New DWR Release - 2.0 RC4

Wed, 11 Apr 2007 11:24:39 GMT

I created this blog a few years ago specifically to announce releases of DWR, but I skip announcing new releases too often - I'm making amends: 2.0 ~~RC4~~ RC4a (see below) is out of the oven.

What's new?

The biggy is Guice support. If it wasn't for the fact that we could add this in without touching the core of DWR, I'd say this was too big a change at this point in the release cycle, however Tim Peierls (who you might know from this project) has done a stack of work to make DWR and Guice play really well together. You can read more about the background on Tim's blog.
Security: The Fortify review highlighted some areas where DWR was lacking. You can read more about what DWR now does to protect you in the DWR security documentation.
Reverse Ajax: There have been some cases where reverse ajax has not been as stable as it should be. I hope that most of those are now behind us.

What's TODO before 2.0 final?

Not a lot. Some dwr.util fixes. Some documentation.

TIBCO have been fantastic in supporting DWR, and I'm hoping to add a demo of GI providing some UI components that are populated using DWR to the final demo war file.

Ahmed Hashim has submitted a SingletonCreator which, like Guice support can be added without touching any core code, and that's about it.

I'm hoping for a final release in a week or so.

Update: Make that RC4a. Some fixes we put in for bugs in RC3 caused errors in IE7. They are now cleared up.

Joe Walker - guice tag

New DWR Release - 2.0 RC4

What's new?

What's TODO before 2.0 final?