[ome-devel] OMERO.server (BETA) 4.0 RC2 announcement

[josh.moore at gmx.de]

Hi all,

tags are now available for the OMERO clients & server (BETA) 4.0 RC2. 

Clients:
svn co http://svn.openmicroscopy.org.uk/svn/shoola/tags/Beta4.0-rc2/

Server:
svn co http://svn.openmicroscopy.org.uk/svn/omero/tags/omero-4.0-rc2/

Nothing has changed in terms of deployment, so if you haven't already
gotten started with the 4.0 server series, please see the post for RC1
copied below.

Best wishes,
~Josh


RC1 Announcement:
http://lists.openmicroscopy.org.uk/pipermail/ome-devel/2009-March/001184.html
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josh.moore at gmx.de writes:
 > 
 > Hi everyone,
 > 
 > as promised, an update on the upcoming release. We've just tagged
 > release candidate 1 for internal testing (url below). You are
 > welcome to start examining the tag or downloading from Hudson, but
 > obviously there is still work to do and changes to be made.
 > 
 > In order to use this pre-docs version, some explanation is necessary:
 > 
 >  * First, the database has "evolved" as opposed to clearly being
 >    versioned during our development, so anyone who has tested the
 >    waters will need to re-create their database.
 > 
 >  * Another important change is how the database gets created. To
 >    simplify the distribution, ant has been removed, which means the
 >    "ant setup-db" target is gone. For the moment, we are delegating
 >    database creation to your tool of choice (probably psql). See
 >    below on how to do this.
 > 
 >  * The logging location has changed. Deployment starts up at least
 >    two server instances, one with a lower memory requirement,
 >    solely for indexing your database. To prevent confusion from
 >    duplications, there are now two files. See var/log/Blitz-0.log
 >    and var/log/Indexer-0.log after starting your instance.
 > 
 >  * Finally, server configuration has changed. Rather than editing
 >    local.properties and executing "ant update", Java's Preferences
 >    API (e.g. ~/.java/userPrefs on Linux) is being used (see
 >    below). This keeps the distribution directory (other than the
 >    logs) read-only so it can be installed globally.
 > 
 > 
 > The final workflow, which we will be writing up online for release,
 > can be summarized like this: (note this assumes that Ice, Java,
 > Python, and Postgres are already installed)
 > 
 > 
 >     svn co \
 >       http://svn.openmicroscopy.org.uk/svn/omero/tags/omero-4.0-rc1 \
 >       omero-4.0-rc1
 > 
 >     cd omero-4.0-rc1
 >      # Calls "java omero" to prevent memory issues on 64bit
 >     ./build.py
 >     cd dist
 > 
 >     #
 >     # All default properties are shown in etc/omero.properties
 >     # If you would like to change any property, use the
 >     # "bin/omero config" command.
 >     #
 >     bin/omero config set omero.data.dir /opt/OMERO
 >     bin/omero config set omero.db.user me
 >     bin/omero config set omero.db.name mydb
 > 
 > 
 >     #
 >     # To create a password script which also contains your
 >     # (OMERO) root user's password, use the "bin/omero db" command
 >     #
 >     bin/omero db script    # Asks for root pass and creates OMERO__4.sql
 > 
 > 
 >     #
 >     # Postgresql commands:
 >     # ==========================
 >     # These commands assume the default values as in etc/omero.properties
 >     #
 >     sudo -u postgres createdb -O omero omero
 >     sudo -u postgres createlang plpgsql omero
 >     psql -U omero omero < OMERO4__0.sql
 > 
 > 
 >     # Starting your server
 >     bin/omero admin start
 >     # No deploy needed.
 > 
 > 
 > Once "OMERO.blitz now accepting connections." appears in your
 > var/log/Blitz-0.log, you can browse to:
 > 
 >   http://localhost:8000/webadmin
 > 
 > and begin adding new users.
 > 
 > 
 > Known issues:
 > =============
 > 
 >  * Server builds on Windows but will not deploy properly.
 > 
 >  * To get the Eclipse projects to compile, it is necessary to run
 >    "ant test-compile".
 > 
 > 
 > Thanks ever so much for your patience and and the upcoming
 > feedback. And, as always, we'll keep you posted on the further release
 > schedule.
 > 
 > 
 > Best wishes,
 > Josh