[SNMP4J] SNMP4J 1.5RC1 & SNMP4J-Agent-1.0alpha0 Released

[Frank Fock]

SNMP4J v1.5RC1 and a very early alpha release of SNMP4J-Agent API
have been released and can be downloaded from
http://www.snmp4j.org

The new SNMP4J version now supports Applets and the Address class
is now an interface.

Comments and suggestions on SNMP4J-Agent are appreciated!
Nevertheless, please understand that at the current state of development
only commercial support is provided for SNMP4J-Agent.

RELEASE NOTES

SNMP4J-1.5RC1:

* Changed: Address is now an interface (was an abstract class).
  An new abstract base class for IpAddress and TransportIpAddress
  has been introduced which is called SMIAddress. Because of the
  class type change of Address you will need to recompile your
  application, when upgrading to SNMP4J 1.5.
* Improved: UdpAddress and TcpAddress BER encoding routines
  now encode the respective address as OCTET STRING according
  to the TRANSPORT-ADDRESS-MIB.
* Fixed: ThreadPool.stop did not notify TaskManagers which
  could block the stop() method execution.
* Improved: By default system properties are no longer used
  to determine SNMP4J configuration, instead the configuration
  (which transport protocols, security protocols, SMI syntaxes,
  address types, etc. to use) is hard coded and contains all
  available features. To add additional features without
  changing SNMP4J classes/code, use the
  SNMP4JSettings.setExtensibility method.
  Consequently, SNMP4J can now be used with Applets.
* Added: OID.mask(OctetString) to mask an OID by a bit string.
* Added: TransportIpAddress.getValue() which returns the
  address value as a byte array.
* Fixed: Typo in -OtCSV options and description CVS changed into
  CSV.
* Added: snmpInPkts counter support.
* Improved: Console example can now be extended more easily.
* Changed: Made Snmp default constructor public.
* Added: Snmp(MessageDispatcher).


SNMP4J-Agent-1.0alpha0:

* Initial release: Use at your own risk! There are many
  untested areas in the code. Most JavaDoc is missing
  and there are still a lot of TODOs for the code.
  Nevertheless, you can already build full featured
  agent with it. Persistency support is not yet working
  though.


Frank Fock