1.0.3 Release Notes

gCore 1.0.3 introduces the following changes:

Changes Related to the gHN

• new versions of Local Services and Libraries. Most noticeably:

• the Storage Management stubs and Content Management Library have been bundled as local components of the distribution so as to support the resolution of URLs with the sms scheme;
• the ISNotification library has been changed to interact with the new WS Core functionality and manage the filters on WS-Topics.

• configuration: The gCore container is now launched with the following new property to to support the resolution of URLs with the sms scheme.

• -Djava.protocol.handler.pkgs=org.gcube.contentmanagement.storagelayer.storagemanagementservice.stubs.protocol

Changes Related to Services

• changes for managing pre-conditions on WS-Topics

• WS Core 4.0.4 has been patched to support pre-conditions on WS-Topics. In detail, org.globus.wsrf.impl.SimpleSubscriptionTopicListener has been modified so as to accept an XPath expressions to apply as a filter on notifications before these are sent to subscribed consumers.
• org.gcube.common.core.informationsystem.notifier.ISNotifier has been modified accordingly. In particular, QName parameters are replaced by GCUBENotificationTopic parameters in the following new methods (the old methods are now deprecated)

• public <T extends BaseNotificationConsumer> void registerToISNotification(T consumer,List<GCUBENotificationTopic> notifications, GCUBESecurityManager manager, GCUBEScope ... scope) throws ISNotifierException;
• public void unregisterFromISNotification( GCUBESecurityManager manager, List<GCUBENotificationTopic> notifications, GCUBEScope ... scope) throws ISNotifierException ;

• improved plugin installation error reporting in org.gcube.common.core.plugins.PluginManager
• code clean up:

• removed setScope(thread,scope) methods left for binary compatibility in previous release, replaced now in full by setScope(thread,scope?)
• removed misspelled method getEndointReference() in GCUBECall, now replaced in full by getEndpointReference()