Aranea Blog

This milestone includes enhancements to UiLib, improved handling of internal class loading, means of communications between popups, extension defining mechanism, proper URL encoding to support cookieless session-tracking and crushed bugs.

• Uilib enhancements. Uilib is now integrated with rich text editor (TinyMCE) and provides suggestion (autocompletion) support.
• Extension mechanism. Allows defining the resources (images, styles, etc) that Aranea is aware of and that can be included on-demand.
• Popups communication. Means of communication between session-threads have been provided and simple demonstration included in example application. API will most likely not change anymore, implementation needs real polish.
• Cookieless session-tracking. It is now possible to use Aranea application when browser cookies are turned off or container is set to hold session ID inside URL.

When upgrading from earlier Aranea version be sure to read Changelog.txt included in a distribution for more detailed information. Also note the small change in mapping definition of Aranea dispatcher servlet (/servlet/* vs /servlet) which is required for FileImporter to work correctly.

In related news, Toomas has started his mandatory military service this week and will be back in eight months. We are eagerly awaiting for his return as a skilled multifunctional soldier. Rest of the Aranea Team is taking a two week vacation to freshly return at the end of July. After vacation the focus will be on enhancements to the Lists API and integration with other frameworks. Next release is planned for August and will be either release candidate or final release.

In other news Aranea Technical Article has been accepted for publication to Principles and Practices of Programming in Java 2006 and everyone is welcome to hear the talk in Mannheim, Germany on August 30th or September 1st.

This talk will be from a research perspective and may be particulary interesting to the more theory-oriented minds.