JPPF makes it easy to parallelize computationally intensive tasks and execute them on a Grid
JPPF 6.1 beta new features highlights
JVM health monitoring enhancements
- new monitored data elements were added: peak threads count, total started threads count and JVM uptime
- custom value converters can now be associated with each monitored datum, to enable customized rendering of their value
Preference execution policy
The new preference policy attribute, in the job SLA, defines an ordered set of execution policies, such that eligble channels or nodes will be chosen from those that satisfy the policy with the foremost position.
New convenience execution policies
A new set of execution policy rules were added, to simplify policies with cumbersome rules.
For instance, new IsMasterNode() conveniently replaces new Equals("jppf.node.provisioning.master", true).
See: IsMasterNode - IsSlaveNode - IsLocalChannel - IsPeerDriver
Node provisioning notifications
The node provisioning service of each master node now emits JMX notifications each time a slave node is started or stopped.
New MavenLocation class
MavenLocation is a Location implementation which allows downloading artifacts from any maven repository.
Consequently, MavenCentralLocation is now a specialized subclass pointing to the Maven Central repository.
Deprecation of the "blocking" job attribute
A job should be submittable either synchronously or asynchronously, regardless of its state and at the user's choice at the time of submission.
To this effect, the job's "blocking" attribute was deprecated. So was the JPPFClient.submitJob() method, which is now replaced with JPPFClient.submit() and JPPFClient.submitAsync().
Feature removals
Following the move of JPPF to Java 8, we deeply regret to announce the removal of two integration features:
- .Net bridge: the jni4net project, on which the .Net bridge is based, is no longer actively maintained and does not support some of the Java 8 language constructs
- Android port: we no longer have the bandwidth to maintain the Android node integration. In particular: porting to a version of Android which supports Java 8 language features.
All implemented issues
Features
- JPPF-558 Node provisioning notifications
- JPPF-562 Fix the preference execution policy
- JPPF-575 IsMasterNode, IsSlaveNode and other convenience execution policies
Enhancements
- JPPF-576 Client methods for sync and async job submission, deprecation of blocking job flag
- JPPF-577 JVM health monitoring enhancements
- JPPF-578 Allow jppf-admin-web jar dependency as alternative to war to make embedding possible
- JPPF-579 Monitoring data providers: ability to configure a value converter for each datum
- JPPF-580 Allow MavenCentralLocation or a subclass to get artifacts from different repositories, including snapshots
Tasks
Links
Previous JPPF 6.1 release announcements: JPPF 6.1 alpha - JPPF 6.1 alpha 2
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