 | New Predefined
Action Controls in openrules.forms.lib
 | The
standard configuration project "openrules.forms.lib" has been
modified - now all Excel files are defined directly on the base
level. |
| The file
Dialog.xls now include additional methods for convenient
generation of submit-buttons:
- actionButton for regular buttons
- actionHyperlink for hyperlinks
- actionImage for image-buttons
- actionCheck for check-buttons
See the description at
http://openrules.com/docs/man_forms.html#Predefined Action
Buttons and an examples in the new sample project "PartyManager"
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| The
project "openrules.forms.lib" also includes several useful
images to support predefined action controls such
image-buttons actionOpen, actionDelete,
etc. |
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All samples of web applications
are tuned to work with the latest Apache Tomcat 6.0.
| When
Tomcat-6 starts its installation directory serves as a "basedir"
(previously it used to be a subdirectory "bin").
Correspondingly, all index.jsp files for our web samples refer
to the main xls file using a name that starts with "file:./webapps/"
instead of "file:../webapps" (one dot instead of two!) |
| The
build.properties file for all web samples now is tuned to the
Tomcat main installation directory using the property
appserver.home=C:/apache-tomcat-6.0.
In most cases, you have to change this
property anyway to point to your own Tomcat installation
directory. |
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Minor Changes in
OpenRulesEngine API
| The
implementation of the OpenRulesEngine's method "run(String
methodName)"
now assumes that this method has no parameters even if the
method "setBusinessObjects" previously defined some business
objects. |
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| Upgrade to Eclipse 3.3
and
Java 1.6.0
| OpenRules development and
run-time is switched to the latest Eclipse 3.3 and Java 1.6.
Previous versions of Eclipse IDE and Java continue to be
supported. |
| While OpenRules-based examples
and real-world applications successfully works with Java-5, we
resist a temptation to use new Java 1.5 and 1.6 features inside
OpenRules classes to remain compatible with any Java 1.4
applications |
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| Upgrade to the
latest Apache Libraries
| We have upgraded OpenRules to
the latest Apache packages: POI 3.0.1, Commons Lang 2.3, Commons
Logging 1.1, Commons CLI 1.1, Commons Collections 3.2, Commons
Digester 1.8, Commons Validator 1.3.1, log4j 2.1.15. |
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| Fix for the Excel
Date Problem
| This release fixes an old bug
related to the notorious Excel (and other spreadsheets tools)
problem inherited from a wrong assumption that 1900 was a
leap year. To avoid this problem, previously we recommended our
customers not to use Excel's Date format and define Date fields
in Excel as Text fields. Now OpenRules correctly interprets both
Date and Text date formats. We express our appreciation to
Shirley Chen who pointed us to this error |
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Fix for the old
Problem with Merged Cells
| This release
4.1.2 fixed
the old bug related to an unstable behavior of rules placed into
merged cells inside rules tables. The only remaining
implementation restriction is the necessity to add an additional
column (or row) with rule numbers to avoid a situation when the
very first column (or row) contains merged cells.
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| The release
4.1.2
includes an additional example "Merge" that demonstrates
OpenRules cell merging abilities and limitations. Read more
here. |
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