Version 1.4.2

• More refinements and bug fixes for new Imaging code by Juerg Lehni
• Removed RMI based servlet client classes
• Add ObjectCache interface for pluggable cache implementations
• Add NodeChangeListener interface to allow catching changes in persistent nodes
• Fixes in helma.main.Server start and stop methods to allow embedding Helma
• Make accessname keys case insensitive without compromising original capitalization
• Separate collections from properties by not allowing child objects to be accessed as properties
• Rewrote Rhino code management to be more reliable in removing dead properties in recompilation
• Include application name in script source names
• Implement res.commit(): commits all changes to DB and starts a new transaction
• Implement res.abort(): aborts the current transaction and request
• Handle all HTTP methods, adding _methodname as postfix to the action name. Only GET, POST and HEAD are mapped to plain _action functions
• Add req.getMethod/req.method that returns/contains the current HTTP method as string
• Add req.getServletRequest()/req.servletRequest that returns the HttpServletRequest object for HTTP requests
• Add res.getServletResponse()/res.servletResponse that returns the HttpServletResponse object for HTTP requests
• Set up req, path, session... objects for all types of requests
• Implement skin/macro comments as <% // ..... %>
• Display an error message for unhandled global macros
• Improve standard error messages to contain valid HTML
• Improve Date handling and conversion, all dates are now genuine JavaScript Date objects
• Fixes to make Helma run with GCJ 4.0
• Add HopObject.getById() function to all HopObject constructors that fetches a persistent HopObject of the constructor's type by primary key
• Add HopObject.persist() function to HopObjects that allows to store a transient HopObject and all transient HopObjects reachable from it to database
• Use package name rather than class name for Logs created via helma.util.Logging.getInstance(Class)
• Impmroved SQL logging: Separate log file, better format, table and timing info
• Many bugfixes in helma.objectmodel.db (object-relational mapping)
• Bugfixes and improvements in helma.util.HtmlEncoder (format(), encode())

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