Babuines News/2007-2-18

Babuine Component Model has been released. Current release is 0.4.

This is a list with various improvements in various areas:

Performance Improvements:
- Reduction of initial load time.
Installing Improvements:
- You can install it into your GAC. Simply run: gacutil -i Babuine.ComponentModel.dll
Design Improvements:
- A lot of internal refactoring.
- Start support for Design by Contract components. By the moment primitive preconditions and postconditions.
  - Only activated if you compile your assembly with DEBUG option. By this way, you can create pre and postconditions, and disable it if you are deploying your components in production.
- Logging only active if you are in debug mode.
- Use generic collections.
  - This is a improvement in performance, and in code size. Simpler, and more mantenible.
  - Deleted entity collections.
- Testing
  - Added more unit tests.
- Assembly lookup in the executable assembly.
  - With this, you needn't type MONO_PATH=. mono AppLauncher.exe
- Interface for persistence based on DAO design pattern.

--Néstor Salceda 2007-2-18