Release Notes

In the last months from publication of version 2.0 we have found and corrected many bugs and added several features.
The new main feature are:

• Enhanced view template that generate a View,
• stereotype for modeling system properties
• Database upgrade system,
• the framework and the application template are now auto deployed to the target directory

- the fix of the standard Enterprise Architect application.

The generator has now the internal version number of 2.1.0017.


Following the Roadmap, release 2.1, Code Name RED, has been published in Jun 2007.

BUGS

- fixed bug 1691278 (inherited values can't be referenced by subclasses)
- Corrected standard application
- fixed soap update method
- fixed bug (1676550), soap methods were always created (is_soap was ignored)
- fixed typo (assoziation -> association)
- default application model (removed all old wcmf stereotypes), rebuild generator
- fixed 1693598 (attributes were multiplied in inheritance)
- - fixed radio button template (showed duplicated entries, when none selected)
- fixed handling of null values in database mapping
- Tutorials: changed de.bmiag.genfw.instantiator.xmlmap generator property in hello world tutorials (old config caused bug #1741294)
- Generator: fixed bug #1741296 (exception, when trying to zip empty directory)
- Generator: fixed column ids in tables.sql (id of an fk pointing to the own table, was not unique)
- Framework: fixed advanced search in wCMF default application (ignores empty values now)

ENHANCEMENTS

- new start page in Enterprise Architect default project
- added Soap Search. exposes the search controller to the soap interface.
- added Soap advancedSearch. exposes the search controller to the soap interface.
- added added 'orderby' tagged value to WCMFNode to allow default sorting in node lists
- implemented simple (->) association type (does not allow create/delete), so we support composite, shared and simple now
- added WCMFSystem stereotype for modeling system properties
- Added displayName to soapList method.
- Added parentoids, childoids to soapRead method.
- Added depth parameter to soapRead method.
- added PrimitiveType to auto-generated WCMFValues.
- Enhanced view template (View.tpl) to render a special form if a WCMFNode is associated with the WCMFView.
- Added WCMFReference values to custom view.
- First version of database update script (application/install/dbupdate.php)
- changed display value calls in order to allow entities to override default behavior
- removed tagged value 'is_ordered' from WCMFNode stereotype. use 'orderby' = none|sortkey|[value] instead
- added xslt documentation generation to the generator
- added TargetDirectory und ProjectName properties to Identifier class (maybe used in XPand on every identifier)
- Development page generated by Generator
- added template override feature
- added framework/application template auto deployment to generator
- Framework: added log directory creation if directory does not exist
- Framework: update script now ignores 'not null' changes for pks
- made StringQuery more robust (checks the type to search for first)
- Framework: added alternating rows to resource browser
- changed localization to accept language definitions without country (e.g. de defaults to de_DE)