JacORB 2.3.0 beta2

Gerald Brose <[email protected]> Sat, 14 Oct 2006 22:28:19 +0200

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Dear all,

a beta version of JacORB 2.3.0 (beta 2) is now available from our
website. It contains many fixes and internal improvements (but of
course it is still CORBA ;-)). Thanks to all contributors!

Please have a look at the attached release notes to find out about
the details.

Regards, Gerald.
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Mastering Enterprise JavaBeans 3.0 is out!
Check http://www.theserverside.com/tt/books/wiley/masteringEJB3/index.tss

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JacORB 2.3 RELEASE NOTES

www.jacorb.org
________________________________________

Features

- free CORBA 2.0/2.3/3.0 implementation (LGPL license)

- 100% Java, no native code
- fully multithreaded, very good performance

- IDL compiler, complies to rev. 2.3 of the Java language mapping
- DII, DSI
- native IIOP, supports IIOP 1.2 Code sets and IIOP over SSL
- GIOP 1.2, Bidirectional GIOP
- ETF
- POA
- QoS (timing policies, sync scope)
- AMI (callback model)
- OBV
- DynAny
- Implementation Repository with GUI
- Interface Repository with GUI
- Applet support

- Portable Interceptors (for service context passing)

- Object Service implementations
- Interoperable Naming Service (with graphical interface)
- Trading Service (extension of Mark Spruiell's JTrader)
- Notification and Event Service (by Alphonse Bendt)
- Transaction, collection and concurrency services
(by Alex Sinishin and Viacheslav Tararin of DekaSoft
Ltd., Ukraine,[email protected])

H I S T O R Y O F C H A N G E S
-------------------------------------------

2.3
===
- ORB:
- new property: jacorb.listener.server_socket_timeout. This is a
workaround for Java bug #4344135 and is is only useful in conjunction
with the SI&C SSL socket factories.
- Fix recursive typecode bug.
- Fixed CDROutputStream to correctly handle RMI object replacement.
- Improve protocol/IOR rebind handling.
- fixes for shutdown/applet reload (bugzilla #459).
- Fix for interceptors service context propagation.
- Fix for interceptor multithreading and exception handling.
- Fix for client interceptor send_request forward exception detection
and propagation.
- Fix for timeout overrides (bugzilla #611).
- new properties: jacorb.net.tcp_listener and jacorb.security.ssl.ssl_listener for
specifying the respective listener interfaces to receive event notifications.
- new properties: jacorb.connection.server.keepalive and
jacorb.connection.client.keepalive to configure TCP KeepAlive on sockets.
- Logging additions for debugging.
- Added AcceptorExceptionListener for notifications by the
serversocket acceptor thread. NOTE: The default behaviour now is
to shutdown the ORB whenever an Error or SSLException is thrown
by accept().
- new property: jacorb.enhanced_thread_name to allow additional information to be
added temporarily to the Thread name
- Fix for invoking an operation when the ORB has been destroyed.
- Any: added better support for Streamable values.
- Any: use TypeCode.equivalent() instead of TypeCode.equal()
in equal() as per specification.
- Any: fix extract_string(), extract_wstring(), didn't
account for value being insterted as a stream.
- Fix for PolicyManager. ADD_OVERRIDE didn't work.
- CDRStream typecode marshaling cleaned up.
- Fix for POA dispatching with transient objects.
- Added org.jacorb.orb.factory.FixedAddressSocketFactory that
binds client sockets to the address specified by the property
"OAIAddr".
- Add IORMutator plugin.
- if the value of jacorb.connection.client.max_receptor_threads
is exceeded, a NO_RESOURCES exception is thrown instead of a
hang.
- Fix OutOfMemory issue when parsing invalid IOR's.
- Fix for hanging process when shutting down POA after accessing a destroyed object (bugzilla #400).
- Change default connect_timeout to 90000
- new property: jacorb.codeset. By default this is on. If off, JacORB will ignore
all codeset component info profiles and will turn off explicit marshalling with
codesets (re Strings). Fixes for char transmission.
- use new Socket API to specify timeouts during Socket.connect
instead of using our own timeout implementation.
- new property interop.sun to fix RMI/IIOP related interoperability issues
with the Sun ORB (see also http://lists.spline.inf.fu-berlin.de/mailman/htdig/jacorb-developer/2006-May/008251.html).
- IDL Compiler:
- Support for attribute exceptions (getraises/setraises) has been added to the compiler.
- Add option (-genEnhanced) to generate toString/equals on stubs. Only implemented
in StructType so far.
- Optimized generated code when using octet sequences.
- fix for boxed valuetype with sequences generation (bugzilla #429).
- fix to use options -diistub and -ami_callback in conjunction (bugzilla #687).
thanks to Thomas Leineweber for providing the patch.
- fixes for line number output and error messages from compiler.
- Use any speed accessors like insert_long/extract_long in Helper
classes for aliased basetypes.
- fixed invalid handling of forward decl of CORBA::TypeCode
- Improve generation for IDL exceptions.
- Fix for invalid IDL compilation.
- fix for "IDL compiler fails for typedef within valuetype declaration" (bugzilla #601). thanks
to Thomas Leineweber for providing the patch.
- Tools:
- Updated 'dior' utility to decode realtime policies.
- Security:
- new property: jacorb.security.randomClassPlugin. Used by developers to plugin their
own SecureRandom initialisation.
- SecurityLevel 2 and IAIK support removed.
- Documentation:
- Added chapter on threads to Programming Guide.
- Enhanced logging documentation.
- Enhanced description of configuration properties.
- Fixes:
- fixed bugzilla #721. Thanks to Scott Melby for reporting and providing a fix.
- fixed bugzilla #667. Thanks to Rich Doyle for reporting and providing a fix.
2.2.5
=====
- Documentation
- Updated and merged JacIDL HTML into ProgrammingGuide.
- Improved SSL documentation
- Document all available loggers
- Improved property documentation
- Improved command line documentation.
- IDL Compiler:
- Fix for ValueType generation
- Improve error checking in compiler.
- Fix to remove ObjectHelper class generation.
- Fix typedef bounded string generation bug.
- ORB:
- DynValue idl added
- Enhance Any equals for value comparison.
- Improve typecode error checking.
- Fix for using an Object Reference inside a DynAny
- new properties (jacorb.connection.client.max_idle_receptor_threads,
jacorb.connection.client.max_receptor_threads, jacorb.connection.server.max_idle_receptor_threads,
jacorb.connection.server.max_receptor_threads) to control size of the MessageReceptorPool
- name all threads created by JacORB (bugzilla #472)
- new property: jacorb.orb_initializer.fail_on_error. Control if errors
caused by an ORBInitializer will make ORB.init() fail or not.
- POA:
- new property: jacorb.poa.thread_pool_shared. This is to share a
single thread pool amongst all the POAs.
- IDL:
- Added CosProperty.idl
- Logging:
- singleton ORB uses a logfile if the property
jacorb.logfile is set.

2.2.4
=====

- JacORB now supports IPv6, thanks to work by David Hartman.
- POA:
- Fix usage of implname with transient and persistent servers (see the Programming Guide).
- IDL Compiler:
- improve JacIDL Ant task initialisation.
2.2.3
=====

- The IDL compiler can now generate DII stubs, using the new option
"-diistub". Thanks to Thomas Leineweber for adding this feature.

- New properties are available for assigning protocol-independent
addresses:
* OAAddress=<protocol_name>://<protocol_address>
for example: OAAddress=iiop://myhost:1234
OAIAddr and OAPort are still used to make IIOP-specific addresses,
but are superceded by OAAddress
* jacorb.ior_proxy_address=<prot_name>://<prot_addr>
supercedes jacorb.ior_proxy_host and jacorb.proxy_port
* jacorb.imr.ior_proxy_address
Note that OASSLPort is still necessary when configuring a specific
SSL port number even when using OAAddress.

- ported the notification service to use the
JSR 166 backport (http://www.mathcs.emory.edu/dcl/util/backport-util-concurrent)
instead of util.concurrent.

- added JMX support for the notification service.

2.2
====

- new and enhanced:
* ORB configuration is more flexible now:
- a new, common properties file orb.properties is considered
- multiple ORBs in a single JVM can now have separate configurations
(please consult the Programming Guide for details).

* namemanager GUI improved (shortcuts, color, bind IOR options)

* There is a new property jacorb.connection.client.connect_timeout,
which specifies a timeout for the initial TCP/IP connection attempt.

* The new property jacorb.poa.check_reply_end_time specifies
whether any ReplyEndTimePolicy (or RelativeRoundtripTimeoutPolicy)
should also be checked on the server side. This requires that
the clocks of the client and server machine are synchronized to
the same order of magnitude as the timeout. The default for
this property is off, unlike previous releases, where this check
was always done.

* IDL compile has a new option -in <file> with which it will accept
files that do not end in ".idl"

- maintenance:

* Removed property jacorb.security.change_ssl_roles and the
associated "Change SSL Roles" feature.

* removed scalability bottleneck due to superflous synchronization

* Usage of JacORB loggers generally more consistent

2.1
====

- new:

* Implementation of the ORB PolicyManager interface to
set QoS policies ORB-wide

* CDR 1.2 Portable Interceptor codec

* "-cldc10" IDL compiler option to generate J2ME/CLDC1.0
compatible stub code

* Removed deprecated option -i on the IDL Compiler

* logging enhancements (more structured logger name spaces)

- fixed:

* connection management problem that resulted in hanging
clients

* server-side memory leaks (#456/458)

* incompatibility with libraries in existing J2SDK 1.4
installations ("endorsed dir")

2.0 (GA)
======

- You can now use IORInterceptors to add new profiles to IORs
(rather than just adding components to profiles that were
created by the ORB). To achieve this, the IORInfo object
that is passed to IORInterceptors now implements a special
JacORB interface, org.jacorb.orb.portableInterceptors.IORInfoExt.
This interface provides methods to look up existing profiles
and add new ones to an IOR.

- rename property jacorb.connection.server_timeout to
jacorb.connection.server.timeout, for consistency

- added property
"jacorb.connection.client.timeout_ignores_pending_messages"
which controls if client-side idle timeouts take care of
pending messages or not.

- added property "jacorb.connection.client.retry_on_failure"
which controls if network failures on existing connections
should yield a COMM_FAILURE or should trigger a remarshaling
of all pending messages.

- IDL compiler:
minor bug fixes
new option -unchecked_narrow

- ORB performance improvements

- more logging clean up

2.0 beta 3
==========

- loads of bug fixes
- more ETF work (corbaloc support)
- IDL compiler now generated code only if the IDL file is more recent
than any previously generated code.
- remorphing of logging, now using Apache Avalon interfaces to go
to Logkit
- Synchronization fixes.
- ORB:
- Added proprietary call ORB::addObjectKey.

2.0 beta 2
==========

- bug fixes only, no new functionality

2.0 beta 1
==========

- Logging:
- Added property 'jacorb.logfile.append' to support appending to
rather than overwriting an existing log file.
- Added property 'jacorb.logfile.maxLogSize' to support rolling logs.
- Added property 'jacorb.log.timestamp' to control whether log
messages are timestamped or not.

- ORB:
- Added property 'jacorb.interop.indirection_encoding_disable' to turn
off indirection encoding for repeated typecodes.
- Added property 'jacorb.dns.enable' to control whether DNS
names should be used in IORs.
- AMI (Asynchronous Method Invocation) is implemented.
At present, there is only support for the callback model.
- All QoS timing policies are implemented.
- SyncScopePolicy is implemented.
- The transport layer now conforms to the draft of the
Extensible Transport Framework (ETF, mars/2003-02-01)
(see Programming Guide for details).
- Two new properties, jacorb.poa.queue_wait and
jacorb.poa.queue_min allow the server to block when the
request queue is full.
- Fix for ClientRequestInfo target field value.
- Fix for marshaling of negative fixed values.
- Fix for reply status value for server side portable interceptors.
- Fix for generation of some basic type sequence holders.
- Fix for connection idle timeouts: These timeouts will now
respect pending messages.
- ApplicationExceptionHelper class fix for types with repository
identifiers including a prefix.
- Added server-side connection management (see programming
guide)
- Added support for GIOP CloseConnection messages.
- Added port range server socket factory support.

- IMR:
- Added property 'jacorb.imr.endpoint_port_number' for port IMR
runs on.

- IDL Compiler:
- fixed inheritance error (bug #345)
- now using the Aoachae logkit loggin API

- Notification Services: now included! HOT!

1.4.1
=====

- Naming Service:
- Configuration property added to control purging of non active
entries on list operation.
- Configuration property added to run on fixed port.

- bug fixes:
- ORB:
- Reverted to old (1.3) IOR format to maintain backwards
compatibility.
- Added support for GIOP 1.2 Fragments
- IDL Compiler:
- Fix for long long constant assignment from constant.
- Tools:
- Updated 'dior' utility to decode ORB type tagged components.
- IMR:
- Allow crashed servers to be restarted by ServerStartupDaemon.
- Fix restarting server on fixed port [223].
- Fix when pinging objects to prevent 'non-jacorb object' warning.
- Fix multiple pings in replyNewLocation
- DII:
- Fix for client connection timeout with deferred requests.
- ORB:
- Two new client timeout policies to replace jacorb.connection.client_timeout:
- jacorb.connection.client.pending_reply_timeout - For request timeout
- jacorb.connection.client.idle_timeout - For connection timeout

- SSL:
- Changed SSL usage policy: SSL will now only be used, if both
sides support it and at least one side requires it. If the
client requires SSL, but the server doesn't support it, a
NO_PERMISSION exception is thrown.

1.4.0
=====

- bug fixes:
- ORB:
- Fix for delegate to stop infinite loop of calling from ImR
to server and back again if server is down.
- Fix to TypeCode::equal and TypeCode::equivalent operations
for handling recursive TypeCodes.
- Implementation of Request interface now throws BAD_INV_ORDER
exception when appropriate.
- The work_pending and perform_work operations now throw
BAD_INV_ORDER if the ORB has been shutdown.
- Fix to corbaloc URL parsing to recognize corbaloc:rir URLs
with no key string specified.
- Fix to parsing of IOR resources to allow multiple levels of
indirection before an IOR or corbaloc URL is
obtained.
- CodeSet support:
- Now putting CodeSet Tagged Component into correct
(MULTIPLE_COMPONENTS) profile.
- Not adding the CodeSetInfo interceptor anymore, if
GIOP 1.0 is used.
- Ignoring any CodeSet service contexts if GIOP 1.0
is used.
- Now throwing CODESET_INCOMPATIBLE exception, if no
matching code sets can be found.

- Portable Interceptors:
- Fix so that interceptors registered with an ORB initializer
are also applied to any objects registered as initial
references.
- IMR:
- Fix for restarting persistent server with same POA/Impl name.

- POA:
- Added an extra byte to object keys that contains a flag to
indicate the Lifespan Policy of the POA managing the object.

- ORB:
- Implemented the DII threading operations:
- send_multiple_requests_deferred
- send_multiple_requests_oneway
- poll_next_response
- get_next_response
- Added the TAG_ORB_TYPE component to IORs to indicate that they are
generated by JacORB.
- Added the property "jacorb.use_imr_endpoint" that when switched off
will write the server endpoint into the IOR instead of the ImR
endpoint (defaults to on).
- Use the server address specified by the "jacorb.ior_proxy_host" and
"jacorb.ior_proxy_port" properties when registering a POA with the
ImR (if these properties are set).
- Implemented a failover mechanism in the client Delegate whereby
the Delegate is able to find the ImR if the ImR goes down and comes
back up at a new address.
- Added property "jacorb.suppress_no_props_warning" that will
suppress the warning message when no properties file can be
found (if set to "on").
- Added property "jacorb.orb.objectKeyMap" to map object keys to
arbitrary (hopefully readable) strings, which in turn permit
the construction of short and simple corbaloc: IORs
- (Re-)Added support for UTF-8 for IDL types char and string

- DynAny:
- Implemented DynFixed interface.

- Build:
- JacORB classes directory no longer needed in CLASSPATH to
build JacORB.

- GIOP:
- Added missing functionality to handle LocateRequests and
LocateReplies.

- Appligator:
- New portable interceptor based implementation. Updates
to support multiple appligators in different subnets and
disable appligator use in local subnet. No HTTP tunneling.

- IMR:
- Background saving thread implemented.
New property "jacorb.imr.port_number" to configure a fixed port.

- Naming Service:
- added command line switch -p to make server come up on a given
port (convenience)
- made the file name command line argument optional
- Name Service can now be accessed using corbaloc: IORs with using
NameService as the object key

- Tools:
- New 'fixior' utility provided to patch port and host information
into an IOR.

- IDL Compiler:
- Flag '-nofinal' can be used to generate code where the class
definitions are not final.
- Forward and multiple declaration of Unions, ValueTypes, Structs
and Interfaces
- now compiles the complete set of IDL value type definitions

- Domain Management:
- removed this component to reduce code and library size since
noone seems to use it

1.4 beta 4:
===========

- bug fixes:
- Fixed bug that would lead to a NullPointerException
when using corbaloc IORs without the explicit protocol
qualifier (i.e. corbaloc::<host>:<port>/<object key>).

The following just didn't make it into the beta 3 release
notes:

- SSL/JSSE
- added properties
jacorb.security.ssl.server.cipher_suites
jacorb.security.ssl.client.cipher_suites
that allow for setting the enabled cipher suites for
JSSE

- SSL/IAIK
- incompatibility notice: Please note that the IAIK SSL
and JCE libraries don't work using the JDK 1.4. This is
because the JDK 1.4 only accepts signed cryptography
providers, but the IAIK JCE isn't.

- Corbaloc with SSL

- added new corbaloc protocol qualifier "ssliop" to allow
for using corbaloc IORs together with SSL. Also added
properties
jacorb.security.ssl.corbaloc_ssliop.supported_options
jacorb.security.ssl.corbaloc_ssliop.required_options
to be able to configure these SSL connections.

1.4 beta 3:
===========

- Documentation:
Additional chapter added covering the dynamic any classes.
Appendix added describing the various configuration properties.

- Sockets:
Support has been added for configurable socket factories.
An additional factory has been provided that supports the
use of ports from a configurable range to support firewall
traversal.

- Initial References:
Support has been added for resolving object references
from JNDI and as resources. This can be done using
'jndi:' or 'resource:' based URLs. Unrecognised URL
types are now passed down to the underlying JDK for
processing ('https:', 'ftp:' etc.). Note that the
javax.naming package required for JNDI support is not
included in the JDK 1.2 and this package must be added
explicitly to the CLASSPATH.

- Local Objects:
The org.jacorb.orb.LocalityConstrainedObject class has
been superseded by org.omg.CORBA.LocalObject class as
defined in the CORBA 2.4 IDL to Java mapping specification.
Locally constrained objects, such as portable interceptors,
should now extend this class.

- Portable Interceptors:
- Adapted to CORBA 2.5 IDL (ForwardRequest exception
now doesn't have the permanent flag anymore)

- SSL/JSSE:
- Integrated patch to be able to access the peers
certificates also using JSSE 1.0.2 with a JDK < 1.4
- Added property
"jacorb.security.ssl.server.cipher_suites" to allow
selecting ciphersuites (Sun-JSSE only)

- ORB:
- Added support for corbaloc:ssliop style IORs to be
able to use corbaloc together with SSL. WARNING: This
is not (yet ;-) standardized by the OMG, but
agreed-upon by many more (TAO, MICO, ...) open source
ORBs. The SSL behaviour defaults to
EstablishTrustInTarget, but can also be configured by
the properties
jacorb.security.ssl.corbaloc_ssliop.supported_options
jacorb.security.ssl.corbaloc_ssliop.required_options

- bug fixes:
Naming Service:
- Fix for handling of name strings containing escaped
characters.
DII:
- User exceptions now correctly encapsuled within
Request environment.
IDL Compiler:
- Fix for unions with long long discriminator type.
- Fix for unions with anonymous arrays.
- Fix for interface with operations using wchar or
wstring inout parameters.
- Fix for typedef'd any holder class.
- Fix for long long constant values.
- Fix for large fixed constant values.
- Fix for constant enum values.
- Fix for format checking of fixed point types.
- Fix for code generation for local interfaces.
Any:
- Fix for equal operation on aliased types.
- Fix for equal operation on wchar type.
- Fix for insertion and extraction of basic types when
any contains an aliased (from typedef) basic type.
- Fix for insert_Object operation to determine the
IDL name from the RepositoryId.
- Fix for read_value and write_value operations to make
them more portable.
- Fix for read_value and write_value operations where
Any contained wchar type.
- Added insert_fixed(BigDecimal) operation to CORBA
interface.
- Fix to insert_fixed(BigDecimal, TypeCode) operation
to check TypeCode parameter.
ORB:
- Fix for IORs not containing zero character padding.
- Passing a null to object_to_string now returns the
correct string for a null object reference.
- Passing a local object to object_to_string now
throws a MARSHAL exception.
- Current and Principal deprecated. Use of any
operations for these types will throw NO_IMPLEMENT.
- DII support operations on singleton ORB now correctly
throw NO_IMPLEMENT.
- The create_operation_list operation is now
implemented.
- Added helper classes for CORBA system exceptions.
DynAny:
- Operations called on a DynAny that has been
destroyed now throw an OBJECT_NOT_EXIST exception.
- Enabled creation of DynAnys with TCKind tk_null and
tk_void.
- Fixed the get_dyn_any/insert_dyn_any operations.
- Fixed handling of user exceptions.
- Fixed initialization of current position for
DynStructs and DynUnions.
- Fixed iteration operations for DynUnions.
- Fixed implementation of DynUnion operations
set_to_no_active_member, set_to_default_member and
set_discriminator.
TypeCode:
- Fix for CDRInputStream::read_TypeCode operation to
handle recursive and repeated TypeCodes.
- Fix for ORBSingleton::create_struct_tc and
ORBSingleton::create_union_tc operations to
correctly construct recursive TypeCodes.
- Fix for TypeCode API to correctly handle recursive
TypeCodes.
- Fix for CDRInputStream and CDROutputStream to
correctly calculate the indirection offset value
for recursive and repeated TypeCodes.
- The create_native_tc, create_local_interface_tc and
create_abstract_interface_tc operations are now
implemented.
- Added validation of parameters to the
create_<type>_tc operations.
- Fix for _type() operation in FixedHolder class to
correctly determine TypeCodes of fixed point values.

1.4 beta 2:
===========

- bug fixes
ImR: used wrong name for property jacorb.implname
Marshalling:
- occasionally, wrong buffer sizes were
calculated in CDROutputStream
- more bugs fixed for recursive and
repeated TypeCode
IDL Compiler fix to handle escape characters

- Added build compatibility to the JDK 1.4 and fixed
compatibility problems with JDK 1.2

- Portable Interceptors:
- Adapted to new IDL which requires interceptors
to implement operation destroy().

- Merged module IOP_N (Codecs, etc.) into module
IOP for JDK 1.4 compatibility.

- SSL Support changes:
- Dropped direct support for the separately
downloadable jsse1.0.2 (please see
README.jsse_1_0_2 in the sun_jsse dir).

- Added support for the JDK 1.4, which now also
includes generic access to the peers certificates
via our partial Security Level 2 implementation.

- new OBV demo

1.4 beta 1:
===========

- This beta compiles only on JDK 1.3 or greater. We will also
support JDK 1.2 in the next release, but will give up
backwards compatibility with JDK 1.1.

- bug fixes:
in Any (equals()) and TypeCode (equivalent)
marshalling streams:
recursive and repeated TypeCodes
DynAnys:
diverse bugs, e.g., treat aliased types correctly
made implementations purely local
IDL compiler:
name resolution bugs
POA and ORB:
memory leaks, local invocations
IAIK SSL:
fixed bug that prevented mutual authentication
in non-role-change mode.
Delegate/ImR:
fixed bug that caused exceptions when multiple
concurrent requests were issued to the ImR.

- Appligator/HTTP tunneling:
not supported in this beta ! (please wait for the next
release...)

- SSL support changes:

- added support for Suns SSL implementation
JSSE. Please note that for technical reasons, it
isn't possible to access the clients certificates on
the server side when Sun JSSE is used. To use Sun
JSSE instead of IAIKs classes, please set the
following properties:

jacorb.ssl.socket_factory=org.jacorb.security.ssl.sun_jsse.SSLSocketFactory
jacorb.ssl.server_socket_factory=org.jacorb.security.ssl.sun_jsse.SSLServerSocketFactory

- Made a change in the SSL package structure: classes
for IAIKs libraries that were formerly in package
org.jacorb.security.ssl are now in the package
org.jacorb.security.ssl.iaik. This makes it
necessary to adapt the socket facory properties:

jacorb.ssl.socket_factory=org.jacorb.security.ssl.iaik.SSLSocketFactory
jacorb.ssl.server_socket_factory=org.jacorb.security.ssl.iaik.SSLServerSocketFactory

- Removed property

jacorb.security.enforce_ssl

Enforcing SSL can now be achieved by setting the
required and supported options. Please see the
Programming Guide for more details on these
properties.

- Replaced properties

jacorb.security.ssl.supported_options
jacorb.security.ssl.required_options

jacorb.security.ssl.client.supported_options
jacorb.security.ssl.client.required_options
jacorb.security.ssl.server.supported_options
jacorb.security.ssl.server.required_options

This allows for a more fine-grained setup of
SSL. Please see the Programming Guide for more
details on these properties.

- modified the property "jacorb.security.keystore". It
now allows three ways of specifying the keystore
location:
a) absolute path
b) relative path to current dir
c) relative path to users home dir
These possibilities are searched in the order give above.

- OBV support added
some feature are still unimplemented:
- valuetype inheritance
- value factories (use causes npe's in the compiler!)
- code downloading
- custom marshalling

- GIOP 1.2 and bidirectional GIOP

1.3.30:
=======

- fixed a problem with client-side connection time outs (clients
would only time out once, and not also after subsequent
reconnects).

Involved changing some of COMM_FAILURE exceptions thrown
in the runtime to IMP_LIMIT for tiemouts - these are the
ones yu want to catch! Also changed a few others to
TRANSIENT where they are appropriate for failures in
the *initial* connection setup.

- IDL compiler bug fixes:

fixed bugs in constant expressions

Compiler now resets internal table between IDL files passed
on the same command line

Compiler did not complain if oneway operations declare
exceptions or return types other than void. Now it does.

Compiler did not complain about identifiers in the same
scope that differed only in case, which it should according
to the spec. Now it correctly rejects definitions like
"teST" and "TEst".

Compiler did not check the IDL 2.3 rules for redefinition of
interfaces etc. in nested scopes, now it does. (If that
breaks your IDL files, use the new switch -sloppy_names
to have the compiler behave as before.)

Fixed Problems in generated code
- String members in exceptions and structs are now initialized
to "", otherwise there can be CORBA.MARSHAL exceptions
at runtime because of null values.
- generated code in multi-dimensional sequences now
compiles with javac.
- Arrays of anys: generated code now compiles with javac.
- Corrected references to holder classes for out
parameters for types aliased to string

Additional bug fixes...

- added support for inverse DNS lookup of IP addresses, so IORs
contain fully qualified host names instead of IP numbers. See
INSTALL file for details.

- added properties "jacorb.ior_proxy_[host|port]" that replace
the actual host/port where the ORB listens for requests. This
is for cases where servers are hidden behind proxies / firewalls.

- fixed a bug where a release() or a LocationForward on a shared
object reference caused the irregular termination of other
concurrent requests over that reference.

- added property "custom.props" which can contain a comma separated
list of additional properties files. These properties will override
properties set in the jacorb.properties file. This is useful for
setups with multiple servers/clients, where each process needs its
own configuration.

- fixed bugs in trader build files (leftover from "org" change).

- added "auto-register" feature to the ImR. This will register
servers, that don't need to be restarted automatically, on their
first startup, so they don't have to be registered manually. This
feature is activated via a "-a" switch to the ImR process or
by setting the property "jacorb.imr.allow_auto_register" to "on".

- renamed property "jacorb.ImplementationRepositoryURL" to
"ORBInitRef.ImplementationRepository", so the ImR is available
through resolve_initial_references().

- accepting now ORBInitializer class properties in the form of
"org.omg.PortableInterceptor.ORBInitializerClass.<class name>"
for compliance reasons. Old form of
"org.omg.PortableInterceptor.ORBInitializerClass.<name>=<class name>"
is still supported.

1.3.21:
=======
- internal redesign: all package names now begin with "org.jacorb"
NOTE: You MUST change existing jacorb.properties files to
reflect these changes where property values point to JacORB
classes, e.g. the value for property:

org.omg.PortableInterceptor.ORBInitializerClass.standard_init

must be changed to:

org.jacorb.orb.standardInterceptors.IORInterceptorInitializer

- IDL compiler:
. added the -nostub switch to suppress generation of client
stubs
. added the -sloppy_forward switch for forward declared
interfaces without definitions
. name resolution bug fixed
. stricter checks in lots of places (thanks to Paul Locke)
. minor bug fixes

- Any marshalling bugs for alias types fixed

- fixed diverse bugs in wstring support

- enhanced dior tool to display character codeset information

- fixed minor bug in internal buffer management

- fixed bug in fallback code after a non-permanent ForwardRequest
by a portable interceptor

- added few properties to allow for tailor-made authentication
implementations (aka PrincipalAuthenticator). Also fixed a
few minor glitches in the SSL setup, so that we can now
interoperate with, e.g., Orbacus' SSL.

1.3.11:
=======
- fixed two minor but annoying syntax errors in the source
code... (jacorb/ir/gui/ModelBuilder.java and
jacorb/orb/domain/gui/BrowserFrame.java). Also fixed
broken jacorb.jar file

1.3.0:
======
new:
- Interface Repository with GUI Browser

improvements and bug fixes:
- Programming Guide:
- new chapter, update
- now in HTML
- fixed a memory leak
- Implementation Repository now uses a thread pool internally
- IDL compiler
- function of -i2jpackage switch fixed
- code generated for helper method narrow()
now compliant (throw BAD_PARAM rather than
return null)
- name server: fixed a problem with reloading persistent state
after restarting
- dior utility (ParsedIOR class) now corretcly
displays multiple profiles
- updated build files
- ...

Changes for 1.2.3:

moved build files to Ant 1.2

fixed build files for Linux with JDK 1.3

fixed bug: too many client-side releases of object references
(could result in INV_OBJREF exceptions)

Changes for 1.2.2:

fixed memory leaks
server: properly release servant delegated
client: added a finalizer to generated stubs

allow "file:/"-IORs again

added client-side time outs (see properties file)

changed check for OAIAddr property (address selection
on multi-homed hosts)

IDL compiler:
fixed bug in code generated for multi-dimensional sequences
fixed bug in escapeing mechanism for reserved words

fixed bug in LocateRequest code

fixed bug in CorbaLoc

fixed debug output for applets (thanks to Frank Lange of Philips)

Changes for 1.2.1:

fixed a bug in connection management (null pointer in
reconnect())

removed a few build problems (dependance on non-security
package from within orb, generate idl and jaco scripts
automatically)

updated compiler version number

Changes for 1.2:
================

- new:
- Domain Service
- HTTP tunneling
- improved SSL integration

- IDL compiler:
- #pragma version works now
- accepts value type definitions
(but only syntacically :-), no code is generated)
- bug fixes (typedefs, any)

- Implementation Repository: minor changes and fixes

- ORB: fixed ORBInitRef, now a Java property

- bug fixes:
- Any/TypeCode bug
- ServiceContext bug (alignment)

- lots of minor stuff

Changes for 1.1:
================

- Interoperable Naming Service extensions
- standardized name-to-string conversions
- convenient URL schemes for object references

- IIOP over SSL
- first alpha release, includes a KeyStoreManager GUI

- Portable Interceptors

- Collection and Concurrency services

- Appligator bug fixes and resource usage improvements

- IDL compiler improvements (by Matt Briggs, Vertel Inc.)
- new compiler switch no_skel to suppress skeleton
code generation
- extended preprocessor support
- removed inter-package dependencies

- Improved Language Mapping compliance and IDL compiler bug fixes
- correct helper generation for typedef's
- ...

- much easier to install and configure, (no more bootclasspath
fiddling, coexist with Sun JDK CORBA classes)

- new, platform-independent build files (for Jakarta's Ant)

- internal bug fixes (memory managament, memory leaks,
CDR encapsulation size tolerance, ...)

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