History
Date Event
10/02/2000 Project started
12/07/2000 First version released. Supported Replace, Replicate, Set Alpha, Set Brightness, Set Custom Color, Set Tint, Transform, Insert JPEG, Insert Symbol, Insert Flash Movie.
12/14/2000 Version 1.1.1 released. Supported List, Scrolling List, Ticker and Flash5 format. A lot of bugs fixed.
12/16/2000 Version 1.1.2 released. Some bugs in actionscrips fixed and parameters in servlet.
12/18/2000 Version 1.1.3 released. Added simple API for parsing/processing templates from Java.
01/30/2001 First open source release (under GPL). Version 1.2.0.
  • Table, Add External Media command
  • caching (requests, media, fonts)
  • collects statistic
  • redesigned the website (thanx to Katya)
  • 01/30/2001 Changed license from GPL to LGPL
    02/01/2001 Changed license from LGPL to Apache style :)
    I was convinced that Apache style license gives more freedom to developers than those from GNU. Since I don't care much about all this license crap and since right now I am the only contributor to this project I just changed it to Apache style license. That's it.
    02/08/2001 Fixed serious bug in button sound code. Version 1.2.1
    Thanx to Peterson Byron.
    02/08/2001 Version 1.2.2 bugs fix.
    02/28/2001 Version 1.2.3 mostly bugs fix.
  • added wrap images feature and some image API
  • added build.xml (by James Taylor)
  • added insert Gif command (by Patrick TALBOT)
  • error.swt is now scrollable
  • added copying of FlashFile
  • added ClipActions (this fixed a lot of bugs!)
  • fixed a lot of bugs in text layout (word wrapping too)
  • fixed double processing of some commands (this fixed some layout problems)
  • fixed one pixels gaps in list commands
  • fixed escape characters processing
  • a lot of small fixes which I don't remember
  • 03/29/2001 Version 1.2.4
  • added advanced error handling
  • added wrap sounds feature
  • added support for mp3 sound and "Insert MP3 File" command (by James Taylor)
  • table command is finally fixed (with help from Patrick Talbot)
  • API is little bit extended and added some examples
  • added documentation on configuration on JRun 3.0 (by Nico Joos) and JServ (by Tobi)
  • added some documentation on JGenerator
  • fixed bugs in action script code
  • result of database query is now escape processed
  • fixed several minor bugs
  • 06/21/2001 Version 1.3.0 - first version with XML support. I think it's quite a change, so I iterated second digit.
  • added XML datasources and several XML-only commands (with documentation)
  • added InsertMedia, InsertText commands (with documentation)
  • added servlet context for Java datasources
  • added full png support, InsertPng command etc (by Patrick Talbot)
  • added stopAction parameter for Insert MP3 command (by Andrew Wason)
  • added property for controlling text layout
  • added property for controlling case sensitivity
  • added some basic free fonts for use with InsertText command
  • dynamic data type detection (images, movies, sound)
  • rewrote a lot of code to make it a little bit more consistent
  • added some examples
  • added documentation for OS X (Mac) (by Robert M. Hall)
  • added documentation on installation, new commands and XML datasources
  • fixed a lot of bugs
  • 09/14/2001 Version 1.3.1 - maintenance release.
  • added support for progressive JPEGs
  • added two new command line options defining parameters
  • added a lof of javadocs
  • added FOP support (Johan "Spocke" S”rlin, James Taylor)
  • added XML examples (James Taylor)
  • added "inline" commands
  • detection of JGenerator installation directory at runtime
  • packaging of JGenerator with native installers
  • fixed thread synchronization problems in XML stuff
  • fixed processing of empty datasources
  • fixed querying of binary data from mysql and possible from the other sql DBs
  • fixed a lot of bugs