From: Richard S. H. <he...@un...> - 2004-05-18 22:17:37
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Okay, I wanted to get another beta release out the door because I am leaving for ten days and I didn't want you guys to think there was no progress being made! :-) I will be at a multiple conferences and will largely be out of email contact, so if someone posts a message to the mailing list, I hope that it can wait or others try to help out. The new beta is "1.0.0beta5" and is available from the previous beta URL for all of those who requested to beta test. You can use the Oscar installer to download user and API documention...as always, please read the changes. I hope this beta release represents the last major changes before the final release of 1.0.0. In particular, I have separated the example bundle and Oscar services from the "org.ungoverned.oscar" package hierarchy, put them under "org.ungoverned.osgi.bundle" and "org.ungoverned.osgi.service", respectively. The major impact here will be if you were using Oscar's services in your bundles, for example, if you were creating custom shell commands. If that is the case, you will need to modify your bundles to use the new service names. In the end, I think this will be much better and more sustainable that the old approach. Now the Oscar package is purely for the OSGi framework implementation. Eventually, all bundles will be available via OBR and the bundle repository Web page. All bundles become separate projects into themselves, although I have crafted the build files so that they easily integrate into Oscar's build file (Ant 1.6 is now required)...I will document this more later. For now, you can access all bundles via OBR or the web. Web access is available here: http://oscar-osgi.sf.net/repo/ And for source here: http://oscar-osgi.sf.net/repo-src/ Regarding OBR, I have re-implemented most of it, although I didn't have time to implement the new "update" feature or "download source" feature, but it now use XML and has the new (and much improved) syntax. So, please check it out. I like it much better! It is quite possible that some of the bundles might be broken due to the above mentioned package renaming...I have not tested them all thoroughly. Please let me know if you run into any problems. I am really pleased with how the 1.0.0 release is shaping up. I think that is everything I wanted to say, I hope that I didn't introduce any major bugs just before I leave for ten days, but I am sure I will find out when I get to check my email. :-) Thanks. Have fun. -> richard |