Release Notes

The purpose of this section is to provide a description of a Registry Service release including any impact that the new or modified capabilities will have on the Discipline Nodes or the PDS user community. If viewing the web-based version of this document, a somewhat itemized list of changes for each release can be found on the Release Changes page.

Release 0.7.0

This release of the Registry Service is a component of the integrated release 1.2.0 of the PDS 2010 System. This release is intended as a prototype release in support of the assessment of the PDS4 standards and the system components to date. The new or modified capabilities for this release are as follows:

• Added support for package registration allowing actions like approval and deletion to be applied to all members of a package.
• Added support for replication from one registry instance to another.
• Enhanced query support for auditable events.
• Moved the end points up one level to remove the redundant /registry from the path.

The liens for this release are as follows:

• Query support has been improved but is still case sensitive.
• The Federation and Registry objects have not been addressed yet.
• Need to generate a log file that conforms to the Report Service format.

Release 0.6.0

This release of the Registry Service is a component of the integrated release 1.1.0 of the PDS 2010 System. This release is intended as a prototype release in support of the assessment of the PDS4 standards and the system components to date. The new or modified capabilities for this release are as follows:

• The core functionality was moved from this package to the registry-core package to better satisfy JAR dependencies from other projects.
• Added additional support for Classifications in the registry.
• Added a configuration endpoint allowing the configuration file generated from the data model to be processed in one action.
• Added support for a RegistryPackage object to support batch operations.
• Added additional support for Service registrations.
• Modifications to support better alignment with the ebXML registry specification.

The liens for this release are as follows:

• Query support has been improved but is still case sensitive.
• The Federation and Registry objects have not been addressed yet.
• Need to generate a log file that conforms to the Report Service format.

Release 0.5.0

This release of the Registry Service is a component of the integrated release 1.0.0 of the PDS 2010 System. This release is intended as a prototype release in support of the assessment of the PDS4 standards. The new or modified capabilities for this release are as follows:

• Added support for registering Service and Classification objects.
• Added support for deleting Products and Associations.
• Added an interface for retrieving Auditable Events.
• Updated the status message to include counts of registered objects.

The liens for this release are as follows:

• Exception handling at this stage of development is minimal. Many error conditions have not yet been mapped to HTTP error codes.
• Query support is case sensitive and not fully implemented for each object type.
• Not all aspects of JSON support have been implemented.
• The Federation and Registry objects have not been addressed yet.
• Need to generate a log file that conforms to the Report Service format.

Release 0.4.0

This release of the Registry Service is a component of the integrated release 0.1.0 of the PDS 2010 System. This release is intended as a prototype release in support of the demonstration at the Management Council Face-to-Face meeting in August 2010. This initial release of the service provides the capability to register and browse data products and their associations.