New and Noteworthy

Version 3.7.0

Changes

• Added helpers on com.sodius.mdw.core.operations.Operations to ease creating operations from other type of instances:
  • Operations.of(Runnable)
  • Operations.of(ICoreRunnable)
  • Operations.of(Function)
• Added FunctionalInterface annotation on following interfaces to encourage functional programming:
  • com.sodius.mdw.core.eval.Evaluable
  • com.sodius.mdw.core.operations.StatusListener
  • com.sodius.mdw.core.operations.StatusWriter
  • com.sodius.mdw.core.operations.log.MappingScopeBuilder
  • com.sodius.mdw.core.operations.log.ObjectLogBuilder
  • com.sodius.mdw.core.util.io.InputSourceProvider
  • com.sodius.mdw.platform.ui.viewsupport.DocumentationProvider
• Removed Entity/Relation and Hierarchy diagrams in Diagrams view.
• Deprecated APIs:
  • Deprecated StringUtils. Recommendation is to rather use com.sodius.solstice.core.util.Strings.
  • Deprecated IOUtils.closeQuietly(stream). Recommendation is to rather use try-with-resources statements.
  • Deprecated IOUtils.deleteFile(File). Recommendation is to rather use java.nio.file.Files.delete(Path).
  • Deprecated XMLDefaultHandler.intern(String). Recommendation is to rather use String.intern() or org.eclipse.emf.common.util.CommonUtil.intern(String).
• Updated HTML reports for services, to avoid dependencies on some third-party Javascript libraries.
• Changed packaging and dependencies:
  • The com.sodius.mdw.core plug-in now depends on com.sodius.solstice.core and com.sodius.licensing.flexnet plug-ins.
  • The com.sodius.mdw.core no longer embeds the com4j.jar, flexlm.jar and EccpressoAll.jar libraries.
  • The com4j.jar library is now redistributed specifically by the new com4j plug-in.
  • MDWorkbench no longer depends on org.eclipse.gef plug-in

Bug Fixes

• Fixed MDWorkbench Debugger that was failing when Java 9 (or higher) was used and prevented the debugger to access private fields.
• Fixed a NullPointerException that was logged the first time an MDWorkbench launch configuration was executed.

Version 3.6.16

Changes

• Improved FlexNet checkouts, so that MDWorkbench keeps trying to acquire a token when previous attempt failed for a non permanent error.

Bug Fixes

• Added filtering of org.osgi bundles in generated .classpath file when deploying an MDWorbench launch configuration.
• Fixed import of com.ibm.icu package that prevented running MDWorbench with most recent versions of Eclipse.
• Fixed the notification in the Console view of generated files that fail to be written on disk.

Version 3.6.15

Changes

• Improved FlexNet heartbeat mechanism, so that MDWorkbench keeps trying reconnecting to FlexNet when a floating license was acquired and server license is temporarily down. Previous behavior was to eventually reject any service to execute after five minutes of failed reconnection attempts.

Version 3.6.14

Changes

• Added support for Microsoft Edge as embedded browser in Eclipse, when used as a replacement of Internet Explorer (as instructed by -Dorg.eclipse.swt.browser.DefaultType=edge system property), to display execution reports of services.

Version 3.6.13

Changes

• Upgraded Bootstrap and AngularJS web libraries, used to generate reports for operation services, to formally exclude any risk of known vulnerabilities.