[ANN] WAS6 Maven Plugin version 1.2 Released

[Javier Murciego <ja...@gmail.com>]

Hi,

The Mojo team is pleased to announce the release of the WAS6 Maven Plugin
version 1.2.

This plugin works along with an installation of WebSphere Application
server (standalone or ND), to provide automated tasks for: generating RMIC
stubs, starting/stopping servers, installing/updating/uninstalling EARs to
application servers, starting/stopping application and run arbitrary
scripts through wsadmin

http://mojo.codehaus.org/was6-maven-plugin/

To get this update, simply specify the version in your project's plugin
configuration:

<plugin>
       <groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
       <artifactId>was6-maven-plugin</artifactId>
       <version>1.2</version>
</plugin>

Some links :

Documentation: http://mojo.codehaus.org/was6-maven-plugin/
JIRA: http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MWAS
svn:  https://svn.codehaus.org/mojo/tags/was6-maven-plugin-1.2/

Release Notes are available at
http://jira.codehaus.org/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?projectId=11730&version=15872

**Bug
*[MWAS-33] - wsStartApp and wsStopApp throwing WASX7025E exception.
*[MWAS-34] - ejbDeploy for WAS6 is broken
*[MWAS-38] - ServiceDeploy failOnError ignored
*[MWAS-50] - Plugin does not work with a artifact with a classifier
*[MWAS-52] - WsAdminMojo does not work on a secured connection.
*[MWAS-57] - Script elements for wsadmin goal have extra quote marks
*[MWAS-61] - ejbDeploy is broken (alternate fix)
*[MWAS-62] - Skip does not work for ejbdeploy
*[MWAS-66] - Unable to pass windows-path as an argument to jython script
*[MWAS-67] - WsEJBDeploy fails with Maven3 - missing all runtime and
compile dependencies
**Improvement
*[MWAS-55] - Correct handling of empty parameters
*[MWAS-56] - allow ability when deploying to map to HTTP server and
application server for module
*[MWAS-60] - Add support for -tracefile parameter
*[MWAS-65] - Support "Deploy Web Services" flag for JAX-RPC installs
*[MWAS-69] - If target server has been configured in settings.xml and no
user/password has been provided, mojo should use that parameters.
**New Feature
*[MWAS-30] - Target alternate WebSphere Installation when run under
WebSphere
*[MWAS-43] - Add a retryCount variable to work around intermittent failures.



Enjoy,

The Mojo team.

Javier Murciego