participants: to wit, any user can opt-out from ALL those mailings with one
setting; each message now carries a standard disKlaimer indicating how the
user can opt-out (and it's REAL opt-out, not this fakey stuff the spammers do)
file, the bare beginnings of the Service Control Manager on the server side,
and the new "community left menu" on the client side (still controlled by the
existing feature mechanism, for now). The engine still needs to incorporate
the SCM in place of the old feature definitions. Also added some utility
classes (StockMessage, XMLLoader) to aid with loading XML data from the
config files (big help in the RenderConfig constructor and
VeniceEngineImpl.initialize!)
EnvUser, EnvCommunity, and EnvConference each need to keep a reference to their
own SecurityMonitor, we can't rely on getStaticMonitor() (but we still need it,
to make the other "wrapper" functions work)
architecture--it's implemented at the global level and for communities,
conferences still use the old hard-coded implementation. The new
StaticSecurityMonitor is configured via XML data, which will be important
when we implement the new Community Services architecture
separated from the internal objects (as well as separating the internal
interfaces), some prep work for modularizing the SIG-to-service interface so
it'll be easier to add chat and stuff. Also fixed up a display issue with
1-character CDTextFormFields.
files as they are likely to change VERY infrequently; this simplifies a lot
of bits of code that would otherwise have to call through VeniceEngine, etc.
Also folded the LocaleFactory class method into the new International object
used for managing the lists.
of "properties" storage and editing for conferences, communities, users, and
the global system. In addition, the "global properties" editing screen got
implemented, because it wasn't there yet.
on XML config files...the implementation should now be much more customizable
and less klunky. Added a provision for implementing "generic" (JSP-driven)
sideboxes. Implemented the sidebox configure button on the front page
(finally!). Implemented a random password generator class which will be used
in a future implementation of reminder-driven automatic forgotten-password
changing. Fixed some minor funnies in SIG menu generation.
the underlying support) - incidentally, this is a lot of support for the SIG
logo as well, just need some front end work for that in the future
(of course, we now require JAI 1.1.1)
page so that it generates correct URL; repaired a security hole (well, not
really, but a PERCEIVED security hole) regarding accounts that have been
created but not yet confirmed
- cookie-based persistent logins
- expanded activity reporting
- "top" and "fixed" left menus are now dynamically generated from XML config,
not hard coded
- error reporting enhanced and protection increased
- "About Venice" page first draft
- new means of "framing" static content within the Venice "frame"
- base page now includes the "footer" itself, "content" pages don't anymore
- general cleanup of some heavyweight old containers, replaced with faster
Collections framework containers
- probably more, there's a LOT of stuff in here
- fixed a bug in navigation between conferences via post links
- fixed the "your post is 'new'" bug (this was actually another bug, in
postNewMessage())
- some other stuff
