• 159: timestamps on saving messages?
• 163: Startup fails: error saving prefs
• 165: SMM does not connect when using #ONLY
• 166: Use separate credentials when connecting to message broker
• 167: Ability to specify Login SPI for LDAP logins
• 168: Send settings are ignored when sending esbmsg
• 169: Support for SonicMQ 8.5

• Sonic 8.0 libraries upgraded to version 8.0.1 to fix some compatibility problems with users using 8.0.1.
• Editable send destination field added to the message sender tab to allow sending to remote brokers.

• 116: Keep selection in view when searching
• 148: Refresh queue list does not add new queues
• 149: Limited admin privs are unsupported
• 150: Error when Using a topic in JMSReplyTo field
• 151: Setting Time To Live doesn’t work with message sender

• 34: Bytes message viewer only works right the first time for some messages
• 47: Redesign JMS properties
• 131: Handling default connections
• 137: Add option for persistent/non persistent message sending
• 141: Allow connections to brokers behind NAT routers
• 142: Refresh of deleted messages doesn’t work
• 143: Separate task queues for multiple brokers
• 145: Sort queues by number of messages

Depending on your version of Java Web Start, you may or may not get a message requesting you to upgrade. Some versions will download the new version immediately and others will do so in the background and run the new version the next time the application is started. If you have not received the new version after a system reboot, you may need to remove and re-install the application.

This version of Sonic Message Manager is released under the Apache License v2.0, as will all future versions. This license means more freedom to developers wanting to reuse some of the code and allows for more interoperation with other programs and libraries. It also solves the legal issues there used to be with releasing under the GNU GPL. This wasn’t the GPLs fault, it was mine.

I have not yet decided which open source license to choose and would like some input on this from anyone with experience in this field. The license that will eventually be applied will need to have at least the following characteristics:

• Allow modification and redistribution of the source code and binaries by anyone or any company;
• Does not restrict what other software or source code can be bundled together with (modified) SMM code or binaries.
• Using closed source libraries in SMM and using parts of SMM in closed source applications must be allowed as long as the SMM code used in the process is made available to the users.

If you have an idea of which license would appropriate to use, please contact me or reply in the comments.

The nightly build of SMM now has all Sonic-specific logic separated from the main program. The main program compiles without any references to SonicMQ libraries and this opens the door to implementing support for other MQs.

All sonic-specific code is to be found in the “sonic-src” directory of the mercurial repository, all core code is in “src”. There probably still are some Sonic-specific assumptions in there, we’ll have to work those out when we get to them.

If anyone is interested in implementing support for another MQ, please contact me before writing any code so I can explain the process and structure of the application to you. I will document this in time, but not right now.

If you only have Java 1.6.0_15 or higher installed, java web start will attempt to install a compatible JRE for you if you want to run the Sonic 6.1 version of SMM. If you are using any other version of Sonic, any Java 1.5 or higher JVM will work just fine.

This is a temporary measure until I find out what Sun has changed in j2se 1.6.0_15 and what I need to do to work around it (if at all possible).

Java Web Start will now check for updates in the background, while starting the application. When an update has been found, you will be informed of this the next time you start the application and you will have the option to install it.

This improves startup times because the update check is no longer done before starting the app. It should also dramatically improve startup time when you are not connected to the internet.

• 87: Auto-refreshing the queues now works on all tabs
• 113: Allow connecctions to multiple brokers at the same time
• 114: Switching connections doesn’t always work
• 120: Allow the user to specify TimeToLive when sending messages
• 132: Clear broker combobox while changing connection
• 133: Disconnect button
• 134: Can’t see manual when starting SMM
• 135: Merge about tab with help tab
• 138: Copy (or drag) multiple queues to a text editor

Aside from these recorded changes, there are also a massive amount of small things that didn’t get a mention in here. I hope you will enjoy the new version!