Newton: Release 1.4.0

Nimble release

Use the link below to download Newton.

The distribution contains the documentation, configuration and jar files for Newton.

newton-1.4.0.24-rc.zip

You can verify this download against the following md5 checksum:

c43817c447a915fba208c9e1a6fe5c36

New Feature

• [NEWTON-97] - Add support for provisioning of fragment bundles
• [NEWTON-163] - Build OBR index of newton jars (hosted on code cauldron)
• [NEWTON-241] - Provide pluggable interceptor api for external clients to modify service/reference bindings into a composite
• [NEWTON-249] - Add simple wrapper for xml to declare a system.bundle which does work of system.composite with implementation.bundle
• [NEWTON-264] - Nimble dependency resolver

Improvement

• [NEWTON-82] - avoid adding same Bundle-Activator to all newton components
• [NEWTON-99] - Create XML Schema Docs for Newton extensions
• [NEWTON-102] - Support template less bundles in systems
• [NEWTON-124] - System composite versions are point versions - instead they should follow the OSGi conventions and allow version ranges
• [NEWTON-149] - Break out parsing code from default model parsers
• [NEWTON-162] - Provide OBR implementation of appliction resolver
• [NEWTON-164] - Add version info to .app file format
• [NEWTON-177] - Tidy up component model such that component factory providers only need to import public packages
• [NEWTON-185] - Spelling mistake in CompositeAssessor static constant "MAXIMIM_PRIORITY"
• [NEWTON-187] - Name of DefaultReplicationHandlerFactory is ambiguous as it suggests users should extend this class - rename to NewtonReplicationHandlerFactory and make final
• [NEWTON-188] - NewtonReplicationHandlerFactory should understand short cut names for replicators vs simply doing class.forName
• [NEWTON-197] - Allow session variables to be set in scripts
• [NEWTON-198] - Create cd, pwd, ls commands for console
• [NEWTON-200] - Use singleton attribute on framework composites that should not be installed more than once per jvm
• [NEWTON-203] - Installer cli uses the physical path of an instance document to define identity - better to use document itself
• [NEWTON-204] - Change -development=true flag to -server=true and default to development mode
• [NEWTON-205] - Tidy up npes if <implementation..../> is not resolved due to missing factory
• [NEWTON-208] - Global event log should print stack trace info (if it is available) to file
• [NEWTON-217] - Newton boot is verbose at startup - should come up in a quiet config by default and use -verbose=true if really want to see startup messages
• [NEWTON-218] - Newton supports a -cleanShutdown=[true|false] flag but by default it is set to true - this is non optimal for developer environments where it would be better to just exit quickly
• [NEWTON-238] - Application launcher should print info on which bundle failed to start to aid debug
• [NEWTON-239] - split rmi activation code from jini binding services to aid modularity
• [NEWTON-240] - Improve performance of BundleAnnotationResolver by avoiding looking for bundle for boot classloader classes
• [NEWTON-242] - Provide access to SystemDescriptor from SystemContext
• [NEWTON-243] - System manager jmx notifications send rich objects vs common types which forces client code to import unknown model elements
• [NEWTON-244] - Jini service bindings should pass attributes through to jini starter service implementations
• [NEWTON-247] - Tidy up xml namespace elements used by newton
• [NEWTON-260] - Improve logging on bundle application stop
• [NEWTON-262] - "cds load" should support url locations vs just files

Bug

• [NEWTON-56] - Npe in cds publish at startup
• [NEWTON-57] - Graphing code should honour service dependency requirements where possible prior to exporting a service
• [NEWTON-84] - Bundle gc should be run synchronously whilst in development mode to ensure bundle is removed during uninstall/reinstall cycle
• [NEWTON-94] - SecurityException when resolving from CDS a bundle which contains a META-INF/*.RSA entry
• [NEWTON-100] - AbstractMethodError when calling org.knopflerfish.bundle.http.ServletContextImpl.getServletContextName()
• [NEWTON-107] - Contract change in system document does not result in redeployment of composites already deployed with this contract
• [NEWTON-180] - java.lang.IllegalStateException: Unexpected descriptor type ProxyDescriptor after failure to install bundle
• [NEWTON-182] - CDS scan of jar file with Manifest as last entry fails
• [NEWTON-196] - Temporary failure of resolver
• [NEWTON-201] - Failure to uninstall composites with singleton=true flag
• [NEWTON-202] - npe on shutdown in NewtonSystem due to closing service tracker after bundle context value set to null
• [NEWTON-207] - Recursive loop causes StackOverflowError if composite in a bundle includes itself
• [NEWTON-210] - Failure during shutdown due to BundleContext "no longer valid"
• [NEWTON-212] - Race condition on setBound and publishing service after change to service/reference dependencies
• [NEWTON-214] - NPE from fabric import etc/paremus/resilient-fabric-management.system
• [NEWTON-215] - R4 repository loader reports multiple manifests per bundle in CDS
• [NEWTON-219] - NPE when wires are not specified in composite
• [NEWTON-220] - NPE in composite factory builder if sca document is invalid
• [NEWTON-221] - NPE in jini binding if jini proxy is not serializable
• [NEWTON-223] - Occaisional StringIndexOutOfBoundsException on startup
• [NEWTON-224] - newton HEAD non-fatal resolution error at startup under knopflerfish
• [NEWTON-229] - Occaisional npe during demo script
• [NEWTON-232] - knopflerfish startup fails under nimble
• [NEWTON-233] - Noisy exceptions in provisioner monitoring when used with nested system documents
• [NEWTON-234] - Intermittent security exception installing jetty bundle
• [NEWTON-236] - remote reference cleardown
• [NEWTON-237] - Overriding a component already defined in an include is ignored
• [NEWTON-245] - JiniReferenceBinding prefilters services based on names found in ldap expression but this should only apply if ldap expression is a set of "and" terms
• [NEWTON-251] - NPE in NimbleActivator when running "shutdown"
• [NEWTON-252] - Illegal state exception on shutdown
• [NEWTON-253] - Tidy up occaisional NPE in jini discovery shutdown
• [NEWTON-254] - Tidy up unknown protocol exception if cds is uninstalled
• [NEWTON-256] - exec command expands ../ to current working directory vs parent
• [NEWTON-257] - Calling fabric deploy on an already deployed system results in an unnecessary undeploy/redeploy cycle
• [NEWTON-258] - Fatal exception on container start due to malformed regexp (?)
• [NEWTON-263] - Tidy up noisy jini exception