Raible Designs

XDoclet now supports Hibernate 2.0 (almost)

I finished patching XDoclet to allow for Hibernate 2.0 support. I say almost in this post's title because someone still has to commit it. Seems to work pretty good on struts-resume. I can't get one of my unit tests (UserManagerTest) to run, so I won't be releasing tonight (though I was hoping to). Maybe tomorrow. Here's a rough draft of features and plans in the coming 0.6:

Features in 0.6
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- Upgraded to Hibernate 2.0 (http://tinyurl.com/6b00) and 
  Struts 1.1RC1 (http://tinyurl.com/6cp9).
- Fixed Validation issues when attempting cancel validation and using
  LookupDispatchAction (document in Struts 1.1RC1 link above).
- Moved opening Hibernate sessions from being at a method level to being passed
  in to each method on the business/persistence tier.  Sessions are now obtained
  via the ActionFilter.getSession() method.
- Added SMTPAppender to log4.properties to e-mail errors that occur in log 
  files.
- Added "Remember Me" feature - for details see http://tinyurl.com/6du0.
- Added "Current User" count as a demonstration of a Tiles Controller.

// TODO for 0.7 
- Add Skills, SkillGroups, Education, Experience to the mix.  Make them 
  all editable when editing a resume using the Struts Nested Tag Library.
- Figure out a way to display resumes to anonymous users.  Do I create XML 
  versions of a resume in "resources/${username}" or use a servlet that maps
  to something like /struts-resume/view/${username}.  I like the servlet 
  idea better, then it's dynamic.  However, how often does a resume really
  change.
- Complete tests for all Action classes using StrutsTestCase.
- When Tomcat 5 become stable, or I figure out how to install an app on Resin 3,
  figure out a way (using Ant) to create JSP 2.0-compliant distribution.
  
// TODO for 0.8
- Add Transformers and XSL for transforming an XHTML document to XML or Text.  
  PDF will be covered in a later release.
- Allow a way for users to register (similar to Roller).
- Create User Administration interface with sortable/pageable list of users.
- Complete tests for all JSPs using Canoo WebTest.