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<title>SmartFrog ${smartfrog.version}</title>
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<h1>SmartFrog ${smartfrog.version}</h1>
<p>
This is a new release of SmartFrog, the Java-based, LPGL-licensed distributed
deployment framework developed by HP Laboratories. SmartFrog enables
applications to be deployed across multiple machines, configuring different
aspects of the system so that they are all consistently configured, and managing
the life-cycle of the application as a whole. The project's home page is
<a href="http://smartfrog.org/">http://smartfrog.org/</a>
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The release artifacts are available at
<a
href="http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=87384&package_id=176308">
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=87384&package_id=176308</a>
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This release is ${smartfrog.version}; built from revision ${svn.revision}
of the SVN repository. This release has an extended language
with the ability to tag attributes, and includes the following items:
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<ul>
<li> Core smartfrog daemon, including services to manage files, start and stop
Java and native programs.
</li>
<li> Example components and applications.
</li>
<li> Ant support: ant tasks to deploy and terminate applications from a build.
</li>
<li> Ant components: the ability to execute ant tasks in a deployment.
</li>
<li> Anubis: a partition aware tuple-space that can be used to implement fault
tolerant systems.
</li>
<li> JMX: the ability to configure and manage JMX components, and to manage
SmartFrog components over JMX.
</li>
<li> Logging: integration with Apache commons-logging and Log4J
</li>
<li> Networking: email, FTP, SSH, DNS support.
</li>
<li> Quartz: scheduled operations using Quartz libraries.
</li>
<li> Scripting: support for BSF-hosted scripting languages
</li>
<li> WWW: deployment of WAR and EAR files to application servers. deploy-by-copy
is provided for all application servers that support, and a tomcat-specific
component can communicate with Apache Tomcat. The Jetty component can
configure and deploy individual servlets, eliminating much of the need for WAR
files themselves.
</li>
</ul>
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For Java 1.5 systems, there are some extra components:
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<ul>
<li> Database: components to issue database commands, and deploy HSLDB and MySQL.
</li>
<li> Testing: Distributed JUnit and component testing with SFUnit.
</li>
<li> XML: XML support with XOM.
</li>
<li> XMPP: Presence and messaging over Jabber.
</li>
</ul>
<h3>Packaging</h3>
<p>
This release is available as:
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<ol>
<li> RPM files inside a .tar.gz file.
</li>
<li> a JAR installer.
</li>
<li>the original core smartfrog distribution as .zip and .tar.gz (deprecated)
</li>
</ol>
<p>
The RPM installation is for RPM-based Linux systems. It comprises three RPM
files, smartfrog, smartfrog-daemon and smartfrog-demo:
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<table>
<tr>
<td><code>smartfrog</code></td>
<td>The core SmartFrog distribution.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><code>smartfrog-daemon</code></td>
<td>The shell scripts to add the smartfrog distribution to the
path, and to run the daemon on start-up.
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><code>smartfrog-demo</code></td>
<td>Example code and documentation</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><code>smartfrog-anubis</code></td>
<td>Anubis partition-aware "tuple space"</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><code>smartfrog-logging</code></td>
<td>Enhanced logging</td>
</tr>
</table>
<p>
All the JAR files are also published to a repository that is compatible with
Apache Maven and Ivy. Add
<a
href="http://smartfrog.sourceforge.net/repository">http://smartfrog.sourceforge.net/repository</a>
to your repository list to pull SmartFrog artifacts into your Ivy- or Maven- based build.
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There are also SmartFrog components to retrieve artifacts from such a repository
(the Library components under /org/smartfrog/services/os/java/library.sf ),
which can be used for dynamic download of SmartFrog and other artifacts.
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<h3>Security warning</h3>
<p>
Unless SmartFrog is configured with security, a running daemon
will listen on its configured port for incoming deployment requests, and deploy
the applications with the rights of the user running the daemon. When the
smartfrog-daemon RPM is installed, that means that a process running as root
will be listening on an open port for incoming deployment requests. Do not
deploy SmartFrog this way on any untrusted network, not without turning security
on and, ideally, recreating the RPMs with signed JAR files.
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<h3>Building SmartFrog</h3>
<p>
SmartFrog requires Java 1.4 and Ant 1.7 to build. For a complete release,
Java1.5 or later is required.
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<p>
The distribution does not include a source tree adequate to build the entire
system. Please follow the instructions at
<a href="http://sourceforge.net/svn/?group_id=87384">http://sourceforge.net/svn/?group_id=87384
</a>
and check out smartfrog/trunk/core from our repository.
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<p>
This release was built with revision ${svn.revision} of the repository, which
is available under the SVN branch
<a href="${svn.branch.url}">${svn.branch.url}</a>
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<p>
We strongly encourage anyone interested in building or extending smartfrog to
get involved in the smartfrog developer mailing list, which can be found from
the sourceforge project page
<a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/smartfrog/">
http://sourceforge.net/projects/smartfrog/</a>
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<h3>Reporting Bugs</h3>
<p>
Please file all bug reports at <a
href="http://jira.smartfrog.org/">http://jira.smartfrog.org/</a>
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<p>
The SmartFrog Team
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<h3>Changes since last release</h3>
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