Freemarker update

[Jacques Le Roux]

Hi,

It's a while we did not update Freemarker. We use version 2.3.10 (2007-04-20), soon (16th of May) 2.3.17 will be released with some
interesting features and numerous bug fixes.

http://freemarker.org/docs-rc/versions_2_3_11.html
(?c) only used in geolocation.ftl, I don't expect much problems there
Interesting:  A new model interface, TemplateDirectiveModel provides an easier paradigm for implementing user-defined directives
than TemplateTransformModel did previously. TemplateTransformModel will be deprecated. So should still work, cases could be updated,
and easier way to do it now

http://freemarker.org/docs-rc/versions_2_3_12.html
In the templates, now you can conveniently call Java methods that use the Java 5 varargs feature (variable-length argument lists).

http://freemarker.org/docs-rc/versions_2_3_13.html
New built-ins for rounding numbers: round, floor, ceiling.
Reworked template caching mechanism for radically improved concurrent performance (Achieved 20x speedup)

http://freemarker.org/docs-rc/versions_2_3_14.html
New built-in: xhtml

http://freemarker.org/docs-rc/versions_2_3_17rc1.html
?seq_index_of and ?seq_last_index_of now works on collections
?long now works for date, date-time and time values, and returns the milliseconds since the epoch (as java.util.Date.getTime()).
New special variable, now. This returns the current date-time.
?sort and ?sort_by now supports sorting boolean values.
FreeMarker now can log its messages directly using SLF4J or Apache Commons Logging.

So I'd like to update soon using 2.3.17. Someone is currently testing the RC1 in a custome application  (based on OFBiz of course)

Jacques

[Jacques Le Roux]

Sorry I completly forgot about it but had a doubt in mind, that's why I send a message before doing anything
In http://markmail.org/message/uswj4i54iczwothh you suggested some possible progresses I guess related to
http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=986577

I'd not prefer to stay forever stuck with 2.3.10 when everybody is going ahead. Someone I know which needs to works on an OFBIz
based CMS is investigating. Maybe we could share the efforts?

Jacques

From: "Hans Bakker" <[hidden email]>

> remember that the new version was slowing down the ecommerce
> significantly....
>
> On Wed, 2011-05-11 at 14:15 +0200, Jacques Le Roux wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> It's a while we did not update Freemarker. We use version 2.3.10 (2007-04-20), soon (16th of May) 2.3.17 will be released with
>> some
>> interesting features and numerous bug fixes.
>>
>> http://freemarker.org/docs-rc/versions_2_3_11.html
>> (?c) only used in geolocation.ftl, I don't expect much problems there
>> Interesting:  A new model interface, TemplateDirectiveModel provides an easier paradigm for implementing user-defined directives
>> than TemplateTransformModel did previously. TemplateTransformModel will be deprecated. So should still work, cases could be
>> updated,
>> and easier way to do it now
>>
>> http://freemarker.org/docs-rc/versions_2_3_12.html
>> In the templates, now you can conveniently call Java methods that use the Java 5 varargs feature (variable-length argument
>> lists).
>>
>> http://freemarker.org/docs-rc/versions_2_3_13.html
>> New built-ins for rounding numbers: round, floor, ceiling.
>> Reworked template caching mechanism for radically improved concurrent performance (Achieved 20x speedup)
>>
>> http://freemarker.org/docs-rc/versions_2_3_14.html
>> New built-in: xhtml
>>
>> http://freemarker.org/docs-rc/versions_2_3_17rc1.html
>> ?seq_index_of and ?seq_last_index_of now works on collections
>> ?long now works for date, date-time and time values, and returns the milliseconds since the epoch (as java.util.Date.getTime()).
>> New special variable, now. This returns the current date-time.
>> ?sort and ?sort_by now supports sorting boolean values.
>> FreeMarker now can log its messages directly using SLF4J or Apache Commons Logging.
>>
>> So I'd like to update soon using 2.3.17. Someone is currently testing the RC1 in a custome application  (based on OFBiz of
>> course)
>>
>> Jacques
>>
>>
>
> --
> Ofbiz on twitter: http://twitter.com/apache_ofbiz
> Myself on twitter: http://twitter.com/hansbak
> Antwebsystems.com: Quality services for competitive rates.
>

[Jacques Le Roux]

Hans,

BTW inr986577 you said <<We are in discussion with the freemarker developers to solve this problem there.>>. Could you be more
specific and explain a bit the issues you crossed, only those in http://markmail.org/message/ppie7riv2i3cwlku ?
Also it seems there have been several bug fixes between 15 and 17RC1, I think it's worth trying this new version, could you give it
a try?

I'd like to have Scott's opininon also because he wrote the directive https://fisheye6.atlassian.com/changelog/ofbiz?cs=956484

Thanks

Jacques


From: "Jacques Le Roux" <[hidden email]>

> Sorry I completly forgot about it but had a doubt in mind, that's why I send a message before doing anything
> In http://markmail.org/message/uswj4i54iczwothh you suggested some possible progresses I guess related to
> http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=986577
>
> I'd not prefer to stay forever stuck with 2.3.10 when everybody is going ahead. Someone I know which needs to works on an OFBIz
> based CMS is investigating. Maybe we could share the efforts?
>
> Jacques
>
> From: "Hans Bakker" <[hidden email]>
>> remember that the new version was slowing down the ecommerce
>> significantly....
>>
>> On Wed, 2011-05-11 at 14:15 +0200, Jacques Le Roux wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> It's a while we did not update Freemarker. We use version 2.3.10 (2007-04-20), soon (16th of May) 2.3.17 will be released with
>>> some
>>> interesting features and numerous bug fixes.
>>>
>>> http://freemarker.org/docs-rc/versions_2_3_11.html
>>> (?c) only used in geolocation.ftl, I don't expect much problems there
>>> Interesting:  A new model interface, TemplateDirectiveModel provides an easier paradigm for implementing user-defined directives
>>> than TemplateTransformModel did previously. TemplateTransformModel will be deprecated. So should still work, cases could be
>>> updated,
>>> and easier way to do it now
>>>
>>> http://freemarker.org/docs-rc/versions_2_3_12.html
>>> In the templates, now you can conveniently call Java methods that use the Java 5 varargs feature (variable-length argument
>>> lists).
>>>
>>> http://freemarker.org/docs-rc/versions_2_3_13.html
>>> New built-ins for rounding numbers: round, floor, ceiling.
>>> Reworked template caching mechanism for radically improved concurrent performance (Achieved 20x speedup)
>>>
>>> http://freemarker.org/docs-rc/versions_2_3_14.html
>>> New built-in: xhtml
>>>
>>> http://freemarker.org/docs-rc/versions_2_3_17rc1.html
>>> ?seq_index_of and ?seq_last_index_of now works on collections
>>> ?long now works for date, date-time and time values, and returns the milliseconds since the epoch (as java.util.Date.getTime()).
>>> New special variable, now. This returns the current date-time.
>>> ?sort and ?sort_by now supports sorting boolean values.
>>> FreeMarker now can log its messages directly using SLF4J or Apache Commons Logging.
>>>
>>> So I'd like to update soon using 2.3.17. Someone is currently testing the RC1 in a custome application  (based on OFBiz of
>>> course)
>>>
>>> Jacques
>>>
>>>
>>
>> --
>> Ofbiz on twitter: http://twitter.com/apache_ofbiz
>> Myself on twitter: http://twitter.com/hansbak
>> Antwebsystems.com: Quality services for competitive rates.
>>
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