Don't see your most wanted feature or the most annoying bug?
Then it's time to use the new "Feedback" feature
(Window->Preferences->RMI->Feedback)!
In v2.5.0
- Support for Eclipse Juno (4.2)
- Minor bugfixes
In v2.0.6
- New: Number of unnecessary full rebuilds has been reduced (state is now saved between eclipse sessions)
- New: Automatically detect and install missing Java SDKs.
- New: Windows Vista is now supported for killing the registry.
- Fix rare deadlock bug that could happen if the RMI compiler produced too
many error messages.
- RMI Spy: Fix an error that would cause a crash when a primitive array was logged.
- Compiler diagnostics: More efficient system resource usage and improved
usability.
- Fix a discovery location in the feature.xml file.
In v2.0.5.1
- RMI Spy: Improved performance and stability.
- RMI Builder: Improved handling of inter-project
dependencies.
- RMI Builder: Better detection and handling of stubs files that should be deleted.
- Examples: Remote File System example had few bugs
In v2.0.5
- New "Remote File System" example added to the built in examples/tutorials.
- Improved compatibility of the (rmic) stubs generation framework. Updated supported platforms list.
- RMI Registry Changes:
- The global registry process now has an attached console
window.
- The registry console can display all the errors that are
detected by
the RMI Registry (such as misconfigured codebase or wrong
classpath).
- When the registry is started for an RMI application, use
that application's rmi registry path (based on it's JRE library).
- It is possible to provide extra arguments to the
registry executable.
- RMI Spy Changes:
- RMI Spy now displays the number of elements in array arguments.
- Updated the application
effects doumentation.
- Fixed invalid bytecode generation in the RMI Spy that could fail the bytecode verifier.
- Fixed incorrect reporting of null arguments/return values with -v11 stubs.
- RMI Spy view could attempt to connect to a terminated
process if launch configuration was concurrently modified.
- Some error messages were rephrased, plugin branding added.
In v2.0.2.4
- Fixed a problem with missing JAR files for the RMI Spy.
In v2.0.2.2
- Registry Inspector: Sometimes the GC help message would
not show when it should be showing.
- Registry Control Center: When starting a new registry
process, a warning message is displayed if the external
environment has a CLASSPATH variable which will be unset for the
registry process (previously it would be unset without such
warning).
- Feedback Dialog: You're now kindly prompted to enter your
email when submitting feedback.
In v2.0.2.1
- RMI Spy: Fix possibly incorrect serialization size reports.
- RMI Spy: Fix: Sometimes timing data of server method calls would not be reported.
- RMI Spy: Remove the "waiting for connection" page if
connection with the VM has failed.
- RMI Spy: Fix: Sometimes RMI Spy would fail to run a program if
the Eclipse installation folder contained spaces.
In v2.0.2 since v2.0.0
The new version includes some new features for the RMI Spy as well as many improvements and bugfixes to the other features. More info about the new RMI features can be found on this forum post and in the docs.
- RMI Spy: Gather and display timing and data transfer information about method calls.
- RMI Spy: Display the actual values transferred during RMI calls (simple types only)
- RMI Spy: Highlight and filter method calls according to data transfer/execution time.
- RMI Spy: Double clicking a method in the RMI Spy will open the method definition in the editor.
- RMI Spy: Bugfix: Sometimes the process label is wrong.
- Registry Inspector: Display the codebase from which a class (in the hierarchy view) has been loaded.
- Registry Inspector: Bugfix: Sometimes, double clicking a type name would fail with exception.
- RMI Builder: fix a rare NullPointerException bug
- RMI Builder: Bugfix: Sometimes not all stubs were compiled on compound changes (such as CVS updates).
New feature: The RMI Spy
The RMI Spy monitors
the RMI activities of your application at runtime. It intercepts,
logs and displays all remote method calls (both incoming and
outgoing) and all classloader events. RMI Spy can also monitor the
time it takes to make a remote call and how much data transfer is
incurred by the call (since 2.0.2, compatible VMs only).
New feature: Wizard-generated Samples
- Simple "Remote
Printers" example.
- "Compute Engine" example based on Sun's RMI
Tutorial.
- Example of registry
wrapper (delegate) that allows remote registry binding.
- Sample security policy.
- Wizard for new RMI interfaces.
Greatly improved: The RMI Registry Inspector
- The RMI Registry Inspector can now call almost every method of
the object in the registry, not just the methods that expect 0
arguments.
- Display Java 5 generic type arguments.
- Filter methods that are unlikely to be called (like wait(),
notify())
- It is now possible to clean the registry and unload the
inspected classes from the inspector.
- Double clicking a type opens it in the editor.
- Better error reporting if the registry is inaccessible.
- Each workbench window can inspect a different registry.
Local Registry control
- New on Linux: It is now possible to forcefully kill the
process that occupies the rmiregistry port.
- Display the rmiregistry process name before killing it.
- Display the registry status in the drop down menu.
- Better Linux and MacOSX support.
RMI Launcher
- Added new Java 6 RMI properties and two undocumented Java 5
properties.
- Added pre-launch and post-termination custom commands.
- Workspace variables can be used is codebase and security
policy properties.
RMI Builder
- RMI builder was almost completely rewritten to improve
performance, scalability and stability.
- Cleaning the project deletes generated stubs (unless their
"derived" status is cleared).
- Generated stubs are deleted when the stubs generation is
disabled.
- Project is rebuilt when RMI properties are changed.
- It is possible to cancel the RMI stubs compilation.
- Option: Consider the whole (inter-project) class hierarchy
when checking whether a stub should be re-generated.
Other improvements
- RMI project settings are now saved in the project's directory,
just like the java settings and therefore they can be put under
source control.
- Better detection of misconfigured JRE.
- Compiler error messages are better parsed now.
- Integrated feedback dialog.
- Performance improvements.
Changes in Beta06
since Beta05
- New Example project based on Sun's RMI Tutorial.
- Improved the RegistryDelegate sample code.
- Improved support of rmiregistry control on MacOSX
- New RMI Spy icon
- Visual polish, messages etc.
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