[Struts-Workflow] Version 1.0.0. released

[Matthias Bauer <Ma...@livinglogic.de>]

Dear all,

this is to announce, that version 1.0.0 of the Struts Workflow Extension 
has been released.  The package is open source and can be downloaded at: 
http://www.livinglogic.de/Struts/

To those who have not yet heard of this package yet: The version number 
1.0.0 does not imply that this is a totally new piece of software. But 
as the last release was 0.9.3 and there have been significant changes, I 
decided to count up the major version number.

As release 0.9.3 was very successful already (about 400 downloads each 
month)  and I received very much positive feedback, I am very confident 
that the new version will be heartly embraced by the Struts community.

Especially because very important improvements were made since the last 
official version was released:

- Existing application code can now easier use this package, as the 
action code does not need to be changed any more. In order to integrate 
this package only two lines of each configuration file need to be changed.
- Workflow violations can now be handled much more granular. In 
particular no sessions are automatically invalidated upon workflow 
violation. This allows the developer to write applications that handle 
workflow violations much more generous than this has been possible up to 
now.
- The concept of prevState and nextState definitions was reworked to 
become more straightforward. Thus, the nextPath feature could be 
removed, because it is no longer needed to branch off new workflows from 
an existing one.
- Actions can now be marked to be excluded from workflow checks, so they 
can be executed at any time.
- The example application works with Struts 1.1 out of the box now.

The package does not work with Struts 1.0.x any longer.

Please send questions and feedback to the Struts user mailing list with 
a subject starting with [Struts-Workflow].

Regards,

--- Matthias


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