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Aws cloudformation template available https://oss.sonatype.org/content/repositories/releases/com/hack23/cia/cia-dist-cloudformation/2016.12.22/cia-dist-cloudformation-2016.12.22.template , also provides sample data using a public rds snapshot arn:aws:rds:eu-west-1:172017021075:snapshot:cia-demo-20161120 .
Demo https://www.hack23.com/cia/

Still prototype, live demo running at https:/www.hack23.com/cia/.... read more

Changes:

Replaced c3p0 with atomikos datasource implementation.

The dependencies were updated to quartz 1.8.4, ehcache-core 2.2.0, javamelody 1.18.0, spring 3.0.4.RELEASE, poi 3.7-beta2, hibernate 3.6.0.Beta3, slf4j 1.6.1 & jetty 7.1.6.v20100715.

Documentation : http://cia.sourceforge.net/legacy/
Download link : http://sourceforge.net/projects/cia/files/cia/legacy-1.0-demo-4/citizen-intelligence-agency-legacy-1.0-demo-4.zip/download

Demo release of the old legacy code using thinwire based ui. Branched off from version 1.0-alpha23.

Added support for monitoring of the application using javamelody 1.13.0.

Improved caching of web & services.

Data updated with votes to 2010-03-11.

Dependency updates :
Spring 3.0.1.RELEASE
Poi 3.6
Hibernate 3.5.0-Final
Ehcache 2.0.0

Direct download link http://sourceforge.net/projects/cia/files/cia/legacy-1.0-demo-1/citizen-intelligence-agency-legacy-1.0-demo-1.zip/download... read more

Updates: Code refactorings in progress, some dependency updates vaadin 6.2.2, Spring Security 3.0.0.RELEASE, hibernate 3.5.0-Beta-3.

Changed license to Apache License Version 2.0, made more sense in some ways and cooler name obviously.

http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.txt

The live demo http://www.riksdagsmonitor.com is currently down, will surface some time again before the Swedish election.... read more

and http://www.riksdagsmonitor.com have been updated.

Changes: Major refactoring and general clean up of the code base.

Dependency updates: Spring 3.0.0.RELEASE, Spring Security 3.0.0.RC2, Apache Poi 3.6 , Vaadin 6.2.0, gwt-user 2.0.0 , junit 4.8.1 & ehcache-core 1.7.1.

Direct download link http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/cia/1.0-alpha28/citizen-intelligence-agency-1.0-alpha28.zip

“LONG LIVE THE FIFTH COLUMN!”
JOHN MAY LIVES.

and http://www.riksdagsmonitor.com is updated with latest release.

Last release is as always very much work in progress, will complete all admin functionality before restoring the old user views.

Changes:
Improved admin functionality, new Command Center for agent operations. Major cleanup and refactoring to prepare for export of public api.

Some dependency updates, now using latest Spring 3.0.0.RC2, dbunit 2.4.7, javaassist 3.11.0.GA, & vaadin 6.1.5.... read more

Updates: New command center for agent operations, general cleanup and model improvements.

Demo back on http://www.riksdagsmonitor.com , check out Command Center under Admin tree item.

Direct download http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/cia/1.0-alpha26/citizen-intelligence-agency-1.0-alpha26.zip

Peace

Mostly work in progress in preparation for first beta release.

Replacing old thinwire user interface with new vaadin based.
Initial test skeletons for verification of service layer data output.
Preparation for additional language support.
Added income data from 2008 for parliament members.
Ec2 configuration.

Dependency updates: vaadin 6.1.3, spring security 3.0.0.RC1, apache-ds 1.5.5, ehcache 1.7.0, javaassist 3.9.0.GA

Changes:
Initial mocked screens using vaadi based user interface. Using spring security. Now temporary supports both thinwire/vaadin user interface.

Prepared improved support for more languages.

Changed chart size 800x600 & switched to png format

Initial work on ec2-ami-user-data-script.sh for launching ec2 instances.

Dependency updates asm 3.2, Jetty 7.0.0.v20091005, aspectj 1.6.5, ehcache 1.7.0.beta, junit 4.6, dbunit 2.4.6,vaadin 6.1.2, poi 3.5 final & mysql-connector 5.1.10.

fixed an serious image problem.

Good news, Frontier Economy published an article about the project http://www.frontiereconomy.com/2009/09/watching-the-voters-you-voted-for/

Pether

A new alpha release is now available.

Changes: New political party charts have been generated. Admin functionality has been improved. This release adds the ability to configure usage order and what is active by default for portal/language.

Different charts for parliament members now generated and included.

Some dependency upgrades Cglib 2.2 and Asm 3.1.

More updates on the blog : http://sourceforge.net/apps/wordpress/cia/

Generated some initial charts based on voting behaviour in Swedish Parliament (The Riksdag)

Charts are now displayed for the toplist categories, still work in progress.

Upgraded dependencies for htmlunit 2.6, jetty 7.0.0.RC5 , ejb3unit 2.0.0.r302-cia (custom pom), spring security 3.0.0.M2, hibernate 3.5.0.Beta-1 and spring 3.0.0.M4.

Improved Swedish model http://cia.sourceforge.net/apidocs/com/hack23/cia/model/sweden/impl/package-summary.html & and initial work on charts.

Example of new chart http://sourceforge.net/dbimage.php?id=229526

Changes: Now store created graphs as image content in the database, should make graphs worker better on windows. Also improved javadoc and simplified build.

Moved all language resources to database and created administrator configuration views. Added & improved test.

Started to blogg about the project at http://sourceforge.net/apps/wordpress/cia/

Think for yourself, question authority !

See changelog at http://cia.sourceforge.net/changelog.html, mainly improved test and cleaned up some admin views.

Prepared for more user features around parliament Grading,Forum,Short_Comment,Opinions &Vote .

Major cleanup and added initial tests for all basic user functions.

Major design clean-up, introducing userSession to the mode and request/response messages for the service layer to prepare for th 1.0 release. Also upgraded ehcache to version 1.6.1.

Some work to get the application to work using Firefox 3.5 and build on windows.

Refactorings, improved documentation and some dependency upgrades.

Any feedback in the Forums if you have problem starting the application would be very valuable.

Mostly cleanup of code and some dependency upgrades like ehcache.

View updated spring bean documentation at http://cia.sourceforge.net/springbeandoc/index.html

ParliamentMember summary view now includes wikipedia page if it exist.

Otherwise some minor cleanup and more work on configuration for languages and language content.

Btw demoversion is currently down to save money for rent/food, please ask any questions in the forums if you have any trouble starting your own server.

Best regards Pether

See translated program link http://translate.google.se/translate?js=n&prev=_t&hl=sv&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.sr.se%2Fcgi-bin%2Fp1%2Fprogram%2Findex.asp%3Fprogramid%3D1300&sl=sv&tl=en&history_state0=

New configuration for agency & portals, enables different title,description on demo portals http://www.riksdagsmonitor.com and http://www.cia.hack23.com !

Also some initial code for moving language,image and configuration resources to the database.