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Release Notes -- Apache Geronimo -- Version 2.1.1


Geronimo URLs
-------------
Home Page:     http://geronimo.apache.org/
Downloads:     http://geronimo.apache.org/downloads.html
Documentation: http://geronimo.apache.org/documentation.html
Mailing Lists: http://geronimo.apache.org/mailing.html
Source Code:   http://geronimo.apache.org/svn.html
Bug Tracking:  http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/GERONIMO
Wiki:          http://cwiki.apache.org/geronimo


Documentation
-------------
Please see http://cwiki.apache.org/GMOxDOC21/documentation.html for the
latest documentation on this release.


System Requirements
-------------------
You need a platform that supports the Sun JDK 5.0+ (J2SE 1.5.0+) or greater.

Most testing has been done on Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows.


Geronimo 2.1 Enhancements
-------------------------

Custom server assemblies
- Lightweight server assemblies may be created that contain only the functional 
  components required by your application(s).

Flexible admin console
- The admin console is now component-based to mirror the server capabilities. 
  This allows the admin console to provide flexible administrative capabilities 
  that will mirrors the capabilities of a custom server assembly.

GShell
- GShell is a command-line processing environment that can be used for the execution
  of Geronimo commands. GShell is an extensible environment and includes support
  for editing, command history, and tab completion. 

Clustering Support
- WADI can now be used to support clustering of web applications for Geronimo configurations which
  use the Tomcat Web Container (WADI support for Jetty was in previous releases). 
- Applications can be deployed to administratively-defined groups of Geronimo servers

Monitoring Console Plugin
- The monitoring console plugin provides monitoring support in the Geronimo admin console. 
  The monitoring console can gather statistics and performance data from multiple Geronimo 
  servers and graphically display this data to users.

Certification Status

Geronimo 2.1.1 Issues Resolved
-------------------------
Apache Geronimo v2.1.1 has passed 100% of SUN's Java Enterprise Edition 5.0 
Certification Test Suite. See "Distributions" for further details.


Distributions
-------------
Apache Geronimo v2.1.1 is available in five distributions so you can pick the 
one that better fits your environment.

The available distributions are as follows:

Certified distributions:
- Apache Geronimo with Tomcat web container, AXIS2 for Web Services and OpenJPA
  for persistence.
- Apache Geronimo with Jetty web container, CXF for Web Services and OpenJPA 
  for persistence.

Non-Certified distributions:
- Little-G with Tomcat web container, minimal configuration.
- Little-G with Jetty web container, minimal configuration.
- Geronimo framework, stripped down Geronimo pluggable framework.

Note: Non-Certified distributions do not contain a complete JavaEE5 stack and so 
cannot be certified.  Certified distributions can be reconfigured by the user 
(such as Tomcat web container with CXF for Web Services). 


Supported features
------------------
All programming elements of the Java EE 5.0 Specification are available.  


Known Issues and Limitations
----------------------------



Issues resolved in 2.1.1
------------------------

** Bug-----
** Bug
    * [GERONIMO-3124] - Reminder:  Switch Axis2 stack back to axis2-saaj from Sun SAAJ Impl
    * [GERONIMO-3354] - Exception thrown by MDB involved in XA transaction
    * [GERONIMO-3440] - DB2-XA: when trace file is not specified, it caused error when running the sample
    * [GERONIMO-3687] - classloader deadlock during server startup
    * [GERONIMO-3705] - Maven 2.0.8 causes build problems
    * [GERONIMO-3719] - Monitoring agent uses sun classes
    * [GERONIMO-3765] - monitoring console throws IllegalArgumentException when editting a bad server
    * [GERONIMO-3780] - MDB unable to access JNDI in ejbPostCreate
    * [GERONIMO-3781] - Plugin Installer, CRSF issue when attempting to install a new plugin
    * [GERONIMO-3783] - MessageDrivenBean delivery problem
    * [GERONIMO-3806] - CLONE -Extraneous WARN messages during deployment of resource-env-refs in EJB jar
    * [GERONIMO-3807] - ERROR's logged during plugin installation for non-existent plugins
    * [GERONIMO-3814] - NPE in GBeanOverride
    * [GERONIMO-3831] - Incomplete classpath fed to wsgen
    * [GERONIMO-3833] - Hard-coded gbean names and versions in monitoring code
    * [GERONIMO-3836] - Deployment fails with FNFE due to missing jline_.dll on Cygwin
    * [GERONIMO-3837] - allowLinking Tomcat  atttibute in StandardContext not configurable through Geronimo
    * [GERONIMO-3840] - Server may try to start modules in an order that won't work
    * [GERONIMO-3841] - Need a way to load config.xml customizations without a whole config.xml file
    * [GERONIMO-3843] - Plan creator fails to create plan and to deploy
    * [GERONIMO-3845] - stop-server command ignores username/password
    * [GERONIMO-3847] - The .tar.gz and .zip assembly files contain unnecessary META-INF directory
    * [GERONIMO-3850] - Plan Creator suppresses exceptions rather than showing it to user
    * [GERONIMO-3854] - deploy/assemble and ERROR GroovyRuntimeException: Ambiguous method overloading for method org.apache.geronimo.kernel.repository.Artifact#<init>
    * [GERONIMO-3855] - PortletSecurityException in Plugins portlet
    * [GERONIMO-3865] - unresolved i18n keys
    * [GERONIMO-3866] - Export Plugin from web console contains empty  'Unique ID" field and throws NPE, preventing any possible export of a plugin
    * [GERONIMO-3867] - Export Plugin in Web Console results in NullPointerException if no component is selected
    * [GERONIMO-3869] - geronimo/stop-server doesn't use connection established by deploy/connect in gshell
    * [GERONIMO-3873] - Console Keystore Configuration links contain partial HTML tags
    * [GERONIMO-3879] - Web Access Log Viewer problems in multiple server instances scenario
    * [GERONIMO-3880] - PersistenceUnitInfo.getJarFileUrls() can return null
    * [GERONIMO-3881] - geronimo/stop-server dumps ConnectException: Connection refused: connect when server's stopped yet Shutdown request has been issued
    * [GERONIMO-3882] - Mdb container ids not set during creation.
    * [GERONIMO-3887] - After installing with wrong configuration unable to proceed with any new plugin installs
    * [GERONIMO-3891] - Derby Log Viewer portlet - ignores all search criteria
    * [GERONIMO-3893] - When installing plugins, exception thrown when no plugins selected
    * [GERONIMO-3896] - Error processing HEAD method by default HttpServlet#doHead()
    * [GERONIMO-3897] - Always set the web deploymentDescriptor, not just when we make it metadata-complete
    * [GERONIMO-3899] - Missing geronimo-common depend from car-maven-plugin
    * [GERONIMO-3901] - Security Realms portlet - "encoding" option missing for Properties File Realm
    * [GERONIMO-3902] - start-server, default.groovy in etc/rc.d overrides -Xmx value when starting server using gshell
    * [GERONIMO-3906] - start-server uses hard-coded credentials that cannot be overridden
    * [GERONIMO-3913] - NPE in org.apache.geronimo.security.SubjectId.hashCode() caused by incorrect JAVA_HOME or JRE_HOME
    * [GERONIMO-3921] - getContextRoot() returns forward slash rather than empty string for apps deployed to root context
    * [GERONIMO-3924] - Make car-maven-plugin assembly independent of tools-maven-plugin
    * [GERONIMO-3927] - Plugin installer can't unpack much from jars
    * [GERONIMO-3935] - start-server command fails to parse arguments correctly
    * [GERONIMO-3937] - java.lang.ArithmeticException: / by zero
    * [GERONIMO-3939] - Failing to start plugin after install if previous plugin install failed.
    * [GERONIMO-3955] - Typo

** Improvement
    * [GERONIMO-433] - Tolerate non-Sun JREs
    * [GERONIMO-3416] - make some -test artifacts that for instance start up a mock server suitable for testing deployment parts
    * [GERONIMO-3796] - Upgrade to 3.3 version of xbean-finder, xbean-naming, and xbean-reflect
    * [GERONIMO-3798] - Upgrade Geronimo to newly released geronimo-transaction 2.1 and geronimo-connector 2.1 components
    * [GERONIMO-3802] - In plugin installer, assembling a server, add a page at the end to confirm or deny the assembly of a server package.
    * [GERONIMO-3828] - Provide jaxws-tools stack traces to the server.log
    * [GERONIMO-3856] - Assemble a Server Confirmation Page
    * [GERONIMO-3859] - Provide toString method to StartupMonitorUtil to aid monitoring, logging, debugging
    * [GERONIMO-3900] - Add runtime support for non-Sun JVMs
    * [GERONIMO-3903] - Upgrade to OpenJPA 1.0.2
    * [GERONIMO-3918] - Upgrade to WADI 2.0-M9
    * [GERONIMO-3926] - Add a Derby config/plugin for easier inclusion of Derby jars without a system-database depend

** New Feature
    * [GERONIMO-3871] - maven archetypes for modules and assemblies
    * [GERONIMO-3898] - Provide handy way to configure log4j for a particular app



Certification Status
--------------------
Apache Geronimo v2.1.1 has passed 100% of SUN's Java Enterprise Edition 5.0 
Certification Test Suite. See "Distributions" for further details.


Distributions
-------------
Apache Geronimo v2.1.1 is available in five distributions so you can pick the 
one that better fits your environment.

The available distributions are as follows:

Certified distributions:
- Apache Geronimo with Tomcat web container, AXIS2 for Web Services and OpenJPA
  for persistence.
- Apache Geronimo with Jetty web container, CXF for Web Services and OpenJPA 
  for persistence.

Non-Certified distributions:
- Little-G with Tomcat web container, minimal configuration.
- Little-G with Jetty web container, minimal configuration.
- Geronimo framework, stripped down Geronimo pluggable framework.

Note: Non-Certified distributions do not contain a complete JavaEE5 stack and so 
cannot be certified.  Certified distributions can be reconfigured by the user 
(such as Tomcat web container with CXF for Web Services). 


Supported features
------------------
All programming elements of the Java EE 5.0 Specification are available.  


Known Issues and Limitations
----------------------------
** Bug
    * [GERONIMO-3957] -  Updating svn:ignore lists
    * [GERONIMO-3949] -  Problem creating a DB2 datasource
    * [GERONIMO-3946] -  WARN [JettyModuleBuilder] Web application . does not contain a WEB-INF/geronimo-web.xml deployment plan
    * [GERONIMO-3944] -  Web plan schema munging reordering elements wrong
    * [GERONIMO-3942] -  IllegalStateException warning message for Jetty plugin installer
    * [GERONIMO-31243938] - Reminder: Geronimo Switchmust Axis2add stackJava2 backsecurity to axis2-saajrun fromwith Sunsecurity SAAJ Implmanager
    * [GERONIMO-33543934] - Exception thrown by MDB involved in XA transaction geronimo/start-server --timeout option does not work as expected
    * [GERONIMO-34403933] - DB2-XA: whenGetting trace file is not specified, it caused error when running the samplean Exception while creating JMS deployment plan through console.
    * [GERONIMO-36873931] - classloader deadlock during server startup  Unable to delete a datasource from administrative console
    * [GERONIMO-37053930] - Maven 2.0.8 causes build problemsIllegalArgumentException reading Transaction Log
    * [GERONIMO-37193907] -  Monitoring agent uses sun classesPersistence Exception is not visible/lost for client.
    * [GERONIMO-37653892] - monitoring console throws IllegalArgumentException when editting a bad server Persistence.CreateEntityManagerFactory leads to an JNDI Exception in EJB Container
    * [GERONIMO-37803878] - MDB unableUnable to accessdeploy JNDIPostgres inDatasource ejbPostCreate
from console dialog "Database * [GERONIMO-3781] - Plugin Installer, CRSF issue when attempting to install a new pluginPools" because of missing jar files in jar selection listbox.
    * [GERONIMO-37833875] - MessageDrivenBean delivery problem  Enabling authentication for Derby renders DB Viewer portlet unusable for all db's except SystemDatabase
    * [GERONIMO-38063874] - CLONE -Extraneous WARN messages during deployment of resource-env-refs in EJB jar Deployment of Spring SpringContextResourceAdapter fails
    * [GERONIMO-38073864] - ERROR's loggedSecurity duringwarning pluginabout installation for non-existent plugins a certificate from a CA claiming to represent: Me
    * [GERONIMO-38143863] - NPE in GBeanOverride  Default TomcatWebConnector maxPostSize setting cannot handle DayTrader application
    * [GERONIMO-38313858] - Incomplete classpath fed to wsgen
    * [GERONIMO-3833] - Hard-coded gbean names and versions in monitoring code start-server.bat fails to start server if there is a space in the path
    * [GERONIMO-38363851] -  DeploymentPlan failsCreator withcannot FNFErecognize dueclasses toinside missing jline_.dll on Cygwincompressed JARs of WEB-INF/lib
    * [GERONIMO-38373844] - allowLinking Errors Tomcaton shutdown atttibutefrom inadmin StandardContextconsole not(Jetty configurableonly) through Geronimo- java.lang.InterruptedException
    * [GERONIMO-38403815] - Server may try to start modules in an order that won't workContextManager.getCurrentContext() throws NullPointerException
    * [GERONIMO-38413768] - Need adeployment wayfailure tois loadnot config.xmllogged customizationsin withouteither ageronimo.log wholeor configdeployer.xml filelog
    * [GERONIMO-38433762] -  Web PlanApplications creatordisplayed failsduring toserver createstartup planinclude and"system" toconsole deployplugins
    * [GERONIMO-38453700] - stop-server alias command ignores username/passwordfails
    * [GERONIMO-38473685] - The .tar.gz and .zip assembly files contain unnecessary META-INF directoryMonitoring Console should display TimeStatistics and BoundedRangeStatistics correctly
    * [GERONIMO-38503664] -  JNDIView PlanPortlet Creatorshould suppresseslist exceptionsResourceAdaptors ratherand thanits showingJCAManagedConnectionFactories itfor toRAR userModules
    * [GERONIMO-38543602] - deploy/assemble andSEI ERRORspecified GroovyRuntimeException: Ambiguous method overloading for method org.apache.geronimo.kernel.repository.Artifact#<init>in webservices.xml does not overwrite annotation
    * [GERONIMO-38553581] - PortletSecurityException Default security relam name in Plugins portletContextManager
    * [GERONIMO-38653562] - unresolved i18n keys customizable navigator icons for admin console extensions
    * [GERONIMO-38663483] - Export Plugin from web console contains empty  'Unique ID" field and throws NPE, preventing any possible export of a plugin Redeploy should start any dependent configurations it stops.
    * [GERONIMO-3442] -  Tomcat exception reports reference non-existent log files
    * [GERONIMO-38673424] - Export PluginFatal in Web Console results in NullPointerException if no component is selectederror in geronimo-service-builder during copy-xmlbeans-schemas on windows
    * [GERONIMO-38693419] - geronimo/stop-server doesn't use connection established by deploy/connect in gshell Console displays wrong database pool type when derby embed local is used.
    * [GERONIMO-38733243] - Console KeystoreActiveMQ Configurationviolates links contain partial HTML tagsSystem Properties
    * [GERONIMO-38793233] - Web Access Log Viewer problems in multiple server instances scenario Local EJB references cannot be resolved when <inverse-classloading> is set in web application
    * [GERONIMO-38802622] - PersistenceUnitInfo.getJarFileUrls() canImplement return nullPolicyContextHandlerSOAPMessage
    * [GERONIMO-38812340] - geronimo/stop-server dumpsNetwork ConnectException:Listener Connectionstate refused:not connectpersisted whenacross server's stopped yet Shutdown request has been issued startups
    * [GERONIMO-2246] -  Why resource-env-ref:admin-object-module?

** Improvement
    * [GERONIMO-38823959] -  MdbFreeze containerduring idsdeploying notOrderEAR setsample duringfrom creation.GMOxDOC21
    * [GERONIMO-38873958] - After installingNo withweb-app wrongelement configuration unable to proceed with any new plugin installswhen geronimo-web.xml contains other root element
    * [GERONIMO-38913948] -  Allow -multiple Derbycontainers Logto Viewerbe portletcreated -for ignoresdifferent alltypes searchof criteriaejbs
    * [GERONIMO-38933940] - When installing plugins, exception thrown when no plugins selected A easy way to create a new server instance via command/gsh/console
    * [GERONIMO-38963929] - Error processing HEAD method by default HttpServlet#doHead() Load server implementation classes and it's libraries using a private classloader
    * [GERONIMO-38973925] - Always setMonitoring theagent webshould deploymentDescriptor,use notJAXB justto whendo we make it metadata-completeXML manipulation
    * [GERONIMO-38993915] - Missing geronimo-common depend from car-maven-plugin  Upgrade Monitoring and Debugview plugins to use Dojo instead of Dojolegacy
    * [GERONIMO-39013905] - Security Realms portlet - "encoding" option missing for Properties File Realm Geronimo Database pool wizard
    * [GERONIMO-3870] -  Expose JSR77 stats in OpenEJB
    * [GERONIMO-39023849] -  When start-server, default.groovy in etc/rc.d overrides -Xmx value when starting server using gshelldisplay-name in web.xml contains the dot the remaining part's printed out in geronimo.log
    * [GERONIMO-39063848] -  start-server uses hard-coded credentials that cannot be overriddengeronimo:deploy-module prints out Using non-artifact based plan: null when no plan is specified
    * [GERONIMO-39133774] - NPE monitoring in org.apache.geronimo.security.SubjectId.hashCode() caused by incorrect JAVA_HOME or JRE_HOMEagent should separate any constant assignment inside one class
    * [GERONIMO-39213770] - getContextRoot() returnsError forwardreporting slashof ratherundeclared thandata-sources emptyfrom stringpersistence.xml forwith appsthe deployedfile topath rootand contextsuch
    * [GERONIMO-39243759] - Make car-maven-plugin assembly independent of tools-maven-plugin Geronimo Tomcat Clustering - No GBeans for adding Static Members
    * [GERONIMO-39273682] - Plugin installer can't unpack much from jars The Monitoring Console should keep information about Stats available from a managed object
    * [GERONIMO-39353681] - start-server command failsThe toMonitoring parseConsole arguments correctly
    * [GERONIMO-3937] - java.lang.ArithmeticException: / by zeroshould allow the type of graph to be chosen
    * [GERONIMO-39393680] - Failing toThe startMonitoring pluginagent aftershould installoptimize if previous plugin install failed.DB activity
    * [GERONIMO-39553661] - Typo

** Improvement  Optimize GShell libs for G server assemblies
    * [GERONIMO-4333651] - Tolerate non-Sun JREs
    * [GERONIMO-3796] - Upgrade to 3.3 version of xbean-finder, xbean-naming, and xbean-reflectgshell should make it dead simple to run geronimo with remote debugging
    * [GERONIMO-37983530] - Upgrade Geronimoprovide to newly released geronimo-transaction 2.1activemq destination and geronimo-connector 2.1 componentsstats
    * [GERONIMO-38023448] -  InNew pluginthreads installer,launched assemblingfrom aan server,EJB adddo anot pagerun atas the endsame toSubject confirmas or deny the assembly of a server package.launching thread
    * [GERONIMO-38283408] - Provide jaxws-tools stack traces to the server.log Clean up deployer login code in ServerConnection
    * [GERONIMO-38563399] - Assemble Need aJSR88 ServerDConfigBeans Confirmationfor PageGerSecurityType
    * [GERONIMO-38593389] - Provide toString method to StartupMonitorUtil to aid monitoring, logging, debugging console: java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError is thrown when create a Tomcat APR HTTP Connector
    * [GERONIMO-39032758] -  Upgrade to OpenJPA 1.0.2Howl 1.0.2

** New Feature
    * [GERONIMO-39183876] - Upgrade to WADI 2.0-M9 Allow configuring JMX over SSL
    * [GERONIMO-39263665] - Add aCreate Derbyghell config/plugincommands for easier inclusion of Derby jars without a system-database depend

** New Featurewsgen and wsimport tools
    * [GERONIMO-3662] -  Provide JCA Resource statistics
    * [GERONIMO-38713619] - maven archetypes for modules and assemblies Allow context-param's to be overridden in geronimo-web.xml
    * [GERONIMO-38983572] - Provide handy way to configure log4j for a particular app
  Disable access log by default and provide an easy way for the user to enable/disable logging at will.