JBJF News...

To better align with SourceForge and harness the power of Maven the JBJF Source code will be migrated to Subversion. In addition, most of the JBJF Projects will be converted over to Maven for easier code management. The exceptions to Maven will be the Eclipse Cipher Plugins and any JBJF Tutorials and JBJF Test Projects. These will remain as Ant build and Eclipse Projects.

JBJF Daemons Framework 1.0.0 now available. After multiple requests for some kidn of daemon/service for JBJF, I designed, developed and implemented the JBJF Daemons Framework that provides a foundtation to build ANY kind of daemon/service you desire...including a JBJF batch process daemon/service. Fully documented and Maven managed, the JBJF Daemon Fraemwork uses a Spring-Boot application platform and a Work-Queue with Producers and Consuer threads for a fully functional, Web/UI enabled platform. There are JMX MXBean operations you can use to control your daemon, such as start, stop, shutdown, status, increment, decrement, etc... These JMX operations are further exposed by Spring-Boot and reachable from a Web Browser URL for even easier control. In summary, JBJF Daemons features are :

• Spring-Boot - Uses a Spring-Boot applciation as the foundation platform. Also, exposes the JMX MXBean operations as Web Browser URLs for easy control.
• JMX MXBean Control - The Daemon/Service is hosted as a JMX MXBean and exposes a number of typical daemon/service operations such as start, stop, shutdown, ripple, status, increment, decrement, etc...
• Command Line API - The Spring-Boot provides a traditional command line interface you can use for shell scripts, /etc/init.d, or any other integration you prefer.
• Command Line JMX Client - Comes with a sample JMX Client that you can use with shell scripts to setup batch process controls for the daemon/service. Excellent for Production environments that don't allow Web Browser connections.

JBJF 2.0.0 is checked into the CVS Repository. If you still want the 1.x.x version, you'll need to check out the Tagged Versions. Please be patient as I get the documentation up to date. I've built the JBJF Framework and JBJF Model bundles. While the JBJF Framework requires the JBJF Model, the JBJF Model has been compiled and integrated with the JBJF Framework bundles. A couple of things to understand about 2.0.0:

• Commons Net - I've included the Apache Commons Net source code into the JBJF Framework code. The number of source files is so small and easy, that I just copied them in.
• JBJF Model - The JBJF 2.0.0 requires the jbjf-model project and/or jbjf-model library to compile correctly. The jbjf-model ia a whole separate project in the CVS repository.