NetKernel Standard Edition version 3.3
What's new in this release?
NetKernel version 3.3 is a significant product update that includes
the new Request Visualizer tool, a major rewrite of the documentation,
a performance update to the HTTP transport, Ruby language support,
updates for libraries, and some new capabilities.
This release of NetKernel is part of our regularly scheduled series of
product updates.
The new features and tools do not impact the core performance and NetKernel is as
agile and nimble as ever.
A detailed list of updates is provided in the
Change History .
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Over 30 months of development and testing has gone into the version 3 product series with each
release subjected to rigorous real-world production use by our customers.
New capabilities included in this release:
- Request Visualizer - a new tool that captures root requests issued by
transports and all resulting sub-requests and presents them in an easy-to-use
visual drill-down display.
- Ruby is now a fully support language using JRuby release 1.0.1
- Image Resource Model - image support was expanded into a full independent resource model.
Updates include:
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Documentation - the documentation has been extensively rewritten and restructured.
It will be much easier for everyone to learn and master NetKernel.
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HTTP Transport - changes were made to the transport to support if-modified-since headers
and eTags.
The result is significantly improved performance for web applications.
- SMTP now supports a port number designation
- mod-db supports database timeout.
- XUnit support test setup and tear down
- HTTP Bridge fixed to now pass DELETE parameters
- HSQLDB updated
Experimental support for new features:
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PHP - mod-php is now in experimental release. (Download from update servers.)
Acknowledgments
The NetKernel community continues to grow and provide valuable contributions both directly, in the form
of code contributions, and indirectly, through their feedback and enthusiastic evangelism. We would like to
explicitly thank the following for their contributions to NetKernel 3.3:
- Menzo Windhouwer - for maintaining the ext-xquery module and tracking changes to Saxon
Downloading, Installing and Uninstalling
You may obtain a Download
of NetKernel and select a distribution mirror and
the type of distribution - either a graphical installer in an executable JAR
file or a TGZ file for server installations.
Please refer ot the Install Guide
for detailed installation steps.
To uninstall NetKernel invoke the graphical uninstaller
by running
java -jar [install dir]/Uninstaller/uninstaller.jar
or by removing the [install dir] and all subdirectories.
Getting Started
To get started go to the Getting Started Book.
Known Issues
Issues with releases and individual modules are tracked in Bugxter.
Licensing
1060 NetKernel is a commercial open source product. It is licensed under the 1060® Public License v1.0.
Our license is written to encourage open-source development. In many cases NetKernel is free to use however, if you
cannot abide by a mandatory open-source model you must purchase
a commercial license. Please read the license and
FAQ carefully.
Licenses and support packages may be purchased from 1060® Research
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