ProjectForge 6.0.0 released
Before we implement new features (which we plan for Q3), the ProjectForge-Team wants to make a technical release at the end of Q2 2016.
For a new major release we are currently working on the internals of ProjectForge.
- Update from Hibernate 3 to Hibernate 5
- Update Hibernate Search
- Using Micromata Genome Commons for JPA
- Transaction handling
- Hibernate Search adapter
- JPA Metadata
- Using JPA-Stack for new features
- Upgrade to Spring 4.2.3 and Spring Boot
- Using Spring Annotations
- Many other libraries are updated.
- Plugins
- Plugins are now in separate projects and can be loaded dynamically
- Plugin-API revised to allow discovering Plugins dynamically.
- Administration mask to activate / deactivate Plugins.
- Refactoring and Cleanups
- Reduce internal cyclic dependencies
- Cleanup Maven structure
- Configuration
- Configuration framework with properties files
- Lean application
- ProjectForge runs as standalone application.
- Using Spring Boot as application framework with Jetty
- More flexible Schema for entities
- To enable extensions to entities, we implemented attributes and time able attributes, which can be attached to an entity, like Employee or Address.
- The attributes schema for an entity can be declared in a xml file, so each installation of ProjectForge can extend the entities with own data.
- For edit pages a generic control renders input fields for the attributes
- time able attributes can be used to declare entity values for a given time range. For example the employee may get a raise of the salary on a given date. With time able attributes the salary for now and the future can be stored.