Adm version 1.0 Release Notes

1. Overview:

This major release includes java cdev version 2.2.2. Two new control widgets and two new container widgets are added compared with previous release version 0.4. All deprecated classes and methods are removed from the package in this release.

2. New and changes:

Two new widgets, CWheelSwitch and CCheckbox, are included for controlling the device-properties in the system.
The abstract classes CNamedApplication and CSingeltonApplication are added to the package. They are used to develop the application invoked by the CJavaMenuItem widget. The documents and sample code on how to use these classes are available on the cdev Java web site.
CApplication class is modified to use a static variable connection_count to keep track the number of the connection. The application will attempt to connect to the server only when connection has not been established (connection count = 0). And disconnect from the system when no more connection needed (connection count = 0).
CJavaMenuItem is updated to require the invoked class to provide a main method instead of static execute method.
Deprecated widgets CFrame and CText, as well as all deprecated methods are removed from the package.
CDEV Java version 2.2.2 jar file is included in the release. The documentation (generated by javadoc) for both packages are also available in the release tar file.

3. System requirements:

To using the this package Java 1.1.7 and above is required. Java 1.1.8, 1.2.2 and 1.3 version are recommend. They can be downloaded from the java.sun.com web site.
This release was tested under Linux Red Hat 6.0 and 6.2, Windows 98 and NT 4.0 using java 1.2.2.

4. Installation:

Download the tar file from Java cdev web site. Unpack the tar file using the tar utility. The files are organized as follows:


                                        CDEVHOME
             ________________________________|___________________________
            |              |           |                |        |       |
           adm         adm.jar   adm_develop.jar    cdev.jar   domo     doc
    ________|__________________________                                  |
   |         |       |       |         |                              *.html
 README   *.java   event   *.gif   Makefile                               
                _____|_____
               |           |
            *.java       *.gif

The all html files under doc directory are generated by javadoc utility. Run "make admdoc" can also created adm document pages in a CDEVHOME/admdoc directory.

There are two adm jar files provided in this release. The adm.jar file contains only none-BeanInfo class and used in the run time. It is relatively smaller than adm_develop.jar file. The adm_develop.jar contains all class files, including the BeanInfo classes, and all image files needed by the visual builder tool. These two jar files can be created by run "make admjar" on Unix or Linux platform. They are also available to download from the cdev web site.

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