Blog from November, 2008

Pax Logging 1.2.1 has been released with the following changes wrt 1.2.0:

  • Improvement
    • PAXLOGGING-42 - Implement org.apache.log4j.Category.isEnabledFor(Level)
Pax Drone 0.2.1 Released

Pax Drone 0.2.1 has been released.

Checkout release notes for details.

Pax Runner 0.16.0 has been released.
This release highlights are:

  • support for Felix 1.4.0
  • various bug fixes and improvements

Checkout release notes for details.

Base 0.5.3 Released

Base 0.5.3 has been released.

Checkout release notes for details.

As written and decided on the mailinglist this week, pax drone will be re-named to Pax Exam.
The change will be done after the upcoming 0.2.1 release

All marketing material and tv-spots will be re-made asap.. (wink)

Pax Logging 1.2.0 has been released with the following changes wrt 1.1.1:

  • Bug
    • PAXLOGGING-38 - pax-logging-service bundle is missing org.apache.log4j.net package
  • Improvement
    • PAXLOGGING-37 - Make the level of the log events in FrameworkHandler configurable and defaulted to DEBUG
Support for Felix 1.4.0

Even if not Felix 1.4.0 is not yet released, Pax Runner already has support for it (smile). You can try it out by using the version deployed in our maven snapshot repository.

Felix is now aligning with OSGi RFC 0132 meaning that beside others it will also change some of the properties to comply with the new standard (e.g. felix.startlevel.framework becomes org.osgi.framework.startlevel). But if you sued the startup option --startlevel (or org.ops4j.pax.runner.platform.startLevel) you are good to go without any change. Because this is one of the strong points of Pax Runner. It abstracts you from the underlying OSGi framework giving you an "common language" for all of them. This, beside many others... (wink)

To start it up you can use (you know (smile), Felix is our default framework):

pax-run --version=1.4.0
Pax Drone 0.2.0 Released

Pax Drone 0.2.0 has been released.

This release focuses on user experience and user feedback.
Additional major new features:

  • support for JUnit4 test runner.
  • new Test First Scenario: see PAXDRONE-36 for details
  • more paxrunner options

Checkout release notes for details.