[Uncleunc-developers] new release 0.25.0

[<da...@cr...>]

Hi all,

A new release of Unc is up (for some reason I've managed to register each file twice in the SF listings this time - you only need one copy of each file). 

The changelog explains most updates, and there are quite a few this time. Biggest change is that its now possible to round-trip Unc views as XML, which allows for saving of startup options etc., and for serving views across a network to thinb clients. I've devised a simple implementation of this, with a scripted webserver built on an embedded Jetty server, and been able to browse my unix filesystems from a Win2K unc client, which was kind of neat. To make this really useful, I'll need to add support for method invocation and paging in the XML network protocols, but that won't be a big job now that the infrastructure is in place.

Under the hood, I'm doing another round of refactoring of the codebase, without breaking anything so far. The Item and View interfaces were getting crowded, and have been broken up into a number of separate aspect-based interfaces. Ultimately, I'll try to get most of the UI components to talk to these little interfaces rather than the big ones, making them more flexible and reusable.

Enjoy.

Dave