Restlet 1.1 RC1 released August 19, 2008
Posted by Jerome Louvel in Restlet Releases.1 comment so far
It’s been about two weeks since 1.1 M5 was released and we have already made tremendous progress. We are happy to release 1.1 RC1. Most serious bugs were fixed (more than 10) and all pending features where completed.
Here is a summary of main changes:
- Chunked encoding issues in Grizzly and internal connectors were all fixed. Extensive tests with large entities done (size of 30 Mb).
- Grizzly was updated to version 1.8.4 and has reached a much more stable state. It gives unparalleled performance for serving static files thanks to direct NIO transfer from file to socket!
- Performance of internal HTTP connectors was vastly improved, coming close to other connectors in term of throughput for large entities (scalability not tested). It is the easiest choice for development purpose.
- Significant improvements and stabilization made for the WADL extension.
- Major refactoring of logging to have more consistency and a better organization for logger names. Updated the logging documentation on the wiki to facilitate usage. Added a TraceHandler to display the logger names of all log records in the console to simplify configuration, especially for third party libraries.
- Completed support for partial GETs and partial PUTs in the FILE client connector.
- Completed support for representation digests (MD5 and more).
- Avi Flax
- Benoit Maujean
- Brad Peabody
- Bruno Dumon
- Bruno Harbulot
- Chris Winters
- François Renard
- Guillaume Chatelet
- Kevin Conaway
- Mike Brzozowski
- Niptin Gupta
- Rhett Sutphin
- Rob Heittman
- Ralf Bommersbach
- Vincent Ricard
- Zsolt Czinkos
http://www.restlet.org/documentation/1.1/changesDownload links:
http://www.restlet.org/downloads/1.1/restlet-1.1rc1.zip
http://www.restlet.org/downloads/1.1/restlet-1.1rc1.exe
Maven repositories:
http://maven.restlet.org is updated on the 1st and 15th of each month
http://maven.noelios.com is updated daily with new artifacts (access reserved to subscribers)
Restlet 1.1 M5 released August 7, 2008
Posted by Jerome Louvel in Restlet Releases.add a comment
Despite our initial plan, we had to introduce a new milestone release before reaching our first release candidate version. This is due to several important features that we needed to publish before the RC in order to have enough time for community feed-back, before freezing the API. Our goal now is to fix all pending bugs before releasing 1.1 RC1.
Main changes:
- Added a Restlet-GWT module which is a port of the Restlet API to the Google Web Toolkit 1.5 RC2 AJAX platform.
- Greatly enhanced the WADL extension which is now capable of dynamically exposing a REST API as either a WADL XML document or as an HTML document, just based on application resources. Sponsored by NetDev Ltd.
- Greatly improved the SSL support at the connectors level and by adding a new “com.noelios.restlet.ext.ssl” extension integrating with the jSSLutils library from Bruno Harbulot.
- Fixed twelve bugs across the product.
- Important Context usage changes made for security reasons. See this FAQ entry to resolve any severe log messages that may appear in your existing applications.
- Added a TaskService to execute synchronous or asynchronous tasks using a thread pool automatically managed by the application.
- Added a RangeService and an org.restlet.data.Range class as well as several properties to start supporting partial GETs and resumable PUTs. See specifications in our wiki.
- Numerous improvements on the Restlet API.
Direct contributors:
- Alex Milowski
- Bruno Dumon
- Bruno Harbulot
- Evan Worley
- Hendy Irawan
- James Maki
- Jim Alateras
- Kevin Conaway
- Leigh Klotz
- Loic Mathieu
- Patrick Logan
- Ralf Bommersbach
- Rob Heittman
- Sanjay Acharya
- Stephan Koops
- Tim Peierls
Changes log:
http://www.restlet.org/documentation/1.1/changes
Download links:
http://www.restlet.org/downloads/1.1/restlet-1.1m5.zip
http://www.restlet.org/downloads/1.1/restlet-1.1m5.exe
Maven repositories:
http://maven.restlet.org is updated on the 1st and 15th of each month
http://maven.noelios.com is updated daily with new artifacts (access reserved to subscribers)
Announcing Noelios Technologies August 4, 2008
Posted by Jerome Louvel in Noelios.6 comments
Created in 2004, Noelios Consulting was a self-owned company that served its customers world-wide and that funded most of the development of the Restlet project. Four years have passed, Restlet has grown into a widely used technology and it was time to move to the next level, to better structure our business activities, and in the end to better serve all our customers and users.
Noelios Technologies is happy to announce its incorporation, effectively taking over all the assets of Noelios Consulting. Thierry Boileau, who has been a core developer of Restlet for a long time, is officially joining me as a co-founder. Our activities are still focused on consulting services, but with an increasing part in software edition.
We are also launching our brand new Web site with a revamped products and services offering. We have added new support plans (Gold and Platinum) and shorter subscription lengths (from 1 month to 1 year). You can even directly subscribe to our support plans, get commercial Restlet licenses and even pay on-line via PayPal.
This is an important evolution for us and we look forward to helping you succeed with your REST and Restlet projects!
