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We would like to announce the latest release of Devproof Portal. Devproof Portal 1.1.1 has got these changes:

Features

• Cleanup job for unconfirmed users (gets automatically deleted after 14 days)
• Global mount url management page
• Mount URLs for bookmarks
• Mount URLs for downloads
• Attach errors to form fields for a better usability
• Some layout issues

Technical changes

• Upgrade to JQuery 1.5.1
• Page refresh errors on delete for Blog, Download, Bookmarks, Articles and Theme Management
• Set print pages to noindex
• Session timeout reduced to 9 minutes, but added a keep alive script which refreshes every 4 minutes
• Upgrade to Gradle 1.0-milestone1

Project page: Devproof Portal

Getting started: Devproof Portal with Tomcat 7

Have a lot of fun with it.

We would like to announce the latest release of Devproof Portal. Devproof Portal 1.1.0 has got a lot of new features:

Features

• Better layout
• Content historization for other pages, articles and blog entries
• Define your own URLs for other pages, articles and blog entries
• Login and registration links on top, so that you don't have to use boxes
• Custom styles for boxes are possible

Technical changes

• No HSQLDB support anymore, switched to H2 database (it can handle MySql DML scripts)
• Spring Configuration with Annotations @Autowired etc
• Clean transaction border, dont make transactions over a whole request anymore
• Upgraded to Tomcat 7
• HibernateTemplate and HibernateDaoSupport removed
• Renamed DAO to Repository (e.g. EmailTemplateDao to EmailTemplateRepository)
• Renamed GenericDao to CrudRepository
• Maven to Gradle migrated
• Mounting with Spring classpath scanning
• MountHandler interface to implement own global mounting strategies
• Own Spring namespace and tag to register a module and enabling scanning <devproof:module-scan/>
• Enabled scan for the following annotations:
  • @GenericRepository annotation
  • @RegisterGenericDataProvider annotation for entities, to provide a generic dataprovider
  • @Secured annotation to provide security for Wicket components
  • @NavigationBox annotation to register a wicket panel as NavigationBox
  • @ModulePage annotation to mount a page and register as ModulePage
  • @Entity (from JPA) will be registered in SessionFactory
• Updated Google Analytics deprecated script
• Updated all framework versions
• Some PortalTestUtil methods removed
• Spring jdbc:embedded-datasource for unit tests
• Unit tests with SrpingJUNit4TestRunner
• Commented more classes and methods
• Cleanup Spring Bootstrapping of Devproof modules
• Sometimes not all modules are registering in Tomcat fixed
• Removed jar files from Git repo and load over Maven Repo to bundle the Tomcat

Project page: Devproof Portal

Getting started: Devproof Portal with Tomcat 7

Have a lot of fun with it.

You can follow me on twitter http://twitter.com/devproof and get the newest status updates.

There are a lot of new features for the next release of Devproof Portal.

• Historization and versionizing for content, e.g. for blog and articles
• More mountable urls for one article and make it changable
• A lot of technical stuff:
  • Default spring transaction handling, no transaction per request anymore
  • Full spring annotation support
  • Better module scanning
  • Mount pages by annotation
  • Find generic repositories by annotation
  • An own spring namespace to define a new module
  • Switching from Maven to Gradle

Here are some samples:

Sample for a module definition in spring:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
    xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
    xmlns:devproof="http://www.devproof.org/schema/devproof/portal"
    xsi:schemaLocation="
        http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans
        http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.0.xsd
        http://www.devproof.org/schema/devproof/portal
        http://www.devproof.org/schema/devproof/portal-1.1.xsd">
    <!--
      This scans the Devproof components (pages, entities and generic repository) 
      and does the same as <context:component-scan/>
   -->
    <devproof:module-scan
            base-package="org.devproof.portal.module.blog"
            module-name="Blog"
            author="devproof - Carsten Hufe" author-url="http://devproof.org"
            module-version="1.0" portal-version="1.0"/>
</beans>

Sample for a generic repository definition:

@GenericRepository("blogRepository")
public interface BlogRepository extends CrudRepository<Blog, Integer> {
    
    @Query("select b.allRights from Blog b where b.modifiedAt = (select max(modifiedAt) from Blog)")
    List<Right> findLastSelectedRights();
}

Sample for mounting a page:

@ModulePage(mountPath = "/blog", registerMainNavigationLink = true, defaultStartPage = true)
public class BlogPage extends BlogBasePage {
 // some code
}

The next release takes a bit more time. Hope you will enjoy the changes.

The final release 1.0.0 of Devproof Portal is now available. Here is a short overview of the changes:

• Final Release, no critical changes
• Several exception fixes
• Enable caching statistics by default
• pom.xml cleanup, removed the redundant stuff
• Tomcat version updated to 6.0.28

Getting started: Devproof Portal with Tomcat 6

Overview: Devproof Portal

Enjoy the final release