View Source

Overview

The Apache ServiceMix Kernel 1.1.0 release brings a lot of new features enhancements and bug fixes:

remote connection using SSH protocol
provisioning enhancements: versioning / hot deployment of features
new commands, including OSGi related commands for the Configuration Admin and Package Admin services
improved spring integration: upgrade to spring 2.5.6 and spring-dm 1.2.0-m2, the osgi/list command now displays spring applications status
container level locking for master / slave deployments
support for JAXP 1.4 on all platforms
improved JMX support for managing the OSGi framework and features
Note that the commands syntax has changed due to the upgrade to the latest gshell version.

Getting the Distributions

Linux/Mac OS X/Unix Downloads

Windows downloads

The above URLs use the Apache Mirror system to redirect you to a suitable mirror for your download. Some users have experienced issues with some versions of browsers (e.g. some Safari browsers). If the download doesn't seem to work for you from the above URL then try using FireFox

Release notes

The Apache ServiceMix Kernel 1.1.0 release brings a lot of new features enhancements and bug fixes:

remote connection using SSH protocol
provisioning enhancements: versioning / hot deployment of features
new commands, including OSGi related commands for the Configuration Admin and Package Admin services
improved spring integration: upgrade to spring 2.5.6 and spring-dm 1.2.0-m2, the osgi/list command
now displays spring applications status
container level locking for master / slave deployments
support for JAXP 1.4 on all platforms
improved JMX support for managing the OSGi framework and features
Note that the commands syntax has changed due to the upgrade to the latest gshell version.

See the change log below for more informations:

Bug
- SMX4KNL-72 - If there is no etc/startup.properties, the kernel hangs without displaying any error
- SMX4KNL-79 - When starting the kernel, a log entry states "Can not install feature ''"
- SMX4KNL-86 - When running integration tests, the container classpath contains all the test bundles which may cause problems
- SMX4KNL-87 - Problems with batch files on windows
- SMX4KNL-95 - kernel build failed in testing/itests
- SMX4KNL-96 - package missing for felix.config.properties
- SMX4KNL-97 - Dissociate the name and the location of ServiceMix Kernel instances managed by the admin shell
- SMX4KNL-100 - The client does not close when running "osgi shutdown" command
- SMX4KNL-102 - The file monitor should use ${servicemix.base} for default polling locations
- SMX4KNL-104 - When using a remote connection, errors are not reported correctly
- SMX4KNL-105 - Features are reinstalled on restart of servicemix
- SMX4KNL-112 - gshell pom needs to include gshell-config and gshell-packages modules
- SMX4KNL-115 - config.properties for SMX-Kernel needs to be updated
- SMX4KNL-117 - The Smx testing platform should take into account the boot delegation packages specified in the configuration file
- SMX4KNL-118 - The configuration file for felix comes from 3 different places in the svn tree, only one copy should be used
- SMX4KNL-122 - When using the client and trying to connect to another instance using the "admin connect" command, the console hangs
- SMX4KNL-123 - XML parsing does not work on non Sun JVMs and Sun's SAAJ bundle requires Sun's JAXP implementation
- SMX4KNL-124 - Issuing command "log d" fails with NullPointerException on AIX.
- SMX4KNL-126 - The user is no more authenticated with the new gshell integration
- SMX4KNL-128 - Remove OBR support from default distribution
- SMX4KNL-132 - osgi/list command should display the spring application state
- SMX4KNL-133 - jaxp-ri bundle miss javax.xml.datatype.DatatypeFactory factoryId under META-INF/services
- SMX4KNL-134 - XPathFactoryFinder in jaxp api should use factoryId to load the spi class in osgi enviroment
- SMX4KNL-135 - Remote shell missing help resources
- SMX4KNL-138 - No command history with GShell console
- SMX4KNL-140 - GShell commands references not cleaned up when bundle uninstalled
- SMX4KNL-142 - Starting a new instance that was created with admin on windows fails to start
- SMX4KNL-145 - java.lang.IllegalStateException: Streams not registered for thread
- SMX4KNL-148 - OPS4J maven repo missing form default search list
- SMX4KNL-149 - Build failure due to new sshd snapshot
- SMX4KNL-150 - GShell group name variable doesn't resolve
- SMX4KNL-151 - Update displayed version in GShell to be 1.1.0-SNAPSHOT for trunk
- SMX4KNL-153 - Stopping one of the "core" bundles of the servicemix engine block the server
- SMX4KNL-155 - Error changing manifest while bundle is deployed
- SMX4KNL-162 - The default jaas realm uses the config admin to store clear password
- SMX4KNL-164 - features/removeUrl does not remove the repository
- SMX4KNL-165 - Initial provisioning using features is very slow especially when using snapshots
- SMX4KNL-170 - Unknown protocol: org.apache.servicemix.kernel.gshell
- SMX4KNL-172 - the new command optional/cat from gshell can't support mvn/http protocol
- SMX4KNL-174 - NoClassDefFoundError jline/ConsoleReader when invoking servicemix-client
- SMX4KNL-176 - 'features/install xxx' tries to install version 0.0.0 instead of the latest one
- SMX4KNL-177 - Some of the Optional commands have moved to different packages in the latest snapshot of geronimo gshell
- SMX4KNL-178 - Remove debug log statements when booting
- SMX4KNL-180 - features/install xxx barfs when using non osgi compliant versions
- SMX4KNL-181 - osgi/install -s throws a NPE if the bundle can not be resolved
- SMX4KNL-182 - Upon restart, the list of previously installed features is not available anymore
- SMX4KNL-185 - Features JMX view does not reload persistent state on restart
- SMX4KNL-187 - Features JMX view making too much log noise
- SMX4KNL-188 - Gshell itests fail on windows
- SMX4KNL-190 - Deployment / Startup of spring xml configurations doesn't work correctly
- SMX4KNL-192 - ServiceMix Kernel startup blocks
- SMX4KNL-198 - The console / server / client arguments to servicemix shell script are broken
- SMX4KNL-199 - Missing resource bundle for obr shell
- SMX4KNL-201 - The client jar does not exit when running with --help argument
- SMX4KNL-202 - Startup of a pending to deploy Spring config file fails when all required bundles got installed
- SMX4KNL-204 - OsgiConfiguration.unregister() throw NPE when exit smx
- SMX4KNL-205 - "ld | grep WARN" does not filter while "log/display | grep WARN" does
- SMX4KNL-207 - features/install should install latest feature version for any dependency that does not explicitly specify a dependency
- SMX4KNL-208 - Bundle#loadClass sometimes return null instead of throwing a CNFE
- SMX4KNL-212 - Exceptions are displayed in the console when trying to load default xml catalogs
- SMX4KNL-215 - Don't attempt to stop fragments in filemonitor
- SMX4KNL-218 - Can't find bundle for base name org.apache.servicemix.kernel.gshell.wrapper.InstallCommand, locale fr_BE
- SMX4KNL-220 - The org.apache.servicemix.kernel.management bundle should not use DynamicImport-Package=*

Improvement
- SMX4KNL-36 - Investigate having a different bootstrap mechanism for a remote client to not start all the bundles installed (maybe by not using osgi)
- SMX4KNL-62 - Enhance admin shell create command to allocate unique ports to new instances.
- SMX4KNL-74 - When using the spring deployer, allow the customization of the OSGi manifest entries
- SMX4KNL-78 - Small refactoring of the Feature interface
- SMX4KNL-85 - Extend GShell#waitForFrameworkToStart to wait 60 seconds instead of 5 seconds.
- SMX4KNL-101 - Reduce the amount of logging issued by mina
- SMX4KNL-106 - Support for container level lock to support master/slave deployments
- SMX4KNL-114 - prompt should print username@instance-name when using remote shell
- SMX4KNL-119 - Use boot delegation instead of listing sun packages for jaxp / url handlers
- SMX4KNL-120 - The ServiceMix Kernel testing platform should use the servicemix kernel main jar instead of the felix one
- SMX4KNL-121 - Improve the Main class to easily embed the whole ServiceMix Kernel distribution in another web application
- SMX4KNL-125 - Show command environment in kernel shell
- SMX4KNL-127 - Add the update command in the osgi shell
- SMX4KNL-130 - Support configurable lock directory for container level locking (for master/slave deployments).
- SMX4KNL-136 - Upgrade to pax logging 1.2.0
- SMX4KNL-154 - some Action moved from to another package cause kernel start up failed
- SMX4KNL-158 - Move jline into its own bundle instead of using a private package in gshell-core
- SMX4KNL-169 - Use the start level to implement the container level locking
- SMX4KNL-184 - Align the commands name with the gshell ones
- SMX4KNL-186 - features/uninstall should select the right version if only one version has been installed
- SMX4KNL-191 - Upgrade to pax-logging 1.3.0
- SMX4KNL-203 - When installing a feature, the service should first install all bundles, then start them all in order
- SMX4KNL-206 - Felix version in servicemix-kernel-1.1.0-snapshot doesn't seem to support fragment bundles.
- SMX4KNL-216 - Display fragments informations in the osgi list command
- SMX4KNL-230 - Log statements using java.util.logging are logged into both stderr and data/log/servicemix.log file

New Feature
- SMX4KNL-28 - Create a config command to administer the ConfigAdmin service
- SMX4KNL-33 - Enhance admin shell to provide commands to start / stop / list / connect to known ServiceMix instances
- SMX4KNL-60 - Versionning of features
- SMX4KNL-76 - support to install/uninstall different version of features
- SMX4KNL-90 - Create new commands to leverage the PackageAdmin OSGi service
- SMX4KNL-94 - Provide a JMX frontend on top of the features service
- SMX4KNL-107 - Create a new "admin connect" command to easily connect to a named instance of servicemix
- SMX4KNL-108 - Add a new 'log de' command that displays the last exception from the log
- SMX4KNL-109 - Include the pax wrapper url handler in the kernel for ease of use of non osgi third party dependencies
- SMX4KNL-111 - Add a "starting" state to the admin list command
- SMX4KNL-113 - Upgrade to Felix 1.2.1
- SMX4KNL-116 - Allow repository descriptors to reference other repository descriptors
- SMX4KNL-131 - Include JAXP 1.4 API
- SMX4KNL-143 - Provide a way to make BouncyCastle work in ServiceMix Kernel
- SMX4KNL-144 - Use SSH as a remoting protocol to connect to a servicemix kernel
- SMX4KNL-147 - Upgrade to spring-DM 1.2.0-m2
- SMX4KNL-152 - The version number displayed in the console should be extract from resources (using maven filtering + properties file) but the branding should be easy to change so that people embedding the Kernel can define their own
- SMX4KNL-156 - Move core management feature to the kernel
- SMX4KNL-157 - Add a JAAS realm for authenticating users from SSH and JMX
- SMX4KNL-163 - Provide default jdbc lock impl for master/slave deployments
- SMX4KNL-167 - Upgrade to spring 2.5.6
- SMX4KNL-171 - Include RFC0139 (JMX management of OSGi)
- SMX4KNL-179 - Upgrade to felix 1.5.0-SNAPSHOT
- SMX4KNL-214 - Hot deployment of features through the deploy folder

Task
- SMX4KNL-43 - Upgrade to latest gshell
- SMX4KNL-93 - Extract the admin commands in their own module
- SMX4KNL-98 - Use dependency management section for all dependencies
- SMX4KNL-99 - Remove ant from the kernel distribution and replace its use in the filemonitor
- SMX4KNL-129 - Make sure aliases and links commands work with the new gshell integration
- SMX4KNL-166 - Move the embedded smx demo into trunk
- SMX4KNL-168 - Downgrade to junit 3.8
- SMX4KNL-196 - gshell-core source jar should use the shade plugin to include the gshell sources
- SMX4KNL-197 - The client source jar should include the slf4j sources using the shade plugin
- SMX4KNL-211 - Remove one of jmock or easymock from the kernel

Known issues

SMX4KNL-141 - The config/edit command changes does not takes precedence over configuration files in the etc folder at restart
SMX4KNL-183 - features/uninstall behaves different in version selection than features/install
SMX4KNL-189 - Shell completion works only in the root shell
SMX4KNL-200 - The client jar / ssh daemon should support direct commands
SMX4KNL-227 - Full support of fragment bundles
SMX4KNL-228 - Warning messages when using OpenSSH 5.1 to connect to ServiceMix Kernel
SMX4KNL-231 - Unable to log into ServiceMix Kernel using OpenSolaris SSH client
SMX4KNL-232 - Unable to log into ServiceMix Kernel using Windows putty SSH client