ASTRO Suite 3.3 - RELEASE NOTES
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What's New
The ASTRO Suite 3.3 is a major release of the ASTRO Suite that adds some functionalities, fixes some bugs and addresses some usability issue.
The tools of the ASTRO Suite that are based on Java have been compiled and tested using Java 5. From this version the JRE 1.5 will be the only officially supported version of the Java virtual machine.
wsToolset
- Features
- improved datanet composition with:
- support for all of the language constructs
- support for the definition of local nodes
- added support for BPEL syncronous calls (currently, only for composition at the ground level)
- improved datanet composition with:
- Bug Fixes
- if the synthesized concrete BPEL file was used as input for wsTranslator, the generated SMV file had bad operation names; changed name generation for I/O activities
- fixed BPEL emission for datanet requirements that used local nodes whose type contained '_' chars
- Usability
- wsTranslator home variable changed to WSTRANSLATOR_HOME (all caps)
- Dependencies
- compiled and tested with Java 1.5
wsChainManager
- Dependencies
- compiled and tested with Java 1.5
- requires Eclipse 3.2
wsRequirement
- Features
- datanet and datanet_diagram files are automatically created, if missing, when opening chor files that contain relevant information
- automatic arrange of composition data flow view (right click and choose the "Arrange All" menu item)
- exporting of composition data flow view as image (right click and choose the "File -> Save As Image File..." menu item)
- representation model for datareq has changed: all those nodes corresponding to language constructs that lie within a connected a graph concur to the same datareq (they are no longer split in on element per datareq)
- Bug Fixes
- fixed some bugs in the handling of selection event into the composition dataflow view
- Usability
- all the views now have scrollbars working
- enabled enhanced selection in the "Composition DataFlow" view (right click and choose either the "Select --> All" or the "Select --> All Shapes" or the "Select --> All Connectors" menu item
- enable enhanced zoom and view options in the "Composition DataFlow" view (right click and choose the "View" and the "Zoom" menu items and subitems)
- support for relative paths (with respect to current Eclipse workspace) within choreographic files
- Dependencies
- compiled and tested with Java 1.5
- removed dependency from ant-contrib
wsMonitor
- Usability
- class monitor can be reset from within the browser via a pop-up menu
- Bug Fixes
- fixed a undocumented bug in the statistic monitor applet visualization
- Dependencies
- compiled and tested with Java 1.5
wsAnimator
- Dependencies
- compiled and tested with Java 1.5
wsUseCases
- Features
- samples updated to reflect new features
Last Update: 06 June 2007
