I have posted a new build and updated the online docs.

This build has lots of bug fixes and a couple of nice enhancements. Big things to note:

Sql API

I've made significant changes to the sql API. The key class is now SqlConn which models a logical JDBC connection. This API replaces the deprecated SqlService. For additional details:

• Ticket 1318
• Updated sql pod-pod

The original APIs all continue to work exactly like before, however they have been deprecated and will be removed in build 58.

Additional Locales

Thanks to katox who wrote a script to generate sys locale files from Linux data files. We should now have basic date/time/number locale information for most major languages. For those of you living around the world, please take a look and let me know if your locales look okay.

New APIs

• Added util::Random class with seeding support (popularly requested)
• Added shutdown hooks to sys::Env
• Date/Time locale formatting now fully supported in JS

Bundle Java classes in pod

You can now bundle Java classes into a pod for deployment. They have private visibility to the pod class loader. See:

• Ticket 430
• Java FFI Deployment

Breaking Changes

There were some minor breaking change which might effect some code:

• Removed deprecated slice methods which were replaced by getRange in build 56
• Socket classes are no longer const
• Str.in no longer supports binary reads
• Tightened up compiler checks for as, null-safe operators
• Use of comma operator requires add to be annotated as @Operator

Change Log

Build 1.0.57 (6 Jan 2011)

• Rename sql::Col.of => type
• Change how JDBC classes are preloaded by sql
• Update timezone database
• Add support for timezone aliases (tzinfo backward list)
• FileMod: remove requirement that file exists, just return 404
• Fix Map.add, getOrAdd handling of null values
• Change Border.defVal from 1 to 0 width
• Tighten up Num toLocale to reject invalid patterns
• Add Subtype Substitution section to docLang::TypeSystem chapter
• Improve closure performance making Func.params lazily loaded
• js: Complete DateTime/Date/Time toLocale/fromLocale
• sql: add support for sys::Decimal type
• js: Deployment and running docs
• Add sys locale files for most major languages
• Remove deprecated slice methods (replaced by getRange)
• #430: Bundle Java classes in pod
• #1260: Seeding the random number generator
• #1307: VerifyError with as/+ operator combo
• #1308: Closures param names are not available at runtime
• #1313: Require Operator facet on add for comma operator
• #1314: Env.addShutdownHook
• #1316: BorderPane not a subclass of ContentPane?
• #1318: Sql API changes
• #1326: Support for is/as operators on value-types
• #1328: Str.in not working properly with Unicode
• #1344: fansh doesn't handle Java FFI variables
• #1345: Coerce in shortcut assignments
• #1348: Make inet Sockets non-const classes
• #1363: Obj.trap support for default args of null