COPPER 2.1.1 - Changelog

What's new in COPPER 2.1.1:

February 26th, 2013

· Now using gradle instead of ant for build
· New feature: Refactoring of StandardJavaSerializer to enable easy subclassing
· New feature: Batching latency time now configurable
· New feature: Extendable/customizable AuditTrail, see issue #38
· New feature: Disengageable early response handling, see issue #37
· New feature: Versioning of Workflows now supported by COPPER
· New minor feature: LoggingStatisticCollector.setResetAfterLogging
· Documentation enhancement: Compatibility rules for workflow modifications
· Documentation enhancement: Revised example copper project

What's new in COPPER 2.0.0:

September 12th, 2012

· New feature: Check consistency of all workflow instances during startup (optional) IDs of inconsistent workflows are logged
· Bugfix: Incorrect handling of INVALID workflow instances
· New feature: workflow object state and data are serialized in different DB columns
· Bugfix: wait(First) followed by wait(?) containing same correlation id caused unique constraint violation exception
· New feature: PersistentProcessor now public to allow subclassing
· New feature: Processor Pools wait up to 30 seconds (configurable) for termination of their processors.
· New feature: Configurable transaction management COPPER comes with internal or Spring transaction management
· Refactoring: of DB layer: one single db storage class and various configurable DBMS specific SQL dialects; Configurable Transaction Mgmt
· New feature: suspend/resume ProcessorPools
· Bugfix: for MySQL, Postgres & DerbyDB
· New feature: custom stale response timeout
· New feature: Workflow classname in DB for debugging/monitoring
· New feature: New property for DBStorage: staleResponseRemovalTimeout
· Bugfix: in instrumentation: Bad exception handling may cause non deterministic behavior
· New feature: Implement a custom batch runner. Used e.g. for custom transaction handling
· New feature: Allow custom seqnr for audit trail events
· New feature: Store exceptions during "registerCallback/wait" in database error table
· Bugfix: for AuditTrail on Oracle DB when payload.length >= 4000
· New feature: JMX interface to query AuditTrails
· New feature: PostgreSQL support
· New feature: Hook custom code into the transaction context of COPPER "wait" checkpoints.
· Bugfix: Internal VerifyError when using inner classes.
· New feature: for FileBasedWorkflowRepository: Multiple source directories and multiple source archives
· New feature: Provide db connection used for engine.notify
· New feature: Provide custom javac compiler options for workflow compilation
· Refactoring: Now using slf4j (simple logging fascade for java) instead of log4j
· Bugfix: Fixed some minor bugs or typos