[Rails-devel] Rails2.0: Further Changes

[Stefan F. <ste...@we...>]

Several other changes have been implemented recently:

*** Removed old (customized) ClassLoader code
There has been a customized ClassLoader for Rails, which was inherited 
from the Colossus project. As most of the functions were not required 
for Rails I have removed most of the that old code now.

Most likely this will allow to use Webstart to distribute Rails2.0 test 
releases.

*** ChangeStack simplified
I have decided to separate the Report and Comment facilities from the 
ChangeStack. This makes it possible to add the facility to comment the 
end of an operating round without making it a separate ChangeSet.
This again allowed to simplify the ChangeStack implementation.

*** Management of Cash refactored
Similar to the new portfolios, money is stored inside a Wallet (more on 
the details behind the scene in a separate mail).

This easily allows to store all kind of CountableItems, for which money 
is only one example (so in principle it is easy that Rails supports 
several currencies).

To move money from one owner to the other the following static methods 
are used:

Currency.wire(MoneyOwner from, int amount, MoneyOwner to)
Currency.fromBank(int amount, MoneyOwner to)
Currency.toBank(MoneyOwner from, int amount)

The return value is the formatted String of the amount transferred and 
can be used for the message to the reportWindow.

Those replace the direct creation of a CashMove(...).