RS Library 1.2.1 released

A major milestone of RS Library version 1.2 is out. I already discovered a critical bug in 1.2.0. That’s why the latest version is 1.2.1 now. The most important changes are:

• Introduction of separate Cache interface and implementations (see known bug below)
• Introduction of Continent and Country as enumerations to unify usage of such data. The country definitions include ISO-2 and ISO-3 country codes, top-level domains, international dial codes and respective capital cities. A special IATA and/or ICAO enumeration might follow later to accomodate those needs
• RSLIB-27 – Templating Library was integrated
• RSLIB-28 – A module to support file-based data models was added
• RSLIB-30 – Parts of the AbstractGeneralDAO were extracted to an additional parent class AbstractBasicDAO to allow better re-usage
• RSLIB-33 – Transactions Demarcation Debugging
• RSLIB-34 – Maven plugins upgraded
• RSLIB-35 – Caching improvements in AbstractBasicDAO

However, I already discovered a minor bug in V1.2.1: RSLIBS-37 describes an incorrect behaviour of SoftMapCache.containsValue(Object) and WeakMapCache.containsValue(Object) methods which will be fixed in next version. V1.2.1 does not use this methods anywhere, so you would need to work-around this function in case you require it.

I also added more documentation now so you will be able to understand and use the libraries. It can be found either through Javadocs or the appropriate module homepages:

• baselib module
• data module
• data-file module
• data-hibernate module
• templating module

The Maven coordinates are:

   <dependency>
      <groupid>eu.ralph-schuster</groupid>
      <artifactid>baselib</artifactid>
      <version>1.2.1</version>
   </dependency>
 
   <dependency>
      <groupid>eu.ralph-schuster</groupid>
      <artifactid>data</artifactid>
      <version>1.2.1</version>
   </dependency>
 
   <dependency>
      <groupid>eu.ralph-schuster</groupid>
      <artifactid>data-file</artifactid>
      <version>1.2.1</version>
   </dependency>
 
   <dependency>
      <groupid>eu.ralph-schuster</groupid>
      <artifactid>data-hibernate</artifactid>
      <version>1.2.1</version>
   </dependency>
 
   <dependency>
      <groupid>eu.ralph-schuster</groupid>
      <artifactid>templating</artifactid>
      <version>1.2.1</version>
   </dependency>