[Aglets-users] New incremental aglets version: 2.5-gamma

[Thomas H. <max...@us...>]

Hello everybody,

Two weeks ago I finished a week of polishing the Aglets code base and
released aglets-2.5-gamma.zip. It is not yet declared as the default
download for Aglets, but you can find it in the files section on
SourceForge (http://sourceforge.net/projects/aglets/files/).

Improvements are:
- Does not require installation: for getting a "factory defaults"
Tahiti server up and running, just unpack the kit and run it with the
command from README.html.
- The list of example aglets from the default "address book" contains
many more aglets.
- A notation was introduced for specifying an aglet class to
instantiate. The default "address book" illustrates how to load aglets
from the file system or from a web server, whether the class file is
in a JAR or directly accessible. No more cheating by putting the aglet
classes in the classpath. The notation is not ideal, nor do I consider
it final, so comments are welcome!
- More documentation is included in the kit.
- Some internal improvements: further tidying up of the directory
structure, tidying up of the repository, elimination of a bunch of
build-time warnings, updating of the build script

I haven't called his version "beta", because that would imply it is
much closer to being release quality. So, I have skipped "beta " and
took the next Greek letter, "gamma". :-)

Please use the Tracker section of the SourceForge
(http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=7905) to file bug reports,
feature requests and patches. We're not very dynamic at the moment, so
if there is no reaction there, after a while please send an e-mail to
agl...@li... with a link to the item from
the Tracker.

Thank you in advance for the feedback!

Thomas