[Geoserver-users] GeoServer 2.6-beta released

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We are pleased to announce the release of GeoServer 2.6-beta. The download page for 2.6-beta has links to the zip, war, dmg and exe bundles on SourceForge, with source links provided by the 2.6-beta tag on GitHub.

As a development release, 2.6-beta is considered experimental and is provided for testing purposes. This release is not recommended for production (even if you are excited by the new features).

The GeoServer team have identified a few areas where we would like to ask for help. This is your best chance to identify issues early while we still have time to do something about it.

  • Java 7 Testing

  • WFS Cascade

  • Curves support for GML and WMS

  • Advanced projection handling for raster

  • Coverage Views

  • Startup Testing

  • Pluggable Styles

  • Wind barbs and WKT Graphics

  • New Formats and Functionality

For details on testing the above features check out the blog post. A change log is also available from the issue tracker.

–
GeoServer Team

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Re: Blog link referenced for GeoServer 2.6-beta release

Couldn’t see how to create a jira account to comment on the ticket, but in the blog post https://jira.codehaus.org/browse/GEOS-6588 is referenced for this release (specifically Geoserver.app running under JDK 7 on OS X).

I ran into this issue - it’s actually a problem with the plist entry from Oracle -
look at the Info.plist that comes from oracle:
/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.7{version}.jdk/Contents/Info.plist

find the JVMCapabilities key - it should look like this:

JVMCapabilities

CommandLine

change it to this:

JVMCapabilities

JNI
BundledApp
WebStart
Applets
CommandLine

alternatively is you start it with a bash script (i.e. java -jar …) it works fine.

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On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 7:31 PM, Jody Garnett <jody.garnett@anonymised.com> wrote:

We are pleased to announce the release of GeoServer 2.6-beta. The download page for 2.6-beta has links to the zip, war, dmg and exe bundles on SourceForge, with source links provided by the 2.6-beta tag on GitHub.

As a development release, 2.6-beta is considered experimental and is provided for testing purposes. This release is not recommended for production (even if you are excited by the new features).

The GeoServer team have identified a few areas where we would like to ask for help. This is your best chance to identify issues early while we still have time to do something about it.

  • Java 7 Testing

  • WFS Cascade

  • Curves support for GML and WMS

  • Advanced projection handling for raster

  • Coverage Views

  • Startup Testing

  • Pluggable Styles

  • Wind barbs and WKT Graphics

  • New Formats and Functionality

For details on testing the above features check out the blog post. A change log is also available from the issue tracker.

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On Fri, Jul 25, 2014 at 2:53 AM, Chris Bennight <chris@anonymised.com> wrote:

Re: Blog link referenced for GeoServer 2.6-beta release

Couldn't see how to create a jira account to comment on the ticket, but in
the blog post https://jira.codehaus.org/browse/GEOS-6588 is referenced
for this release (specifically Geoserver.app running under JDK 7 on OS X).

I ran into this issue - it's actually a problem with the plist entry from
Oracle -
look at the Info.plist that comes from oracle:
/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.7{version}.jdk/Contents/Info.plist

find the JVMCapabilities key - it should look like this:
<key>JVMCapabilities</key>
                        <array>
                              <string>CommandLine</string>
                        </array>

change it to this:
<key>JVMCapabilities</key>
                        <array>
                              <string>JNI</string>
                              <string>BundledApp</string>
                              <string>WebStart</string>
                              <string>Applets</string>
                              <string>CommandLine</string>
                        </array>

alternatively is you start it with a bash script (i.e. java -jar .....)
it works fine.

That's good information that we might want to put in the blog, or somewhere
else so that
people interested in testing the 2.6-beta release on OSX can move on.

However, I'm weary of making such kind of global change in the GeoServer
installer,
as this might have un-intended system wide issues (like, applets execution,
where
none was intended, maybe for security reasons).

Cheers
Andrea

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Thanks Chris, I am trying to understand your comment.

So this is not the plist inside the GeoServer.App, but the plist inside the JDK that is an issue? If we switched to the JRE would this issue be resolved…

I suppose the string “BundledApp” is the entry we actually need added, rather than only command line.

I know some applications (indeed any application that is sold through the Apple store) include a JDK as part of their bundle. We could take this approach for GeoServer but it would be a bit of a hit to download size.

Given that not many people will have installed Java 7 this approach may actually be a good idea?

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Jody Garnett

On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 5:53 PM, Chris Bennight <chris@anonymised.com> wrote:

Re: Blog link referenced for GeoServer 2.6-beta release

Couldn’t see how to create a jira account to comment on the ticket, but in the blog post https://jira.codehaus.org/browse/GEOS-6588 is referenced for this release (specifically Geoserver.app running under JDK 7 on OS X).

I ran into this issue - it’s actually a problem with the plist entry from Oracle -
look at the Info.plist that comes from oracle:
/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.7{version}.jdk/Contents/Info.plist

find the JVMCapabilities key - it should look like this:

JVMCapabilities

CommandLine

change it to this:

JVMCapabilities

JNI
BundledApp
WebStart
Applets
CommandLine

alternatively is you start it with a bash script (i.e. java -jar …) it works fine.

On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 7:31 PM, Jody Garnett <jody.garnett@anonymised.com> wrote:

We are pleased to announce the release of GeoServer 2.6-beta. The download page for 2.6-beta has links to the zip, war, dmg and exe bundles on SourceForge, with source links provided by the 2.6-beta tag on GitHub.

As a development release, 2.6-beta is considered experimental and is provided for testing purposes. This release is not recommended for production (even if you are excited by the new features).

The GeoServer team have identified a few areas where we would like to ask for help. This is your best chance to identify issues early while we still have time to do something about it.

  • Java 7 Testing

  • WFS Cascade

  • Curves support for GML and WMS

  • Advanced projection handling for raster

  • Coverage Views

  • Startup Testing

  • Pluggable Styles

  • Wind barbs and WKT Graphics

  • New Formats and Functionality

For details on testing the above features check out the blog post. A change log is also available from the issue tracker.

–
GeoServer Team

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