[news.eclipse.technology.cosmos] COSMOS 1.0M3 is now available

[David Whiteman <dlwhiteman@xxxxxxxxxx>]

COSMOS 1.0M3 is NOW available

*At a glance*
COSMOS 1.0M3 provides the following new features and improvements:

    * *Cross component enhancements*
          o Improved stability, including numerous bug fixes
          o Improved logging support
          o A new COSMOS User Guide and Developers Guide.
    * *SML support*
      Support for SML and SML-IF standards, version 1.1
      (http://www.w3.org/TR/sml/)
    * *CMDBf 1.0 support and infrastructure*
      The following new features that provide further support for the
      emerging Configuration Management Database federation (CMDBf)
      standard, based on the CMDBf 1.0 specification
      (http://www.cmdbf.org/ <http://www.cmdbf.org>):
          o MDRs now accept vanilla web service requests, using Axis2
          o Support provided for logging in MDRs
          o Messages and other user interface text externalized for easy
            translation
          o Example MDR provided for Aperi database, illustrating a JDBC
            interface
          o Provided integration between WTP Run on Server and the
            COSMOS UI in Eclipse, when using MDR Toolkit
    * *COSMOS web UI*
      The following enhancements have been made to the COSMOS web UI:
          o Ability to deploy built-in CMDBf queries with the COSMOS UI
          o The COSMOSUI is packaged with a library of examplar CMDBf
            queries
          o Ability to manage CMDBf queries (i.e. rename, delete, create
            queries)
          o Graph response can be visualized using a heirachetical view
          o Ability to display service metadata associated with MDR
            query service in the COSMOS UI
          o COSMOS UI usabilty improvements
          o Separate graph response view to visualize CMDBf response

The following features were provided prior to the M3 release:

    * Features supporting the emerging Configuration Management Database
      federation (CMDBf) standard, based on the CMDBf 1.0 specification
      (http://www.cmdbf.org/ <http://www.cmdbf.org>):
          o Framework for implementing CMDBf query and registration 
services
          o Eclipse-integrated toolkit for creating data managers and
            management data repositories (MDRs)
          o Ability to register an MDR with the COSMOS framework
          o Ability to register and deregister an MDR with a federating
            CMDB, using the COSMOS UI
          o Ability to query an MDR from the COSMOS UI, using query
            builder driven by CMDBf metadata
          o Example MDRs, including a simplistic one and one based on
            the example data center
          o Ability to visualize a CMDBf query response
          o Support for deploying to J2EE environments (for example,
            Tomcat)
    * 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
    * Preset reports to visualize event and statistical data
    * Data store to persist statistical information based on the
      standard SDMX specification (http://www.sdmx.org/)
      <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
    * Full test suite showing implementation examples

COSMOS 1.0 is currently targeted for a November 2008 release.

*Download*

Download COSMOS 1.0M3 and reap the benefits:
http://www.eclipse.org/cosmos/downloads/

As always, we welcome your participation and feedback via the newsgroup
<news://news.eclipse.org/eclipse.technology.cosmos>, and also hope you
will actively "kick the tires" to report bugs and feature requests via
Bugzilla.

The COSMOS Team