Release Notes
    
                             caCORE
                        Version 3.0.1.2
                        October 18, 2005

       National Cancer Institute Center for Bioinformatics


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                            Contents
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    1.0 caCORE Introduction and History
    2.0 caDSR
	2.1 Release History
	2.2 Bugs Fixed Since Last Release
    3.0 CSM
	3.1 Release History
	3.2 Bugs Fixed Since Last Release
	3.3 Known Issues
    4.0 Documentation
    5.0 Bug Reports and Support
    6.0 NCICB Web Pages


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                1.0 caCORE Introduction and History
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    caCORE 3.0.1.1

    --  30 August 2005    

    caCORE 3.0.1

    --  22 July 2005

    caCORE 3.0

    --  31 March 2005    

    caCORE 2.1.1

    --  30 July 2004    

    caCORE 2.1

    --  28 May 2004

    caCORE 2.0.1

    --  19 December 2003 

    caCORE 2.0

    --  31 October 2003

    caCORE 1.2

    --  13 June 2003

    caCORE 1.1

    --  7 February 2003

    caCORE 1.0

    --  29 August 2002 

    caCORE consists of four main components: Cancer
    Bioinformatics Infrastructure Objects (caBIO), Cancer Data
    Standards Repository (caDSR), Common Security Module (CSM),
    and Enterprise Vocabulary Services (EVS).  Each component
    has both standalone functionality as well as integration
    points with the rest of caCORE.

    caCORE is a product of the NCI Center for Bioinformatics
    and its partners. Visit the caCORE web site for more
    information:

    --  http://ncicb.nci.nih.gov/core.


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                           2.0 caDSR
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    2.1 Release History
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    caDSR 3.0.1.1

    --  26 August 2005

    caDSR 3.0.1

    --  22 July 2005

    caDSR 3.0

    --  31 March 2005    

    caDSR 2.1.1
    
    --  30 July 2004

    caDSR 2.1

    --  28 May 2004

    caDSR 2.0.1

    --  19 December 2003 
    
    caDSR 2.0

    --  31 October 2003 
    
    caDSR 1.2

    --  13 June 2003    
    
    caDSR 1.1

    --  7 February 2003
    
    caDSR 1.0

    --  29 August 2002


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    2.2 Bugs Fixed Since Last Release
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    --  caDSR APIs have significant performance improvement.
	This is achieved by changing lazy fetching to eager
	fetching for all many-to-one related data.


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                            3.0 CSM
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    3.1 Release History
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    CSM SDK ADAPTER 1.0.3.1

    --  30 August 2005

    CSM 3.0.1 / CSM SDK ADAPTER 1.0.3

    --  22 July 2005

    CSM 3.0

    --  31 March 2005


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    3.2 Bugs Fixed Since Last Release
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    +---------------------------------------+
    | CSM Enabled, Writeable APIs (for SDK) |
    +---------------------------------------+

    --  Fixed the existing bug in SDKListProxy where the under-
        lying data was not accessible through the iterator. Now
        SDKListProxy performs the same functionality as the 
        ListProxy of caCORE SDK.

    --  searchMetaThesaurus method in EVS API will filter out 
        duplicated records and return unique records

    --  searchMetaThesaurus method in EVS API will accept null,
        "*" and "all sources" as valid data source names to 
        search all data sources.


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    3.2 Known Issues
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    +---------------------------------------+
    | CSM Enabled, Writeable APIs (for SDK) |
    +---------------------------------------+

    --  The writable APIs doesnt support dependant objects. You
        can obtain the parent object using the query method of 
        the ApplicationService Interface. However when you try 
        to obtain the dependant child object an exception would
        be thrown. This is because the child object are lazily
        loaded from the server.


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                        4.0 Documentation
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    The caCORE 3.0.1 Release Notes can be doloaded via the NCICB
    Download Center at:

    --  http://ncicb.nci.nih.gov/core/caCORE3.0.1_notes.txt

    The caCORE 3.0.1 Technical Supplement, Programmers guide,
    Installation guide can be downloaded via FTP:

    --  ftp://ftp1.nci.nih.gov/pub/
	cacore/caCORE3.0.1_Tech_Supp.pdf

    --  ftp://ftp1.nci.nih.gov/pub/
	cacore/caCORE_SDK1.0.3_Programmers_Guide.pdf

    --  ftp://ftp1.nci.nih.gov/pub/cacore/
	caCORE_SDK1.0.3_Installation_and_Basic_Test_Guide.pdf


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                  5.0 Bug Reports and Support
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    Send email to ncicb@pop.nci.nih.gov to request support or
    report a bug.  

    In addition, mailing lists are used by the caCORE developer
    and user community to exchange ideas and make announcements.
    You can subscribe at these addresses:

    caBIO users

    --  http://list.nih.gov/archives/cabio_users.html
    
    caBIO developers

    --  http://list.nih.gov/archives/cabio_devel.html

    caDSR users

    --  http://list.nih.gov/archives/sbr_users.html

    EVS users

    --  http://list.nih.gov/archives/ncievs-l.html


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                        6.0 NCICB Web Pages
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    The NCI Center for Bioinformatics

    --  http://ncicb.nci.nih.gov/
    
    NCICB Application Support
     
    --  http://ncicbsupport.nci.nih.gov/sw/

    NCICB Download Center

    --  http://ncicb.nci.nih.gov/download/

    caCORE

    --  http://ncicb.nci.nih.gov/core
    
    caBIO

    --  http://ncicb.nci.nih.gov/core/caBIO
    
    caDSR

    --  http://ncicb.nci.nih.gov/core/caDSR 
    --  http://ncicb.nci.nih.gov/xml 
    
    CSM
    
    --  http://ncicb.nci.nih.gov/core/CSM

    EVS

    --  http://ncicb.nci.nih.gov/core/EVS


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