Changelog
Changes since version 2.5
- Backend framework updated to Spring Boot (http://spring.io)
- Frontend framework updated to Foundation 5 (http://foundation.zurb.com)
- Service can now be fully configured and reset from the UI
- Pause, resume, cancel, delete controls have been added to jobs
- Added basic authentication and HTTPS proxy support
- Added configurable “fixed” ECC client UUIDs for all SAD clients
- Log4j logging framework updated to Logback for both the service and plugins
- Supports ECC API v2.1
Changes since version 2.0-beta
- Takes full advantage of ECC API 2.0
- Adds new ECC metrics to both SAD Service and all Plugins
- Adds new Hot tweets plugin (deployment release only)
- Exposes data behind job executions
- Adds Vagrant script for painless deployment
- Adds stability improvements
Changes since version 1.6
- Underlying database changed from PostgreSQL to Mongo
- SAD plugins integrated with ECC
- Database access for SAD plugins
Changes since version 1.5
- Default plugins completely rewritten from scratch:
- Twitter searcher plugin - fetches tweets containing keywords or hashtags.
- Facebook collector plugin - collects posts from Facebook pages.
- Basic stats plugin - produces basic statistics on social networks data collected by the Twitter and Facebook plugins.
- Twitter and Facebook plugin using EXPERIMEDIA Social Integrator to connect to Social Networks.
- All default plugins written using developer-friendly Plugin Helper class that simplifies common plugin tasks:
- Retrieval of arguments, input, requested outputs.
- Storage and retrieval of job metadata.
- Saving data into database.
- All default plugins come with HTML/CSS/JS visualisation view of output data.
- SAD java packages have been renamed from eu.experimedia.itinnovation* to uk.ac.soton.itinnovation.sad*.
- License for SAD core has been changed from EXPERIMEDIA project license to GNU LESSER GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE, Version 2.1.
- Default plugin licenses have been change from EXPERIMEDIA project license to Apache Software License, Version 2.0.
- Enhanced plugin configuration to include detailed information about input data and output data types.
- Default plugin logging has been switched to log4j.
- Individual plugin executions saved into log files.
- Significantly improved documentation.