Thursday, December 29, 2005

jManage.org --> second most popular site with JMX tag

It is interesting to find that jManage.org is the second most popular site tagged with the keyword "JMX" on del.icio.us:

http://del.icio.us/popular/jmx

del.icio.us provides a "tag" based mechanism to search content.

Wednesday, December 28, 2005

Get notified on new jManage releases

jmanage-announce is the new mailing list for notification on new releases.
Please subscribe to get notified about the new releases:

http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jmanage-announce

If you have already subscribed to jmanage-users mailing list,
there is no need to subscribe to jmanage-announce.

When a new version of jManage is available, notification will be sent to both
jmanage-users and jmanage-announce mailing lists.

jmanage-announce is a low volume mailing list, limited to just release notifications.


Tuesday, December 27, 2005

jManage 1.0.1 released

jManage 1.0.1 is the first maitenance release in the 1.0 series, with some important bug fixes and new features.

You can download 1.0.1 from:

http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=111374&package_id=166109&release_id=380773

Changes:

Feature Requests:

1389736 - Add support for modifying array data types
1378203 - Improve the display of array data types
1388556 - Add support for Formatting data based on CompositeType
1374698 - Can't see exception contents when operation fails
1374980 - Include both *.cmd and *.sh in .gz and .zip distributions

Bugs fixed:

1380782 - NPE in AuthServiceImpl.login
1378197 - Connection not being closed during graph view
1379756 - cannot view EJB 3.0 info on JBoss
1379511 - buttons look like inactive

Tuesday, December 06, 2005

jManage 1.0 final released

We are pleased to announce the release of jManage 1.0 final. This is a result of a lot of hard work by the jManage contributors and feedback from the jManage users.

jManage is a open source, web and command-line based JMX client, which provides a centralized console for managing application clusters and distributed-application environments. jManage goes beyond an ordinary JMX client by providing features like Alerts, Graphs, Security, SNMP support, etc. The jManage mission is to provide an open source management platform, which can be used to manage and monitor complete production environment.

We recommend that you upgrade from 0.5 release to 1.0, to make use of new features like Alerts, Graphs, SNMP support, etc.
jManage 1.0 can be downloaded from:

http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=111374&package_id=166109&release_id=375944

Following is a list of new features in 1.0:

- Graphs
- Alerts
- Basic SNMP support.
- Support for Open MBean types: CompositeData and TabularData.
- Framework to define DataFormat objects for custom classes.
See html-data-format.properties and text-data-format.properties under config.
- Support for external login modules (JAAS based with name and password callback)
- Changes to application type management (introduced application-type-config.xml)
- Changed jmanage startup to use jetty-config.xml. This moves the jmanage port
configuration and also the SSL configuration to jetty-config.xml. Please
refer Jetty documentation to modify this file.
- Added exception handling for JSPs.
- Added support for viewing XML files.
- New components based source structure. The build is now done using Maven.

To see a complete list of features, please visit http://www.jmanage.org.

Please send an email to team@jmanage.org with feedback.

Regards,
Rakesh Kalra