SourceLabs Debuts New Class of Tools for Open Source Linux and Java (Press Release) – (March 18, 2008) CNET News – “Open-source support company SourceLabs on Tuesday launched a subscription service aimed at Linux developers and IT administrators who do their own support.” (March 18, 2008) O’Reilly Open Source – “Developers and open source system users will be particularly interested in a SourceLabs announcement of a service called Self-Support Suite

A SourceLabs pretende oferecer, através de ferramentas de self support , uma alternativa ao sistema clássico de suporte atualmente adotado pelo mercado corporativo.

A new JSR to enable decorating Java Beans with metadata that enforce constraints

Below is documentation for using SourceLabs Self-Support Suite for Linux and Open Source Java to gather, organize, and search Syslog messages. You can setup syslog to connect to the relay. In this release, we only support syslog over UDP. To set this up, you need to modify your syslogd config file. Often this is in /etc/syslog.conf To get started, you can add . @relayMachineName:4657 This will send all your syslog messages to a machine named relayMachin

SourceLabs, занимающаяся тестированием, сертификацией и поддержкой решений на базе программного обеспечения с открытым кодом...

Mit den "Self-Support Tools" will SourceLabs eine Alternative zu klassischen Supportverträgen bieten. Das Angebot für Linux und Java läuft seit Dezember 2007 als privates Betaprogramm und wird nun öffentlich vorgestellt.

The Jakarta Commons components are a group of Java components that implement common functionality. They are a great place to start looking when you need a utility function that you know a million other people must have written before, and you’d really like to not re-write it. A few examples of the ones that are pretty popular are: Collections—This is a set of many common/useful collection classes that are not included in the JDK Lang—Contains a lot of classes for extend

New announcement about tools for open source developers and administrators.

SourceLabs debuts a self support suite for Linux and Java developers, testers, & administrators. It enables you to capture log events, exceptions, and core dumps; filter, and query these events through an easy-to-use-tool; and correlate these events against a repository of 16 million issues.

Commons Codec contains some general encoding/decoding algorithms, including phonetic encoders, Hex and Base64 encoders, and a URL encoder. The phonetic encoders are language encoders, which are useful in applications such as search engines, spell-check functions, and digital dictionaries. Hex and Base64 encoders are useful in applications that use characters to represent binary data. The URL encoder comes with more features and is considered a replacement for the JDK classes URLEncoder and URLDe

An API that can be used to run executables or java applications as Windows service or UNIX daemon. SourceLabs covers Commons-Daemon as part of its Self-Support Suite for Linux and Open Source Java

Log4j is a logging package written in Java. This is now part of the Apache Logging Services. SourceLabs includes the ability to capture, search, sort and correlate Log4J messages with millions of datapoints as part of its Self-Support Suite for Linux and Open Source Java

dom4j is an easy to use, open source library for working with XML, XPath, and XSLT on the Java platform, using the Java Collections Framework, and with full support for DOM, SAX, and JAXP. SourceLabs covers Dom4J in its Self Support Suite for Linux and Open Source Java

The second extended file system for Linux. Ext3 has replaced it in many distributions. SourceLabs includes ext2 in its Self Support Suite for Linux and Open Source Java

A framework for database connection pooling, a technique to help database-intensive applications scale and run faster by sharing database connections. SourceLabs includes DBCP in its Self Support Suite for Linux and Open Source Java

CUPS provides a portable printing layer for Unix®-based operating systems. SourceLabs covers CUPS as part of its Self-Support Suite for Linux and Open Source Java

An implementation of the IETF standard “Service Location Protocol.” SourceLabs includes OpenSLP in its Self-support suite for open source Java and LInux

DHCP stands for “Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol”. It is used by clients on an IP network to obtain an IP address. The Linux DHCP capability is covered by SourceLabs Self-Support Suite for LInux and Open Source Java