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New Features

  • Spring Support
    • Added Fabric support for Spring Beans.   The fabric can be used as a Spring remoting architecture, both as a service exporter (publishing Spring bean for access by remote clients) and a proxy generator (using Spring-generated client proxies that use the fabric proprietary transport to get the request to the fabric and invoke the correct service).
  • Better support for Plain Old Java Objects (POJOs).
  • Sharing of common support files and libraries across multiple fabric applications.
  • Easier configuration of the Java Virtual Machine for use in the Fabric.
  • Appistry EAF Community Edition license (five server and/or ten CPU core)
    • Appistry EAF Community Edition license is now included in the installation of the product.  The Fabric no longer requires the installer to deploy the Community Edition license key during installation.
  • Affinity Tasks
    • Fabric support for Affinity provides you control over which worker runs specific task steps in your process flow. For example, some workers may have certain hardware or other resources that are needed by the application for certain steps. Perhaps data has been cached by a previous operation, and you want to direct work back to that box so the processing is closest to the data it requires. The user implements strategies in Affinity task methods, and wires them declaratively into the steps in their process flow XML using new elements introduced into the process flow definition file.
  • Hierarchal Security Model
    • With the introduction of Java components, we made changes to the fabric security model. You can now define a hierarchal security structure at any or all of the following levels: application, process flow, component object, and component object method.
  • Operating Systems Support
    • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4
    • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
    • SUSE Enterprise Linux 10
    • Microsoft Windows XP SP2
      • XP SP3 added with 3.8.0.15 update
    • Microsoft Windows Vista 32-bit
    • Microsoft Windows 2003

Key changes

  • Installer
    • Linux installer fixes
    • Linux installer fabric_env script detects Java and configures environment
    • installer file names changed for all operating systems
    • Installer for Microsoft Windows now recognizes Vista
  • Spring Support
    • Added Spring remoting architecture
    • Uses Spring bean definition XML.
    • Allows the developer to define the bean factory
  • FAR Fabric Archive Support
    • Single deployable archive files usable
  • License
    • The EAF Community Edition license is now based on five servers and/or ten logical CPU (cores) in the Fabric. 
    • The License is now included in the installation. 
    • Deploying the Community license is no longer required during installation if the Fabric.
  • Fabric general
    • Performance improvements
    • Backward compatibility between EAF 3.7 and 3.8 tools and fabric improved
    • Fabric deployable upgrades improved
    • Affinity support changes
    • Various bug fixes
  • Fabric Client API
    • Java fabric client API objects can now be configured using Properties
    • .NET fabric client API objects can now be configured using an IDictionary
    • Some minor API changes and additions
  • Fabric Tasks
    • MockTaskRequest objects for .NET and Java provided to support task testing
    • Improved exception reporting from Java and .NET tasks back to user's client code
    • Improved Java classpath management for user's fabric applications
    • Improved LD_LIBRARY_PATH management for user's fabric applications
    • Exclusive task support bug fixes
    • Some minor API changes and additions
  • Client API
    • Improved logic for automatic retries of failed requests.
    • Exposed more properties to control various timeouts
    • Various bug fixes
  • Fabric Accessible Memory (FAM)
    • Many improvements made supporting FAM while the Fabric is "rolling" an update
    • Improvements in both computing and reporting memory available for FAM
    • Process flows can now branch on a task status of "in-doubt" when a FAM operation could not be committed
  • fabric_pkg
    • far packaging and extracting
    • Improved validation and error reporting
    • verbose flag to help with debugging
    • Removed the printing of package contents, unless the -verbose is set.
    • Various bug fixes
  • Fabric utilities
    • Fabric_gac.exe command introduced to manage Fabric .NET assembly in the GAC and registry
    • Fabric_ctl improvements
    • Fabric_ctl bug fixes
    • fabric_pkg bug fixes
    • Fixed issues in log_monitor when formatting non-log_monitor targeted messages