| Type |
Changes |
By |
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The ability to define the OuterJoin association fetching strategy
within an association end within the Hibernate Cartridge Fixes HIB-27. |
carloslcuenca |
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Refactored exception handling. Exceptions are now recorded in
exception dump files. The file name convention is
<cartridge name>timestamp.exc. Timestamp takes the form
YYMMDDHHMMSS[_SUFFIX]. Suffix is an incrementing number
which is used when two or more exceptions occur in the same second. |
amartinwest |
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The ability to filter (or select) the cartridges you want
to perform model processing has been introduced. Please see
<a href="maven-andromda-plugin/properties.html#maven.andromda.cartridgeFilter">maven.andromda.cartridgeFilter</a>
for more information on how to use this new feature with the maven plugin, or
<a href="anttask.html#cartridgeFilter">cartridgeFilter</a> for more information
on how to use it directly with the AndroMDA Ant task. Fixes CORE-33. |
cwbrandon |
|
Merge support has been enabled: A new namespace property named
<code>mergeMappingsUri</code> has been introduced which allows you
to defined mapping files for merging. These files behave just like the
other mapping files (i.e. languageMappings, sqlMappings, etc) and can be
used within each namespace or within the default namespace. Please see
<a href="andromda-cartridges/index.html#mergeMappingsUri">mergeMappingsUri</a>
for more information. Fixes CORE-23. |
cwbrandon |
|
Translation of OCL to Hibernate QL has been improved to use named (instead
of unnamed) parameters, please see the issue for more detailed information. Fixes OCL-5. |
cwbrandon |
|
The Spring cartridge DAO business operations are now able to lazily load relationships
between entites, they also have required parameter checks generated (just like all Spring
service operations). |
cwbrandon |
|
The Spring cartridge has a new feature: <<Entity>> operations can now be toggled
to <code>classifier</code> or <code>instance</code> scope; the former will put the
operation on the entity's DAO, while the latter will simply put the operation into
the entity implementation class. Most UML tools allow this feature on an operation by
selecting the desired state in the operation's properties dialog. Fixes SPRING-9. |
draftdog |
|
The bpm4struts-cartridge now generates more styles in the CSS files that are created for each
<<FrontEndView>>, by default these styles are empty but it is very easy to
customize them to fine-tune the layout for your pages.
<ol>
<li>form labels and fields</li>
<li>form buttons (submit and reset)</li>
<li>displaytag:table headers</li>
<li>displaytag:table columns</li>
</ol> Fixes BPM-114. |
draftdog |
 |
In bpm4struts it is now possible to send parameters from one action state to another, and this
in the scope of an action; it is therefore not needed anymore to have parameters entering or exiting
a page, any action state will do. These parameters will also be recorded in the corresponding action
form. |
draftdog |
|
Bpm4Struts internal plumbing has significantly improved, this will be most
noticeable in the performance. This fix is the first part of a series of
improvements in order to support large and complex models which would yield
JVM overflow errors. Fixes BPM-102. |
draftdog |
|
In bpm4struts you must now draw dependencies from the
<<FrontEndController>> to the associated
<<FrontEndSessionObject>> classes instead of simply using
associations. |
draftdog |
|
The <a href="andromda-hibernate-cartridge/profile.html">AndroMDA
Hibernate</a> cartridge supports hibernate's Three Inheritance
Strategies and allows root entities to be generated as
interfaces. |
amwest |
|
The <a href="andromda-spring-cartridge/profile.html">AndroMDA Spring</a>
cartridge can now model (and have generated) full role
based security for the optional Session EJB wrappers. |
cwbrandon |
|
The ModelElementFacades association to DependencyFacade has been renamed from
<code>dependencies</code> to <code>targetDependencies</code>.
This was necessary due to the fact the dependencies returned were
target dependencies only and did not include source dependencies.
A new association was added to DependencyFacade called
<code>sourceDependencies</code> which can retrieve all source dependencies
for a model element. |
cwbrandon |
|
The <a href="andromda-webservice-cartridge/profile.html">AndroMDA Web Service</a>
cartridge can now have web services secured through modeling. |
cwbrandon |
|
The bpm4struts generated <code>web.xml</code> file now contains some merge points, similar to
<a href="http://xdoclet.sourceforge.net/xdoclet/merge.html">XDoclet</a>. If you want
you can completely ignore them because they are commented out. But for some people it might be useful
to insert fragments into the web.xml without
<a href="andromda-cartridges/index.html#mergeLocation">overriding the template</a>. |
draftdog |
|
Added support for lazily loaded relationships collections in
<a href="andromda-hibernate-cartridge/profile.html#andromda_hibernate_lazy">Hibernate</a> and
<a href="andromda-spring-cartridge/profile.html#andromda_hibernate_lazy">Spring</a>, it is sufficient
to use the aggregation kind of an association end (composite is not lazy, the other kinds are lazy)
but you can always override the default values using the newly define
<code>andromda_hibernate_lazy</code> tagged value. |
draftdog |
|
Bpm4Struts now supports file uploads, just use the pre-defined
<code>datatype.File</code> from the profile (or create it yourself)
on an event parameter. |
draftdog |
|
Added new tagged value to BPM4Struts called <code>andromda_struts_view_field_reset</code>
which allows one to specify specific fields that should be reset on a transition. This
is useful when you want certain fields to be reset after action execution but you don't
want the entire form to be reset. |
cwbrandon |
|
BPM4Struts can now extract resource message keys from exceptions thrown from the business
tier. For example, if an operation in your service throws an exception with
the message " {some.message.key} an exception occurred!", BPM4Struts will
extract the <em>some.message.key</em> from the exception, and add it to the
request as a struts action error. You then place this new key in your custom
message resources with a corresponding message, and next time the error occurs
this new message will be displayed (instead of the exception).
The exception handling pattern and a few other related properties are configurable,
you can learn more about them on
<a href="andromda-bpm4struts-cartridge/namespace.html">BPM4Struts Namespace Properties</a>.
<strong>NOTE:</strong> if the pattern can not be found in an exception processing
continues as normal and the exception will be displayed. |
cwbrandon |
|
Table and action now have their own dedicated CSS style, per
generated JSP another CSS file will be generate by bpm4struts;
in this file you can locally override any defined styles. |
draftdog |
|
The 'validwhen' validation feature has finally been implemented. It is now possible with bpm4struts
to additionally validate a specific field check for certain runtime conditions. This feature is mostly
used to confirm passwords; this example has been added to the online-store. |
draftdog |
|
Specific generated pieces of JSP code has its own style, a stylesheet is generated for each page. |
draftdog |
 |
The bpm4struts cartridge now overwrites all jsps pages and stylesheets upon regeneration.
This is very important for users of earlier versions. |
draftdog |
|
Updated the <a href="starting.html">getting started</a> guide. |
draftdog |
|
This update is the last one that will impact the way users model their Struts application.
A change was needed due to a missing feature: "multibox". In order to properly fix it
some other changes were required too.
<ol>
<li>You can now put any widget in a table, you can do that by simply linking an event
parameter using the <code>andromda_struts_view_field_tablelink</code>
tagged value to an incoming table collection. You must of course link to an existing
table column.
</li>
<li>Previously performing this step would simply create a hyperlink, now you would need to
set the event parameter's <code>andromda_struts_view_field_type</code>
tagged value to 'link' in order to achieve that.
</li>
<li>Due to HTML limitations you can only make links to the same table from a single
action. The reason is that there can be only one form around the table. If you still
want to have multiple actions working on the same table you will need to patch in
manually using JavaScript (setting the target action URL).
</li>
<li>If you want to use the
<a href="http://struts.apache.org/userGuide/struts-html.html#multibox">multibox</a>
feature you need first to model a collection or
array page-variable that contains the values against which to match. Next you create
a table link, thereby selecting the table column. Finally you set the field type of the
event parameter to something like this (assuming the multibox collection is
called 'myValues')
<code>andromda_struts_view_field_type = multibox:myValues</code>
</li>
<li>The online store has been extended with an example of this, just open the model
and check out the 'buy this item' action. The 'test' and 'available' parameters
are rendered as widgets in the table, the 'available' column is a multibox.
Please also note how the multibox collection (called 'availableItems') is preloaded
by the 'loadItems' controller operations.
</li>
</ol>
<p class="highlight">
I strongly recommend not relying too much on the widgets-in-table feature
yet, it is experimental and is likely to change in the future. The reason it has
been put in is to see whether or not it is usable. A restriction currently
is that you will not have any way to submit the changes you make in the table,
for that to work we would need to apply some updates to the rendered rows so a submit button
could properly trigger the sending of the form.
</p> Fixes BPM-83. |
draftdog |
|
The AndroMDApp Maven plugin has been improved to include Spring
and the WebService cartridges as options when generating an AndroMDA
powered Maven application. |
cwbrandon |
|
AndroMDA now automatically assigns a suitable name to association ends with a
'many' cardinality and an empty name. Before only the name of the target classifier
was taken into account, now it is analyzed and a proper (English) name is constructed
(word:words, key:keys, property:properties).
If your code relies on such unlabeled association ends it might be possible that an
AndroMDA run on your UMl model will result in code that is uncompilable in combination
with your existing implementation classes, a simple rename will be sufficient. |
draftdog |
|
The metafacades now have their properties no longer modeled as operations but as attributes,
wherever possible. This has no effect on code already generated. In addition boolean accessor
methods now have their names properly rendered according to the Java Bean specification
(getXXX becomes isXXX). Fixes UMLMETA-3. |
draftdog |
|
The Xdoclet dependency, WebDoclet to be exact, has been removed from the bpm4struts-cartridge;
now the <code>struts-config.xml</code> and
<code>validation.xml</code> files are generated
directly by AndroMDA. The Ant-tool and the maven plugins, used to generate a default AndroMDA
project, have also been updated to reflect this change. |
draftdog |
|
The AndroMDA Spring cartridge (a cartridge based on the
<a href="http://www.springframework.org">Spring Framework</a>)
has moved from the contrib module to the main andromda codebase. To learn how to use this new cartridge,
please see the the documentation
<a href="andromda-spring-cartridge/index.html">here</a> |
cwbrandon |
|
The latest major update has been improved: it is now no longer needed to
add tagged values onto controller operation arguments. The cartridge will
auto-detect the appropriate value. In addition more validation constraints
have been added to inform the user of any cartridge modeling errors. Fixes BPM-72. |
draftdog |
|
The latest major bpm4struts update did not prove to be a very elegant solution,
this led us to revise
the implementation and come up with an alternative one. Here's a list of what has changed:
<ol>
<li>parameters with the same name and in the same use-case are required to also
be of the same type</li>
<li>form fields do no longer have their name prefixed with the name of the action</li>
<li>forms now implement an interface for each controller operation they defer to</li>
<li>it is now needed to put arguments in the controller operations, these arguments
will be available in the form interface that is accessible programmatically</li>
<li>these arguments will need to have the
<code>
andromda_struts_view_field_type</code> tagged value set to 'select' in case
you want to prepopulate a list of entries (see samples)
</li>
<li>currently it is also needed to specify the table columns (just as you
would on a collection-type page variable) in case the argument
maps onto an event parameter which is displayed in tabular format, but this
will be solved soon</li>
</ol>
<p class="highlight">
All of this means this will break the compilation of your current
codebase using one of the previous AndroMDA versions.
</p> Fixes BPM-71. |
draftdog |
|
Overloaded a controller method for accessing the session objects, the new
method allows to choose whether or not to create the session in case it does
not exist yet (default is
<code>true</code>). Also implemented some
improvements in handling the session objects and the session itself. Fixes BPM-32. |
draftdog |
|
The andromda task and maven plugin, now support an attribute called
<code>failOnValidationErrors</code> which allows us to
turn on/off whether or not model processing should fail/stop
if
<strong>ANY</strong> model validation errors occur. |
cwbrandon |
|
The hibernate cartridge now generates its own hibernate.cfg.xml which
means the jboss-service.xml generated by xdoclet is no longer needed.
With this change, multiple new namespace properties were added
for configuring this configuration file. |
cwbrandon |
|
Just like you can use success messages on action transitions we now have
the possibility to use warning messages, simply add the tagged value
<code>andromda_struts_action_warning_message</code> to the action
transition and set its value to the message you want to have displayed (will be i18n'ed).
Warning messages will be rendered in yellowish.
In addition all messages are now supported on
<strong>any</strong> transition, and you may have
more than one message on such a transition (unlimited). Fixes BPM-69. |
draftdog |
|
The controllers associated to session objects have different methods to
access those objects. The 'clearXXX' method has been renamed to 'removeXXX'. Fixes BPM-32. |
draftdog |
|
A new namespace property 'versionProperty' has been added, it is used
to determine which property/attribute name to use for versioning entities. |
cwbrandon |
|
There is a new link in the download section (menu), it is called 'resources' and it
will contain resources on AndroMDA such as tutorials and slides. |
draftdog |
|
A new namespace property is available to set a default date format to use for
date fields in your bpm4struts, not specifying this value will use dd/MM/yyyy as the default
date format. |
draftdog |
|
This change fixes some issues with the most recent updates for bpm4struts:
<ol>
<li>We no longer have the controller operation interfaces the forms were implementing</li>
<li>Instead we have a controller operation for each different action that defers to them,
this means you sometimes have the same operation more than once with only a different
argument type for the form. This seems to be the most optimal and realistic
implementation, forms cannot be shared using interfaces aggregating the fields
because field names carry the action name as a prefix and this cannot be changed
because in that case validation rules would be impossible to determine for fields
that have the same name and type over different page actions.
</li>
<li>It should now be possible to easily send parameters between use-cases</li>
</ol> |
draftdog |
|
Controllers and their implementation have changed names. The abstract parent
classes now no longer have the 'Interface' suffix, the descendants have
the 'Impl' suffix. This has been done for consistency with other cartridges
and because it is cleaner not to have any suffix on the interface or
abstract parents. |
draftdog |
|
It is now possible to specify labels and values differently
for selectable parameters such as in comboboxes and lists.
The form containing such a parameter will have two new properties:
'valueList' and 'labelList'. If you do not specify the 'labelList'
property it will assume the values of the 'valueList'.
The backing list has been made readonly
because it will construct a special array to be handled by the Struts tags. Fixes BPM-44. |
draftdog |
|
Controller implementation do not get form types passed in the argument, instead
there is an interface aggregating common form properties, this way forms
of several different types implementing this interface can be passed in.
This elegantly allows a single controller operation to be called from different
actions (which each have their own form). |
draftdog |
|
A major change has been incorporated into the cartridge, you will have to
be very careful when migrating to a version after this date.
ActionForms are back into the request scope so their properties will not be
persisted into the session as was the case before. Bpm4Struts now is
intelligent enough to determine which properties should be available in which
ActionForm (even in ambiguous cases such as cyclic processes or when
multiple actions target multiple pages without a 1-to-1 mapping.
The reason for this drastic change was a possible bug in the server-side
validation framework. It would happen that forms were not properly recognized on
the server while the client could parse them fine.
In order to properly migrate you should at least need to fix the controller
implementations (you will have compilation errors otherwise), unfortunately
you will need to update all JSP pages. The changes are minimal so you might
consider looking at the differences manually (we are back at using the Struts HTML
tag library instead of the plain old HTML tags directly). |
draftdog |
|
The <code>validating</code> flag has been renamed to the more
appropriate
<code>xmlValidation</code>. At the same time a new
<code>modelValidation</code> flag has been added that allows us
to turn on/off model validation during processing. By default
model validation occurs, however its sometimes nice to turn it
off for performance reasons (i.e. you have a really big model). |
cwbrandon |
|
We now have session objects, these instances can be handled
through protected controller methods. Controller interfaces
are abstract classes now, so make sure you use 'extends'
instead of 'implements' when using the cartridge after
this date. Fixes BPM-32. |
draftdog |
|
The namespace property 'breadCrumbs' (boolean) has been replaced by the property
'maxBreadCrumbs' (integer). To disable breadcrumbs specify zero.
Additionally the tabledecorator has been removed, it was only used to render
specific HTML code but a more elegant solution has been put in place. Fixes BPM-36. |
draftdog |
|
A new namespace property has been added that can be used for
<em>any</em> cartridge, its called
<code>mergeLocation</code>, for
more information see
<a href="andromda-cartridges/index.html#mergeLocation">Overriding cartridge resources</a>. |
cwbrandon |
|
For those who want it online help will be generated
for your application, by default it is enabled. You can
override this by setting the 'onlineHelp' property to
'false' in your bpm4struts namespace.
It currently supports documentation on use-cases, action
transitions, event parameters and pages. Fixes BPM-48. |
draftdog |
|
Tooltips are now handled in JavaScript. We had to remove
the doctypes for that to work properly in Firefox and Mozilla.
It will be improved in the future.
The reason we have these JS tooltips is that now it can also
support images and text of arbitrary length. |
draftdog |
|
Pattern masks for input field validation must not include
the leading '^' and trailing '$' anymore. Some CASE tools
such as MagicDraw don't handle them well. |
draftdog |
|
The table link tagged value changed name:
<code>andromda_struts_action_tablelink</code> is now
<code>andromda_struts_view_field_tablelink</code>, the reason is that
the location for this tagged value is the parameter and not the
transition (as in the very beginning). |
draftdog |
|
Form bean fields now have the name of their action prepended to their
name (only for event parameters, page variables are unchanged).
Using bpm4struts after this date will require you to update
your controller implementations or a compilation error
will occur.
This change was needed in order to allow event parameters to
have the same names in a single use-case. Without this feature
the form would contain the same field name more than once, and that
is not allowed in Java. |
draftdog |
|
A new namespace property has been added: 'dummyData'. You can either
give it a 'true' or 'false' value. The default is 'true'. If the
value is 'true' a 'dummy data' will be rendered in places like the
controller, if set to 'false' this dummy data will not be generated. |
draftdog |
|
toJavaClassName and toJavaMethodName in StringUtilsHelper have been
renamed to more language generic "upperCamelCaseName"
and "lowerCamelCaseName". |
cwbrandon |
|
A new namespace property has been added: 'tableNamePrefix'. |
cwbrandon |
|
A new namespace property has been added: 'breadCrumbs'. You can either
give it a 'true' or 'false' value. The default is 'true'. If the
value is 'true' a 'history' is rendered at the top of each page,
also known as breadcrumbs: it allows you to navigate back and forth
between the pages already visited. The scope of the breadcrumbs is
restricted to the context use-case. Fixes BPM-36. |
draftdog |
|
Required fields now have an asterisk rendered next to their
label. (Only if validation has been enabled) Fixes BPM-39. |
draftdog |
|
Added the following tagged value:
<code>andromda_struts_view_field_tablelink</code>.
You can use it to create hyperlinks to actions in the columns of a table. Fixes BPM-45. |
draftdog |
|
Date input field now have a popup calendar to choose the date from
and have it automaitcally rendered into the appropriate format. Fixes BPM-23. |
draftdog |
