[AG-TECH] AGTk 2.2 Beta Availalbe

[Ivan R. Judson]

The Access Grid Toolkit 2.2 (Beta) is available for download at:

http://www.mcs.anl.gov/fl/research/accessgrid/software/releases/2.2/index.ht
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This is BETA software, so please use at your own risk in a production
environment. This should co-exist with previous releases safely on Windows,
but not Linux.  

This release includes major usability and stability improvements. Highlights
include:

- Updated to Python 2.3 (2.2 still supported on legacy platforms)
- Update to the latest SOAPpy
- Update to newer pyGlobus and Globus Toolkit (on linux)
- New packaging
- Streamlined Certificate Management User Interfaces
- Support for Service Certificates
- Support for an Anonymous Certificate Request Service, 
   to enable immediate use of the toolkit
- New Node Service Packaging, which supports more flexible Node Services
- Shared Applications Developers Tools, Examples and a Programmers Manual
- A Venue Client Control Interface 
   (so the Venue Client can be programmatically controlled)
- Windows support for launching the Venue Client from a web browser.
- Usage logging in the Venue Server
- Automatic reconnection for the Venue Client
- Venue Server significantly stabilized, memory leaks plugged.

For more information on this release see the official release page:
http://www.mcs.anl.gov/fl/research/accessgrid/software/releases/2.2/index.ht
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As always, feedback is desired, please file bug reports, feature requests, 
or enhancements via the Access Grid Bugzilla pages
(http://bugzilla.mcs.anl.gov/accessgrid) or via the ag-tech mailing list 
(mailto:ag-tech at mcs.anl.gov).

Thanks,

The AG Team