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title: 'Wow, the many changes!'
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description: 'So many changes, and so long no update - not good!'
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weight: -12
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date: 2017-03-21T00:00:00+01:00
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LastModifierDisplayName: "Robert von Burg"
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LastModifierEmail: "eitch@eitchnet.ch"
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## Wow, the many changes!
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So many changes, and so long no update - not good!
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Oh boy, have we forgotten to update you all on the latest awesome features in
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Strolch! There are
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over [123 commits](https://github.com/strolch-li/strolch/compare/1.3.0...develop)
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since the last tag 1.3.0, so that alone merits a new blog post.
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Currently the latest tag is 1.5.5, but this version is actually already quite
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old, as it was created on 31. January 2017 and there are 53 new commits ahead of
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the tag.
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Enough of all the commits, lets get to the new features:
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* Added new generic report creator
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* Added Activity.TimeOrdering and updated Model XSD
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* Implemented State Model on Activity/Actions
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* Implemented execution of Activities
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* Implemented EventBasedExecutionHandler
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* Added StrolchXmlParser to quickly parse from a file
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* Add Activity.remove(String) to remove an element
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* Refactored LockHandler to use Locator
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* Added Activity.getActionsWithState(State)
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* Moved *ToFlat and *FromFlat Json Visitors to strolch model
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* Added StrolchElementQuery.internal()
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* Added Parameter.clearValue() and list parameters use , as sep
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* Json Tags are now in Tags.Json and are drinking camel-case
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* Moved PrivilegeAddUserService to command, added tests
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* Lots of JavaDoc updates
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* Refactored code for REST Inspector to use gson
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* Added inspector REST api for activities
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* Inspector now has offset/limit for queries
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* Added new StringMapArgument for StrolchServices
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* Added missing activity observer calls in AbstractTransaction
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* Added StringMapResult to use as a ServiceResult
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* Removed many visitors and implemented proper visitor pattern...
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* Don't log stack trace if certificate does not exist
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* SmtpMailer now understands whitelists for override
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* Fixed locator finding for Activity and Action
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* Fixed undo logic for general commands
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To summarize, **execution** and **reporting** are the two new features that make
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Strolch really awesome! We use execution to perform a number of actions on a
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remote device connected to a Strolch agent through WebSockets. This allows
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serial and parallel execution of actions and of course locking of concurrently
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used resources.
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In an enterprise world reports can never be missed, so we needed an API to
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create reports. Of course that API was created in a way that all things are done
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in Strolch: generically. Thus a report is created as a Resource, defining the
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report object, columns and any relevant joins.
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And one of the really cool things is that we have started with a UI for Strolch.
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There is now an [Inspector](https://github.com/strolch-li/strolch-wc-inspector)
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with which the entire data model of a running agent can be seen. This inspector
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is built using Polymer and WebComponents and thus can be easily embedded in your
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application.
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To facilitate the authentication of a user for the inspector,
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an [authentication component](https://github.com/strolch-li/strolch-wc-auth) was
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created as well. And of course i18n can't be forgotten, so there is a component
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for [that](https://github.com/strolch-li/strolch-wc-localize-behavior) too.
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To simplify tasks in a web project, there is also
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a [StrolchJs](https://github.com/strolch-li/strolchjs) repository where certain
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Strolch specific things are handled e.g. querying the authenticated user's roles
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etc.
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The release of the next Strolch version isn't defined yet, as we are internally
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building a project on all these changes and with the release 1.0.0 of that
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project (which will be soon), we shall perform the next release of Strolch.
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Until then, happy coding!
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