Changes for version 1.4:

Release Notes

This will be the first stable release for Cross/Maltcms 1.4.

New Features

Updates

Bug Fixes

Removed

Changes for version 1.3.2:

New Features

Updates

Updated source code to java 7. Reformatted to consistently use 4 spaces as indentation depth.

Bug fixes

New features

Added ResultAwareCommandPipeline, see the documentation for more details
Added user and system time to measured metrics. Added defensive measures to avoid Exceptions.
Added method to compare two arrays for (element) equality.
Added AutoRetrievalSoftReferenceCache.
Updated and extended JavaDoc API documentation.
Further improvements in test coverage.

Deprecation

The singleton static access pattern for cross.Factory().getInstance() has been deprecated in favor of using cross.IFactoryService and its corresponding implementation cross.FactoryService. Cross 1.4 wll not use this pattern any longer.

Bug fixes

Fixes to ResultAwareCommandPipeline and DefaultWorkflow result to be aware of prematurely terminated workflows.
Fix for deepest ancestor being the file fragment itself.
Fixed a bug in FileFragment externalization that closed in/out streams too early.
Fixed cache providers to use thread safe collections.
Fixed fragment cache creation errors and cache manager warnings.
Fixed creation of fragment command xmls.
Fixed versioning problems for nbm modules.
Fixed netcdf nbm cluster definition to export additional package.

Updates

New features

Cross artifacts now expose osgi dependency information and can be deployed in osgi-compatible runtime containers. The cross-osgi module lists all required dependencies.
java.net.URI is now consistently used by cross for all cross.datastructures.fragments.IFileFragment instances. This also enables access to remote file resources, as long as they may be opened using an input stream.
cross.datastructures.fragments.FileFragment now uses a custom breadh-first search through its ancestors for localization of variables.
The cross-cache module has been added and multiple different caches are now available. The ucar.ma2.Array class has been supplemented with a Serialization helper used by Ehcache for disk-based caching.
cross.vocabulary has been added to allow for programmatic resolution of variable name placeholders. This new feature has been integrated into cross.commands.fragments.IFragmentCommand and cross.commands.fragments.AFragmentCommand.
cross.applicationContext.DefaultApplicationContextFactory now supports creation of a context from classpath resources in addition to file system resources.
More and more descriptive exceptions and improved documentation.
A large number of tests.

Removed

This version is backwards compatible to 1.2.x releases of cross concerning the workflow format.

New features

cross.applicationContext
- ConfiguringBeanPostProcessor Applies to instances of cross.IConfigurable. Please note that configure(Configuration cfg) is called AFTER instantiation and configuration of the objects by the application context. Thus, settings provided via an xml configuration file could be overridden by an entry in the global properties-based configuration. Implementors should thus only use the configuration interface for custom initialization that can not be performed otherwise using spring.
cross.datastructures.fragments
- VariableFragment Does not support lazy loading anymore, use it only for data creation. Uses a cache implementation using db4o local database storage to avoid keeping large arrays in memory.
- CachedList Fixed an issue, when CachedList would not reset the range of the referenced index variable.

Deprecated Classes

cross.Logging has been removed. Please use @Slf4j annotation on your classes and use the field log.[info,warn,debug] etc. for your logging statements.
cross.datastructures.fragments.IVariableFragment.getVarname() is deprecated and references to it have already been removed throughout cross and maltcms. Please use getName() instead.