Author: dkulp
Date: Tue Apr 12 23:55:43 2011
New Revision: 1091605
URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?rev=1091605&view=rev
Log:
Update release_notes
Modified:
cxf/trunk/distribution/src/main/release/release_notes.txt
Modified: cxf/trunk/distribution/src/main/release/release_notes.txt
URL:
http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/cxf/trunk/distribution/src/main/release/release_notes.txt?rev=1091605&r1=1091604&r2=1091605&view=diff
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--- cxf/trunk/distribution/src/main/release/release_notes.txt (original)
+++ cxf/trunk/distribution/src/main/release/release_notes.txt Tue Apr 12
23:55:43 2011
@@ -1,44 +1,44 @@
-Apache CXF 2.3.0 Release Notes
+Apache CXF 2.4.0 Release Notes
1. Overview
-Apache CXF 2.3.0 is a significant new version of CXF that provides several
-new features and enhancements.
New features include:
- * JAX-WS 2.2 Support
- * JAX-RS 1.1 Support
- * New annotations for Java first use cases to reduce the need for
- external configuration and provide more control over the runtime and
- generated WSDL:
- * @WSDLDocumentation annotation to add documentation nodes to generated
- wsdl
- * @SchemaValidation annotation to turn on schema validation
- * @DataBinding to set the databinding used (if other than JAXB)
- * @GZIP to turn on GZIP compression
- * @FastInfoset to turn on FastInfoset support
- * @Logging to turn on and control various Logging functionality
- * @EndpointProperty to configure endpoint properties
- * @Policy to associate WS-Policy documents with the service
- * SOAP/JMS spec implementation. While CXF has supported SOAP over JMS
- since 2.0, there wasn't a standard specification to describe how it
- should be done so different vendors did things differently and
- interoperability was impossible. The new SOAP/JMS specification support
- implements the new SOAP/JMS spec to achieve a higher degree of
- interoperability. The older SOAP/JMS configuration is still supported.
- WS-Addressing also now fully works with the JMS transport when used in
- conjunction with the SOAP/JMS spec implementation.
- * SDO databinding
- * Schema Validation support for Aegis Databinding if Woodstox 4 is used
- for the Stax parser
-
-In addition to the above, CXF 2.3.0 was enhanced to reduce it's memory
-footprint and reduce it's startup time by delaying creation of many
-objects until/unless they are really needed.
+* Log Browser Console - see the logbrowser sample for an example
+* Transformation feature provides for a fast and effective way to transform
inbound
+ and/or outbound XML messages, please see the TransformationFeature page for
more
+ information.
+* JIBX databinding
+* Faster startup and reduced spring configuration. The Spring support has been
redone
+ to be based on the ExtensionManagerBus. This results in much faster startup.
It also
+ means that all of the imports of META-INF/cxf/cxf-extension-*.xml are no
longer
+ needed and are deprecated. Additionaly, all features are now available when
+ using the ExtensionManager Bus instead of being forced to use Spring.
+* WSS4J has been updated from 1.5.x to 1.6. See
http://ws.apache.org/wss4j/wss4j16.html
+ for the list of new features and upgrade notes for Apache WSS4J 1.6. Some
notable new
+ features for CXF users include:
+ * SAML2 support: WSS4J 1.6 includes full support for creating,
manipulating and
+ parsing SAML2 assertions, via the Opensaml2 library. See
+
http://coheigea.blogspot.com/2011/02/support-for-saml2-assertions-in-wss4j.html
+ for more information.
+ * Performance work: A general code-rewrite has been done with a focus on
improving
+ performance.
+ * Support for Crypto trust-stores: WSS4J 1.6 separates the concept of
keystore and
+ truststores. See
http://coheigea.blogspot.com/2011/01/wss4j-16-crypto-property-change.html
+ for more information.
+ * WS-SecurityPolicy support for SAML tokens.
+ * Initial OSGi Blueprint support for JAX-WS and JAX-RS
+ * A simple framework for building an STS was added to CXF's WS-Security
module. See the
+ sts_issue_operation sample to see this being used to generate SAML tokens
based on X509
+ certs used for the authentication.
+
Users are encourage to review the migration guide at:
-http://cxf.apache.org/docs/23-migration-guide.html
-for further information and requirements for upgrading to 2.3.0.
+http://cxf.apache.org/docs/24-migration-guide.html
+for further information and requirements for upgrading to 2.4.0. In
particular, the upgrades
+to WSS4J and Neethi will require some migration work if you use the WSS4J
API's directly or
+have created your own Policy objects or builders. Additionally, XmlSchema
was update to 2.0
+so any custom Aegis types may need to be updated.
2. Installation Prerequisites
@@ -47,35 +47,9 @@ Before installing Apache CXF, make sure
with the specified versions, are installed on your system:
* Java 5 Development Kit
- * Apache ant 1.6
-
-2.1 Java 5 Development Kit
-
-You must install the J2SE Development Kit (JDK) 5.0, which can be downloaded
-from:
-
- http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/download.jsp
-
-After installing the JDK, set or modify the following environment variables:
-
- * JAVA_HOME -- set this environment variable
- to point at the root directory of the JDK 5.0 installation.
-
- * PATH -- make sure that your PATH includes:
- %JAVA_HOME%\bin (Windows)
- $JAVA_HOME/bin (UNIX)
-
-2.2 Apache Ant 1.6.5 (or newer, 1.7.0 should work as well)
-
-To run samples included in the binary distribution of Apache CXF,
-you must install the Apache Ant 1.6.5 build utility, which can be downloaded
-from:
-
- http://ant.apache.org/bindownload.cgi
-
-After installing Apache Ant, add the <AntInstallDir>/bin directory to your
PATH.
+ * Apache Maven 2.2.1 or 3.x
+ * Some samples can be built with Apache Ant 1.6 or later
-For more details, see the Installation Guide.
3. Integrating CXF Into You Application
@@ -103,6 +77,6 @@ http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CXF
6. Migration notes:
See the migration guide at:
-http://cxf.apache.org/docs/23-migration-guide.html
-for caveats when upgrading from CXF 2.2.x to 2.3.x.
+http://cxf.apache.org/docs/24-migration-guide.html
+for caveats when upgrading from CXF 2.3.x to 2.4.x.
