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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="latin1" ?>
+<!DOCTYPE chapter SYSTEM "chapter.dtd">
+
+<chapter>
+ <header>
+ <copyright>
+ <year>2006</year><year>2009</year>
+ <holder>Ericsson AB. All Rights Reserved.</holder>
+ </copyright>
+ <legalnotice>
+ The contents of this file are subject to the Erlang Public License,
+ Version 1.1, (the "License"); you may not use this file except in
+ compliance with the License. You should have received a copy of the
+ Erlang Public License along with this software. If not, it can be
+ retrieved online at http://www.erlang.org/.
+
+ Software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS"
+ basis, WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See
+ the License for the specific language governing rights and limitations
+ under the License.
+
+ </legalnotice>
+
+ <title>Jinteface Release Notes History</title>
+ <prepared></prepared>
+ <docno></docno>
+ <date></date>
+ <rev></rev>
+ </header>
+
+ <section>
+ <title>Jinterface 1.2.1</title>
+
+ <section>
+ <title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
+ <list type="bulleted">
+ <item>
+ <p>A bug on the constructor for OtpNode which caused
+ NullPointerException, is fixed.</p>
+ <p>Own Id: OTP-3721</p>
+ </item>
+ </list>
+ </section>
+ </section>
+
+ <section>
+ <title>Jinterface 1.2</title>
+
+ <section>
+ <title>Improvements and New features</title>
+ <list type="bulleted">
+ <item>
+ <p>A new class, AbstractConnection, has been added to deal
+ with most of the aspects of the Erlang communication
+ protocol, and which can be subclassed in order to provide
+ different levels of support to the application as necessary.
+ OtpConnection is now a subclass to AbstractConnection.</p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>OtpCookedConnection is a new subclass to
+ AbstractConnection, which together with OtpNode provides an
+ intuitive mailbox-based communication mechanism. By using
+ this interface, applications are no longer required to
+ manage connections explicitly, since the OtpNode now opens
+ and manages connections to remote nodes as needed. Outgoing
+ messages are sent through mailboxes and automatically
+ dispatched through the correct connections to
+ the destination node, while incoming messages are queued in
+ the destination mailbox. This allows parts of an
+ application to communicate with several peers
+ simultaneously without the need to sort and dispatch
+ incoming messages. Additionally, mailboxes can be linked
+ with Erlang processes or with each other, in much the same
+ manner that Erlang processes can be linked together.</p>
+ </item>
+ </list>
+ </section>
+
+ <section>
+ <title>Changes and additions</title>
+ <list type="bulleted">
+ <item>
+ <p>The node class hierarchy has changed. The top class
+ is now AbstractNode, and direct subclasses are OtpPeer and
+ OtpLocalNode, of which the latter is extended by OtpNode and
+ OtpSelf. This does not change the functionality of any of
+ the existing classes or methods that take node arguments,
+ however it was necessary in order to group OtpNode and
+ OtpSelf and to provide some common methods for them.</p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>OtpServer is now deprecated. Its functionality has
+ been added to OtpSelf.</p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>An open OtpConnection no longer requires service on
+ a regular basis in order to keep the remote Erlang node from
+ disconnecting. OtpConnection now extends java.lang.Thread so
+ it can keep the connection open and respond to ticks when
+ needed, without intervention from the application. Incoming
+ messages are automatically received and queued for
+ subsequent retrieval through one of the receive methods.</p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>Tracing of inter-node communication can now be set
+ on a per-connection basis. The system property
+ OtpConnection. Trace is still used as before, but now sets
+ only the initial trace level for new connections. Once a
+ connection has been created, its current trace level can be
+ set or retrieved through new methods setTraceLevel and
+ getTraceLevel.</p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>Constructors for OtpErlangAtom and OtpErlangTuple
+ previously declared that OtpErlangDataException would be
+ thrown for certain types of input. These constructors now
+ throw java.lang.IllegalArgumentException instead, which is
+ a runtime exception and is therefore not declared
+ explicitly, nor is it necessary for the caller to
+ explicitly catch it. The rules for creating atoms and
+ tuples have not changed however.</p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>Some of the constructors for OtpErlangPid, OtpErlangPort
+ and OtpErlangRef are now deprecated. The various
+ OtpNode classes provide factory methods instead.</p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>OtpErlangObject and all subclasses representing
+ Erlang data types now implement java.io.Serializable and
+ java.lang.Cloneable.</p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>A user's guide is now available.</p>
+ <p>Own Id: OTP-3424</p>
+ </item>
+ </list>
+ </section>
+
+ <section>
+ <title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
+ <list type="bulleted">
+ <item>
+ <p>A bug in the MD5 handshaking code, that could cause the
+ connection to fail when the Java node was run in a 7-bit
+ character encoding environment, has now been fixed.</p>
+ <p>Own Id: OTP-3512</p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>A bug in OtpErlangList, which caused message corruption
+ when empty list where encoded, is fixed.</p>
+ <p></p>
+ <p>Own Id: OTP-3564</p>
+ </item>
+ </list>
+ </section>
+ </section>
+
+ <section>
+ <title>Jinterface 1.1</title>
+
+ <section>
+ <title>Improvements and new features</title>
+ <list type="bulleted">
+ <item>
+ <p>Modifications for using along with new IC types.</p>
+ <p>Some modifications were done on classes OtpInputStream amd
+ OtpOutputStream in order to work with the new types added
+ on IC.</p>
+ <p>Own Id: OTP-3331</p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>Machine-depended character encoding problems fixed.</p>
+ <p>The character encoding (LC_CTYPE) need no longer be
+ defined to an eight bit character set for
+ jinterface connections to work.</p>
+ <p>Own Id: OTP-3512</p>
+ </item>
+ </list>
+ </section>
+ </section>
+
+ <section>
+ <title>Jinterface 1.0</title>
+ <p>New application.</p>
+ </section>
+</chapter>
+