Hi Devs, Following close on the heels of the Haddock template rewrite, I've released 2.10.2-svn-18 - a small rewrite of the core WikiEngine.
I've been doing a some research into Dependency Injection, I've decided that for JSPWiki, I think the best framework would be PicoContainer. http://picocontainer.com/ This change will take a long time to complete, but I've started by adding it to the pom.xml, changing the ClassUtil class to create and list all the "components" (InternalModule), and changing these modules (SearchManager, AdminBeanManager, WorkflowManager, DefaultFitlerManager, etc) to have empty constructors, and a method called initialize( WikiEngine, Properties ). Just the above change took ages to get right, but now all test cases pass, and I've played with it in my dev environment and seems like everything works. I hope now that the core is in place, we can slowly start making changes to actually use the PicoContainer functionality for dynamic component injection. I have made a trade off however. Currently the file "ini/classmappings.xml" is no longer valid, and the core classes are hard coded inside "ClassUtil". Let me know if anyone has any thoughts on this. Kind regards, David V
