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CPAINT: pronta la release 2.0

Agosto 24th, 2005

E’ stata rilasciata in questi giorni la release 2.0 di CPAINT, una delle migliori librerie per implementare Ajax nei propri prodotti. Molte le novità e i bugfix, ecco il changelog:
v2.0 (Released August 19, 2005)  

» completely rewrote the JavaScript frontend. 
» 100% OOP approach. 
» completely configurable through setter methods. 
» support for syncronized calls (SJAX?) . 
» automatic XML parsing into JavaScript document structure if response_type=’object’. 
» support for arbitrary character sets, including non-printable characters. 

» automatic detection and conversion of numeric data into integers / floats. 
» unified use of call() for local and remote targets. 
» can now use frontend to retrieve static files or backend functions not implemented with CPAINT  
» use of a single (persistent) connection for multiple calls. 
» XML to JavaScript parser is able to parse any XML structure now. 
» support for XML attributes. 

» added find_item_by_type() to cpaint_result_object. 
» added get_attribute(), set_attribute() to cpaint_result_object. 
» improved debugging, added debuglevels 1, 2. see set_debug() 
 
» completely rewrote the PHP and ASP backends. 
» 100% OOP approach. 
» protection against remote code-execution. 

» support for object methods as callable functions. 
» nested XML support through composite pattern. 
» arbitrary XML structure creation support. 
» support for arbitrary character sets. 
» replaced remote code-execution blacklisting approach of v1.3-SP with whitelisting through cpaint.register(). 
» changed XML name convention. Attributes and tagnames are send as-is, not in uppercase. 

 
» improved readability of the ASP and PHP proxy utilities. 
» fixed GET requests. 
» proxy now uses attributenames identical to the CPAINT backend itself whenever possible. 
» added support for target ports other than 80. 
» added support for Basic Authentication. 
» completely redesigned and rewritten documentation!  

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