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Release History

Version Date Description
1.1.0 2007-09-28 This is a maintenance release of the Validation Tool including fixes and changes requested by the early adopters of the application. It is also the first release of the vtool project.
1.0.0 2007-05-04 This release of the Validation Tool represents the operational release for the Phase I targeted capabilities. Although this release pertains to the product-tools project, its description has been retained here for completeness. Changes for previous releases can be viewed in the product-tools documentation.

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Release 1.1.0 - 2007-09-28

Type Changes By
add The Validation Tool application has been split out from the product-tools project in order to provide more specific documentation and to turn the product-tools project into a library of classes that can be included by other projects. The following files or directories were moved to this project:
  • src/ java/gov/nasa/pds/tools/VTool.java
  • src/java/gov/nasa/pds/tools/flags/VToolFlags.java
  • src/java/gov/nasa/pds/tools/config/
  • src/java/gov/nasa/pds/tools/status/
  • src/resources/scripts/
  • xdocs/install/
  • xdocs/user/
shardman
add Added a README file to be included with the binary distribution package. The README file points the user to the documentat ion provided with the package. shardman
update Updated VTool to return the following exit values:
0 The data product label(s) passed the PDS validation step with no errors or warnings.
1 An Application Error has occurred.
2 A System Error has occurred.
32 One or more files skipped during the validation run.
64 One or more validation warnings encountered during the validation run.
96 One or more files skipped and validation warnings encountered during the validation run.
128 One or more validation errors encountered during the validation run.
160 One or more files skipped and validation errors encountered during the validation run.
192 One or more validation warnings and errors encountered during the validation run.
224 One or more files skipped, validation warnings and errors encountered during the validation run.
mcayanan
update Refactored the VTool class. mcayanan
fix Changed the jarpath settings in the shell scripts to a more generic value ('vtool-X.X.X' instead of 'vtool-1.0.0'). mcayanan

Release 1.0.0 - 2007-05-04

Type Changes By
add Added support for validation of label fr agments. pramirez
add Added the capability to return an appropriate exit status value based on validation results or tool application failure. mcayanan
add Created batch and shell scripts for simpler execution of VTool. mcayanan
add Added the capability for targets to be specified implicitly. mcayanan
add Added -f or --force flag option to perform standalone label fragment validation. mcayanan
update Validation of units is now performed against the master list of unit values. This comparison is case sensitive. pramirez
update File names referenced by pointers may be in any case and still be discoverable by the tool. File names in mixed case will generate a warning message. pramirez
update Cleaned up reporting including replacing SEVERE with ERROR in all instances and properly representing fragment messages when they are included in a label validation. pramirez
update Implemented new log file behavior to allow logs to be written to memory. This allows generation of reports without the need of explicitly specifying the log file flag option. mcayanan
update Changed the log file flag (-l or --log) option to optionally allow a file specification. See Use and Operation guide for log generation details. mcayanan
update Added time and date of tool execution in final reports. mcayanan
update Enhanced user guide with more details regarding command-line flag options, report exampl es, etc. mcayanan
fix Fixed support for UNC pathnames. mcayanan
fix Fixed the minimal report stylesheet to work correctly on the Linux platform. mcayanan
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