netzooid

Folks, we managed to push out a Galaxy 1.5 release candidate yesterday. It has some pretty cool new features I think:

• Much expanded metadata capabilities. You can define new properties which are stored of various types – like links to other things in the registries, lifecycles, users, and simple values. For instance, you can define a property called “supercedes” which is a link type. Than users can link to another entry in the registry that a particular service/artifact supercedes.
• The ability to work with a much larger variety of services. Galaxy 1.0 only stored artifacts. Galaxy 1.5 allows you to just store metadata about services in the form of registry “entries.” For instance, you can define an entry for a RESTful service then start attaching metadata such as the service owner, URL, links to documentation, lifecycle information, etc.
• Event API – easily develop extensions which listener for lifecycle transitions or new entries/artifacts
• Scripting shell – great for scripting things such as notificactions or replication

And there’s a lot more as well…you can find out the rest of the details in the What’s new in Galaxy 1.5 document.

We’ll be releasing the 1.5 final version (along with the 1.5 enterprise version) in a couple weeks once we’re able to put it through some more QA/testing and once we get all the documentation updated for 1.5.

As always, we’re eager to here feedback so kick the tires and please let us know what you think.

This entry was posted on Thursday, September 18th, 2008 at 3:26 am and is filed under Random.