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BladeRunnerJS v0.4

Our first major milestone containing a number of bug fixes, improvements and new features.

Release highlights include:

  • NodeJS style App source code support
  • Improved BRJS model and plugin interfaces
  • The BRJS model now uses the Java7 File Watcher Service to enable caching and minimise the amount of dependency analysis that has to be executed
  • The CompositeBundler plugin now allows both NamespacedJS and NodeJS style source code to be used in the same App
  • CSSBundler plugin uses the new BRJS model
  • XMLBundler and HTMLBundler changed to use the new model and plugin interfaces
  • Basic support for NodeJS libraries
  • Integrated JSTestDriver to use the new BRJS model to generate test bundles
  • A number of other bug fixes and minor improvements

Known Issues

  • Due to some EcmaScript5 uses BRJS does not currently support IE8
    • Workaround: There is no workaround but this is something we will fix in the near future
  • CPU usage issues when BRJS server is left running for a prolonged period of time
    • Workaround: Restart the BRJS server once every 30-60 minutes
  • The CSSResource plugin is not fully implemented. As a result images are not available in workbenches and exports WARs.
    • Workaround: Images can be referenced using an absolute URL to load them directly from disk rather than via the BRJS 'bundling' mechanism
  • Due to the latency of the File Watch Service on OSX it can sometimes take several seconds for changes to files to be picked up when a page is refreshed
    • Workaround: Either wait a few seconds and refresh the page again, or if you're in a hurry just restart the BRJS server
  • Due to a bug in Java, the JVM can occasionally crash on Windows when BRJS attempts to close File Watchers.
    • Workaround: Unfortunately there is no workaround. Oracle are aware of the issue and we will also be making changes to aleviate the issue in a future release

Closed Issues

54 issues closed; 32 labelled bug, feature, enhancement or experience from 6 milestones: https://github.com/BladeRunnerJS/brjs/issues?milestone=4; https://github.com/BladeRunnerJS/brjs/issues?milestone=5; https://github.com/BladeRunnerJS/brjs/issues?milestone=8; https://github.com/BladeRunnerJS/brjs/issues?milestone=9; https://github.com/BladeRunnerJS/brjs/issues?milestone=10; https://github.com/BladeRunnerJS/brjs/issues?milestone=11

  • add tag handler support #261
  • add aliasing support to the new bundlers #259
  • make the NamespacedJS bundler plugin append package definitions to the top of the bundle #257
  • convert JS bundler to a bundler plugin so it uses the new model #231
  • add NodeJS style class support to new bundling infrastructure #230
  • add NamespacedJS style class support to new bundling infrastructure #229
  • Improve developer debug experience by allowing individual JS files to be served in an app #46
  • Node.js module-style code support #11
  • finalise the bundler interface design #278
  • come up with a good design for managing different types of JsLibs #277
  • Workbenches show 500 error #305
  • ConcurrentModificationException is thrown when BRJS attempts to serve multiple requests #300
  • upgrade knockout #294
  • upgrade jQuery #293
  • create a default EventHub #204
  • allow new style js code to be used in tests #322
  • Using require('fell') pulls in unnecessary additional dependencies #308
  • Bundler Script transferred as plain/text should be application/x-javascript (or similar) #307
  • improve performance in BRJS core and the model #276
  • make thirdparty bundler part of the new infrastructure #238
  • update templates so example JS file uses new JS style #20
  • Add support for js-patches #335
  • UTF8 bundling tests fail when run via cmd line #334
  • convert i18n bundler to use the new bundler plugin infrastructure #237
  • convert image bundler to use the new bundler plugin infrastructure #236
  • convert HTML bundler to use the new bundler plugin infrastructure #235
  • convert XML bundler to use the new bundler plugin infrastructure #234
  • convert CSS bundler to use the new bundler plugin infrastructure #233
  • Websphere throw exception when file not found. Should only return 404 error #225
  • Filter fixes for websphere #224
  • investigate and fix workbench issues we're currently seeing #349
  • Deploy to Tomcat by dropping .WAR into webapps folder stops root app working #192

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