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[openorb-general] [ANN] OpenORB 1.4.0 BETA1 released
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From: Michael R. <mi...@ru...> - 2003-12-21 17:56:22
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The Community OpenORB 1.4.0 BETA1 is out.
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After nearly 15 months of steady product improvement, refactoring
and platform enhancement, the OpenORB community is proud to release
the first beta of "The Community OpenORB" product suite version 1.4.
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The archives of all packages can be found at the SF project download
area: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=3D43608
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Have fun,
The Community OpenORB Team
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Improvements:
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All modules have been updated and brought into line with a
common service framework, a clean Java package hierarchy, and
shell scripts to launch the services and tools.
A complete list of changes per package is available in the
WHATSNEW file included with each module.
OpenORB:
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- Fixed bug #501332 by integrating the RMIoverIIOP marshalling
engine into the OpenORB core module. The RMIoverIIOP classes
can be found in the org.openorb.orb.rmi package now.
- The JavaToIdl compiler has been integrated into the compiler
source tree and is included in the openorb_orb_tools-1.4.0.jar
package.
- The compilers pass a real exit code, indicating the outcome of
the compilation, to the calling process.
- Added several properties:
o toallow passing an output logger to the OpenORB logger
initialization
o to set the RMIoverIIOP default ORB.
o to disable the costly Exception throwing during the OpenORB
interceptor module (*1).
- Many performance improvements have been added.
- A openorb_omg-1.4.0.jar will be created which can be passed to
the JDK 1.4.x "endorsed standards override mechanism".
- Added a property to use a client policy cache (*1).
- Added a socket IIOP debug feature.
- Added ant tasks, incl. uptodate checks, for the Idl2Java and
the Java2Idl compilers.
- Added properties to allow a more sohisticated configuration
of the TCP/IP settings.
- The OpenORB classes have been moved into the org.openorb.orb
package and the jar archives have now an _orb_ name element
to follow the same pattern as all the other module's archives.
- Added more logging output to the core OpenORB layers.
- Numerous smaller bug fixes have been made.
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RMIoverIIOP:
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- The RMIoverIIOP module has been completely integrated into the
OpenORB module. Therefore the standalone RMIoverIIOP module
does not exist anymore.
- Added several flags to be able to perform runtime performance
optimizations (*1).
- Added code to allow RMIoverIIOP objects to be run in a security
restricted environment.
- Added logging output to the marshalling layer.
- Included several performance optimizations.
- Moved the JNDI SPI for a COS NameService to the NamingService
module.
SSL:
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- Support for RSA crypto libraries have been added.
- Added the binary JSSE 1.0.3_01 and the JAAS 1.0_01 libraries
so that the module compiles under JDK 1.3.x without further effort.
- A partial CSIv2 implementation has been added. Unfortunately this
implementation is not usable yet.
- Moved the classes into the org.openorb.orb.ssl package to indicate
that it is an extension to the orb itself.
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Tools:
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- Implemented a simple bootstrap mechanism that is used automatically
when no NameService can be found, i.e. a folder hierarchy in the
user's home folder is created under $HOME/.OpenORB that reflects
the binding hierarchy in a NameService.
Starting one of the services will bind a name in the hierarchy of
this folder and any client will be able to find the service
without pointing it explicitly to a NameService.
- Implemented a special module class loader that assembles the
classpath based on the package name of the class to be loaded. For
this to work the different OpenORB modules must be placed in the
TCOO_HOME folder and the system property "openorb.home.path" must
be set.
This avoids problems under Windows with the size of the CLASSPATH
environment variable when all services shall be startable from
the shell. The tools/bin/setenv script must be sourced, afterwards
the scripts "launch" and "launchdbg" are available to start any
application from the OpenORB suite.
- Added many improvements to the utility classes that can be found
in this module.
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InterfaceRepository:
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- Added shell scripts "ir" for starting the InterfaceRepository.
- Added shell scripts "idl2ir" for populating the IR.
- Moved the ManagementBoard plugin to the ManagementBoard module.
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ManagementBoard:
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- Several UI fixes.
- Support for command line options has been added.
- Included plugins and plugin documentation from:
o InterfaceRepository
o NamingService
o TradingService
o NotificationService
ConcurrencyControlService:
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- Converted the service to use the service framework.
- Added shell scripts "ccs" to start the service.
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EventService:
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- Modified the EventService to use the service framework.
- Added shell scripts "eventsvc" to start the service.
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NamingService:
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- A openorb_ns_omg-1.4.0.jar is created now that can be passed
to the JDK 1.4.x endorsed standards override mechanism.
- Modified the persistent and the transient NamingService to
use the service framework.
- Added shell scripts "ins" and "tns" for starting the persistent
or the transient version of the NamingService.
- Moved the ManagementBoard plugin to the ManagementBoard module.
- Added the JNDI COS Naming SPI from the former RMIoverIIOP module.
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NotificationService:
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- Many bug-fixes and minor improvements have been added.
- Moved the ManagementBoard plugin to the ManagementBoard module.
- Modified the NotificationService to use the service framework.
- Added shell scripts "notifysvc" to start the NotificationService.
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PersistentStateService:
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- Added an ant task for the psdl2java compiler.
- The service now uses default properties so that it can be
used without prior configuration.
- Added documentation for previously undocumented features.
- Aligned the compiler output to the output of the other compilers.
- Added shell scripts "psdl2java" to start the PSDL to Java compiler.
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PropertyService:
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- Converted the service to use the service framework.
- Added shell scripts "propertysvc" to start the service.
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TradingService:
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- Converted the service to use the service framework.
- Added shell scripts "tradersvc" to start the service
and "strepo" to start the service type repository.
- Added an ant task for the stdl2java compiler.
- Cleanup of the Java package hierarchy.
TransactionService:
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- Converted the service to use the service framework.
- Added shell scripts "ots" to start the service.
- Added a binary distribution of InstantDB so that the XA examples
are working out of the box now.
- Added jdbc.jar for JDK 1.3.x compliance.
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TimeService:
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- Modified the TimeService to use the service framework.
- Added shell scripts "timesvc" to start the service.
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Footnotes:
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(*1) Forces non-standard compliant behaviour!
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Bug Reporting:
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Please report any problem you find to the SourceForge mailing list
ope...@li.... When the problem is identified as a bug
it will be filed at the SourceForge bug tracking facilities.
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