Approaching the Finish Line

This post was originally part of a series documenting an open source web framework I worked on. The framework is well and dead, but I’m keeping these posts for posterity.

Frame2 is almost ready to be released as a new version. I may still make some changes, but it’s definitely in Release Candidate stage now. There are only a few things that I may add before testing the heck out of it:

• Upgrade unit tests to JUnit 4. There are a lot of tests, especially the ones that mock a servlet container, that do a lot of repetitive work in setUp() . JUnit 4 has finally brought the ability to annotate methods to be run before and after all tests in the class with @BeforeClass and @AfterClass, respectively. Individual test setup activities can still be performed by annotating a method with @Before.
• Fix outstanding bugs. There’s only one right now, and it’s SOAP specific, so I may or may not fix it. It may take me longer to figure out how to reproduce the problem with unit tests than it’s worth.
• Add outstanding feature requests. Again, there’s only one, but it’s (in my opinion) a biggie — the ability to add parameters to the response when handling an event.
• Doc updates. The web services doc needs to be written, and I’m sure all of the other doc needs a good examination.

I’ll be testing the latest build with a web application that I’ve been working on for years that I’ve come to think of as an unofficial reference implementation of Frame2. I haven’t decided yet if the web app should become part of the project on Github or not. We’ll see.

Once the testing is done and I’ve released a new version of Frame2, I plan on working on the Eclipse plugin. The poor plugin has pretty much been ignored for several years now, and it needs some attention.