JAPI - Important Changes

Release 0.10.0

• ActionFactory can create popup menus now.
• NotNullIterator and NotNullIterable added.

Release 0.9.1

Bug fix release.

Release 0.9.0 (2006-04-17)

New additions and features

• Command Line Argument Parser added.
• JEduca, a KEduca clone, added as an example application. (Subversion access only)

JAPI migrated to Subversion (2006-04-03)

Release 0.8.0 (2006-03-29)

New additions and features

• ActionFactory enhancements:
  • New: Support of message type property for dialogs.
  • New: Label factory method
  • Enhancement: dialog titles are formatted strings now.
  • New: ActionFactory now registers itself with created ReflectionActions as REFLECTION_MESSAGE_PROVIDER to provide ReflectionAction with additional information as needed.
• IconManager has been changed to better support SUN's default icons by supporting multiple paths. This is not yet finnished 100% but works as long as you don't expect easy configuration.
• ReflectionAction now can handle exceptions itself by declaring corresponding error messages for the ActionFactory that creates ReflectionActions.
• AbstractPrefs supports setting the layout via the constructor now.

Changes to previous releases

• Versioning scheme changed to majorVersion.minorVersionOrRelease.patchLevel.
• Build script has been modularized.
• Sub build scripts have been unified, simplified and modularized.

Bug Fixes

• Some typos in source code comments were fixed.

Release 0_7-beta-1 (2006-02-26)

New additions and features

• Improved documentation of TipOfTheDayManager.
• Shuffle methods for shuffling arrays.
• Frequency methods for counting elements in arrays.
• SQL utility classes, e.g. a ResultSetTableModel and a CachedResultSetTableModel.

Changes to previous releases

• Preferences use ColumnLayout as default layout now, not BoxLayout.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed tagging and latest doc linking in build.xml.
• Fixed several typos.
• Some filter methods were wrong and required filters matching the type instead of one of its super types.
• Parameter names and method descriptions for Collection methods have been harmonized.
• Fixed some bugs where the documentation was not in sync with the library.

Release 0_6-alpha-2 (2006-02-14)

New additions and features

• TipOfTheDayManager supports META-INF/services.

Bug Fixes

• Some Property keys were wrong in TipOfTheDayManager.

Release 0_6-alpha-1 (2006-02-12)

New additions and features

• The new package net.sf.japi.swing.treetable contains an implementation of a TreeTable concept. It combines the concepts of TreeModel and TableModel in a TreeTableModel.
• The new package net.sf.japi.swing.prefs.keys contains an implementation of net.sf.japi.swing.prefs.Prefs for changing the keyboard shortcut (accelerator) assignments of an application that uses net.sf.japi.swing.ActionFactory.

Important Changes to previous releases

• The key / subkey delimiter for net.sf.japi.swing.ActionFactory keys has changed from "_" to ".". The reason for this is that the "."-delimiter is more Java-like. This makes the subkeys of keys in Properties files more look like Java properties.

Other Changes

• The libraries for the antmeat task have been upgraded so the antmeat task works again.
• Several classes in the code have been reworked for higher code quality:
  • The order of symbols has been rearranged in many classes so symbols in the source code should be easier to find now.
  • The handling of null has been improved significantly.
    • More checks for null have been added, throwing NullPointerException. This helps finding the code location that wrongly passed null in many cases.
    • @Nullable and @NotNull annotations have been added. They reside in lib/annotations.jar. Some IDEs will warn automatically if you assign a possibly null value to a @NotNull variable. JetBrains IntelliJ IDEA is such an IDE.
  • The i18n/l10n of the code has been improved. Several Strings that do not require localization have been marked as @NonNls. This annotation can also be found in lib/annotations.jar.