Release Notes

(26th September 2001 - by Francois Beauregard, fbeauregard@pyxis-tech.com, and
Alain Bergevin, abergevin@pyxis-tech.com, of Pyxis Technologies Inc.)

This version include some refactoring, corrections and new features.
Here are the highlights:

• CacheAdministrator has been split in 3. We have now AbstractCacheAdministrator, and ServletCacheAdministrator and GeneralCacheAdministrator extends it
• Packages have been adjusted. We now have oscache.base, oscache.general and oscache.Servlet.
  Adjustement must be made to the oscache.tld
• ServletCacheHashMap has been created in order to reflect specific needs for Servlets. It extends CacheHashMap
• Support for multiple cache tag in a single page, without supplying a key. Nested cache tag are not yet supported (you need to manage keys in that case).
• OSCache can now cache any objects (not only JSP content) using GeneralCacheAdministrator
• GenerateKey now support suffixes (used to deal with multiple cache tags)
• A complete JUnit test suite has been created for osCache, including a JSP and a Servlet
• Added the required libraries for the test unit. The JUnit JAR has been upgraded to version 3.7
• Required libraries are now HHTPUnit, Tidy, JUnit 3.7 and JUnitPerf
• The cBuffer variable used for keyGeneration has been moved locally to GenerateKey since it was a threading issue
• The build file has been modified to include test running
• The flushAll method is now abstract since CacheAbstractAdministrator can't know all valid scopes
• Removed the retry logic for disk cache read and write (not used anymore)
• Fixed an issue with the needsRefresh method which returned an invalid value when invoked first by returning true and then invoked having to return false. Both case returned true.
• The doStartTag method in CacheTag has been modified to prevent returning null when cache content is missing (cache file deleted)
• The doAfterBody method in CacheTag has been modified in order to prevent hitting the cache twice in some situation
• The useBody method in CacheTag has been renamed to setUseBody in order to reflect its usage
• LoadProperties interface added to CacheProperties
• Added a NeedsRefreshException
• Retrofited the changed made by Kesav Kumar in order to retrieve the sessionId correctly
• Added code toughness to avoid working with invalid parameters in public methods
• Magic numbers and strings are now declared as constants
• Many methods are now declared as final or protected
• Imports are now more accurate, no more *
• Comments and some headers modified to reflect JavaDoc standard