Granite Data Services 1.2.0 GA released

Hi all,

Granite Data Services 1.2.0 GA is out. You may download it, as usual, on Sourceforge here: https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=183386.

This is the first GraniteDS release compiled against the new Flex 3 SDK (“Version 3.2.0 build 3958”, to be precise). As announced in previous release notes, Flex 2 isn't supported anymore: you may recompile everything against Flex 2, it should work, but you won't be able to use specific Flex 3 annotations support required by Tide and we won't fix Flex 2 specific issues anymore.

Here is some other highlights about this release (some new features were already available in 1.2.0_RC1):

• The Gravity implementation for Tomcat with APR/NIO has been completely rewritten since 1.1 and is now a lot more stable. Additionally there is now Gravity support for JBossWeb, which is a modified Tomcat included in JBoss 5.0.0 GA.

• We are starting to integrate new JPA providers and application servers. GDS 1.2 comes with a specific integration for TopLink (used in GlassFish V2, Sun AS and Oracle AS) and EclipseLink (RI for JPA 2.0 used in GlassFish V3). It also brings a specific security service for GlassFish (only a slightly modified Tomcat security service).

• Tide for Seam now fully supports Seam 2.1 and the two example projects now run with Seam 2.1.0.SP1. That allows to remove the dependency on JSF and brings a cleaner deployment. It is also fully integrated with Seam 2.1 authorizations and it is now possible to use role-based and permission-based security on the Flex client to make some components conditionally visible or to check for access rights before trying to issue service calls.

• Tide for Spring and Tide for EJB have been improved and should be fully functional on all supported combinations of application servers/data access providers. In particular Tide/Spring now works correctly with plain Hibernate, without JPA and without JTA, and can use the Session API (but still requires the use of annotations). Both integrations provide zero-conf remoting, entity caching, transparent lazy loading of collections and data paging. They can also be completely integrated with the Tide client framework.

• The WebCompiler now includes the Flex 3.2 SDK and is able to compile code for Flash 10.

• Maven artifacts are now available on java.net: http://download.java.net/maven/2/org/graniteds/. The final 1.2.0 GA release isn't uploaded yet, but it should be available very soon.

See more in GraniteDS forum here: http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/graniteds/message/2518.

Best, Franck Wolff.