JOpera for Eclipse

New Features:

• Runs on Eclipse 3.6 Helios (32bit)
• Multi-Threaded Process Execution Kernel
• Added MapTube Mashup Example (thanks to Andrea Reber)
• Added Kernel Extension Point for providing custom ThreadPool

Updates:

• Updated XtremWebCH and ARC Adapters (thanks to Francesco Lelli)

New Features:

• standalone JOpera server
• FILE_WRITE adapter, write/append text files from JOpera programs

Updates:

• REST API extended to produce application/atom+xml feeds
• REST API supports server-side filtering with URL wildcards
• Deploy/Undeploy processes by simply adding or removing .oml files from the server workspace
• Starting a JOpera server on an empty workspace will now automagically create a JOpera project ready to accept your .oml files

New Features:

• New XWCH adapter - submit jobs to XtremWebCH
• Extended conditions syntax
• New Browser view library adapter - open a browser from your workflows

Updates:

• Extended ARC job submission adapter to support embedded XRLS job descriptions
• ARC adapter can now reliably kill submitted jobs
• REST API: addressability down to the parameter level

New Features:

• New REST workflow engine API:
  • GET the current state of a workflow instance in HTML, XML, or JSON format at anytime
  • POST new workflow instances (blocking and non-blocking request patterns)
  • DELETE process instances once they are finished
• REST Adapter: publish your own URIs from workflows

New Features:

• Runs on Eclipse 3.5 Galileo
• Send email with the new SMTP Adapter
• Submit jobs to Nordugrid with the new Nordugrid ARC Adapter (download the ARC demo)

New Features:

• Easier to start running processes:
  • Start Button added to the Process Information page
  • Start Pop-up Menu Command added to the Outline
• Improved Component Type Model:
  • Added Preference to show Component Type list in Overview Page
  • Component Type definitions can use inheritance
  • Choose predefined types for Component Type Parameters
  • Added QuickFix to disable invalid component types

Bug Fixes for the Java Import Wizard:

• Add local Eclipse workspace Java projects to the import classpath
• Wizard will remember its previous configuration
• Methods that throw exceptions can now be imported
• Errors while dynamically loading classes are now shown

Download the latest release of JOpera from the update site: http://www.update.jopera.org

Adapter Improvements:

• Extended CONDOR Adapter to control PATH and CONDOR_CONFIG environment variables
• XPath adapter can now run queries using namespace declarations

New Features:

• Adapter Editor groups basic and advanced system parameters
• Model Checker will flag data type mismatches as errors or warnings in the data flow
• Added new Doodle Map Mashup example

Adapter Improvements:

• Rewritten the Java Import Wizard
• More Robust Java Method Invocation
• Web Services Feature back on the main update site

New Features:

• Edit Parameter Values from the Monitor as processes run
• Added Cluster/Slice parameters Autocompletion
• Conditions now support testing on boolean parameters

More Display Preferences:

• Configure the fonts for the graphical editor in the General, Appearance preferences
• Use Gradient Fills