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IXIA CCMS V6.4

July 15, 2021

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Important Notes

Important

Install and upgrade documentation is available to current customers on the Downloads website.

Bug Fixes

IXIA CCMS Web

  • [DEV-19479] When doing a Deep Status Change on a map, some topics were not listed in the Move Dependencies dialog box because of DRM Content Level Security settings. This issue has been fixed.

IXIA CCMS Desktop

  • None

IXIA Dynamic Release Management

  • None

IXIA Output Generator

  • None

IXIA Scheduler

  • None

TEXTML

  • None

Known Issues

  • Opening maps with Oxygen DITA Map Editor using version 23 showed File not found validation errors for topicrefs. This happens the first time you open a map because the content is not synchronized to your workspace. If you open with XML Editor with resolved topics, the errors clear. This will be fixed in a future release of Oxygen.
  • [DEV-13458] Customers that have set up the Output Generator to have additional libraries (jar files) for custom processing such as Fluid Topics, need to edit the numbering in the conf/client/classpath.conf configuration file to begin with either 200 or 300. For example, wrapper.java.classpath.200=../libs/fluidtopics/ftconnector.jar

Important Notes

Important

Install and upgrade documentation is available to current customers on the Downloads website.

Bug Fixes

IXIA CCMS Web

  • [DEV-18910] The CCMS Web Oxygen license for 2022 is included in this Service Pack.
  • [DEV-18540] Forking a topic in CCMS Web sometimes had an incorrect Primary Version. This issue has been fixed.
  • [DEV-17176] Image thumbnails were sometimes displayed in CCMS Web as gray boxes instead of the image preview. This issue has been fixed.
  • [DEV-16162] In a DRM installation, build manifests sometimes lost their container relationship. The cause was related to actions taken in CCMS Web. This issue has been fixed. To repair existing containers, you can run the CCMSUtils DRM Container Analyzer.

IXIA CCMS Desktop

  • None

IXIA Dynamic Release Management

  • None

IXIA Output Generator

  • None

IXIA Scheduler

  • None

TEXTML

  • [DEV-18547] This service pack replaces the Log4j Apache logging component with version 2.17.1.
  • [DEV-17283] TEXTML server sometimes had too many file handles open for the PrimaryReplicationCfg.xml file. This issue has been fixed.

Known Issues

  • Opening maps with Oxygen DITA Map Editor using version 23 showed File not found validation errors for topicrefs. This happens the first time you open a map because the content is not synchronized to your workspace. If you open with XML Editor with resolved topics, the errors clear. This will be fixed in a future release of Oxygen.
  • [DEV-13458] Customers that have set up the Output Generator to have additional libraries (jar files) for custom processing such as Fluid Topics, need to edit the numbering in the conf/client/classpath.conf configuration file to begin with either 200 or 300. For example, wrapper.java.classpath.200=../libs/fluidtopics/ftconnector.jar

Important Notes

Important

Install and upgrade documentation is available to current customers on the Downloads website.

Bug Fixes

IXIA CCMS Web

  • None

IXIA CCMS Desktop

  • None

IXIA Dynamic Release Management

  • None

IXIA Output Generator

  • None

IXIA Scheduler

  • This service pack fixes an error with the Scheduler scripts encrypt.sh and encrypt.bat from the previous service pack release. The build number matrix lists the update for Desktop but it is for Scheduler only.

TEXTML

  • None

Known Issues

  • Opening maps with Oxygen DITA Map Editor using version 23 showed File not found validation errors for topicrefs. This happens the first time you open a map because the content is not synchronized to your workspace. If you open with XML Editor with resolved topics, the errors clear. This will be fixed in a future release of Oxygen.
  • [DEV-13458] Customers that have set up the Output Generator to have additional libraries (jar files) for custom processing such as Fluid Topics, need to edit the numbering in the conf/client/classpath.conf configuration file to begin with either 200 or 300. For example, wrapper.java.classpath.200=../libs/fluidtopics/ftconnector.jar

Important Notes

Important

Install and upgrade documentation is available to current customers on the Downloads website.

Bug Fixes

IXIA CCMS Web

  • This service pack replaces the Log4j Apache logging component with version 2.17.1.
  • [DEV-18064] In CCMS Web, some of the right-click menu options did not appear for related links. This issue has been fixed.

IXIA CCMS Desktop

  • This service pack replaces the Log4j Apache logging component with version 2.17.1.
  • [DEV-18310] In a Standard installation, the ability to perform the Publish action on localized content and have all the auto-translation translate=”no” attributes automatically removed has been implemented. This was a specific customer request and requires a configuration change. Contact Support for more details.
  • [DEV-17809] While in DITA Map view, moving topics or submaps with their children expanded sometimes causes a Java Null Pointer Exception error. This issue has been fixed.
  • [DEV-16939] When localizing a published map using a pivot language, the translate=”no” attribute was incorrectly inherited from the pivot language. This issue has been fixed.
  • [DEV-15817] If topics in the localization cycle were already locked when the parent map was localized, an Unable to lock the document error message appeared. This message has been changed to “Unable to lock, the document is locked by another user”.

IXIA Dynamic Release Management

  • None

IXIA Output Generator

  • This service pack replaces the Log4j Apache logging component with version 2.17.1.
  • [DEV-17978] If the Scheduler and the Output Generator services ran out of memory and had a Java heap space exception, the processes would hang and needed to be restarted. The services now fail so that monitoring system can detect the failure and automatically restart them.

IXIA Scheduler

  • This service pack replaces the Log4j Apache logging component with version 2.17.1.
  • [DEV-17978] If the Scheduler and the Output Generator services ran out of memory and had a Java heap space exception, the processes would hang and needed to be restarted. The services now fail so that monitoring system can detect the failure and automatically restart them.

nightbuild

  • This service pack replaces the Log4j Apache logging component with version 2.17.1.

CCMSutils

  • This service pack replaces the Log4j Apache logging component with version 2.17.1.

TEXTML

  • None

Known Issues

  • Opening maps with Oxygen DITA Map Editor using version 23 showed File not found validation errors for topicrefs. This happens the first time you open a map because the content is not synchronized to your workspace. If you open with XML Editor with resolved topics, the errors clear. This will be fixed in a future release of Oxygen.
  • [DEV-13458] Customers that have set up the Output Generator to have additional libraries (jar files) for custom processing such as Fluid Topics, need to edit the numbering in the conf/client/classpath.conf configuration file to begin with either 200 or 300. For example, wrapper.java.classpath.200=../libs/fluidtopics/ftconnector.jar

Important Notes

Important

Install and upgrade documentation is available to current customers on the Downloads website.

Bug Fixes

IXIA CCMS Web

  • [DEV-18432] This service pack replaces the Log4j Apache logging component with version 2.17.1.
  • [DEV-18409] The Undo icon was not visible when editing a topic. This issue has been fixed.
  • [DEV-18210] CCMS Web allowed users to change the status of documents via the Deep Status Change action even though they did not have the rights enabled via DRM Security. This issue has been fixed.
  • [DEV-17661] In the My Assignments page, the Due filter displayed assignments that had already been Marked As Finished. This issue has been fixed.
  • [DEV-17535] Users were sometimes unable to add an annotation to a Collaborative Review and received a Maximum call stack size exceeded error in the browser console log. This issue has fixed.
  • [DEV-17474] Collaborative Reviews created in CCMS Web had the incorrect From username in the email notification. This issue has been fixed.

IXIA CCMS Desktop

  • None

IXIA Dynamic Release Management

  • None

IXIA Output Generator

  • None

IXIA Scheduler

  • None

TEXTML

  • None

Known Issues

  • Opening maps with Oxygen DITA Map Editor using version 23 showed File not found validation errors for topicrefs. This happens the first time you open a map because the content is not synchronized to your workspace. If you open with XML Editor with resolved topics, the errors clear. This will be fixed in a future release of Oxygen.
  • [DEV-13458] Customers that have set up the Output Generator to have additional libraries (jar files) for custom processing such as Fluid Topics, need to edit the numbering in the conf/client/classpath.conf configuration file to begin with either 200 or 300. For example, wrapper.java.classpath.200=../libs/fluidtopics/ftconnector.jar

Important Notes

Important

Install and upgrade documentation is available to current customers on the Downloads website.

Bug Fixes

IXIA CCMS Web

  • This service pack replaces the Log4j Apache logging component with version 2.16.0.
  • [DEV-18046] An unexpected error has occurred {} message sometimes appeared when trying to insert a reference into a topic. This issue has been fixed.
  • [DEV-17476] Sometimes, a Collaborative Review was created with the status Authoring:creating status instead of Authoring:review. This issue has been fixed.
  • [DEV-17448] After resizing the browser window, users could not check in documents using the More options button.
  • [DEV-17257] When a Collaborative Review in CCMS Web was left open in a browser for an extended period and the session timed out, there was no indication of the timeout. This issue has been fixed.
  • [DEV-16793] CCMS Web sometimes showed no assignments on the My Assignments page. This issue has been fixed.
  • [DEV-16563] Users sometimes saw a blank Search Results page in CCMS Web when logged in with a username that contained mixed case. This issue has been fixed.
  • [DEV-16228] In CCMS Web, attributes that contained an uppercase character did not copy to clipboard. This issue has been fixed.
  • [DEV-14234] When editing a topic and inserting a conref that is a table element, a validation error appeared. This issue has been fixed.

IXIA CCMS Desktop

  • None

IXIA Dynamic Release Management

  • None

IXIA Output Generator

  • This service pack replaces the Log4j Apache logging component with version 2.16.0.

IXIA Scheduler

  • None

TEXTML

  • None

Known Issues

  • Opening maps with Oxygen DITA Map Editor using version 23 showed File not found validation errors for topicrefs. This happens the first time you open a map because the content is not synchronized to your workspace. If you open with XML Editor with resolved topics, the errors clear. This will be fixed in a future release of Oxygen.
  • [DEV-13458] Customers that have set up the Output Generator to have additional libraries (jar files) for custom processing such as Fluid Topics, need to edit the numbering in the conf/client/classpath.conf configuration file to begin with either 200 or 300. For example, wrapper.java.classpath.200=../libs/fluidtopics/ftconnector.jar

Important Notes

Important

Install and upgrade documentation is available to current customers on the Downloads website.

Bug Fixes

IXIA CCMS Web

  • [DEV-17718] Maps that had keys defined in a submap instead of in the main map, sometimes had a Sorry, could not load map in CCMS Web Structure view. The maps would open in Content view. This issue has been fixed.

IXIA CCMS Desktop

  • None

IXIA Dynamic Release Management

  • None

IXIA Output Generator

  • None

IXIA Scheduler

  • None

TEXTML

  • None

Known Issues

  • Opening maps with Oxygen DITA Map Editor using version 23 showed File not found validation errors for topicrefs. This happens the first time you open a map because the content is not synchronized to your workspace. If you open with XML Editor with resolved topics, the errors clear. This will be fixed in a future release of Oxygen.
  • [DEV-13458] Customers that have set up the Output Generator to have additional libraries (jar files) for custom processing such as Fluid Topics, need to edit the numbering in the conf/client/classpath.conf configuration file to begin with either 200 or 300. For example, wrapper.java.classpath.200=../libs/fluidtopics/ftconnector.jar

Important Notes

Important

Install and upgrade documentation is available to current customers on the Downloads website.

Bug Fixes

IXIA CCMS Web

  • [DEV-17524] When editing a topic in CCMS Web and searching for an image to insert, the search took a long time if the search values were left blank. This issue has been fixed.
  • [DEV-17391] In CCMS Web, some maps reported out-of-scope errors for submaps when changing status. This issue has been fixed.
  • [DEV-17303] When adding a topic to a map in CCMS Web Structure view, a Key definition not found validation error was displayed, and the topic title was not resolved. This issue has been fixed.
  • [DEV-17285] Some Collaborative Reviews in CCMS web remained locked by the system during a Move operation and were displayed with a broken graphic in the Assignments view. This issue has been fixed.

IXIA CCMS Desktop

  • [DEV-17475] In a DRM deployment using a pivot language, the CCMS auto-translated topics on their first localization cycle. This issue has been fixed.
  • [DEV-17447] When trying to create a topic in CCMS Desktop using saved settings for a topic with more than one subfolder, an error dialog box appeared with an empty description. This issue has been fixed.
  • [DEV-17442] In CCMS Desktop, sometimes creating a snapshot failed with a String index out of range: -1 error message. This issue has been fixed.

IXIA Dynamic Release Management

  • [DEV-16871] In a DRM deployment, when importing a map with the Update existing documents option selected, maps were imported without the container reference which caused invalid references. This issue has been fixed.

IXIA Output Generator

  • None

IXIA Scheduler

  • [DEV-17255] The Scheduler Activity Report failed to process tickets if any were for topics that contained special characters. This issue has been fixed.

TEXTML

  • None

Known Issues

  • Opening maps with Oxygen DITA Map Editor using version 23 showed File not found validation errors for topicrefs. This happens the first time you open a map because the content is not synchronized to your workspace. If you open with XML Editor with resolved topics, the errors clear. This will be fixed in a future release of Oxygen.
  • [DEV-13458] Customers that have set up the Output Generator to have additional libraries (jar files) for custom processing such as Fluid Topics, need to edit the numbering in the conf/client/classpath.conf configuration file to begin with either 200 or 300. For example, wrapper.java.classpath.200=../libs/fluidtopics/ftconnector.jar

Important Notes

Important

Install and upgrade documentation is available to current customers on the Downloads website.

Bug Fixes

IXIA CCMS Web

  • [DEV-17368] Keys that were defined in a map using CCMS Web did not appear after clicking the Insert Links and variables defined as DITA keys icon. This issue has been fixed.
  • [DEV-17284] User-defined keys did not resolve in topics for CCMS Web. This issue has been fixed.

IXIA CCMS Desktop

  • None

IXIA Dynamic Release Management

  • None

IXIA Output Generator

  • None

IXIA Scheduler

  • None

TEXTML

  • None

Known Issues

  • Opening maps with Oxygen DITA Map Editor using version 23 showed File not found validation errors for topicrefs. This happens the first time you open a map because the content is not synchronized to your workspace. If you open with XML Editor with resolved topics, the errors clear. This will be fixed in a future release of Oxygen.
  • [DEV-13458] Customers that have set up the Output Generator to have additional libraries (jar files) for custom processing such as Fluid Topics, need to edit the numbering in the conf/client/classpath.conf configuration file to begin with either 200 or 300. For example, wrapper.java.classpath.200=../libs/fluidtopics/ftconnector.jar

Important Notes

Important

Install and upgrade documentation is available to current customers on the Downloads website.

Bug Fixes

IXIA CCMS Web

  • [DEV-17340] After upgrading CCMS Web to 6.4 SP1, users were not able to load their assignments or favorites. This issue has been fixed.

IXIA CCMS Desktop

  • None

IXIA Dynamic Release Management

  • None

IXIA Output Generator

  • None

IXIA Scheduler

  • None

TEXTML

  • None

Known Issues

  • Opening maps with Oxygen DITA Map Editor using version 23 showed File not found validation errors for topicrefs. This happens the first time you open a map because the content is not synchronized to your workspace. If you open with XML Editor with resolved topics, the errors clear. This will be fixed in a future release of Oxygen.
  • [DEV-13458] Customers that have set up the Output Generator to have additional libraries (jar files) for custom processing such as Fluid Topics, need to edit the numbering in the conf/client/classpath.conf configuration file to begin with either 200 or 300. For example, wrapper.java.classpath.200=../libs/fluidtopics/ftconnector.jar

Important Notes

Important

Install and upgrade documentation is available to current customers on the Downloads website.

Bug Fixes

IXIA CCMS Web

  • [DEV-17284] User-defined keys did not resolve in topics for CCMS Web. This issue has been fixed.
  • [DEV-16973] The Scheduler did not send email notifications when a Collaborative Review that was created on the web was assigned to a user. This issue has been fixed.

IXIA CCMS Desktop

  • None

IXIA Dynamic Release Management

  • None

IXIA Output Generator

  • None

IXIA Scheduler

  • None

TEXTML

  • None

Known Issues

  • Opening maps with Oxygen DITA Map Editor using version 23 showed File not found validation errors for topicrefs. This happens the first time you open a map because the content is not synchronized to your workspace. If you open with XML Editor with resolved topics, the errors clear. This will be fixed in a future release of Oxygen.
  • [DEV-13458] Customers that have set up the Output Generator to have additional libraries (jar files) for custom processing such as Fluid Topics, need to edit the numbering in the conf/client/classpath.conf configuration file to begin with either 200 or 300. For example, wrapper.java.classpath.200=../libs/fluidtopics/ftconnector.jar

Important Notes

Important

Install and upgrade documentation is available to current customers on the Downloads website.

Bug Fixes

IXIA CCMS Web

  • [DEV-16940] After a single sign-on login was completed, CCMS Web did not correctly redirect to the Assignments page. This issue has been fixed.
  • [DEV-16937] When a user had both a Writer and Information Architect role, creating a new map in CCMS Web created the map at a review state instead of the initial working state. This issue has been fixed.
  • [DEV-16797] When trying to check in a map in CCMS Web that contained a keyword key definition, a Sorry, check in didn’t work message sometimes appeared. This issue has been fixed.
  • [DEV-16776] Sometimes the CCMS Web Tomcat process would hang, and users were unable to login. The log file showed a java.io.IOException: Too many open files error message. This issue has been fixed.
  • [DEV-16772] In the CCMS Web Advanced Search panel, DRM products and libraries were not sorted alphabetically. This issue has been fixed.
  • [DEV-16721] In CCMS Web, table entry tags were sometimes superimposed. This issue has been fixed.
  • [DEV-16711] In CCMS Web, some context maps were not appearing in the advanced search. This issue has been fixed.
  • [DEV-16595] The CCMS Web Administration page to define the PDF output type for Collaborative Reviews included the text “in Eclipse” which made it appear as a Desktop-only setting. This has been fixed and the words “in Eclipse” have been removed.
  • [DEV-16564] CCMS Web did not display branch tags for a standard deployment. This issue has been fixed.
  • [DEV-16470] In CCMS Web, a validation error appeared when adding a comment after a tgroup element. This issue has been fixed.
  • [DEV-16467] If the Writer role was renamed in a configuration, the Collaborative Review open topic icon did not appear in CCMS Web. This issue has been fixed.
  • [DEV-16205] If a map referenced a resourcemeta object in a keyref, the file type icon did not display in CCMS Web. This issue has been fixed.
  • [DEV-16193] When trying to insert a reference to a hazard statement in CCMS Web, the selection was grayed out. This issue has been fixed.
  • [DEV-16179] At a valid insertion point, pressing the Enter key did not display a list of elements available to insert. This issue has been fixed.
  • [DEV-16172] In CCMS Web, the assignment indicators were not fully displayed. This issue has been fixed.
  • [DEV-16170] In CCMS Web, the locid attribute was displayed by default in Content view. This issue has been fixed.
  • [DEV-16108] The CCMS Web CreateTicketOnStatusChangeTrigger failed when special characters that were not UTF-8 were used in the XML content. This issue has been fixed.
  • [DEV-16061] When performing a View Topic Content action on a map with more than 100 key definitions, a This mode is unavailable for documents with more than 100 references due to performance reasons error appeared. This issue has been fixed.
  • [DEV-15927] Encrypted passwords were not supported for the IXIA CCMS Web installation script. This issue has been fixed.
  • [DEV-15917] When generating output in CCMS Web, some user parameters that were pre-defined did not appear in the Generate Output dialog box. This issue has been fixed.
  • [DEV-15894] The CCMS Web installer script failed to complete the upgrade if reverse proxy was set up. This issue has been fixed.
  • [DEV-15892] Sometimes a nested map would not load in Structure view. This issue has been fixed.
  • [DEV-15818] The CCMS had performance issues if a DRM version or release did not have a parent filename. This issue has been fixed.
  • [DEV-15764] In CCMS Web, the trademark element was not visible when previewing a topic, only when editing a topic. This issue has been fixed.
  • [DEV-13718] A Collaborative Review did not show a list of assigned reviewers. This issue has been fixed.
  • [DEV-12952] When adding a topic to a bookmap using the Advanced Map Editor in CCMS Web, the topic was added correctly. If you added the topic using the Lite Editor, extra class and ditaarch info was added. This issue has been fixed.

IXIA CCMS Desktop

  • [DEV-16916] When the metadata of an image was modified and then localized, the system comment in the Revision History showed that the image was auto-translated but the image content was replaced with the authoring source image. This issue has been fixed.
  • [DEV-16700] The topic Save Failed dialog box had a spelling error. This issue has been fixed.
  • [DEV-16538] When editing the Human Readable value in the CCMS Desktop Taxonomy Terms view, spaces were replaced with underscores. This issue has been fixed.
  • [DEV-16449] In CCMS Desktop, sometimes a null pointer error appeared for the Favorites view. This issue has been fixed.
  • [DEV-16344] Using the Oxygen Paste as content key reference action in CCMS Desktop with Oxygen version 23 resulted in a Couldn’t execute operation error message. This issue has been fixed.
  • [DEV-15996] If a map was open in DITA Map view and a user performed a Clear Map action, the Validate Links option remained grayed out after opening a new map. This issue has been fixed.
  • [DEV-15904] When adding a new row in the Relationship Table Editor perspective, rows were added at the top of the table and not at the insertion point. This issue has been fixed. A workaround is to refresh the map which will show the correct location of the newly inserted row.
  • [DEV-15758] For large topics with a lot of ixia_locid attributes, the Localize action took a long time. Performance has been improved and where possible IXIASOFT recommends splitting large topics greater than 2Meg in size into smaller topics.
  • [DEV-13908] When the Load sub maps on demand option was enabled in the CCMS Desktop preferences, the parent map open in DITA Map view would collapse when editing a submap in the Oxygen editor. This issue has been fixed.

IXIA Dynamic Release Management

  • [DEV-16539] When performing a Create New Instance of a topic in a DRM deployment, a Clone to versions has encountered a problem message sometimes appeared. This issue has been fixed.
  • [DEV-16345] In a DRM deployment, the link to open a referable-content topic reference within an open topic did not work. This issue has been fixed.
  • [DEV-16337] When viewing the dependencies of a container in a DRM deployment, a An error occurred while computing dependencies error was sometimes displayed. This issue has been fixed.
  • [DEV-15706] In the DRM Synchronization perspective, sometimes when trying to merge a topic that did not have any changes between versions, a Merge Objects has encountered a problem error message appeared. This issue has been fixed.
  • [DEV-15137] In a DRM deployment, adding a library as a sub-library sometimes failed with a There are products with different versions found error message. Users were sometimes unable to manually resolve the reported conflicts. This issue has been fixed.

IXIA Output Generator

  • [DEV-16760] In 6.3 SP3, the default user parameters specified in the Output Generator preprocessors.xml configuration file, were not populated in CCMS Web. This issue has been fixed.
  • [DEV-16159] Users were unable to create a Collaborative Review in CCMS Web for a map that contained a topic with a self-reference. The log file in My Outputs showed a The file does not exist error. This issue has been fixed.
  • [DEV-15925] On a Linux system, the 6.3 Output Generator would start and then immediately terminate when running as the service user account instead of the root user account. This issue has been fixed.

IXIA Scheduler

  • [DEV-15926] On a Linux system, the 6.3 Scheduler would start and then immediately terminate when running the Output Generator as the service user account instead of the root user account. This issue has been fixed.
  • [DEV-14871] The Scheduler assignation_ticket.xsl configuration file had UTF8-BOM instead of UTF-8 encoding. This issue has been fixed.

TEXTML

  • [DEV-17642] When searching on a topic that had an ID beginning with “adj”, an Invalid Query error appeared. This issue has been fixed.
  • [DEV-16460] Write operations in TEXTML were accelerated in high load scenarios. This issue has been fixed.
  • [DEV-16385] Write performance was sometimes impacted when TEXTML had an accumulation of usercommandlog transactions. This issue has been fixed.
  • [DEV-15893] TEXTML stopped due to a stack overflow if a search query contained a large number of document IDs to search for. This issue has been fixed.
  • [DEV-14820] TEXTML sometimes had slow performance on the secondary replication server when there were a lot of log files and transactions to process. This issue has been fixed.

Known Issues

  • Opening maps with Oxygen DITA Map Editor using version 23 showed File not found validation errors for topicrefs. This happens the first time you open a map because the content is not synchronized to your workspace. If you open with XML Editor with resolved topics, the errors clear. This issue will be fixed in a future release of Oxygen.
  • [DEV-13458] Customers that have set up the Output Generator to have additional libraries (jar files) for custom processing such as Fluid Topics, need to edit the numbering in the conf/client/classpath.conf configuration file to begin with either 200 or 300. For example, wrapper.java.classpath.200=../libs/fluidtopics/ftconnector.jar