[Ann] freebXML Registry 3.0-beta1 release

[Farrukh Najmi <Farrukh.Najmi@Sun.COM>]

Dear xml-dev Community members,

The freebXML Registry team (formerly ebxmlrr team) is pleased to
announce the release of version 3.0-beta1 of our royalty-free
open source implementation of the ebXML Registry standard.

The new version provides a near, feature complete implementation of
Registry Full conformance profile for the OASIS ebXML Registry 3.0 [4]
standard. The only missing feature is support for Single Sign On (SSO)
based on the Registry SAML Profile. This implementation therefor
currently only claims conformance to the Registry Lite profile for the
OASIS ebXML Registry 3.0 standard.

The freebXML Registry also provides a feature complete implementation of
level 1 conformance profile of the Java API for XML Registries (JAXR)
API [7], as well as a new Web based thin client user interface to the
registry and an administration tool command line interface (CLI).

Also included are implementation of two profiles of ebXML Registry, the
WEB Services (WS) Profile [11] and the WSRP Remote Portlets Profile [9].
The WS and WSRP Profiles are based on working drafts and are therefor
experimental and subject to change in future release. The freebXML
Registry project welcomes proposals for prototyping additional profiles
of ebXML Registry. Please post proposal for new profiles to the
ebxmlrr-tech mailing list.


Latest Release Notes
--------------------

The latest release notes are available in CVS tree at:

http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/ebxmlrr/omar/readme.txt?rev=1.12&view=markup

They are also in the readme.txt file at the root level once you have
downloaded the software.

Downloading Software
--------------------

Download instructions are available at:

http://ebxmlrr.sourceforge.net/3.0/SetupGuide.html#DownloadingTheRequiredFiles

Release Documentation
---------------------

The documentation for the release is available at:

http://ebxmlrr.sourceforge.net/3.0

A good place to start is the installation and setup guide:

http://ebxmlrr.sourceforge.net/3.0/SetupGuide.html

Known Issues
------------

-Support for Single Sign On (SSO) based on the Registry SAML Profile is
not yet implemented.

-The distribution includes a build.properties file in root directory
that should not have been included. You should either remove it manually
and start with a fresh copy from build.properties.template
or fix it to match your environment for the following properties:

catalina.home
localCall
proxyHost
proxyPort

-start.tomcat and stop.tomcat targets will not work in Windows
environment. Manually start/stop Tomcat using the startup and shutdown
scripts provided with that distribution under <catalina.home>/bin directory.

-target test.unit.deploy will fail unless you extract the ebxmlrr-spec
module from cvs to a sibling directory of omar. Either don't use this
target and ignore the content cataloging/validation test failures or
get the module from cvs:
    cd path-to/omar-3.0-beta1-src
    cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/ebxmlrr co
-P ebxmlrr-spec

-JDK1.4.2 + JWSDP1.6 users:
    * uncomment build.lib.endorsed in build.properties.
    * remove xercesImpl.jar and xml-apis.jar from tomcat/common/endorsed.
Copy there jars from ${jwsdp.home}/jaxp/lib and
${jwsdp.home}/jaxp/lib/endorsed.

-JWSDP1.6 and Windows: Fix for wscompile.bat: the command line args are
put in a variable one by one and shifted until there are no more of
them. Unfortunately, when the features are passed to as one single
argument (-features:wsi,explicitcontext,nodatabinding), command prompt
interprets the comma as well as whitespace as an argument separator.
This happens only when shifting through arguments. The solution is to
not shift the arguments but pass them directly to ant. Scroll to the
bottom of wscompile.bat and replace the argument collection with the
following:

rem Get command line arguments and save them
set CMD_LINE_ARGS=
:setArgs
set CMD_LINE_ARGS=%*
:doneSetArgs


Reporting Bugs and Requests For Enhancements (RFEs)
----------------------------------------------------

-First see if your problem is already listed in the FAQ at:

http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?atid=627327&group_id=37074&func=browse

In particular read the FAQ entry: "How to ask questions effectively
about freebXML Registry"

http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1192046&group_id=37074&atid=627327

-All messages should be posted to ebxmlrr-tech alias after registering
with the list:

http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ebxmlrr-tech

-Make sure you indicate the release (3.0-beta1)

-Include detailed steps to reproduce the problem

-Include stack trace if any

-If you have a bug fix patch please follow instructions at:

http://ebxmlrr.sourceforge.net/3.0/PatchSubmissionGuide.html

Thank you for using the freebXML Registry.

Related Resources:

[0] ebXML Registry MetaLinks (live version of subsequent links)
http://ebxmlrr.sourceforge.net/tmp/ebXMLRegistryLinks.html

[1] freebXML Registry
http://ebxmlrr.sourceforge.net

[2] Reference Deployments of freebXML Registry
http://ebxmlrr.sourceforge.net/aboutFAQ/About_freebXML_Registry.html#Deployments

[3] ebXML Registry 2.1 Specifications (Approved OASIS and ISO Standard)
http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/regrep/documents/2.1/specs

[4] ebXML Registry 3.0 Specifications Bundle (OASIS Approved Standard)
http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/document.php?document_id=12049 (the
specifications)
http://xml.coverpages.org/ni2005-02-14-a.html (Cover pages article
detailing new functionality in version 3.0)

[5] ebXML Registry Technical Committee
http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/regrep/

[6] Web Content Management using ebXML Registry (XML Europe 2004):

http://ebxmlrr.sourceforge.net/presentations/xmlEurope2004/xmlEurope2004-webcm-ebxmlrr.ppt
(presentation in ppt format)

http://ebxmlrr.sourceforge.net/presentations/xmlEurope2004/xmlEurope2004-webcm-ebxmlrr.sxi 


(presentation in Open Office format)

http://ebxmlrr.sourceforge.net/presentations/xmlEurope2004/04-02-02.pdf
(paper)

[7] Java API for XML Registries
http://www.jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=93

[8] LDAP, UDDI and ebXML Registry feature comparison matrix
http://ebxmlrr.sourceforge.net/tmp/Registry_Capability_Matrix.html

[9] Using ebXML Registry to Manage WSRP Artifacts
http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/download.php/9529/wsrp-pfb-ebxml-tn-1.0-draft-11.pdf

[10] ebXML Registry Tutorial (Draft)
http://ebxmlrr.sourceforge.net/tmp/regrep-tutorial-05.pdf

[11] Registering Web Services in an ebXML Registry
http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/download.php/11907/regrep-webservices-tn-10.pdf

[12] ebXML Registry and Semantic Content Management papers
Date:         October 2004
Author/s:     Asuman Dogac, Gokce B. Laleci, Yildiray Kabak, Seda Unal,
Thomas Beale, Sam Heard, Peter Elkin, Farrukh Najmi, Carl Mattocks,
David Webber
title:        Exploiting ebXML Registry Semantic Constructs for
Handling Archetype Metadata in Healthcare Informatics
venue:        International Journal of Metadata, Semantics and
Ontologies (IJMSO) by Inderscience Publishers.
link:
http://www.srdc.metu.edu.tr/webpage/projects/artemis/publications/IJMSO.pdf

Date:         June 2004
Author/s:     ASUMAN DOGAC, YILDIRAY KABAK, GOKCE B. LALECI, CARL
MATTOCKS, FARRUKH NAJMI, JEFF POLLOCK
title:        Enhancing ebXML Registries to Make them OWL Aware
venue:        Distributed and Parallel Databases Journal, Kluwer
Academic Publishers.
link:
http://www.srdc.metu.edu.tr/webpage/publications/2004/_DAPD_ebXML-OWL.pdf
[13] ebXML Registry Profile for ebXML Core Components (Draft)
http://ebxmlrr.sourceforge.net/tmp/regrep-ccts-profile-01.pdf

-- 
Regards,
Farrukh Najmi

(on behalf of the freebXML Registry team:
http://ebxmlrr.sourceforge.net/contributors.html )







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