Aranea Blog

It is our pleasure to announce that “Object-Oriented Web Development” talk will be presented at this year’s JavaPolis. We hope that by this time the last part of the talk concerning integration will reflect the real code in our repository and not just plans

Considering that there are almost three months until that period and that our company is going to be present on the expo it is very likely that we will make a full-blown “Aranea with Integration” announcement (and likely a release party) at the JavaPolis.

It will be great to visit again Antwerp and I’m really looking forward to seeing 5-meter-tall word Aranea on the Metropolis screens

At JavaZone we presented the talk “Object-Oriented Web Development with Aranea”. The talk was received well, with about 200 people attending, and the presentation is available for download. The podcast is also available, though due to technical problems beginning of the talk got lost (it starts from slide 7 and goes on more-or-less fine).

Thanks a lot to the organizers for a wonderful (and still continuing) experience! JavaZone organization is top notch and wireless connection is very available :). Oslo is a beautiful city, and I look forward to seeing more of it now that my talk is over and I finally can breath freely…

Aranea RC2 is behaving well in projects that are using it currently. We have decided to postpone our final 1.0 release in favour of few more release candidates however—we feel that some areas of documentation are still seriously lacking and will not make final release until these shortcomings have been addressed. If our reader should have any comments on our current documentation, please do not hesitate to drop a mail or participate on our forums.

In third release candidate, FormElement Constraint internals have been rewritten (go hunt for new bugs), and documentation has received some minor updates. We hoped to do more docs, but I myself have supported migration of some Aranea-based projects to recent release candidate versions to ensure a bigger testbed, and Jevgeni has been busy polishing his JavaZone talk. Overall we are very happy because this week another developer, Alar, is joining us

Let us know about your gripes with Aranea documentation!

This is a bugfix and maintenance release following bigger refactors that were made for RC1 (aka “mostly-working-candidate”).

Important bugs fixed

• forms losing state on page reloads
• zombified widgets when formelement (control) actionlisteners were invoked
• broken list filters
• open in new window feature not working with url-encoded session identificators

Additionally lists LIKE filters have been rewritten, MessageContext has gotten some new methods and few minor renames took place (all documented in changelog). Javadoc has been substantially cleaned up and updated.

More updates due next week!

I’m having the pleasure of writing this entry from the cafeteria next to the Mannheim University where the PPPJ’06 conference took place. I would have written this earlier, but the hosts were nice enough not to provide the wireless connection on the conference site (which resulted in three days of total relaxation for me).

The conference went by nicely, with many interesting talks. Aranea talk was also received well. It is now available for download for those who missed the conference…