This is the current Release Notes for 2.1.2 with JIRAs as they are now.
I expect a few minor updates to the JIRA before we release. Are there
any additional changes we need to make?
RELEASE_NOTES-2.1.2.txt:
Release Notes -- Apache Geronimo -- Version 2.1.2
Geronimo URLs
-------------
Home Page: http://geronimo.apache.org/
Downloads: http://geronimo.apache.org/downloads.html
Documentation: http://geronimo.apache.org/documentation.html
Mailing Lists: http://geronimo.apache.org/mailing.html
Source Code: http://geronimo.apache.org/svn.html
Bug Tracking: http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/GERONIMO
Wiki: http://cwiki.apache.org/geronimo
Documentation
-------------
Please see http://cwiki.apache.org/GMOxDOC21/documentation.html for the
latest documentation on this release.
System Requirements
-------------------
You need a platform that supports the Sun JDK 5.0+ (J2SE 1.5.0+) or greater.
Most testing has been done on Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows.
Geronimo 2.1 Enhancements
-------------------------
Custom server assemblies
- Lightweight server assemblies may be created that contain only the
functional
components required by your application(s).
Flexible admin console
- The admin console is now component-based to mirror the server
capabilities.
This allows the admin console to provide flexible administrative
capabilities
that will mirrors the capabilities of a custom server assembly.
GShell
- GShell is a command-line processing environment that can be used for
the execution
of Geronimo commands. GShell is an extensible environment and
includes support
for editing, command history, and tab completion.
Clustering Support
- WADI can now be used to support clustering of web applications for
Geronimo configurations which
use the Tomcat Web Container (WADI support for Jetty was in previous
releases).
- Applications can be deployed to administratively-defined groups of
Geronimo servers
Monitoring Console Plugin
- The monitoring console plugin provides monitoring support in the
Geronimo admin console.
The monitoring console can gather statistics and performance data
from multiple Geronimo
servers and graphically display this data to users.
Geronimo 2.1.1 Issues Resolved
------------------------------
** Bug
* [GERONIMO-3503] - DBPool wizzard creates plans only for
local-transactions
* [GERONIMO-3562] - customizable navigator icons for admin console
extensions
* [GERONIMO-3599] - Unable to create new JMS Resource group through
console in IE7
* [GERONIMO-3700] - alias command fails
* [GERONIMO-3705] - Maven 2.0.8 causes build problems
* [GERONIMO-3858] - start-server.bat fails to start server if there
is a space in the path
* [GERONIMO-3864] - Security warning about installation a
certificate from a CA claiming to represent: Me
* [GERONIMO-3930] - IllegalArgumentException reading Transaction Log
* [GERONIMO-3931] - Unable to delete a datasource from
administrative console
* [GERONIMO-3944] - Web plan schema munging reordering elements wrong
* [GERONIMO-3965] - Custom LoginModule uses wrong classloader
* [GERONIMO-3966] - Spaces in server installation directory causes
deployment problems when using JMX to deploy
* [GERONIMO-3970] - Fail to delploy a web application to a WADI cluster
* [GERONIMO-3971] - Error message during assembling a server
* [GERONIMO-3972] - Monitering Graphics failed to represent in IE 6 SP2
* [GERONIMO-3973] - Fail to assemble a server via gsh when Geronimo
is installed in a directory with white space
* [GERONIMO-3974] - Shutdown exceptions on IBM JVM
* [GERONIMO-3975] - PlanCreator fails to deploy an application when
Geronimo is installed into a directory with white space
* [GERONIMO-3976] - Exceptions are thrown in Geronimo launch
console when clicking "Console Navigation --> Debug Views --> JNDI Viewer"
* [GERONIMO-3981] - Fail to relaunch Geronimo after deploying an
application to WADI cluster
* [GERONIMO-3982] - WADI cluster fails to distribute the installed
application to all the nodes in the same cluster
* [GERONIMO-3984] - Keystores portlet - Unlock keystore page shows
wrong label on submit button
* [GERONIMO-3990] - CORBA application client fails to login to the
server
* [GERONIMO-3991] - Can not undeploy an application deployed in a
WADI cluster via Admin Console
* [GERONIMO-3993] - Server fails to relaunch after deploying an
application to a WADI cluster
* [GERONIMO-3994] - GShell command remote-control/server-control
can not control the remote server
* [GERONIMO-3995] - Can not export a plugin via Admin Console in IE
6 SP2
* [GERONIMO-3999] - Cannot remote deploy a plugin through
deploy.bat|.sh
* [GERONIMO-4001] - Cannot remote deploy a sample thru gshell
deploy/deploy command
* [GERONIMO-4003] - Can not deploy DayTrader two times because of
EJB name confliction
* [GERONIMO-4006] - Deployment of EJB-based JAX-WS web service with
WebServiceContext injection fails
* [GERONIMO-4008] - HTTP GET requests on Provider endpoints might
fail sometimes with Axis2
* [GERONIMO-4009] - HTML errors and warnings in
calculator-stateless-pojo sample .jsp file
* [GERONIMO-4016] - The exception of failing to start client is not
recorded in client.log
* [GERONIMO-4017] - Include PLUTO-485 to handle question marks in
our portlet URIs
* [GERONIMO-4020] - ResourceBinding doesn't actually override
preprocessValue
* [GERONIMO-4024] - Accessibility issue: missing image alt tags and
no skip to main content support
* [GERONIMO-4036] - Warning message after running gsh
geronimo/stop-server
* [GERONIMO-4072] - Fail to offline deploy an application because
of the dependency to rmi-naming
* [GERONIMO-4076] - Console runs in unhandled exception when user
starts module with unresolved dependencies
* [GERONIMO-4082] - <hidden-classes> ignored for certain classes
that are loaded by system class loader
* [GERONIMO-4086] - sharelib plugin does not include or create
shared/lib or shared/classes directories
* [GERONIMO-4088] - Make it more obvious and document how to set
the tmId so you can use more than one geronimo server with a distributed
transaction.
* [GERONIMO-4090] - non-overridable-classes in an environment are
ignored in that configuration, only used for children
* [GERONIMO-4093] - gsh scripts are not using setjavaenv or
optional setenv script
* [GERONIMO-4094] - Tomcat APR connector didn't load the native library
* [GERONIMO-4095] - Run SQL portlet doesn't work in a non-English
browser
* [GERONIMO-4098] - Disable rsh/rshd gshell commands
* [GERONIMO-4099] - Calling isUserInRole wipes out run-as info
* [GERONIMO-4100] - Allow users to use jaxws-tools.bat/sh when SUN
SAAJ impl is not provided in the assembly
* [GERONIMO-4103] - Fail to Restart APR HTTP Connector
* [GERONIMO-4104] - Tomcat logging is broken
* [GERONIMO-4110] - NPE upon deployment of unrecognized xml file
(seam-gen based application)
* [GERONIMO-4111] - Plugin installation works with search-plugins
command but fails with install-plugin command
* [GERONIMO-4113] - Cannot deploy context specific Valve GBeans on
Tomcat
* [GERONIMO-4114] - newly created APR HTTPS connector failed to start
* [GERONIMO-4116] - Upgrade from DWR 2.0.1 to 2.0.3
* [GERONIMO-4119] - request.isUserInRole("some-role") always return
false after @EJB injection
* [GERONIMO-4123] - Some License/Notice file updates
* [GERONIMO-4124] - Tomcat jacc usage is messed up
* [GERONIMO-4131] - Problems with WebSphere MQ RA deployment
* [GERONIMO-4155] - Can use a run-as role without defining it
* [GERONIMO-4166] - EAR missing dependency on j2ee-security breaks
Server Console
* [GERONIMO-4169] - JAX-WS web services not discovered with partial
web.xml file
* [GERONIMO-4175] - dojo v1.0.2 dijit/demos/i18n directory contains
wikipedia content
* [GERONIMO-4177] - FarmWarDeployerGBean.java uses incorrect
hardcoded tomcat class
* [GERONIMO-4182] - Artifact aliases are not honored when deploying
a plugin that has a dependency on another plugin with an alias
* [GERONIMO-4184] - In-doubt transaction Id's could be reused
during server startup
* [GERONIMO-4185] - Cannot deployed WADI clustered Jetty and Tomcat
Web applications within an EAR
* [GERONIMO-4188] - View Server portlet runs in unhandled exception
if the statistics bean is not available
* [GERONIMO-4194] - jsp sample view source links are broken
* [GERONIMO-4201] - Accessing admin console portlets that use DWR
after restart giving error
* [GERONIMO-4205] - unable to build samples on windows platoform
due to Filename too long
* [GERONIMO-4208] - Eliminate individual sample references from
Geronimo Welcome Page
* [GERONIMO-4209] - Geronimo does not start on SAP JVM
** Improvement
* [GERONIMO-3408] - Clean up deployer login code in ServerConnection
* [GERONIMO-3651] - gshell should make it dead simple to run
geronimo with remote debugging
* [GERONIMO-3848] - geronimo:deploy-module prints out Using
non-artifact based plan: null when no plan is specified
* [GERONIMO-3963] - Remote deployment using the --inPlace option
* [GERONIMO-3992] - Switch to a Pluto 1.1.6 based patch build
* [GERONIMO-4012] - Rework GShell integration and remove
gshell-embeddable
* [GERONIMO-4031] - Upgrade to MyFaces 1.2.3 release
* [GERONIMO-4035] - Upgrade cxf to 2.0.6, may fix new testsuite errors
* [GERONIMO-4074] - Testsuite for commands
* [GERONIMO-4085] - Change tomcat version to 6.0.16
* [GERONIMO-4087] - Improve usability of gshell commands deploy/*
when failing to connect to server
* [GERONIMO-4139] - Add a comment to
config-substitutions.properties to indicate its usage
* [GERONIMO-4145] - Additional Admin Console navigational icons
* [GERONIMO-4148] - Add OS info to the Server Information portlet
* [GERONIMO-4149] - Minor updates to commands-testsuite
* [GERONIMO-4152] - Add a way to show/hide parent and child
components of modules in the console
* [GERONIMO-4191] - give users a better message when context-root
is not unique
* [GERONIMO-4207] - Provide a LoginModule which can be used to add
user or group principals via configuration
** New Feature
* [GERONIMO-2814] - Add a second repository to Geronimo
* [GERONIMO-3665] - Create ghell commands for wsgen and wsimport tools
* [GERONIMO-3876] - Allow configuring JMX over SSL
* [GERONIMO-4115] - Add wait-for-server gshell command
Certification Status
--------------------
Apache Geronimo v2.1.2 has passed 100% of SUN's Java Enterprise Edition 5.0
Certification Test Suite. See "Distributions" for further details.
Distributions
-------------
Apache Geronimo v2.1.2 is available in five distributions so you can
pick the
one that best fits your environment.
The available distributions are as follows:
Certified distributions:
- Apache Geronimo with Tomcat web container, AXIS2 for Web Services and
OpenJPA
for persistence.
- Apache Geronimo with Jetty web container, CXF for Web Services and
OpenJPA
for persistence.
Non-Certified distributions:
- Little-G with Tomcat web container, minimal configuration.
- Little-G with Jetty web container, minimal configuration.
- Geronimo framework, stripped down Geronimo pluggable framework.
Note: Non-Certified distributions do not contain a complete JavaEE5
stack and so
cannot be certified. Certified distributions can be reconfigured by the
user
(such as Tomcat web container with CXF for Web Services).
Supported features
------------------
All programming elements of the Java EE 5.0 Specification are available.
Known Issues and Limitations
----------------------------
** Bug
* [GERONIMO-2246] - Why resource-env-ref:admin-object-module?
* [GERONIMO-2340] - Network Listener state not persisted across
server startups
* [GERONIMO-2622] - Implement PolicyContextHandlerSOAPMessage
* [GERONIMO-3233] - Local EJB references cannot be resolved when
<inverse-classloading> is set in web application
* [GERONIMO-3359] - naming builders are invoked twice
* [GERONIMO-3392] - CA Helper App - Unable to find HTTPS Connector
configured for ClientAuth
* [GERONIMO-3419] - Console displays wrong database pool type when
derby embed local is used.
* [GERONIMO-3442] - Tomcat exception reports reference
non-existent log files
* [GERONIMO-3445] - Verify log levels can be changed for openejb
related log categories
* [GERONIMO-3457] - Drools BRMS issue using geronimo
2.0.1-jetty6 Unassigned
* [GERONIMO-3466] - car-maven-plugin can not generate server
plugin which includes EJB
* [GERONIMO-3468] - Links broken through Ajp13.
* [GERONIMO-3469] - From console: database pool doesn't work well
if the name contains a / like jdbc/EmployeeDataSource
* [GERONIMO-3470] - Setting system properties through the
deployment plan fails
* [GERONIMO-3483] - Redeploy should start any dependent
configurations it stops.
* [GERONIMO-3488] - car file left over after failed deployment
* [GERONIMO-3581] - Default security relam name in ContextManager
* [GERONIMO-3589] - NullpointerException thrown when running jsp
tag inside security realm
* [GERONIMO-3599] - Unable to create new JMS Resource group
through console in IE7
* [GERONIMO-3602] - SEI specified in webservices.xml does not
overwrite annotation
* [GERONIMO-3655] - Invalid MdbInstanceFactory behaviour
* [GERONIMO-3656] - Startup failed when used with Saxon 9 XSLT engine
* [GERONIMO-3664] - JNDIView Portlet should list ResourceAdaptors
and its JCAManagedConnectionFactories for RAR Modules
* [GERONIMO-3673] - MessageDrivenBean injection issue
* [GERONIMO-3685] - Monitoring Console should display
TimeStatistics and BoundedRangeStatistics correctly
* [GERONIMO-3688] - Website issues; links and missing images
* [GERONIMO-3755] - application-1.2 schema does not exist
* [GERONIMO-3756] - Blank screen in Security Realms portlet if
wrong file path is specified
* [GERONIMO-3762] - Web Applications displayed during server
startup include "system" console plugins
* [GERONIMO-3768] - deployment failure is not logged in either
geronimo.log or deployer.log
* [GERONIMO-3793] - "Not Known To This Context" JAXBException when
attempting to return complex data type from a @WebMethod
* [GERONIMO-3812] - Geronimo 2.0.2 misses ApacheDS (LDAP) function
* [GERONIMO-3815] - ContextManager.getCurrentContext() throws
NullPointerException
* [GERONIMO-3820] - Secure LDAP (ldaps) trusted certificate
authorities
* [GERONIMO-3832] - Timers created using the Timer Services are
not dropeed when the associated ejb module is stopped or undeployed.
* [GERONIMO-3838] - memory (probably related to sessions) leak
* [GERONIMO-3844] - Errors on shutdown from admin console (Jetty
only) - java.lang.InterruptedException
* [GERONIMO-3851] - Plan Creator cannot recognize classes inside
compressed JARs of WEB-INF/lib
* [GERONIMO-3863] - Default TomcatWebConnector maxPostSize setting
cannot handle DayTrader application
* [GERONIMO-3874] - Deployment of Spring
SpringContextResourceAdapter fails
* [GERONIMO-3875] - Enabling authentication for Derby renders DB
Viewer portlet unusable for all db's except SystemDatabase
* [GERONIMO-3878] - Unable to deploy Postgres Datasource from
console dialog "Database Pools" because of missing jar files in jar
selection listbox.
* [GERONIMO-3890] - Struts2 extremely slow (unusable)
* [GERONIMO-3892] - Persistence.CreateEntityManagerFactory leads
to an JNDI Exception in EJB Container
* [GERONIMO-3894] - java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError:
org/jdom/Parent using JDOM 1.0
* [GERONIMO-3907] - Persistence Exception is not visible/lost for
client.
* [GERONIMO-3934] - geronimo/start-server --timeout option does
not work as expected
* [GERONIMO-3938] - Geronimo must add Java2 security to run with
security manager
* [GERONIMO-3942] - IllegalStateException warning message for
Jetty plugin installer
* [GERONIMO-3946] - WARN [JettyModuleBuilder] Web application .
does not contain a WEB-INF/geronimo-web.xml deployment plan
* [GERONIMO-3949] - Problem creating a DB2 datasource Unassigned
* [GERONIMO-3951] - org.apache.geronimo.cxf.CXFHandlerResolverTest
fails on Harmony intermittently
* [GERONIMO-3957] - Updating svn:ignore lists
* [GERONIMO-3989] - gshell - infinite loop
* [GERONIMO-3997] - NPE in console
* [GERONIMO-3998] - @WebFault
* [GERONIMO-4000] - Cannot start magicGball sample's client
application thru gshell command
* [GERONIMO-4011] - Need new release of JLine to fix GShell
problems on Windows
* [GERONIMO-4025] - Accessibility issues: No caption tag or
summary property, no column and row scope property for data tables in
admin console
* [GERONIMO-4026] - Accessibility issue: no fieldset and legend
elements for groups of radio and checkbox button
* [GERONIMO-4028] - Accessibility issue: no label elements and
title attributes defined in all of forms in admin console
* [GERONIMO-4029] - Transforming from DOM Document to SAAJ
SOAPBody throws TransformerException
* [GERONIMO-4030] - Accessibility issue: The tree and tabbed
content in Debug views is not keyboard navigatable
* [GERONIMO-4032] - Accessibility issue: descriptions should be
shown explicitly for automatic change
* [GERONIMO-4037] - Geronimo 2.0.3 (and I guess at least 2.0.2)
can't run with a security manager settled from the command line using
-Djava.security.manager
* [GERONIMO-4076] - Console runs in unhandled exception when user
starts module with unresolved dependencies
* [GERONIMO-4078] - Database Pools page: JNDI name formatting
inconsistent
* [GERONIMO-4080] - Accessibility issue: No input error messages
are shown in some forms if anything is unexpected
* [GERONIMO-4081] - Accessibility issue: Webking scan errors
against "Check Web Accessibility(Section 508)" rules
* [GERONIMO-4082] - <hidden-classes> ignored for certain classes
that are loaded by system class loader
* [GERONIMO-4097] - unable to download extensible administration
console using Little G
* [GERONIMO-4124] - Tomcat jacc usage is messed up
* [GERONIMO-4131] - Problems with WebSphere MQ RA deployment
* [GERONIMO-4141] - The war exported as a geronimo plugin in admin
console cannot be installed with install-plugin command of deploy.bat|.sh
* [GERONIMO-4153] - Messages are not being redelivered correctly
* [GERONIMO-4155] - Can use a run-as role without defining it
* [GERONIMO-4178] - Misleading errors during deployment when
missing entries in openejb-jar.xml
* [GERONIMO-4184] - In-doubt transaction Id's could be reused
during server startup
* [GERONIMO-4186] - Use start-server.bat to start non-default
server and shutdown it using stop-server.bat , but can not exit to
command prompt
* [GERONIMO-4210] - EJB Injection in JSF Managed Bean
** Improvement
* [GERONIMO-3389] - console: java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError is
thrown when create a Tomcat APR HTTP Connector
* [GERONIMO-3399] - Need JSR88 DConfigBeans for GerSecurityType
* [GERONIMO-3448] - New threads launched from an EJB do not run as
the same Subject as the launching thread
* [GERONIMO-3530] - provide activemq destination and connector stats
* [GERONIMO-3661] - Optimize GShell libs for G server assemblies
* [GERONIMO-3680] - The Monitoring agent should optimize DB activity
* [GERONIMO-3681] - The Monitoring Console should allow the type
of graph to be chosen
* [GERONIMO-3682] - The Monitoring Console should keep information
about Stats available from a managed object
* [GERONIMO-3759] - Geronimo Tomcat Clustering - No GBeans for
adding Static Members
* [GERONIMO-3770] - Error reporting of undeclared data-sources
from persistence.xml with the file path and such
* [GERONIMO-3774] - monitoring agent should separate any constant
assignment inside one class
* [GERONIMO-3849] - When display-name in web.xml contains the dot
the remaining part's printed out in geronimo.log
* [GERONIMO-3870] - Expose JSR77 stats in OpenEJB
* [GERONIMO-3905] - Geronimo Database pool wizard
* [GERONIMO-3915] - Upgrade Monitoring and Debugview plugins to
use Dojo instead of Dojolegacy
* [GERONIMO-3925] - Monitoring agent should use JAXB to do XML
manipulation
* [GERONIMO-3929] - Load server implementation classes and it's
libraries using a private classloader
* [GERONIMO-3940] - A easy way to create a new server instance via
command/gsh/console
* [GERONIMO-3948] - Allow multiple containers to be created for
different types of ejbs
* [GERONIMO-3958] - No web-app element when geronimo-web.xml
contains other root element
* [GERONIMO-3969] - maven2 module goals should use standard server
definitions
* [GERONIMO-4023] - Provide Column Names in the Database Table
View of the Admin Console
** New Feature
* [GERONIMO-3417] - Implement JASPI
* [GERONIMO-3534] - allowHosts attribute unavailable in geronimo 2.0.1
* [GERONIMO-3572] - Disable access log by default and provide an
easy way for the user to enable/disable logging at will.
* [GERONIMO-3619] - Allow context-param's to be overridden in
geronimo-web.xml
* [GERONIMO-3662] - Provide JCA Resource statistics