Re: Release

2011-06-16 Thread Peter Firmstone
. Grammar and spelling have been sacrificed on the altar of messaging via mobile device. On 16 Jun 2011 03:37, Peter Firmstone j...@zeus.net.au wrote: Is anyone else getting expired certificates with jtreg qa tests? This seems to be the cause for a number of test failures I'm getting

Re: Release

2011-06-15 Thread Peter Firmstone
Is anyone else getting expired certificates with jtreg qa tests? This seems to be the cause for a number of test failures I'm getting in jtreg. Is someone able to run the jtreg tests and post the result? Much appreciated, Peter. Test 115: TestEndpoint$TestNewRequest: Right server principal

Re: [jira] [Resolved] (RIVER-287) [PATCH] avoid race condition problems for taking snapshots

2011-06-13 Thread Peter Firmstone
? No problem if you do, I've got some uncommitted stuff myself to put in. Cheers, Tom On 13 Jun 2011 06:59, Peter Firmstone (JIRA) j...@apache.org wrote: [ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/RIVER-287?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel] Peter Firmstone

Re: Security Re: Discovery V2 migration

2011-06-12 Thread Peter Firmstone
Peter Firmstone wrote: _Unicast Discovery v2 - Unmarshalling Attack with Registrar proxy._ During unicast discovery, we have the option of using SSL, Kerberos or x500 discovery implementations, unfortunately, if the unicast discovery implementation being used doesn't comply with constraints

Re: [Fwd: Re: Anonymity, Security - ProcessBuilder and Process]

2011-06-12 Thread Peter Firmstone
what they're downloading an don't want to pay the perf costs etc? I hope so, haven't considered configuration at this stage. Cheers, Peter. On 11 Jun 2011 20:49, Peter Firmstone j...@zeus.net.au wrote: Dan Creswell wrote: On 8 June 2011 05:31, Peter Firmstone j...@zeus.net.au wrote

Re: [Fwd: Re: Anonymity, Security - ProcessBuilder and Process]

2011-06-11 Thread Peter Firmstone
Dan Creswell wrote: On 8 June 2011 05:31, Peter Firmstone j...@zeus.net.au wrote: Phoenix wakes (Activates) up a Service when it's required on the server side. I haven't thought of a good name for it, but unlike Phoenix, the concept is to perform discovery, lookup and execute smart proxy's

[Fwd: Re: Anonymity, Security - ProcessBuilder and Process]

2011-06-07 Thread Peter Firmstone
---BeginMessage--- Phoenix wakes (Activates) up a Service when it's required on the server side. I haven't thought of a good name for it, but unlike Phoenix, the concept is to perform discovery, lookup and execute smart proxy's on behalf of the client jvm at the client node, although I

Anonymity, Security - ProcessBuilder and Process

2011-06-05 Thread Peter Firmstone
Most on the list would be aware of the stillborn Isolates API, which showed much promise fixing many of the issues the Java platform has in supporting secure distributed code. EG: 1. Class Visibility 2. Subprocess Isolation. 3. Unmarshalling attacks. Released with Java 5 (which is now

Re: correctness, generics, and spaces

2011-06-02 Thread Peter Firmstone
James Grahn wrote: but I'd appreciate some clarification as to what that objection is. I don't believe that any annotations or fancier tools will be necessary. Are you suggesting type safety is NOT a necessary language feature in distributed code? By adding a Generic JavaSpace API to

Re: [VOTE] Release River 2.2

2011-06-02 Thread Peter Firmstone
Sorry for not being of much assistance recently, River is a tough release, I'll make some time to help tomorrow. Tom has been battling on his own here, keeping the ship on course. Don't worry, I had to throw away my first release artifacts too. A sterling effort. Cheers, Peter. Jukka

Re: [VOTE] Release River 2.2

2011-06-02 Thread Peter Firmstone
artifacts, this is what peer reviews are for! A man who has never made a mistake, has never made anything. On 2 Jun 2011 10:27, Peter Firmstone j...@zeus.net.au wrote: Sorry for not being of much assistance recently, River is a tough release, I'll make some time to help tomorrow. Tom has been

Re: correctness, generics, and spaces

2011-06-02 Thread Peter Firmstone
James Grahn wrote: What is the bigger picture you're concerned with? Reliability, developers experiencing unexpected run time errors and compatibility issues in deployed code when using Generics in Service API. In our earlier discussions I provided an example of how generics can remain

Re: correctness, generics, and spaces

2011-06-01 Thread Peter Firmstone
The argument for generics in remote interfaces is to reduce boilerplate code, the argument against is, it introduces unchecked type casts. (See earlier discussion) Is there another way to reduce the boilerplate code, using annotations perhaps? Or perhaps generics in combination with an

Re: correctness, generics, and spaces

2011-06-01 Thread Peter Firmstone
I believe an annotation that flags ASM to post process the byte code to add runtime type safety checks would do the trick.| Then we can say, yes Generics are supported in remote code, you just need to add this @RuntimeServiceCheck annotation. Perhaps one of the following annotions:

Re: [VOTE] Release River from current trunk

2011-05-22 Thread Peter Firmstone
Patricia Shanahan wrote: On 5/21/2011 4:21 AM, Peter Firmstone wrote: ... 4. Have all committers add their signatures to the Keys file. ... Do I need to get into the Apache web of trust? If so, any suggestions for how to do it? I live in San Diego, but will be in London for a couple

Re: [DRAFT][REPORT] River Board Report April 2011

2011-04-10 Thread Peter Firmstone
Good job Tom, I wouldn't worry about the alarm bells bit, I think people are still active behind the scenes, or thinking about what needs to happen next. I'll get back into it soon too. Cheers, Peter. Tom Hobbs wrote: Comments always welcome, due date is 18th March. Below is the April

Re: Old incubator repository - linked to new repository?

2011-04-08 Thread Peter Firmstone
Greg Trasuk wrote: Hi folks: I'm hoping to get back to some hard-core River Surrogate development in the next few weeks, and I've run into a problem: On my development machine I still have a working directory pointed at the incubator river repository. And I just realized that I have some

Re: Bibliography format question

2011-03-09 Thread Peter Firmstone
For people who don't know TeX, it might be possible to use Lyx? Peter. Patricia Shanahan wrote: On 3/9/2011 11:16 AM, Tom Hobbs wrote: Hi Patricia, The basic rule is, if you're the first person doing it, then you get to chose. And as you say, the result will be in a format that everyone can

Re: Which JUnit version?

2011-02-19 Thread Peter Firmstone
I think someone also mentioned TestNG, which sounded promising, I was happy to convert my junit tests, although I haven't done so yet. Cheers, Peter. Greg Trasuk wrote: On Sat, 2011-02-19 at 13:11, Patricia Shanahan wrote: I'm converting my own informal tests of my FastList implementation

Re: [jira] Commented: (RIVER-392) NullPointerException in test job running com/sun/jini/test/impl/outrigger/matching/StressTestWithShutdown.td

2011-02-16 Thread Peter Firmstone
Patricia Shanahan wrote: Thanks for your comments. I realized I made a mistake when I had to reboot the VirtualBox, and the second failure was also with the OpenJDK Client VM. I'm rerunning the test now, but it is one failure every few hours. On 2/16/2011 8:32 PM, Peter Firmstone wrote

River-300 Modular Build - Preferred Classes.

2011-02-15 Thread Peter Firmstone
Preferred classes are used for the proxy's currently, the jsk-dl.jar in our current build is included in proxy codebase annotations, this is to ensure that com.sun.* namespace implementation classes are loaded by the proxy ClassLoader. In the modular build, we have a dependency relationship

Re: [TALLY] [VOTE] drop JDK 5 compatibility

2011-02-11 Thread Peter Firmstone
Patricia Shanahan wrote: Sim IJskes - QCG wrote: On 11-02-11 13:34, Benson Margulies wrote: Holding a formal vote as a way of discovering (e.g. spelunking, humorously) whether a consensus exists is fine. My point, such as it was, is that once you have a supply of -1 votes, you're really done.

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