[Idrs-dev] REALLY NEED HELP!!!

[Marc B. <mbo...@ya...>]

Hello Everyone,

I know it's been a while, but A LOT has been done. 
Tonights I will be committing the following changes to
CVS:

1.  Based on Tim's design work I have added plugable
resource managment to the system, as well as
deprecated use of the old pooling code.  Now the
Jakarta-Commons pool package is the default pooling
system (but others can be easitly added_

2.  Support for *.rml urls.  Now a oage can be
refrenced by it's name followed by a .rml.  This makes
abstraction much easier.  the doc_Name parameter is
still supported

3.  A re-built servlet that is much more efficent and
much more straight forward.

4.  The ability to specify a different database for
authentication and doc storage.  With this feature is
a more standard connection description system.

5.  A new tutorial on using the business logic of the
idrs.

6.  The ability to forward errors to an "error" page

I have also created a path to idrs 2.0:

2.0 alpha 4: This is the next release with the current
code base (probably tonight or tommorrow).  This will
include all of the above features and the previous
features from 2.0 alpha 3.  This realease will also
co-inside with the release of the new website
(http://idrs.sourceforge.net/newsite/).  I will also
be making it easier to deploy the idrs from scratch by
building a "distibution" of needed jars and a base
web.xml file.

2.0 alpha 5 : Plugable security managment as well as
another suprise i will be able to tell everyone in a
few days.  Also will include better form handling
support to complement the new <formInput> tags, as
well as a tutorial on form use and creation.

2.0 alpha 6 : EJB support for passing a context to a
method (simmilar to passing a connection) and directly
calling a session bean's methods in a simmilar way to
calling a standard java method.  The methods will be
able to return a ResultSet (or RowSet) and be able to
return a single object.  Tags will be created to
access the properties of that object

2.0 alpha 7 : Finally throw data-pagin support back
into the idrs.  This will bring 100% backwards
compatability to the idrs.

Feature freeze

2.0 Betas

2.0 Final

I would like to have 2.0 final in the fall (i know it
seems like a lot, but it's a lot less then it seems).

In order to meet this, I REALLY need some help.  Here
is where I really need some help from people:
1.  MacroToXML - My macro transformer mostly works. 
It transforms the tag correctly, but the carriage
returns are off.  The problem occurrs with tags that
have no visible counterpart, like <repeat>.  Since
there shouldn't be a line where <repeat> is, I need to
adjust the text and it's placement on it's flow out. 
I am mostly there, but it's really getting squirly.  I
just need another pair of eyes to go over the code and
help me find something i seem to be missing.
2.  EJB support - I am jsut now learning how to use
EJBs.  If someone could really help me out here from
time to time it would be greatly appreciated.  Even if
you do not have time for coding, jsut guidence would
be very helpful.

Thanks,
Marc

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