvements, and stability
   - Back port of significant platform bug fixes

How to get involved :

  1. Build the s from the CVS tag "JXME_2_1_STABLE"
  2. Build/Port/Rebuild your application with JXME 2.1 Stable
  3. Test your application.
  4. Please file issues <http://jxme.jxta.org/servlets/ProjectIssues>,
     propose patches, and provide comments at [email protected]
  5. If you like to engage in a interactive discussion, drop into
     MyJxta chat-room with MyJxta2 application or #jxta channel on
     irc.freenode.net with your favorite IRC client

The JXME Core Team

Documentation
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JavaDocs can be accessed online at the following : 
http://jxme.jxta.org/nonav/cdc/javadoc/index.html

Acknowledgments
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Special thanks to all of the community members who have contributed 
ideas, reported problems, provided patches, and have helped greatly to 
improve the quality, and robustness of this release.

If you experience problems with the new release, have questions for the 
developers or just want to stop by and see what's happening please stop 
by! Connect via the MyJxta2 application which you can download from :

http://download.jxta.org/build/release/latest/

Or by using Java web start version at:

http://download.jxta.org/build/release/latest/jnlp/myjxta.jnlp

New Features & Significant Changes
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   * Communication  profile
         o JxtaSocket family
         o JxtaBiDiPipe
         o Reliability
   * Robustness
         o PeerGroup instantiation
         o Rendezvous protocol stabilization
         o Improved LRU based Cache Manager
   * Back port of several platform fixes
   * Improved simplified demo applications
         o ChatDemo - J2SE interoperable group chat demo
         o GroupDemo - J2SE interoperable group, and chat demo


Downloading and Installing
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You can download the dist zip from:

Sources : 
http://jxme.jxta.org/files/documents/38/232/jxme_2_1_src_stable.zip
Binaries : 
http://jxme.jxta.org/files/documents/38/233/jxme_2_1_binary_stable.zip

or alternatively directly access CVS :

http://jxme.jxta.org/servlets/ProjectSource#commandlinecvs

The instruction on how to build JXME can be found at:
http://jxme.jxta.org/buildJXME20proxyless.html


Next Release (Giza) planned features
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   * Security Profile
      o TLS transport under security profile
      o Secure Pipes under security
      o PSE Membership under security

Known issues in JXME
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NA