Fri Sep 30 15:11:47 2005 Gan Deng <dengg@dre.vanderbilt.edu>

2 files changed, 54 insertions, 27 deletions

diff --git a/TAO/CIAO/ChangeLog b/TAO/CIAO/ChangeLog
index c721fa6c3ba..e7510ff5180 100644
--- a/TAO/CIAO/ChangeLog
+++ b/TAO/CIAO/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+Fri Sep 30 15:11:47 2005  Gan Deng  <dengg@dre.vanderbilt.edu>
+
+	* NEWS
+
+	  Updated the NEWS file.
+
 Fri Sep 30 07:53:47 2005  William Otte  <wotte@dre.vanderbilt.edu>
 
 	* tools/Config_Handlers/RT-CCM/SRD_Handler.cpp
diff --git a/TAO/CIAO/NEWS b/TAO/CIAO/NEWS
index 79798507e04..1b61e7fddf9 100644
--- a/TAO/CIAO/NEWS
+++ b/TAO/CIAO/NEWS
@@ -1,7 +1,23 @@
 PLANNED MAJOR CHANGES "SOMETIME IN THE FUTURE" (i.e., exact beta not known)
 ===========================================================================
 
-. Integrate various Pub/Sub services into CIAO and DAnCE.
+. Add assembly-wide component activation/deactivation feature.
+
+    - This should allow system deployers to specify the dependencies
+      among component instances within the assembly.
+
+    - Add support in DAnCE so DAnCE could enforce the order in which 
+      components are to be activated within the assembly.
+
+. Add AMI support in DAnCE toolchain to when the DomainApplicationManager
+  contacts node-level managers to deploy components, all the node-level
+  managers could performe the deployment concurrently.
+
+. Integrate RT-CORBA 1.2 dynamic scheduling feature into CIAO, which
+  will allow the application developers to use dynamica scheduling
+  through meta-programming model.
+
+. Enhance DAnCE to support OpenCCM components.
 
 . Static Configuration for DAnCE.
 
@@ -10,17 +26,6 @@ PLANNED MAJOR CHANGES "SOMETIME IN THE FUTURE" (i.e., exact beta not known)
 . Support threading models in NodeApplication, such as thread pools
   and the like.
 
-. Enhance DAnCE to support adding/removing components to/from the
-  existing running assembly without shutting down the running appliation.
-  This will allow the application developers to evolve their applications
-  on the fly without server down time.
-  
-. Adding support to manage multiple nested assemblies, which will involve
-  the work through ExternalReferenceEndPoint idea.
-  
-. Modify the <Connection> IDL data structure to make it compliant to the
-  D&C spec.
-
 . Implement Resource Allocation and Control Engine (RACE), which is a
   component middleware framework built atop of CIAO/DAnCE that integrates
   multiple resource allocation/control algorithms for (re)deploying and
@@ -31,26 +36,36 @@ PLANNED MAJOR CHANGES "SOMETIME IN THE FUTURE" (i.e., exact beta not known)
   decisions, without handcrafting the mechanisms needed to (1) configure
   the algorithms and (2) deploy the decisions made by the algorithms.
 
-PLANNED MAJOR CHANGES FOR CIAO-0.4.8
-====================================
- 
-. Integrate Real-time QoS support to CIAO based on OMG's new
-  Deployment and Configuration (D&C) specification. Such effort
-  will allow application developers to use real-time CORBA features
-  within their CCM appliation through meta-programming (via XML
-  metadata). Particularly, we will add support for server-side
-  RT policies, including extension for schema, container,
-  and NodeApplication.  Configuring client-side (receptacle) policies
-  to honor these server policies.
 
-. Modify ciao_preactivate, ciao_postactivate operations to make them
-  complaint to the D&C specification. 
+PLANNED MAJOR CHANGES FOR THE NEXT RELEASE
+==========================================
+
+. Enhance DAnCE to support dyamica adding/removing components to/from the
+  existing running assembly without shutting down the running appliation.
+  This will allow the application developers to evolve their applications
+  on the fly without incuring service down time.
 
-. Modify DomainApplicationManager interface to make it separate from the
-  DomainApplication interface, hence compliant to the D&C spec.
+. Adding support to manage multiple interconnected assemblies, which will 
+  involve the work through ExternalReferenceEndPoint idea.
+
+. Seamless integration of swapping into the main line programming model, 
+  so that DAnCE can actually kickstart swapping.
+
+. Integrate RepositoryManager into the DAnCE toolchain.
+
+. Integrate various Pub/Sub services into CIAO and DAnCE.
+ 
 
 USER VISIBLE CHANGES BETWEEN CIAO-0.4.7 and CIAO-0.4.8
 ======================================================
+. Integrated Real-time QoS support to CIAO based on OMG's new
+  Deployment and Configuration (D&C) specification. Such effort
+  allows application developers to use real-time CORBA 1.0 features
+  within their CCM appliation through meta-programming (via XML
+  metadata through DAnCE toolchain). Particularly, we added support 
+  for server-side RT policies, including extension for schema, 
+  container, and NodeApplication.
+
 . Added functionality in XML parsing code to resolve schema in
   $CIAO_ROOT/docs/schema instead of the local directory only. All
   DeploymentPlans should use Deployment.xsd instead of
@@ -83,6 +98,7 @@ USER VISIBLE CHANGES BETWEEN CIAO-0.4.7 and CIAO-0.4.8
 . DAnCE has been enhanced to support deploying multiple assemblies
   with the same set of ExecutionManager and NodeMangers.
 
+
 USER VISIBLE CHANGES BETWEEN CIAO-0.4.6 and CIAO-0.4.7
 ======================================================
 . Added a component packaging tool to DAnCE. This tool will allow 
@@ -118,6 +134,7 @@ USER VISIBLE CHANGES BETWEEN CIAO-0.4.6 and CIAO-0.4.7
   IDL modules, and/or when the composition declaration is in a different
   scope than the associated component IDL declarations.
 
+
 USER VISIBLE CHANGES BETWEEN CIAO-0.4.5 and CIAO-0.4.6
 ======================================================
 
@@ -198,11 +215,13 @@ USER VISIBLE CHANGES BETWEEN CIAO-0.4.4 and CIAO-0.4.5
   event consumer is associated with an eventtype that is an ancestor of
   the published eventtype.
 
+
 USER VISIBLE CHANGES BETWEEN CIAO-0.4.3 and CIAO-0.4.4
 ======================================================
 
 . Minor bugfixes.
 
+
 USER VISIBLE CHANGES BETWEEN CIAO-0.4.2 and CIAO-0.4.3
 ======================================================
 
@@ -258,6 +277,7 @@ USER VISIBLE CHANGES BETWEEN CIAO-0.4.1 and CIAO-0.4.2
   . Implemented get_all_facets() and get_all_consumers() navigation
     methods.
 
+
 USER VISIBLE CHANGES BETWEEN CIAO-0.4 and CIAO-0.4.1
 ====================================================
 
@@ -353,6 +373,7 @@ MPC
 
 . Various bug fixes and optimizations have been added as well.
 
+
 USER VISIBLE CHANGES BETWEEN CIAO-0.3.6 and CIAO-0.4
 ====================================================