Re: [Webical-developers] Status update

[Zoran K. <z.k...@fu...>]

Nice. Can't wait to see this Ajax thing finally work ;)

Ivo van Dongen wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> It's been quiet on the list lately, but development is still in 
> progress. I've mostly been busy working on the hibernate layer in 
> webical. It kept giving problems like NonUniqueObjectExceptions, 
> LazyInitializationExceptions and really weird lockups without any 
> explanation. I've tried to solve this while still reusing the Spring 
> DaoSupport and other facilities, but it wouldn't behave properly so I've 
> ditched it together with the OpenSessionInviewFilter. The setup is now a 
> lot simpler. A dao implementation subclasses a general class 
> (BaseHibernateImpl) with all kinds of support methods (much like 
> HibernateDaoSupport). The sessionmanagement is based on an aspect and an 
> annotation. Each method marked with the @Transaction annotation is 
> wrapped with the necessary code to setup and flush the session. It seems 
> to work really good and its simple to avoid all the before mentioned 
> problems by keeping the marked methods really simple and small. The daos 
> are still to be cleaned up a bit, but it seems a step in the right 
> direction.
> 
> Other recently added things:
> 
>     * Jetty and webdav-servlet integration in the unit tests. Now we
>       don't need internet to run the unit tests. Jetty is started with a
>       clean webdav root before each test. This also means no more
>       failures because test ran halfway through and the ics is left in a
>       messed up state.
>     * A fixed user id for development purposes. This way developers
>       don't need to log in after each restart
>     * Jetty launch for development with an integrated webdav-servlet
>       with one ics in the webdav root. See developers-readme.txt for
>       Jetty vs tomcat setup.
>     * A database bootstrap configuration in
>       src/main/webapp/applicationContext-bootstrap. Configuration is
>       inserted in the database on each startup.
>     * Encryption in the database for passwords.
> 
> Planned in the near future:
> 
>     * An Aspect to catch LazyInitializationExceptions and reattach the
>       Object to the current Session
>     * Usage of hsqldb or Apache derby for development
>     * Refactoring of the Ajax dayview
> 
> 
> Regards,
> Ivo
> 
> 
> -- 
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