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WingS Coding Camp

We held our third WingS Coding Camp from 5/11/09 until 5/15/09 at the SUN Devepelopment Center in Munich. Thanks to all participiants from XDEV Software, Data Experts and others.

Release of wingS 3.2.1

The wingS development team has just released wingS 3.2.1 which fixes a major bug that was accidentally included in version 3.2. Sorry for these inconveniences!

wingS 3.2.1 can be downloaded from Sourceforge.

Release of wingS 3.2

The wingS development team is proud to announce the general availability
of wingS 3.2.

Besides numerous bugfixes and stabilization issues the most important
improvements addressed by version 3.2 are as follows:

- Added property change support

- Added a servlet container emulation for JUnit tests.

- Introduced transparent support for the Java Preferences API. The preferences
are stored with a separate root for each user/ client.

- Look & Feel of several components (including dialogs, calendars and
menus) has been adopted towards a fresh design based on the YUI skin "SAM".

- Heavily improved speed and reliability of JavaScript support by
upgrading YUI to version 2.5.1, stabilizing wingS' own libraries and
optimizing the overall JavaScript object management.

- Achieved noticable speed improvements via new fine grained updates
(e.g. for large tables).

- Introduced a central overlay manager which handles all layering and
focussing issues regarding windows and dialogs.

- Made first steps towards wingS-CMS integration and dynamic template
loading.

- Improved dialogs, calendars and exception notifications.

- Built foundation for more flexible MDI layouts.

An example of wingS in action can be found on our demo server:

http://wingsframework.org/wingset/WingSet/

wingS 3.2 can be downloaded from Sourceforge.

Release of wingS 3.1

The wingS team is proud to announce the general availability of wingS 3.1. This is basically a maintainance release with noticable performance improvements, official WebKit support (Safari) and lots of other valuable enhancements. The javascript libraries have been consolidated towards YUI, thus initial load time has been reduced to a minimum. Especially dialogs, the auto completion component and the calendar benefit from the smartness of YUI. There is now a plugin mechanism, that makes the integration of custom or third party components as simple as can get. Just drop in a jar (with all the component's artifacts like scripts, styles, templates, ..) and start using it:

panel.add(new WhatEverComponent());

wingS 3.1 can be downloaded from Sourceforge.

For those who are tired of bothersome installation procedures, there is an ant target included in the build, that starts a fully functional demo on jetty in less than a minute. Just download, unpack, call ant run-demo-wingset and point your browser to http://localhost:8989.

WingS Coding Camp Summary

Last week, we held our WingS Coding Camp here at the Wilken office. 10 People from different companies took part. We had a perfect infrastructure, excellent catering and a really good atmosphere. Working together side by side with people you knew only from the mailing list by then is an invaluable experience!

The objectives, verbalized on the wiki made up a sporting agenda! Of course we weren't able to address all of them, though the outcome is quite respectable as can be seen in JIRA

During the weekend we concentrated on testing and performance and could already achieve a high quality result. However, there are still some tasks left, that shall be finished by end of this week. At this point, I'd like to ask everybody to test their current development against the trunk and provide their feedback. If everything goes well, we should be able to release wingS 3.1 by end of this week.

Many thanks to all attendees and sponsors!