Offline Messages

Added capabilities for storing IM's to users if they are already offline.
Below how this looks like from the shell access at the moment:

Updates

First of all I added the text bundle which is basically:

1. A mediator between text transformation providers and consumers, using a white-board model.


2. A utility class library for common text mangling tasks that were spread out over the other bundles.

Then I started to commit the first batches of updates on the Java 5 Language level. E.g. code uses generics and java.util.concurrent.

Last but not least there is a MailService now (part of the system-services bundle) and the userdata service was updated to allow editing, support a review mechanism and provide a mechanism for confirmation of email addresses (on creation and changes; logically makes use of the MailService).

Also new in the repository are some updates and bug fixes as always. Other updates will likely follow up soon.

Abandoned Java 4

I have just started migrating the complete codebase to >= Java 5 only. Most platforms support Java 5 (if they supported Java 4 before). We use concurrent all over and some language features of Java 5 are really useful (generics, auto-boxing, for-each).

This means heavy refactoring. I will be trying to get over with it as clean and quick as possible. However, it also means that some new features will have to wait a bit (but they'll come live somewhen soon). Hang tight :)

Uptime, upcoming new stuff

It had been a little bit quiet for a while, because I wanted to see how the testbed behaves running over a more extended period of time.
Simple stats look good:
18:47 up 30 days, 09:15:37
Used: 126MB 768kB Free: 58MB 1020kB Max: 253MB 192kB

Now, we haven't had much traffic, but well. Time will show.

Meanwhile I have started some refactoring of the code base (a text service to be more specific, that acts as a mediator for transformations like TML and BBCode, and those that may be implemented one day), updated the userdata service (to allow editing and updating, review and email confirmations) and added a mail service to the system services to be able to send email (specifically at the moment for the email confirmation obviously).

Work is proceeding, I suppose that somewhen soon I will update the testbed so that you can check it out.