ANN: Barracuda 1.2.6 Released!!!!

["Christian Cryder" <christianc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hey folks!

This email is to let you know that Barracuda 1.2.6 has officially been released and is available for your download at http://barracudamvc.org. If you haven't checked out Barracuda lately, this would be a great time to catch up, as there's been a lot going on lately.

Here is a summary of what's new in this release: 

1.2.6 Release Notes

• One of the biggest changes worth noting is that we have successfully negotiated the purchase of all copyrights from Lutris (special thanks to ATMReports for underwriting this). After consulting with all additional contributor copyright holders, we have decided to re-license the code base under well accepted LGPL rather than the original Enhydra Public License (EPL).
• XMLC has also been re-licensed under LGPL, thanks to the efforts of Alfred Madl's team; please support their work!
• both XMLC and Barracuda are partnering with ObjectWeb, which should do much to increase our exposure and upgrade our infrastructure. 
• all source codethis release relicenses all the code under the 
• This release provides a significant number of bug fixes and minor enhancements. It should represent a very stable base from which to work. I anticipate that the next major release will involve a major cleanup/reorganization of the code base
• Specific changes...
  • latest and greatest version of XMLC 2.2.4, and include an LGPL version of Jivan
  • changed all the license verbiage to LGPL
  • minor mod to HttpConverter to ensure that if you pass in a map to convert it to a URL string it will automatically create that string in sorted order
  • added the CommaSeparatedDOMWriter which  makes it very easy to render your DOMs to a comma separated format (ie. download reports in Excel, flat files, or even in the browser)
  • additional work to the DOMWriter interface to add the following methods:
    void prepareResponse(HttpServletResponse resp)
    void setLeaveWriterOpen(boolean val)
    boolean getLeaveWriterOpen()
  • minor tweak to GenerateSSIs taskdef, so that it doesn't include the ssi comment tags in the generated file
  • more work on ObjectRepository, to make it work better at cleaning up sessions stuff. There is now a convenience class called SessionManager to make it easier to work with the session (and invalidate it). As of this change, invalidating a session should cause the OR to be properly cleaned up (previously this was something of a problem).
  • minor tweak to the DispatchQueue interface, adding setRequiresResponse() and setResponseHandled() to the interface so that we can programatically manipulate this 
  • added support for LongRunning events (see  /Barracuda/docs/events/long_running.html) 
  • added support for setting Class objects in ObjectRepositoryAssembler
  • changed the BaseEvent interface - added new method getEventURL() and deprecated getEventIDWithExtension(); getEventURL() will return any params associated with the event as part of the url string
  • fixed HTMLComponentRenderer so that empty Text nodes are no longer seen as invalid children for certain tags
  • Added JivanDOMWriter which can be used to render DOMs created by Jivan
  • Minor (but important) fix to TemplateHelper to make it possible for multiple Set_Attr directives to be embedded in a single node without stomping on one another
  • bug fixes in ObjectRepositoryAssembler, where it was not always clearing the argList after the <prop> tag was finished
  • Added the ability to easily configure DefaultDOMWriter by setting DEFAULT_OO_PUBLIC_ID and DEFAULT_OO_SYSTEM_ID via obj repository assembler.
  • Added pre/post iterate methods to the BlockIterator interface
  • DOMFactory, DOMLoader, and DOMWriter interfaces have all been reworked to provide greater flexibility, while making them easier to implement at the same time
  • you can now configure ApplicationGateway to automatically respond with a 404 Resource Not Found error for invalid events
  • major rework of the ObjectRepository classes for better threadsafety and general code cleanup. 
  • SoftHashMap now provides the ability to get map keys, allowing you to see what's been cached
  • the EventBuilder taskdef now allows you to supply custom templates for event generation
  • minor updates to the EventBuilder and Localize taskdefs, so that the code they generate is not automatically compiled at that time (see the changelog for more information on this)
  • you can now pass BScript components back from your BTemplate model implementations
  • the EventBuilder taskdef now allows you to declare control events (events that can only be fired programatically but will NOT be dispatched through the ApplicationGateway); previously you had to manually define such events
  • miscellaneous improvements to HttpServletRequestWrapper
  • BAction has a new setDisableFormLocking() which allows target actions that are aimed at other windows
  • aditional form types of TIME, DATE, and TIMESTAMP 
  • fixed a bug in Classes.getAllInterfaces() that was keeping BTemplate from finding the right renderer for a document
  • both HttpSessionStateMap's and DefaultStateMap's removeState() method now supports simple wildcarding, allowing you to remove multiple keys in one fell swoop (ie. all keys that start with "foo*"

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Christian Cryder
Internet Architect, ATMReports.com
Project Chair, BarracudaMVC - http://barracudamvc.org
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