Karora

Recently across the Java community there has been increased talk about OSGI and its place on the server-side. For those not aware, OSGI is essentially a plugin framework that was originally developed to be used in embedded devices. Its also the underlying framework for which Eclipse sits on top of. With recent announcements regarding OSGI by major open source projects and vendors, it has quickly become a hot topic around the traps.

One of the first pieces of functionality to go into the Cooee library was full support for OSGI. Not only does this give you the ability to run Cooee embedded within Eclipse (Equinox), but it will also run within OSGI environments. Cooee's OSGI support is transparent, so moving between OSGI and non-OSGI environments is relatively painless.

A new tutorial is now available which provides a HelloWorld example for running Cooee applications within Eclipse, and consequently, Equinox.

This tutorial is available here: http://www.karora.org/wiki/display/COO/Getting+started+with+Cooee+under+...

The Karora group (http://www.karora.org) has released version 1.1 of their Java-based AJAX framework. This release includes new components and several bug fixes aimed at improving browser compatibility and stability.

The updates to Cooee include:
- Overall improved compatibility across all major browsers. Consequently, components now behave in a much more uniform way across different environments.
- Improved handling of Modal windows
- Changes to the way in which components register event handlers
- Improved component styling management
- Transparent color support
- Improved OSGI Support

Amonst the updates, three new components have also been added to the component set, these are:
- RegExTextField: Validates input based on regular expressions with helpful user feedback
- IntegerTextField: Validates Integer number with helpful user feedback
- ActiveTextArea: A text area component which notifies the user when they have exceeded input limits

Supporting documentation around the framework has also been vastly improved.

Karora Cooee can be downloaded from the Karora website at http://www.karora.org/?q=node/14. A full changelog is also available at the website.

Karora Cooee was a project established in early 2007. The framework originates from a combination of Nextapp's Echo 2 framework and its supporting libraries such as EchoPointNG. Version 1.1 represents the project's 4th release. Karora also develops two other projects, Moomba and Orana, which are implementations of the Eclipse Workbench and JFace APIs for the Cooee framework.

The issues that were preventing people from signing up to the forums has now been fixed.

We're currently experiencing issues with signing up for the forums. We hope to have this resolved in the next day or two.

Feel free to use the karora-users mailing list (see here: http://karora.org/projects/cooee/mail-lists.html) if you have any issues you need addressed.

Apologies for any issues caused.