oscar-osgi-announce

[oscar-announce] Oscar update

[Richard S. H. <ric...@us...>]

I have released a new version of Oscar that fixes two major bugs with 
the "refresh packages" functionality of the last release.  Anyone that 
downloaded the release last week is strongly encouraged to download the 
new package:

    http://oscar-osgi.sourceforge.net

Sorry for the inconvenience.

-> richard

[oscar-announce] Oscar update

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

I have released an updated version of Oscar.

This is new release is mostly minor and corrects a few issues with 
bundle updating; it turned out that bundle updating only worked for 
bundles that had embedded JAR files. A few other bugs were fixed as well.

Work continues on ServiceTracker...

-> richard

[oscar-announce] Oscar update

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

That's right, there is a new Oscar update!

First things first, some preliminary information:

   1. The Oscar release package is now divided into multiple pieces to
      reduce its size; you only need to download the main
      oscar_20020502.jar package -- the new installer will allow you to
      choose the other components you want to install.
   2. It appears that Source Forge is having some difficulties lately,
      because I am having trouble downloading, it freezes for long
      periods of time -- I don't believe this is related to the new
      install routine because I am using it with another project and
      also because I am also having difficulties downloading from Source
      Forge with Mozilla.

Now for some highlights of this release:

   1. OSGi security permissions -- now it is possible to run Oscar with
      the security manager enabled! I am fairly confident in the
      security features, but I surely would appreciate some stress tests!
   2. An improved HttpService, thanks to Rob Walker.
   3. A handful of new bundles.

For more details, read the changes.html document at:

    http://oscar-osgi.sourceforge.net

Have fun.

-> richard

[oscar-announce] Oscar update

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

A new Oscar update is now available that should once and for all get rid 
of a class loading bug that has been rearing its head the last couple of 
releases...I promise!  :^)

-> richard

[oscar-announce] Oscar update

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

Hello everyone,

I have released an updated version of Oscar today. The last release of 
Oscar was a major re-engineering effort, but this new release focused on 
smoothing out the rough edges of the last release. While this release is 
still considered a "pre-release" of version 0.9.4, it should be as 
stable as previous versions of Oscar. The next release of Oscar will be 
0.9.4 final, which I plan to add support for the new OSGi start-level 
service.

Specifically regarding this new release, anyone heavily using threads 
should upgrade from 0.9.4pre1 to 0.9.4pre2.

Enjoy.

-> richard

[oscar-announce] Oscar update

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

I have released a version of Oscar (0.9.4a) that really fixes, rather 
than partially fixes, the refresh problem under Windows. Even though 
this issue only directly impacts Windows users, it is worthwhile for 
Linux users to download it to avoid unneeded open file pointers.

Have fun.

-> richard