A new release 2.12 is now available for the open source Expresso Framework
at www.javacorporate.com for download (as a .war) at:
http://www.javacorporate.com/components/helpdesk/jsp/projframe.jsp?category=
65 (please get full url). Recent releases have focused on enhancing support
for J2EE.
Expresso offers a strong, active developer community, more than 2100 users
on its listserv and has more than 25,000 downloads. It offers a
comprehensive connection pooling component, as well as user authentication,
security, access to databases, email connectivity, job control, health
check, logging, event notification, database objects, configuration values,
EJB/J2EE integration, XML import/export, and access to other server-side
components.
This release adds some bug corrections to release 2.11 and marks the last
complete release of Expresso before a number of large changes are made
(including a package re-organization).
The bugs corrected are related to Login and the include of the "loginPage"
item referred to in the property file documentation, as well as some
security-related errors.
This release also includes some enhancements to the security package.
The location of the properties file supplied as an argument to the
DefaultInit servlet can now be specified as "relative" by leaving off the
leading "/". The location is then considered to be relative to the
web-application directory when used with a servlet 2.2-compatible container.
E.g. if Expresso's .war file is installed and un-jared in /usr/expresso,
then specifying "configDir=config" means that the properties file should be
found in /usr/expresso/config.
The default properties file (and web.xml file) supplied is now appropriate
to the included Hypersonic SQL database, making .war installation even
easier.
>>> A few weeks ago we also released version: Expresso Framework 2.11 <<<<<
This release of Expresso corrected a number of bugs, some minor some more
serious, found in the 2.1 release, and adds some additional functionality -
particularly for deployments in Servlet 2.2 or J2EE environments.
The Javadoc documentation is now included as a subdirectory in the Expresso
web-app directory - the link from doc/index.html can access the Javadoc
directly.
The JSP pages for Expresso can now take a "schema" argument to allow them to
be used "within" the web-app context of another web application in 2.2/J2EE
environments. This allows all of Expresso's pages and capabilities to be
"nested" within another web application & resolves conflicts with
distributed sessions - e.g. if you log in to the Expresso web application,
then switch to the eForum app in another context, your session does not move
with you. By accessing Expresso from within eForum, the problem does not
occur.
A new DBObject (DBObjImpl) has been added, but is not yet being used - this
object will be used in a release in the near future to integrate with the
upgraded Expresso J2EE project, allowing any DBObject to be deployed as an
Entity EJB, and any Controller object to be deployed as a Session EJB.
A new listing of all other installed Expresso-based applications has been
added to the Expresso frame, allowing easy navigation between applications.
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