Re: Release 2.5 of XBean

[Guillaume Nodet <gn...@gmail.com>]

Would it be possible to check the XBEAN-22 patch and fix
the related XBEAN-19 feature in this release ?

The XBEAN-22 is about enhancing the current class loader in xbean-server
with the work the Dain did in Geronimo.   This will allow to specify classes
to exclude in parent loaders or classes that can not be overriden.  A patch
is attached to the JIRA.

XBEAN-19 is to allow this feature to be used with the extended spring tag
   <classpath><location>...
I have already implemented this feature but i will not be able to ubmit a patch
(i can only access my web mail).

Note that these features can be delayed until 2.6.
In any cases, I'm +1 to fix the existing problems and release 2.5.

Cheers,
Guillaume Nodet

On 7/11/06, James Strachan <ja...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I've just applied 2 trivial bug fixes to the xbean-spring module of XBean.
>
> The first is a patch from Guillaume which is a one liner to create the
> xml parser using a helper method (used by all the other
> ApplicationContext implementations).
> http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/XBEAN-21
>
> The other is a trivial fix but has a major impact. Version 2.0-rc2 of
> spring barfs if you pass a null ClassLoader into the NamespaceHandler
> stuff - however the regression tests for 2.0-rc1 and 2.0-m5 work fine.
> Basically this means that all projects using xbean-spring (such as
> ActiveMQ, OpenEJB, XFire, ServiceMix, Jetty etc) will all break if the
> user upgrades from 2.0-m5 or 2.0-rc1 of spring to 2.0-rc2.
>
> I've just added a one liner to use the current threads context class
> loader if the class loader is null to avoid the exception which seems
> to work fine. (I added a regression test for 2.0-rc2 by just cut and
> pasting the regression test for 2.0-rc1 which reproduced the error so
> I could test the fix worked).
>
> Due to the serious nature of this bug (and we've already had a few
> user mails on ActiveMQ about this already and spring 2.0-rc2 has only
> been out a short time) I'd like us to get a release of xbean out ASAP
> to avoid users hittitng this issue.
>
> Here's my +1
>
> --
>
> James
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Re: Release 2.5 of XBean

[James Strachan <ja...@gmail.com>]

On 7/12/06, Guillaume Nodet <gn...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Would it be possible to check the XBEAN-22 patch and fix
> the related XBEAN-19 feature in this release ?
>
> The XBEAN-22 is about enhancing the current class loader in xbean-server
> with the work the Dain did in Geronimo.   This will allow to specify classes
> to exclude in parent loaders or classes that can not be overriden.  A patch
> is attached to the JIRA.
>
> XBEAN-19 is to allow this feature to be used with the extended spring tag
>    <classpath><location>...
> I have already implemented this feature but i will not be able to ubmit a patch
> (i can only access my web mail).

| did think about doing that - but took a look at the patch and it did
look a bit complex and would need plenty of eyeballing as its a new
feature so we'd have to go through a full RTC on those issues.

So I figured it'd be simpler if we got 2.5 out as an emergency bug fix
release (so things work nicely with Spring 2.0) then took a look at
XBEAN-22 and XBEAN-19 for the 2.6 release as it could take a few weeks
just to get that patch applied.


> Note that these features can be delayed until 2.6.

Agreed

> In any cases, I'm +1 to fix the existing problems and release 2.5.

Great.
-- 

James
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