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From: Samuel L. B. <sa...@li...> - 2001-04-20 19:50:00
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All - We are, as usual, pleased and relieved to announce the availability of Galaxy Communicator 3.0. Even though the internals of the infrastructure have changed in some major ways, the upgrade from 2.1 to 3.0 will be quite simple for the great majority of users. Version 3.0 features: o Vastly improved tools for managing simultaneous sessions o More flexible and robust Hub-server interaction, including the introduction of continuations and the elimination of deadlocks o Support for server location files, which help maintain consistent port location information across Hub and server o Many infrastructure improvements, including cross-language support for distinguishing among Galaxy Communicator versions, improved timed task control, and a consistent, event-driven programming model for embedding the Galaxy Communicator library o Improvements in the frame library, including support for dynamically expandable lists and arrays, better memory management options, and access to the full range of Communicator types as frame fills o More flexibility in the Hub syntax and organization, including better management of servers and service types, new support for choosing among available servers, and an alternative syntax which provides a wider array of control options and eliminates some of the idiosyncracies in the default syntax o A completely revised communications protocol, including XDR encoding for all brokering and message traffic and better encapsulation of administrative information o Significant brokering improvements, including access to the full range of Communicator types for brokering and automatic support for multiple subscribers for outgoing brokers o A PDF version of the HTML documentation (thanks to http://www.easysw.com and their open source conversion tool!) Please direct all bugs, as usual, to bug...@li...; please do not send mail directly to members of the Communicator team. The GalaxyCommunicator 3.0 distribution comes with extensive documentation (see docs/index.html), a detailed list of new features (see docs/new_features.html), and an upgrade guide for 2.1 installations to 3.0 (see docs/3point0upgrade.html). Upgrade assistance and guidance is also available at bug...@li.... The GalaxyCommunicator 3.0 release is an open source distribution. It is available at http://communicator.sourceforge.net/download. (Note that this distribution is not available at http://fofoca.mitre.org.) Samuel Bayer For the Communicator team P.S. MIT Galaxy users: The MIT Galaxy system will not compile against Galaxy Communicator 3.0 without minor modifications. MITRE has a set of working patches, which you may contact me directly in order to obtain. P.P.S. For details on the development of version 3.0 and how it responds to our original upgrade survey, see the on-line release announcement at http://communicator.sourceforge.net/download/3point0-announce.html. |