[Uncleunc-developers] new release up

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Hi all,

A new release up at sourceforge, with a variety of new bits and pieces. Still not a stable/smooth install, but I have been able to get the client to launch from a jar file (i.e. java -jar) and via JNLP using Sun's webstart thing. 

There is a new tree component for the GUI which is _very_ unstable at the moment, and will only appear when the config file is altered to allow experimental features. There's the start of a filtering framework, a bit more of the pager architecture worked out, and the start of an XML-based persistence mechanism, used at startup at present.

I'm aiming to consolidate in the next few weeks, and iron out any bugs that I have in the basic mechanisms - paging, filtering, persistence, method calls - so that the existing services work properly (log files are a bit broken at present, for example, and the class browser has a terrible time when launched from jar files, especially under jnlp). In the meantime, everything is in place for developing some simple services that ought to be in here really, such as zip and jar files, xml files (I'm using a lovely little bare-bones xml parser called nanoxml-lie (6kbytes of code) to do the persistence stuff), and RSS newsfeeds. Cheenu, your google module maybe ready to be parameterised properly - method calls work now as long as all arguments are strings. Anyone who wants to dip their toes in any of these give me a shout.

Dave Crane