We are pleased to announce the Fulcrum's YAAFI 1.0.4 release! 

http://turbine.apache.org/fulcrum/fulcrum-yaafi/

Fulcrum is a component repository for Turbine. 

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Changes in this version include:

  New Features:

o Added a simple tutorial 
o The CLI can be now configured using SystemProperties and the command line. 
o Added a getParameters() to the ServiceContainer interface. This allows to 
  retrieve the Avalon parameters easily. 
o The YAAFI service container implements Parameterizable 
o Added a Shutdown service to dispose the YAAFI container 
o Transparent decryption of configuration files 
o Added reconfiuration service ro reconfigure YAAFI if the component 
  configuration file has changed 
o Provide context mapping in the case that YAAFI is embedded in another 
  Avalon container (experimental) 
o Improved bootstrapping of YAAFI using containerConfiguration.xml 
o Decryption of configuration files 
o Added cryptography support based on JCE/JCA 
o Using ServiceManagerConfig to capture the configuration data for YAAFI 
o Refactored some code into AvalonContextHelper and InputStreamLocator 
o Parsing a "component-type" element for the future 
o Parsing a "description" element of the role configuration file 
o Extending ServiceManagerService to store Parameters and Context 
o Setting proper context to achive compatibility with Phoenix container. 
  YAAFI now works embedded into JAMES. 

  Fixed bugs:

o Fixed bug in ShutdownService resulting in excessive CPU usage. 
o Updated Turbine integration found in the 'contrib' directory 
o Updated CLI to make it fit for one of our products 
o Removed CVS tags since it makes maintainance difficult 
o Removed obsolete email address 
o Fixed wrong default values for parameters file if no value was defined. 
o Fixed bug in ServiceManagerService - the static field was not reset during 
  a dispose() leading to a NPE in the second invocation. 

  Changes:

o Improved the implementation of BaseServiceImpl 
o Improved creation of child logger to avoid overly long names by using the 
  shorthand instead of the class name 

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Issues, bugs, and feature requests for Fulcrum's YAAFI
should be submitted to the following issue tracking system:

http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TRB


Have fun!
-The Fulcrum's YAAFI development team