What's Old in Wonder

It's been a long time since the last What's New in Wonder -- almost 8 months. We've been busy, quietly making your life cooler :) There's actually been quite a bit of activity in Wonder, including contributions from lots of people outside the regulars. We've had a lot of Jiras filed (many with patches! thank you).

Thanks to everyone who contributed bugs, patches, tests, and features over the 8 months -- Anjo, Chuck, Quinton, Timo, Lachlan, Henrique, Ravi, Denis, Ray, Ramsey, Kieran, Travis(es), Michael, and anyone else I might be forgetting.

The synopsis below doesn't do justice to any of the items listed -- I encourage you to read the docs on each of them for more information, but it should at least give you a starting point for finding more information. As always, my own stuff is disproportionately weighted in the synopses :)

New Components

• ERXSwitchComponent - patched in, hides the component name
  
• ERXResponseComponent - lets you wrap a WOActionResults in a WOComponent implementation
  
• ERXBooleanSelector - Yes/No/Blank picker
  
• ERXClippy - wrapper around the Clippy flash clipboard access layer
  
• ERXPodcastRssPage
  

Ajax

• Bunch of enhancements to AjaxModalDialog
  
• iBox updated to 2.2
  
• AjaxModalContainer tweaked to support dynamic resizing
  
• Updated to Prototype 1.6.1 and Scriptaculous 1.8.3
  
• New experimental support for returning components from Ajax action methods (when used with replaceID binding)
  
• New experimental push/keep-alive support
  

D2W

• New D2W page/component metrics
  
• Cleanup on the 47 different boolean picker components
  
• ERDEditableList brought over from Diva
  

EOF

• bunch of new tools for tracking down editing context lock problems
  
• support for tracking locks on ERXDatabaseContext
  
• bunch of tweaks and fixes and new bugs but then more new fixes for autolocking (in particular, support for sharing an autolocked ec across threads)
  
• support for bind variables with FrontBase
  
• migration fixes for SQLServer and Derby
  
• automatic batch faulting - basically Wonder watching your back about prefetching, preventing scenarios where you would have gotten a million individual fetches before
  
• ERXPrefixQualifierTraversal - walks a qualifier and prepends a keypath to every key of the qualifier
  

ERRest

• supports non-EO's using EOClassDescriptions (via a new BeanInfoClassDescription)
  
• supports non-model relationships on EO's (via a new class description factory that can handle EOEntityCD's and BeanInfoCD's for the same class)
  
• format delegates for remapping commons keys (like id and type)
  
• ERXKeyFilter now has a security delegate for implementation fancier rules
  
• ERXRestFetchSpecification - makes it really easy to fetch based on query params with security filters
  
• ERXFilteredQualifierTraversal - provides support for filtering a qualifier with an ERXKeyFilter (so people can't fetch on salary > x if they're not allowed to see salary)
  
• support for deferring the generation of rest responses, so you can pass requests between controllers (this provides support for having compound controllers, like what would be needed for a Gianduia fetching controller)
  
• easier support for generating html responses with rest controllers
  
• ERXRouteLink - generate links to route controllers
  

SnapshotExplorer

• new framework for exploring the snapshots that are currently loaded into memory in your application
  

Diva Look Framework

• ERDivaLook/ERPrototaculous/ERDivaLookExample frameworks are a new D2W look focused on XHTML div content styled with css rather than the older table-based looks. Additionally it has its own Ajax framework (not to be confused with Wonder's existing Ajax.framework) based on WO 5.4's ajax request handler.
  

ERMovies/ERMoviesLogic

• Movies example moved into Wonder
  

ERChronic

• Patched to match trunk of chronic
  

ERAttachment

• Support for resizing attachments on upload
  
• SipsImageProcessor - uses sips commandline tool to thumbnail (not as fast as ImageIO JNI imp, but less to build)
  

WOJavaRebel

• huge performance improvements
  
• support for model reloading
  
• updated to new JavaRebel version
  

ERPDFGeneration

• ERPDFGeneration provides both a utility class and a wrapper component for generating
  PDF documents from XHTML markup. Two PDF generation engines are currently supported,
  FlyingSaucer (xhtmlrenderer) [1] and Useful Java Application Components (UJAC) [2],
  however additional parser based engines like FOP could be added fairly easily.
  

Validity

• i guess it runs now? it got a bunch of build-related fixes at least
  

ERMemoryAdaptor

• all cleaned up and shiny
  
• split into memory store and entity store, which can be a basis for other custom adaptors
  
• support for flattened attributes
  

WOPayPal

• Sandbox support
  

Testing

• build scripts now support running test cases
  
• bunch of test cases added
  

Misc

• ERXSignalHandler - "multicast" signal handler
  
• ERXProperties/Configuration cleaned up dramatically
  
• ERXComponentUtilities.inheritTemplateFrom - make one component inherit the template of another component
  
• ERIUIExample made fancier
  

Build Server

• Moved entire to Hudson - http://webobjects.mdimension.com/hudson
  
• Rebuilds immediately on commit
  
• All applications and examples are built fully embedded (= easy to download and run now)