We'll chang the API of ProjX applications for some listeners. The changes are available in our nightly/weekly builds and in our repository. Please be sure to test your applications because generic listeners won't throw an exception at compile time, only at runtime.
Our Monitoring tool for JVx applications is very useful for application maintenance but also for application development. It safes time, problems and costs. The tool itself is a standalone JVx application and it connects to another JVx application which was configured with the monitoring plugin. It's not a hard job to configure a JVx application for monitoring, but it's boring.
We now have a really great VisionX AddOn which does all the boring work for you. It configures your applications for monitoring and makes it possible to monitor your applications during development time. It's very helpful to find bottlenecks or to do tuning before deployment
The plugin comes with an additional awesome Feature, which isn't available without the AddOn. It's the maintenance module. This module allows you to switch your application(s) in maintenance mode. You could use the maintenance mode to do manual database updates, config updates or simple health checks.
We have a short demo video which shows how it works:
VisionX Monitoring AddOn
The AddOn will be available in our Solution store, but not for free. The monitoring tool needs a separate license.
The next JVx release will be version 2.5. It will be available by the end of this week (beginning of July). It's a really cool release because JVx got awesome new features. We had to change the API a little bit but it shouldn't be a problem for your existing applications.
What will be interesting?
Push-light
Our push support has nothing to do with Websockets. It's a technology independent solution for JVx. The Push-light mechanism is available on server-side and enables you to send objects from the server to the client. If you use a direct connection betwenn client and server, the objects wil be sent immediate (e.g. vaadin UI). If you use a serialized connection, the objects will be sent with next client call or alive check.
Our Eclipse plugin for JVx and VisionX is available as version 1.2.4.
It's a small bugfix release.
Changes
Proxy support (tests)
Some customers had problems with http(s) proxies and our trial activation. We made extended tests with (win/linux) proxies and didn't find any problems. We reduced the communication timeout because it was too long. Please send us your feedback.
Additional checks for client/server code mixing
It might be a problem if you use a server class (src.server) in your client classes (src.client). This depends on the deployment mode (Web, Desktop, ...), but it's better to separate client and server code. The new check can be dis/enabled but it checks by default if your client has direct server references.
Using Metadata independent of AbstractCachedStorage
It's now possible to use column name autocompletion, even if the storage isn't an instance of "AbstractCachedStorage".
Simply update EPlug via Eclipse or jump to the info page.