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            <title>1.4.1 GA available</title>
            <pubDate>Fri, 13 May 2016 23:22:21 +0100</pubDate>
            <author>Werner Guttmann</author>
            <link>http://castor-data-binding.github.io/castor/</link>
            <guid>http://castor-data-binding.github.io/castor/</guid>
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                <p>
                  Castor 1.4.1 has been made available at Maven central.
                </p>
                <p>
                  For details about the features added and the bugs fixed, please have a look at https://github.com/castor-data-binding/castor/issues.
                </p>
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            <title>1.4.0 GA available</title>
            <pubDate>Tue, 1 Dec 2015 15:58:09 +0100</pubDate>
            <author>Werner Guttmann</author>
            <link>http://castor-data-binding.github.io/castor/</link>
            <guid>http://castor-data-binding.github.io/castor/</guid>
            <description><![CDATA[
                <p>
                  Castor 1.4.0 has been made available at Maven central.
                </p>
                <p>
                  For details about the features added and the bugs fixed, please have a look at https://github.com/castor-data-binding/castor/issues.
                </p>
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        <item>
            <title>First 1.3.4 snapshot release available</title>
            <pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2015 17:11:09 +0100</pubDate>
            <author>Werner Guttmann</author>
            <link>http://castor-data-binding.github.io/castor/</link>
            <guid>http://castor-data-binding.github.io/castor/</guid>
            <description><![CDATA[
                <p>
                  A first snapshot release for Castor 1.3.4 has been made available.
                </p>
                <p>
                  For details about the features added and the bugs fixed, please have a look at the release notes at
                  http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/CASTOR.
                </p>
            ]]></description>
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            <title>1.3.3 GA available</title>
            <pubDate>Tue, 31 Dec 2013 17:11:09 +0100</pubDate>
            <author>Werner Guttmann</author>
            <link>http://castor.codehaus.org/news.html#item77</link>
            <guid>http://castor.codehaus.org/news.html#item77</guid>
            <description><![CDATA[
                <p>
                  Castor 1.3.3 has been made available at http://dist.codehaus.org/castor/1.3.3/ .
                </p>
                <p>
                  For details about the features added and the bugs fixed, please have a look at the release notes at
                  http://jira.codehaus.org/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?projectId=10891&amp;version=18424 .
                </p>
            ]]></description>
        </item>
        <item>
            <title>1.3.3 RC1 release available</title>
            <pubDate>Wed, 18 Apr 2012 23:59:04 +0100</pubDate>
            <author>Werner Guttmann</author>
            <link>http://castor.codehaus.org/news.html#item76</link>
            <guid>http://castor.codehaus.org/news.html#item76</guid>
            <description><![CDATA[
                <p>
                  Castor 1.3.3 release candidate 1 has been made available at
                  http://dist.codehaus.org/castor/1.3.3rc1/
                </p>
                <p>
                  This is a first release candidate for the upcoming 1.3.3 release. For
                  details about the features added and the bugs fixed, please
                  have a look at the release notes at
                  http://castor.codehaus.org/release-notes.html.
                </p>
            ]]></description>
        </item>
        <item>
            <title>1.3.2 GA available</title>
            <pubDate>Tue, 29 Mar 2011 22:23:22 +0100</pubDate>
            <author>Werner Guttmann</author>
            <link>http://castor.codehaus.org/news.html#item75</link>
            <guid>http://castor.codehaus.org/news.html#item75</guid>
            <description><![CDATA[
                <p>
                  Castor 1.3.2 has been made available at http://dist.codehaus.org/castor/1.3.2/
                </p>
                <p>
                  For details about the features added and the bugs fixed,
                  please have a look at the release notes at
                  http://castor.codehaus.org/release-notes.html
                </p>
            ]]></description>
        </item>
        <item>
            <title>castor-maven-plugin 2.1 available</title>
            <pubDate>Mon, 28 Mar 2011 20:23:22 +0100</pubDate>
            <author>Werner Guttmann</author>
            <link>http://castor.codehaus.org/news.html#item45</link>
            <guid>http://castor.codehaus.org/news.html#item74</guid>
            <description><![CDATA[
                <p>
                  MOJO's castor-maven-plugin, version 2.1 has been made available.
                </p>
            ]]></description>
        </item>
        <item>
            <title>1.3.1 GA available</title>
            <pubDate>Sun, 03 Jan 200 21:23:22 +0100</pubDate>
            <author>Werner Guttmann</author>
            <link>http://castor.codehaus.org/news.html#item73</link>
            <guid>http://castor.codehaus.org/news.html#item73</guid>
            <description><![CDATA[
                <p>
                  Castor 1.3.1 has been made available at http://dist.codehaus.org/castor/1.3.1/
                </p>
                <p>
                  For details about the features added and the bugs fixed,
                  please have a look at the release notes at
                  http://castor.codehaus.org/release-notes.html
                </p>
            ]]></description>
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            <title>(Re)Added project Wiki</title>
            <pubDate>Thu, 24 Jul 2009 22:21:23 +0100</pubDate>
            <author>Werner Guttmann</author>
            <link>http://castor.codehaus.org/news.html#item71</link>
            <guid>http://castor.codehaus.org/news.html#item71</guid>
            <description><![CDATA[
                <p>
                   I am very pleased to announce the immediate availability of a 
                   <a href="http://docs.codehaus.org/display/CASTOR">project Wiki</a> for 
                   the Castor project.
                </p>
                <p>
                   As always, we encourage the users of Castor to contribute 
                   additional examples, tips, errata or how-tos to the project. The contributions 
                   collected at this place will be migrated into the standard HTML 
                   documentation.
                </p>
            ]]></description>
        </item>
        <item>
            <title>JDO extensions for the Castor XML code generator - Preview</title>
            <pubDate>Sun, 19 Apr 2009 22:21:23 +0100</pubDate>
            <author>Werner Guttmann</author>
            <link>http://castor.codehaus.org/news.html#item70</link>
            <guid>http://castor.codehaus.org/news.html#item70</guid>
            <description><![CDATA[
                <p>
                   I am very pleased to announce the immediate availability of the
                   <i>JDO extensions for the Castor XML code generator</i>
                   in form of a <b>technology preview</b> as part of the first 
                   snapshot release of Castor 1.3.1, which can be found at 
                   and downloaded from the Codehaus snapshot repository
                   (http://snapshots.repository.codehaus.org/org/codehaus/castor).
                </p>
            ]]></description>
        </item>
        <item>
            <title>Castor and Google Summer of Code 2009</title>
            <pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2009 20:21:22 +0100</pubDate>
            <author>Werner Guttmann</author>
            <link>http://castor.codehaus.org/news.html#item69</link>
            <guid>http://castor.codehaus.org/news.html#item69</guid>
            <description><![CDATA[
                <p>
                   Castor is - again - putting up numerous project proposals with 
                   Google's Summer of Code 2009 program (http://code.google.com/soc/).
                   <br/><br/>

                   Please find the current project proposal ideas available at 
                   http://gsoc.codehaus.org/Castor+Ideas.
                </p>
            ]]></description>
        </item>
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            <title>1.3 GA available</title>
            <pubDate>Mon, 10 Feb 2009 14:12:13 +0100</pubDate>
            <author>Werner Guttmann</author>
            <link>http://castor.codehaus.org/news.html#item68</link>
            <guid>http://castor.codehaus.org/news.html#item68</guid>
            <description><![CDATA[
                <p>
                  Castor 1.3 has been made available at http://dist.codehaus.org/castor/1.3/
                </p>
                <p>
                  For details about the features added and the bugs fixed,
                  please have a look at the release notes at
                  http://castor.codehaus.org/release-notes.html
                </p>
            ]]></description>
        </item>
        <item>
            <title>1.3 RC1 release available</title>
            <pubDate>Wed, 01 Oct 2008 23:59:04 +0100</pubDate>
            <author>Werner Guttmann</author>
            <link>http://castor.codehaus.org/news.html#item67</link>
            <guid>http://castor.codehaus.org/news.html#item67</guid>
            <description><![CDATA[
                <p>
                  Castor 1.3 release candidate 1 has been made available at
                  http://dist.codehaus.org/castor/1.3rc1/
                </p>
                <p>
                  This is a first release candidate for the upcoming 1.3 release. For
                  details about the features added and the bugs fixed, please
                  have a look at the release notes at
                  http://castor.codehaus.org/release-notes.html.
                </p>
            ]]></description>
        </item>
        <item>
            <title>Welcome Lukas Lang to the team</title>
            <pubDate>Sat, 12 Jul 2008 20:21:22 +0100</pubDate>
            <author>Werner Guttmann</author>
            <link>http://castor.codehaus.org/news.html#item66</link>
            <guid>http://castor.codehaus.org/news.html#item66</guid>
            <description><![CDATA[
                <p>
                   I'm very happy to announce that <i>Lukas Lang</i> has joined the Castor
                   team as committer. Lukas' initial focus will be on the JDO extensions 
                   for the Castor XML code generator, where he is currently working with me 
                   (and a group of students) on completing this new (and exciting) feature.
                </p>
            ]]></description>
        </item>
        <item>
            <title>Castor mailing lists available for browsing and searching at http://castor.markmail.org</title>
            <pubDate>Wed, 13 Feb 2008 12:11:10 +0100</pubDate>
            <author>Werner Guttmann</author>
            <link>http://castor.codehaus.org/news.html#item64</link>
            <guid>http://castor.codehaus.org/news.html#item64</guid>
            <description><![CDATA[
                <p>
                  Castor's mailing lists are now available for browsing and searching at
                  http://castor.markmail.org.
                </p>
                <p>
                    More info about the site, its features and its inner workings is in 
                    the FAQ at http://markmail.org/docs/faq.xqy.
                </p>
            ]]></description>
        </item>
        <item>
            <title>1.2 GA available</title>
            <pubDate>Mon, 04 Feb 2008 20:21:22 +0100</pubDate>
            <author>Werner Guttmann</author>
            <link>http://castor.codehaus.org/news.html#item63</link>
            <guid>http://castor.codehaus.org/news.html#item63</guid>
            <description><![CDATA[
                <p>
                  Castor 1.2 has been made available at http://dist.codehaus.org/castor/1.2/
                </p>
                <p>
                  For details about the features added and the bugs fixed,
                  please have a look at the release notes at
                  http://castor.codehaus.org/release-notes.html
                </p>
            ]]></description>
        </item>
        <item>
            <title>Article series on Castor available at IBM developerWorks</title>
            <pubDate>Sun, 02 Feb 2008 20:21:22 +0100</pubDate>
            <author>Werner Guttmann</author>
            <link>http://castor.codehaus.org/news.html#item62</link>
            <guid>http://castor.codehaus.org/news.html#item62</guid>
            <description><![CDATA[
                <p>Brett McLaughlin has written an article series on <b>(XML) data binding 
                   with Castor</b> on <b>IBM developerWorks</b>. The first article is available 
                   http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/library/x-xjavacastor1/.
                </p>
            ]]></description>
        </item>
        <item>
            <title>Welcome Joachim Grueneis to the team</title>
            <pubDate>Tue, 11 Sep 2007 20:21:22 +0100</pubDate>
            <author>Werner Guttmann</author>
            <link>http://castor.codehaus.org/news.html#item61</link>
            <guid>http://castor.codehaus.org/news.html#item61</guid>
            <description><![CDATA[
                <p>
		            I'm very happy to announce that <i>Joachim Grueneis</i> has joined the Castor
		            team as committer. Joachim's initial focus will be on the XML side of 
		            things, where he is currently working on JAXB compliance for Castor XML.
                </p>
            ]]></description>
        </item>
        <item>
            <title>1.1.2.1 final release available</title>
            <pubDate>Thu, 28 Jun 2007 20:21:22 +0100</pubDate>
            <author>Werner Guttmann</author>
            <link>http://castor.codehaus.org/news.html#item60</link>
            <guid>http://castor.codehaus.org/news.html#item60</guid>
            <description><![CDATA[
                <p>
                  Castor 1.1.2.1 has been made available at http://dist.codehaus.org/castor/1.1.2.1/
                </p>
                <p>
                  For details about the features added and the bugs fixed,
                  please have a look at the release notes at
                  http://castor.codehaus.org/release-notes.html
                </p>
            ]]></description>
        </item>
        <item>
            <title>1.1.2 final release available</title>
            <pubDate>Sun, 17 Jun 2007 22:33:44 +0100</pubDate>
            <author>Werner Guttmann</author>
            <link>http://castor.codehaus.org/news.html#item59</link>
            <guid>http://castor.codehaus.org/news.html#item59</guid>
            <description><![CDATA[
                <p>
                  Castor 1.1.2 has been made available at http://dist.codehaus.org/castor/1.1.2/
                </p>
                <p>
                  For details about the features added and the bugs fixed,
                  please have a look at the release notes at
                  http://castor.codehaus.org/release-notes.html
                </p>
            ]]></description>
        </item>
        <item>
            <title>1.1.1 final release available</title>
            <pubDate>Sun, 22 Apr 2007 10:11:12 +0100</pubDate>
            <author>Werner Guttmann</author>
            <link>http://castor.codehaus.org/news.html#item58</link>
            <guid>http://castor.codehaus.org/news.html#item58</guid>
            <description><![CDATA[
                <p>
                  Castor 1.1.1 has been made available at http://dist.codehaus.org/castor/1.1.1/
                </p>
                <p>
                  For details about the features added and the bugs fixed,
                  please have a look at the release notes at
                  http://castor.codehaus.org/release-notes.html
                </p>
            ]]></description>
        </item>
        <item>
            <title>1.1 final release available</title>
            <pubDate>Sat, 10 Feb 2007 23:22:21 +0100</pubDate>
            <author>Werner Guttmann</author>
            <link>http://castor.codehaus.org/news.html#item57</link>
            <guid>http://castor.codehaus.org/news.html#item57</guid>
            <description><![CDATA[
                <p>
                  Castor 1.1 GA has been made available at http://dist.codehaus.org/castor/1.1/
                </p>
                <p>
                  For details about the features added and the bugs fixed,
                  please have a look at the release notes at
                  http://castor.codehaus.org/release-notes.html
                </p>
            ]]></description>
        </item>
        <item>
            <title>1.1 M3 release available</title>
            <pubDate>Mon, 29 Jan 2007 22:23:24 +0100</pubDate>
            <author>Werner Guttmann</author>
            <link>http://castor.codehaus.org/news.html#item56</link>
            <guid>http://castor.codehaus.org/news.html#item56</guid>
            <description><![CDATA[
                <p>
                  The Castor 1.1 M3 release has been made available at
                  http://dist.codehaus.org/castor/1.1/
                </p>
                <p>
                  This is a second milestone build for the upcoming 1.1 release.
                </p>
                <p>
                  For details about the features added and the bugs fixed,
                  please have a look at the release notes at
                  http://castor.codehaus.org/release-notes.html
                </p>
            ]]></description>
        </item>
        <item>
            <title>1.1 M2 release available</title>
            <pubDate>Fri, 29 Dec 2006 22:23:24 +0100</pubDate>
            <author>Werner Guttmann</author>
            <link>http://castor.codehaus.org/news.html#item55</link>
            <guid>http://castor.codehaus.org/news.html#item55</guid>
            <description><![CDATA[
                <p>
                  The Castor 1.1 M2 release has been made available at
                  http://dist.codehaus.org/castor/1.1/
                </p>
                <p>
                  This is a second milestone build for the upcoming 1.1 release.
                  As part of this release, there are a few noteworthy changes:
                </p>
                <ul>
                  <li>
                    A Castor DDL generator has been added to Castor JDO,
                    allowing generation of DDL scripts from a Castor JDO
                    mapping file.
                  </li>
                  <li>
                    New binaries packaging; both the DDL generator as well as
                    the XML code generator have been moved to separate (and new
                    JARs).
                  </li>
                <ul>
                <p>
                  For details about the features added and the bugs fixed,
                  please have a look at the release notes at
                  http://castor.codehaus.org/release-notes.html
                </p>
            ]]></description>
        </item>
        <item>
            <title>1.1 M1 release available</title>
            <pubDate>Sat, 23 Dec 2006 22:23:24 +0100</pubDate>
            <author>Werner Guttmann</author>
            <link>http://castor.codehaus.org/news.html#item54</link>
            <guid>http://castor.codehaus.org/news.html#item54</guid>
            <description><![CDATA[
                <p>
                  The Castor 1.1 M1 release has been made available at
                  http://dist.codehaus.org/castor/1.1/
                </p>
                <p>
                  This is a milestone build for the upcoming 1.1 release. For
                  details about the features added and the bugs fixed, please
                  have a look at the release notes at
                  http://castor.codehaus.org/release-notes.html.
                </p>
            ]]></description>
        </item>
        <item>
            <title>Castor 1.0.5 available</title>
            <pubDate>Sat, 11 Nov 2006 20:22:21 GMT</pubDate>
            <author>Werner Guttmann</author>
            <link>http://castor.codehaus.org/news.html#item53</link>
            <guid>http://castor.codehaus.org/news.html#item53</guid>
            <description><![CDATA[
                <p>
                  Castor 1.0.5 has been made available at
                  http://dist.codehaus.org/castor/1.0.5/
                </p>
                <p>
                  For details about the features added and the bugs fixed,
                  please have a look at the release notes at
                  http://castor.codehaus.org/release-notes.html.
                </p>
            ]]></description>
        </item>
        <item>
            <title>Castor 1.0.4 available</title>
            <pubDate>Sun, 22 Oct 2006 20:22:21 GMT</pubDate>
            <author>Werner Guttmann</author>
            <link>http://castor.codehaus.org/news.html#item51</link>
            <guid>http://castor.codehaus.org/news.html#item51</guid>
            <description><![CDATA[
                <p>
                  Castor 1.0.4 has been made available at
                  http://dist.codehaus.org/castor/1.0.4/
                </p>
                <p>
                  For details about the features added and the bugs fixed,
                  please have a look at the release notes at
                  http://castor.codehaus.org/release-notes.html.
                </p>
            ]]></description>
        </item>
        <item>
            <title>Snapshot release of Spring factory beans for Castor XML available</title>
            <pubDate>Sun, 10 Sep 2006 07:18:19 GMT</pubDate>
            <author>Werner Guttmann</author>
            <link>http://castor.codehaus.org/news.html#item50</link>
            <guid>http://castor.codehaus.org/news.html#item50</guid>
            <description><![CDATA[
                <p>
                  I've made a first snapshot release of the new <b>Spring
                  factory beans for Castor XML</b> available. This new module
                  provides seamless integration of several Castor XML artifacts
                  (e.g. its Unmarshaller and Marshaller components) into the
                  application framework (http://www.springframework.org).
                </p>
                <uL>
                  <li>
                    Download instructions
                    (http://castor.org/download.html#Castor-XML-Spring-factory-beans)
                  </li>
                  <li>
                    Introduction, including several small HOW-TOs
                    (http://castor.org/spring-xml-intro.html)
                  </li>
                </uL>
            ]]></description>
        </item>
        <item>
            <title>Castor 1.0.3 available</title>
            <pubDate>Thu, 7 Sep 2006 20:22:21 GMT</pubDate>
            <author>Werner Guttmann</author>
            <link>http://castor.codehaus.org/news.html#item49</link>
            <guid>http://castor.codehaus.org/news.html#item49</guid>
            <description><![CDATA[
                <p>
                  Castor 1.0.3 has been made available at
                  http://dist.codehaus.org/castor/1.0.3/
                </p>
                <p>
                  For details about the features added and the bugs fixed,
                  please have a look at the release notes at
                  http://castor.codehaus.org/release-notes.html.
                </p>
            ]]></description>
        </item>
        <item>
            <title>Castor 1.0.2 available</title>
            <pubDate>Thu, 3 Aug 2006 20:22:21 GMT</pubDate>
            <author>Werner Guttmann</author>
            <link>http://castor.codehaus.org/news.html#item48</link>
            <guid>http://castor.codehaus.org/news.html#item48</guid>
            <description><![CDATA[
                <p>
                  Castor 1.0.2 has been made available at
                  http://dist.codehaus.org/castor/1.0.2/
                </p>
                <p>
                  For details about the features added and the bugs fixed,
                  please have a look at the release notes at
                  http://castor.codehaus.org/release-notes.html.
                </p>
            ]]></description>
        </item>
        <item>
            <title>Spring ORM for Castor JDO RC1 released</title>
            <pubDate>Thu, 06 Jul 2006 20:21:22 GMT</pubDate>
            <author>Werner Guttmann</author>
            <link>http://castor.codehaus.org/news.html#item47</link>
            <guid>http://castor.codehaus.org/news.html#item47</guid>
            <description><![CDATA[
                <p>
                  I've placed the first release candidate of the Spring ORM
                  implementation for Castor JDO at the Codehaus at
                  http://dist.codehaus.org/castor/.
                </p>
                <p>
                  For details about the functionality provided, please have a
                  look at the documentation available at
                  http://castor.codehaus.org/castor-spring-site/.
                </p>
            ]]></description>
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        <item>
            <title>Work on JPA 3.0 support started</title>
            <pubDate>Sun, 25 Jun 2006 10:01:12 GMT</pubDate>
            <author>Werner Guttmann</author>
            <link>http://castor.codehaus.org/news.html#item46</link>
            <guid>http://castor.codehaus.org/news.html#item46</guid>
            <description><![CDATA[
                <p>
                  Work has been started on adding support for the Java
                  Persistence Architecture (JPA) 3.0 to Castor JDO
                </p>
                <p>
                  The SVN repository is available at
                  http://svn.codehaus.org/castor/castor-jpa/trunk
                </p>
            ]]></description>
        </item>
        <item>
            <title>Castor 1.0.1 available</title>
            <pubDate>Thu, 8 Jun 2006 20:22:21 GMT</pubDate>
            <author>Werner Guttmann</author>
            <link>http://castor.codehaus.org/news.html#item45</link>
            <guid>http://castor.codehaus.org/news.html#item45</guid>
            <description><![CDATA[
                <p>
                  Castor 1.0.1 has been made available at
                  http://dist.codehaus.org/castor/1.0/
                </p>
                <p>
                  For details about the features added and the bugs fixed,
                  please have a look at the release notes at
                  http://castor.codehaus.org/release-notes.html.
                </p>
            ]]></description>
        </item>
        <item>
            <title>Jira and notifications</title>
            <pubDate>Tue, 30 May 2006 13:07:43 GMT</pubDate>
            <author>Werner Guttmann</author>
            <link>http://castor.codehaus.org/news.html#item43</link>
            <guid>http://castor.codehaus.org/news.html#item43</guid>
            <description><![CDATA[
                <p>
                  This is a short message for those who have created Jira issues
                  in the past two or three months or so, or have commented upon
                  existing issues.
                </p>
                <p>
                  It looks like during some Jira upgrade a few months ago, a
                  couple of Jira settings got disabled. As a result, the
                  original reporter of a Jira issue did not get notified about
                  any changes to the issue (incl. e.g. state changes, comments,
                  questions, etc.)...
                </p>
            ]]></description>
        </item>
        <item>
            <title>Castor up again ...</title>
            <pubDate>Tue, 23 May 2006 13:07:43 GMT</pubDate>
            <author>Werner Guttmann</author>
            <link>http://castor.codehaus.org/news.html#item42</link>
            <guid>http://castor.codehaus.org/news.html#item42</guid>
            <description><![CDATA[
                As you might (not) have noticed, all the project-related
                infrastructure (mailing lists, SVN repository, HTML docs,
                binaries etc.) has been off-line due to a hard disk failure on
                one of the Codehaus servers. As a result of a lot of dedication
                from the Codehaus folks, we are as of now in a position to
                re-start life as usual.
            ]]></description>
        </item>
        <item>
            <title>Google Summer of Code and Castor</title>
            <pubDate>Fri, 05 May 2006 13:07:43 GMT</pubDate>
            <author>Werner Guttmann</author>
            <link>http://castor.codehaus.org/news.html#item41</link>
            <guid>http://castor.codehaus.org/news.html#item41</guid>
            <description><![CDATA[
                <p>
                   we are proud to participate in the Summer of Code initiative
                  (http://code.google.com/soc/) sponsored by Google, and you are
                  invited to join in the fun.
                </p>
                <p>
                  At http://docs.codehaus.org/display/CASTOR/CastorSocProjects,
                  you'll find some suggestions we find suitable for the program,
                  and per definition we would be glad to support a few projects.
                </p>
                <p>
                  Please understand, though, that mentoring capacities will be
                  limited, though we will try to dedicate as much time as
                  possible to the suggested projects. That implies that we
                  depend on your dedication during the preparation of the
                  detailed specification and description of the outcome.
                </p>
                <p>
                  The timeframe for applications is May 1 - May 8. So have a
                  look at the projects offered before you sign up to the program
                  and apply as a student to be mentored by us.
                </p>
            ]]></description>
        </item>
        <item>
            <title>New source repository</title>
            <pubDate>Sun, 16 Apr 2006 13:07:43 GMT</pubDate>
            <author>Ralf Joachim</author>
            <link>http://castor.codehaus.org/news.html#item40</link>
            <guid>http://castor.codehaus.org/news.html#item40</guid>
            <description><![CDATA[
                <p>
                  On April 14, 2006 we migrated the Castor source repository
                  from CVS to SVN. At the moment we still have read-only access
                  to CVS, but CVS does not reflect commits to SVN after the
                  migration. The read-only access to CVS is intended for you to
                  create patches of your current work and move it over to SVN.
                  Be aware that we will switch off CVS soon.
                </p>
                <p>
                  For details about SVN access please have a look at:
                  http://castor.codehaus.org/cvs.html.
                </p>
            ]]></description>
        </item>
        <item>
            <title>Final 1.0 release available</title>
            <pubDate>Thu, 6 Apr 2006 23:22:21 GMT</pubDate>
            <author>Werner Guttmann</author>
            <link>http://castor.codehaus.org/news.html#item39</link>
            <guid>http://castor.codehaus.org/news.html#item39</guid>
            <description><![CDATA[
                <p>
                  The final Castor 1.0 release has been made available at
                  http://dist.codehaus.org/castor/1.0/
                </p>
                <p>
                  For details about the features added and the bugs fixed,
                  please have a look at the release notes at
                  http://castor.codehaus.org/release-notes.html.
                </p>
            ]]></description>
        </item>
        <item>
            <title>1.0M4 release available</title>
            <pubDate>Thu, 23 Mar 2006 23:22:21 GMT</pubDate>
            <author>Werner Guttmann</author>
            <link>http://castor.codehaus.org/news.html#item38</link>
            <guid>http://castor.codehaus.org/news.html#item38</guid>
            <description><![CDATA[
                <p>
                  The Castor 1.0M4 release has been made available at
                  http://dist.codehaus.org/castor/1.0/
                </p>
                <p>
                  This is the last milestone build for the upcoming 1.0 release.
                  For details about the features added and the bugs fixed, please
                  have a look at the release notes at
                  http://castor.codehaus.org/release-notes.html.
                </p>
            ]]></description>
        </item>
        <item>
            <title>1.0M3 release available</title>
            <pubDate>Tue, 07 Mar 2006 11:12:13 GMT</pubDate>
            <author>Werner Guttmann</author>
            <link>http://castor.codehaus.org/news.html#item37</link>
            <guid>http://castor.codehaus.org/news.html#item37</guid>
            <description><![CDATA[
                <p>
                  The Castor 1.0M3 release has been made available at
                  http://dist.codehaus.org/castor/1.0/
                </p>
                <p>
                  This is a milestone build for the upcoming 1.0 release. For
                  details about the features added and the bugs fixed, please
                  have a look at the release notes at
                  http://castor.codehaus.org/release-notes.html.
                </p>
            ]]></description>
        </item>
        <item>
            <title>1.0M2 release available</title>
            <pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2006 11:12:13 GMT</pubDate>
            <author>Werner Guttmann</author>
            <link>http://castor.codehaus.org/news.html#item36</link>
            <guid>http://castor.codehaus.org/news.html#item36</guid>
            <description><![CDATA[
                <p>
                  The Castor 1.0M2 release has been made available at
                  http://dist.codehaus.org/castor/1.0/
                </p>
                <p>
                  This is a milestone build for the upcoming 1.0 release. For
                  details about the features added and the bugs fixed, please
                  have a look at the release notes at
                  http://castor.codehaus.org/release-notes.html.
                </p>
            ]]></description>
        </item>
        <item>
            <title>1.0M1 release available</title>
            <pubDate>Thu, 22 Dec 2005 10:11:12 GMT</pubDate>
            <author>Werner Guttmann</author>
            <link>http://castor.codehaus.org/news.html#item35</link>
            <guid>http://castor.codehaus.org/news.html#item35</guid>
            <description><![CDATA[
                <p>
                  The Castor 1.0M1 release has been made available at
                  http://dist.codehaus.org/castor/1.0/
                </p>
                <p>
                  This is a milestone build for the upcoming 1.0 release, and
                  has no correlation to Christmas at all ... ;-). For details
                  about the features added and the bugs fixed, please have a
                  look at the release notes at
                  http://castor.codehaus.org/release-notes.html.
                </p>
            ]]></description>
        </item>
        <item>
            <title>0.9.9.1 release available</title>
            <pubDate>Sat, 15 Oct 2005 10:11:12 GMT</pubDate>
            <author>Werner Guttmann</author>
            <link>http://castor.codehaus.org/news.html#item34</link>
            <guid>http://castor.codehaus.org/news.html#item34</guid>
            <description><![CDATA[
                <p>
                  The Castor 0.9.9.1 release has been made available at
                  http://dist.codehaus.org/castor/0.9.9.1/
                </p>
                <p>
                  This is a maintenance release. For details about the features
                  added and the bugs fixed, please have a look at the release
                  notes at http://castor.codehaus.org/release-notes.html.
                </p>
            ]]></description>
        </item>
        <item>
            <title>0.9.9 release - Final release available</title>
            <pubDate>Thu, 22 Sep 2005 10:11:12 GMT</pubDate>
            <author>Werner Guttmann</author>
            <link>http://castor.codehaus.org/news.html#item33</link>
            <guid>http://castor.codehaus.org/news.html#item33</guid>
            <description><![CDATA[
                <p>
                  The final release of Castor 0.9.9 has been made available at
                  http://dist.codehaus.org/castor/0.9.9/
                </p>
                <p>
                  This is a major feature release. For details about the
                  features added and the bugs fixed, please have a look at the
                  release notes at
                  http://castor.codehaus.org/release-notes.html.
                </p>
            ]]></description>
        </item>
        <item>
            <title>0.9.9 release - 2nd milestone build available</title>
            <pubDate>Tue, 13 Sep 2005 23:23:32 GMT</pubDate>
            <author>Werner Guttmann</author>
            <link>http://castor.codehaus.org/news.html#item32</link>
            <guid>http://castor.codehaus.org/news.html#item32</guid>
            <description><![CDATA[
                The second milestone build of Castor 0.9.9 has been made
                available at http://dist.codehaus.org/castor/0.9.9/
            ]]></description>
        </item>
        <item>
            <title>0.9.9 release - 1st milestone build available</title>
            <pubDate>Wed, 24 Aug 2005 23:23:32 GMT</pubDate>
            <author>Werner Guttmann</author>
            <link>http://castor.codehaus.org/news.html#item31</link>
            <guid>http://castor.codehaus.org/news.html#item31</guid>
            <description><![CDATA[
                The first milestone build of Castor 0.9.9 has been made
                available at http://dist.codehaus.org/castor/0.9.9/
            ]]></description>
        </item>
        <item>
            <title>Castor 0.9.7 released</title>
            <pubDate>Thu, 9 Jun 2005 13:12:11 GMT</pubDate>
            <author>Werner Guttmann</author>
            <link>http://castor.codehaus.org/news.html#item30</link>
            <guid>http://castor.codehaus.org/news.html#item30</guid>
            <description><![CDATA[
                I've placed a copy of Castor 0.9.7 (final) at
                http://dist.codehaus.org/castor/0.9.7. This is mainly a
                maintenance release. For details about the bugs fixed and
                features provided, please have a look at the release notes at
                http://castor.codehaus.org/release-notes.html . Please report
                any issues through the project's issue tracking system at
                http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/CASTOR
                and/or the mailing lists.
            ]]></description>
        </item>
        <item>
            <title>0.9.7 release - 1st milestone build available</title>
            <pubDate>Thu, 19 May 2005 23:25:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <author>Werner Guttmann</author>
            <link>http://castor.codehaus.org/news.html#item29</link>
            <guid>http://castor.codehaus.org/news.html#item29</guid>
            <description><![CDATA[
                The first milestone build of Castor 0.9.7 has been made
                available at http://dist.codehaus.org/castor/0.9.7/
            ]]></description>
        </item>
        <item>
            <title>Werner Guttmann Promoted to Castor JDO Lead</title>
            <pubDate>Thu, 19 May 2005 14:08:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <author>Bruce Snyder</author>
            <link>http://castor.codehaus.org/news.html#item28</link>
            <guid>http://castor.codehaus.org/news.html#item28</guid>
            <description><![CDATA[
                After having lead Castor JDO since 2002, Bruce has decided to
                pass the torch to Werner Guttmann. Werner has been a force on
                the project since he began contributing and his tireless efforts
                are exactly what the project needs to continue. Congratulations,
                Werner and keep up the great work!
            ]]></description>
        </item>
        <item>
            <title>New Castor roadmap</title>
            <pubDate>Wed, 11 May 2005 20:22:21 GMT</pubDate>
            <author>Werner Guttmann</author>
            <link>http://castor.codehaus.org/news.html#item27</link>
            <guid>http://castor.codehaus.org/news.html#item27</guid>
            <description><![CDATA[
                For information about upcoming Castor releases and future
                development areas in general, please have a look at the Castor
                roadmap at
                http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/CASTOR?report=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.project:roadmap-panel
                As it stands right now, this will reveal that we have scheduled
                two releases (0.9.7 and 0.9.9) within the next 5 weeks, the
                former designated to be a maintenance release for Castor 0.9.6,
                the latter planned as a feature release with quite some new
                features and improvements to be added.
            ]]></description>
        </item>
        <item>
            <title>Castor forums currently unavailable</title>
            <pubDate>Wed, 20 Apr 2005 22:22:21 GMT</pubDate>
            <author>Werner Guttmann</author>
            <link>http://castor.codehaus.org/news.html#item26</link>
            <guid>http://castor.codehaus.org/news.html#item26</guid>
            <description><![CDATA[
                Many of you will have recognized by now that the exolab.org
                domain had been voided as of last Friday. As a result of this,
                the Castor user forums are not available. Please accept our
                apologies for any inconvenience you are experiencing, and rest
                assured that we are working to get it back online as soon as
                possible.
            ]]></description>
        </item>
        <item>
            <title>New issue tracking tool</title>
            <pubDate>Wed, 20 Apr 2005 21:22:21 GMT</pubDate>
            <author>Werner Guttmann</author>
            <link>http://castor.codehaus.org/news.html#item25</link>
            <guid>http://castor.codehaus.org/news.html#item25</guid>
            <description><![CDATA[
                This is to announce that we finally moved our issue tracking
                tool from http://bugzilla.exolab.org to the Codehaus
                (http://www.codehaus.org), migrating to Jira at the same time.
                We'd like to offer our apologies for any inconvenience you
                experienced as a result of this migration and hope that you
                like our new home for tracking (and resolving) issues at
                http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/CASTOR as much as we do.
            ]]></description>
        </item>
        <item>
            <title>How to submit a patch - New guidelines</title>
            <pubDate>Fri, 08 Apr 2005 21:22:21 GMT</pubDate>
            <author>Werner Guttmann</author>
            <link>http://castor.codehaus.org/news.html#item24</link>
            <guid>http://castor.codehaus.org/news.html#item24</guid>
            <description><![CDATA[
                This is to announce that we now provide unified instructions on
                how to submit a patch at
                http://castor.codehaus.org/how-to-submit-a-bug.html.
                In addition, we have added a template for Castor JDO related
                patches to the CVS sources.
            ]]></description>
        </item>
        <item>
            <title>Support for polymorphism - A test drive</title>
            <pubDate>Thu, 31 Mar 2005 21:22:26 GMT</pubDate>
            <author>Werner Guttmann</author>
            <link>http://castor.codehaus.org/news.html#item23</link>
            <guid>http://castor.codehaus.org/news.html#item23</guid>
            <description><![CDATA[
                One of the major short-comings of Castor JDO always has been
                missing support for polymorphism. As of last week, most of the
                work has been finished, and we are now in a position where we'd
                like to ask you, our users, for feedback. I've made available
                binaries at
                http://dist.codehaus.org/castor/previews/0.9.6_with_polymorphism/.
                Please use the source distribution if possible, as it contains
                the tests mentioned above as well.
            ]]></description>
        </item>
        <item>
            <title>Mailing list changes</title>
            <pubDate>Wed, 30 Mar 2005 22:23:24 GMT</pubDate>
            <author>Werner Guttmann</author>
            <link>http://castor.codehaus.org/news.html#item22</link>
            <guid>http://castor.codehaus.org/news.html#item22</guid>
            <description><![CDATA[
                This is to announce that we finally moved our mailing lists to
                the Codehaus (http://www.codehaus.org). For a period of 14 days
                we'll monitor the old lists at Exolab, mainly referring you to
                the lists mentioned above. After this period, we will turn off
                these lists at our discretion. For details, please see
                http://castor.codehaus.org/news.html.
            ]]></description>
        </item>
        <item>
            <title>RSS feed available</title>
            <pubDate>Thu, 10 Mar 2005 13:35:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <author>Werner Guttmann</author>
            <link>http://castor.codehaus.org/news.html#item21</link>
            <guid>http://castor.codehaus.org/news.html#item21</guid>
            <description><![CDATA[
                We are happy to provide an RSS feed for announcements related
                to Castor at
                http://castor.codehaus.org/rss/castor-announcement.xml. This
                service basically mirrors the information provided at our news
                page at http://castor.codehaus.org/news.html.
            ]]></description>
        </item>
        <item>
            <title>A new home</title>
            <pubDate>Mon, 14 Feb 2005 22:21:20 GMT</pubDate>
            <author>Werner Guttmann</author>
            <link>http://castor.codehaus.org/news.html#item20</link>
            <guid>http://castor.codehaus.org/news.html#item20</guid>
            <description><![CDATA[
                <p>
                  After over five years of Exolab (http://www.exolab.org)
                  sponsoring Castor, the Castor team recently decided to move
                  the entire project to a new home over at the Codehaus
                  (http://www.codehaus.org). The team would like to thank Exolab
                  and its parent company Intalio, Inc. for its long-standing
                  support of the project.
                </p>
                <p>
                  Please use the below links for access to ...
                </p>
                <ul>
                  <li>Main documentation (http://castor.codehaus.org)</li>
                  <li>CVS repository (http://cvs.castor.codehaus.org)</li>
                  <li>Download (http://dist.codehaus.org/castor)</li>
                </ul>
            ]]></description>
        </item>
        <item>
            <title>Castor JDO - new committers</title>
            <pubDate>Mon, 14 Feb 2005 21:21:21 GMT</pubDate>
            <author>Werner Guttmann</author>
            <link>http://castor.codehaus.org/news.html#item19</link>
            <guid isPermaLink="true">http://groups.yahoo.com/group/rss-dev/message/7047</guid>
            <description><![CDATA[
                Please join me to welcome Gregory, Martin, Ralf and Stein as new
                committers for Castor JDO. I am more than happy to have them on
                board, as all of them have shown their dedication to the project
                through numerous occasions (incl. patches and willingness to
                spend time with me and Bruce ...).
            ]]></description>
        </item>
        <item>
            <title>Final 0.9.6 release available</title>
            <pubDate>Wed, 09 Feb 2005 22:22:22 GMT</pubDate>
            <author>Werner Guttmann</author>
            <link>http://castor.codehaus.org/news.html#item18</link>
            <guid>http://castor.codehaus.org/news.html#item18</guid>
            <description><![CDATA[
                The final release of Castor 0.9.6 has been made available at
                http://dist.codehaus.org/castor/0.9.6.
            ]]></description>
        </item>
        <item>
            <title>0.9.6 release candidate 3 available</title>
            <pubDate>Tue, 11 Jan 2005 23:25:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <author>Werner Guttmann</author>
            <link>http://castor.codehaus.org/news.html#item17</link>
            <guid>http://castor.codehaus.org/news.html#item17</guid>
            <description><![CDATA[
                The third release candidate of Castor 0.9.6 has been made
                available at http://dist.codehaus.org/castor/0.9.6/
            ]]></description>
        </item>
        <item>
            <title>0.9.6 release candidate 2 available</title>
            <pubDate>Fri, 14 Jan 2005 23:35:32 GMT</pubDate>
            <author>Werner Guttmann</author>
            <link>http://castor.codehaus.org/news.html</link>
            <guid>http://castor.codehaus.org/news.html</guid>
            <description><![CDATA[
                The second release candidate of Castor 0.9.6 has been made
                available at http://dist.codehaus.org/castor/0.9.6/
            ]]></description>
        </item>
        <item>
            <title>0.9.6 release candidate 1 available</title>
            <pubDate>Thu, 28 Oct 2004 23:35:32 GMT</pubDate>
            <author>Werner Guttmann</author>
            <link>http://castor.codehaus.org/news.html#item15</link>
            <guid>http://castor.codehaus.org/news.html#item15</guid>
            <description><![CDATA[
                The first release candidate of Castor 0.9.6 has been made
                available at http://dist.codehaus.org/castor/0.9.6/
            ]]></description>
        </item>
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