ECM 0.2.0 released

[mathieu.vadet@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]

Hi,
 
ECM 0.2.0 is now available
 
This is the initial release of the ECM project. The ECM project is a
subproject of the OpenCCM project which targets the provision of a
systematic process to build container runtimes in the CORBA Component Model
 
You can download the ECM from the ObjectWeb Forge:
http://forge.objectweb.org/project/showfiles.php?group_id=10
<http://forge.objectweb.org/project/showfiles.php?group_id=10>  
 
There's also a mailing list for users: h
<http://www.objectweb.org/wws/info/openccm-ecm>
ttp://www.objectweb.org/wws/info/openccm-ecm 
 
 
RELEASE NOTES: 
 
The Extensible Container Model (ECM) is a specification and a reference
implementation, originally produced in the IST COACH project (see
<http://www.ist-coach.org> http://www.ist-coach.org), which aim at enhancing
the OMG's CORBA Component Model specification to provide a systematic and
automated process for the definition of domain specific container models and
the generation of the corresponding container runtimes.
 
With the ECM, application architects may define their specific container
models by simply assembling a set of packaged services. It is intended that
such services are highly reusable software components, potentially
bought from third-party vendors and certainly exploited in many products. It
is noteworthy that the ECM is (like CORBA) language and platform
independent. Therefore a service package contains implementations for
manylanguages (C++, Java, etc.) and many platforms (Linux, Windows, etc.).
The generated container runtime can then be adapted to the constraints of
the target platform.
 
The ECM-RI is the reference implementation of the ECM specification, but
also of the standard CCM container model. The ECM-RI is free (under GNU LGPL
license) and Open Source.
 
The ECM-RI is:
    * 100% Java based for easier portability across platforms.
          o Runtime to host ECM-aware and CCM standard components.
          o Tools to generate the component implementation.
          o Command line scripts to run components.
          o Demonstrations to illustrate the ECM features.
    * Working on the following CORBA products:
          o ORBacus
          o The Community OpenORB
    * Running on the following Operating Systems:
          o Linux / Unix
          o Windows XP
 
The ECM-RI has the following dependencies:
    * The OpenCCM's generation framework is used by the ECM-RI generation
tools.
    * The OpenCCM's launcher framework is used by the ECM-RI command line
scripts.
    * The Jakarta Ant tool is used by the build process.
    * The Ant-Contrib Ant tasks are used by the build process.
 
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