First Virgo Milestone Ships

Engineering
Glyn Normington
June 17, 2010

Virgo from EclipseRT
The first milestone (2.1.0.M01) of Eclipse Virgo is now available for download under the Eclipse Public License. This consists of an application server, known as the Virgo Web Server, and a stand-alone kernel.

The goal of this milestone is for dm Server 2.0.x users to be able to migrate to it relatively painlessly and have an equally stable environment. SpringSource is offering commercial support for Virgo and we encourage all dm Server users to migrate to Virgo. The main communication channel with users is now the Virgo forum. There is also a Virgo developer mailing list and a weekly Virgo community call.

This is a major step for the Virgo project and demonstrates that the dm Server code contribution is complete. Users who want to package and distribute Virgo can now do so under the terms of the Eclipse Public License.

Documentation is available online in the form of a User Guide, a Programmer Guide, and a draft “getting started guide”. Then there is a growing body of developer-oriented information – including a conceptual overview, a source code directory, and build tips – in the Virgo wiki.

Although the Eclipse-based dm Server application development tools will be contributed to Eclipse in due course, Virgo support has been added to the SpringSource Tool Suite in the interim. This is available by downloading STS 2.3.2 and installing the latest dm Server tools from the update site at http://www.springsource.com/snapshot/e3.5.
Background

In January Adrian Colyer announced our intention to donate SpringSource dm Server to Eclipse. The project proposal which was approved in February and the Virgo project created. Since then we have set up source code repositories, created a wiki, and tweaked the code in preparation for a formal release with full Eclipse legal approval. In May dm Server won the Eclipse Community Award for Best EclipseRT application, which is particularly fitting since Virgo is a subproject of EclipseRT.

Today’s milestone demonstrates our continuing commitment to OSGi and to Virgo, the future of the dm Server project.
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EclipseVirgo的第一个里程碑（2.1.0.M01）现在可以在EclipsePublic许可下下载。它由一个应用服务器（称为Virgo Web服务器）和一个独立的内核组成。
这个里程碑的目标是让dm Server 2.0.x用户能够相对轻松地迁移到它，并拥有一个同样稳定的环境。SpringSource为Virgo提供商业支持，我们鼓励所有dm服务器用户迁移到Virgo。与用户交流的主要渠道现在是处女座论坛。还有一个处女座开发者的邮件列表和一周一次的处女座社区电话。
这是处女座项目的一个主要步骤，并演示了dm服务器代码的贡献是完整的。想要打包和分发Virgo的用户现在可以根据Eclipse公共许可证的条款进行打包和分发。
文档以用户指南、程序员指南和“入门指南”草稿的形式在线提供。然后，在Virgo wiki中有越来越多面向开发人员的信息，包括概念概述、源代码目录和构建技巧。