Updated three most important things
On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 9:31 AM, Tom Hobbs <[email protected]> wrote: > Here's the status report for December. > > Comments? > > River > > Apache River is a distributed computing architecture, based on the JSK > Starter Kit Source code donated by Sun Microsystems, for the Jini > Specification. While generally referred to as a Service Architecture, > it might be more easily explained to those familiar with Dependency > Injection as a Protocol Independent, Distributed Dependency Injection > Architecture, suited to both hardware and software. Instead of > depending on Protocols directly for communication, everything is > abstracted behind a Java interface, allowing protocols and > implementations to be swapped freely, programming languages other than > Java can also participate. > > The activity on the River project continues to grow and is seeing > renewed interest from people who had previously fallen silent. The > current development team feels that we are ready to start the > Graduation process to a TLP. > > The next release 2.2.0 is scheduled for December, this is likely to be > a bug-fix release and will hopefully be our last release before > graduation. > > New functionality and enhancements has currently been suspended in > favour of bug-fixes and the work towards graduation. The following > rough road map has been provisionally agreed; > > * Graduation as top level project river.apache.org > * Rename com.sun namespace to org.apache.river > * Modular build & JDK policy > > After this has been completed then the previous work on new > functionality and enhancements will be picked up again. These will > include; > * Dynamic Grants at Runtime, based on CodeSource, Code Signer > Certificate chains , ProtectionDomain or ClassLoader. > * Dynamic Revoke of Grant's at Runtime > * Securing proxy downloads and unmarshalling > > Additionally work is continuing on the build and test environments. > Bug fixes are helping meaning more of the QA tests are passing, which > allows us to enable more of the test categories thus increasing test > coverage. More of the JTREG tests are also passing after fixes to the > environment and the tests themselves. > > The website has been moved to the new Apache CMS environment and has > seen further increases in the level of documentation available, > particular articles which are useful to people starting to use and > develop River. > > 3 most important issues: > Graduation > JVM version support post graduation > QA test performance and organization > > Signed off by mentor: >
