Oddjob Changelog

What's new in Oddjob 1.4.0

• Changes:
• Timers can now be forced to complete.
• Added a classPath property to AntJob.
• Added the ability to set System properties via the system flag on the Properties Job.
• StructuralJob's default state operator has been changed back to WORST from ACTIVE. It is felt this is more intuitive in most cases.
• Support recursive directory wild card matching in Files Type with **.
• Added flag to delete job to stop accidently deleting root and added extra logging.
• A Map Type has been added. The keys must be strings but the values can be any type.
• Structural jobs no longer attempt to Stop their children when destroyed. This allows child jobs to distinguish between being stopped and destroyed.
• Timers now use a separate TimerState not a ParentState. This allows them to be STARTABLE like services.
• Service states have been renamed from READY to STARTABLE and COMPLETE to STOPPED. These states have different icons which makes it easier to see the overview of a job sequence from Oddjob Explorer.
• If job will now supports an asynchronous child job.
• Added a new Service Finder to the Arooa Tools so that components can find services themselves.
• Structural jobs (sequential/parallel) will not time out when stopping. The stop flag will remain true so that the job will eventually stop.
• The List type will now accept elements being added on the fly via a new add property.
• Repeat Job will now work with any Iterable set of values, i.e. A List.
• There is a new Sequence Type that creates integer sequences as an iterable. This can be used with Repeat Job and For Each job for instance.
• Tee type can now be used with an input stream to create a wire tap of what is read from the stream.
• The Log Panel in Explorer will now show TRACE messages.
• The ScriptJob class loader can now be set.
• URLClassLoader type now just creates one class loader when it's configured, not a new one each time it was resolved.
• AppendType is now configured with a file attribute like FileType and it also shares the same designer.
• Invoke job has an addition Object[] configuration option for arguments that can be used with tokenizer to be more convenient for simple args.
• Foreach now COMPLETEs when it has no values.
• Deferred to A Later Version:
• Add Parent Started State to User Guide. Document thread, and services.
• Introduce a witheach job that behaves like foreach except that values are 'pushed' into it.
• Document synthetic annotations in the Developer Guide.
• Document conversions. Possibly include conversions in the Reference.
• Add the ability to change the log level from the UI. Add LogLevel TRACE and NONE to match Log4j.
• Add serialisation of services.
• Use a server side file system for choosing files on server component designer forms.
• Allow pasting and dragging Oddjobs onto the startup panel of Oddjob Explorer.
• Look at what happens when there are exceptions in a timer. Should there be a haltOnException flag. Should an Exception in a timer be indicated as an exception state not an incomplete state?
• Add Security to the WebApp (with a Read Only role).
• Include a Jetty Oddball to allow connecting to an Oddjob server from a browser without the need for a separate Servlet Container.
• Improve the AJAX JSF front end to be more AJAXy.
• Introduce the idea of Read only configuration that can't be modified if it's been loaded from a non modifiable resource, i.e. from the class path.
• Check a configuration hasn't been modified by someone else before a modification is saved back from designer.
• Add Undo functionality to Oddjob configuration.
• Improve the job. Follow Ant's lead of changing to a job and copy some of it's feature including; overwrite, force, failonerror, verbose, preservelastmodified. Add the ability to back up the moved files like Linux does.
• Introduce a FilterType that can filter files by modified date, created date, or match against a regular expression.