COPPER 3.0 released

The top item of this 3.0 release is that we changed COPPER’s toplevel package from de.scoopgmbh.copper to org.copperengine.

Other than that the public API is unchanged (almost, see below). If you are using COPPER then you can easily migrate your project by changing all import statements from de.scoopgmbh.copper to either org.copperengine.core (if the class resides in copperengine-core.jar) or org.copperengine (otherwise).

If you have persistent workflows, don’t worry that the persisted stackframes might contain references to old classes in the de.scoopgmbh.* package: we got you covered. Whenever COPPER loads a persistent workflow instance (or response) it transforms the package name automatically during load time – no further intervention neccessary.

Other changes, compared to the last stable release 2.4.3

• Refactoring: Renamed COPPER major Throwable from “de.scoopgmbh.copper.InterruptException” to “org.copperengine.core.Interrupt”. Persistent workflow instances and responses in existing databases keep compatible due to a loadtime adaptation feature - see StandardJavaSerializer.classnameReplacement
• Refactoring: All Spring supporting classes have been moved to an own subproject: copper-spring. Attention! SpringTransactionController and SpringTxnAuditTrail have been moved to another package
• Refactoring: de.scoopgmbh.copper.audit.BatchingAuditTrail does no longer implement spring’s InitializingBean. This makes copper less dependent on spring stuff.
• Refactoring: de.scoopgmbh.copper.Response.internalProcessingTimeout changed from Integer to Long to enable really LONG timeouts
• Refactoring: Renamed table ADAPTERCALL to COP_ADAPTERCALL, renamed index IX_ADAPTERCALL to COP_IDX_ADAPTERCALL
• New feature: Added new wait methods, e.g. de.scoopgmbh.copper.Workflow.wait(WaitMode, long, TimeUnit, String…)
• New feature: COPPER now uses the Eclipse compiler ecj (or any other JSR-199 compatible java compiler) when found on the CLASSPATH and the default Java compiler is not available. Thus you can run COPPER on a normal JRE instead of a full JDK, ie. you no longer need to provide tools.jar as long as you add ecj.jar to your runtime dependencies.
• Bugfix: Issue #26: Removed commons-logging from dependencies
• Bugfix: Issue #25: Removed log4j dependency from copper-coreengine
• COPPER is now available as a Maven dependency on Maven Central

You can get it here: https://github.com/copper-engine/copper-engine/releases/tag/3.0