Ok, this new feature is quick one [-; There is now ability to rename action. This was originally designed to be in the properties page in the editor of java source files (like for html or resource objects). But during the time it was quite obvious that this is not the way. Just editing java files in eclipse editor feels much better. Anyway there is some screenshot for those of you who want to see something [-;

Rename action menu 

One nice fall day my brother when playing with beta of Vortex 1.1 noticed that the code for uploading design objects is broken. I tried it, and everything seemed to be ok. But Pepa complained again. Ok, I make it shorter, after a while I have found that the problem is in different implementation of LENGTH command accross database vendors. Ok, so where was the problem? I was trying to get the size of the design object from the database. So I was using LENGTH function for this. The problem is that Mysql treats LENGTH for BLOB columns as number of bytes, but HSQLDB which was Pepa using as backing database returns number of bytes, but doubled. I don't know if this is bug in HSQLDB, or they are just misinterpreting the meaning, or I do. They write in documentation:

LENGTH(s)
returns the number of characters in s

they also have function

One of the things where Vortex had to catch up webdesigner is modification of the schedule scheduled actions. This is just fairly simple dialog, but I want to start the mini series about Vortex 1.1 with this one.

At first how to get to the dialog. This nicely illustrates the next image:

Next are some samples how the editing looks like. 

editing schedule which is supposed to be executed every year on the 1. of july at 0:00

editing schedule which executes every 20 minutes every day in the week from 4:00 to 6:00 

Release of the version 1.1 of Vortex is closer and close every day. So now it's the time to introduce what cool new things you can expect from it. Today I will cover the overall changes, and in the next few days I will talk about each of the changes in detail.

What is the main message of the version 1.1? Webdesigner application is obsolete. [-; Well, not quite right, for small, last time fixes it's still great tool. But in version 1.1 there is nothing you could do in webdesigner, and not in Vortex. What was added from missing webddesigner features are:

• database schema designer
• sql query editor
• scheduled action scheduling
• action renaming
  

We have also added lot of things to make developer's life easier, and more productive. The major improvements are namely these:

• javadoc context help for puakma.jar
• blackbook integration in help system
• new version of Eclipse IDE 3.2, which is itself huge step forward at least on Mac
• improved html editor, new css, and javascript editors
  
• enhanced uploader
• new Tornado server command console view
  
• and of course many speed improvements, consistency, and bug fixes