[Smartfrog-users] SmartFrog 3.12.022

[Steve Loughran]

SmartFrog 3.12.022 is now up on the sourceforge site, with Maven/Ivy 
compatible artifacts hosted at
http://smartfrog.sourceforge.net/repository/
Here is the text release announcement; the attached HTML announcement 
includes links to the relevant JIRA issues

SmartFrog 3.12.022
======================

This is a new release of SmartFrog, the Java-based, LPGL-licensed
distributed deployment framework developed by HP Laboratories. SmartFrog
enables applications to be deployed across multiple machines,
configuring different aspects of the system so that they are all
consistently configured, and managing the life-cycle of the application
as a whole. The project's home page is http://smartfrog.org/

The release artifacts are available at

http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=87384&package_id=176308

This release is 3.12.022; built from revision 5963
of the SVN repository. This release has an extended language
with the ability to tag attributes, and includes the following items:

* Core smartfrog daemon, including services to manage files, start and stop
  Java and native programs.
* Example components and applications.
* Ant support: ant tasks to deploy and terminate applications from a build.
* Ant components: the ability to execute ant tasks in a deployment.
* Anubis: a partition aware tuple-space that can be used to implement fault
  tolerant systems.
* Database: components to issue database commands, and deploy HSLDB and 
MySQL.
* JMX: the ability to configure and manage JMX components, and to manage
  SmartFrog components over JMX.
* Logging: integration with Apache commons-logging and Log4J
* Networking: email, FTP, SSH, DNS support.
* Quartz: scheduled operations using Quartz libraries.
* Scripting: support for BSF-hosted scripting languages
* Testing: Distributed JUnit and component testing with SFUnit.
* WWW: deployment of WAR and EAR files to application servers. 
deploy-by-copy
  is provided for all application servers that support it, and sample 
templates
  are provided to start and stop Tomcat and JBoss. The Jetty component can
  configure and deploy individual servlets, eliminating much of the 
need for WAR
  files and application servers.
* XML: XML support with XOM.
* XMPP: Presence and messaging over Jabber.

Packaging
=========

This release is available as:

* RPM files inside a .tar.gz file.
* a JAR installer.
* the original core smartfrog distribution as .zip and .tar.gz (deprecated)


The RPM installation is for RPM-based Linux systems. The archive 
contains the
following RPM files:

smartfrog:        the core SmartFrog distribution.
smartfrog-daemon: the shell scripts to add the smartfrog distribution to the
                  path, and to run the daemon on start-up.
smartfrog-demo:   example code and documentation.
smartfrog-javadocs: javadocs for the project

smartfrog-ant:    Ant task and build file execution
smartfrog-anubis: Distributed partition-aware tuple space
smartfrog-database: Database access
smartfrog-jmx:    JMX integration though MX4J
smartfrog-junit:  Junit 3.8.2 test execution
smartfrog-logging: Logging through Log4J and commons-logging
smartfrog-networking: SSH, SCP, FTP and email
smartfrog-quartz:  Scheduled operations
smartfrog-scripting: Scripted components
smartfrog-www:      Web support: Deployment and liveness pages
smartfrog-xml:      XML Support
smartfrog-xmpp:     XMPP/Jabber communications
smartfrog-xunit:    Distributed testing and reporting

All the JAR files are also published to a repository that is compatible with
Apache Maven and Ivy. Add http://smartfrog.sourceforge.net/repository/
to your repository list to pull SmartFrog artifacts into your Ivy- or
Maven- based build.

There are also SmartFrog components to retrieve artifacts from such a 
repository
(the Library components under /org/smartfrog/services/os/java/library.sf ),
which can be used for dynamic download of SmartFrog and other artifacts.


Security warning
================

Unless SmartFrog is configured with security, a running daemon will
listen on its configured port for incoming deployment requests, and
deploy the applications with the rights of the user running the daemon.
When the smartfrog-daemon RPM is installed, that means that a process
running as root will be listening on an open port for incoming
deployment requests. Do not deploy SmartFrog this way on any untrusted
network, not without turning security on and, ideally, recreating the
RPMs with signed JAR files.

Building SmartFrog
==================

SmartFrog requires Java 1.5 and Ant 1.7 to build. The izpack and source 
.zip and
.tar.gz distributions include a source tree adequate to build the
entire system. To build a later release, please follow the instructions at
  http://sourceforge.net/svn/?group_id=87384
to check out smartfrog/trunk/core from our repository.

This release was built with revision 5963 of the repository, which
is available under the SVN branch
https://smartfrog.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/smartfrog/tags/release3.12.022

We strongly encourage anyone interested in building or extending
SmartFrog to get involved in the SmartFrog developer mailing list, which
can be found from the sourceforge project page
http://sourceforge.net/projects/smartfrog/

Reporting Bugs
==============

Please file all bug reports at http://jira.smartfrog.org/

Thank you!

The SmartFrog Team        http://smartfrog.org/

Changes since last release
==========================

The main areas that SmartFrog has been improved in the last fortnight are:
 -Scripting: some bug fixes in shell script support.
 -Jetty: some bugs found and fixed in Jetty support
 -Web pages: the LivenessPage now does regular expression matching of 
the returned
  text, adding each matched group as a numbered attribute. Interesting
  uses for this are left as an exercise, other than the DynDns components
  we are currently adding.
 -SSH: Much better logging and fault handling, SSH commands and SCP 
copies are
  asynchronous, and a new BulkScpUpload component can upload a
  regular-expression-described set of files to a remote site.

There have been changes to the testing framework and Xmpp components, 
but they are
feature-incomplete.



Release Notes - SmartFrog - Version 3.12.022

** Bug
    * [SFOS-175] - There are no SSH tests that actually test for a 
successful SSH connection
    * [SFOS-613] - rpms are being created with a bad ${rpm.docs.path} 
property
    * [SFOS-614] - merge filename filter with filesets
    * [SFOS-615] - SSH errors aren't that helpful
    * [SFOS-620] - smartfrog dist/publish tasks don't include 
dist/private/** when it contains a new CA
    * [SFOS-633] - When the machine name is resolved into an IP address.
                   In this case the component does not detect the end 
of the script commands.
    * [SFOS-635] - SshExec operations should be asynchronous
    * [SFOS-637] - When the "executed" application fails to start the 
component can potentially spin forever.
    * [SFOS-651] - TestCompoundImpl prints out wrong message
    * [SFOS-655] - changes.txt is obsolete and no longer needed. Pull.
    * [SFOS-656] - ant install target does not copy Ivy dependencies
    * [SFOS-657] - bulkscp fails if it encounters a directory
    * [SFOS-660] - EventCompoundImpl.deployChildCD ignores its 
"required" parameter
    * [SFOS-663] - Null pointer exception when deploying a jetty 
server, a listener, a servlet context and a servlet.
    * [SFOS-664] - java.lang.IllegalArgumentException when deploying a 
jetty server + listener + context + servlet
    * [SFOS-666] - "wrong class found for attribute" error in listener, 
context and servlet.
    * [SFOS-671] - Xmpp Roster must default to 'do not accept friend 
requests'
    * [SFOS-675] - fileImpl has mustRead and mustWrite attributes inverted
    * [SFOS-678] - Change to Quartz have broken the build


** Improvement
    * [SFOS-618] - SSH components need a single central (and better) 
fault extraction from JSch exceptions
    * [SFOS-634] - remove failonerror attribute from Ssh components
    * [SFOS-636] - sshexec logFile should take a File component as well 
as a path string
    * [SFOS-641] - add ability to specify connect timeout for an ssh 
connection with the connectTimeout  attribute
    * [SFOS-642] - Hook jsch logging up to SmartFrog logger
    * [SFOS-652] - FileStore components to move to Java5 templates
    * [SFOS-659] - make TestRunnerImpl a subclass of EventCompoundImpl

** New Feature
    * [SFOS-603] - Design and implement components that represent sets 
of files or other resources
    * [SFOS-619] - core/release to include signed JARs of all the 
components
    * [SFOS-640] - Add methods to SmartFrogThread to request (politely) 
the termination of the threads
    * [SFOS-647] - Provide an OutputStream that relays its output to a log
    * [SFOS-658] - log number of files and bytes uploaded in SCP
    * [SFOS-668] - implement regexp validation of remote web pages 
fetched with the LivenessPage component


** Task
    * [SFOS-95] - Fix up security build targets
    * [SFOS-453] - Add functional tests for SSH that run under VMs
    * [SFOS-623] - review project-template.pom files and ensure that 
they are in sync with the ivy.xml files
    * [SFOS-632] - Locate all uses of new TerminationRecord and review them

** Sub-task
    * [SFOS-411] - When creating a copy of a master image create a new UUID
    * [SFOS-412] - Delete virtual HDD's, too, when deleting a vm copy.
    * [SFOS-626] - NPE in restlet mime type checking
    * [SFOS-629] - Restlet Httpclient has no proxy awareness
    * [SFOS-645] - empty %post section in .spec file
Title: SmartFrog 3.12.022



SmartFrog 3.12.022


This is a new release of SmartFrog, the Java-based, LPGL-licensed distributed
deployment framework developed by HP Laboratories. SmartFrog enables
applications to be deployed across multiple machines, configuring different
aspects of the system so that they are all consistently configured, and managing
the life-cycle of the application as a whole. The project's home page is
http://smartfrog.org/



The release artifacts are available at

  http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=87384&package_id=176308



This release is 3.12.022; built from revision 5963
of the SVN repository. This release has an extended language
with the ability to tag attributes, and includes the following items:



   Core smartfrog daemon, including services to manage files, start and stop
    Java and native programs.
  
   Example components and applications.
  
   Ant support: ant tasks to deploy and terminate applications from a build.
  
   Ant components: the ability to execute ant tasks in a deployment.
  
   Anubis: a partition aware tuple-space that can be used to implement fault
    tolerant systems.
  
   Database: components to issue database commands, and deploy HSLDB and MySQL.
  
   JMX: the ability to configure and manage JMX components, and to manage
    SmartFrog components over JMX.
  
   Logging: integration with Apache commons-logging and Log4J
  
   Networking: email, FTP, SSH, DNS support.
  
   Quartz: scheduled operations using Quartz libraries.
  
   Scripting: support for BSF-hosted scripting languages
  
   Testing: Distributed JUnit and component testing with SFUnit.
  
   WWW: deployment of WAR and EAR files to application servers. deploy-by-copy
    is provided for all application servers that support, and a tomcat-specific
    component can communicate with Apache Tomcat. The Jetty component can
    configure and deploy individual servlets, eliminating much of the need for WAR
    files themselves.
  
   XML: XML support with XOM.
  
   XMPP: Presence and messaging over Jabber.
  


Packaging


This release is available as:


   RPM files inside a .tar.gz file.
  
   a JAR installer.
  
  the original core smartfrog distribution as .zip and .tar.gz (deprecated)
  



The RPM installation is for RPM-based Linux systems. It comprises the following RPMs:



  
    smartfrog
    The core SmartFrog distribution.
  
  
    smartfrog-daemon
    The shell scripts to add the smartfrog distribution to the
      path, and to run the daemon on start-up.
    
  
  
    smartfrog-javadoc
    javadocs for the project
  
  
    smartfrog-ant
    Ant task and build file execution
  
  
    smartfrog-anubis
    Distributed partition-aware tuple space
  
  
    smartfrog-database
    Database access
  
  
    smartfrog-jmx
    JMX integration though MX4J
  
  
    smartfrog-junit
    Junit 3.8.2 test execution
  
  
    smartfrog-logging
    Logging through Log4J and commons-logging
  
  
    smartfrog-networking
    SSH, SCP, FTP and email
  
  
  
    smartfrog-quartz
    Scheduled operations
  
  
    smartfrog-scripting
    Scripted components
  
  
    smartfrog-www
    Web support: Deployment and liveness pages
  
  
  
    smartfrog-xml
    XML Support
  
  
    smartfrog-xmpp
    XMPP/Jabber communications
  
  
    smartfrog-xunit
    Distributed testing and reporting
  



All the JAR files are also published to a repository that is compatible with
Apache Maven and Ivy. Add
http://smartfrog.sourceforge.net/repository
to your repository list to pull SmartFrog artifacts into your Ivy- or Maven- based build.



There are also SmartFrog components to retrieve artifacts from such a repository
(the Library components under /org/smartfrog/services/os/java/library.sf ),
which can be used for dynamic download of SmartFrog and other artifacts.


Security warning



Unless SmartFrog is configured with security, a running daemon
will listen on its configured port for incoming deployment requests, and deploy
the applications with the rights of the user running the daemon. When the
smartfrog-daemon RPM is installed, that means that a process running as root
will be listening on an open port for incoming deployment requests. Do not
deploy SmartFrog this way on any untrusted network, not without turning security
on and, ideally, recreating the RPMs with signed JAR files.


Building SmartFrog


SmartFrog requires Java 1.5 and Ant 1.7 to build.




The distribution does not include a source tree adequate to build the entire
system. Please follow the instructions at
http://sourceforge.net/svn/?group_id=87384

and check out smartfrog/trunk/core from our repository.




This release was built with revision 5963 of the repository, which
is available under the SVN branch
https://smartfrog.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/smartfrog/tags/release3.12.022



We strongly encourage anyone interested in building or extending smartfrog to
get involved in the smartfrog developer mailing list, which can be found from
the sourceforge project page

  http://sourceforge.net/projects/smartfrog/



Reporting Bugs


Please file all bug reports at http://jira.smartfrog.org/



The SmartFrog Team



Changes since last release


The main areas that SmartFrog has been improved in the last fortnight are:


  
    Scripting: some bug fixes in shell script support.
  
  
    Jetty: some bugs found and fixed in Jetty support
  
  
    Web pages: the LivenessPage now does regular _expression_ matching of the returned
    text, adding each matched group as a numbered attribute. Interesting
    uses for this are left as an exercise, other than the DynDns components
    we are currently adding.
  
  
    SSH: Much better logging and fault handling, SSH commands and SCP copies are
    asynchronous, and a new BulkScpUpload component can upload a
    regular-_expression_-described set of files to a remote site.
  


There have been changes to the testing framework and Xmpp components, but they are
feature-incomplete.


 Bug


  [SFOS-175] - There are no SSH tests that actually
    test for a successful SSH connection
  
  [SFOS-613] - rpms are being created with a bad
    ${rpm.docs.path} property
  
  [SFOS-614] - merge filename filter with filesets
  
  [SFOS-615] - SSH errors aren't that helpful
  
  [SFOS-620] - smartfrog dist/publish tasks don't
    include dist/private/** when it contains a new CA
  
  [SFOS-633] - When the machine name is resolved into
    an IP address. In this case the component does not detect the end of the script commands.
  
  [SFOS-635] - SshExec operations should be
    asynchronous
  
  [SFOS-637] - When the "executed"
    application fails to start the component can potentially spin forever.
  
  [SFOS-651] - TestCompoundImpl prints out wrong
    message
  
  [SFOS-655] - changes.txt is obsolete and no longer
    needed. Pull.
  
  [SFOS-656] - ant install target does not copy Ivy
    dependencies
  
  [SFOS-657] - bulkscp fails if it encounters a
    directory
  
  [SFOS-660] - EventCompoundImpl.deployChildCD ignores
    its "required" parameter
  
  [SFOS-663] - Null pointer exception when deploying a
    jetty server, a listener, a servlet context and a servlet.
  
  [SFOS-664] - java.lang.IllegalArgumentException when
    deploying a jetty server + listener + context + servlet
  
  [SFOS-666] - "wrong class found for attribute"
    error in listener, context and servlet.
  
  [SFOS-671] - Xmpp Roster must default to 'do not
    accept friend requests'
  
  [SFOS-675] - fileImpl has mustRead and mustWrite
    attributes inverted
  
  [SFOS-678] - Change to Quartz have broken the build
  


 Improvement


  [SFOS-618] - SSH components need a single central
    (and better) fault extraction from JSch exceptions
  
  [SFOS-634] - remove failonerror attribute from Ssh
    components
  
  [SFOS-636] - sshexec logFile should take a File
    component as well as a path string
  
  [SFOS-641] - add ability to specify connect timeout
    for an ssh connection with the connectTimeout attribute
  
  [SFOS-642] - Hook jsch logging up to SmartFrog logger
  
  [SFOS-652] - FileStore components to move to Java5
    templates
  
  [SFOS-659] - make TestRunnerImpl a subclass of
    EventCompoundImpl
  


 New Feature


  [SFOS-603] - Design and implement components that
    represent sets of files or other resources
  
  [SFOS-619] - core/release to include signed JARs of
    all the components
  
  [SFOS-640] - Add methods to SmartFrogThread to
    request (politely) the termination of the threads
  
  [SFOS-647] - Provide an OutputStream that relays its
    output to a log
  
  [SFOS-658] - log number of files and bytes uploaded
    in SCP
  
  [SFOS-668] - implement regexp validation of remote
    web pages fetched with the LivenessPage component
  


 Task


  [SFOS-95] - Fix up security build targets
  
  [SFOS-453] - Add functional tests for SSH that run
    under VMs
  
  [SFOS-623] - review project-template.pom files and
    ensure that they are in sync with the ivy.xml files
  
  [SFOS-632] - Locate all uses of new TerminationRecord
    and review them
  


 Sub-task


  [SFOS-411] - When creating a copy of a master image
    create a new UUID
  
  [SFOS-412] - Delete virtual HDD's, too, when deleting
    a vm copy.
  
  [SFOS-626] - NPE in restlet mime type checking
  
  [SFOS-629] - Restlet Httpclient has no proxy
    awareness
  
  [SFOS-645] - empty %post section in .spec file
  





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