Barracuda - News & Changes
barracuda.gif (11456 bytes) This document hilights major news and changes that have occurred within Barracuda. If you are looking for detailed descriptions of code level changes, please refer to A_Changes_History.java or see the Barracuda Commits Mailing List.

1.0 Release Notes

  • General Features - [TODO_1_0]
  • Enhydra / XMLC - We are currently using XMLC 2.0.1, which means that if you are using Enhydra as your multiserver and want to use Barracuda 'as-is' you need to be using Enhydra 3.1.1b1. If you want to use EAS 4.0, you will need to recompile everything (there's a dependency in the XMLC stuff somewhere...). If you want to use Enhydra 3.1 you will need to replace the xmlc.jar (found in WEB-INF/jars) with the enhydra.jar from your Enhydra 3.1 installation and rebuild (using 'ant clean dist' in the src directory). This is due to the fact that the version of XMLC was changed between versions 3.1 and 3.1.1b of Enhydra.

  • JDK 1.4 - Several people have reported problems with building Barracuda under JDK 1.4. Initial research indicates that the JDK is bundling an older version of the DOM classes which are incompatible with XMLC. We are currently looking into this...

  • Jikes - Note that as of right now, compiling Barracuda with Jikes causes a VerifyError in BComponent.java's render(ViewContext) method. Workaround: don't use Jikes for compiling Barracuda.


Changes History

NOTE: All code changes are now being tracked on the Barracuda Commits Mailing List. Please subscribe to this list if you are interested in detailed decriptions of what has changed.

  • ??/??/?? - 1.0 Final Release. [TODO_1_0]

  • 07/20/01 - Beta 2 release. This release offers lots of incremental improvements and bug fixes over Beta 1. If you are still using Beta 1, we highly recommend you upgrade! At this point, we are trying to finish up the Todo List to get to a 1.0 Final release...

  • 04/20/01 - Beta 1 release.

 

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