What's new in 1.1

[Cédric Viaud <ce...@matrasi-tls.fr>]

Hi,

the web site is not very prolofic about changes on version 1.1 (http://xml.apache.org/xindice/changes.html).

Could anyone give me a good pointer ?

Regards,

   Cédric

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Cédric VIAUD
APTUS Conseil en Hautes Technologies
(33) 5 61 00 35 43

"Imagination is more important than knowledge." Albert Einstein

RE: What's new in 1.1

[Sten Ernerot <er...@attglobal.net>]

Taken from the readme file...
 
Cheers
Sten
 
Apache Xindice Version 1.1b1
=============================
 
IMPORTANT NOTE: Deployment of Xindice 1.1 is very different 
from Xindice 1.0. In many ways this should constitute a full
version change since it isn't really backwards compatible 
with 1.0. However, the reasons this was done was to simplify
the code base in preparation for future development. 
Unfortunately, the new features added do not justify a version 
change to 2.0. 
 
- Documentation for this release is badly out of date. Volunteers
  are needed to update it before 1.1 final is released.
 
- Server side installation is now done by deploying a WAR 
  archive within a Java servlet engine. See the document in 
  docs/community/howto/installation/tomcat.html for information
  on using Tomcat. Note: this document needs to be updated along
  with all the others.
    
- The database is now deployed within a servlet engine to enable
  network access. This is different from in 1.0 where Xindice had
  its own server framework. This change was made because the 
  custom Xindice server framework just duplicated much of the 
  functionality provided by servlet engines. This has the nice
  side effect of creating more flexibility in deployment options.
  
- The network access API is now based on XML-RPC rather then
  CORBA. This was done for simplification and to eliminate the
  constant problems with the CORBA ORB and consumption of
  resources. It also was done to address UTF-8 encoding issues
  that were present with CORBA. Initial tests show a minimal
  performance impact from this change.
 
- All CORBA related code has been removed from the system.
 
- The server should now fully support the storage and retrieval
  of documents encoded as UTF-8.
 
- There is now an embedded version of the XML:DB API. This allows
  you to build Xindice applications that access the database
  without using the network. The API should be fully compatible
  with the network enabled XML:DB API implementation. An embedded
  database can be used by simply changing the XML:DB URI from
  xmldb:xindice:// to xmldb:xindice-embed://.
 
- The xindiceadmin tool has been removed. All commands that were
  previously only accessible through xindiceadmin are now
  available through the xindice command. This should make
  working with the server a little simpler.
 
- An option was added to the command line tools to allow the
  specification of namespaces to be used with XPath queries.
  This option is -s. Refer to the Tools Reference document for
  more information.
 
- On the command line tools the confirmation during deletion
  has been removed. Along with this the -y option that would force
  automatic deletion has also been removed.
 
- The command line tools can be run against a network version of
  Xindice or against a local database. See the -l and -d options
  to learn more about local database access.
 
- XMLObjects have been removed.
 
 
-----Original Message-----
From: Cédric Viaud [mailto:cedric.viaud@matrasi-tls.fr] 
Sent: den 9 april 2003 15:43
To: xindice-users@xml.apache.org
Subject: What's new in 1.1
 
Hi,
 
the web site is not very prolofic about changes on version 1.1
(http://xml.apache.org/xindice/changes.html).
 
Could anyone give me a good pointer ?
 
Regards,
 
   Cédric
 
------------------------------------------------------------
Cédric VIAUD
APTUS Conseil en Hautes Technologies
(33) 5 61 00 35 43
 
"Imagination is more important than knowledge." Albert Einstein