[Smartfrog-users] Announcing SmartFrog 3.17.012

Fri, 12 Jun 2009 09:41:48 -0700 

Hi
I'm pleased to announce there's a new release of SmartFrog, out, 3.17.012, which has some changes from the previous version 


-the unzip component is there, in the smartfrog ant RPM/JAR (It uses 
Ant's unzip code underneath)



-there is new stub file in the bin directory which the unix scripts all 
source, bin/sfSetEnvVariables.sh
 this file is intended to be overwritten with any customisations to the 
environment, either SF environment variables, or any other parts of the 
system. it is marked as a configuration file in the RPM, so when you 
upgrade a system, if the file is modified, your modifications will not 
be overridden.



-there is an ant task to take a .sf description, expand it fully. This 
gives you a file that you can scp over to a remote machine, and provided 
it has all the java classes used for the implementation, it can be 
picked up. Copy it in to /opt/smartfrog/bin/default.sf, and your daemon 
will pick it up when it is next started.



-The version of Apache Hadoop is now in sync with SVN_HEAD of hadoop 
(merged with my branch) as of wednesday.
 This is not an official Hadoop release by Apache, treat it as 
something experimental. While all of Hadoop's own tests work,

 not all of mine do, which I am trying to track down.


As usual, feel free to download and enjoy, file bug reports to 
http://jira.smartfrog.org/


SmartFrog 3.17.012
==================

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 3.17.012; built from revision 7657
of the SVN repository.

It was compiled with the Java version set to Java 6 -it will not work
on Java1.5 JVMs.

This release includes the following items:


* The 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 databases.
* Hadoop: a version of Apache Hadoop with SmartFrog management, and
  support components to interact with Hadoop: filesystem operations and
  Job submission. This is still experimental and must be considered
  unstable.
* JMX: the ability to configure and manage JMX components, and to manage
  SmartFrog components over JMX.
* Logging: integration with Apache commons-logging and Log4J, and the
  SLF4J framework.
* Networking: email, FTP, SSH, DNS support.
* Quartz: scheduled operations using Quartz libraries.
* RpmTools: components for working with or deploying with RPMs
* Scripting: support for BSF-hosted scripting languages
* Testing: Distributed JUnit and component testing with SFUnit.
* Velocity: generation/transformation of text files during deployment

* 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.
* Jetty: The Jetty components 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).

* A .tar.gz file containing everything needed to create a private set of 
RPM files

  containing JAR files signed by a private Certification Authority.



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-csvfiles: Support for reading/writing CSV Files.
smartfrog-database: Database access
smartfrog-jetty:   Jetty support
smartfrog-jmx:    JMX integration though MX4J
smartfrog-junit:  Junit 3.8.2 test execution
smartfrog-hadoop: Hadoop support
smartfrog-logging: Logging through Log4J and commons-logging
smartfrog-networking: SSH, SCP, FTP and email
smartfrog-quartz:  Scheduled operations
smartfrog-rpmtools: RPM support tools
smartfrog-scripting: Scripted components
smartfrog-velocity: Velocity template processing
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.

There is a special distribution .tar.gz file that can be used to generate
a private set of secure RPM files.

Building SmartFrog
==================


SmartFrog requires Java 1.6+ 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 7657 of the repository, which
is available under the SVN branch
https://smartfrog.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/smartfrog/tags/release3.17.012

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 last release
==========================



Release Notes - SmartFrog - Version 3.17.012

** Bug
* [SFOS-1209] - HadoopConfigurationTest failing in testFloatingPointValue
* [SFOS-1216] - some code is using Log.error(Object) and passing in an
  exception, causing the stack trace to get lost
* [SFOS-1220] - We don't rmic the test classes
* [SFOS-1231] - release/build.xml is not uninstalling the smartfrog-rpmtools
  RPM in a forced uninstall


** Improvement
* [SFOS-690] - SystemPropertiesImpl should not unset properties if they
  have a different value from that set in the deployment
* [SFOS-1207] - Move to the updated HADOOP-3628 branch
* [SFOS-1227] - move all templates from core/smartfrog/bin/default.sf

  into something in the smartfrog JAR, so that other default.sf files 
can reuse them

* [SFOS-1228] - print out the security manager classname on startup.

** New Feature
* [SFOS-1215] - Add new task expandfully, to expand the .sf file passed in
* [SFOS-1218] - add unzip component
* [SFOS-1226] - expand the cluster sf and then ssh it to a target system,
  for ssh deployment
* [SFOS-1229] - add a setSFEnvVariables shell script that is marked as conf
  in the RPMs, so can be overwritten with custom env variables


** Task
* [SFOS-1223] - Merge our hadoop branch with SVN_HEAD, create a
  0.21-alpha-13 Hadoop JAR




Title: SmartFrog 3.17.012





SmartFrog 3.17.012




  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 3.17.012; built from revision 7657
  of the SVN repository.


  It was compiled with the Java version set to Java 6
  -it will not work on Java1.5 JVMs.


  This release 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
   databases.
  
    • 
  
  •  Hadoop: a version of Apache Hadoop with SmartFrog management, and
  support components to interact with Hadoop: filesystem operations and 
  Job submission. This is still experimental and must be considered unstable. 
  
    • 
  
  •  JMX: the ability to configure and manage JMX components, and to manage
    SmartFrog components over JMX.
  
    • 
  
  •  Logging: integration with Apache commons-logging and Log4J, and the 
  SLF4J framework.
  
    • 
  
  •  Networking: email, FTP, SSH, DNS support.
  
    • 
  
  •  Quartz: scheduled operations using Quartz libraries.
  
    • 
  
  •  RpmTools: components for working with or deploying with RPMs
    • 
  
  •  Scripting: support for BSF-hosted scripting languages
  
    • 
  
  •  Testing: Distributed JUnit and component testing with SFUnit.
  
    • 
   
  • 
    Velocity: generation/transformation of text files during deployment
  
    • 
  
  •  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.
    • 
  
  • Jetty: 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. 
  
  2. 
    A JAR installer.
  
    3. 
  
  3. 
    A .tar.gz file containing everything needed to create a private set of RPM files
    containing JAR files signed by a private Certification Authority.
  
    4. 
  
  4. 
    The original smartfrog distribution as .zip and .tar.gz (deprecated)
  
    5. 





  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-jetty
    Jetty support
  

  

    smartfrog-jmx
    JMX integration though MX4J
  

  

    smartfrog-junit
    Junit 3.8.2 test execution
  

  

    smartfrog-hadoop
    Hadoop support
  

  

    smartfrog-logging
    Logging through Log4J and commons-logging
  

  

    smartfrog-networking
    SSH, SCP, FTP and email
  

  

    smartfrog-quartz
    Scheduled operations
  

  

    smartfrog-rpmtools
    RPM support tools
  

  

    smartfrog-scripting
    Scripted components
  

  

    smartfrog-velocity
    Velocity template processing
  

  

    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.




  There is a special distribution .tar.gz file that can be used to generate
  a private set of secure RPM files.




Building SmartFrog




  SmartFrog requires Java 1.6+ 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 7657 of the repository, which
  is available under the SVN branch
  https://smartfrog.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/smartfrog/tags/release3.17.012





  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 last release


        Release Notes - SmartFrog - Version 3.17.012
    

        Bug



    

  • [SFOS-1209] -         HadoopConfigurationTest failing in testFloatingPointValue

    • 

  • [SFOS-1216] -         some code is using Log.error(Object) and passing in an exception, causing the stack trace to get lost

    • 

  • [SFOS-1220] -         We don't rmic the test classes

    • 

  • [SFOS-1231] -         release/build.xml is not uninstalling the smartfrog-rpmtools RPM in a forced uninstall

    • 


        

        Improvement



    

  • [SFOS-690] -         SystemPropertiesImpl should not unset properties if they have a different value from that set in the deployment

    • 

  • [SFOS-1207] -         Move to the updated HADOOP-3628 branch

    • 

  • [SFOS-1227] -         move all templates from core/smartfrog/bin/default.sf into something in the smartfrog JAR, so that other default.sf files can reuse them

    • 

  • [SFOS-1228] -         print out the security manager classname on startup.

    • 


    

        New Feature



    

  • [SFOS-1215] -         Add new task expandfully, to expand the .sf file passed in

    • 

  • [SFOS-1218] -         add unzip component

    • 

  • [SFOS-1226] -         expand the cluster sf and then ssh it to a target system, for ssh deployment

    • 

  • [SFOS-1229] -         add a setSFEnvVariables shell script that is marked as conf in the RPMs, so can be overwritten with custom env variables

    • 


        

        Task



    

  • [SFOS-1223] -         Merge our hadoop branch with SVN_HEAD, create a 0.21-alpha-13 Hadoop JAR

    • 


    




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