[Smartfrog-users] Announcing 3.12.036

Tue, 06 May 2008 04:53:03 -0700

I'm pleased to announce release 3.12.036. This releases fixes some issues that have surfaced on OS/X, there are some other minor changes which may be of interest and benefit. 

-steve


SmartFrog 3.12.036
======================

This is a new release of SmartFrog, the Java-based, LPGL-licensed
distributed deployment framework developed by HP Laboratories. SmartFrog
enables applications to be deployed across multiple machines,
configuring different aspects of the system so that they are all
consistently configured, and managing the life-cycle of the application
as a whole. The project's home page is http://smartfrog.org/

The release artifacts are available at

http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=87384&package_id=176308

This release is 3.12.036; built from revision 6457
of the SVN repository. This release has an extended language
with the ability to tag attributes, and includes the following items:

* Core smartfrog daemon, including services to manage files, start and stop
  Java and native programs.
* Example components and applications.
* Ant support: ant tasks to deploy and terminate applications from a build.
* Ant components: the ability to execute ant tasks in a deployment.
* Anubis: a partition aware tuple-space that can be used to implement fault
  tolerant systems.
* Database: components to issue database commands, and deploy HSLDB and MySQL. 
* JMX: the ability to configure and manage JMX components, and to manage
  SmartFrog components over JMX.
* Logging: integration with Apache commons-logging and Log4J
* Networking: email, FTP, SSH, DNS support.
* Quartz: scheduled operations using Quartz libraries.
* Scripting: support for BSF-hosted scripting languages
* Testing: Distributed JUnit and component testing with SFUnit.
* WWW: deployment of WAR and EAR files to application servers. deploy-by-copy is provided for all application servers that support it, and sample templates 
  are provided to start and stop Tomcat and JBoss. The Jetty component can
configure and deploy individual servlets, eliminating much of the need for WAR 
  files and application servers.
* XML: XML support with XOM.
* XMPP: Presence and messaging over Jabber.

Packaging
=========

This release is available as:

* RPM files inside a .tar.gz file.
* a JAR installer.
* the original core smartfrog distribution as .zip and .tar.gz (deprecated)
The RPM installation is for RPM-based Linux systems. The archive contains the 
following RPM files:

smartfrog:        the core SmartFrog distribution.
smartfrog-daemon: the shell scripts to add the smartfrog distribution to the
                  path, and to run the daemon on start-up.
smartfrog-demo:   example code and documentation.
smartfrog-javadocs: javadocs for the project

smartfrog-ant:    Ant task and build file execution
smartfrog-anubis: Distributed partition-aware tuple space
smartfrog-database: Database access
smartfrog-jmx:    JMX integration though MX4J
smartfrog-junit:  Junit 3.8.2 test execution
smartfrog-logging: Logging through Log4J and commons-logging
smartfrog-networking: SSH, SCP, FTP and email
smartfrog-quartz:  Scheduled operations
smartfrog-scripting: Scripted components
smartfrog-www:      Web support: Deployment and liveness pages
smartfrog-xml:      XML Support
smartfrog-xmpp:     XMPP/Jabber communications
smartfrog-xunit:    Distributed testing and reporting

All the JAR files are also published to a repository that is compatible with
Apache Maven and Ivy. Add http://smartfrog.sourceforge.net/repository/
to your repository list to pull SmartFrog artifacts into your Ivy- or
Maven- based build.
There are also SmartFrog components to retrieve artifacts from such a repository 
(the Library components under /org/smartfrog/services/os/java/library.sf ),
which can be used for dynamic download of SmartFrog and other artifacts.


Security warning
================

Unless SmartFrog is configured with security, a running daemon will
listen on its configured port for incoming deployment requests, and
deploy the applications with the rights of the user running the daemon.
When the smartfrog-daemon RPM is installed, that means that a process
running as root will be listening on an open port for incoming
deployment requests. Do not deploy SmartFrog this way on any untrusted
network, not without turning security on and, ideally, recreating the
RPMs with signed JAR files.

Building SmartFrog
==================
SmartFrog requires Java 1.5+ and Ant 1.7+ to build. The izpack and source .zip and 
.tar.gz distributions include a source tree adequate to build the
entire system. To build a later release, please follow the instructions at
  http://sourceforge.net/svn/?group_id=87384
to check out smartfrog/trunk/core from our repository.

This release was built with revision 6457 of the repository, which
is available under the SVN branch
https://smartfrog.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/smartfrog/tags/release3.12.036

We strongly encourage anyone interested in building or extending
SmartFrog to get involved in the SmartFrog developer mailing list, which
can be found from the sourceforge project page
http://sourceforge.net/projects/smartfrog/

Reporting Bugs
==============

Please file all bug reports at http://jira.smartfrog.org/

Thank you!

The SmartFrog Team        http://smartfrog.org/

Changes since release 3.12.032
==============================
There are no major changes in this release. There are however, some bug fixes, especially in OS/X support, and a new component to append lines to a text file if they are not already present. 
This can be used to insert entries in host tables and SSH keyrings.

** Bug
  * [SFOS-810] - ShellScriptImpl can spin forever in restart
  * [SFOS-826] - ConcurrentModificationException in startup on OS/X
* [SFOS-828] - sfDisplay does not terminate gracefully when there is no graphical display attached to a Mac OS X 
  * [SFOS-830] - Add test for 'darwin' == mac for the IsOS condition


** Improvement
* [SFOS-795] - Factor out event registration code from EventPrimImpl and EventCompoundImpl into one helper class 
  * [SFOS-808] - Move to jetty 6.1.9
  * [SFOS-812] - Add "system environment properties" to diagnostics report.
* [SFOS-816] - give FileExists a maxFileSize attribute; give it the option of being a workflow run (for use in test sequences) * [SFOS-825] - fix spelling error in method name in org.smartfrog.sfcore.processcompound.ProcessCompoundImpl 

** New Feature
* [SFOS-809] - Modify sfParse to show a treeview of a parsed description using the management console code. * [SFOS-817] - add AppendLines component to append lines to a text file in the filesystem, *if the lines are not already present* 


** Task
  * [SFOS-814] - Remove jetty 4.24 artifacts from the repository
  * [SFOS-827] - Upgrade IVY to 2.0 Beta 2
Title: SmartFrog 3.12.036

SmartFrog 3.12.036

This is a new release of SmartFrog, the Java-based, LPGL-licensed distributed deployment framework developed by HP Laboratories. SmartFrog enables applications to be deployed across multiple machines, configuring different aspects of the system so that they are all consistently configured, and managing the life-cycle of the application as a whole. The project's home page is http://smartfrog.org/

The release artifacts are available at http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=87384&package_id=176308

This release is 3.12.036; built from revision 6457 of the SVN repository. This release has an extended language with the ability to tag attributes, and includes the following items:

  • Core smartfrog daemon, including services to manage files, start and stop Java and native programs.
  • Example components and applications.
  • Ant support: ant tasks to deploy and terminate applications from a build.
  • Ant components: the ability to execute ant tasks in a deployment.
  • Anubis: a partition aware tuple-space that can be used to implement fault tolerant systems.
  • Database: components to issue database commands, and deploy HSLDB and MySQL.
  • JMX: the ability to configure and manage JMX components, and to manage SmartFrog components over JMX.
  • Logging: integration with Apache commons-logging and Log4J
  • Networking: email, FTP, SSH, DNS support.
  • Quartz: scheduled operations using Quartz libraries.
  • Scripting: support for BSF-hosted scripting languages
  • Testing: Distributed JUnit and component testing with SFUnit.
  • WWW: deployment of WAR and EAR files to application servers. deploy-by-copy is provided for all application servers that support, and a tomcat-specific component can communicate with Apache Tomcat. The Jetty component can configure and deploy individual servlets, eliminating much of the need for WAR files themselves.
  • XML: XML support with XOM.
  • XMPP: Presence and messaging over Jabber.

Packaging

This release is available as:

  1. RPM files inside a .tar.gz file.
  2. a JAR installer.
  3. the original core smartfrog distribution as .zip and .tar.gz (deprecated)

The RPM installation is for RPM-based Linux systems. It comprises the following RPMs:

smartfrog The core SmartFrog distribution.
smartfrog-daemon The shell scripts to add the smartfrog distribution to the path, and to run the daemon on start-up.
smartfrog-javadoc javadocs for the project
smartfrog-ant Ant task and build file execution
smartfrog-anubis Distributed partition-aware tuple space
smartfrog-csvfiles CSV file support
smartfrog-database Database access
smartfrog-jmx JMX integration though MX4J
smartfrog-junit Junit 3.8.2 test execution
smartfrog-logging Logging through Log4J and commons-logging
smartfrog-networking SSH, SCP, FTP and email
smartfrog-quartz Scheduled operations
smartfrog-scripting Scripted components
smartfrog-www Web support: Deployment and liveness pages
smartfrog-xml XML Support
smartfrog-xmpp XMPP/Jabber communications
smartfrog-xunit Distributed testing and reporting

All the JAR files are also published to a repository that is compatible with Apache Maven and Ivy. Add http://smartfrog.sourceforge.net/repository to your repository list to pull SmartFrog artifacts into your Ivy- or Maven- based build.

There are also SmartFrog components to retrieve artifacts from such a repository (the Library components under /org/smartfrog/services/os/java/library.sf ), which can be used for dynamic download of SmartFrog and other artifacts.

Security warning

Unless SmartFrog is configured with security, a running daemon will listen on its configured port for incoming deployment requests, and deploy the applications with the rights of the user running the daemon. When the smartfrog-daemon RPM is installed, that means that a process running as root will be listening on an open port for incoming deployment requests. Do not deploy SmartFrog this way on any untrusted network, not without turning security on and, ideally, recreating the RPMs with signed JAR files.

Building SmartFrog

SmartFrog requires Java 1.5 and Ant 1.7 to build.

The distribution does not include a source tree adequate to build the entire system. Please follow the instructions at http://sourceforge.net/svn/?group_id=87384 and check out smartfrog/trunk/core from our repository.

This release was built with revision 6457 of the repository, which is available under the SVN branch https://smartfrog.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/smartfrog/tags/release3.12.036

We strongly encourage anyone interested in building or extending smartfrog to get involved in the smartfrog developer mailing list, which can be found from the sourceforge project page http://sourceforge.net/projects/smartfrog/

Reporting Bugs

Please file all bug reports at http://jira.smartfrog.org/

The SmartFrog Team

Changes since release 3.12.032

There are no major changes in this release. There are however, some bug fixes, especially in OS/X support, and a new component to append lines to a text file if they are not already present. This can be used to insert entries in host tables and SSH keyrings.

Bug

  • [SFOS-810] - ShellScriptImpl can spin forever in restart
  • [SFOS-826] - ConcurrentModificationException in startup on OS/X
  • [SFOS-828] - sfDisplay does not terminate gracefully when there is no graphical display attached to a Mac OS X
  • [SFOS-830] - Add test for 'darwin' == mac for the IsOS condition

Improvement

  • [SFOS-795] - Factor out event registration code from EventPrimImpl and EventCompoundImpl into one helper class
  • [SFOS-808] - Move to jetty 6.1.9
  • [SFOS-812] - Add "system environment properties" to diagnostics report.
  • [SFOS-816] - give FileExists a maxFileSize attribute; give it the option of being a workflow run (for use in test sequences)
  • [SFOS-825] - fix spelling error in method name in org.smartfrog.sfcore.processcompound.ProcessCompoundImpl

New Feature

  • [SFOS-809] - Modify sfParse to show a treeview of a parsed description using the management console code.
  • [SFOS-817] - add AppendLines component to append lines to a text file in the filesystem, *if the lines are not already present*

Task

  • [SFOS-814] - Remove jetty 4.24 artifacts from the repository
  • [SFOS-827] - Upgrade IVY to 2.0 Beta 2 
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