Author: ammulder Date: Sat Aug 27 12:06:33 2005 New Revision: 240446 URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewcvs?rev=240446&view=rev Log: Copy latest release notes from the M4 branch Modified: geronimo/trunk/RELEASE-NOTES-1.0-M4.txt Modified: geronimo/trunk/RELEASE-NOTES-1.0-M4.txt URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewcvs/geronimo/trunk/RELEASE-NOTES-1.0-M4.txt?rev=240446&r1=240445&r2=240446&view=diff ============================================================================== --- geronimo/trunk/RELEASE-NOTES-1.0-M4.txt (original) +++ geronimo/trunk/RELEASE-NOTES-1.0-M4.txt Sat Aug 27 12:06:33 2005 @@ -1,75 +1,302 @@ -Release Notes -- Apache Geronimo -- Version 1.0-M4 - -NOTE: THIS IS A PLACEHOLDER. THERE HAS NOT BEEN AN OFFICIAL M4 RELEASE -YET. YOU MAY LOOK AT THE FILE RELEASE-NOTES-1.0-M3.txt IN YOUR -GERONIMO DISTRIBUTION FOR THE RELEASE NOTES FROM THE LAST MILESTONE, BUT -THOSE ARE SOMEWHAT OUT OF DATE. - +Release Notes -- Apache Geronimo -- Version 1.0 Milestone 4 Geronimo URLs ------------- Home Page: http://geronimo.apache.org/ -Downloads: http://geronimo.apache.org/download.html +Downloads: http://geronimo.apache.org/downloads.html Documentation: http://geronimo.apache.org/documentation.html Mailing Lists: http://geronimo.apache.org/mailing.html -Source Code: http://geronimo.apache.org/source.html +Source Code: http://geronimo.apache.org/svn.html Bug Tracking: http://nagoya.apache.org/jira/secure/BrowseProject.jspa?id=10220 Wiki: http://wiki.apache.org/geronimo System Requirements ------------------- -You need a platform that supports JDK 1.4 or JDK 1.5 (and some -features such as HTTPS currently depend on Sun implementation -classes, so a Sun JVM would be the best bet). - -Most testing has been done on Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows. For a -list of notes on specific configurations, see -http://wiki.apache.org/geronimo/KnownWorkingConfigurations +You need a platform that supports JDK 1.4 (and some features +such as CORBA currently depend on Sun implementation classes and +are known to not work under 1.5, so a Sun 1.4.2_08 JVM would be the +best bet). + +Most testing has been done on Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows. + Installing & Starting Geronimo ------------------------------ -To install, simply unpack the zip or tar file containing Geronimo. +To install, simply unpack the zip or tar file containing Geronimo, +or run the installer package for a more interactive installation +process (including the ability to change ports and the default +administrator account) To start Geronimo, change to the Geronimo directory and run java -jar bin/server.jar -Current Project Status at a Glance ----------------------------------- +Deploying Applications +------------------------------ +To deploy a J2EE module or application, start Geronimo and then +run (for example): + + java -jar bin/deployer.jar deploy my-web-app.war [deploy plan] + +You will need to use the username "system" and password "manager" +unless you customized those during the install process. + +For more information on the commands and options supported by the +deploy tool, run + + java -jar bin/deployer.jar help [command] + + +Current Road Map at a Glance +---------------------------- http://wiki.apache.org/geronimo/RoadMap +http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/GERONIMO? + report=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.project:roadmap-panel + + (that last must be all on one line) + Significant Changes Since the M3 Release ---------------------------------------- - == FILL ME IN == + * EJB support is complete + * Web Services support is complete + * JSR-77 support, including the Management EJB + * Securty configuration has changed dramatically + * The current Geronimo code passes the J2EE TCK test suite, but + full certification is not yet complete. Significant Missing Features ---------------------------- - == FILL ME IN == + * A web management console + * Deployment from a machine other than the server + * J2EE Application Client that works from a machine other than the server + * A build that uses Tomcat by default (Tomcat can be activated as a + manual process, but as of M5 we will be distributing both Jetty and + Tomcat builds) + * A hot deploy directory (though the deploy tool can hot deploy) + * JSR-88 support for Geronimo deployment plan configuration + * Full functionality on non-Sun JVMs (a portable CORBA implementation + is not expected for version 1.0) + * Clustering (also not expected for version 1.0) Overall Project Status ---------------------- -Geronimo is currently undergoing TCK testing. Many features work, but -it is not fully J2EE compliant yet. Geronimo has also not been -extensively performance tested. Your help would be appreciated! +Geronimo is now feature complete with respect to J2EE 1.4, and has +passed the automated TCK test suite. However, full certification +has not yet been completed. + +Many of the remaining changes are focused on usability at this time. +However, Geronimo has also not been extensively performance tested. +Your help would be appreciated! Documentation efforts are underway, and freely available documentation -covers many of the more stable aspects of the product. +covers many aspects of the product. For more information on specific bugs or features, or to help with testing efforts, please visit JIRA, our bug/issue tracking system, at http://nagoya.apache.org/jira/secure/BrowseProject.jspa?id=10220 +Certification Status +-------------------- +Geronimo is pursuing full J2EE certification (it's not enough to just +pass the automated tests). Stay tuned! + + Specific Issues Addressed in M4 Release --------------------------------------- ** New Features + * [GERONIMO-172] - EJB 2.1 ServiceEndpoint interface support + * [GERONIMO-175] - Web to EJB security integration + * [GERONIMO-186] - Complete EJB-QL support + * [GERONIMO-192] - ejbSelect method support + * [GERONIMO-228] - EJB 2.1 Home methods + * [GERONIMO-312] - Support web application deployment to Tomcat + * [GERONIMO-315] - Message Destination References in web.xml in Tomcat + * [GERONIMO-317] - Support for method-permissions in the web.xml in Tomcat + * [GERONIMO-318] - Support for ejb-refs in a web.xml in Tomcat + * [GERONIMO-319] - Access to UserTransaction from webapp in Tomcat + * [GERONIMO-332] - Support for service-ref in J2EE App Client + * [GERONIMO-333] - Support for JAAS callback-handlers in J2EE App Clients + * [GERONIMO-391] - jsr-77 MEJB needed + * [GERONIMO-495] - Provide an auditing login module implementation + * [GERONIMO-528] - Add HTTP/1.1 Connector GBean for Tomcat + * [GERONIMO-695] - Need better progress feedback during startup sequence + * [GERONIMO-698] - Print port map at server startup ** Improvements + * [GERONIMO-347] - TransactionContext usage is confused and confusing + * [GERONIMO-375] - DeploymentException: Module was not a war: foo.war + * [GERONIMO-380] - Eliminate TransactionManagerProxy and TransactionProxy + * [GERONIMO-410] - Revise SecurityRealm getUserPrincipals/getGroupPrincipals + * [GERONIMO-415] - Improve on Subject.doAs for client invoking secure EJB + * [GERONIMO-422] - Redundant security realm configuration options + * [GERONIMO-423] - Add role mapping to EAR geronimo-application.xsd + * [GERONIMO-424] - ConfigurationEntry support for multiple LoginModules + * [GERONIMO-430] - Generalize security realms, consolidate logic into Login Modules + * [GERONIMO-450] - GBeans should use jsr-77 naming conventions + * [GERONIMO-451] - Geronimo connector xsd refers to Sun schemas + * [GERONIMO-456] - Rename LocalLoginRemoteLocalModuleLocalRealmRemote... + * [GERONIMO-473] - Jetty module builder should completely configure GBeans + * [GERONIMO-474] - Jetty web app context could use interceptor based design + * [GERONIMO-478] - Deployer must not echo password when prompting + * [GERONIMO-485] - Connector deployment should convert 1.0 dds to 1.5 dds + * [GERONIMO-486] - ActivationSpec metadata is attached to the wrong gbean. + * [GERONIMO-487] - Split deployment module into at least 2 parts + * [GERONIMO-491] - Service deployer doesn't recognize syntax errors + * [GERONIMO-493] - Add Login Domains to Security Objects + * [GERONIMO-494] - Add Login Domains to Deployment Objects + * [GERONIMO-504] - Dependencies defined by plan are not "validated" + * [GERONIMO-511] - Remote EJB invocation should use Geronimo thread pools + * [GERONIMO-535] - handle fully-qualified paths in ServerInfo.resolvePath() + * [GERONIMO-541] - Upgrade ActiveMQ to 2.0 and use JDBC for persistence + * [GERONIMO-568] - Switch system-datasource plan to the derby xa connector + * [GERONIMO-573] - Add optional attributes to deploy:waitForStarted + * [GERONIMO-586] - Exceptions at startup if Geronimo started under security manager + * [GERONIMO-588] - Upgrade to Apache Tomcat 5.5.7 + * [GERONIMO-599] - Allow sophisticated processing of xml-valued gbean attributes + * [GERONIMO-618] - Make interop:type=NetworkService,name=RMIIIOP use ThreadPool + * [GERONIMO-620] - ServiceAccessController does not support ip6address + * [GERONIMO-632] - Create a JACC gbean per application to manage security + * [GERONIMO-633] - Tomcat module needs to be updated to use JACC gbean + * [GERONIMO-648] - EJB web services need user data permissions too + * [GERONIMO-658] - CSIv2 CSS/TSS gbean references should be shorter + * [GERONIMO-659] - EJBs should point to TSS bean not TSS to ejb + * [GERONIMO-671] - Error: Deployment failed, Server reports: No deployer present + * [GERONIMO-696] - Too much info-level output during startup + * [GERONIMO-701] - Can't set listen host/IP for Jetty Connectors + * [GERONIMO-702] - Can't set listen host/IP for Tomcat Connectors + * [GERONIMO-707] - Deployment exception message re: JAX-RPC mapping file error + * [GERONIMO-732] - Change Geronimo Build to use current version of Tomcat AJP JAR + * [GERONIMO-740] - Move from ActiveMQ 3.1-SNAPSHOT to a formal release + * [GERONIMO-741] - Move from ActiveIO 1.0 to ActiveIO 1.1 + * [GERONIMO-745] - Move from Axis 1.3-SNAPSHOT to formal version + * [GERONIMO-746] - Move from commons_discovery SNAPSHOT to formal version + * [GERONIMO-747] - Remove ews dependency + * [GERONIMO-755] - Move from Scout/JAXR version 1.0-SNAPSHOT to a formal version + * [GERONIMO-756] - Move ServiceMix from 1.0-SNAPSHOT to a formal or dated release + * [GERONIMO-757] - Move from jUDDI SNAPSHOT to formal version + * [GERONIMO-758] - Move geronimo_spec_activation from 1.0.2-SNAPSHOT to 1.0.2-rc4 + * [GERONIMO-759] - Move geronimo_spec_javamail from 1.3.1-SNAPSHOT to a 1.3.1-rc4 + * [GERONIMO-760] - Move tmporb SNAPSHOT dependency to a dated version in M4 + * [GERONIMO-761] - Move from custom cglib build version to cglib-nodep-2.1_2.jar + * [GERONIMO-772] - Move OpenEJB from jelly velocity tags SNAPSHOT to version 1.0 + * [GERONIMO-773] - Improve Error messages in the Jetty TemporaryPlanAdapter + * [GERONIMO-802] - Publish geronimo_spec_javamail jar version 1.3.1-rc5 + * [GERONIMO-811] - Remove Tomcat option from izpack installer for M4 release ** Bug Fixes + * [GERONIMO-181] - Transaction propogation accross calls to stateful session beans + * [GERONIMO-264] - Startup exceptions are suppressed + * [GERONIMO-290] - Static content with spaces in path or name can't be deployed + * [GERONIMO-334] - Cannot find tools.jar at server startup + * [GERONIMO-336] - Invalid dd does not cause web deployment to fail + * [GERONIMO-355] - tx policies call tm.rollback on committed transactions + * [GERONIMO-359] - Do not convert RB exceptions to TransactionRolledBackException + * [GERONIMO-374] - Reject duplicate RA names in same deployment + * [GERONIMO-421] - Better handling for null/empty users in default LoginModules + * [GERONIMO-442] - Demo module isn't started properly + * [GERONIMO-472] - MDB Deployment Fails + * [GERONIMO-475] - Deployment tool fails with ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException + * [GERONIMO-482] - Servlet lifecycle doesn't work well with connection lifecycle + * [GERONIMO-483] - Security Realm Startup Errors Squashed (ClassNotFoundException) + * [GERONIMO-488] - Jetty dispatch doesn't set component context, tx, or security + * [GERONIMO-496] - Multiple login module support broken + * [GERONIMO-501] - Could not deploy an ejb-jar archive with M3 + * [GERONIMO-502] - Console Deployer: ClassNotFoundException for nested exception + * [GERONIMO-503] - WebUserDataPermission is not actually serializable + * [GERONIMO-507] - ConnectException occurs after MDB deployment and server restart + * [GERONIMO-508] - Invalid dd results in "No deployer found" + * [GERONIMO-517] - CancelledKeyException in ControlProtocolTest + * [GERONIMO-521] - Maven Plugin is missing dependency to geronimo-common + * [GERONIMO-524] - Axis module is not consistent with new jetty deployer + * [GERONIMO-531] - XercesImpl-2.6.0.jar and DocumentBuilderFactoryImpl not found + * [GERONIMO-537] - NullPointerException in OpenEJBModuleBuilder.java + * [GERONIMO-539] - ClassCastException at shutdown + * [GERONIMO-540] - Unable to login to server when using jdk 1.5 + * [GERONIMO-542] - Kernel.listGBeans returns mbeans that are not gbeans + * [GERONIMO-543] - Persistent configuration list is broken + * [GERONIMO-545] - AppClientModule jsr-77 gbean should not have the ReadOnlyContext + * [GERONIMO-549] - NullPointerException if MDB does not have resource-adapter + * [GERONIMO-550] - Functioning of Transaction Time out was not properly handled + * [GERONIMO-551] - Jetty welcome files don't work + * [GERONIMO-558] - "distribute" doesn't deploy web apps + * [GERONIMO-559] - NPE if config attribute not passed to deploy:startRemoteServer + * [GERONIMO-561] - Connection obtained in afterCompletion gets associated w/tx + * [GERONIMO-562] - ejbTimeout has wrong thread classloader, so no ENC available + * [GERONIMO-563] - Allowed methods in ejbtimeout don't correspond to final spec + * [GERONIMO-564] - Spelling mistake + * [GERONIMO-565] - Removing an entity bean does not cancel its timers + * [GERONIMO-566] - JSR-77 name changes for Tomcat + * [GERONIMO-567] - CMP Entities in 1.x ejb.jars are treated as 2.x beans + * [GERONIMO-574] - Client side EJB handles are not deserializable + * [GERONIMO-576] - Reentrancy throw an exception + * [GERONIMO-577] - Inbound-only J2EE Connector can't be deployed + * [GERONIMO-579] - UserTransaction broken after BMT calls BMT + * [GERONIMO-580] - CMP create, remove, and recreate throws exception + * [GERONIMO-581] - Deployer unaware of org.tranql.ql.QueryException + * [GERONIMO-584] - LocalHome Finder causes "Unknown method" assertion error + * [GERONIMO-587] - Deployer can fail but appear to succeed + * [GERONIMO-590] - Obey "javax.security.jacc.policy.provider" system property + * [GERONIMO-591] - Finder can return null + * [GERONIMO-595] - Recursive CMRs do not work + * [GERONIMO-598] - ejbFind<> or ejbSelect<> following ejbCreate<> within TX + * [GERONIMO-600] - Misleading GBean failure message + * [GERONIMO-602] - Ear deployment fails when EJB Jar is in subdirectory + * [GERONIMO-604] - Gbean error starting configuration org/apache/geronimo/Secure + * [GERONIMO-606] - Gbeans in application plan have no module in their name + * [GERONIMO-607] - Logging configuration is processed twice at startup + * [GERONIMO-608] - J2eeContextImpl constructor value switch + * [GERONIMO-610] - Connectors need a TCCL too + * [GERONIMO-612] - OpenORBStubClassLoader needs to track parent cl + * [GERONIMO-613] - Enhancements / fixes to interop + * [GERONIMO-617] - Interop module is missing eclipse and intellij classpath + * [GERONIMO-619] - Does not build due to missing dependency commons-modeler 1.1 + * [GERONIMO-625] - empty parameter in web.inf causes NPE in Jetty + * [GERONIMO-628] - UnavailableEJBReferenceBuilder... should return null + * [GERONIMO-634] - openejb jacc has contextID per ejb rather than per ejb module + * [GERONIMO-635] - Jetty cannot be used without web services support + * [GERONIMO-638] - howl warning at startup + * [GERONIMO-639] - GenericSecurityRealm doesn't express its gbean dependencies + * [GERONIMO-642] - Cannot deploy war when installed in a path with space in name + * [GERONIMO-647] - Latest GBean naming conventions + * [GERONIMO-649] - webservices with partial wsdl don't deploy + * [GERONIMO-650] - POJO ws should not need to implement SEI + * [GERONIMO-651] - Need ability to set location on ejb ws + * [GERONIMO-653] - NPE in GeronimoStandardContext when attempting to get the CL + * [GERONIMO-657] - Running configurations not saved on shutdown + * [GERONIMO-661] - "Unchecked" permissions for all EJB methods ("*") do not work + * [GERONIMO-662] - Cannot find root context without geronimo-tomcat.xml + * [GERONIMO-672] - EJB Web Service Endpoint WSDL problem + * [GERONIMO-677] - Login Modules are being reused + * [GERONIMO-678] - Bad SOAP response when complexTypes are involved + * [GERONIMO-685] - Too many open files from CORBA compiler + * [GERONIMO-691] - OpenEJB assumes optional messaging-type is in ejb-jar.xml + * [GERONIMO-692] - Cannot display wsdl from deployed EJB Web service endpoint + * [GERONIMO-703] - Tomcat assumes Geronimo start directory + * [GERONIMO-708] - NPE if CMP has no naming:cmp-connection-factory + * [GERONIMO-713] - class loader server currently cannot run on Tomcat + * [GERONIMO-715] - StringIndexOutOfBoundsException in PortableStubCompiler + * [GERONIMO-724] - Nested transactions do not work correctly + * [GERONIMO-726] - Deployments can silently fail + * [GERONIMO-769] - TCL not correct when setting connector properties + * [GERONIMO-779] - SchemaInfoBuilder class cannot be loaded (xmlbeans problems) + * [GERONIMO-780] - MDB builder needs jms message listener as default + * [GERONIMO-785] - Web services error on startup + * [GERONIMO-792] - Typo in ToolsJarHack message at startup in M4 + * [GERONIMO-808] - multiline cmp-field-name in openejb-jar cause error + * [GERONIMO-809] - Some bundled Web Applications still use geronimo-jetty.xml + * [GERONIMO-812] - TargetModuleId sometimes has quotes and sometimes no quotes + * [GERONIMO-813] - ServiceContextInterceptor assumes tcp transport + * [GERONIMO-816] - Spaces missing in help for deploy and distribute commands + * [GERONIMO-819] - DeploymentContext doesn't actually track childConfigurations + * [GERONIMO-820] - CommandSupport does not adequately synchronize access + * [GERONIMO-821] - Invalid sigantures in JavaMail API jar + * [GERONIMO-824] - MdbBuilder sets the Listener Type incorrectly causing NPEs + * [GERONIMO-831] - TSSBean with no ssl config produces stack trace on startup