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Released on 24 March 2010

Summary

1.3 is an update to bemokoLive that takes precedent over the 1.2.8 version. It provides a significant new feature set focussed on make life easier for a site developer, e.g. easier to maintain variations in the UI across different channels.

It is backward compatible with 1.2.8 and users are encouraged to upgrade.

Headlines in this release include:

• Plugins have been made simpler. Now plugins don't need to extend the AbstractPlugin class.
• Plugins can now be written in (pseudo) Java - pseudo because it's essentially groovy written in Java syntax, but in most cases you can take existing java source and drop them in as plugins.
• Templates now can include the page fragment next in the fallback chain, e.g. extend the CSS fragment from one UI by adding a single extra CSS rule. This makes it much easier to manage small deltas from UI to another.
• Support for addons - addons are sites that ehance the behaviour of all sites on the platform
• Site Overlays - addons can be defined to overlay sites (as opposed to being in fallback list)
• Sites have access to a convenient logging API - see Logging
• Sites have access to a convenient property configuration API - see Custom Configuration
• A platform instance can be assigned an activeProfile which can drive the configuration of the site, e.g. manage the configuration between development, test and production instances - see Active Profiles
• Resource linking - a page component name (or names) can be symbolically linked to another page component name (or names)
• Site linking - a subsite can be a site stored centrally on the platform as an addon and hence can be shared across many sites

Enhancements

• Easy object persistence thanks to GORM (experimental mode) (#713)
• Merge tweakers and plugins dirs into one so that groovy consistently loads from a single place (#1028)
• Support property localisation e.g. smtp host for environment (#1062)
• Make objects implicitly available to freemarker template same as those available to expressions (#1065)
• Need to be able to query device.name in exprs (#1070)
• Ability to disable om/dev mode on production or allow only for a user of a particular group (#1180)
• Support include parent in Freemarker template (#1399)
• Make property configuration for plugins more flexible and with environmental controls (#1516)
• Tweakable expr now process intent value (#1727)
• Tweakers can now extend other tweakers (#1769)
• Revamp the styling of the defaul site (#1852)
• Support table name prefix for ORM (#2029)
• Remove unused and broken UI parameter support (#2030)
• Provide an easy logging functionality to sites (#2034)
• Embed demo site in product - demonstrating each function in product (#2048)
• Add "logs","target" and "tmp" to set of reserved directories in a site (#2066)
• Report writer tweaker disabled when activeProfile "prod" set (#2068)
• Move application php rendering logic from extensions to core (#2080)
• Deliver site as iPhone application (#2097)
• Add content transformer servlet filter to core (#2119)
• Remove the need for plugins to implement LivePlugin interface (#2122)
• Support (pseudo) Java plugins - i.e. as far as compliant with Groovy (which is pretty complete) (#2127)
• Upgrade groovy from 1.7.0 to 1.7.1 (#2133)
• Support getProperty in template model accessors (#2136)
• Disable localised FreeMarker template lookup (#2137)
• Include ui list in error report in 404 errors (#2138)
• Support addons directories (#2140)
• Provide mechanism for an addon (or any child site) to define important resources that should take priority (#2141)
• Upgrade nekohtml from 1.9.13 to 1.9.14 (#2144)
• Update device database (#2148)
• Support linked sites (#2149)
• Add addons directory list to welcome page (#2154)
• Provide querystring style parameter setting for intents (#2182)

Fixes

The following have been fixed:

• Thread blocking related to JackRabbit caching (#1137)
• File locking occuring on Windows by tomcat process (#1333)
• BE302 : 1.2.1 bi 302 Cannot refresh person 43f7aca (#1396)
• Support for Tomcat 5.5 (#2022)
• Error report has "~" in subsite URL (#2052)
• The error when a site can't be found is very confusing - make it clearer (#2070)
• Cookie path set to "" not deployment context (#2086)
• Out of memory lead to file not found for a template in a ui called "unknown" (#2093)
• Subsites aren't inherited (#2117)
• PC and AJAX UI definition in default site is wrong way around (#2126)
• Tutorial naming clashes with that embedded in the product (#2155)
• Old technique of fallback root still being trigger (#2159)
• live war fails to deploy in jboss ClassCastException XIncludeAwareParserConfiguration vs XMLParserConfiguration (#2160)
• Invalid web.xml causes live to fail to deploy on JBoss (#2161)
• Device repository is not cleaned down properly if web application is unloaded (#2162)
• PHP relative include not working on cygwin on windows (#2174)