Upgrade to Eclipse Galileo

With this release of Mod4j we've moved to Eclipse Galileo. The new Mod4j Eclipse plug-in will not work under Eclipse Ganymede, so if you did not upgrade already, now is a good moment to take this step. It is not so hard, just follow the Mod4j 1.1 Getting Started for this release.

Remove hand-written applicationContext.xml files

The generation of Spring configuration files has changed. A file named applicationContext.xml is now generated in generated-resources followed by the package root directory for each module. In the previous versions a file with the same name was generated just once under src/main/resources . This last file will conflict on the classpath with the generated one. The file applicationContext.xml under src/main/resources will have to be removed.

Changes in Maven configuration

With this release Mod4j has improved the Maven configuration for your application. Follow the next steps to adjust the Maven configuration in the right way.

All changes apply to the parent-pom of your application. The parent-pom (pom.xml) is located at the root of your project (if you didn't change its location).

1. Adjust mod4j.version property to 1.1.0 :
   <project> ... <properties> <mod4j.version>1.1.0</mod4j.version>
2. Adjust testResources section:
   <project> ... <build> ... <testResources> <testResource> <directory>${basedir}/src/test/resources</directory> </testResource> </testResources>
3. Remove the following two dependencies from the dependencyManagement section:
   <project> ... <dependencyManagement> <dependencies> ... <dependency> <groupId>org.openarchitectureware</groupId> <artifactId>oaw-dependencies</artifactId> <version>4.3.0</version> </dependency> <dependency> <groupId>org.eclipse.jface</groupId> <artifactId>text</artifactId> <version>3.4.0</version> </dependency>
4. Remove the OpenArchitectureWare Maven Repository from the repositories section:
   <project> ... <repositories> <repository> <id>oaw-m2-repository</id> <name>OpenArchitectureWare Maven Repository</name> <url>http://www.openarchitectureware.org/m2</url> </repository> </repositories>

Model syntax changes

Some of the DSL model syntax has been improved.

• All statements in all models must be terminated by a semicolon ( ; )
  class FullCustomerDto represents Customer; enumeration RecordTypeEnumDto represents RecordTypeEnum;
  
  
• The declaration of all custom methods in the Service models now takes a comma-separated argument list, surrounded by round parentheses (instead of square brackets).
  "Add order to customer" method addToOrders in (OrderDto order, SimpleCustomerDto customer) out OrderDto;
  
  

Known Issues

• Due to issue MODFORJ-145 all occurring backslashes in regexp properties in the BusinessDomain models, must be escaped three times. See the following example:
  string emailAddress regexp "^[A-Za-z0-9._%+-]+@[A-Za-z0-9.-]+\\\\.[A-Za-z]{2,4}$";