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From: mcconnell at BerliOS <mcconnell AT mail.berlios.de>
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Subject: r1757 - trunk/central/site/src/docs/about/news
Date: Sat, 16 Sep 2006 02:10:41 +0200

Author: mcconnell
Date: 2006-09-16 02:10:41 +0200 (Sat, 16 Sep 2006)
New Revision: 1757

Added:
trunk/central/site/src/docs/about/news/SDK-1.0.2.xml
Modified:
trunk/central/site/src/docs/about/news/navigation.xml
Log:
add 1.0.2 release news item

Added: trunk/central/site/src/docs/about/news/SDK-1.0.2.xml
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--- trunk/central/site/src/docs/about/news/SDK-1.0.2.xml 2006-09-15
21:16:01 UTC (rev 1756)
+++ trunk/central/site/src/docs/about/news/SDK-1.0.2.xml 2006-09-16
00:10:41 UTC (rev 1757)
@@ -0,0 +1,126 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
+
+<document>
+ <properties>
+ <author email="mcconnell AT dpml.net">Stephen McConnell</author>
+ <title>DPML SDK 1.0.2 Release</title>
+ <description>16 September 2006 - DPML SDK 1.0.2 Release.</description>
+ <keywords>DPML, build, runtime, management, components, soa, java,
composition</keywords>
+ </properties>
+
+ <body>
+
+ <section name="16 September 2006 - DPML SDK 1.0.2 Release">
+
+ <p>
+ The DPML is proud to announce the formal distribution
+ of version <tt>1.0.2</tt> of the DPML SDK.
+ </p>
+
+ <subsection name="Distribution">
+
+ <table>
+
+ <tr>
+
+ <td><b><i>Transit</i></b></td>
+
+ <td>
+ Transit is a resource management system that lets you work with
+ uris instead of urls - where uris include
artifact:[group]/[name]#[version]
+ (for cached based retrieval of versioned resources backed by
local and/or
+ remote repositories), link:[group]/[name]#[version] which
provides an
+ equivalent concept to a symlink, and
local:[group]/[name]#[version] for retrieval of
+ local preferences. Above the resource management layer is a
plugin
+ management system that combines 'deployment data' and
'classloader chain'
+ information into XML files that can be used by the system to
automatically
+ deploy complex systems.
+ </td>
+
+ </tr>
+
+ <tr>
+
+ <td><b><i>Metro</i></b></td>
+
+ <td>
+ Metro is an advanced deployment strategy for plugins. In effect
Transit plugin definitions
+ allow for the declaration of alternative object deployment
strategies.
+ While the basic Transit plugin model supports a generic
framework (including antlib
+ resources loading) - the Metro system goes orders of magnitude
further in its provision
+ for lifecycle management, custom lifestyle, Context-IOC, remote
management,
+ logging, and other features aimed at composite component
management. The Metro platform
+ also includes a the 'Station' - in effect a server handles
multiple JVMs and provides
+ support for remote application management.
+ </td>
+
+ </tr>
+
+ <tr>
+
+ <td><b><i>Depot</i></b></td>
+
+ <td>
+ The Depot library provides a framework for <resource>
(e.g.
+ jar file, XML files, etc.), <project>, and <module>
declarations.
+ Modules identify a namespace for a group of resource and/or
projects.
+ Projects identify a working base directory. Projects can declare
scoped dependencies
+ covering BUILD, TEST and RUNTIME phases. Runtime phases can be
further
+ qualified to separate PUBLIC, PROTECTED and PRIVATE scopes. In
addition
+ project definitions may include property and filter declarations
and (which
+ may be direct name/token substitution or feature based
substitution - e.g.
+ lookup the version of project X and replace token Y with the
value).
+ The build system includes a command line handler that uses the
library
+ to resolve project base directories, transitive dependencies,
properties,
+ and filters. It uses the Transit system for all resource
management concerns
+ including support within Transit for the declaration and
deployment of plugins
+ (where a plugin is somewhat equivalent to an antlib plus
classloader
+ definition). Depot uses Transit for loading build templates and
antlibs.
+ Depot also includes a small number of Ant tasks that enable
build automation
+ of the majority of the DPML project. Generally speaking these
ant tasks
+ are simply pulling in info from the library (e.g. compile path
creation,
+ test path creation, meta-data creation, property resolution,
etc.).
+ When the generic Depot tasks don't meet all of our needs - we
simply add extra
+ extra instructions into build.xml files (i.e. its just driving
classic Ant).
+ </td>
+
+ </tr>
+
+ </table>
+
+ </subsection>
+
+ <subsection name="1.0.1 Maintenance Update">
+
+ <p>
+ Changes in the the 1.0.1 release included the addition of a new
command-line option to the Depot build
+ tool enabling a decimal version build policy together with some
internal implementation
+ enhancements that enable the generation of a full DPML system build
using the Depot build
+ system. The decimal versioning option basically addresses
functional requirements that arise
+ when evaluating the impact of small changes on dependent systems.
In addition version 1.0.1
+ introduced the ability within the DPML build to run the entire build
under Depot (as opposed
+ to the earlier bootstrap+Depot build sequence).
+ </p>
+
+ </subsection>
+
+ <subsection name="1.0.2 Maintenance Update">
+
+ <p>
+ The 1.0.2 update resolved a bug in the Transit console handler
related
+ to the deployment of plugins from the command line. Earlier
versions did
+ not properly support plugins declaring a net.dpml.util.Logger
constructor
+ argument instance. The release also included improvements to the
console
+ info listing with additional version information for both console
and
+ runtime resources.
+ </p>
+
+ </subsection>
+
+ </section>
+
+ </body>
+</document>
+
+
+

Modified: trunk/central/site/src/docs/about/news/navigation.xml
===================================================================
--- trunk/central/site/src/docs/about/news/navigation.xml 2006-09-15
21:16:01 UTC (rev 1756)
+++ trunk/central/site/src/docs/about/news/navigation.xml 2006-09-16
00:10:41 UTC (rev 1757)
@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@

<body>
<menu>
+ <item name="SDK 1.0.2" href="SDK-1.0.2.html"/>
<item name="Archive" href="archive.html"/>
</menu>
</body>

r1757 - trunk/central/site/src/docs/about/news, mcconnell at BerliOS, 09/15/2006