Management Services

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• Management Specification
• Policy Specification
• Management APIs
• Policy APIs

Feature History

• 1.1
  • New policy implementation that leverages the java.beans.XMLEncoder and java.beans.XMLDecoder classes introduced in Java 1.4. Policy files generated using this new implementation take up less space and are more human-readable. Reading in of policy files should be faster, on average, because of the reduced file size.
    
    A new tool is provided with Openwings called PolicyConverter. This command-line tool loads policies and converts them to the "default". The default implementation is
    determined by the first value in a system property in properties.txt (see the section titled "Policy Implementations").
    
    java -classpath [classpath] PolicyConverter <interface name> <file>
    
    Openwings 1.1 can read policies built using the previous implementation (Openwings 1.0 and prior).
• 1.0
  • No new features
• 0.9.2
  • Policies use XML parser built into Java 1.4
• 0.9.1
  • Upgraded to use faster XML parser - Xerces 2
• 0.9
  • Policies are loaded off the policy path (specified by the property net.openwings.policy.path) instead of classpath
• 0.8.x
  • XML Policies
    • Property References
    • Method References
    • Association of policy implementations through Java properties
    • Installable Component Descriptor Policy Editor
  • Management Framework
    • Supports management plug-ins
      • JMX Plug-in (requires JDMK)
    • Supports generic Management Beans (Mbeans)

Known Issues

• Management
  • No major open issues
• Policies
  • No major open issues

Future Releases

• Management
  • Mbean adapter implementation
• Policies
  • Generic Policy Editor

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