Blog from September, 2016

Dear enthusiasts

A couple days after our last release, please welcome our new version 1.6.0.

This new versions marks a major change: we now switched to Java 6 (CARGO-1395) - Which changes (and hopefully simplifies!) a lot of things:

  • Java 6 or later is now required to build as well as to run Codehaus Cargo
    Note: The switch to Java 6 also implies you can build Codehaus Cargo on Java 9
  • Maven 3.2.2 or later is now required to build Codehaus Cargo
    Note: Even though we didn't block any older Maven 2 / Maven 3 version (APIs should be the ones as old as Maven 2.0), we do not test with any of these older versions
  • Dependencies have been simplified: dom4j, JAXB nor Xalan are not required to run Codehaus Cargo anymore, as we now switched to the standard Java APIs for DOM
    Note: Our dependency to jdom remains, as we use it for the creation of specific deployable XML POJOs
  • Our Javadocs now look much better, as the new Java version allows the optimal usage of @Override and other tags

In addition, we added support for TomEE 7.x (CARGO-1406); so you can keep on using the latest & greatest Java containers.

Feel like upgrading? Here come the instructions:

Enjoy!

Dear enthusiasts

Codehaus Cargo 1.5.1, which comes with the below fixes and improvements, it now ready:

  • General
  • Containers - Jetty
    • [CARGO-1400] - Make the timeout for JettyRemoteDeployer configurable
  • Containers - JBoss EAP / WildFly
  • Containers - Tomcat
  • Containers - WebLogic
    • [CARGO-1402] - Add support for context path configuration for WebLogic
  • Containers - WildFly
    • [CARGO-1403] - Add support for JMS resources in WildFly
    • [CARGO-1404] - Add support for Email resources in WildFly
    • [CARGO-1405] - Add support for CLI scripts in Wildfly

To try it out:

Important note: Codehaus Cargo 1.5.1 is expected to be our last version to support Java 5. The reasons for this are numerous:

  • Java 5 is old, very old, and its extended support ended in May 2015
  • Java 5 requires a lot of extra libraries, for example for XML, which increases the number of dependencies for Codehaus Cargo greatly
  • The Java 9 compiler won't generate any Java 5 code anymore

Enjoy!