Install Services

For a listing of bug fixes and enhancements included in this release, please visit our bug database.

• Install Service Specification
• Install Service APIs

Feature History

• 1.1
  • An issue has been fixed with large Jar files being copied into the hotinstall directory (6859)
• 1.0
  • Static components cannot be uninstalled
  • Install security - Jar authentication
• 0.9.2
  • Static Installer - special mode allows Installer to perform inter-component resolution of core Openwings components when Openwings is first installed on a platform
  • Code Security - resolution of per-component Java security policies
• 0.9.1
  • Installer Management bean. This MBean allows overriding of component descriptors on the fly, so you don't have to restart Openwings to modify an installed component and restart it. Access this feature through the Openwings Explorer.
• 0.9
  • No new features
• 0.8.x
  • Installable Jar format for components
  • Ability to automatically install components from media or the web
  • Integration with Container Services to execute installed components
  • Ability to serve components over the web

Known Issues

• In this release, the hyphen is a reserved character used by the Install service. Don't put hyphens in your component names.
• Incomplete implementation of the InstallMBean in this release (see API). The only method implemented is overrideComponentDescriptor().

Future Releases

• Complete implementation of InstallMBean

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