[news.eclipse.technology.cosmos] COSMOS 1.0M2 is now available

[David Whiteman <david_whiteman@xxxxxxxxxx>]

COSMOS 1.0M2 is NOW available

At a glance

COSMOS 1.0M2 provides a number of new features that provide support for
the emerging Configuration Management Database federation (CMDBf)
standard, based on the CMDBf 1.0 specification (http://www.cmdbf.org/):

    * Framework for implementing CMDBf query and registration services
    * Eclipse-integrated toolkit for creating data managers and
management data repositories (MDRs)
    * Ability to register an MDR with the COSMOS framework
    * Ability to register and deregister an MDR with a federating CMDB,
using the COSMOS UI
    * Ability to query an MDR from the COSMOS UI, using query builder
driven by CMDBf metadata
    * Example MDRs, including a simplistic one and one based on the
example data center
    * Ability to visualize a CMDBf query response
    * Support for deploying to J2EE environments (for example, Tomcat)
    * Full test suite showing implementation examples


These new features are in addition to the features that were provided in
COSMOS 1.0M1:

    * Tools that support systems management data conforming to the
Service Modeling Language (SML) and SML-Interchange Format (SML-IF)
standards (http://www.w3.org/Submission/2007/01/), including SML and
SML-IF document validation, SML-IF editing, import of SML-IF documents
and export to SML-IF documents
    * Example data center described in SML format
    * Standard APIs for accessing COSMOS data from heterogeneous clients
    * Data collectors that gather data from Common Base Event (CBE)
logs, JMX, and WSDM Event Format (WEF) sources
    * Preset reports to visualize event and statistical data
    * Data store to persist statistical information based on the
standard SDMX specification (http://www.sdmx.org/)
    * Relational data store for the persistence of event information
and statistical information
    * Web-based viewer composed of Web 2.0 gadgets to thoroughly
examine data from SML-IF documents
    * Extension points to create complementary visualizations in the
form of Web 2.0 gadgets and BIRT reports


COSMOS 1.0 is currently targeted for a June 2008 release. Future work
that is expected be included in the 1.0 release includes:

    * SDD (Solution Deployment Descriptor) tooling
    * SML 1.1 support
    * Additional CMDBf support

Download

Download COSMOS 1.0M2 and reap the benefits:
http://www.eclipse.org/cosmos/downloads/

As always, we welcome your participation and feedback via the newsgroup,
and also hope you will actively "kick the tires" to report bugs and
feature requests via Bugzilla.

The COSMOS Team