HTTP/2 support is now live!
Release notes:
- Updated to Spring Framework 4
- Updated to Hibernate 5
- Updated to Jetty 9.3.5
- Converted from JSP to Thymeleaf
- Updated compiler settings to Java 8
Most of these changes should be invisible to casual users. The biggest changes were made to allow the use of HTTP/2 on this site (once I switch to using HAProxy 1.6 instead of Apache as a reverse proxy).
I am currently converting a few other sites which are also hosted here to supporting HTTP/2. Once that is completed, I will be able to run the entire infrastructure over secure HTTP/2. In addition, I am testing out Docker based deployments of all the site components. More details to come.
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- New feature: Gravatar avatar images on comments and article postings
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- Converted all javascript UI code to JQuery, eliminating about 15 source files
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- Began converting javascript from Behaviour.js (does anyone still use that?) to JQuery
- Started adding ajax calls for admin tasks -- finished comment approval / disapproval / deletion
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- New Feature: Allow articles to be closed for commenting.
This should hopefully reduce the amount of time I spend cleaning up after spammers. I have started with closing comments for anything older than 30 days. This should at least let me concentrate on page 1 and not have to go back to older stuff.
Release notes:
- Completed migration to Spring MVC 3.2
- Converted data access to Spring Data JPA
- Updated to new randomcoder-taglibs version (supports Spring Pageable implementation)
- Built against Java 7
Upcoming changes:
- Convert unit tests to JUnit 4
- Expand unit test coverage
- Update source to take advantage of Java 7 features
- Refactor data access methods and entities to minimize N+1 selects
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- Finally converted security from the truly ancient ACEGI to Spring Security 3.1. The configuration is much simpler now.
- Began migration to Spring MVC 3.2; roughly one third of the controllers are complete.
- Updated to Hibernate 4.2. This is a temporary stop on the way to using JPA and Spring Data.
- Removed the old Hibernate OpenSessionInView pattern. Unfortunately this required wrapping almost all data calls with Hibernate.initialize() due to lazy collections. Another TODO...
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- Moved to using HTTPS throughout the entire site.
- Removed CardSpace support.