[oscar-devel] Another Beta Release

[Richard S. H. <he...@un...>]

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