Cargo Blog from Oct 20, 2012

S. Ali Tokmen posted on Oct 20, 2012
CARGO 1.3.0 is now available

Dear CARGO enthusiasts

Our next big release of CARGO, version 1.3.0, is now available! It comes with a lot of very attractive new features:

  • The newest and latest Jetty 9.x is supported [CARGO-1147]
  • IBM WebSphere 8.5.x container has been added -making another very old CARGO ticket get solved! [CARGO-147]
  • We have introduced a new feature, the Cargo Daemon: this is a Web-based application that uses the Cargo API to configure, start and stop containers on a remote machine. The daemon is meant to be listening 24/7, to allow users to deploy new containers and web applications at their command. It can be accessed using a browser-based UI, via Java API or Maven2 plugin. [CARGO-1148]
  • Local and embedded deployer support has been added to the ANT plugin [CARGO-1144]

The Apache Geronimo container has been improved a lot as well:

  • Bundle support has been added to Geronimo 3.x [CARGO-1143]
  • Extra classpath can now be set on Geronimo 2.x and 3.x [CARGO-1145]
  • It is now possible to define datasources on Geronimo 2.x and 3.x [CARGO-1146]

We have also fixed some JBoss issues (all of them on JBoss 7.x and 7.1.x):

  • Non-default deployment directory is now supported [CARGO-1141]
  • GeneralPropertySet.RUNTIME_ARGS is now set at the correct place [CARGO-1139]
  • Extra and shared classpath is now fully supported [CARGO-1149]

As for the other fixes and improvements:

  • Direct configuration of SSL/TLS connector options for Tomcat 5.x, 6.x, and 7.x stand alone local configurations is allowed [CARGO-1135]
  • OC4J's MIME types now has text/css [CARGO-281]
  • Property injection from Maven settings.xml has been fixed [CARGO-1136]
  • Non 200 HTTP status codes are accepted by the deployment's ping component [CARGO-1118]
  • Shared classpath for WARs are now supported on Jetty [CARGO-948]

To try this new version:

Enjoy!