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<changes title="Avalon Excalibur History of Changes">
<devs>
<person name="Berin Loritsch" email="[EMAIL PROTECTED]" id="BL"/>
<person name="Leo Simons" email="[EMAIL PROTECTED]" id="LS"/>
<person name="Peter Donald" email="peter at apache.org" id="PD"/>
<person name="Jeff Turner" email="[EMAIL PROTECTED]" id="JT"/>
<person name="Neeme Praks" email="[EMAIL PROTECTED]" id="NP"/>
<person name="Giacomo Pati" email="[EMAIL PROTECTED]" id="GP"/>
<person name="Paul Hammant" email="[EMAIL PROTECTED]" id="PH"/>
<person name="Leif Mortenson" email="[EMAIL PROTECTED]" id="LM"/>
<person name="Eung-ju Park" email="[EMAIL PROTECTED]" id="EP"/>
<person name="Carston Ziegler" email="[EMAIL PROTECTED]" id="CZ"/>
<person name="Peter Royal" email="[EMAIL PROTECTED]" id="PR"/>
</devs>
<release version="@version@" date="@date@">
<action dev="PR" type="fix">
PriorityFilterTargetFactory throws a ConfigurationException
upon invalid targets
</action>
<action dev="CZ" type="add">
The ExcaliburComponentSelector does not instantiate a Component
for the hasComponent() test anymore.
</action>
<action dev="CZ" type="add">
Adding XMLizer to the xmlbundle subproject for converting different
data (identitied by a mime-type) to XML.
</action>
<action dev="CZ" type="add">
Finished port of Cocoon's source resolver as the new sourceresolve
subproject.
</action>
<action dev="CZ" type="add">
Added XML Parser role and implementation, EntityResolver role and
some misc. XML support (from Cocoon).
</action>
<action dev="Whole Team" type="add">
Broken Excalibur from single jar into multiple smaller jars.
</action>
</release>
<release version="4.1" date="January 30, 2002">
<action dev="CZ" type="add">
Initial port of Cocoon's Source resolvers and XML parsers
</action>
<action dev="NP" type="update">
Added many fixes to the XML Resource Bundles and Resource Bundle
access code.
</action>
<action dev="PD" type="update">
Update the extension management code and make it more robust.
</action>
<action dev="BL" type="add">
Add new Container abstraction to separate ComponentManager from
Container code (i.e. ExcaliburComponentManager violates this).
The new ContainerManager and Container abstraction make the system
much easier to manage.
</action>
<action dev="BL" type="add">
Add new CommandManager architecture to manage all asynchronous
commands and the ThreadManager architecture to manage the thread
allocation policy for the CommandManager.
</action>
<action dev="DP" type="add">
New component to handle automatic XML Catalog resolution.
</action>
<action dev="EP" type="update">
Many improvements to the cache component. Extended cache validation
support, multiple store backends, and more.
</action>
<action dev="JT" type="add">
Add an XPathProcessor abstraction Component with ThreadSafe
implementations for Jaxen and Xalan backed XPath processors.
</action>
<action dev="PD" type="update">
Made automatic proxy code even more robust.
</action>
<action dev="PD" type="update">
Add support for recursive property resolution. Added appropriate
unit test to accompany feature.
</action>
<action dev="BL" type="update">
Optimized pool implementations, and provided a new abstraction for
managed pools (in scratchpad).
</action>
<action dev="GP" type="add">
Add many new LogTargetFactories to LogKitManager.
</action>
<action dev="BL" type="add">
Add new LoggerManager abstraction that works with the new framework
Logger abstractions.
</action>
<action dev="PD" type="fix">
Fixed some classloader issues in the i18n package for loading resources.
Also fixed some i18n related issues in FileUtil and IOUtil.
</action>
<action dev="LM" type="update">
Applied many optimizations and logic fixes to DataSourceComponent
code.
</action>
<action dev="BL" type="fix">
Applied fixes to ReadWriteLock from Avi Drissman ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
</action>
<action dev="BL" type="update">
Officially deprecate Lock in favor of Mutex. They have the same
purpose, and Mutex is more correct.
</action>
<action dev="BL" type="update">
Optimize logging calls throughout components. Also, make the log
messages more informative.
</action>
<action dev="PD" type="update">
ListUtils now checks for duplicates when merging Lists.
</action>
<action dev="PD" type="update">
Make BinaryHeap and PriorityQueue use Objects instead of Comparables.
Optimize BinaryHeap code.
</action>
<action dev="BL" type="add">
Add new Buffer classes to the collections package. These are amazingly
performant. It is based on CircularBuffer, which is now deprecated.
</action>
<action dev="BL" type="update">
Shake out some more performance of CLI Util, as well as better support
for DUPLICATES_ALLOWED.
</action>
<action dev="LM" type="update">
Added some build improvements.
</action>
<action dev="BL" type="add">
Add new profiler instrumentation interfaces inspired by Matt Welsh's
SEDA architecture.
</action>
<action dev="BL" type="add">
Add new asynchronous event queue system inspired by Matt Welsh's
SEDA architecture.
</action>
<action dev="BL" type="update">
Update all the components to the new LogEnabled interface.
</action>
</release>
<release version="4.0" date="September 11, 2001">
<action dev="BL" type="update">
Update user docs.
</action>
<action dev="PD" type="remove">
Remove dead code in scratchpad.
</action>
<action dev="PD" type="update">
Rework thread pooling package to a new design. This provides a
mechanism
to run a cleanup thread when the JVM is killed.
</action>
<action dev="PD" type="add">
Add classloader extension framework into the extension package.
</action>
<action dev="PD" type="add">
Add Container mechanism from Avalon Phoenix.
</action>
<action dev="PD" type="update">
Add support for recursive property resolution. Added appropriate unit
test
to accompany feature. (Property utils).
</action>
<action dev="PD" type="fix">
Problem Fixed: I've encountered a problem with the SingleThreadedPool in
that it alternatley returns valid and null pooled objects until you've
got
the "initial" constructor argument + 1 and then it starts returning
(Poolable)m_factory.newInstance(). Submitted by: "Corey O'Donovan".
</action>
<action dev="BL" type="fix">
Fix some bugs found by Pool Profiling tests.
</action>
<action dev="BL" type="add">
Add new resource monitoring facility. This allows you to actively
monitor resources and be notified if they are changed by outside
forces.
</action>
<action dev="DP" type="update">
Set hierarchy via constructor to allow LogKit to work in sub
classloaders.
Submitted By: Sylvain Wallez.
</action>
<action dev="DP" type="update">
Update FileUtils with methods to count size of a directory,
input argument check, fix javadoc, and method to convert an array of
Files into URLs.
</action>
<action dev="PH" type="add">
ClassLoaderObjectInputStream moves from Cornerstone to Excalibur.
</action>
<action dev="DP" type="update">
Promote the i18n ResourceManager code to Excalibur production.
</action>
<action dev="BL" type="update">
Updated log messages for JdbcConnection--as well as added runtime
detection if no connections could be created. This provides better
reporting if the connection has configuration errors or other mitigating
errors.
</action>
<action dev="BL" type="add">
Add direct support for Informix connection pooling. Requires the most
recent JDBC drivers from Informix to use this feature.
</action>
<action dev="BL" type="update">
Deprecated the oradb attribute in JdbcDataSourceComponent, and added a
keepalive element.This way we can test the line with valid SQL
statements
no matter what the DB is. Informix had trouble with the "select 1" and
I
am sure there are others.
</action>
<action dev="BL" type="fix">
Fix bugs found by ReadWriteLock Test Case in the concurrent package.
</action>
<action dev="DP" type="update">
Update component package with support for Paremeterizable components
(patch from Mircea Toma)
</action>
<action dev="BL" type="update">
Add support to display if an option is required. Patch was from
Tom Jordahl (from xml-axis project).
</action>
<action dev="PD" type="fix" fixes-bug="3255">
Fixed bug "CLArgsParser loops infinitely on OPTIONAL options" like
"-Fa -B" where F optionally has an argument. Added unit tests to verify
that it has been fixed.
</action>
<action dev="JT" type="update">
Update javadocs with '@since' tags so that we know when components
have been introduced.
</action>
<action dev="BL" type="update">
Update JDBC datasource component so that you can specify your keep-alive
query. This is for databases that don't like "SELECT 1;" as a query.
</action>
<action dev="GP" type="add">
Add new JUnit TestCase for automatically setting up Avalon Components
and running tests.
</action>
<action dev="BL" type="fix">
Fix a number of tests, and provided a couple new tests.
</action>
<action dev="PD" type="fix">
Fix build process for tests and fix some of the tests.
</action>
<action dev="GP" type="add">
Add new LogKit Management framework to allow each component to have
unique
logger implementations and provide fine grained control over logging.
</action>
<action dev="PD" type="add">
Add new JNDI package to Excalibur with Memmory and RMI providers.
</action>
<action dev="BL" type="update">
Updated Announcement.xml to not refer to Testlet anymore.
</action>
</release>
<release version="4.0b4" date="August 10, 2001">
<action dev="BL" type="fix">
Fixed race condition brought to my attention by Tom Klaasen. His
excellent
analysis of the problem enabled me to not only fix the race condition
but
also increase the efficiency of the pool in some cases by 200%
</action>
<action dev="BL" type="add">
Added new InformixDataSource that uses the Informix JDBC 2.2 driver
and Cadastre to provide pooled connections from Informix. Unfortunately
the drivers do not yet support transactions. I need to look further
into this, as it might be a server configuration issue as opposed to
a driver issue.
</action>
<action dev="BL" type="fix">
Fixed errors in utilities discovered by the tests.
</action>
<action dev="BL" type="change">
Converted tests from Testlet to JUnit.
</action>
<action dev="BL" type="fix">
Fixed the build structure so that everything builds correctly.
</action>
<action dev="BL" type="add">
Added extra convenience methods to discover if a component exists.
</action>
<action dev="BL" type="add">
Added stylesheet to convert Stylebook markup to DocBook markup.
</action>
<action dev="BL" type="change">
Changed the documentation build process to use Cocoon to build
the site.
</action>
<action dev="BL" type="add">
Add new configuration element "driver" to JdbcDataSource so that
the class is loaded in the current context classloader when the
component is first set up.
</action>
<action dev="BL" type="update">
Optimize all logging functions to make it easier for JVMs to decide
whether or not to concatenate strings for log messages.
</action>
<action dev="NP" type="update">
Extensive reworking of the excalibur.i18n package (XML Resource
bundles).
</action>
<action dev="JT" type="update">
Extensive additions to IOUtils so that it accepts numerous different
stream/writer types. Also will convert streams to strings using a
specific encoder or else by using default platform encoder.
</action>
<action dev="PD" type="add">
Added EndianUtil to excalibur.io to help when need to work with little
endian data.
</action>
<action dev="BL" type="add">
Added "ROLE" attribute to DataSource--to comply with practices
outlined in whitepaper.
</action>
</release>
<release version="4.0b3" date="June 6, 2001">
<action dev="BL" type="update">
Release 4.0b3
</action>
<action dev="BL" type="fix">
Repair major showstopper in Excalibur Component Manager. This
showstopper manifests itself as a NullPointerException with
ExcaliburComponentSelectors. Because of the reflective code
in the ComponentFactory, this was originally missed in the
Beta 2 release.
</action>
</release>
<release version="4.0b2" date="June 4, 2001">
<action dev="BL" type="update">
Release 4.0b2
</action>
<action dev="BL" type="update">
Updated Component Package to be Initializable, so that all components
can be initialized once it is ready.
</action>
<action dev="BL" type="add">
Added initial documentation for Excalibur.
</action>
<action dev="BL" type="fix">
Fixed issues introduced with removing "throws Exception" from
Disposable.
</action>
<action dev="BL" type="fix">
Made connections expire after 15 uses. This avoids problems with
buggy client code or buggy drivers from causing serious issues
in the long run.
</action>
<action dev="BL" type="fix">
Made Component Manager fixes to use the Thread's context classloader.
</action>
</release>
<release version="4.0b1" date="May 11, 2001">
<action dev="BL" type="change">
Initial beta release.
</action>
</release>
</changes>
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