We are pleased to announce the latest version of the Rewrite Servlet Toolkit, and PrettyFaces libraries. It’s been quite a while since our last release, but we promise you this new version has been worth the wait.

Release notes:

You might notice we skipped a few version numbers, which we’ve done for several reasons:

• This is a major update, so we incremented from major version 2 to version 3.
• The deprecated (original) prettyfaces-jsf library, which is now several years obsolete was versioned 3.3.3, and has been confusing new users for some time. We are now resolving this issue by skipping directly to Rewrite version 3.4.0.Final.

This release includes several major new features as well as a plethora of bug-fixes, including:

• Support for JDK6 has been dropped, JDK7 is the new minimum requirement
• Improved compatibility with JDK8 for the annotation scanning
• Major performance improvements in the logging subsystem
• Major performance improvements with the URLBuilder
• Fixed some concurrency issues which occurred in high load scenarios
• Many improvements for the LocaleTransposition feature
• Support conditional parameters with JSF’s <f:param>
• Fault tolerant percent decoding for path and query parameters
• Simpler condition trees when binding query parameters using annotations, results in better faster evaluation performance
• Fixes handling of context path for applications deployed to the root context
• Improved error reporting. Exception stack traces now display the rule that errored and the location where that rule was defined (including file and line number)
• Strict RuleBuilder ordering and structure enforcement

Thank you for continuing to support us, provide valuable feedback, and use our technologies.

And of course, please get involved in the project at http://github.com/ocpsoft/rewrite

Happy Holidays!

I am proud to announce the immediate availability of OCPsoft PrettyTime 3.2.7.Final, the open-source social-style time formatting library for Java.

PrettyTime allows you to create human-readable timestamps such as “3 minutes ago” or “just now”, and is used in other open-source tools such as JBoss Tools, and JBoss Developer Studio.

Release Notes:

This release contains new translations for Turkamen (tk-TM) and translation spelling/grammar revisions for several other language bundles. Additionally, we have resolved an issue with precise time calculations that caused PrettyTime to print multiple instances of the same time unit when using custom time-unit configurations.

Get PrettyTime!

Enjoy, and happy holidays,
Lincoln and the OCPsoft team.

Just in case you would like to see a little tutorial of using [[Rewrite]], our friends over at mastertheboss.com have written up a quick tutorial explaining how to use Rewrite and get started using CDN relocation to save server bandwidth. Be sure to check out the tutorial to see some very interesting use-cases that can be solved simply with Rewrite.

Rewrite is a URL-rewriting and Servlet application framework intended to simplify tasks such as inbound request redirection, url-mapping, and outbound response modification. It provides a simple configuration API and annotation framework that makes customizing your Servlet applications simple.

Hello open-source fanatics! You may have noticed our recent move from ocpsoft.com to ocpsoft.org, and we would like to take a brief moment to explain this change. We have always been an open-source website, a group of technologists dedicated to the open-source programming model, but our domain name did not reflect this initiative. OCPsoft is an organization for shared open ideas, and in order to promote that reality, we have decided to take the risk at damaging our search rank in order to stay true to our ideals. If you would like to help us through this transition, you can do so by blogging about or linking to our new domain: ocpsoft.org, using the following HTML. Thank you for supporting open-source software! ~Lincoln, and The OCPsoft Team