GroundWork Foundation Milestone 2 Release is ready to download from the SourceForge site: http://gwfoundation.sf.net

Taylor has written up some excellent Guava docs. There’s one on installing Guava, another on the Guava framework and environment and yet another on building your first Guava app. If you want to see a Guava in action go to the demo page and log in as “guest” “guest”.

We’re going to go over the basics of an event broker module. We’re not going to deal too much with the insides of Nagios and the functions that Nagios provides to make our life easier. We’ll go over those items in the future. What we’ll go over in this article, however, is building a basic event broker module skeleton which loads inside nagios.

ZDNet blogger Dana Blankenhorn posted about the GroundWork - Palamida announcement regarding software transparency and publishing the source of all your open source code.

GroundWork Guava is an Ajax’d PHP development framework that we’re really excited about. Guava will be the front-end basis of our next generation product coming out later next year. Taylor has built a small chat application with Guava to demonstrate its abilities. Log in to our Guava demo as “guest” and “guest”. You need to use recent versions of Firefox or IE.

Now you can get early access to some of GroundWork’s open source code repository via the Subversion source code management tool. Browse on over to our Ajax’d PHP framework, Guava and a chat applet based on Guava. These are bleeding-edge projects that will require you to roll up your sleeves, but they’re quite exciting. Look for a revamped and Guavafied Status Viewer and a new version of Foundation soon.

The Apache Portals Jetspeed Team announced the final release of the Jetspeed 2.0 Open Source Enterprise Portal. This final release is fully-compliant with the Portlet Specification 1.0 (JSR-168). Jetspeed-2 has passed the TCK (Test Compatibility Kit) suite and is fully CERTIFIED to the Java Portlet Standard.

Of all the features to come out of the 2.0 branch of development for Nagios, the event broker interface is perhaps the most important and most powerful. The purpose of the Event Broker interface is to give 3rd party developers the capacity to develop callback routines which are performed whenever certain events occur during the Nagios monitoring process; however, there are additional possible benefits to this interface which can prove to be powerful but dangerous.

GroundWork engineer Roger Ruttimann will speak at ApacheCON 2005, hosted this year in San Diego, December 10-14. Roger will help lead a tuturial on JetSpeed 2.

GroundWork Foundation is an IT management data abstraction layer and integration suite. Foundation 1.1 has been enhanced to integrate more diverse data sources into a single data store. This was achieved by introducing properties for describing the data points instead of using database fields for each measurements. The API’s and the existing feeders are backward compatible.