August 2009 : ProActive Agent 1.1

In addition listed below bug fixes, you will find notable features and improvements like :
- support for 64 bits Windows operating systems,
- more assisted installation (automatic user permission detection and
reuse of previous config files)
- user-specified cleaning script, executed each time a runtime terminates
- selection of the communication protocol and port number through the gui (http and rmi) 

Bug

• [AGENT-22] - JAVA_HOME must ne set while it seems not requiered for Agent
• [AGENT-24] - instalation failed on Windows Vista
• [AGENT-26] - ProActive location does not not work with ProActive programming
• [AGENT-31] - error message at standard user log in with ProActive agent automatic launch
• [AGENT-32] - rename the documentation file
• [AGENT-36] - wrong RM URL construction if the protocol part is not given
• [AGENT-37] - Node Source Name field usage leads to an error

Improvement

• [AGENT-12] - Provide several config files with different schedules and actions
• [AGENT-25] - ProActive location field is misleading
• [AGENT-27] - Always available default behaviour
• [AGENT-28] - Remove the missleading node name rank additivity in case of multi runtime.
• [AGENT-30] - the ProActive Windows Agent screensaver uses the old ProActive logo
• [AGENT-33] - ProActive Agent Control shortcut is installed on desktop even for non admin users
• [AGENT-34] - The ProActive Agent should reuse the ProActive port instead of incrementing it in case of runtime restart
• [AGENT-38] - Rename RMIAction into LocalRegistration in config file but 1.0.x config files will not work with 1.1 version
• [AGENT-39] - Account used to launch the ProActive Agent requires Log on as a service rigth assignment
• [AGENT-40] - The message displayed when leaving GUI edit is not so clear
• [AGENT-41] - The panel asking to keep displaying the "restart to perform changes" should use checkbox as it is the "common" way
• [AGENT-42] - Create a subfolder "config" to store configurations
• [AGENT-44] - Add tooltip for each ui element
• [AGENT-45] - During the installation of the ProActive Agent the user should be asked to re-use or not existing default configuration file.

New Feature

• [AGENT-10] - In the Agent installer, check if the location give for PA is valid
• [AGENT-23] - The agent configuration should allow to set the target node source name
• [AGENT-29] - ProActive Agent should support different protocols than RMI
• [AGENT-35] - JVM Parameters should dynamically replace ${rank} by the Runtime rank.
• [AGENT-43] - Add "On Runtime Exit" script execution.

Task

• [AGENT-11] - Test the installer and agent within a win64 architecture