Jolie 1.1 released

Jolie 1.1 has been released!

This release is the result of more than 500 commits, which contain:

• almost 30 new APIs in the standard library;
• more than a hundred bugfixes;
• almost a hundred improvements to the interpreter and its libraries.

Changelog of major changes

New features

• Interfaces can now be referenced as constants in courier processes.
• Programs can automatically access the subdirectories lib and include from the directory they are executed in, respectively for libraries and include files.
• It is now possible to develop "abstract locations" for input ports, i.e., Jolie extensions that can change at runtime the location of an input port, for example by fetching it from a registry or a configuration file.
• Tracer. Jolie now supports a "--trace" option that prints all communications on screen (useful for debugging).

Implementation improvements

• Improved message handling in concurrent communications.
• Faster shutdown procedure for the interpreter.
• Better handling of memory deallocation when an embedded service terminates.
• Improved handling of persistent channels, with a new algorithm for managing timeouts of cached channels.
• Support for Java 8.
• Better Windows support (path resolution and JAP files).

New APIs

• Console management.
• Database management. Also, support for HSQLDB and DB2 has been added.
• File management.
• JSON support.
• Queue-like data structures.
• Runtime management of the interpreter.
• Semaphores.
• Shell command execution.
• String manipulation.
• XML handling.

Improvements to protocols

• http: default operations can now be assigned to specific HTTP methods (GET, PUT, POST, DELETE, HEAD).
• http: improved message handling, improved JSON support.
• json-rpc: better support, general improvements.
• ssl: bug fixes (applies to all protocols using ssl, e.g., https).
• xml-rpc: better support, general improvements.

Improvements to tools

• joliedoc: types can now be documented.
• joliedoc: bug fixes.
• jolie2wsdl: bug fixes.
• wsdl2jolie: bug fixes.