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 * 18.5 Provided exceptions for if functions
 * 18.5 Fix RandomTableHandler6 when there is no data
 * 18.5 HttpEvents are getting called
 * 18.4 RandomTableHandler6 added with support for paging
 * 18.3 gt, gte, lt, lte, numberEquals added to if functionality
 * 18.2 FormHandler will only return string keys
 * Documentation of parts updated
 * 18.1 No data found is configurable

The jar file is available at http://www.activeintellect.com/aspire/aspire_distributions/aspire_r2.0_b18.5_jsdk21.jar

When there are no rows in a data set, RandomTableHandler5 is throwing a null exception. This is fixed in RandomTableHandler6.

Use RandomTableHandler6. RandomTableHandler6 is originally created so that one can page through large data sets. This handler should be compatible with RandomTableHandler5.

Next release will fix RandomTableHandler5 as well. Hoai, Let me know if RandomTableHandler6 will not cut the muster. I will expedite the next minor release in that case.

Thanks

Satya

I could have called this release "The parts release" or the "AKC release". "The parts release" because this build contains the consolidation of the basic plumbing for incorporating parts into Aspire. This release also adds around 7 parts to the distribution. "The AKC Release" because the major story of this release is actually an application that is build on Aspire build 18 called "Aspire Knowledge Central".

AKC is a content management system with dual purposes. Geneal public can manage folders worth of information for their own or public reference on the AKC site. AKC can also be used to effectively manage dynamic web pages on third party web sites without the inconvenience of ftps and manually creating links to those ftped documents.

* Release 2.0, Build 19.0
* ****************************
* Requires 2.3 servlets to compile although it can still run on 2.1 servlets
* Added setEncodingHeader for requests
* Added HttpEventDistributor
* Added FileCollectionReader to support photographs
* EmbeddedXML generic format
* IApplicationInitializer1 added
* caching support
* Master pages

There was a bug with generic transformations when used against servlets 2.3 containers. The bug was noticed against Tomcat 5 although it ran fine on Tomcat 4. This is fixed in this build.

The following article explains how to take advantabe of generic transformations in this build.

How to take advantage of generic transformations

This build does two things

1. Introduce a configuration key called "aspireContext" to point to the servlet context. This allows for writing web applications that are independent of the context

2. Enable the redirectURL strings to use substitution parameters not only from the url, session, and database, but extends them to the global configuration object. This allows you to use user defined variables in the configuration files as part of your redirection strings

1. Ability to use aspireContext
2. Ability to use /display /update mappings for Aspire servlets
3. External session manager is available as an additional component
4. LoginValidator BeginRequest Handler added
5. AspireLoginPart is now available to help with login page applications
6. ServersideRedirect is an option on a per url basis
7. DUpdateServletRequestFailureResponse1 added

1. URLStringReaderPart introduced
2. Lot of deprecations removed
3. ServletCompatibility introduced
4. Login tags in the session changed
5. Now you can run Aspire from the war file

1. ListDataCollection added
2. CLog2 added

1. A new base level database class
2. connection events added

1. GlobalExceptionHandler introduced
2. RecursiveSubstitutionPart added
3. AspireLoginPart changed for target url redirection

1. you can turn off flushing and closing the stream in base servlet

2. You can use JSPIncludeTransform to include jsp urls

Main changes:Tested

Commons file uploads properly integrated using parts

Allow for url parameters as extra path segments

Main changes:Alphas state, pending testing

Saving blobs

Prepared statements

Retrieving files through Aspire parts as opposed to tomcat downloads. This will ensure proper security

Changed files

\com\ai\aspire\AspireReleaseNotes.java
\com\ai\aspire\AspireReleases.java
\com\ai\common\DDictionary.java
\com\ai\common\FileUtils.java
\com\ai\common\IStringDictionary.java
\com\ai\common\StringUtils.java
\com\ai\common\mapper\GenericMapper.java
\com\ai\common\mapper\RequestBasedMapper.java
\com\ai\data\FileCollectionReader1.java
\com\ai\data\IDataRow1.java
\com\ai\db\RSDataRow.java
\com\ai\db\ps\DBPSExecutor2.java
\com\ai\db\ps\GenericTypeConverter.java
\com\ai\db\ps\ISpecificTypeConverter.java
\com\ai\db\ps\ITypeConverter.java
\com\ai\db\ps\ParamSpec.java
\com\ai\db\ps\TypeConverterUtility.java
\com\ai\db\ps\TypeEnum.java
\com\ai\htmlgen\streamwriters\BlobTransform.java
\com\ai\htmlgen\streamwriters\ExtensionToContentTypeMapping.java
\com\ai\htmlgen\streamwriters\FileDownloadTransform.java
\com\ai\htmlgen\streamwriters\IExtensionToContentTypeMapping.java
\com\ai\parts\AHttpParamCollectorPart.java
\com\ai\parts\FileDeletePart.java
\com\ai\parts\FileItemToBlobPart.java
\com\ai\parts\FULCopyFilePart.java
\com\ai\parts\SingleFileUPloadCommonsPart.java
\com\ai\servlets\paramfilters\AParamFilterRequest.java
\com\ai\servlets\paramfilters\DisplayParamFilter.java
\com\ai\servlets\paramfilters\DisplayParamFilterRequest.java
\com\ai\servlets\paramfilters\DisplayParamFilterRequestOld.java
\com\ai\servlets\paramfilters\UpdateParamFilter.java
\com\ai\servlets\paramfilters\UpdateParamFilterRequest.java33 File(s)

33 files changed

Features

1. Login
2. Logout
3. Login/Logout buttons
4. Simple master page
5. JSP includes

Download loginapp3

You can use this code as a sample application for aspire. You can use this as a startup template. The directories are preloaded with aspire jar file.

This uses jsps as the primary painting mechanism. You can see a very simple approach to back ground pages (or as I call them "master pages").

Adds master page support to the previous version loginapp3.

Download loginapp4

 * Next release
 * ****************************
 * 18.6 Fixed expression evaluation with DefaultExpressionEvaluator1
 * 18.5 Provided exceptions for if functions
 * 18.5 Fix RandomTableHandler6 when there is no data
 * 18.5 HttpEvents are getting called
 * 18.4 RandomTableHandler6 added with support for paging
 * 18.3 gt, gte, lt, lte, numberEquals added to if functionality
 * 18.2 FormHandler will only return string keys
 * Documentation of parts updated
 * 18.1 No data found is configurable

When some people have tried to install loginapp4, they ran into some issues. Tomcat itself threw an exception while loading the context for loginapp4.

See if you can comment out the following line in aspire.properties

aspire.systemProperties

use a # at the begining