Servprise Dev Weblog

We’ve just pushed out a new release of the WebReboot Command Line Tool—an open-source command-line interface for the WebReboot 3.x series of products (written in Jython). This release fixes a few minor errors in the code and reduces network overhead in new user creation. More importantly, the 1.0 release was billed as being JRE 1.4.2 compatible, but due to a bug in the packaging process was in fact only usable on systems with a JRE version of 1.5 or greater. That issue has been fixed for this release and thus the tool can actually work on JRE 1.4.2+ as stated.

For more details on the Command Line Tool and how you may use it, please see the developer page.

The first update to the WebReboot API for Java in nearly a year has been posted. This release is minor in scope, but does introduce some API changes. addUser() now returns the userID of the newly created user, preventing you from having to figure that value out yourself (save network roundtrips). Additionally, there is now a getVersion() method that returns the firmware version of the WebReboot you are connected to—useful for auditing applications.

There was also a packaging problem with the 1.1 version of the API. While it was listed as being JRE 1.4.2 compatible, it was inadvertently compiled with a 1.5 compiler, making it unusable on older JREs. This problem has been rectified for the 1.2 API packaging.

For more details, please visit the developer page.

I am pleased to announce the 0.3 release of the maven-jython-plugin. Not much has changed since the 0.2 release, but 0.3 is being released because it targets the latest version of Jython (2.2.1) and Maven (2.0.9).

We mentioned that we would be working with Jython 2.3 with our last release announcement. Since that release will not be happening, the next plugin release will target Jython 2.5. We do still need to deal with the removal of jythonc which will likely prove to be a bit problematic.