[Squirrel-sql-develop] SQuirreL 1.1beta1 is now available

[Colin B. <col...@bi...>]

The first beta of 1.1 is now available. SQuirreL now has a plugin
architecture and three plugins have been released at the same time.

The jEdit plugin allows you to use the text control from the jEdit text
editor (http://www.jedit.org). This is a far more powerful text control that
the standard Java text area with highlighting styles, bracket matching and
more. Requires at least JDK1.3 and SQuirreL SQL Client 1.1beta1.

The Look and Feel plugin allows you to change the Look and Feel for SQuirreL
SQL Client, as well as change the font used. It ships with both the
Kunststoff and SkinLF Look and Feels. Requires at least JDK1.3 and SQuirreL
SQL Client 1.1beta1.

The SQL Scripts plugin will allow you to save and restore SQL scripts
from/to text files as well as generate CREATE TABLE and INSERT scripts for
existing tables in a database. Requires at least JDK1.3 and SQuirreL SQL
Client 1.1beta1.

The full list of changes in 1.1beta1 are:

Plugin architecture added.
- Now under JDK1.4 have option to scroll tabbed
  pane tabs rather than wrap them.
- Look and Feel functionality moved to a plugin.
- The results of queries can be displayed in
  multiple tabs and these tabs can be "torn off"
  (Johan Compagner).
- Can now enter execute multiple SQL statements
  (Johan Compagner).
- The message panel is now resizable (Johan
  Compagner).
- New "Info" tab on SQL query results.
- No longer try to load blob fields from SQL
  Result set.
- View SQL data entry caret line/column in
  statusbar
- Removed control characters from SQL Result tab
  headings.
- The characters -- at the beginning of a line of
  SQL will turn it into a comment.
- Properties windows are now modeless.
- Driver and Alias maintenance windows are now
  modeless.
- Aliaes and Drivers tool window now resized when
  Look and Feel changed (if required).
- Now displaying SQL Error Code and State when an
  SQL error occurs.
- Can now select the Font for the SQL entry area.
- New "Show Native SQL" item in Session menu.
- "New Session" options moved from Global
  Prefernces dialog to new Session Properties
  dialog.
- New options on the session menu - Close all
  result tabs and close all Result windows.
- New option on the Windows menu - Close all
  sessions.
- Bring aliases/driver window to front if action
  requested.
- New application argument -noplugins which will
  run SQuirreL without any plugins being loaded.
- Undo/redo support now added to the SQL entry
  area (Johan Compagner).
- Copying SQL results now includes the column
  headings (Johan Compagner).
- New "Copy as HTML" option for SQL results
  (Johan Compagner).
- Bug fixed in About Box where the thread that
  updates the memory status continued updating
  when the About Box was not being displayed.
- Dialogs have been cleaned up.
- Apache log4j is used for the logging subsystem.
- JDBC debug can be specified in the global
  preferences.
- New application argument allows you to override
  the user settings directory.
  E.G. -settingsdir=c:\my-squirrel-settings
- Stored proc column information now available.
- Connection window is now modeless.
- SQL execution and object tree expansion now run
  in a separate thread so that the user interface
  is still responsive (Johan Compagner).
- Row count is now available on the Info tab for a
  table.
- Meta data is available for the results of SQL
  execution.
- Replaced the JDOM library with NanoXML.

Enjoy.