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This is a DRAFT article for discussion purposes only.

Apache Taverna Language 0.15.1-incubating, Apache Taverna OSGi 0.2.1-incubating

2016-02-01 DRAFT, Revised 2016-02-18

Introduction

These are the release notes for the release of Taverna Language and Taverna OSGi.

This release of Taverna Language is an update that fixes bugs and adds the Tavlang Tool, contributed by Menaka Madushanka (sponsored by Google Summer of Code 2015).

This release of Taverna OSGi Plugin System will support the upcoming Apache releases of the Taverna Engine, Taverna Common Activities, and Taverna Command Line.

New Features

(1) Addition of Tavlang Tool

The Taverna Language command line (tavlang) tool accesses the features of the Taverna language modules. The tool has the following functions:

– Conversion
– Inspection
– Validation
– Viewing workflow statistics.

See Apache Taverna Tavlang Tool for more information.

Improvements/Enhancements

(1) OSGi Support

The OSGi support has been stabilized. The current OSGi version will be  0.2.1-incubating.

(2) Retained Functionality 

<Does this stay with Language/OSGi or move to 2nd RN?>

These plugins ARE included in the 3.1.0 release:

– Beanshell scripts
– External Tool
– Interaction service
– REST service
– Spreadsheet
– XML splitters
– WSDL services
– XPath

Removed / Retired Features

(1) TBD

Bug Fixes

Mvn clean package fails to run (TAVERNA-874)

This release fixes the following error which was caused by a null pointer exception (NPE) in Taverna Language.

[ERROR] /C:/Users/idunlop/code/incubator-taverna-commandline/taverna-commandline-common/src/main/java/org/apache/taverna/commandline/data/DatabaseConfigurationHandler.java:[57,38] cannot access uk.org.taverna.configuration.Configurable


See also JRA change notes:

Apache Taverna Parent: https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?version=12333249&projectId=12318322

Apache Taverna Language: https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?version=12333250&projectId=12318322

Apache Taverna OSGi: https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?version=12332248&projectId=12318322

Known Issues

Are there any known issues we should list here?

Issue 1

TBD

Workaround

TBD

Installation Information

Source Code Name Changes

Package names have changed to org.apache.taverna.* and source code has been reorganized.

Prerequisites

Java 1.8 or newer (tested with OpenJDK 1.8)
Apache Maven 3.2.5 or newer (older versions probably also work)

Installation

TBD

Stay Informed

Please subscribe to and contact the dev@taverna mailing list for any questions, suggestions, and discussions about Apache Taverna.

Bugs and feature plannings are tracked in the JIRA Issue tracker under the TAVERNA component Taverna Language. Anyone may add an issue.

 

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