Project Goanna Release Notes ---------------------------- Release 0.3 ----------- 20 May 2001 o SOAP proof-of-concept implemented. Request and response envelopes handled. Only basic parameter types supported. Requires Eiffel Agent support. o HTTPD server implemented. Provides working HTTP server and servlet engine for testing and development. o Includes application framework extension and sample application called 'Bachelor' from Neal Lester. o Ported HTTPD server and servlet library to SmallEiffel. o Now using GOBO 2.0. Stopped using the Goanna date time cluster in favour of the GOBO date time cluster. o Using updated eXML parser and UCSTRING. Some new parsing hooks are used but further work is still required. o Using new Yaesockets. Release 0.2 ----------- 4 Feb 2001 o Added argument checking to simple_fast_cgi example. o Added support for cookies and sessions to servlet library. o Goanna FastCGI now compiles and executes correctly under SmallEiffel. A new class STRING_MANIPULATION was needed to encapsulate different string handling between ISE and SmallEiffel. ELKS2000 will hopefully fix this when it is supported in all compilers. o Changed all keywords 'create' to 'creation' for SmallEiffel compliance. o Started to port all Goanna libraries to SmallEiffel but stopped because too much work is involved. Will wait until SmallEiffel is ELKS2000 compliant. o Added datetime cluster for simple date and timestamp handling. o Added compiler specific utility classes to help port to SmallEiffel. o Added Base64 encoder utility class. Release 0.1 (Proof-of-Concept) ------------------------------ 6 Jan 2001 The first public release of Project Goanna includes enough implemented functionality to demonstrate the capabilities of the technology. The classes included with the release have many skeleton code fragments and require further development before they will become more widely useful. The following known bugs and issues need to be resolved: o The project has only been tested under Windows using ISE Eiffel. Due to a few bugs in SmallEiffel and lack of support for creation expressions, the source has not yet been ported. Further development will occur on both Linux and Windows (just as soon as I update my Linux compiler --GM). o The Apache mod_fastcgi module has a few problems. Especially under Windows. o Error handling is not performed in all areas. Integration with a standard error handling mechanism (eg, EEL) needs to be done. o The DOM interface utilises assertions to remove the need for exception handling. The implementation therefore does not conform to the standard exactly. However, it does simplify the API. (I believe this is the right decision, but time will tell. -- GM). o The DS_HASH_TABLE class is used in a number of areas to handle named collections. The hash table implementation is a little heavy weight for some of the areas it has been used. In particular, as the implementation for DOM_NAMED_NODE_LIST. A more light-weight associative array could be used in these cases.