[jacorb-developer] JacORB 3.4 Beta

[Nick Cross]

I am pleased to announce JacORB 3.4 Beta 
(http://www.jacorb.org/download.html)

The MD5 sums for the binary zip is
jacorb-3.4-Beta-binary.zip.MD5: 830f644310c32debfa6b24400b9715fa
jacorb-3.4-Beta-source.zip.MD5: adeb13fe67217d9e09635cd5f63c4d37

There have been several user visible changes in this release and the 
usual selection of bug fixes. For a complete list see 
https://github.com/JacORB/JacORB/blob/RELEASE_3_4_Beta/doc/REL_NOTES and 
may be found on github: 
https://github.com/JacORB/JacORB/releases/tag/RELEASE_3_4_Beta

Overview of the changes
1) CORBA Stubs have been moved to jacorb-omgapi.jar. This allows for 
simpler deployment of stubs versus implementation. This will not affect 
anyone using the binary distribution, the JDK stubs or the maven 
dependencies.
2) JacORB will now tear down client connections completely on error 
rather than leaving the GIOP layer open in case it is called again. This 
avoids some thread locking issues at the cost of slightly higher GC. It 
is controllable via the QoS 
jacorb.connection.client.disconnect_after_systemexception.
3) The test system has been upgraded to JUnit 4 and restructured to use 
pure Maven. This has made it easier to add dependencies for testing.
4) Fixes for interop with Apache CXF.


Regards

Nick Cross

(for the JacORB Core Team).