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Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2009 12:00:58 -0700 (PDT)
From: Matt Benson <gudnabrsam@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [ANN] commons-exec 1.0 released
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Great job seeing this through, Siegfried!=0A=0A-Matt=0A=0A--- On Thu, 3/26/=
09, Siegfried Goeschl <siegfried.goeschl@it20one.at> wrote:=0A=0A> From: Si=
egfried Goeschl <siegfried.goeschl@it20one.at>=0A> Subject: [ANN] commons-e=
xec 1.0 released=0A> To: "Jakarta Commons Developers List" <dev@commons.apa=
che.org>, "Jakarta Commons Users List" <user@commons.apache.org>=0A> Date: =
Thursday, March 26, 2009, 1:34 PM=0A> The commons-exec-team is pleased to=
=0A> announce the commons-exec-1.0 release!=0A> =0A> A library to reliably =
execute external processes from=0A> within the JVM=0A> =0A> Changes in this=
 version include:=0A> =0A> New features:=0A> ------------------------------=
-----------------------------------------------=0A> =0A> o Added one additi=
onal test :=0A> DefaultExecutorTest.testExecuteWithFancyArg=A0 =0A> =A0 Iss=
ue: EXEC-26. Thanks to Benjamin Bentmann.=0A> o Added convinience method to=
 add two parameters to the=0A> CommandLine=0A> =A0 using one method invocat=
ion.=0A> o Added test scripts for OpenVMS - he seems to be the last=0A> hum=
an having=0A> =A0 access to an OpenVMS box ... :-)=0A> o With the help of t=
he Apache Commons community I added the=0A> first results=0A> =A0 of cross-=
OS testing. Thanks to Simone Gianni, Bindul=0A> Bhowmik,=0A> =A0 Niall Pemb=
erton, Sebastian Bazley.=0A> o The regression tests now also works on Windo=
ws - so it=0A> should=0A> =A0 work now on Linux, Windows and Mac OS X=0A> o=
 Added DebugUtils to improve cross-platform testing.=0A> o Made DefaultExec=
utor.launch() protected to enable=0A> mocking.=A0 =0A> =A0 Issue: SANDBOX-6=
2. Thanks to Jeremy Lacoste.=0A> o Made ProcessDestroyer optional and plugg=
able when using=0A> Executor.=A0 =0A> =A0 Issue: SANDBOX-107. Thanks to Nik=
las Gustavsson.=0A> o CommandLine can now expand the given command line by =
a=0A> user-suppied=0A> =A0 map. This allows to execute something like=0A> "=
${JAVA_HOME}/bin/java -jar=0A> ${myapp}"=0A> o Added methods to provide pre=
-quoted arguments.=A0 =0A> =A0 Issue: SANDBOX-192. Thanks to Reinhold Fuere=
der.=0A> o Exposing a ExecuteWatchdog.destroy() to kill an=0A> asynchrounou=
s process=0A> =A0 manually. This formalizes a workaround described in=0A> t=
he JIRA=A0 =0A> =A0 Issue: SANDBOX-193. Thanks to Reinhold Fuereder.=0A> o =
Extending exit value handling to support applications=0A> returning an erro=
r=0A> =A0 code.=A0 Issue: SANDBOX-203.=0A> o Added a few regression tests f=
or the watchdog since they=0A> were missing.=A0 =0A> =A0 Issue: SANDBOX-204=
.=0A> =0A> Fixed Bugs:=0A> ------------------------------------------------=
-----------------------------=0A> =0A> o Removed useless synchronized state=
ment in=0A> =A0=0A> OpenVmsProcessingEnvironment.createProcEnvironment=A0 =
=0A> =A0 Issue: EXEC-37. Thanks to Sebastien Bazley.=0A> o Using System.in =
for child process will actually hang your=0A> application -=0A> =A0 see JIR=
A for more details. Since there is no easy=0A> fix an=0A> =A0 IllegalRuntim=
eException is thrown when System.in is=0A> passed.=A0 =0A> =A0 Issue: EXEC-=
33.=0A> o Fixing a few findbugs issues.=A0 Issue: EXEC-35.=0A> Thanks to Lu=
c Maisonobe.=0A> o Handle null streams consistently.=A0 Issue: EXEC-32.=0A>=
 Thanks to Marco=0A> Ferrante.=0A> o After a long discussion we decided to =
stick to following=0A> groupId=0A> =A0 "org.apache.commons" instead of "com=
mons-exec".=0A> o The Ant build now works even when junit is not on the=0A>=
 classpath=0A> =A0 Thanks to Kevin Jackson.=0A> o Fixed broken "groupId" fr=
om "org.apache.commons" to=0A> "commons-exec"=0A> o Renamed EnvironmentUtil=
 to EnvironmentUtils to align with=0A> other classes=0A> =A0 in this projec=
t and commons in general. Please note=0A> that this change=0A> =A0 could br=
eak existing clients (but would be rather=0A> unlikely).=A0 =0A> =A0 Issue:=
 EXEC-27. Thanks to Benjamin Bentmann.=0A> o Make environment variables res=
pect casing rules of=0A> platforms. Under=0A> Windows=0A> =A0 "PATH", "Path=
" and "path" would access the same=0A> environment variable=0A> whereas=0A>=
 =A0 the real name is "Path".=A0 Issue: EXEC-30.=0A> Thanks to Benjamin Ben=
tmann.=0A> o Invoking DefaultExecutor.execute(CommandLine command, Map=0A> =
environment)=0A> using=0A> a 'null' Map results in inheriting all environme=
nt=0A> variables of the current=0A> =A0 process while passing an empty map =
implies starting=0A> the new process=0A> with no=0A> =A0 environment variab=
les. In short 'null' is not the=0A> same as an empty map.=A0 =0A> =A0 Issue=
: EXEC-31. Thanks to Benjamin Bentmann.=0A> o Using variable substitution w=
ithin CommandLine broke the=0A> regression tests=0A> =A0 under Windows. Fou=
nd also another bug when calling=0A> CommandLine.getExecutable()=0A> =A0 th=
e result was not substituted at all. As a general=0A> rule we do variable=
=0A> =A0 substitution and file separator fixing on the=0A> command line exe=
cutable and=0A> =A0 variable substitution but NO file separator fixing=0A> =
for the command line=0A> =A0 arguments.=A0 Issue: EXEC-25.=0A> o Implemente=
d better regression test for OpenVMS affecting=0A> also=0A> =A0 the Executo=
r and CommandLauncher interface.=0A> o Cleaned up the source code to get ri=
d of javadoc errors=0A> and=0A> =A0 unused imports.=A0 Issue: SANDBOX-204.=
=0A> =0A> =0A> Removed:=0A> o Removed commons-logging integration=0A> =0A> =
Have fun!=0A> =0A> -commons-exec-team=0A> =0A> =0A> -----------------------=
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