This is a "hotfix" release mostly containing improvements in support of new Service Optimization
features (in particular new scheme features since version 8.1.7), some bug fixes, and some general
improvements.
New features
- Implemented support for virtual Collections introduced in Service Optimization 8.1.7 in order to
support the representation used by built-in configuration management tools. Xoom
works around the Service Optimization product limitation that causes some misconfigurations to crash
retrieval, allowing maximum amount of information to be extracted from Service Optimization. Due to
their redundancy with the Xoom representation and some initial instability, virtual
collections are disabled by default, although they can be enabled by a simple change in
XoomConfig.xml.
- Implemented a new AutoCapture command that automates the creation of
corpora (it can also be captured manually). The command has to be run on the server
that is being captured, and takes a single parameter which is a directory that will contain
the corpus.
- Xoom Explorer now automatically detects all namespace prefixes defined in the loaded XML document,
and supports those prefixes in XPath queries.
Improvements/changes
- Index IdNames are no longer prepended by Collection names,
which makes them more concise and more widely usable for referencing purposes.
- A number of additional interpretations of product and solution pack settings have been
added.
- File tweaky is now configured by default, simplifying the configuration of the file
versioning setup, although the query still needs to be configured manually.
- References can now be configured using optional alternative IDs.
- XPath attributes in XoomConfig.xml (and hence
XoomCustom.xml) now support both relative and absolute XPaths. Therefore,
relative XPaths no longer start with a "/" as that now indicates an absolute XPath.
- The Xoom installer now allows the user to choose the installation folder.
- Most reports have been reviewed and their representation improved.
- Improved the handling of whitespace, including line endings on different operating systems,
and the nodes containing comments. Many more cases of original comments and formatting are now
preserved even when the relevant nodes contain interpretations and references.
- The CSV tweaky no longer trims values by default.
Bug fixes
- Works around a Service Optimization 8.1.x bug that causes the first service call after a server restart
to fail. This caused Xoom to report invalid server status after implementing Scheme
changes, even though said changes were implemented successfully.
- Works around an inconsistency in the way various Service Optimization versions since 7.5 reported their
version. The format is now a consistent four number format taken from file versions as opposed
to the installer that was used previously.
- Task Index Rule no longer contains duplicates of some properties in its body.
- The versioning script's robustness has been improved, in particular when working with
git.
- Fixed the incorrect ordering of dependencies in the files generated by Xoom Console.
