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Mach-II 1.8 Beta Available

Team Mach-II is proud to announce that Mach-II 1.8 beta, code named "Simplicity," is now available for download.

New features in Mach-II 1.8 include:

• Form Tag Library with Data Binding
  Create and populate HTML forms with the new Mach-II custom tag library for forms. All HTML form inputs are available, including radio and checkbox groups, and you can easily bind data to form input values.
• View Tag Library
  Handy view-related functionality bundled up in easy-to-use custom tags for URL routes, JavaScript, CSS, and even color flipping.
• Environment Property
  Configure and manage environment-specific settings for easy deployment to development, staging, and production servers.
• HTML Helper Property
  Allows you to more easily manage the HTML facets of your Mach-II requests, such as including necessary JavaScript and CSS files, adding meta information to the view, specify character sets, and more.
• View Loaders
  Automatically generates the <page-views> section of the mach-ii.xml configuration file based on simple yet highly flexible ANT-style pattern matching.
• Call Method Command
  Allows for the calling of a method in a service object directly and placing data returned in the event object, as opposed to having to create a listener method that simply calls a service method.
• Enhanced Redirect Functionality
  Announce redirects from within listeners, filters, and plugins with the new redirectEvent() and redirectEventInModule() methods.
• Individual Object Reload
  The Mach-II Dashboard now allows you to reload individual objects in your application with a simple click, so you no longer need to reload the entire application when cached objects change.
• Toolkit Enhancements
  New CFCs in Mach-II support assertions and both simple and ANT-style pattern matching.
• Additional Enhancements
  Additional enhancements include the copyToScope() helper method, a more configurable email logger, and many more. We've also made numerous performance improvements under the hood.

Bug fixes in Mach-II 1.8 include:

• HTMLHeadElement and HTTPHeader callbacks failed to be removed from EventContext (bug #305)
• Method checking fails when extending a logger due to failure to walk inheritance tree (bug #303)
• View context throws an ambiguous exception appending view content on to a complex event-arg (bug #263)
• BuildUrl() and related methods orders args randomly (bug #264)

For complete details on Mach-II 1.8 please see the "What's New in Mach-II 1.8" page on the Mach-II wiki.

With Mach-II 1.8 we have also laid the groundwork for Mach-II 1.9 and 2.0, and we've already started on those releases. As we've stated before, we're going to start pushing for smaller, more rapid release cycles, so you can expect Mach-II 1.9 before the end of the year!

So what are you waiting for? Go grab Mach-II 1.8 beta now, put it through its paces, and let us know what you think!

Removing Event-Handlers Programmatically

In a recent application of mine, I have a large collection of test event-handlers that we use to test certain application functionality (such as javascript).  While very useful for us when developing the application, we do not want to deploy these event-handlers when the application is deployed to our production environment.  So what are the options?

• Manually comment out the event-handlers when deploying (very messy, error prone, possible security concern if forgotten)
• Programmatically remove the event-handlers when the application is deployed to a production environment (best solution because a computer does it for us)

I thought it would nice to share this code with other Mach-II users so I wrote up a short wiki entry that demonstrates how we did it. It even includes a working sample code that you can use and shows off some nifty new features in Mach-II Simplicity (1.8), so read Removing Event-Handlers for Security Purposes wiki entry now.  You never know when you'll need this bit of code.