Module XML::TreePP::Editor verison 0.11 released

Version 0.11 of the XML::TreePP::Editor PERL module is released on CPAN.

It can be downloaded from the project web site, http://www.codepin.org/project/perlmod/XML-TreePP-Editor/ , or from CPAN, http://search.cpan.org/~rglaue/XML-TreePP-Editor-0.11/ .

This is the first public release of a new module.

This module is used to edit an XML::TreePP parsed XML Document, using XML::TreePP::XMLPath .

Module XML::TreePP::XMLPath verison 0.61 released

Version 0.61 of the XML::TreePP::XMLPath PERL module is released on CPAN.

It can be downloaded from the project web site, http://www.codepin.org/project/perlmod/XML-TreePP-XMLPath/ , or from CPAN, http://search.cpan.org/~rglaue/XML-TreePP-XMLPath-0.61/ .

This is a maintenance release that fixes an issue when filtering for the root element using the new ParentMap option in filterXMLDoc().

Module XML::TreePP::XMLPath verison 0.60 released

Version 0.60 of the XML::TreePP::XMLPath PERL module is released on CPAN.

It can be downloaded from the project web site, http://www.codepin.org/project/perlmod/XML-TreePP-XMLPath/ , or from CPAN, http://search.cpan.org/~rglaue/XML-TreePP-XMLPath-0.60/ .

This release contains major changes to internal functionality of the filterXMLDoc() method, which includes a new mapping option (structure => type) to define the the format of the returned results.

The filterXMLDoc() method now has good support for use of the special parent (..) indication in an XMLPath.

Module Getopt::XML verison 0.53 released

Version 0.53 of the Getopt::XML PERL module is released on CPAN.

It can be downloaded from the project web site, http://www.codepin.org/project/perlmod/Getopt-XML/ , or from CPAN, http://search.cpan.org/~rglaue/Getopt-XML-0.53/ .

This release fixes an issue that caused Make tests to fail, due to the test plan being configured for 8 tests, when it only had 7 actual tests.

Module Getopt::XML verison 0.52 released

Version 0.52 of the Getopt::XML PERL module is released on CPAN.

It can be downloaded from the project web site, http://www.codepin.org/project/perlmod/Getopt-XML/ , or from CPAN, http://search.cpan.org/~rglaue/Getopt-XML-0.52/ .

This version removed dependency on Params::Validate. It is updated to use XML::TreePP::XMLPath >= 0.56, removing deprecated methods.

Module XML::TreePP::XMLPath verison 0.56 released

Version 0.56 of the XML::TreePP::XMLPath PERL module is released on CPAN.

It can be downloaded from the project web site, http://www.codepin.org/project/perlmod/XML-TreePP-XMLPath/ , or from CPAN, http://search.cpan.org/~rglaue/XML-TreePP-XMLPath-0.56/ .

This fixes a bug for getElements and getAttributes methods.
New test cases added to test for the aforementioned bug.
A helper script 'runtests.pl' was added to allow for manually executing all test cases at once.
Documentation was added to README and POD to describe how to use this module with a generic (non-XML) PERL code reference tree.

Module XML::TreePP::XMLPath verison 0.55 released

Version 0.55 of the XML::TreePP::XMLPath PERL module is released on CPAN.

It can be downloaded from the project web site, http://www.codepin.org/project/perlmod/XML-TreePP-XMLPath/ , or from CPAN, http://search.cpan.org/~rglaue/XML-TreePP-XMLPath-0.55/ .

This module introduces a new function getValues(), changes to carp usage in place of warn, and fixes minor documentation issues.

MPP Web Service released

The MPP Web Service and Web Client is currently released as gamma. It provides a Web 2.0 interface to MPP cache files. The polling daemon currently keeps monitoring data current in the cache, and the Web Service makes the results, currently as read-only, available to any Web 2.0 able client via REST.

A Web 2.0 Client dashboard is bundled with the Web Service. The Web Client uses XSLT to transform the MPP data into an initial dashboard, and JSON to keep monitored objects in the dashboard updated from the Web Service.

Both Web Service and Client use XML::TreePP and XML::TreePP::XMLPath, the later module which makes any PERL hash/array ref structure accessible via an XPath-like accessor methodology.

The Web Service will be merged into the MPP core at a later date when it matures.

MPP is available on CodePin: http://www.codepin.org/project/mpp

Module XML::TreePP::XMLPath verison 0.52 released

I finished and pushed up to CPAN version 0.52 of my XML::TreePP::XMLPath PERL module.

It can be downloaded from the project web site, http://www.codepin.org/project/perlmod/XML-TreePP-XMLPath/ , or from CPAN, http://search.cpan.org/~rglaue/XML-TreePP-XMLPath-0.52/ .

This version has much better XPath-like filtering support, and the next version, 0.53 (already in progress), will be the basis of future ground breaking PERL modules. XML::TreePP::XMLPath will also be used to satisfy the complex configuration need of the MPP application (http://www.codepin.org/project/mpp/). Work on his module, and others yet to be published, is one of the main reasons why development of the next version of MPP has been stalled.

XML::TreePP::XMLPath is a pure PERL module to compliment the pure PERL XML::TreePP
module. XMLPath may be similar to XPath, and it does attempt to conform to the
XPath standard when possible, but it is far from being fully XPath compliant.

Its purpose is to implement an XPath-like accessor methodology to nodes in a
XML::TreePP parsed XML Document. In contrast, XPath is an accessor methodology
to nodes in an unparsed (or raw) XML Document.

The advantage of using XML::TreePP::XMLPath over any other PERL implementation
of XPath is that XML::TreePP::XMLPath is an accessor to XML::TreePP parsed
XML Documents. If you are already using XML::TreePP to parse XML, you can use
XML::TreePP::XMLPath to access nodes inside that parsed XML Document without
having to convert it into a raw XML Document.

Geronimo Enterprise & Clustering

Over the past several months myself and a colleague have been working on code we will contribute back to Apache Geronimo to provide additional needed functionality when deploying Geronimo in the Enterprise and in a Cluster distributed across separated LANs.

Project 1 code is two fold in improving Logging. One java class implements Jetty's RequestLog interface using Logback in the implementation. The other java class implements the same interface using Log4j.

Both classes provides the abilty to logging Request Logs (Access logs) to Log Appenders, like Socket, SNMP, JMS, and syslog, among many options.

Project 2 code, which is being tested now, adds an additional option to Geronimo's Plugin Based Farming so that installed Geronimo instances on more than one separated LAN can participate together.

The current mechanism is to use Multicast for clustered node communication. My colleague has implemented an additional optional method that performs unicast to a Geronimo instance configured on another LAN to relay (like a bridge) the multicast traffic.

Project responsibilities with our employer slows us down, but expect to see the code contributed within the next month or two. If you want to know the status, listen in on the Geronimo mailling lists - we are chatting about it there as we progress.